Search Results: Titles starting with D from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

8vo, pp. [xxiv], 87, 116 [index], [1] blank; woodcut head- and tailpieces; occasional spotting and browning, but largely clean and fresh; initialed exlibris stamp on title-page, paste-downs covered in pencilled mathematical notes; in contemporary half vellum, marbled boards; some wear but still an attractive copy.
Second printing of this new and rare edition by the Lutheran theologian and philosopher Adam Heinrich Meißner (or Meisner, 1711-1782) of Pomponius Mela's geographical treatise, the earliest surviving Latin work on geography.
Although Meißner offers a brief preface, in which he surveys some of the previous editions of the work, and the literature that it had generated, the main attraction of his edition lies in his comprehensive indexes, which take up more than half the volume. The first is just a table of contents, but the second, over 29 pages, gives quick access to every aspect of Pomponius' work, from the physical (Fons Nili III, 9, 71) to the human (feroces homines, II, 2, 12, or, in… Read More

8vo, pp. [vi], 335, [1] blank; final leaf attached to lower wrapper; some light foxing in places throughout, but otherwise largely clean and fresh; uncut in contemporary blue printed wrappers, old ownership signature (V. Mauville) in ink on upper wrapper; some light wear and browning but still an attractive copy.
A good copy of this uncommon study of the relative merits of sheep and goats, by the physician, naturalist, and mineralogist Giuseppe Gautieri (1769-1833).
Gautieri's study is comprehensive: he discusses in detail the use of goats as producers of milk (not only do they produce a lot, but they do so much of the year, and it is suitable for the production of butter, ricotta, and more) but also not only for meat but also for their tallow (for excellent candles), their guts (for violin strings), and more. Goats get on well with people, while being 'allegra, forte, coraggiosa e destra', putting up with heat and cold, snow and rain; and, of course, they will eat almost anything (this is counted as… Read More

8vo, pp. [v], [i] blank, 16, 422, [5] table des chapitres, [4] approbation & privilege, [1] blank; dampstaining, largely marginal, to last few gatherings, and occasionally elsewhere, but otherwise largely clean; uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers, lacking spine; a couple of leaves loose, upper wrapper hanging on slightly precariously, loss to lower wrapper at foot; somewhat dog-eared.
Uncommon and comprehensive defence of Catholic doctrine by the Premonstratensian canon Thomas Tilly, prompted by a correspondence with a Maastricht-based Anglican minister, John Elms.
The work opens with a letter from Elms, who notes that the captivity of English troops in France had offered the Catholic church a great opportunity to collect converts: 'vous avez mis à profit une occasion si favorable, pour écercer votre zèle, en conduisant plusieurs de nos braves compatriotes dans le sein de l'Eglise Catholique', largely due to the susceptibility of soldiers to subtle arguments and seductive discourse. Claiming… Read More