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GROTIUS, HUGO. 1583-1645:OPITZ, MARTIN, translator. De Capta Rupella Carmen Heroicum. [S.i.]: 1629.
8vo (188 x 144 mm). Modern boards, with heraldic supralibros stamped in gold on front cover. Soiling to inner margin of title page, ink library stamp on title page, browning and light dampstaining.
Provenance: Fürstlich-Stolberg-Wernigerödische Bibliothek (stamp to title page); William Salloch, Catalog 403, item 50.

FIRST EDITION, issue without imprint. According to William Salloch, the first edition is \"of extreme rarity\" (Salloch Catalogue 403). Grotius\' poem upon the defeat of the Huguenots at La Rochelle at the hands of Richelieu and Louis XIII, the final stand of the Huguenots in France. Faber de Faur 216; Ter Meulen-Diermanse 156; VD17 7:685360Y.

格劳修斯，雨果。1583-1645 德卡塔·鲁佩拉·卡门·海洛库姆。[S.i]：1629年。

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NATURAL HISTORY REPORTS FROM THE H.M.S. CHALLENGER.:THOMSON, C. WYVILLE, and others. Report on the Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876. London: 1881-1883. 6 volumes, including:
* Volume III, Part 10, Pycnogonida. 19th century quarter calf and marbled boards, original front wrapper bound in. Some ink markings, toning.
* Volume V, Part XIV, Ophiuroidea. Disbound, in crude modern wrappers. Original front wrapper included, heavily chipped.
* [Volume VI, Part XV], Actinaria. Lacking title page, volume and part number penciled on first page of text. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in later library cloth
* Volume VII, Part XX, BOUND WITH: Volume XXIII, Part LXX, Hydroida. 20th century blue cloth
* Volume VIII, Part XXIII, Copepodia. 20th century blue cloth
* Vol XXXII, Part LXXX, Antipatharia. Modern wrappers. Lacking title page.
WITH:
1. FORBES, EDWARD. A Monograph of the British Naked-Eye Medusae. London: 1848. Folio. 13 color lithographic plates. Modern quarter morocco and cloth. Scattered foxing, especially to text pages.
2. Another, as above. BOUND WITH: HUXLEY, THOMS HENRY. The Oceanic Hydrozoa. London: 1859. AND BOUND WITH: BURMEISTER, HERMANN. The Organization of Trilobites. London: 1846. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. 31 lithographic illustrations in all. Contemporary half morocco and cloth. Covers detached, spine perished, scattered browning and foxing.
3. ALLMAN, GEORGE JAMES. A Monograph of the Fresh-Water Polyzoa. London: 1856. Folio. Rebacked in textured cloth, retaining contemporary plain boards with paper label. Rubbed, some creasing to pages, light browning and spotting.
4. BROOKS, W.K. The Development of the Squid. Boston: 1880. Folio. 3 lithographic plates. Crude modern stiff wrappers. Browning.
5. FOL, HERMANN. Études sur les appendiculaires du détroit de missine. Geneva: 1872. Publisher\'s printed wrappers, crudely rebacked. Upper wrapper laid down, heavily chipped and soiled, light chipping to edges, a few stains and fingermarks.
6. British Antarctic (\"Terra Nova\") Expedition, 1910. 2 volumes: Vol. II, No. I. London: 1915; and Vol. III, No. I. London: 1930. Folio. Publisher\'s printed wrappers. A few small chips to spines, toning.
7. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29.
Volume I, Nos 2, 4, 6, and 8; Volume III, Nos 8 and 9.
Folio. Publisher\'s printed wrappers. A few tears to spines edges, some staining to wrappers, toning.
8. DICQUEMARE, JACQUES-FRANÇOIS. \"An Essay Towards Elucidating the History of the Sea-Anemonies....\" [FROM:] Philosophical Transactions, Volume 6. [London: 1773]. Disbound, with crude modern paper wrappers.

