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Bruxelles, 1854. Lex8vo. Cont. hcalf. Back rubbed. XXIV, 376 (10), XXVII, 446 pp. (Text in Latin a.French).
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Architectura curiosa nova. Premier tirage des 200 estampes de Boeckler, consacrées aux fontaines, jardins et châteaux de l’Europe baroque, en vélin de l’époque.
Séduisant exemplaire préservé dans sa reliure d’origine en vélin à recouvrement. Nuremberg, Paul Fursten, 1664. 4 parties en 1 volume in-folio de: I/ 1 frontispice, (3) ff., 32 pp., 4 planches; II/ (1) f., 14 pp., 44 planches; III/ (1) f., 26 pp., 116 planches dont 1 repliée (pte. déchirure à la planche repliée); IV/ (1) f.bl., (1) f., 29 pp., 36 planches. Relié en vélin rigide de l’époque à recouvrement, restes de liens en tissu, dos lisse. Reliure de l’époque. 327 x 218 mm.
Première édition du traité baroque de Boeckler consacré aux jardins, châteaux et fontaines et rédigé en allemand. Berlin catalog, II, 3577-3579; Brunet, I, 1024; Catalogue of the Avery Architectural Library, p. 996; Cicognara, n°886. Architecte de la ville de Nuremberg, G.A. Boeckler publia en allemand un recueil de moulins et autres inventions de mécanique traduit en latin en 1661 sous le titre de Theatrum machinarum. Encouragé par le succès de cet ouvrage, Boeckler composa le texte de l’Architecture hydraulique que Paul Furst, libraire de Nuremberg, publia en 1663, et que J.C. Sturm traduisit en latin l’année suivante sous le titre Architectura curiosa nova. C’est l’ouvrage le plus important de Boeckler, celui qui consacra sa renommée. Avec un sens artistique manifeste, l’architecte illustre en 200 superbes planches en taille-douce les fontaines, jets d’eau, grottes, bassins, labyrinthes et pavillons des plus beaux jardins de l’époque baroque en Italie, France, Angleterre ou Allemagne. Plusieurs de ces estampes sont des projets conçus par l’auteur avec une imagination débridée et une réelle connaissance des mécanismes de l’hydrostatique dans les inventions proposées. «Ouvrage divisé en 4 parties, contenant des figures de jets d’eau, cascades, bassins, fontaines, grottes, etc.» (Brunet). Dans son texte Boeckler développe d’ailleurs la théorie de l’hydrostatique et son application aux fontaines et jets d’eau représentés. La dernière des 4 suites en 36 estampes est consacrée à la représentation de beaux châteaux européens auxquels sont associés des labyrinthes de jardins. Une grande planche dépliante à la fin de la partie III est consacrée à une grande fontaine de Nuremberg. Orné d’un titre séparé en noir et rouge pour chacune des 4 parties, l’ouvrage est illustré d’un grand frontispice général architectural et allégorique signé Abraham Aubry. «Non e comune il trovarne esemplari ben conservati in Italia» (Cicognara). Séduisant exemplaire préservé dans sa reliure d’origine en vélin à recouvrement.
Operum moralium et civilium.... - [LARGE-PAPER COPY - FIRST ED. IN LATIN OF ""NOVA ATLANTIS"" AND THE ""ESSAYS""]
London, Edward Griffin [John Haviland, Bernard Norton, and John Bill], Richard Whitaker [& John Norton], 1638. Folio. (Binding: 32x22 cm, leaves: 31,1x20,8 cm.). Contemporary full speckled calf binding with six raised bands and gilt red leather title-label to spine. Boards with blindstamped ornamental border. Scuff marks to boards and hinges worn, so bands showing. Large woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, printer's devices, and typographical ornaments (that have been of great significance to the Baconians in their attempts to establish Bacon as the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare). Roman and Italic lettering, and some Greek. Several neat inscriptions to front free end-papers and verso of frontispiece, in Latin, Greek, English, and German, dated 1704, 1740, and 1926, the last being a presentation-inscription for the renowned German Bacon-scholar and noted Baconian George J. Pfeiffer. Neat early 18th century inscription to top of title-page. Old description of the copy (1946) neatly pasted on to inside of front board. Vague minor damp-staining to lower margin throughout, far from affecting text, and mostly barely visible. A vague minor dampstain to margins of a few leaves at the beginning, also far from affecting text. All in all a lovely, clean and crisp copy on large paper. Full page engraved frontispiece-portrait + (14), 386 (pp. 177-78 omitted in pagination)"" (16), 475, (1) pp. Fully complete, with separate half-titles for the different works.
