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WINTRHOP, JOHN. 1714-1779.:Two Lectures on Comets, Read in the Chapel of Harvard College, in Cambridge, New England.... Boston: Green Russell, 1759.
8o (195 x 119 mm). Disbound. Lacking half-title and final blank. Ink ownership inscription on title page, scattered browning and spotting.

FIRST EDITION, published after the appearance of Halley\'s comet in December of 1758. Winthrop endeavors to calm the fears of people by explaining the science behind the comet\'s appearance, just as Halley had predicted it. Winthrop was the great-grandson of his namesake, who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He taught mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard College, and wrote a number of other tracts on natural phenomena (such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755), explaining the science behind their occurrence. Evans 8522; Sabin 104857.

约翰，温特霍普。1714-1779. 《彗星的两次讲座》，在新英格兰剑桥哈佛学院教堂阅读……波士顿：格林和罗素，1759年。

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MÜLLER, OTTO FRIEDRICH. 1730-1784.:Von Würmern des süssen und salzigen Wassers. Copenhagen: Heineck, Mumme and Faber, 1771.
4to (245 x 193 mm). Engraved vignette on title, 3 engraved tables and 16 engraved illustration plates. Contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance Rudolph Bergh, dated 1847 (on front flyleaf). Scattered browning, spotting and minor dampstaining, rebacked.
WITH: Another copy, as above. Engraved plates extended on wove paper at back, including additional printing of the title page vignette. 19th-century boards. Rubbed, corners bumped, browning.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Müller was a Danish naturalist who was commissioned by Frederik V to continue the work of Georg Christian Oeder on Flora Danica, to which he added 2 volumes. As one of the first biologists to study micro-organisms, Müller was something of a pioneer, establishing new classifications for a number of animals which had been overlooked by Linnaeus. DSB IX, 575; Nissen, ZBI, 2934.

莫莉，其他朋友。1730-1784. 甜咸水的蠕虫。哥本哈根：海内克、芒梅和费伯，1771年。

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WOODWARD, WILLIAM R. 1876-1953.:Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses. [New York]: The Derrydale Press, privately Printed for Ernest R. Gee, 1929.
4to. 68 black and white plates. Red morocco by Sangorski Sutcliffe Joints starting, rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down.

LIMITED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, with just 300 unnumbered copies produced. The inscription reads \"To my friend, Wm. Arkham Hoffman, with best regards, William Woodward.\" Woodward, who was President of Hanover Bank, spent time in the Foreign Service as the assistant the Ambassador to the Court of St. James during the Reign of Edward VII. He and the King had become friends, sharing their love of horse racing. He recruited the services of Walter Vosburgh (1854-1938), a handicapper for the American Jockey Club and accomplished racing historian, to provide the text and editorial input for this work. Frazier V-4-A; Podeschi 373; Siegel 22.

威廉·伍德沃德，1876-1953年。 珍贵的纯种马肖像。[纽约]：德里代尔出版社，为欧内斯特·R·吉私人印刷，1929年。

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卡拉·阿卡尔迪，当代艺术I-

Carla Accardi * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Trapani 1924–2014 Rome)
Untitled, 1954, signed and dated; signed and dated again on the reverse, tempera (casein) on paper laid down on canvas, 68 x 32 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist, Studio Accardi, Rome

Provenance:
Sale Nuova Brerarte, Milan, 11 December 1990, lot 71
European Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Note:
The paper was laid down on canvas directly by the artist as evident also from the signature and the date on the reverse.

Yes, 1954 was a critical year, but my first works featuring the sign, which I made on paper, were born in 1953. The meaning behind this choice, my surrender to the sign, which was basic at first and structural later, no doubt emerged from the idea artists have always had about contemporary art, about culture in their time.
Although I wasn’t studying mathematics or anthropology, Structuralism was a topical discovery all the same, something that exhisted in the Western world.
I bestowed an image on the Structuralist vision of the world; a visual image that bore all the components: events, the aggregation of signs were repeated in my paintings with phenomenic variations: but always faithful to themselves and repeatable.
Carla Accardi interviewed by Vanni Bramanti, in V. Bramanti, Conversazione con Carla Accardi, Rome 1982