H.M.S.挑战者的自然历史报告 1873-1876年“挑战者”号航行结果报告。伦敦：1881-1883年。

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FINÉ, ORONCE (FINAEUS ORONTIUS). 1494-1555.:De re praxi geometrica, Libri tres, figuris demonstrationibus illustrati. Paris: Gourbin, 1556.
4to (230 x 154 mm). Woodcut printer\'s device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut initials and headpieces. Modern brown mottled morocco ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Light wear to binding, scattered spotting and browning, dampstaining to lower quarter of several leaves near back.

Third edition of this work on applied geometry by French mathematician Finé, published originally as part of his work Protomathesis (1532). In this edition, some of the woodcut diagrams have been simplified or reduced from the earlier editions.
Adams F 466; Brunet II, 1261; Mortimer French 230.

好的，奥朗斯（奥朗提斯）。1494-1555. 几何图形、图书馆、图形和演示插图。巴黎：古尔宾，1556年。

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PHILOSOPHY.:ESTIENNE, HENRI, editor. c.1531-1598. Poesis Philosophica. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1573.
Text in Greek and Latin. BOUND WITH: HESYCHIUS OF MILETUS. De his qui eruditionis fama claruere, liber. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1572.
8vo (166 x 105 mm). Text in 2 parts, with separate title pages, the first part in Greek, the second in Latin (translated by Hadrianus Junius). Woodcut printer\'s devices on title pages, pages ruled in brown, including final blank. Late 18th century speckled calf gilt, all edges gilt. Upper cover detached, lacking front blank, light spotting and toning.

The first work contains fragments of the writings of the most important pre-Socratic philosophers, including Democrates, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Parmenides, Xenophanes, and Cleanthes, including 18 editio princeps. Bound with it is the first edition of Hesychius\'s text from a manuscript in the library of the Hungarian humanist János Zsámboky. First work: Adams P-1682; Renouard Estienne 138:8. Second work: Adams H-512.

哲学。 诗歌哲学。亨利·埃斯蒂安，1573年。

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KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. 1602-1680. :3 titles:
1. Sphinx mystagoga sive diatribe hieroglyphica. Amsterdam: Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1676. Folio (380 x 242 mm). Half-title, 3 (of 5) engraved double-page plates. Rebacked contemporary calf. Lacking plates of sarcophagi, and 1 transcription of hieroglyphics, browning throughout, worming to last 2 leaves and index and 2 rear blanks. FIRST EDITION. Caillet 5793; Merrill 27; Waller 19832.
2. Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica. Rome: Ludovico Grignanai, 1641. 4to (223 x 164 mm). 30 engraved plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Title page replaced in facsimile; missing A2, browning and light marginal dampstaining. FIRST EDITION. Caillet 5778; Ferguson I, 467; Norman 215; Reilly 6; Sommervogel IV, 1048; Wheeler Gift 116.
3. Principis Christiani archetypon politicum sive sapientia regnatrix. Amsterdam: J. Jansson, 1672. 4to (225 x 176 mm). Double-page folding genealogy table engraved frontispiece, 2 portraits, engraved illustrations in text. Modern morocco antique. Repaired tear to H2, browning throughout. FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 668.

阿塔纳修斯·基尔彻。1602-1680. 3个标题：

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SERLIO, SEBASTIANO. 1475-1554.:Regole Generali di Architettura di Sabastiano Serlio.... Venice: Francesco Marcolini da Forli, 1540 [but 1541].
Folio (328 x 228 mm). Woodcut border on title page, woodcut full-page colophon with printer\'s device, profusely illustrated with woodcut illustrations in text, many full-page. Modern calf antique. Margins slightly trimmed, not affecting text, a few stains and smudges, light foxing.

SECOND EDITION, corrected from the original edition of 1537. An important Renaissance work on the five orders of architecture, being book 4 of 8 books written by Serlio, covering architecture and perspective. Only 5 of the 8 books were published during Serlio\'s lifetime. EDIT16 28611; Fowler 314; Vène Bibliographia serliana 4.

