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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (216 x 132 mm). iv, [2], [1]-480 pp. Errata leaf. Later half calf over cloth, spine with gilt morocco label (rubbing to spine and boards, corners bumped). Internally clean, very little spotting in places. Provenance: Oxford, Bodleian library (armorial bookplate signed " "E. BIBL. RADCL." to front pastedown and deaccession stamp); The library of Hugh Selbourne. ---- Wellcome IV, p.7. - FIRST EDITION. John MacCulloch (1773-1835) was a Scottish surgeon and geologist, president of the Geological Society from 1816 to 1818, and fellow of the Royal Society. "MacCulloch inquiring mind and interest in medicine lasted throughout his life. His principal piece of medical research on malaria gained him great credit ... and it is still a valuable contribution the the history of tropical medicine. This and his work on remittent and…
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Malaria: An Essay on the Production and Propagation of this Poison, and on the Nature and Localities of the Places by which it is produced : with an enumeration of the diseases caused by it, and of the means of preventing or diminishing them, both at home and in the naval and military service
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Les Discours de Nic. Macchiavel secrétaire et citoyen de Florence, sur la première décade de Tite Live, dez l'édification de la ville. Traduitz d'italien en françois, & de nouveau reveuz & augmentez par Jaques Gohory parisien. [Bound after:] Le Prince. Dédié au magnifique Laurens fils de Pierre de Medicis. Traduit d'italien en françois avec la vie de l'auteur mesme, par Jaq. Gohory parisien
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Paris: Robert le Mangnier, 1571. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (152 x 104 mm), [8], 179 (i.e., 280), [12]; [8], 64 ff. Colophon leaf OO3 with portrait of the author. Signatures: ã8 A-NN8 OO4 (OO4 final blank); a8, A-H8. Printer's device on title pages, woodcut head pieces and initials, second work leaves [5]-[7] with "la vie de Machiavel" by the translator, Jacques Gohory, on verso of leaf a7 a woodcut portrait of the author. Text ruled throughout in red ink. Bound in 19th century calf with gold speckles, all edges gilt, spine with 4 raised bands and gilt ruling, boards with triple gilt fillet and central geometric decoration containing the name of the author on upper board and the print date on the lower, handwritten note on front pastedown attributing the binding to Berthe van Regemorter. Text with light even browning throughout; small holes at upper blank margin of first title, a few short ink annotations, p. 200 with weak impression…
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A Treatise of Fluxions
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Edinburgh: T.W. and T. Ruddimans, 1742. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (222x172 mm). Vol. I: [6], vi, 1-412 pp., including half-title and 25 folding engraved plates. Vol. II: [2], 413-763 [1] pp. and 16 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, red morocco labels to spines (binding a little rubbed and bumped, vol. 1 foot of spine damaged, hinges cracked but firm). Internally only very little browned, text of vol. II with faint dampstaining, contemporary ink inscription to vol. I title and p.50, library and withdrawal stamps "Bibliotheca Coll. Nov. Edinensis" to foot of titles. Provenance: John Sprat Rainier (1777-1822), Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy. ---- Norman 1408; DSB VIII, p.610; Honeyman 2084. - FIRST EDITION. Written as a staunch defence of Newton, and described as "the earliest logical and systematic publication of the Newtonian methods", this work was written in reply to Bishop George…
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Mappemonde cèleste, ou Exposition des principes astronomiques relatifs au Globe terrestre et à la connoissance gènèrale du Ciel. Application à ces deux objets, de diverses notions èlèmentaires de gèomètrie, d'optique, de perspective et de calcul
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Paris: chez la veuve Durand, 1801. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (203 x 122 mm). viii, 370, [2] pp., half-title, two folding engraved plates, errata leaf at end. Bound in half marbled morocco over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering piece, edges sprinkled red (worming to hinges, boards rubbed, corners bumped, extremities worn). Text little browned, occasional minor spotting. Provenance. From the library of the great bibliophile Pietro Riccardi (1828-98), author of 'Biblioteca Matematica Italiana'; Giancarlo Beltrame Library. Very good copy. ---- Houzeau-L. 9794. FIRST EDITION of this textbook on astronomy and geodesy by Maclot (1728-1805), French geographer and professor of cosmography and member of the Rouen Academic Association.
