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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS (PLINY THE ELDER). 23-79.:Des Weitberühmbten Hochgelehrten alten Philosophi unnd Naturkündigers, Bücher und Schrifften, von Natur, art und eygenschafft aller Creaturen oder Geschöpffe Gottes. Frankfurt: Sigmund Feyerabend, 1584.
Folio (340 x 210 mm). Title page printed in red and black (soiled, repaired closed tears), woodcut illustrations to text throughout by Jost Amman, Hans Weiditz and Virgil Solis. Remboîtage with contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps; heavy soiling to B2-4, some foxing and soiling throughout.

THIRD EDITION of Heyden\'s German translation of books 7 to 11 of Pliny the Elder\'s Natural History. Becker, Amman 7d; Nissen 3190.

普林尼斯·塞孔杜斯，盖乌斯（老普林尼）。23-79. 著名的高学者古代哲学和自然播音员，书籍和著作，关于自然、艺术和上帝所有生物的眼睛创造。法兰克福：西格蒙德·费耶拉本德，1584年。

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KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. 1602-1680. :Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum. Amsterdam: Janssonius van Waesberge, 1678.
Folio (375 x 260 mm). Engraved additional title, engraved portrait of Kircher, 17 engraved plates (9 folding), 4 engravings and numerous woodcuts to text, initials, tailpieces. Later half vellum and boards; few stray pen marks to rear cover, margins of text toned and spotted, final few leaves foxed.

FIRST EDITION of the first catalogue of the Museo Kircheriano at the Roman College, a detailed inventory of Kircher\'s cabinet of curiosities of Chinese and Egyptian antiquities, scientific instruments, optical devices and ancient musical instruments. Kircher \"was in an excellent situation, at the hub of the Jesuit order, to gather relics, specimens, manuscripts, and any other oddities or rarities his fellow Jesuits brought back to Rome from all parts of the world ... In 1678 , the Museo Kircheriano was at its peak, with a new exhibit hall and a printed catalogue\" (Merrill, p xxvii). A second catalogue was published in 1709 followed by a long period of decline in the maintenance of the collection. Much of Kircher\'s collection was eventually incorporated into the Museo Nazionale. Caillet 5784.

阿塔纳修斯·基尔彻。1602-1680. Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu Museum Celeberrrimum。阿姆斯特丹：Janssonius van Waesberge，1678年。

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ELLIS, JOHN. C.1710-1776.:3 works:
1. The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes. London: Benjamin White and Son, Peter Elmsly, 1786. 4to (285 x 218 mm). 63 engraved plates. Final ad leaf. Contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco title label, gilt. Minor foxing.
Provenance: John Tiranti Ltd, Brighton (bookseller\'s ticket). FIRST EDITION, an important early monograph on corals, including many discovered on Cook\'s voyages. It was Ellis who first classified corals as animals.
2. An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Corallines. London: For the author, 1755.
4to (263 x 198 mm). Folding engraved frontis, 40 engraved plates (15 folding). Contemporary calf boards, rebacked, morocco title label, gilt. Provenance: John Dalton (ink inscription to endpaper, and title).
INCLUDING ADDITONAL PLATE PRESENT IN SOME COPIES, the earliest depiction of Cuff\'s aquatic microscope.
3. On the nature of the Gorgonia: that it is a real marine animal, and not of a mixed nature, between animal and vegetable.... London: [For the Royal Society], 1776.
8vo (207 x 166 mm). 19 pp. 2 folding plates. Disbound. RARE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, reprinted from Philosophical Transactions LXVI (1776), 1-17.

