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ZAHN, JOHANN. 1641-1707.:Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive telescopium. Wurzburg: Quirinus Heyl, 1685-1686.
3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (310 x 193 mm). Extra engraved title page, title pages printed in red and black, 76 engraved illustrations (40 full-page, 5 folding), 8 folding letterpress tables, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Early vellum with later morocco gilt lettering piece on spine. Worming to covers, front endpaper and margins of first several leaves, with paper repairs; paper repairs to edges of last 2 leaves of text, lacking plates I, XI, XIII, XVI, XXVI, and XXVII in part 3, lacking final blank, some reinforcements and repairs at creases of folding plates, scattered browning and spotting.

FIRST EDITION. Zahl detailed the construction and function of optical instruments, including the microscope, telescope, and portable camera obscura. Garrison-Morton-Norman 263; Krivatsy 13208; Norman 2278; Waller 11455.

牙齿，JOHANN。1641-1707. 人工眼远视伸缩。维尔茨堡：奎里纳斯·海尔，1685-1686年。

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BARBUT, JAMES (JACQUES). C.1711-1791.:The Genera Vermium of Linnaeus. London: Printed for the author by James Dixwell, 1783.
2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (270 x 213 mm). Engraved frontispiece (for part I), engraved title page for part II, 25 engraved plates (24 hand-colored). Contemporary tree calf, ruled in gilt, rebacked retaining original spine. Repairs to covers, scattered browning and offsetting.

FIRST EDITION. The engravings were prepared by James Newton after drawings by the author. Barbut himself is known to have applied the hand-coloring to at least some copies. Nissen ZBI 221.

詹姆斯（杰奎斯）。C、 1711-1791年。 林奈属植物（Genera Vermium of Linnaeus）。伦敦：1783年詹姆斯·迪克威尔为作者印制。

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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。

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THREE KESA (BUDDHIST PRIEST\'S ROBES):Edo period (1615-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) eras, 19th/20th century
The first, of a large peacock surrounded by multicolored clouds and peonies, above two dragons amidst waves and rocks, the panels of the kesa created through a woven metal thread that is sewn onto the surface of the textile, six floral motif square patches, the backing of purple silk with a geometric floral design; the second, of gold brocade with woven design of lion dogs, various floral motifs, and square patches of cream-colored silk with leaves and flowers, the backing of plain red fabric; the third, of orange panels with woven designs of dragons, dragon-fish, shells, coral, and leafy peonies, all in multiple colors, framed by blue fabric with a woven brown geometric design interspersed with large peonies and floral crests, the backing of white silk (3)
45 1/2 x 80 7/8in (115.6 x 205.4cm), the largest

三棵松 江户时代和明治或大正时代，19/20世纪

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GESNER, CONRAD. 1516-1565.:Vogelbuch. Zurich: Christoffel Froschouwer, 1581.
BOUND WITH: Schlangenbuch. Zurich: Froschouwer, 1589.
2 works in 1 volume. Folio (375 x 237 mm). Numerous woodcut illustrations of birds and snakes in text. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Large area of first title page torn away and repaired with loss to text at top corner; margins somewhat trimmed, dampstaining through upper corners, browning and spotting, old ink underlining and a few notations.

Third German edition of Vogelbuch and second German edition of Schlangenbuch (which also includes a section on scorpions), volumes 3 and 5 of Gesner\'s Historia animalium. Gesner was a true renaissance man, who succumbed to the plague at the age of 49. His works were \"a great step forward and remained the most authoritative zoological book[s] between Aristotle and the publication of Ray\'s classification of fauna in 1693\" (PMM 77). Nissen IVB 350; Nissen ZB 1557 (second title); Staedtke Gessner 1516-1565, p 154;

康拉德州盖斯纳。1516-1565. 鸟书。苏黎世：Christoffel Froschouwer，1581年。

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DANTI, EGNATIO. 1536-1586.:PROCLUS. c.412-485. La sfera di Proclo Liceo. Florence: Giunti, 1573.
2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (215 x 158 mm). Woodcut Medici arms on first title page, woodcut illustration of an astrolabe on verso of second title page, woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut initials. Later vellum, paper lettering piece on spine. Covers slighlty soiled, scattered browning, spotting and marginal staining.

FIRST EDITION of Danti\'s translation of the influential astronomical text by Proclus, the Neo-Platonic philosopher who lived and wrote in a time that was on the threshold between the ancient world and the Middle Ages. Danti taught at the University of Pisa, and was Cosmographer to the Medici court. His treatise on the use of the astrolabe, bound here after the work of Proclus, was the first book on the subject published in Italy. Adams P-2137; Brunet IV, 896; Camerini 22; Houzeau Lancaster I, 913.

