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Armorial binding MEDICI COAT OF ARMS La vie de Léon dixième Pape
1675
Armorial binding in red morocco with the coat of arms of the Medici family, with five balls and a crown. The book has a connection with the Medici family, since it is a biography of Leo X who was born Giovanni de' Medici.
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Histoire du nestorianisme, Nestorian Eastern Christianity
DOUCIN, Louis. Histoire du nestorianisme, Paris 1698. Contemporary limp vellum. Quarto (240 x 180 mm). [3] 558 [3]. Title page worn, some damage to the last index leaf. Doucin was a French Jesuit and expert in heresiology. He wrote a detailed history of the Nestorians. Often the history of Nestorianism is one of sound bights. Nestorius never thought that Jesus was a mere mortal. But he did not want Mary to be called "Mother of God" but instead preferred to title "Mother of Christ". In essence, he maintained that Jesus was really two separate persons. This stance originated from the Greco-Roman assumption that God and death are irreconcilable. Nestorius' insistence on using the term "Christotokos" rather than "Theotokos" had far- reaching consequences, even after the heresy and all those adhere to it were purged from the ranks of the Church in the West. Nestorians found a new home in Persia and Arabia, where in a couple of centuries a new religion would sweep the region. In some aspect it might have influenced Islam. After all the suggestion that God would have a mother (Theotokos) is offensive to Muslims. This detailed account of the Nestorian heresy is relatively rare. A SPLENDID 16th CENTURY COSTUME BOOK, COLORED BY A FRIEND OF BYRON. Habitus praecipuorum populorum, 161 handcoloured plates Costume book Middle East Asia
Habitus praecipuorum populorum, tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti. Trachtenbuch darin fast allerley und der furnembsten Nationen die heutigs tags bekandt sein. Nuremberg, Hans Weigel, 1577. Folio. 161 plates (instead of 220) hand-numbered woodcuts in early 18th-century colour, mounted on backing paper and missing parts supplemented by hand. Later half calf with 18th-century spine label. All edges sprinkled in red.First edition of Amman's celebrates encyclopaedic book of costumes. A fragmented copy, as usual; in the early 19th century, the plates were mounted on backing paper by the owner, the trained landscape painter Jakob Linckh (1786-1841) from Stuttgart (cf. Thieme/B. 23, 254), who also coloured the volume throughout and supplemented all missing parts of the images and even of the text by hand. Linckh, who had studied in Rome, visited Greece in 1810. There he met Byron, who commissioned him to provide the illustrations for Hobhouse's travel book. - Wants 59 plates altogether. The remaining plates are trimmed. Although the present collection begins with the plate showing the Emperor, as originally issued, the remaining woodcuts follow no apparent order. 20 plates show costumes of Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Egypt, and Ethiopia; others depict Greeks, Russians, and Englishmen. 28 plates show the costumes of today's Italy; German cities are well represented, as are France and Spain, Bohemia and Hungary. Also includes the famous picture of the Brazilian Tupinamba Indians: a man with a crown and belt of feathers, a knife, and a bow and arrow, beside a long-haired woman carrying a baby in a knotted sling. The illustration is an adaptation of two cuts from the "Recueil de la diversité des habits" (Paris, 1562; Antwerp, 1572) by Francois Descerpz, "one of the first likenesses of the Brazilian Indian" (Borba de Moraes). For comparison, in 1994, 53 coloured woodcut engravings made 8050 GBP. Complete copies are never found in the auction records. MASTERPIECE OF BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS HERBAL Flora delicians, sive icones plantarum
