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MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN. 1488-1552.:Erklerung des newen Instruments über den Mon. Worms: Peter Schöffer, 1529.
Small 4to (186 x 145 mm). Woodcut title page, woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut printer\'s device on colophon. Modern calf antique. Margins closely trimmed, to edges of printed marginalia, scattered light spotting and browning.

FIRST EDITION OF MÜNSTER\'S SECOND COMSOGRAPHICAL-ASTRONOMICAL WORK, following the 1528 Erklerung des newen Instruments der Sunnen. Rare, with only 8 copies found in libraries on Worldcat. Graesse, p 662; VD 16 M 6674.

塞巴斯蒂安先生。1488-1552. Mon上新仪器的解释。蠕虫：彼得·舍弗，1529年。

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WILKINS, JOHN. 1614-1672.:Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger. London: Richard Baldwin, 1694.
8vo (159 x 100 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece (on verso of advertising leaf), woodcut diagrams in text. 20th century quarter vellum and marbled boards, red morocco gilt lettering piece. Covers lightly soiled, small wormhole through first three leaves, margins closely trimmed, browning heavy in places, chipping to edges of A3, old ownership inscription on first leaf recto.

Second, posthumous edition of this work on cryptography and semiotics by the iconoclastic Wilkins. Toole Stott 732; Wing W2203.

约翰·威尔金斯。1614-1672. 水星：或是秘密和迅捷的信使。伦敦：理查德·鲍德温，1694年。

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SCILLA, AGUSTINO. 1629-1700.:De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus. Rome: Johann Zempel, 1759.
4to (265 x 200 mm). Title with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece facing first page of text, 31 engraved plates, engraved initials and head-pieces. Later vellum. Light soiling and wear to binding, scattered spotting, light offsetting from plates.
Provenance: George Sarton (Belgian-American science historian, 1884-1956, bookplate to paste-down).

Third Latin edition. The detailed plates show a variety of fossils including mussels, corals, snails, and shark. The Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla shows the close correspondence between fossils and parts of living animals. See Nissen, ZBI 3780.

阿古斯蒂诺·西拉。1629–1700. 来自Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus。罗马：约翰·泽佩尔，1759年。

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BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. 1313-1375.:De la Genealogie des Dieux Paris: Jean Petit, 1531.
Folio (249 x 182 mm). Title page printed in red and black with woodcut borders, woodcut printers device on colophon, woodcut illustrations in text, some full-page. Fine bastard type, with large woodcut title-border after Urs Graf, numerous decorative and historiated initials (mostly criblé initials). Modern brown morocco, stamped in black gothic motifs, gold titles on spine, marbled endpapers. Margins closely trimmed, with some loss of printed marginalia; Staining and browning, a few tears to margins.

Second French edition, based on the earlier edition by Vérard, with woodcuts of mythological scenes reproducing those of the earlier edition. Brunet I: 986; BMC/STC French p 71.

乔瓦尼·博卡西奥。1313-1375. 巴黎诸神家谱：让·佩蒂特，1531年。

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VREESWYK, GOOSSEN VAN. 1626-c.1689.:Vervolg van\'t Cabinet der Mineralen of de Goude Son der Philosophen. Amsterdam: Johann Jansson van Waesberge for the author, 1675.
12mo (140 x 80 mm). Additional engraved vignette title, 17 engravings in text. Modern red morocco. Minor soiling at margins, somewhat closely trimmed at top edge.

EXCEEDINGLY RARE ALCHEMICAL WORK FROM VREESWYK, DUTCH MASTER OF THE MINES, including 17 interesting alchemical engravings. Duveen 397; Hoover Collection 849.

弗列斯维克，古森范。1626年至1689年。 延续矿物内阁或哲学家的黄金儿子。阿姆斯特丹：作者约翰·简森·范·瓦斯贝格，1675年。

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Maynard Dixon: Paea\'s Pearl from The Adventures of Paea\'s Pearl
signed and dated \'Maynard Dixon / 1911\' (lower left), titled and inscribed \'- His voice sank to the merest shred of breath - he pressed his lips close against her ear -\' (on the reverse), artist\'s printer notations including \'No detail in shadows to be accented / Better have too little than too much\' (on the reverse)
gouache and watercolor wash on paperboard
19 3/4 x 12 3/4in
framed 38 x 29 1/2in
Painted in 1911.