Scarce first edition, first issue, on large paper - THE GREAT BOOK COLLECTOR VOLLBEHR'S COPY, GIVEN TO THE IMPORTANT BACONIAN G.J. PFEIFFER - of the monumental first collected edition of the works of Francis Bacon, containing the seminal first printing in Latin of not only his greatly influential ""Nova Atlantis"" (""The New Atlantis"" - often referred to as ""the blueprint for the founding of America""), but also his groundbreaking Essays (""Sermones Fideli"") as well as his history of Henry VII (""Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi"") and his Dialogue on the Holy War (""Dialogum de Bello Sacro""), published by Bacon's literary executor, his close friend William Ramsey, to whom Bacon bequeathed most of his manuscripts. This first edition of his works in Latin is of the utmost importance to Bacon-scholarship and has played a seminal role in the spreading of his works as well as the understanding of two of his greatest achievements, The Essays and The Nova Atlantis, which is usually referred to with its Latin title instead of the English.This magnificent copy with its wide margins contains several interesting inscriptions in different languages. One of them, 19th century, in German states that ""This book is to remind you of the ""15th Century Plot"". When, in 1926, you showed to scholars his collection of 2000 incunables. He is also known as ""Otto H.F. Vollbehr., [...]"" - "" Dated ""N. York City 29/11 26"" And in the same hand, the presentation inscription is continued: ""This ""little book"" is being handed over in friendship to Mr. George J. Pfeiffer the famous ""Bacon-scholar"" in order for him to continue his fruitful studies [...]."" -THE PRESENT COPY THUS EVIDENTLY BEING THE GREAT BOOK COLLECTOR VOLLBEHR'S COPY, GIVEN TO THE IMPORTANT BACONIAN PFEIFFER. ""Vollbehr was a German industrial chemist turned book collector who at the close of World War I found himself with more assets than most. Either in his own collection or through consignment Vollbehr had control of thousands of incunabula. In 1926 Vollbehr came to the United States, bringing with him a collection of 3,000 incunabula to be exhibited at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago. After the exhibition in Chicago, Vollbehr traveled with the collection by train to several other cities. His last stop was in Washington, and over 100 of the books were exhibited in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. Vollbehr proposed that if a benefactor would step forward to buy the collection for an American institution for half the asking price of $1.5 million, he would donate the other half. In addition, he would include a complete copy of the Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum as one of the 3,000 incunabula.The Gutenberg Bible which crowned Vollbehr's collection had had only three owners. The first owner was said to have been Johann Fust, who took it to Paris and sold it as a manuscript to a representative of the monks of Saint Blasius. It resided with the monks in the Black Forest until they had to move to St. Paul in Carinthia in the face of the Napoleonic army. Finally, in 1926, Otto Vollbehr purchased the three volumes from the monks for $250,000.In December 1929, a bill was presented to Congress proposing that public funds be used to acquire the Vollbehr collection for the Library of Congress. In June 1930 Congress passed the bill and President Hoover signed it into law. Between July 15 and September 3 the Vollbehr books arrived at the Library of Congress. The Bible, one of three known perfect copies printed on vellum, is one of only a few items that are permanently on display in the Library."" (from the Library of Congress web-site). George J. Pfeiffer, Ph. D., of New York, graduate of Harvard University, and Vice-president of the Bacon Society of America, is considered one of the most important Bacon-scholars of his time. His thorough scientific studies convinced himself and many others that Bacon was in fact the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare. With THE FIRST PRINTING IN LATIN OF ""NOVA ATLANTIS"", Bacon's famous theories of his masterly utopian work became widespread and hugely influential. It had originally been printed, posthumously, in English and appeared at the very end of his ""Sylva Sylvarum"" of 1626, where it was more or less hidden away and quite humbly presented by Rawley, who was responsible for his leftover papers. Rawley's introduction to the Latin edition of the work is quite different from that of the English edition and has had quite an impact upon the reception of the work, a work which came to inspire a totally new philosophical and political genre and which fundamentally changed the way that we view the world. The ""Nova Atlantis"" occupies a unique place within the works of Bacon"" among many other things, it is the only overtly fictional product of his career (if one does not, like Pheiffer, believe that he is actually the true author of the Shakespearean works). The printing of this major work in the history of man's thought is quite interesting and fairly complicated. As mentioned, it appeared at the back of the larger, and much more conform, work ""Sylva Sylvarum"", which was published by his secretary and friend William Rawley shortly after Bacon's death. It does not, however, seem to have much in common with the ""Sylva