Search Results: Authors starting with P from BIBLIOPATHOS FINE ARTS

Amazing presentation copy donated by the author with his handwritten dedication note
First and only Edition - untrimmed
Pacini, Filippo. Nuovi organi scoperti nel corpo umano / da Filippo Pacini. Pistoja : Tip. Cino, 1840.
4to (24 x 15 cm) original paper boards with printed title and decorative border, pp. 59, [1].
The discovery of the Lamellar Corpuscle
or Pacini Corpuscle
The Pacinian corpuscle, lamellar corpuscle or Vater-Pacini corpuscle is one of the four major types of mechanoreceptors (specialized nerve ending with adventitious tissue for mechanical sensation) found in mammalian skin.
This type of mechanoreceptor is found in both hairy, and hairless skin, viscera, joints, and attached to periosteum of bone, primarily responsible for sensitivity to vibration. Few of them are also sensitive to quasi-static or low frequency pressure stimulus while most of them respond only to sudden disturbances and are especially sensitive to vibration of few hundreds of Hz. The vibrational role may be used for… Read More

Extremely rare first and only edition of Caspar Peucer confutation of Copernicus theory
Peucer, Kaspar. Hypotheses astronomicae, seu theoriae planetarum. Ex Ptolomaei et aliorum veterum doctrina ad obseruationes Nicolai Copernici, & canones motuum ab eo conditos accommodatae. Opera et studio Casparis Pevceri in Academia VVitebergensi. Witebergae : Iohannes Schvvertel, 1571.
8to, contemporary vellum covered by a XVIII handcoloured paper, pp. [16], 610, [but 614], [8 - Index], Signatures: )(⁸ A-2Q⁸.Final leaf blank. Numbers 80, 128, 237, and 238 repeated in pagination; other errors in pagination.
The Wittenberg interpretation
In 1543, Nicholas Copernicus changed the scientific world by publishing De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. This was the first time that a heliocentric model had seriously been considered, and publicised, and a resulted in a slew of opinions on how the universe may worked. One of the places where the debate reached the highest level was the University of Wittenberg, at that… Read More

the renowned "libro d'ore del Piazzetta", wonderful copy in its original venetian binding
First Edition of the most desirable Venetian illustrated books of the 18th century.
Beatae Mariae Virginis officium. Venetiis: Apud Jo. Baptistam Pasquali, 1740.
16vo (140 x 100 mm), contemporary full black fine-grained Morocco leather Venetian binding with gilt edges and gilded silver clasps, gilt silver border at boards in a contemporary full leather case, inside board covered in red silk, pp. [40], 427, [5], printed on precious thin paper, Sign.: π4A-2F8. Engraved frontispiece and vignette on title page.
15 full-page engravings along the text and 20 end-pieces
engraved by Marco Alvise Pitteri on drawings by Giovanni Piazzetta
text engraved by sister Angela Baroni
This Officium was printed in 1740 under request of the wealthy shopkeeper Caime as a sign of devotion to the Celestial Queen. The collection of the engraving's matrices of the Officium Beatae Mariae Virgins must then passed into the possession of… Read More

First edition of the work who anticipated the Enlightenment
[natural philosophy]. Pomponazzi, Pietro. De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de Incantationibus. […] Adiectis breuibus scholijs à Gulielmo Grataro lo Physico Bergomate. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Basel, [at colophon: Per Henrichum Petri, 1556].
8vo (175x110 mm), near contemporary limp vellum, handwritten author name in sepia ink at spine, pp. [16], 349, [3]. Five large woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device at verso of last leaf.
scarce first edition of Pomponazzi treatise on the natural causes of miracles and magic events: a revolutionary book and one of the most influential work in the history of modern thought.
With a purely naturalistic and immanent view of the natural process, Pomponazzi here frees man's thought from the bounds of religion and provides modern thinkers and scientists with pure empiricism and naturalism.
The work constitutes a forerunner of Naturalism and Empiricism and could be considered the… Read More

Extremely rare edition of Publicius "Art of writing letters"; only 7 copies recorded in ISTC
Publicius, Jacobus. Ars Epsitolandi. Incipit: "Ars Tulliano more epistola[n]di Jacobi p. [Publicii] ad illustrissimum principem Tara[n]tinu[m] hispaniae Ducem Incipit feliciter. Paris, Antoine Caillaut. 1491/93.
4to (19 x 13,5 cm), modern blind-tooled calf, ff. [14], signature: a8 b6, text in 34 lines, gothic types, text réglée.
VERY RARE PARISIAN EDITION of Publicius best seller, the "Art of writing letters".
"Written around 1467, it was first published in Venice in 1482 as part of Publicio's Artisoratoriae epitome, which also included his famous Ars memorativa, the first manual on mnemotechnics ever published (first separate edition: Toulouse, 1475 ca.). Jacobus' rhetorical treatise became very well known in the last two decades of the 15th century. The first separate edition of the Ars conficiendi epistolas was issued in Deventer in 1488. The present is probably the fifth edition after three Deventer… Read More

Rare collection of treatises on wine making and vine cultivation
Puvis, Marc-Antoine. De la culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin / par M.A. Puvis. Paris : Librairie agricole Dusacq, Mme Bouchard-Huzard, 1848.
[bound with:] Puvis, Marc-Antoine. Des différens moyens d'amender le sol. Paris : Madame Huzard, 1837
[bound with:] Thackeray, Thomas James. Observations sur le fumier de basse-cour, les engrais artificiels, la construction des granges et le labourage profond. Paris : A LA LIBRAIRIE AGRICOLE DE Ve BOUCHARD-HUZARD, 7, RUE DE L'ÉPRON-ST-ANDRÉ. 1847.
Extremely rare collection of treatises on wine making and vine cultivation, agricultural technique on different ways of fertilizing the soil and on different kinds of natural and artificial fertilizers.
De la culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin is the most important opera written by the renowned agronomist and member of parliament Marc-Antoine Puvis [1776-1851], member of the Ain Agricultural Society, discussing the importance… Read More