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1.	CEPPI, LUIGI ANTONIO: DISSERTAZIONE SERIO-GIOCOSA SULL'ELETTRICITA 
ARTIFICIALE : nella quale si sottomette alla giudiziosa critica degli 
studiosi filoelettri dell'uno e dell'altro emisfero una nuova teoria 
fisico-meccanica dedotta dalle diligenti replicate sperienze, ed accurate 
riflessioni fatte sull'elettroforo da d. Luigi Antonio Ceppi ...  In 
Vercelli : Presso Giuseppe Panialis ... , 1784. 345, [3] p. (p. [347]-[348] 
advertisements), 13 folded leaves of plates : 119 ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo) Not 
in Wheeler Gift; OCLC 4 Locs. In the USA, SMI, HHG, NLM, BAK] KVK only at 
ZXW. Unloc. At COPAC, BN, GBV Etc. An early study written by an 
investigator aware of recent research in Europe and the USA. It is well 
illustrated and beautifully printed.Original dark orange boards,calf 
backstrip, applied label gilt, gilt crossing lines. A gouge at the top of 
the label,  with an early Italian library stamp on TP, OW  a Near Fine 
copy. $1275.00

2.	COOKE, CONRAD WILLIAM AUTOMATA OLD AND NEW, by Conrad William Cooke... 
mechanick to the Sette of odd volumes... London, Imprinted at the Chiswick 
Press, 1893.  117, [l] p. incl. facsim., diagrs. front., plates. 15 x 12 
cm.  Privately printed opuscula. Issued to members of the Sette of the odd 
volumes no. XXIX  This edition is limited to 255 copies, and is imprinted 
for private circulation only. no. 113.  Delivered at a meeting of the Sette 
held at Limmer's hotel, on Friday, November 6th, 1891.  Lists of the club's 
publications and members: p.[101]-117.  A discussion of robots used in 
theatrical performances and in feats of legerdemain or magic 
performances.  RLIn 2 Locs.  Original transparent DJ over boards, DJ with 
edge and corner chips but VG.$1450.00

3.	HEIDFELD, JOHANN OCTAVUM RENATA, RENOVATA, AC LONGE ORNATIUS ETIAM QUAM 
UNQUAM ANTEA, EXCULTA SPHINX theologico-philosophica promens ac proponens 
pia, erudita, arguta ac festiva aenigmata sive scrupos ex variis, & 
quamplurimis, tum sacris, tum profanis, authoribus sedulò comportatos, qui 
mirificè faciunt ad comparandam sapientiam, ad exercenda, acuenda & alenda 
liberalia ingenia, ad formanda judicia, ingenuamque delectationem 
philologorum omnium / authore Johanne Heidfeldio ......  Edita Herbornae 
[nassoviorum -noted in the issue of 1608]  [s.n.], anno nostri, & fortassis 
ultimi seculi, XXI: supra millesimum sexcentesimum [i.e. 1621] [C. 
Corvinus?] 1621.  8vo, [32], 1339 [i.e. 1329], [3] p. ; 19 cm.  Page Nos. 
285-294 omitted in sequence. Errata on last 3 Pp., title Vig.(printer's 
device).  "Analecta aenigmatica. A ... Dn. Alberto Molnaro Ungaro 
comportata, authorique nuper admodum, benevolentiae ergò, transmissa" -- p. 
1307-1339.  A work full of riddles, therefore taking the title of Sphinx 
such as the one whose questions Oedipus answered.  In these Heidfeld means 
to hide the deepest meanings of his thought in a pleasing and unusual 
way.  The book as well is filled with Aphorisms and apothegms, quotations 
from many languages, translated into Latin, in his time the universal 
language.  Originally published in 1600 under the title: Sphinx 
philosophica, this is the last of eight editions printed in his lifetime, 
here much revised and rewritten. He died in 1623.  Chapter XXX on music, 
which includes musical notation is an important source for compositional 
and performance practice. [Gerber 2 Neu. Hist.-Biog. Lex. 
Tonkünstler].  There also are chapters on Astronomy and Geometry in this 
encyclopedic work.  At least five further editions were issued, the last in 
1772.  It was translated into both German and Dutch.  D.B.A.: I 496, 
285-286, from the Allge. De. Biog. RLIn, 2 Locs. [U. Chic. & U. P.]  Orig. 
calf, new spine in antique style Mro. Gilt title label., EPs lengthened to 
cover the whole inner board but most original ownership signatures are 
still readable.VG. $1150.00

