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Catalogue 05-2016 36 New Arrivals in All Fields Including Two Milestone Works in the History of Medicine Catalogue 05-2016 36 New Arrivals in all fields including Two Milestone works in the History of Medicine To access our website for more images, click on the author's name! Anatomy: ............................................................................................................ 7, 8, 11,29 Astronomy & Space Sciences: ......................................................................... 9, 12, 19, 36 Botany: ............................................................................................................................ 17 Chemistry: ....................................................................................................................... 34 Economy: ......................................................................................................................... 15 Mathematics: : ...................................................................................................... 3, 10, 20 Medicine & Obstetrics: ........................................................................ 6, 13, 16, 26, 28, 33 Mining & Technology: ........................................................................................... 6, 21, 31 Philosophy, History & Politics: ...................................................... 4, 18, 22, 23, 25, 27, 30 Physics: .................................................................................................................... 2, 9, 32 Teratology, Monsters & Prodigies: .............................................................................. 1, 24 Zoology: ............................................................................................................................. 1 Dibner or Horblit: ............................................................................................................. 17 PMM: ............................................................................................................................... 35 Norman: ............................................................................................................... 17, 33, 36 Milestones of Science Books phone +49 (0) 421 1754235 www.milestone-books.de . [email protected] Member of ILAB and VDA Catalogue 05-2016 Copyright © 2016 Milestones of Science Books. All rights reserved Page 2 of 37 Early bestiary including important section on falconry 1 ALBERTUS MAGNUS. Thierbuch. Von Art Natur und Eygenschafft der Thierer, Als nemlich Von Vierfüssigen Vögeln, Fyschen, Schlangen oder kriechenden Thieren, Und von den kleinen gewürmen die man Insecta nennet... Frankfurt: Cyriacus Jacob zum Bart, 1545. Folio (290 x 188 mm). 172 (of 173) numbered leaves, with final blank but lacking blank leaf a6 after preliminaries. Signatures: a6 [- a6], A-Ee6. Gothic type, 4 woodcut illustrations on title and 214 woodcut illustrations in text. Rebound to style in early 20th century full calf over wooden boards, spine with 4 raised bands, boards ruled in blind, two brass catches and clasps, red-coloured edges, spine sun-faded, little scratching to boards. Very little browning, very minor spotting and finger-soiling to text, tears in few pages repaired with Japan paper in blank lower margin, first 6 leaves repaired and reinforced at gutter, small repaired hole in title-page not affecting text or image. Provenance: Dr. Kurt Lindner, Bamberg (small stamp "Bibliotheca Tiliana" to title verso and leaf E5v and bookplate to front pastedown); Sigrid Gutekunst (bookplate to front pastedown). A very good copy with ample margins, printed on strong paper. (#002637) € 12,000 Benzing, Ryff 178; Nissen ZBI 55; VD 16 A 1336; Graesse I, 56; Rottinger, Frankfurter Buchholzschn. 120. - THE RARE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF THIS VERY POPULAR WORK OF ALBERTUS MAGNUS, edited by Walther Hermann Ryff, on zoology. The Thierbuch is one of the earliest illustrated purely zoological work and contains sections on quadrupeds, birds, snakes, and insects. The woodcuts are derived from various sources, including Lonitzer and Egenolf publications. The text is a translation of De animalibus, books 22-26. An important part of the work (chapter 23) deals with the falconry and is, apart from its ornithological section, not original, but a collection of predominantly 12th-century hunting treatises with a strong veterinary medicinal focus. (Linder, Anfänge der dt. Jagdliteratur, p.47). The first German translations of these parts were done in the 15th century by Werner Ernesti and Heinrich Münsinger. Ryff did not know these two translations present in manuscript only. The woodcuts of