Sylvarum"", and the ""New Atlantis"" was not even mentioned when that work entered the Stationers' Register on July 4th, 1626.The ""Sylva Sylvarum"" was being compiled during the last couple of years of Bacon's life, and there is evidence to conclude that ""Nova Atlantis"" was being translated into Latin at the same time, whereas it seems that the English version of it was written about a year or two earlier. Although the Latin translation was thus left lying around for quite some years before it was finally printed, perhaps due to the fact that it was an unfinished text, Bacon himself seems to have concerned himself a great deal with the Latin translation of the work (as well as the other works). The appearance of them in the ""universal language"" were, in the words of Bacon himself to be carried out 'for the benefit of other nations', a phrase which is paralleled in the text of ""Nova Atlantis"", as the father of Salomon's House remarks of his relation of the institution's working that 'I giue thee leave to Publish it"" for the Good of other Nations'. And finally does this great work appear to the benefit of all men and all nations, in the universal Latin language, when in 1638 Rawley publishes the ""Operum moralium"", in which his ""Essays"" also appear in Latin for the first time, as does the History of Henry VII, and the Dialogue on the Holy War, two other greatly important works. The printed title of the ""Operum Moralium"" not only informs the reader which texts are included within the volume" Rawley also provides information on the texts themselves, dividing them into two distinct sections (with two separate title-pages). The first section consists of five translations which (apart from De sapientia) had never appeared in Latin translation before" the second section consists in the first part of the ""Instauratio"" (originally published in 1620). The second issue of the ""Operum Moralium"" furthermore has the reissued sheets of the last part of the ""Novum organum"".Rawley's prefatory letter tells us quite a bit about the way that he (and Bacon himself) would like the ""Nova Atlantis"" to be viewed, and for the first time the work is addressed in a direct and assertive manner, bringing it forth as an important philosophical work, now for the first time properly introduced. Rawley informs the reader that Bacon began the process of translating the Essays and the Nova Atlantis, because he wished his moral and political works not to perish. He goes on to explain the importance of the moral and political works being published in the ""universal"" Latin and groups the texts in a new way. He now makes a new category of text for the final two works, ""De bello sacro"" and ""Nova Atlantis"", calling them 'fragmentary', as opposed to the ""Worke Unfinished"" that he used for the English ""Now Atlantis"" of 1626/7, stating that this is at the request of Bacon himself: ""And finally he ordered that two fragments be added, the Dialogue of the Holy War, and the New Atlantis: but he said that these were the three kinds of fragments."", giving to them a certain status of their own and a deliberate character that they had not possessed before. For the first time, the ""Nova Atlantis"", the hitherto hidden-away work that was never properly introduced, is now included in the general preface, which it was not in 1626/27, and the ""Nova Atlantis"" is given the central position within Bacon's works that it deserved - and that it has possessed ever since. This also explains the great impact of the first Latin version of the ""Nova Atlantis"" as opposed to the English version, which was far less influential. Not only is ""Nova Atlantis"" no longer just an unfinished work worthy of no more than being hidden away at the back of a larger work, it is now the central part of a seminal collection of works appearing for the first time in Latin ""for the Good of other Nations"".""Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. As a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queen's Counsel, Bacon wrote on questions of law, state and religion, as well as on contemporary politics"" but he also published texts in which he speculated on possible conceptions of society, and he pondered questions of ethics (Essays) even in his works on natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning).After his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London, Bacon did not take up a post at a university, but instead tried to start a political career. Although his efforts were not crowned with success during the era of Queen Elizabeth, under James I he rose to the highest political office, Lord Chancellor. Bacon's international fame and influence spread during his last years, when he was able to focus his energies exclusively on his philosophical work, and even more so after his death, when English scientists of the Boyle circle (Invisible College) took up his idea of a cooperative research institution in their plans and preparations for establishing the Royal Society.To the present day Bacon is well known for his treatises on empiricist natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum Scientiarum) and for his doctrine of the idols, which he put forward in his early writings, as well as for the idea of a modern research institute, which he described in Nova Atlantis."" (SEP). Gibson: 196" Lowndes I:96.