CHÖTZ, Wolfgang, [Swabian pharmacist] (d. 1695). Flora delicians, sive icones plantarum ex hortis, pratis et nemoribus nostratibus collectarum, artificisque penicillo exhibitarum studio Wolfgangi Schoetzij pharmacopaei Memmingensis. Memmingen, 1676. Folio (208 x 310 mm). Latin ms. and illustrations on paper. 184 ff. with gilt-raised title-page and a total of 292 watercolour and gouache plant illustrations (1 double-page), captioned and numbered 1-290 by a contemporary hand (nos. 45 and 149 assigned twice). 19th century green half cloth over marbled boards. Stored in custom-made half morocco caseUnique, museum-quality manuscript herbal, illustrations in brilliant original colour. Unknown to research, compiled for the Memmingen pharmacist Wolfgang Schötz by an unidentified but obviously professionally trained artist. The nearly 300 watercolours and gouaches, all impressively accomplished, show the principal Central European medicinal, poisonous, spice and ornamental plants as they were to be found in the gardens, meadows and forests of the free imperial city of Memmingen: hollyhock, tarragon, snow pea, prunella, dandelion, spikeMANUSCRIPTS 1600 - 1800 37 rampion (phyteuma spicatum), swallow-wort (asclepias vincetoxicum), echium, caper spurge (euphorbia lathyris), white bryony (wild hop, Bryonia alba), staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), poppy (papaver rhoeas), banewort (atropa belladonna), foxglove (digitalis), hemlock (Conium maculatum), as well as splendid tulips, irises and martagon lilies, Jacob's ladder (polemonium), rose, chrysanthemum, gentian, daffodil, barberry, etc. The shapes of the leaves and blossoms, often also of the roots and bulbs are rendered with extreme precision; occasionally, the illustration is enlivened with beetles, caterpillars and other insects, drawn with similarly meticulous realism. The Latin and German captions are apparently by two different writers; some of the Latin annotations may be in Schötz's own hand. The quality of the draughtsmanship and colouring approaches that of the contemporaneous studies by Nicolas Robert, whose documentation of the plants in the French royal gardens, commissioned by the court of Versailles, were famous even then and remain so to this day.The pharmacist Wolfgang Schötz (Schütz) also served as judge in the municipal court of his native Memmingen. Correspondence in his hand with the German physician and alchemist Johann Joachim Becker (1635-82) has survived in the latter scholar's posthumous papers in Rostock. Schötz was considered "the largest and strongest man" in town; when he died in 1695, ten men were needed to bear his mortal remains to the graveyard (cf. J. F. Unold, Geschichte der Stadt Memmingen [1826], p. 292). Title-page somewhat duststained and rubbed. Leaves numbered 1-183 in pencil in the later 19th century, probably during rebinding; a few leaves transposed. A few edge flaws (some with early repairs); edges somewhat finger stained and damp stained throughout with a larger damp stain near the end. THOSE MAGNIFICENT MAN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES: PHOTOARCHIVE 1909-1913 AVIATION
1] [AVIATION] 215 PHOTOGRAPHS, approximate 17 x 12 mm. In two modern albums. FRENCH AVIATORS: Henri Farman, Emile Dubonet, Delagrange sur Bleriot, Lefbre, Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe, Lantheaume, Captain Julien Félix, General Hirschauer, Henri Salmet, Emile Vedrines, Jules Vedrines, Perreyou, Lieutenant Blard, Hellmuth Hirth, Lieutenant Acquaviva, Maurice Clement Bayard, Le Blanc, Duperdussin, Louis Paulhan, etc. EVENTS: The French military mission of aeronautics in Japan. Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne Races, the first international public flying event 1909. Fete aerienne de Nancy, Nieuport du Paris, Circuit d'Anjou, flight to Marseille in the Monaco Rally, Anjou circuit, Berlin Paris. TYPES OF PLANES: Appareil Zens, Monoplane Doran, Yedrines, Monoplane HayCoupe Schneider, Biplain Brequet, Biplan Farman, Hydroplane 'Icase', Monoplane Canard, monoplane stabilite, hydro colliex, hydro plane Stanley Adams, etc. GERMAN AVIATORS: 13 German aviators. Portraits and planes. Eichelt, Linevogel, Viktor Stoeffler, the German record-breaker, who broke the world record of 3,180 kilometers. RUSSIAN AVIATORS: General chichkivitch and for others. PORTUGESE AVIATOR: Gomez Da Silva's unique biplane design. TURKISH AVIATOR: Osman Nour Effendi. SWISS AVIATION: On September 23, 1910, the French-Peruvian Geo Chavez successfully crossed the Alps by plane, before crashing in Domodossola, Italy. The first Swiss aeroplane, Aviateur Parmelin. Plus another album.Mr. Schneider at the Aéro Club de France of the Gordon Benett Cup, won by Vedrines in America (1912) - International Conference on Navigation Aerial at Issy- les-Moulineaux, arrival of Wright's biplane of Comte Lambert (Branger), Portrait of Alfred W. Lawson who daily flies from home to his office in New York City (1914) Bisley Anti-Aircraft Rifles on Horseback (1913) - Portrait of Colonel J.N. Lewis in Bisley inventor of rifle anti-aircraft (1913) - Part of the nacelle and engines of the airship America (Branger) - Portrait of Lieutenant J.C. Porte who on a hydro Curtiss will try the Crossing the Atlantic from Ireland (1914) - The Vauvenargue Airship (Branger) - The new hydroaero Colombia seen from side in Chicago, and the place of pilot (1913) - Wade on Uncle-Sam (Roll) and two others. Together with a small book, 'Les freres Wright et leur Oeuvre' par Geo Bia, their Belgian representative. Front cover detached. Utterly charming watercolour the famine ship Thomas Wright of NYC 1851