埃利斯，约翰。C、 1710-1776年。 3部作品：1.《许多奇特动物的自然史》。伦敦：本杰明·怀特父子，彼得·埃尔姆斯利，1786年。

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CLASSIC WRITINGS. :9 titles in 16 volumes:
1. PARALDUS, GULIELMUS. Summa virtutum ac vitiorum Guilhelmi Paraldi episcopi Lugdunensis de ordine Predicatorum. [Paris?]: [c.1519]. 8vo. Woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut initials. Modern quarter calf and boards. Margins somewhat trimmed, scattered light spotting and toning.
2. TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. Sechs verteutschte Comedien.... Tubingen: 1567. 8vo. 5 (of 6) full-page woodcuts. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, two brass clasps (one lacking hasp). Soiling to covers, a few marginal tears, light spotting.
3. SICULUS, DIODORUS. H.C. GENT, Translator. The History of Diodorus Siculus. London: 1653. 4to. Modern quarter morocco and cloth. Scattered spotting and staining.
4. PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS. The Satyrs of Persius, Transated into English by Thomas Sheridan. Dublin: 1728. 8vo. 18th century calf, armorially gilt. Upper joint cracked, covers warped, ink notation on front paste-down, browning.
5. ERASMUS. In Praise of Folly. London: 1740. 12mo. Engraved illustrations. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. Browning and spotting.
6. MENDELSSOHN, MOSES. Phaedon. Frankfurt Leipzig: 1768. Engraved frontispiece. 19th century half calf and speckled boards. Browning and spotting, light dampstaining to lower margins.
7. ---. Phaedon. Karlsruhe: [1780]. 8vo. Contemporary boards. Spine separated from text block, rubbed, corners and edges chipped, ink ownership inscriptions, dampstaining.
8. PLUTARCH. Plutarch\'s Lives. Philadelphia: 1811. 8 volumes. 8vo. Publisher\'s printed pink wrappers. Volume II lacking original wrappers (replaced with plain boards), tape repairs to spine, volume VIII spine perished and text block separating, rubbing, fading and soiling, corners and edges chipped.
9. HERMANN, GOTTFRIED, and FRIEDRICH CREUZER. Ein Anhang zu den Briefen über Homer und Hesiod. St. Petersburg: 1819. 8vo. Later wrappers. Foxing.

经典著作。 16卷9个标题：

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ASTRONOMY: MUENSTER AND OTHERS. :4 titles:
1. MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN. Horologiographia. Basel: Henric Petri, n.d. 4to (200 x 149 mm). Woodcut diagram on title page and numerous woodcut diagrams in text, folding manuscript astronomical diagram tipped in, with ink notations, and 2 inserted leaves with manuscript diagrams. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Some browning and staining, a few marginal tears with some repairs, edges of manuscript diagrams trimmed with some loss, worming through last gatherings starting at ff.
2. WING, VINCENT. 1619-1668; and WILLIAM LEYBOURN. 1626-1716. Urania Practica. London: R. Leybourn, 1649. 8vo (165 x 105 mm). Engraved frontispiece (bound after title page), folding letterpress table, woodcut illustrations in text. Modern quarter calf and mottled boards. Lacking leaf M4 and final leaf Ff4 (table of contents), large tear to S3 with loss of text and part of illustration, paper repairs to Ff2-3, ink ownership inscription of front flyleaf, browning and spotting.
3. RAMESEY, WILLIAM. 1627-1675. Astrologia Restaurata; or Astrologie Restored. London: Robert White, 1654. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio (275 x 178 mm). Rebacked contemporary calf. Repairs to covers, title, following text leaf and G4 re-margined, lacking gathering A⁴, large old repair to margin of Gg4, dampstaining to outside margins, scattered browning and spotting, a few ink annotations.
4. SMYTH, WILLIAM HENRY. 1788-1865. The Cycle of Celestial Objects. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1840. Folio (293 x 236 mm). 5 engraved plates and 1 color lithographed plate, wood-engraved illustrations in text. Late 19th/early 20th century morocco by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with 5 raised bands, green and black morocco lettering pieces. Heavily rubbed, some chipping to covers, joints tender, scattered foxing.

天文学：明斯特等人。 4个标题：

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KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. 1602-1680. :Latium. Id est, nova parallela latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge heirs of E. Weyerstraet, 1671.
Folio (405 x 270 mm). Additional engraved allegorical title by Romeyn de Hooghe, engraved portrait of Pope Clement X, 27 engraved plates, maps, and plans (15 double-page), 20 engraved plates in text, woodcut vignette on title, initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, tooled in blind to panel design with centerpiece medallion; covers soiled, text browned and heavily foxed throughout, occasional brittle and chipped leaves, a few closed tears repaired to plates on verso.
Provenance: inscribed \"Cuthbert 1710\" on front free endpaper; Thomas Kingsbury (armorial bookplate); Dublin Jesuit ex-libris ink stamps on front free endpaper and title.