塞巴斯蒂安·塞利奥。1475–1554. 威尼斯：弗朗切斯科·马可利尼·达·福利，1540年[但1541]。

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KOSAKU:Beauties of Spring and Winter
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era
Of two-panel folding screen construction with two paintings in ink and colors on paper; on the right, the beauty of spring under a bough of green maple leaves holding a Japanese-style umbrella in a light rain while gazing at a field of irises, wearing a fresh green kimono with a cherry blossom-patterned lining; on the left, the beauty of winter under snow-coated sasa bamboo grass leaves glancing at nanten nandina sprouting up from under the snow, wearing a black kimono with a motif of prunus blossoms and narcissus flowers on the skirt; the right signed Kosaku hitsu and sealed Kosaku, the left signed Kosaku and unsealed
Right: 56 1/4 x 17 5/8in (142.9 x 44.7cm); Left: 55 7/8 x 18 1/4in (141.9 x 46.3cm)

科萨库语 春天和冬天的美丽大正或昭和时代

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MEXIA, PEDRO. 1496-1552.:Dialoghi di Pietro Messia. Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1557.
4to (210 x 151 mm). Woodcut printer\'s device on title page, woodcut headers and initials. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Light soiling around edges, paper repair to top edge of title page and first text leaf.

FIRST ITALIAN EDITION, translated from the 1547 Spanish first edition by Alfonso D\'Ulloa. The dialogues deal with astronomical topics, gastronomy, and medicine. Mexia was was among the first scientific minds of the Renaissance to write for a popular audience. He describes Magellan\'s first circumnavigation of the earth — Mexia himself witnessed Magellan\'s fleet leaving Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1519 and returning in 1522. Brunet III, 1689 (1547 edition).

梅西亚，佩德罗。1496-1552. 彼得·弥赛亚的对话。威尼斯：普林尼奥·彼得罗桑塔，1557年。

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HOLBEIN, HANS, THE YOUNGER. 1497-1543.:Icones historiarum Veteris Testamenti. Lyon: J. Frellon, 1547.
Small 4to (150 x 100 mm). Text in Latin and French, 94 woodcuts after Holbein, 4 portraits of evangelists by another artist at back. 20th century vellum. Lacking colophon leaf, chipping to lower edge with paper repairs to first 5 leaves, not affecting text, light browning.

Fourth edition of this work, first published in 1538, with preface, postscript and verses by Gilles Corrozet, as well as a Latin preface by Nicolas Bourbon. The woodcuts were prepared by Hans Lutzelberger after drawings by Holbein, and were also used in three folio editions of the Bible published by Frellon. Adams B-1963; Bruent III, 252; Baudrier V, 209; Hollstein 14A, 100; Mortimer French 281; USTC 79186.

霍尔拜因，汉斯，年轻一点。1497-1543. Icones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti。里昂：J。弗雷隆，1547年。

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SMITH, JAMES EDWARD. 1759-1828.:Tracts Relating to Natural History. London: Printed for the Author, by Davis, 1798.
8vo (220 x 134 mm). Half-title, 7 engraved botanical plates (6 colored). 19th century fine-grain cloth, cloth spine label titled in gilt. Sunned, repair to fore-edge of half-title, light spotting and browning.

FIRST EDITION OF RARE COLLECTION OF BOTANICAL WRITINGS by James Edward Smith, who in 1784 purchased the collections of Linnaeus, through Sir Joseph Banks. He founded the Linnaean Society in 1788, and wrote extensively on Botany. These treatises contain the first description of Boronia. No copy traced at auction since 1985. BMC 23:794.447; ESTC, T51512.

史密斯，詹姆斯·爱德华。1759-1828. 与自然历史相关的拖拉机。伦敦：戴维斯为作者印刷，1798年。