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Renaissance satire and the defence of Herodotus

ESTIENNE, Henri and Richard CAREW (translator). A world of wonders: or an introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and moderne wonders: or a preparatiue treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. The argument whereof is taken from the Apologie for Herodotus written in Latine by Henrie Stephen, and continued here by the author himselfe. Translated out of the best corrected French copie.
London, for John Norton, 1607. Folio (ca. 27.5 x 18.5 cm). With 2 woodcut printer's device on the title pages (divisional title page for part 2), and with woodcut decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout.
Modern blind-tooled speckled calf. [20], 217, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [5], 229-358, [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Caricature & Satire English & American Literature
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The famous first edition of Robert Estienne’s "O mirificam" Greek New Testament

ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). Tῆò Káéíῆò ÄéáèÞêçò ἅπáíôá [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] | Novum Testamentum.
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546. 2 volumes. 16mo (12 x ca. 7.5 cm). With Estienne's woodcut devices: the basilisk on both title pages and the olive tree on the otherwise blank last page of volume 2. Further with several woodcut decorated headpieces and initials. 18th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spines with the French (part) title lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, green and gold decorated endpapers. 528; 361, [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Religion (16th Century)
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One of the most influential works ever written, with commentary by the "Euclid of the 16th century"

EUCLID and Christopher CLAVIUS (editor). Elementorum Libri XV.
Including: Posteriores libri IX.
"Cologne" [= Venice], Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The title page of each part is set within an elaborate woodcut border, with woodcut decorated initials (at least 3 series), headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut mathematical figures in the text, large woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank verso of the last leaf of both parts. Later blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [15], [1 blank], 359, [1 blank]; 355, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Mathematics School & Textbooks
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One of the most important works in the history of dentistry

FAUCHARD, Pierre. Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.
Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf. XXIV, 494, [8], [2 blank]; [20], 424 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Dentistry Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)
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Causes and cures for flatulence

FIENUS, Joannes. De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili & expedia methodo indicantur.
Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine. 215, [5], [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Antwerp Belgium Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the Revolution

FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine.
Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XL, 294 pp. Full description
€ 950
Education & Pedagogy School & Textbooks Ships & Shipbuilding Technology
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All the world is a chessboard: the first mention of chess in a printed work

GALLENSIS, Johannes (John of WALES). Co[m]muniloquium sive su[m]ma collationu[m].
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg = Georg Husner], (colophon:) 25 May 1489. Small folio. Printed in Gothic type in 2 columns, with 52 lines to the page, and a headline. Modern vellum, reusing an old manuscript antiphonary leaf. [79] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Early Printing - 15th century Education & Pedagogy Games & Sports Religion (15th Century)
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First and only edition of the collected works of "The reformer before the Reformation"

GANSFORT, Wessel [and Petrus PAPPUS (editor)]. Opera, quae inveniri potuerunt omnia: partim ex antiquis editionibus, partim ex manuscriptis eruta.
Groningen, Joannes Sassius, 1614. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [38], 921, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Bibliography & Biography Humanism & Reformation Religion (17th Century)
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