FIRST EDITION of Kircher\'s description of the topography, landscape, buildings, gardens and archeological treasures of the city of Rome and its surroundings. Modern and ancient sites are described, including the Villa Borghese at Mondragone, Hadrian\'s Villa, and the Villa Aldbrandini at Frascati. Caillet 5777; Cicognara 3758; Merrill 23.

阿塔纳修斯·基尔彻。1602-1680. 拉蒂姆。这是一个新的、平行的、既旧又新的描述。阿姆斯特丹：约翰内斯·扬索纽斯·范·瓦斯贝热和E.Weyerstraet的继承人，1671年。

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KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. 1602-1680. :Arca Noë, in Tres Libros Digesta. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1675.
Folio (385 x 255 mm). Engraved additional title, engraved portrait of dedicatee Charles II of Spain by C. Decker, 19 engraved plates on 18 sheets (13 folding or double-page), 3 engraved maps (2 folding), numerous engraved illustrations and woodcuts to text throughout, including over 100 birds and animals, initials and tailpieces. Full green crushed morocco, gilt; occasional foxing and spotting, faint crease to lower corner throughout most of text block, one map remounted, in custom cloth slipcase. Note card with Vishniac\'s handwritten list of some of the animals depicted laid-in.

FIRST EDITION of Kircher\'s \"fanciful and speculative elucidation of the biblical story of the Flood. Kircher figures such specifics as the year of the Flood, the time form the first raindrop until Noah stepped out on dry land, the dimensions and shape of the ark (considered symbolic of the human body bearing the soul), the materials the ark was made of, where the various animals were placed, which animals would have been excluded, where the ark landed, and where everyone dispersed after the Flood\" (Merrill). Among the numerous delightful woodcuts of animals are imaginary creatures such as the mermaid, unicorn and gryphon. The plates depict the Flood, the construction and plan of the arc, and maps of the world, including Eden and Paradise. Backer-Sommervogel IV, 1068, 33; Caillet 5768; Merrill 26; Nissen ZBI, 2195.

阿塔纳修斯·基尔彻。1602-1680. 诺亚方舟，在三本消化书中。阿姆斯特丹：约翰内斯·扬索尼斯，1675年。

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OCCULT. :8 titles:
1. AGRIPPA, HENRY CORNELIUS. Henry Cornelius Agrippa\'s fourth book of occult philosophy, and geomancy.... [London]: 1783. 4to. Woodcut illustrations in text. 20th century vellum, ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Light soiling to covers, foxing, paper repair to lower margin of A2, ink stains to upper corner of last 11 leaves.
2. TRITHEMIUS, JOANNES. Steganographia: hoc est: ars per occultam scripturam animi sui voluntatem absentibus aperiendi certa.... Darmstadt: 1621. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Lacking the second of three parts, lightly rubbed, library stamp on fist title, top margin trimmed, just touching some headers; browning, dampstaining to some lower margins, worming to last several leaves at lower margin.
3. BACON, FRANCIS, and others. Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra. Mysteries of State Government. London: 1654. 2 volumes. 4to. Title pages in red and black. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Light dampstaining and toning.
4. PAGAN, FRANÇOIS. L\'astrologie naturelled du Comte de Pagan. Paris: 1659. 8vo. Engraved armorial vignette on title page. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Small paper repair to title with very slight loss of text, marginal dampstaining throughout, last page (Ii8) lacking both outside corners, with repairs.
5. GLANVILLE, JOHN. Saducismus Triumphatus: or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. London: 1681. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. 2 engraved frontispieces. Early 20th century quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine rubbed and chipped at top, browning and spotting throughout.
6. ENGLEBER, JOHANN. Chiromantia, Metoscopia Physiognomia curioso-practica. Franfurt: 1792. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and half-title, engraved diagrams in text. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Margins trimmed very closely, light chipping to some corners, browning.
7. NOSTRADAMUS, MICHEL DE. Les propheties de maitre Michel Nostradamus. Lyon: 1697. 16mo. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Light dampstaining, ink marginalia.