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IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM BEN ME\'IR. 1092-1167.:D\'ABANO, PIETRO, translator. c.1257-1316. Abrahe Avenaris Judei Astrologi peritissimi in re iudiciali opera.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1507.
Small 4to (200 x 155 mm). Woodcut initials, some hand-colored, blackletter text. 19th century armorial calf, rebacked. Leaf XCII lacking, replaced by a blank, bookplate to front paste-down, light dampstaining to outside lower corners, extensive early inked marginalia, light scattered browning and spotting.
Provenance: Robert Loyd-Lindsay, VC, KCB, 1st Baron Wantage (armorial binding); J.L.E. Dreyer (Danis Astronomer, 1852-1926, bookplate).

Rare early Latin edition of the collected astrological works of Abraham Ibn Ezra. Born in Tudela, in Moorish Spain, Ibn Ezra traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, and had a great outpouring of written works after about 1140, comprising poetry, commentary on the Torah, works on Hebrew grammar, philosophy, and science. His scientific works on astrology were written when he lived in Beziers, France, between 1147 and 1148.

本·以斯拉，亚伯拉罕是我的。1092-1167. 阿布拉赫·阿韦纳里斯·朱迪在司法歌剧中的占星术……威尼斯：彼得·列支敦斯登，1507年。

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KEPLER, JOHANNES. 1571-1630. :Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo nuper ad mortales misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo. Frankfurt: Zacharias Palthenius, 1611.
8vo (162 x 90 mm). Woodcut device on title page. Modern blue morocco, ruled in gilt. Even toning, minor staining and some ink underlining.

Third, pirated edition of the Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo, following the 1610 Prague and Florence editions. The work is an open letter to Galileo, responding enthusiastically to Galileo\'s telescopic observations published in Sidereus Nuncius in March of 1610. Galileo sent a copy to Kepler in April 1610, and Kepler felt it was necessary to publish a response in order to disseminate the knowledge of Galileo\'s discovery and its importance to the widest possible audience. He was also more than a little relieved that Galileo\'s conclusions did not undermine his own theories. The publisher of this edition, Zacharias Palthenius of Frankfurt, had also published a pirated edition of Galileo\'s Sidereus Nuncius in 1610. Caspar 34; Zinner 4277 (both for first edition).

开普勒，约翰内斯。1571-1630. 沙漠和修女西德雷奥云从加利利送到死者那里。法兰克福：撒迦利亚斯·帕罗修斯，1611年。

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PICART, BERNARD. 1673-1733.:The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World. London: Claude Du Bosc, 1731-39.
7 volumes in 6. Folio (447 x 275 mm). Half titles, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication page in volume IV, 215 (of 220) engraved plates, many double-page or folding, engraved illustrations and headers in text. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. A few pages re-margined at outside edges, leaf 5O2 (pp 419-420) in volume 3 torn through but complete, dampstaining, especially to last volumes, browning and spotting throughout.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, A richly illustrated landmark work on religious tolerance. \"No other work before then had ever attempted, in word and image, such a grand sweep of human religions, Religious Ceremonies of the World marked a major turning point in European attitudes toward religious beliefs and hence the sacred\" (Hunt, Jacob Mijnhardt The Book that Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard\'s Religious Ceremonies of the World p 1). Picart\'s engravings \"are indeed so finely executed, both in the drawing and engraving, that there are few plates even at this day which excel them\" (Field 1212, French edition). Sabin 4934.

皮卡特，伯纳德。1673-1733年。 已知世界各国的仪式和宗教习俗。伦敦：克劳德·杜·博斯克，1731-39年。

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GOTTFRIED, JOHANN LUDWIG. c.1584-1633.:Newe Welt und Americanische Historien. Frankfurt: Merians Erben, 1655.
Folio (320 x 205 mm). Additional engraved title, 174 half-page engravings (several with partial or full hand-coloring), 3 (of 8) plates (the folding views of Olinda, folding map of Brazil and the single-page map of Tierra del Fuego). Modern half red morocco and marbled board; engraved title trimmed and mounted with closed tear at top edge, letterpress title and following two leaves mounted at gutter, pages toned and brittle, a few engravings trimmed, lower corner of three leaves repaired with loss to text, a few other small paper repairs, gouge to top edge of text block, in a custom cloth slipcase.