AMERICANA] Inscribed and dated 1851, watercolour of the Thomas Wright of New York, 1000 burdhen driven on shore within 196 yards of Singleton Lodge on the morning of the 16th January 1851. Got off on Saturday 1851. 7" x 9" Utterly charming watercolour depicting the ship with numerous figures, painted in a naïve way. The Thomas Wright was a New York build Famine ship. An newspaper article tells us: That this splendid New York built Packet ship will sail directly from Dublin. The only direct route to the great agricultural Western States of Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin (.) whither they can proceed at once by Steamer on the Mississippi. In the New York times of May 1854 reports the ship Thomas Wright, of New-York, heretofore reported a total wreck on Osaban Island, it was thought, would be got off and taken into Savannah for reports." EXCEEDINGLY EARLY RAILWAY MAP OF EUROPE Carte de l’Europe centrale comprenant le tracé général des chemins de fer 1841. One copy worldwide
[RAILWAYS] Carte de l'Europe centrale comprenant le tracé général des chemins de fer 1841. In a contemporary marble chemise. In a beautiful state of preservation, near pristine. Dissected on linen, in a marble contemporary slipcase. Provenance: castle library of the Duc de Barante. One copy only in the Bibliotheque National in Paris.The importance of rail transportation to the history of Europe cannot be understated; the implementation of railroads throughout Europe brought about huge changes to Europe as a continent. Rail transportation first exploded in Great Britain and then spread to continental Europe. The Napoleonic Wars also contributed to the rise of railroads in Europe. The loss of so many horses during these wars made an alternative form of transportation necessary. Great Britain was "the pioneer of train travel. The first public railway was constructed in Britain in 1825 The first line on the continent was in Belgium between the cities of Brussels and Mechelen and opened in 1835. Belgium was the first state in Europe to create a national railway network. Germany was close with the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, built in 1835. In the Netherlands in 1839, the first train left Amsterdam, arriving in a record-breaking 30 minutes later in Haarlem. At the time this map was published (1841), the French government rejected all major rail projects, there was only a tiny stretch between Andrézieux and Roanne. This proved to be a disastrous decision for the French economy. In red are the operating railway lines, the one that were a work in progress are in yellow, green are the projected lines and the intermittent red lines are the one studied by the government. Most likely there are railways lines on this map that were never built. Carte Hydrologique du Département du Seine URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF PARIS
Carte Hydrologique du Département de la Seine. Dressée par M. Delesse . Inspecteur General des Mines. Publiée d'après les ordres de M. Floquet Préfet de la Seine 1882. Paris: 1882. Chromolithographed map by L. Wuhrer, dissected to 24 parts and laid to linen. Approx. 121 x 121 cm; with book label of Jules Marcou to the verso and various stamps and notations. A strip of the upper border lacking at top right not affecting image, a few punctures to upper margin for mounting, a few splits to folds, some light soiling. RARE. This fine large waterway map of Paris also has exceptional provenance from the library of the French/Swiss geologist Jules Marcou (1824-1898) the important surveyor of the American West. His charming book label is affixed with two geologist's hammers between a banner reading "Jura/Rocky Mountains" for his most famous expedition. He lived out his later years in the US which explains address label on the verso delivering the map to him there. Additionally there are several stamps ex-libris stamps. A FASCINATING PIECE OF SOCIAL HISTORY Manuscript
