Rare & Fine Books Manuscripts including Recent Acquisitions Rulon-Miller Books Saint Paul, Winter 2018 Rulon-Miller Books 400 Summit Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55102-2662 USA *** Catalogue 158 To order call toll-free (800) 441-0076 Outside the U.S. please call (651) 290-0700 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rulon.com All major credit cards accepted We will gladly supply pictures for any item TERMS • All books are guaranteed genuine as described, and are returnable for any reason during the first week after receipt. Please notify us as soon as possible if an item is being returned. • Prices are net, plus sales taxes where applicable. Shipping charges are extra and are billed at cost. • Foreign accounts should make payments in US dollars by wire, credit card, or postal money order, or with a check in US dollars drawn on a US bank. Bank charges may apply. Note to our Readers While the NUC (National Union Catalogue) counts in our catalogue descriptions remain accurate, as well as those from other hard-copy sources, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) counts, and those from other online databases, may not be. While we have taken the time to check items in this catalogue where online counts are cited, and assume them to be correct, we also recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results, and most all should probably be taken as measure of approximation. Front Cover Image: Item #333 Back Cover Image: Item #152 Catalogue 158 1 1. Accarisio, Alberto. Vocabolario et grammat- modern science of acoustics. His first results were first reported ica con l’orthographia della lingua volgare d’Alber- in New Discoveries in the Theory of Sound, 1787, and were to Acharisio da Cento; con l’espositione di molti luoghi greatly enlarged upon in Acoustics, 1802. Chladni was from an early age interested in music, and was himself an amateur di Dante, del Petrarca, et del Boccaccio. Venetia: Alla musician “who designed and constructed two keyboard instru- bottega d’Erasmo di Vicenzo Valgrisio, 1550. $500 ments, the euphonium and the clavicylinder, both being variations Second edition, first of the glass harmonica” (see DSB for a detailed account of his published in Cento, 1543; life and experiments). PMM 233b. 8vo, [4], 316 leaves; italic type throughout; printer’s woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials throughout; unusual blindstamped gauffered page edges; contemporary full vellum, manuscript titling on spine; worn and soiled, old ownership marking (some crossed out), small, neat paper reinforcement in the foremargins of the first 6 leaves; textblock clean and the binding is sound. Item 3 This edition not in Adams; BM STC Italian, p. 4. 3. Adams, George. Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy…Describing in a familiar and easy manner the principal phenomena of nature … this American edition … edited by William Jones, mathematical instrument maker, is carefully revised and corrected by Robert Patterson … University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: W. W. Woodward, also by W. P. Farrand, 1806. $1,500 First American edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, 43 engraved folding plates, largely of globes, and scientific and mathematical instru- ments; contemporary full calf, red and black morocco labels on spine; some cracking of the joints on volume I, else generally a very good, sound, clean, and handsome set. Shaw & Shoemak- er 9799. Privately printed 4. [Africa.] Davidson, John. Notes taken during travels in Africa. London: printed for private circula- tion only [by] J. L. Cox and Sons, 1839. $1,500 4to, pp. [8], 213; engraved frontispiece, 2 other engraved plates; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; 2. [Acoustics.] Chladni, Ernst Florens Fried- covers dampstained, and the yellow-coated endpapers possibly rich. Die akustik. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, renewed; all else very good and sound. Having previously traveled 1802. $3,200 in Italy, Poland, Russia, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Canada and the First edition, 4to, pp. [2], xxxii, 310, engraved vignette portrait United States, Davidson (1797-1836) visited Fez and Marrakesh on title page, 11 folding plates; original marbled paper-covered in Morocco, and was on his way to Timbuktu when he was boards, paper label on spine; binding and label rubbed, but a ambushed, robbed, and shot dead. His expedition continued good, sound copy, unrestored; contained in a brown leather onward to Timbuktu, but was never heard from again. The slipcase. interesting appendix contains extracts from letters written by Chladni (1756-1827), “professor of physics in Breslau, Davidson and others to the Royal Geographical Society from was the first to reduce the general association between vibration various locations in Morocco and the Sahara. See Howgego and pitch to a tabular basis, and thus to lay the foundation of the 1800-1850, D-4, p. 159 for details. 