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Discorso sull'origine della gragnuola con alcune riflessioni sulli paragrandini
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Vicenza: Tipographia Parise e Compagno Ed, 1825. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 35 [1] pp. Contemporary plain wrappers (paper split and chipped at spine ends, little soiling). Internally crisp and clean. Ink inscription to outer and inner front wrapper. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of a meteorolgical treatise on hail falls and hailstones.
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Discorsi intorno al sanguinar i corpi humani il modo di ataccare le sanguisuche e ventose a far frittioni e vesicatorii
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Rome: Bartolomeo Bonfadino & Tito Diani, 1584. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (226 x 164 mm). [12], 106, [2] pp., including engraved title within architectural border, 11 fine full-page engraved illustrations, text diagram, woodcut initials and headpieces, final leaf with colophon and errata. Signatures: ?6 A-M4 N6. 18th-century mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, tooled in gilt and ruled in blind, marbled endpapers (expertly rebacked, rubbed, extremities a trifle chipped, corners worn). Lower edge titled in ink. Text and plates only very little browned, some minor dust- and finger-soiling to outer margins, engraved title mounted on stub. Provenance: Robert J. Moes* (bookplate to front pastedown). A very good copy. ---- Mortimer, Italian II, 267; Cushing M78; Waller 6142; NLM/Durling 2905; Wellcome I, 3959; not in Norman lib. RARE FIRST EDITION of Magni's treatise on the art of bloodletting and the use of leeches in therapeutic…
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De gentium septentrionalium variis conditionibus statibusque, & de morum, rituum, superstitionum, regiminis, disciplinae victus &c mirabili diversitate
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Basel: Henric Petri, 1567. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (311 x 200 mm), [96], 854, [2] pp., 1 folding woodcut map, approx. 480 woodcuts in text and printer's device, 6 leaves of index and the map supplied, contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (stained and worn, spine repaired at top, lacking clasps), occasional neat annotations and markings in old hand, repaired tear to lower corner of p.67, the map with a marginal tear without loss, little worming to title and last leaf, very minor browning and spotting. A fine copy with the rare map in contemporary binding. Collated complete. ----- VD 16, M 225; BM, German Books 587; Adams M 141; Collijn II, 363 ff.; Warmholtz 1414. - First Basel edition. Illustrated with c. 480 small woodcuts in text and a large folding woodcut map of Scandinavia lacking in most copies. The map is designed after Olaus Magnus' own map, originally printed in nine sheets in 1539 with…
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Oggetti più interessanti di ostetricia e di storia naturale esistenti nel Museo ostetricio della Regia Università di Padova . .