4.	HEISTER, LORENZ: L'ANATOMIE D'HEISTER AVEC DES ESSAIS DE PHYSIQUE SUR 
L'USAGE DES PARTIES DU CORPS HUMAIN, & sur le méchanisme de leurs 
mouvemens. Enrichie de nouvelles figures en taille-douce. [Translation] Par 
J. B.[ J. B. Senac] de la Facult'e de Montpellier.  Paris : J. Vincent, 
1724.  In-8 ? , pièces limin., 716-24 Pp., 70 figures on 13 folding etched 
Plates.  First French edition. G & M 5576 First German Edition of 1718: 
"Heister is the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book includes 
many illustrations and includes an account of tourniquets used in his time 
; Heister introduced a spinal brace.  This was the most popular surgical 
text of the  18th century."  Heirs of Hippocrates 797[English version] "
it 
was the standard work on surgery in the 18th century, becoming one of the 
most translated, most used, and most respected texts ever written, and was 
still used as the standard text in Vienna as late as 1838
 Heirs also has 
an early Italian edition. The copperplate illustrations of bandages were 
long used and were the prototypes of those still in use." [First English 
edition of 1743], See also Waller 4234 [incomplete], Welcome III p. 237. 
Original full calf, spine with 5 raised bands, 7 gilt Dec. boxes, one with 
original Mro. Label, gilt, VG. $925.00

5.	KUNCKEL VON LOWENSTEIN, JOHANN: PHILOSOPHIA CHEMICA EXPERIMENTIS 
CONFIRMATA : in qua agitur de principiis chymicis, salibus acidi & 
alcalibus, fixis & volatilibus in tribus illis regnis, minerali, vegetabili 
& animali itemque de odore & colore &c. ; accedit perspicilium chymicum 
contra nonentia chymica.   Amstelaedami : Wolters, 1694. - [XVI], 333 Pp. 
Etched Frontispiece, showing a scene in a laboratory. Second Edition [the 
first was published in 1692]. An edited English translation was published 
later, as "An Experimental Confirmation of Chymical Philosophy, treating of 
the Principles of the Chymists in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral 
Kingdoms" as part of "Pyrotechnical discourses."  Kunckel was both a 
chemist and an alchemist. [See above] Poggendorf I, 330-31, many of his 
original contributions. Alchemy database, 1382 [Ferguson, Young + 
Wisconsin]. Not in Duveen or Caillet. OCLC finds no copies of either this 
or the first edition in the United States. The Frontis. can be seen at the 
url below. Orig. vellum, backstrip with small repair, manuscript spine 
title,  VG. $1,175.00
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/smith/Laboratory.cfm?PictureID=890&LaboratoryID=0


6.	LEMNIUS, LEVINUS; Medici Zirizaei: DE HABITU ET CONSTITUTIONE CORPORIS, 
Quam Graeci[Krasin], Triviales Complexionem Vocant, Libri II. : Omnibus 
quibus secunda valetudo curæ est, apprimè necessarij, ex quibus cuique 
proclive erit corporis sui conditionem, animiq[ue] motus, ac totius 
conseruandæ sanitatis rationem adamussim cognoscere. Nunc vero ab innumeris 
mendis, quibus passim scatebant, vindicati, formaque, commodiore in lucem 
editi. Cum indici rerum & verborum copiosissima. ~Francoforti, ex Officina 
Paltheniana, sumtibus viduae Petri Fischeri.1596. [16], 3 -185, [9] Pp., 
12.5 cm. Page 1 is numbered 3, followed by Pp. 2, 3-185.  Lemnius, a 
physician, from the Dutch town of Zierikzee believed in the humoral nature 
of medicine.  In this book he explains his diagnostic method in which he 
determines the humoral composition of each person from their visible 
qualities, and thus the diseases from which they are most likely to 
suffer.  Understanding humoral make up of a person also makes it possible 
to understand his/her personality, drives and needs. "Obgleich seine 
Vorschriften hie und da nicht frei von Aberglauben sind, wie dies deutlich 
aus seinen Bemerkungen über den Einfluss der Jahreszeit, der Windrichtung 
und der Temperatur auf die Krankheiten erhellt, verdient er dennoch den 
Namen des Hygienikers seines Jahrhunderts." [Although its prescriptions are 
not free here and there from superstition,it illuminates clearly through 
its remarks on the influence of the seasons, the wind direction and 
temperature on disease, he earned the title of leader in public health of 
his century.] (Hirsch/Hüb. III, 736) Durling 2769, Heirs of Hippocrates 
258,Thorndike VI, 393[1586 issue].  This issue unlocated in the US. First 
published in Latin at Antwerp in 1561, it was translated into English by 
Thomas Newton as "The Touchstone of Complexions 
". Orig. vellum, Manus. 
title on spine, Lacking both EPs, minor flaws to the vellum on boards and 
spine Rpd. $885.00