2 Rulon-Miller Books Only copy in the U.S. ? 7. Anon. The cupulo. A poem. Occasion’d by the vote of the House of Commons, for covering that of St. Paul’s with British copper... London: printed and sold by J. Morphew, 1708. $1,200 Folio, pp. 12; removed from binding; small withdrawn stamp at the base of A2, light soiling, short tear at the top gutter; all else very good. Foxon C-541. Not found in CBEL or NCBEL. ESTC locates only 3 copies: British Library, Guildhall Library, and the National Library of Scotland. OCLC adds Minnesota (this copy, and the only copy in America) and the National Library of Sweden. COPAC finds three more: Manchester, York, and Leicester. 8. [Arabic Grammar.] Germanus de Silesia, Dominicus. Fabrica overo dittionario della lingua Item 4 vulgare Arabica, et Italiana… Roma: Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1636. $1,500 5. [Aldine Press.] Renouard, Ant. Aug. First edition, small, slim 4to, pp. [10], 102; printer’s device; full Annales de l’imprimerie des Alde. Ou histoire des contemporary vellum (darkened from dampstaining), several trois Manuce et de leurs éditions. Paris: Antoine-Au- chips to spine; repaired shallow losses to title page, none affect- gustin Renouard, 1803. $750 ing text, dampstaining throughout; textblock very good and 3 volumes in 2, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 446, [2]; [4], 250, [44], 4, [2]; sound. An early vernacular Arabic grammar, one of the first to bound with the 1812 supplement, [4], ix, [1], 149, [7]; two be published in Italy. “Father Germanus (1585-1670) succeeded portrait frontispieces; maroon straight-grain morocco-backed [Thomas] Obicini in 1636 as lector of Arabic and as collaborator orange boards, smooth gilt-paneled spine gilt-lettered direct, on the Arabic Bible project. Afterwards he stayed for a time in uncut and partially unopened; bookplate and early owner’s name Persia, and ended his life as a scholar in Madrid. There he left on front pastedown; occasional foxing, extremities a bit worn his manuscript for an unfinished Koran translation...one of the and soiled, overall a very good and sound set of an early history first to have prepared a new and faithful translation with com- of the Manutius family and the Aldine Press, which would remain mentary...” Brunet II, 1553; Graesse III, 58. Smitskamp, 224. the most essential guide to the press throughout the 19th century. 9. [Architecture.] 6. [Allen Press.] Allen, Lewis, & Dorothy Mizner, Addison. Allen. The Allen Press bibliography. Greenbrae, Florida architecture CA: The Allen Press, 1981. $1,250 of Addison Mizner. Edition limited to 140 copies printed on hand-made paper Introduction by Ida (specially watermarked for this edition) in 16-point Romanee M. Tarbell. New York: type, folio, pp. 91, [6]; 5 specimen bifolia inserted, color deco- rative title after a design by Mallette Dean, illustrations in the William Helburn, text throughout, some in color; fine copy in original tan cloth- [1928]. $1,250 backed Fortuny cloth boards, publisher’s slipcase. First edition, folio, pp. [38], Allen Press Bibliography (Book Club of California, 184 photogravure plates, [1]; 1985), no. 46: “We elected to relinquish our colossal Columbian frontispiece portrait; original press after producing a folio Bibliography. In the future, limited orange buckram over marbled editions will be done on our smaller handpress ... We had thought boards, printed paper label on when we retired we would commission some printing house to spine, t.e.g.; binding a bit produce our Bibliography. However, the project is so very soiled and rubbed at extrem- personal and such a complicated conglomeration of material (art ities, bottom of spine with work and sample pages from earlier editions), that we believed breaks in the cloth; a good no one else could organize it properly.” A most impressive volume Item 5 copy. oversubscribed before publication. The original prospectus is laid in. The first complete edition in English 10. Aristotle. The works … translated from the Greek. With copious elucidations from the best of his Greek commentators … by Thomas Taylor. London: printed for the translator … by Robert Wilks, Catalogue 158 3 1806-12. $35,000 Beautiful, complete set of the first complete edition in English of Aristotle, limited to 50 sets only; rare. 11 volumes, 4to, full contemporary polished tan calf by J. Mackenzie, Bookbinder to the King; gilt leaf and flower borders on covers, gilt spines in 6 compartments, blue and citron morocco labels in 2, a.e.g., ribbon book marks; minor stains on some covers and a few scratches on the front cover of vol. 10, occasional minor foxing and browning, but generally a fine, handsome set. 1) The Organon, 1807, pp. [4], 844, signed in ink at the end by Thomas Taylor, and with A Brief Notice of Mr. Thomas Taylor, the Celebrated Platonist, with a Complete List of his Published Works, by J.J. Welsh, 8vo, 16pp., bound in at the front; 2) The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nichomachean Ethics, 1811, pp.