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Padova: Stamperia del Seminario, 1807. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (290 x 212 mm). viii, 79 [1] pp., including first blank, woodcut ornaments, 10 engraved plates by Gaetano Malacarne (plates 8-10 misnumbered). All pages uncut and mostly unopened. Publisher's printed carta rustica wrappers (covers slightly foxed and stained, spine ends chipped with considerable loss). Text generally crisp and clean with very minor occasional spotting, first blank torn at fore-margin, first gathering working loose. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. Very good copy. ---- Wellcome IV, p.34; not in Waller. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of an interesting teratological work on fetal monsters with emphasis on their brains. His studies is based on specimens in the collection of the Obstetrological Museum of the University of Padova. Vincenzo Malacarne (1744-1816) was a university professor of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics in Turin, Padua, and…
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A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi / With Observations on Some Forms of Rheumatism Prevailing in India
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Madras: Vepery Mission Press, 1835. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two works in one volume. 8vo (215 x 133 mm). [2], iv, [2], 343, [3]; [2], 98 pp., including advert leaf after title, errata slip, one hand-coloured lithographed plate facing p. 114, and final blank in first work. Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, spine lettered in black (joints repaired, boards rubbed and soiled, corners scuffed). Text little age-toned, pale brown stain at top gutter of title-page of first work and final gatherings of second work from binder's glue, occasional very minor spotting. ---- FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE MEDICAL TREATISE ON BERIBERI and "A classic account, in which the author brought together all that was known about the disease in his day" (Garrion-Morton). In 1832 the Madras Medical Board offered a prize for an essay on beriberi as a way of "encouraging scientific investigation into a disease known to be 'insidious in its attack, rapid in…
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De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica . . . Accedit dissertatio ejusdem de polypo cordis
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London: John Martyn, 1669. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two parts in one volume. 12mo (129 x 74 mm). [12], 180 pp. Signatures: A-H12. Bound in 18th century calf, gilt-lettered spine with 5 raised bands, rich gilt tooling to spine and board edges, red-sprinkled edges (boards and extremities slightly rubbed). Text generally clean and crisp with only very minor age-toning and occasional spotting. Tiny hole in leaf B12 affecting two letters recto. Provenance: illegible ownership signature in ink and additional pencil notes on first flyleaf. A fine copy. ---- NLM/Krivatsy 7332; Wellcome 14305330; Wing M348; Norman 1427 (for 1st). RARE SECOND EDITION of this collection of anatomical treatises, which includes Malpighi's classic treatise on the kidney, De renibus proemium, in which he described the uriniferous tubules as well as the "Malpighian bodies." It also includes the first description of Hodgkin's disease. "Malpighi's studies of the kidney…
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Opera omnia : figuris elegantissimis in æs incisis illustrata
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London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1686. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one. Folio (364 x 227 mm). Main titles of both volumes printed in red and black, vol. I with engraved allegorical frontispiece; in total 116 full-size engraved plates plus 7 smaller engraved plates; appendix De Ovo Incubato, De Bombyce, Pulli in Ovo and Epistolae anatomicae each with separate half-title. Pagination: Vol. I: [8], 15, [5], 1-78 (i.e. 82] p., LIV plates (15 folding), [2], 11 [1] p., VII plates, 13-35 [1] p. Vol. II: [8], 72 p, XXXIX plates; [4], 65-68, 5-44 p., XII plates; [4], 1-12 p., IV plates, 13-20 p.; [2], 1-6 p., 1 plate (folding), 7-8 p., 1 plate (folding), 9-20 p., 3 plates (folding), 21-144 p., 2 plates (folding). Bound without final blank leaf. Contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt-lettered morocco label, boards tooled in blind, corners restored, brown-dyed edges, original endpapers (boards rubbed and worn, flyleaf re-attached). Interior with occasional minor…
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by which it is Regulated
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London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (208 x 127 mm). [4], 61 [1] pp., advert leaf bound after title, unnumbered publisher's advert page at end. Without the additional 4-leaves of publisher's adverts at end, not belonging to this tract, but sometimes found in copies. Modern calf-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers. Title-page slightly dust-soiled, a few light pencil marginals, but generally crisp and clean throughout. Near fine copy. ---- Black 2877; Goldsmith 21130; Kress B6537. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with Murray alone in imprint (and not with J. Johnson). The first full presentation of Malthus' classic essay in which he presented the Malthusian-Ricardian theory of rent for the first time. "At the end of 1805 [Malthus] became professor of history and political economy at the newly founded college of Haileybury [East India College, Hertfordshire]. He gave lectures on political economy. The…
