[S.l.]: [S.n.], 1667. First edition. In contemporary vellum. Short title and date in ink on front panel. (8º); (2), 90, (2) p. The book concerned with the War of Devolution (1667–1668) the conflict between France and Spain over the possession of the Spanish Netherlands. After the Thirty Years'... More about Che per necessità di Giustizia, e per Convenienza di Stato sia indispensabile a S. R. Imperio la...

Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under... More about Türkische Schau-Bühne […]; [Bound before:] [Francisci, Erasmus]: Der Türkischen...

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649. With numerous illustrations of diagrams in the text. First separate and first Latin edition of “La Géometrie” (second printing overall). Title page in red and black, with printer’s device. In 18th century blind-stamped leather, spine with four raised bands. Spine lettered in..... More about Geometria, à Renato Des Cartes Anno 1637 Gallicè edita; nunc autem Cum Notis Florimondi de...

Vitembergae (Wittenberg): Literis Schrödterianis, Acad. Typ (Schrödter), 1695. First edition. Papered spine. (4º) A1–B4.; (16) p. Sebastian Edzardi (1673–1736) was a German philosopher, theologian and Lutheran missionary. Studied philosophy and theology at the Wittenberg University and became a professor of logic and metaphysics at the Academic Gymnasium of Hamburg. He..... More about Utrum Pentateuchus a Samaritano Sacerdote sit Conscriptus (Q. D. B. V., […] Adversus Auctorem...

A Paris: Chez Daniel Hortemels, Saint Jacques, au Mecenas, M. DC. LXXXVII [1687]. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments gilt, titled. Tinted edges. (30), 370, (4) p. [Complete.]. First edition of Du Vignau’s important work dealing with the decline of the Ottoman Empire... More about L'état présent de la puissance Ottomane, Avec les causes de son Accroissement, & celles de...

A Paris: Chez Louys Billaine, au second Pilier de la grande Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Celar, M. DC. LXX. [1670]. First French edition. In somewhat later leather. Panels blind-ruled, spine with five raised bands, gilt, with red title vignette. Edges painted. (8), 165, (1) p.... More about Relation du Naufrage d'un Vaisseau Holandois, Sur la Coste de l'Isle de Quelpaerts: Avec la...

In Milano: Per l’her Pacifico Pontio, & Gio.Battista Piccaglia, Stampatori Archiepiscopali, M. DC. XVI. [1616]. Second edition (first in 1601). Title with woodcut printer’s device, text printed in red and black. With woodcut headpieces and initials throughout. In contemporary paper. (20), 476, (12) p. Rare Italian travelogue of Palestine through... More about Relatione tripartita del viaggio di Gierusalemme, Nella quale si racontano gli avvenimenti...

Impresso em Lisboa: na officina de Luys Estupina, Anno de M. DCVIII [1608]. First edition. In later leather. Panels, spine, inner edges richly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece (not cited by bibliographies). Woodcut initials, typographical head, and tailpieces. Woodcut printer’s device on last leaf. Pages framed by double-line. Housed in..... More about Do sitio de Lisboa. Dialogo de Luys Mendez de Vasconcelos. Com licenc, a da Sancta Inquisicam,...

London: Printed for John Salusbury, at the Rising-Sun in Cornhil, M DC XC IV [1694]. First edition in Halley’s translation. In somewhat later leather. Spine with red title vignette. With several charts and woodcut diagrams. (4), 208 p. First English edition in Edmond Halley’s translation of Oughtred’s classic work, Clavis..... More about Mr. William Oughtred’s Key of the Mathematicks. Newly Translated from the Best Edition With...

Hamburg: Härtel und Weyrauchs Erben (Hertelii et Haeredum Matth. Weyrauchii. Typis v. Rebenlinianis), 1682. First edition. With 153 woodcut illustrations. In contemporary vellum. (8°); (12), 163 (i. e. 164.), (4) p.; 21 plates, [2] p. Scarce book on chiromancy. Contains 153 woodcut illustrations of palms, showing different shapes of hands... More about Praecepta Chiromantica Clarissimi Nicolai Pompei, inferiorum Mathematum in alma Wittebergensium...

Amstelædami (Amsterdam): Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios (Elzevier), 1661. With an engraved portrait of Regius (by Theodor Matham after Hendrick Bloemaert on a4 verso), an engraved folding map and a celestial map. With numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, some full-page. Third edition (first in 1654, under the title “Fundamenta..... More about Philosophia Naturalis; in qua Tota Rerum Universitas, per clara & facilia Principia, explanatur