the master "IK" are mainly from the book of Michael Herr's Gründtlicher underricht ... aller vierfüssigen thier. The unsigned animal drawings of this print are skilful, of large style, and with the animals in almost lifelike representation. As in other medieval and early Renaissance zoological works, demons and hybrid species had considerable relevance. "Albertus also believed in hybrids of man and various animals, for example the Donkey-man (Onocentaurus), and the Goat-man (Cirinus and Pilosus) ... It is a telling detail that on the title-page of the 1545 edition two hybrids appear next to the 'kings' of the animals (the eagle and the lion): the basiliks and a kind of Sea-wolf ... Interestingly, early modern zoology did not abandon the thoughts of the Medieval thinkers, but came into being a hype in the interest in monsters: the science of teratology developed and extensive treatises on monsters by, e.g. Paré, Aldrovandi or Liceti, were composed." (K. Enekel, in: Zoology in Early Modern Culture, Brill, 2014, p.112-14). Catalogue 05-2016 Copyright © 2016 Milestones of Science Books. All rights reserved Page 3 of 37 Author's dedication copy including a signed letter by him and a manuscript by Ballanche 2 AMPÈRE, André-Marie. Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines. Two volumes. Paris: Bachelier, 1834- 1843. 8vo (205 x 125 mm). Vol. I: lxx, 272 (i.e. 274) pp., including p. 150bis./150ter inserted after p.150 and two folding tables, without 8 pp. publisher's adverts. Vol. II: x, xcvi, 180 pp. and two tables on one folding sheet as issued. Contemporary half calfs over marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt (disparate bindings, little rubbing to boards and extremities), marbled endpapers in first vol. Pages partially untrimmed and unopened. Paper shows light foxing (stronger to title-pages, tables and final leaves), otherweise crisp, bright and unstained. Closed tear at head of half-title affecting dedication (but without loss) and torn paper at blank lower gutter of half-title. First volume, half-title page, with dedication by the André-Marie Ampère to his friend Dupré** and with a signed double-page manuscript with information about the author in neat hand by Ballanche***, dated 26 July 1836, inserted between half-title and title-page. Second volume with two inserted ALS, the first by Jean-Jacques Ampère* to M. Dupré, dated 3 February 1842 (two pages on one sheet, slightly trimmed at fore-edge), and the second by André-Marie Ampère also directed to Dupré and dated 24 March 1824 (4 pages on two folding sheets, the 2nd sheet with two holes with loss of text). (#002615) € 4,900 FIRST EDITIONS, including the augmented second part issued by Andre Ampère's son Jean-Jacques in 1843. A Curious work, unfortunately a little complicated and obscured by the use of many unusual scientific terms: orychtotechnie, cerdoristique, phytographie (...). A remarkable fruit of an apparently materialistic philosophy, not very concordant with the general idea of the great electrician Ampere. (Caillet). *Ampère, Jean-Jacques (1800-1864) was a French philologist and man of letters. Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère. Jean-Jacques' mother died while he was an infant. He taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France and in 1848 he was elected member of the Académie française. **Dupré, Pierre(?) was sub-prefect of the city of Provins and a close friend of André-Marie Ampère. ***Ballanche, Pierre-Simon (1776-1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the ninth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1842. Jean-Jacques Ampère published a biography about Ballanche in 1849. "Trait curieux ouvrage, malheureusement un peu compliqué et obscurci par l'emploi de quantité de termes scientifiques inusités: orychtotechnie, cerdoristique, phytographie (...). Fruit remarquable d'une philosophie apparemment matérialiste, concordant peu avec l'idée qu'on se fait en général du grand électricien Ampère" (Caillet). Tome I portant un envoi autographe Donné par l'auteur à son ami Dupré avec, relié, un double feuillet manuscrit, signé Ballanche, écrivain et philosophe, ami de André-Marie Ampère, avec des renseignements sur l'auteur. Tome II contenant deux lettres autographes signées, une de André-Marie Ampère et l'autre de son fils, toutes deux adressées à Monsieur Dupré, sous-préfet à Provins. 3 ARCHIMEDES Syracusani. Αρχιμηδους παντα σωζομενα. Archimedis opera quae extant, novis demonstrationibus commentariisque illustrata per Davidem Rivaltum a Flurantia. Paris: apud Claudium Morellum, 1615. Folio (330 x 220 mm). [44], 549 (i.e. 551) [1] pp., title printed in red and black and with
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