Obeliscus Pamphilius, hoc est, interpretatio Nova & hucusque intentata Obelisci hieroglyphici... Le déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes selon Kircher
Superbe exemplaire conservé dans sa riche reliure romaine de l’époque. Rome, Ludovici Grignani, 1650. In-folio de (32) ff., 560 pp., (15) ff., 1 grande planche dépliante anciennement restaurée sans manque, 1 portrait, 1 frontispice et 7 planches à pleine page. Relié en maroquin brun de l’époque sur ais de bois, riche décor sur les plats composé d’un double-encadrement de dentelles dorées avec fleuron central, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés en forme de cœurs, fermoirs ciselés, tranches dorées. Coiffe inférieure usée. Reliure romaine de l’époque. 320 x 215 mm.
Edition originale du premier exposé complet par Kircher de sa théorie de transcription des hiéroglyphes égyptiens. Avery Architectural Library, p.529 ; Caillet, Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques, n°5787 ; Brunet, III, 668 ; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, IV, p. 22 ; De Backer-Sommervogel, IV, 1052. Dans le présent ouvrage, le Père Kircher déchiffre et explique les hiéroglyphes qui couvrent l'obélisque de la fontaine de la place Navone à Rome, qui fut restauré par Le Bernin sous la direction de l’auteur et sur ordre du pape Innoncent X. Selon De Backer-Sommervogel, Kircher «alla jusqu'à mettre des hiéroglyphes de son invention aux endroits où les anciennes figures étaient absolument effacées et détruites». "Like most of Kircher's works, this book is filled with fascinating arcana, and Kircher's interpretations of Egyptian mythology and lore are of particular interest" (Merrill). Athanase Kircher (1602-1680) fut l’un des hommes les plus érudits de l’ordre des jésuites. « Ce grand savant était à la fois Physicien, Mathématicien, Orientaliste, Cabbaliste et Philologue. Il professa le grec à Coblentz ; la Philosophie, les Mathématiques, les Langues Orientales à Würtzbourg ; se retira un moment à Avignon dans la maison de son ordre ; professa encore les Mathématiques à Vienne et à Rome, puis acheva ses jours dans la retraite entièrement occupé par ses immenses travaux d’érudition. Sa ‘Restitution de la Langue Egyptienne’ était estimée du grand Champollion et tous ses ouvrages sont dignes de fixer l’attention des travailleurs » (Caillet, p. 360) « La guerre de trente ans le força d’abandonner l’Allemagne. Il se retira d’abord chez les jésuites d’Avignon, avec lesquels il passa deux années, uniquement occupé de l’étude des antiquités. Ce fut pendant son séjour en cette ville qu’il se lia d’amitié avec Peiresc, qui lui conseilla de travailler à l’explication des hiéroglyphes égyptiens ». L’ouvrage est enrichi de nombreuses citations d’auteurs arabes sur l’histoire égyptienne. La très belle illustration se compose d'un frontispice gravé par C. Bloemaert, du portrait d'Innocent X, de la grande planche dépliante figurant les 4 faces de l'obélisque et de 5 illustrations à pleine page (dont 2 gravées sur cuivre par Petrus Miotte Burgundus). Précieux exemplaire conservé dans sa riche reliure romaine décorée de l’époque, avec les tranches dorées et d’élégants fermoirs ciselés. Provenance : tampon d’une bibliothèque privée sur le titre, autre tampon au verso du portrait.
Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa Planetam Veneris. Edition originale rare relatant pour la première fois la présence de tâches sur vénus.
Il s’agit du premier atlas de cette planète, dans lequel Bianchini détermine son axe de rotation. Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.In-folio de 1 frontispice, viii pp. dont le feuillet de titre imprimé en rouge et noir, 92 pp., 10 planches hors texte dont 4 dépliantes, 3 gravures dans le texte. Déchirure sans manque de texte dans la marge de la p.29. Relié en demi-basane havane mouchetée récente, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées. 380 x 250 mm.