Traditionally journeymen were halfway through the process established by the guild system for the creation of new master craftsmen. They were beyond the training stage of apprenticeship, but not considered sufficiently developed to ply their trade without supervision. So, they wandered for a few years, until they would settle in a workshop of the guild and after toughing it out for several more years (Mutjahre), would be allowed to produce a "masterpiece"19TH CENTURY 144 their surnames: d'Hallavant, Osmont (a Parisian upholsterer) and Pinsonnière. Only a handful of major institutions in the world own assorted volumes from this series. A FASCINATING PIECE OF SOCIAL HISTORY 183. [WANDERBUCH] contemporary cardboards covers. Dresden, 1827. 64 pages. $ 450.- Traditionally journeymen were halfway through the process established by the guild system for the creation of new master craftsmen. They were beyond the training stage of apprenticeship, but not considered sufficiently developed to ply their trade without supervision. So, they wandered for a few years, until they would settle in a workshop of the guild and after toughing it out for several more years (Mutjahre), would be allowed to produce a "masterpiece". This wanderbuch attests of much different situation and presents us with a less romantic image. The wayfarer years were a source of pride, in which one gained experience. In the late 18th century, the number of apprentices left the guild system and roamed around the countryside as a gun for hire. The wanderbuch was no longer a source of pride but basically a work permit and ID. The authorities needed to control the influx of beggars and thus fixed strict rules, to distinguish them from vagabonds. This little book is a fascinating piece of social history. First the rules a firmly stated, then one's personal characteristics, then stamps and handwritten police records. That these are not journeymen years becomes clear if one looks at the dates. Johann Zscheche, born in Austria in 1818, started working in 1834, at 16 years old, the last entry is 1848. Which means that he spent 14 years on the road.Reminders 1. To refrain from begging. 2. To be satisfied with the small sum of money that one is given (Zehrpfennig) 3. Only to go to such places where one can find work. 4. No longer than 24 hours remain in a place where you can find a job. 5. To have the local police make an entry where you came from, what job you did and if you were not able to find one, why not. 6. If no entry is made, there is no zehrpfenning and corporal punishment. 7. He should then leave town, and if he spends one more night, he will get an 8 day punishment. 8. Should the wanderer be a foreigner and not find a job for four weeks, he will be escorted to the border and evicted. If the wanderer is a native, he will convicted and brought to a work-house ( Landesarbeitshaus in the famous castle) in Colditz, after his 'correction time' he will be send to his home town, where it is to be see if a new wander Buch will be issued. 9. If one is 40 years or older traveling (wander) in the Kingdom of Saxony is forbidden. 10. In case of loss, immediately report to the police. Archive New York Municipal Railway
ortfolio entitled "New York Municipal Railway Corp'n Progress of Subway Construction of City Contract." Various dates c. 1914 -1919., various sizes, 13 maps including 6 fold-outs from 33 x 27 to 102 x 27 cm. Blue-dyed cloth binding , hand lettered title. Lithographed maps on muslin, brightly handcolored, depicting progress on subway lines including excavation, pavement removal, ducts, steel, backfill.These unusual maps evidently monitor the progress - in a striking visual manner- after the signing of so-called Dual Contracts on March 19, 1913. The aim of the dual contracts was to extend the City's system, already notable for its cheap and expeditious transportation, with new both underground and elevated construction to create a world renowned railroad system worthy of the modern era. Most of the lines of the present-day New York City Subway were built or reconstructed under these contracts. The portfolio is an unusual survivor documenting the early construction of one of the world's most important mass transit systems tesTRADE CATALOGUE] 6e Chahier. Pinsonniere, suc d’Osmont editeur. Rue Vivienne 14. Oblong. Binding worn, spine new Title page, 9 unnumbered plates, 10-49. All canopy plates are hand coloured but the last two, that depict the interior of the boudoir. These are heavily foxed in the margins. Osmont Tapissier. Vend des Cahiers de Defense pour le décor des appartements de Paris. 3e cahier. Repaired tear in the title page. Oblong, contemporary cardboard, new linen spine. 50 hand-coloured plates. Another trade catalogue. No title page. Coloured plates 3-4, 10-16, 20-50 147 hand coloured plates