7.	MAUPERTUIS, [PIERRE LOUIS MOREAU DE ] ~: LA FIGURE DE LA TERRE, : 
determinee par les observations de messieurs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, 
Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, & de M. l'abbe 
Outhier ... Accompagnes de M. Celsius ... : Faites par ordre du roi au 
cercle polaire. / Par M. de Maupertuis. [The Shape of the Earth determined 
by the observations of...] Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1738.  xxiv, [4], 184 
p. ix pl. (diagrs.), map. 20 cm.  Maupertuis, the foremost supporter of 
Newton's physical theories in France, was a proponent of Newton's ideas 
about the shape of the earth.  In 1735 France sent an expedition to Peru 
under the leadership of La Condamine and another to Lapland led by 
Maupertuis.  The expeditions were to measure as accurately as possible the 
length of a degree along the meridian of longitude. If, indeed, the earth 
is flattened toward the poles, as Newton had predicted, the degree of 
longitude should be longer in far northern latitudes than near the 
equator.  The measurements proved Newton's theory correct.  When he 
returned to France though welcomed by Voltaire and Madame Du. Chatelet, 
there were few supporters of Newton's theory and the official response was 
not very positive.  Maupertuis' voyage to Lapland began on 2 May 1736 and 
lasted over a year. .  "This is one of those splendidly produced scientific 
works of the eighteenth century",  Babson Newton Collection 94, DSB, IX, P. 
186. Querard, La France Litteraire V, 642, Bring 143, Cioranescu, A. 18.s. 
43855, RLIn, 2 Locs, NUC 4 Locs.  Orig. calf, boards rehinged, OW VG, 
clean, tight copy. $1,000.00

8.	PEABODY, JOEL R.; JOHNSTON, DAVID CLAYPOOLE: A WORLD OF WONDERS, OR, 
DIVERS DEVELOPMENTS, SHOWING THE THOROUGH TRIUMPH OF ANIMAL MAGNETISM IN 
NEW ENGLAND : illustrated by the power of prevision in Mrs. Matilda Fox, 
and the point of the pencil by D.C. Johnston / by Joel R Peabody. Boston : 
Published by Robert S. Davis ..., Year: 1838 Description: iv, [2], [5]-158 
p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm. (12 mo). A satire on spiritualists 
and dabblers in animal magnetism [hypnotism] actively engaged in occult 
spiritual activities. One of the places where Ms. Fox travels is to other 
planets. One illustration depicts extra terrestrial life on the moon or "A 
Lunar Locomotive." Graphics and text are equally silly.  Hamiton 943, Noted 
in both Johnson and Tatham. One of D.C. J.'s best licks. VG in Orig. cloth, 
printed paper label. $1,275.00~