Edition originale rare relatant pour la première fois la présence de tâches sur vénus.Il s’agit du premier atlas de cette planète, dans lequel Bianchini détermine son axe de rotation. Riccardi, I, 132 ; Graesse, I, 437.« C’est donc dans cet ouvrage que Bianchini a consigné ses observations des taches de la planète Vénus. Il a donné une détermination du mouvement de rotation de cette planète. Il fit imprimer son livre magnifiquement, le dédia au roi de Portugal Jean V, auquel il offrit en même temps une machine représentant le système de cette planète, ornée de figures d’argent doré. Le roi envoya en retour à l’auteur, outre une forte somme d’argent, une lunette de nouvelle invention faite à Londres, et dont le travail était admirable ; il accorda depuis, en 1731, deux ans après la mort de Bianchini, la croix de l’ordre du Christ au compte Gaspard Bianchini, son neveu, et il y ajouta, en 1732, une commanderie, en payant de son trésor les frais dus, pour l’expédition du diplôme, à la caisse de l’ordre, et toutes les autres dépenses. »François Bianchini (1662-1729) fut reçu membre de l’Académie physico-mathématique, établie par Monsignor Ciampini.« En 1717, il eut un accident qui interrompit des observations importantes qu’il avait commencées sur la planète de Vénus, et dont les premières remontaient même jusqu’en 1716 ; il les reprit. Il en fit surtout alors d’infiniment curieuses sur les taches de cette planète. Il les faisait avec cette machine qu’il avait présentée à l’Académie de Paris ; et, pouvant employer des lunettes plus fortes qu’on ne l’avait pu jusqu’alors, il fit des découvertes et des observations toutes nouvelles. Il continuait en même temps son travail sur les tombeaux de la maison d’Auguste ; « il s’enfermait le jour, dit encore Fontenelle, dans le colombier sépulcral et souterrain, et la nuit il montait à son observatoire. » Aussi vit-on paraître, dans deux années consécutives, 1727 et 1728, deux importants ouvrages, l’un sur le colombier, et l’autre sur Vénus. Ce fut par ces deux productions remarquables qu’il termina sa carrière. » Michaud.Le présent ouvrage est d’autre part un exemple important de l’illustration dans les livres italiens du XVIIIe siècle.Il est illustré d’un frontispice gravé par Rocco Pozzi d’après Stefani Pozzi, de 3 gravures dans le texte et de 10 planches hors texte consacrées aux découvertes de Bianchini, 3 d’entre elles (2 dans le texte et 1 planche hors texte) étant réalisées en mezzotinte.L’une des gravures illustrant le chapitre 2 représente le cratère lunaire Platon et 2 des planches à pleine page montrent des télescopes de l’époque.William Ashworth notait dans le catalogue de son exposition intitulé The Face of the Moon que : « This small engraving, which appears in the text as part of the introductory chapter, shows the crater Plato at the right, with Aristotle and Eudoxus at left, and the mountain range of the alps cut by the dramatic slash of the Alpine Valley. Bianchini noted with surprise that the valley did not appear on the great Cassini map, and he was right; Bianchini was the first to see and to portray this most impressive of lunar valleys” (p. 11).Bon exemplaire de cette rare originale du plus haut intérêt du point de vue de l’astronomie.
( Bandes Dessinées en Petits Formats ) - Stan Lee - John Buscema - Collectif.
Reference : 29840
(1996)
Reliure éditeur : Album Nova n° 2. ( Nova 5, 6, 7,8 ).
Les Editions Lug / Collection Super Héros / Reliure éditeur, Album Nova n° 2 de 1978. In-12 broché de 256 pages au format 21 x 13 cm. Belle couverture illustrée par Jean-Yves Mitton. Plats et intérieur frais, malgré d'infimes frottis aux coins et de minuscules brunissures au 4ème plat. Dos bien carré. Contient 4 numéros de Nova : 5,6,7,8, avec les séries : Le Surfer d'Argent, Nova et L'Homme Araignée ( Spider-Man ). Rare et fragile édition originale surtout dans un tel état général de fraicheur.
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