TRADE CATALOGUE] 6e Chahier. Pinsonniere, suc d'Osmont editeur. Rue Vivienne 14. Oblong. Binding worn, spine new Title page, 9 unnumbered plates, 10-49. All canopy plates are hand coloured but the last two, that depict the interior of the boudoir. These are heavily foxed in the margins. Osmont Tapissier. Vend des Cahiers de Defense pour le décor des appartements de Paris. 3e cahier. Repaired tear in the title page. Oblong, contemporary cardboard, new linen spine. 50 hand-coloured plates. Another trade catalogue. No title page. Coloured plates 3-4, 10-16, 20-50 Rare group of trade catalogues for beds, windows and canopy designs, with richly coloured draperies. These notebooks issued from about 1810 to 1840 by three publishers of whom little is known other thantheir surnames: d'Hallavant, Osmont (a Parisian upholsterer) and Pinsonnière. Only a handful of major institutions in the world own assorted volumes from this series. ROBINSON CRUSOE Early Pop up book
Dean's New Scenic Books No. 1, Robinson Crusoe, 186567, 26 x 17 cm. 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates each comprising 3 layer stand up scenes operated by silk ribbons. Dean's New Scenic series were the first movable "pop-up" style books by Dean & Son. There were four titles in the series, Aladdin, Robinson Crusoe, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. OCLC lists only 9 copies worldwide. A one cord broken, some discoloration to the paper, else good. Copy without restorations. Russian Cries, in Correct Portraiture from Drawings taken on the spot by G. Orlowski Colour plate book
ORLOWSKI, Russian Cries, in Correct Portraiture from Drawings taken on the spot by G. Orlowski now in the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Kinnaird, first edition, engraved hand-coloured title and 8 hand-coloured plates. Dated 1809, but watermarked 1824. Folio (36 x 27 cm). Modern binding 1. A bread seller, 2. Kavias fresh (?), 3. A Peasant in a Too Loop, 4. Miasnick, or Butchers meat, 5. Water Carrier, 6. Good turnery wares, 7. Cranbery liquor good, 8. Tea hot! ***Charles Kinnaird, the 8th Lord Kinnaird (1780-1826) was a representative of a noble Scottish family, art collector and patron of the arts. In 1802, Orłowski moved to St. Petersburg, where he became a member of the Academy of Arts in 1809. An artist with a stormy, romantic temperament, Orłowski produced a large number of battle and genre scenes, representations of horsemen and soldiers, and landscapes (with nocturnal lighting and depictions of shipwrecks). These works are marked by affected images and by a free, painterly technique. The democratic quality of Orłowski's work and the artist's extraordinary powers of observation are clearly reflected in drawings, watercolours, and guaches depicting scenes from the daily life of the common people, various social and ethnic types in Russia, and life in St. Petersburg and the Russian village. One of the first artists to employ the technique of lithography, Orłowski executed a number of individual sheets in this medium, along with album-series that gained wide renown among his contemporaries- $7,288
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18th Century Letter Ladies Pocket Book, on red velvet, embroidered with silvered threads and sequin appliqués, red silk and leather lining, 10cm by 7cm
Ladies Pocket book Early 18th Century Pocket Book, on red velvet, embroidered with silvered threads and sequin appliqués, red silk and leather lining, 10cm by 7cm Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; Nothing in it, nothing in it, But the binding round it. Kitty Fisher" was the well-known British courtesan, Catherine Maria Fisher, who boasted assignations with many affluent 18th century gentlemen and was known for her flair for publicity. The "pocket" lost in the child's nursery rhyme refers to an 18th century purse. This fashion accessory came in several styles, one being the pocket case or letter case. They convey the dazzling opulence of affluent 18th century fashion and accessories. The elegantly worked carry-case was a smaller and more convenient adaptation of a ladies' pocket. These small pocket cases were used to hold bank notes , letters, pencils, and other small implements. They worn around a lady's waist and were accessed through slits in the skirt. Pockets were almost always decorated, this pocketbook is a particular grand example- $2,523