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[From Talleyrand's Library]. Additions to the Fourth and Former Editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population
by MALTHUS, Thomas Robert
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London: [W. Clowes for] John Murray, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (225 x 140 mm) [4], 327 [1], [8] pp., including publishers adverts dated September 1817 at end. Original publishers paper card boards with lettered paper spine label (spine and hinges repaired, corners bumped), pages untrimmed. Text little foxed (stronger at beginning an end). Provenance: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord library, "Talleyrand," with the castle of Valençay bookplate to front pastedown. Another bookplate with monogram E.B.L. to front pastedown. A very good copy with an interesting provenance. ---- Goldsmiths 21762; Kress B6973. - FIRST EDITION. Malthus (1766-1834) had published in his lifetime six editions of his famous Essay on the principle of population (first edition in 1798). The work sometimes includes the text of the fifth edition of the Essay published the same year, but was also separately issued - as here - for owners of previous editions. The final version of…
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Théorie de la double réfraction de la lumière dans les substances cristallisées: mémoire couronné par l'Institut, dans la séance publique du 2 janvier 1810
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Paris: Garnerey & Baudoin, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (252 x 204 mm). 302 pp., including half-title and 3 engraved folding plates. Contemporary French prize binding of the Collège Royal de Versailles in full sprinkled calf, spine and boards tooled in gilt, spine with gilt-lettered black morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers (extremities rubbed, joint at foot of upper board with wormhole in leather, spine and boards toward spine a trifle sunned). Text and plates crisp and bright throughout with light age-toning, occasional minor spotting, a few marginal paper flaws. Provenance: Collège Royal de Versailles (bookplate to front-pastedown printed in Latin with donee "Oscar Leevy(?)" and date 18 Aug. 1810 added in manuscript). A fine copy in untouched binding. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of Malus' prize-winning work on double refraction. Malus took part in the Egyptian expedition as an engineering officer. Director of Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in…
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Contra poetas impudice loquentes carmen. De suorum temporum calamitatibus
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Bologna, Rome: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis for B. Hector, 1489. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1. April 1489. 64 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: a4 b-c8 d-i6 k8. 25 lines, type 1:113R. Colophon on A4v ('Romae die. XX octobris M.cccc.lxxxvii') and on K8r. 4to (195 x 136 mm). Bound in 18th-centruy full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered morocco label (light spotting and browning of vellum), blue-dyed edges. Occasional neat contemporary ink marginalia. Text quite crisp and clean with only very little even browning, short tear at blank inner margin of first leaf. A fine, unstained and wide-margined copy. ---- Hain 2386; GW-3246; Goff B89; IGI 1197; ISTC ib00089000; BMC VI 823 - FIRST EDITION, exceptionally rare. The Carmelite monk Baptista Mantuanus (became general of the order in 1513) was one of the most important and most prolific of the Renaissance poets. Vergil was his favorite model, and a monument in Mantua represents…
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Breve introduzione alla cosmografia
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Florence: Cesare Bindi, 1712. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (208 x 160 mm). 120 pp., including title-page, woodcut initials and ornaments, woodcut astronomical diagrams in text. Contemporary vellum over boards, small loss to upper cover and spine, hinges starting. tiny marginal ink spots to title, first few leaves a bit browned, light waterstaining to gutter, slight marginal spotting and finger soiling, lower blank corner of first two leaves torn, a few tears and paper flaws to blank outer margins elsewhere, H2-3 working loose and with small clean tear to fore margin. Provenance: inked ex-libris of a friar from the Monastery of Peccioli; Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ---- Riccardi I, 109:4.1 ("raro"); Houzeau & Lancaster 8011. FIRST EDITION of a rare astronomical work. The Pistoiese scientist Angelo Marchetti (1674-1753) was a teacher of mathematics in Pisa. - Visit our website for additional images and information.