神秘的。 8个标题：

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JUDAICA. :9 titles:
1. KIRCHNER, PAUL CHRISTIAN. Jüdisches Ceremoniel. Nuremburg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1726. 4to. Engraved frontispiece and 27 double-page plates. Modern quarter vellum and marbled boards. Frontispiece laid down, a few marginal repairs including first plate, scattered staining and spotting.
2. REELAND, ADRIAN. Temply heirosolymitani in Arcu Titiano. Utrecht: William Broedelet, 1716. 8vo. 7 engraved plates (3 folding). Contemporary calf. Upper cover detached, library stamp on title and library bookplate on front paste-down, light browning.
3. JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. The Works of Josephus. London: 1683. Folio. Engraved portrait, folding engraved map, engraved illustrations in text. Rebacked late 19th century half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt in 6 compartments, morocco lettering piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, corners bumped, ink markings on title and some early leaves, staining and spotting.
4. [Atlas geographique ed iconographique du cours complet d\'ecriture sainte. [c.1850.] 69 engraved plates(only), tipped to binder\'s stubs. 20th century green cloth. Spotting and browning, a few marginal dampstains.
5. HERZFELD, L. Geschichte des Volkes jisrael on Vollengun des zweiten Tempels bis zur Einsetzung des Mackabaers Schimon zum hohen Priester und Fuersten. Nordhausen and Leipzig: 1857-1863. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary black cloth and boards. Rubbed, foxing and spotting throughout.
6. SCHIFFMANN, KONRAD. Johannes Reuchlin. N.p.: 1914. 12mo. Publisher\'s pictorial cloth. Staining to covers, toning.
7. MUNK, S. Editor. Melange de philosophie juive et arabe. Paris: 1927. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards by D. Robyn. Spine sunned, rubbed, joints tender, toning.
8. BENZIGER, I. Hebraische Archaeologie. Leipzig: 1927. 4to. Later blue-gray cloth, morocco lettering piece. Toning.
9. JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. Delle antichita et guerre giudaiche diviso in ventisette libri. Venice: Alessandro Vecchi, 1608. 4to. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Modern off-white morocco. Defective: lacking title page and numerous leaves of main text, staining, paper repairs, some leaves re-margined, light dampstaining.

犹大。 9个标题：

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JONSTON, JOHN. 1603-1675.:Dendrographias Sive Historiae Naturalis De Arboribus Et Fruticibus Tam Nostri Quam Peregrini Orbis. Frankfurt: Hieronymi Polichii for the heirs of Matthaüs Merian, 1662.
4to (340 x 197 mm). Engraved frontis, 137 engraved plates. 18th-century mottled calf, morocco title labels to spine, gilt. Minor foxing throughout, edge of upper corner torn at pl. 87/8.
Provenance: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (ink note to title page: \"Ex Biblioth. de Montesquieu;\" Desgraves Catalogue De La Bibliothèque De Montesquieu À La Brède 1380); Arpad Plesch (his bookplate, his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Company, 17 November 1975, lot 408).

BARON DE MONTESQUIEU\'S COPY, FROM ARPAD PLESCH, THE FIRST EDITION OF JONSTON\'S IMPORTANT WORK ON FRUITS. A complete copy of this work including the famous engraving of \"Agnus scythicus\" or \"Planta Tartarica Barometz,\" a plant of Central Asia believed to grow sheep as fruit. Plesch 408 (for this copy); Stafleu Cowan II:3408.

约翰·琼斯顿。1603-1675. Sive树木和Nostri和Peregrini Orbis果实的自然历史。法兰克福：希罗尼米·波里奇伊（Hieronymi Polichii）为马蒂亚斯·梅里安（Matthaüs Merian）的继承人，1662年。