- $2,523
End of 18th/early 19th Century Green Silk Pocket Book, embroidered overall with pink and cream flower heads, on silvered stems, pale pink silk lining edged with silvered thread enclosing several pockets, 15cm by 10cm.
Jane Austen (time of) Green Silk Pocket Book, embroidered overall with pink and cream flower heads, on silvered stems, pale pink silk lining edged with silvered thread enclosing several pockets, 15cm by 10cm. Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; Nothing in it, nothing in it, But the binding round it. Kitty Fisher" was the well-known British courtesan, Catherine Maria Fisher, who boasted assignations with many affluent 18th century gentlemen and was known for her flair for publicity. The "pocket" lost in the child's nursery rhyme refers to an 18th century purse. This fashion accessory came in several styles, one being the pocket case or letter case. They convey the dazzling opulence of affluent 18th century fashion and accessories. The elegantly worked carry-case was a smaller and more convenient adaptation of a ladies' pocket. These small pocket cases were used to hold bank notes , letters, pencils, and other small implements. They worn around a lady's waist and were accessed through slits in the skirt. Pockets were almost always decorated, this pocketbook is a particular grand example- $2,242
- $2,242
MPORTANT MANUSCRIPT FOR THE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NOOTKA CRISIS
Nootka AMERICANA NOOTKA CRISIS] Nota de los oficiales de Guerra de la Real Armada que viniezon de Espana con destino a continuar de mexico en el Departamento de San Blas a las ordenen del Estimo Senor Virrey Conde des Revilla Gigedo [Instructions from the war officers of the Royal Navy who came from Spain with destiny to continue from Mexico City to the Department of San Blas, by the orders of Esteemed Senor Viceroy Count of Revilla Gigedo] Mexico City, April 6 1791 Folio. Manuscript leave on both sides.Secret letter sent by Viceroy of New Spain, Juan Vicente de Guemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, conveying instructions from the war department of the Royal Spanish Navy to the Pacific naval base of San Blas, commanded by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. Bodega was also the newly appointed commandant of the Spanish establishment at Nootka. The Viceroy and Bodega arrived in Mexico on the same ship in 1790 to find themselves in the immediate aftermath of the Nootka Crisis. They had two pressing issues to deal with. First they had to arrange for the release of the British ships, officers, and sailors taken prisoner by Martínez in 1789. Second, they had to respond to the Royal Order of King Charles III of April 14, 1789, which required that the Spanish establishment at Nootka Sound be maintained for Spain. The letter gives orders and instructions to outfit and dispatch ships from San Blas, to improve Spain's negotiation position in the Nootka crisis. Bodega would be the Spanish commissioner for negotiations at Nootka with his British counterpart, George Vancouver. They met in August 1792, to seek a solution. This secret letter is a consequence of the first Nootka Convention, signed byFloridablanca and Ambassador Fitzherbert in El Escorial on October 28, 1790. It orders to send three ships (Fregat Conception, frigate La Princesa and supply ship San Carlos) to Nootka, in order to maintain it for Spain, to send one ship (frigate Aranzazu) to Presidio (the Spanish military post at San Francisco), and to dispatch two ships (Valandra Inglesa [the captured "English Sloop"] and schooner Valdez) to Manilla, in order to return the former to the British in Macau. The instructions assign these tasks to the key Spanish commanders and foremost explorers of the Pacific Northwest, including Juan de la Bodega, Salvador Fidalgo, Francisco de Eliza, Ramon Saavedra, Juan Matute, Manuel Quimper. A special recommendation is made for Francisco Antonio Mourelle. The Nootka incident in 1789 almost led to a war between the declining Spanish Empire and the ascending British Empire over trading and settlement rights in the Pacific Northwest.- $7,288
- $7,288
Les noeuds enchantés, ou la bisarrerie des Destinées Libertine love story with fictious imprint. Female writer.