9.	RAYO, JOHAN [JOHN RAY]: DREY PHYSICO-THEOLOGISCHE BETRACHTUNGEN VON DER 
WELT ANFANG, Veränderung und Untergang, worinnen I. das erste Chaos, oder 
der unförmliche vermischte Klumpen, und die Erschaffung Himmels und der 
Erden, II. Die allgemeine Sündflut..., III. Die Auflösung der Welt... 
abgehandelt sind. Mit kupfern / von Johann Rajo ... Aus dem Englischen 
übersetzt Von Theodoro Arnold. Leipzig : Löwe, 1732 Protrait Frontis.[24], 
638 Pp. :4 inserted etched plates at the rear, 3 of fossils at the rear, 
one of coins of Noah's ark in the text.,  The First German Edition, taken 
from the Third edition of : Three physico-theological discourses, I 
concerning the primitive chaos, and creation of the world; II. The general 
deluge, its cause and effects. III. The dissolution of the world and future 
conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, the production and use of 
mountains, the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes 
bones and shells found in the earth; the effects of particular floods, and 
inundations of the sea; the eruptions of vulcano's; the nature and causes 
of earthquakes. With an historical account of those two late remarkable 
ones in Jamaica and England. With practical inferences. One of the most 
eminent naturalists of his time, John Ray was also an influential 
philosopher and theologian. He is often referred to as the father of 
natural history in Britain. He believed that all of the fossils were once 
living creatures, and although he never printed his belief, he believed [as 
shown in a letter to a scientist friend] that Man's life on earth was not 
much longer than scripture, and that other creatures much predated him in 
time! A major major pre-Linnean naturalist, especially in his study of 
botany, unlike Linnaeus began to use classification to address questions in 
physiology, function, and behavior. He also did experimental work in 
embryology and plant physiology; among other things, he proved that the 
wood of a living tree conducts water. His researches received so much 
renown that Ray was inducted into the newly-formed Royal Society of London, 
one of the world's first scientific societies, in 1667. Ray classified 
plants by overall morphology: the classification in his 1682 book Methodus 
Plantarum Nova draws on flowers, seeds, fruits, and roots. Ray's plant 
classification system was the first to divide flowering plants into 
monocots and dicots. This method produced more "natural" results than 
"artificial" systems based on one feature alone; it expressed the 
similarities between species more fully. Ray's system greatly influenced 
later botanists such as Jussieu and de Candolle, and systems based on total 
morphology came to replace systems based on only one feature or organ 
system. Unlocated at RLIN/OCLC. See Sir Geoffrey Keynes, John Ray: a 
bibliography for a detailed study. At KVK 4 Locs. [Greifswald, Uni.; Halle, 
Uni.; Jena, Thüringer Uni.; Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bib.]. Orig.Bds. 
worked to produce a paneled effect, complex Dec. spine, raised bands and 
title label; Title page cut close below affecting the imprint, the date of 
which can just be made out, OW VGood. With neat ownership inscription of 
G.Krups, Halae 1779. $1195.00

10.	SIBYLLA, BARTHOLOMAEUS : SPECULUM PEREGRINARUM QUESTIONUM ... Tres 
decades complectens : in quibus varie questiones de animabus rationalibus 
in conjuncto : et separatis. Deque angelis bonis et malis multisque aliis 
scitu dignissimis, et ad ipsos responsiones ponuntur.  Lyons : J. Myt, 
1521. A Gothic period printing of 228 unnumbered leaves, 8vo, : T.P. red 
letter; titlepage surround is a complex woodcut printed in black.  The 
author, a Dominican,  theologist was born in Monopoli, close to Bari, and 
dedicated this work to Alphonse of Aragon, duke of Calabria.  It is a 
treatise on demonology, astrology, divination, ghosts and apparitions;  it 
is devoted to the struggle between demons and the human race and how 
angels, devils, the sun, moon and the planets affect human life and health. 
"Deq[ue] angelis bonis [et] malis: multisq[ue] alijs scitu dignissimis: 
[et] ad ipsas responsiones ponuntur
"  Brunet, V, 369, Graesse VI, 397, 
Wellcome, 5963, Rosenthal 2353, Caillet 10496, Crowe, 507, RLIn, 1 
Loc.[H],, OCLC notes 3 Locs [Harv., NYPL, and Welcome in the UK].  There 
were three previous editions in 1493 in Rome, 1499 in Strasbourg and in 
1516, by Myt in Lyon.  All are rare.  Three lines on the title page crossed 
through in early ink, early marginal scholiae, 1847 stamp on title page. 
Ink names on last blank leaf, which have bled a little through, onto the 
last printed leaf including the colophon.  Early paste downs and EPs using 
waste sheets from a red and black letter edition of the works of Saint 
Bonaventura, probably an incunabulum.  Original vellum boards,  backstrip 
repaired.Very Good copy. $1,375.00

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