SECOND EDITION of this compilation of voyages to the Americas. \"It contains a resumé of the Histories of Acosta, Oviedo, Peter Martyr, Herrera, Laet, tc. An account of 33 voyages to America, from Columbus to Spilbergen and Schouten; notices of the expeditions of Lemaire and Peter Heyn, the conquests of Brazil by the Dutch, and descriptions of Greenland and Spitzbergen. The first edition was published in 1631\" (Sabin). The 174 half-page engraved illustrations had been previously published in De Bry\'s Great Voyages. Borba de Moraes 372; Sabin 50.

抓到了，约翰路德维希。c、 1584-1633年。 新世界和美国历史。法兰克福：梅里安的继承人，1655年。

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FUCHS, LEONHARD. 1501-1566. :Historia Stirpium Commentarii insignes. Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1542.
Folio, (340 x 237 mm). Greek, roman and italic types. 509 full-page botanical woodcuts, 3 smaller cuts in the text, by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Fullmauer and Albert Meyer, full-page full-length portrait of Fuchs on title verso, portraits of the 3 artists on fff5r, printer\'s device on title, repeated on final verso, historiated initials in several sizes. Modern calf, spine gilt. Title re-margined, first text leaf torn and repaired, O4-6 torn and repaired some mostly marginal staining, a few leaves with marginal tears and repairs.

FIRST EDITION. \"Perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published... important in the history of botanical illustration particularly because of the size and beauty of the woodcuts\" (PMM). Leonhard Fuchs professor of medicine at Tübingen, gives accurate descriptions of nearly 500 plants, of which forty had never before been depicted, the majority being native German plants. Amongst the foreign plants are some from America including corn, pumpkin, chili pepper, and snap bean. The illustrations were realized by Heinrich Füllmaurer, Veit Rudolph, and Albert Meyer, who drew the original images from life, mostly using samples from Fuchs\' garden. Their portraits, with that of the author, appear in the book and represent \"one of the earliest examples of such a tribute paid to artists in a printed book\" (PMM). Adams F-1099; Nissen BBI 658; Pritzel 3138; PMM 69; VD16 F 3242.

富克斯，莱昂哈德。1501-1566. 史蒂皮姆评论标志。巴塞尔：迈克尔·伊森格林，1542年。

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HOOKE, ROBERT. 1635-1703.:Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667.
Folio (288 x 190 mm). Title with engraved arms of the Royal Society, 38 engraved plates (14 folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked. Some plates trimmed closely, a few short tears along folds, some light browning and staining, mostly marginal.
Provenance: Dan. King (ink note: \"book cost Dan. King second hand October 1st, 1716 pound 1:06:6\"); Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686–1777), Earl Marshall of England (armorial bookplate); \"Belonging to the library bequeathed by the Will of Edward Duke of Norfolk to remain in his Family. Henry Howard Tho\'s Eyre Esq\'rs Executors\" (bookplate); The Royal Meteorological Society, 1793 (deaccession label).

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE OF HOOKE\'S MOST CELEBRATED WORK, with the title dated 1667 instead of 1665. \"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK IN THE HISTORY OF MICROSCOPY, CONTAINING THE DISCOVERIES MADE WITH HOOKE\'S NEWLY PERFECTED COMPOUND MICROSCOPE. Micrographia was not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations, and this graphic portrayal of a hitherto unseen world had an impact rivaling that of Galilieo\'s Sidereus nuncius ... his famous and dramatic portraits of the flea and louse, a frightening eighteen inches long, are hardly less startling today than they must have been to Hooke\'s contemporaries\" (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 187; Garrison-Morton-Norman 262; Heirs of Hippocrates 599; Horblit Science 50; Norman 1092; PMM 147.

胡克，罗伯特。1635-1703. 显微摄影：放大镜对微小物体的一些生理描述。伦敦：英国皇家学会詹姆斯·阿利斯特，1667年。