丹蒂，埃格纳西奥。1536–1586. Proclus高中的范围。佛罗伦萨：Giunti，1573年。

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SWAMMERDAM, JAN. 1637-1680.:Ephemeri Vita or the Natural History and Anatomy of the Ephemeron. London: Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, 1681.
4to (214 x 164 mm). 8 engraved plates on 5 sheets (2 folding). 20th century calf antique, morocco gilt lettering piece, gilt dentelles. Small hole in title page, abrasion to first letter of title with slight loss of print, lower margins of H1 and H2 repaired and reinforced, light browning.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Swammerdam\'s work, originally published in Dutch in 1675. Swammerdam made remarkable observations on insect anatomy, including his description in this work of metamorphosis, which had never been covered in greater detail before. His illustrations of the anatomy of the mayfly were also of unprecedented accuracy and detail. Nissen ZBI 4060; Wing S6233.

斯瓦默达姆，1637-1680年1月。 《蜉蝣的自然历史和解剖》。伦敦：亨利·费索恩和约翰·凯西，1681年。

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JUDAICA.:2 titles including Maimonides and Ibn Ben Ezra:
1. [IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM BEN ME\'IR. 1092-1167.] GUARICUS, LUCAS, 1476-1558. Translator. Tractatus de nativitatibus per Lucam Gauricum. Rome: Valerius and Aloisius Doricus, 1545. 4to (206 x 140 mm). Woodcut tables and charts in text. Modern quarter vellum and marbled boards. Several leaves with paper repairs, dampstaining, some ink marginalia. Latin translation of Sefer ham-moladot by 12th-century Spanish-Jewish astronomer (as well as poet and scholar) Ibn Ezra, illustrated with woodcut astrological tables. Houzeau/ Lancaster 3908.
2. MAIMONIDES, MOSES. 1135-1204. De idololatria liber. Amsterdam: Johann and Cornelius Blaeu, 1642.
4to (192 x 146 mm). Woodcut printer\'s device on title page, text in Hebrew and Latin. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Several leaves with repaired chipping at edges, browning, some light dampstaining. FIRST EDITION, translated into Latin by Dionies Vos (1612-1633) from Maimonides\' Mishneh Torah. Rare in this edition, with none found at American Book Prices Current since 1980. Cowley p 476; Zedner p 584.

犹大。 2个标题，包括Maimonides和Ibn Ben Ezra：

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STELLUTI, FRENCESCO, translator. 1577-1652. :PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS. 34-62. Persio: tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1630.
4to (198 x 140 mm). Engraved title page by Matthäus Greuter, engraved portrait of Perseus, one engraved plate, 5 engraved illustrations in text, woodcut initials. 18th century morocco gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, ruled in gilt with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Margins somewhat trimmed, with loss to edges of engraved border on title; Scattered browning and spotting, booklabel on front paste-down.

This book, printed with both the Latin text of Aulus Persius Flaccus and the Italian translation by Stelluti, was the first published book containing microscopic illustrations: a bee on p 52, and weevil on p 127. Stelluti used a microscope belonging to Galileo to make his observations for the illustrations. Carli-Favaro 121; Cinti 86; Cole 403; Garrison-Morton-Norman 259; Krivatsy 8806; Nissen ZBI 3988; Wellcome I, 4917.

STELLUTI，FRENCESCO，翻译。1577–1652. Persio：翻译松散，声明明确。罗马：贾科莫·马斯卡迪，1630年。

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BRAHE, TYCHO. 1546-1601.:Opera Omnia Sive Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata.... Frankfurt: Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1648.
2 parts in 1 volume. 4to (224 x 188 mm). Woodcut printer\'s devices to both title pages and verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. Modern calf antique, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine. Erased ownership stamp and paper repair on first title, lacking blank at end of first volume, browning throughout, especially to first few leaves, a few rust holes.

Second edition, containing De restitutione motuum Solis Lunae, Staellarumque innerarrantium and De mundi aetherei recentioribus Phaenomensis. The woodcuts include illustrations of astronomical instruments. Graesse I, 518; Houzeau Lancaster 2704; Poggendorff I, 273.

兄弟们，蒂乔。1546-1601. 歌剧院Omnia Sive天文研究所Progymnasmata……法兰克福：Johann Gottfried Schönwetter，1648年。