狄克森 《帕亚珍珠历险记》中的帕亚珍珠19 3/4 x 12 3/4英寸框架38 x 29 1/2英寸

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THOMSON, GEORGE. Fl. 17th CENTURY.:Loimotomia [in Greek]: or, the Pest Anatomized. London: Nathaniel Crouch, 1666.
12mo (145 x 87 mm). Engraved frontispiece (small closed tear and shaved, with loss to imprint). Contemporary speckled sheep; rebacked, title finger soiled, some toning to text
Provenance: Library of the Medical Society of Abderdeen (donor\'s inscription on front paste-down, August 22, 1820, and ink stamp to recto of frontispiece and rear blank, ink shelf mark to frontispiece)

FIRST EDITION of the first account of an autopsy on a plague victim. The author remained in London during the plague of 1665, during which he treated several cases and contracted the illness himself. Wing T1027; Krivatsy 11830.

汤姆森，乔治。佛罗里达州17世纪。 Loimotomia[希腊语]：或，被解剖的害虫。伦敦：纳撒尼尔·克劳奇，1666年。

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IWASAKI KOGYOKU (1827-1890s):A lacquer tebako (accessory box)
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1890
Of rectangular shape and fitted with two lower drawers and a shallow cover with rounded edges decorated overall with the Omi hakkei (The Eight Views of Omi [Lake Biwa]) in hiramaki-e, low-relief takamaki-e, and togidashi maki-e with details of okibirame, silver lacquer, keuchi, and e-nashiji framed by mura-nashiji, the underside of the lid, interior compartment, and interiors of both drawers decorated with open and closed folding fans with landscapes and flowers in hiramaki-e and togidashi maki-e on a nashiji ground, the drawer pulls silver engraved with hollyhock crests, signed in gold lacquer on one fan on the underside of the lid Kogyoku
With a wood tomobako storage box affixed with a paper label stating that this tebako was handed down through the Tokugawa family of Kii Province
8 3/4 x 7 3/8 x 6in (24.7 x 18.7 x 15.2cm)

IWASAKI KOGYOKU（1827-1890年） 大约1890年，明治时代的一种漆

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SCHOTT, GASPAR. 1608-1666. :Physica Curiosa, sive Mirabilia Naturae et Artis. Würzburg Nuremberg: J.A. Endter J. Hertz, 1667.
4to (225 x 190 mm). 2 parts in 1. Half-title, letterpress title in red and black with engraved coat of arms on verso, additional engraved title by Sandrart, 61 engraved plates (6 folding). [54], 1389, [23] pp. Modern half red-brown morocco and marbled boards; heavy foxing and toning throughout, a few closed tears and paper flaws.

SECOND EDITION of this encyclopedia of the natural world by the Jesuit Gaspar Schott, a student of Athanasius Kircher. Includes case studies of satyrs, centaurs, marine monsters, cyclops, two-headed animals and a man with a head on his belly, among other curiosities, as well as a discussion of demonology.

肖特，加斯帕。1608-1666. 好奇的物理学，或自然和艺术的奇迹。维尔茨堡和纽伦堡：J.A.Endter和J.Hertz，1667年。

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LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME DE. :Narratio Regionum Indicarum Per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima.... Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry and Johann Saur, 1598.
4to (202 x 160 mm). Title printed within wide pictorial engraved border, 17 engraved half-page illustrations in text by the brothers de Bry after Josse van Winghe. [8], 141, [1] pp., lacking the final blank. Modern half brown morocco; front joint rubbed, some light staining and foxing, title border and one other engraving trimmed close at fore-edge.
Provenance: Royal Institution of Great Britain (library and discard stamps on front paste-down, gilt stamp on spine).

FIRST LATIN EDITION of Las Casas\'s classic work, which includes the celebrated series of plates depicting the atrocities committed by the Spanish settlers on the Indians. Alden 598.20; Church 320; Palau 46960; Sabin 11283.

房子，巴托洛姆·德。 《根据西班牙法定人数进行的印度地区叙事》Devastatarum Verissima……法兰克福：Theodor de Bry和Johann Saur，1598年。