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De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libro duo
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Vienna: Leopold Joann Kaliwoda, 1745. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Six parts in one volume. Folio (349 x 253 mm). [25], 2-170, [2], 171-172, [2], 173-174, [2], 175-176, [2], 177-210, [2] pp., engraved frontispiece by A.D. Bertoli and J.J. Sedelmayr, letterpress title printed in red and black and with a vignette (plan od Vienna) by Jo. Christ. Winnckler, engraved headpiece, engraved and woodcut initials and tailpieces, errata on final leaf, 43 engraved folding plates (including one smaller size bound after p.194), 9 engraved illustrations in text (one full size on p. [179]). Unpaginated 4 leaves between pp. 170-171, 172-173, 174-175 and 176-177 are double-sided plates, but part of the signature. Signatures: [a]2 b-d2 )(-2)(2 A-3I2. Bound in contemporary full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label, blue-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (vellum soiled and spotted, old repair to head of spine, corners bumped, first flyleaf torn).…
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The Motion of Water and other Fluids, Being a Treatise on Hydrostaticks. Written originally in French ... Divided into Five Parts, and Translated into English by J.T. Desaguliers ... By whom are added, several Annotations for explaining the Doubtful
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1718. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seven eng. plts., a few ink smudges, worming in the lower outer corners of the last four gatherings, not affecting the text but just within the plate-mark of one plate, dated ownership inscription "Henry Beighton F.R.S. 1722" to title and front free endpaper, the latter below a neatly written table in red and black comparing French and English measures, armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Newdigate and later Arbury Library labels to front pastedown, contemp. mottled panelled calf, joints cracked and sl. wear to head of spine, 8vo. ---- Norman 1441. - First edition in English of a classic text on hydraulics, translated by Newton's Huguenot protegé, the ingenious experimenter John Theophilus Desaguliers. Henry Beighton was a friend of Desaguliers and assisted him in preparing his 'Course of Experimental Philosophy', as well as in such practical affairs as the…
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Petrificata Derbiensia; or, Figures and Descriptions of Petrifactions Collected in Derbyshire. Volume I (all published)
by MARTIN, William
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Wigan: printed by D. Lyon, sold by White, 1793. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (1793)-1809. 4to (256 x 200 mm). ix [3], ii, ii, [102], 28 pp., including half-title, 54 hand-colored engraved plates (many heightened with gum arabic) and explanatory text. Bound in 20th century half calf, spine with 5 raised bands, black lettering piece and gilt decoration. Pages and plates uncut. Occasional minor spotting, few plates with light color offsetting to text, a few pencil notes. Provenance: paper slip with pencil notes tipped in between first endpaper. A very good, crisp and clean copy. ---- FIRST EDITION of the first English paleontological work using coloured illustrations, describing the Carboniferous limestone and other fossils of Derbyshire. Originally issued in 4 parts in 1793, then completed and issued in book form in 1809. "Martin's claim to fame lies chiefly in his Petrificata Derbiensia, subtitled 'Figures and Descriptions of Petrifactions…
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[Anatomical presentation of myology and osteology]
by MARTINEZ Y SORLI, Crisostomo Alejandrino José
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Paris: Chalcographie du Louvre, Musées Nationaux, 1740. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. 1st Edition. No Binding. single sheet. One (of two published) engraved plate on single sheet of strong velin paper. Impression by Chalcographie du Louvre, [plate ca. 1687, but impression after 1797 with blind stamp at foot "Chalcographie du Louvre - Musées Nationaux"]. Plate size: 690 x 525 mm, sheet size: 1019 x 710 mm. Embryo skeleton and 3 male full preparations from the front, side and back, all with measurements and radii. Above the pedestal the signature of Martinez. Light even age-toning of paper, blank margins a trifle dust-soiled, spotted and with some short clean tears partly repaired. ---- The Spanish artist Crisóstomo Alejandrino José MartÃnez was initially active as a painter of devotional pictures before devoting himself primarily to engraving from 1677. Interestingly, MartÃnez is associated with the "Novator", an intellectual movement that promoted scientific progress in Spain as the…
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