Fanny de Beauharnais BEAUHARNAIS, Fanny De. Les noeuds enchantés, ou la bisarrerie des Destinées. Rome : De l'Imprimerie papale ; but Paris, 1789. Small 8vo. Two parts in one 144, 115 p. Contemporary binding with past paper covers. A libertine love story (The enchanted knots), with a delightful false imprint. Very rare. World catalogue does not list copies in the US. Countess Fanny de Beauharnais (17371813) was among the first to distinguish herself as both a socialite and a prolific author. She did not see her writing practice as a pastime, but as a significant part of her social identity, which influenced her vision of women's role in high society and, for her habitués (attendees), the stakes associated with attendance at her salon.- $1,065
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Histoire du nestorianisme, Nestorian Eastern Christianity
DOUCIN, Louis. DOUCIN, Louis. Histoire du nestorianisme, Paris 1698. Contemporary limp vellum. Quarto (240 x 180 mm). [3] 558 [3]. Title page worn, some damage to the last index leaf. Doucin was a French Jesuit and expert in heresiology. He wrote a detailed history of the Nestorians. Often the history of Nestorianism is one of sound bights. Nestorius never thought that Jesus was a mere mortal. But he did not want Mary to be called "Mother of God" but instead preferred to title "Mother of Christ". In essence, he maintained that Jesus was really two separate persons. This stance originated from the Greco-Roman assumption that God and death are irreconcilable. Nestorius' insistence on using the term "Christotokos" rather than "Theotokos" had far- reaching consequences, even after the heresy and all those adhere to it were purged from the ranks of the Church in the West. Nestorians found a new home in Persia and Arabia, where in a couple of centuries a new religion would sweep the region. In some aspect it might have influenced Islam. After all the suggestion that God would have a mother (Theotokos) is offensive to Muslims. This detailed account of the Nestorian heresy is relatively rare.- $1,065
- $1,065
Theophilus Bibaculus sive de potu theae dialogus Treatise on Tea
Pechlin PECHLIN, Johann Nicolaus (1644-1706). Theophilus Bibaculus sive de potu theae dialogus. Frankfurt: Johann Sebastian Riechel, 1684. Large 8vo. (180 x 150 mm) Front cover detached. 19th century binding. [4] 103 pp.First edition of Pechlin's treatise on the medicinal properties of tea. NLM/Krivatsy 8746; Vicaire 668; Wellcome IV, 325. Not in the trade. Last copy at auction sold for 2150 $ Christies 2016 Roman history Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae.
USTINUS, marcus junianus. Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae. Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, January 1522. 204 leaves. Small 8vo., 15 x 9 cm., 18th- century vellum boards with morocco lettering piece, spine a bit darkened, last leaf reinforced obscuring final printer's device. Ex- libris of the well known San Francisco lawyer Otto SutraRoman Pompeius Trogus' Universal History, unusual amongst Latin authors in putting more emphasis on external history than on Roman history. Its full form did not survive but 3rd century writer Marcus Justinus presented this redacted form which was much read in the Middle Ages- $1,676
- $1,676