Search Results: Titles starting with D from BIBLIOPATHOS FINE ARTS

Rare 16th century work on uroscopy
the analysis of urine and its relation to health and disease
by the Italian Humanist Giorgio valla
from the most important medical treatise from the past
First Edition, untrimmed
Valla, Giorgio, Georgii Vallae [...] De Vrinae significatione, ex Hippocrate, Paulo Aeginata, ac Theophilo. : Item Galeni Quaestiones in Hippocratem. Dioclis Epistola, de bona valetudine tuenda, ad Antigonum Regem. Argentine [Strasbourg]: Per Henricum Sybold, [1528].
8vo (15 x 10 cm), untrimmed copy, printer paper binding, pp. [46], signature A-C7, title with decorative woodcut border of putti, woodcut initials imprint; date supplied from British Museum. Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries ... from 1455 to 1600. London, 1962, p. 883.
Rare and important collection of medical text about the analysy of urine and its relation to human health, translated by the renowned Italian Humanist Giorgio Valla from text by Galen, Hippocrates, Paulo Aegineta, Theophilus… Read More

LEONARDO FIORAVANTI AND HIS HERMETIC MEDICINE
THE "BAUME DE FIOREVANTI" AND THE PHILOSOPHER 'S STONE
AS UNIVERSAL PANACEA
Fioravanti, Leonardo. De capricci medicinali dell'eccellente medico, & cirugico m. Leonardo Fiorauanti bolognese, libri quattro. Nel primo de quali s'insegna a conoscere diuersi segni delle cose naturali, con molti secreti della medicina, & cirugia. Nel secondo si mostra il modo di fare varij, & diuersi medicamenti vtilissimi. Nel terzo si tratta dell'alchimia dell'huomo, & dell'alchimia minerale, con molti capricci a figliuoli dell'arte. Nel quarto si contengono alcuni belli discorsi filosofici, & medicinali. Di nuouo dall'istesso autore in molti luoghi, di secreti importantissimi, ampliati; i quali cosi a professori di fisica, come di cirugia, erano grandemente necessarij. Con molta diligenza reuisti, corretti, et ristampati. In Venetia : appresso Ludouico Auanzo, 1568.
8vo (150 x 10,2 mm), contemporary limp vellum binding (small defects), cc. [24], 283, [1], printer device with… 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

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

Third rare edition
The divisions of time, lunation, the principles for determining the date of Easter and a chronicle of the six ages of the world
Bede the Venerable, De temporibus sive de sex aetatibus huius seculi liber incipit. Venice: Giovanni da Tridino, 1509.
8vo (188 x 135mm), modern binding reusing vellum from an antique antiphonary, ff. [50], signature A-L⁴ M⁶ large woodcut initial on A3r, smaller woodcut initials.
Bede's text is followed by De regionibus Urbis Rome, the catalogue of buildings and thoroughfares in ancient Rome
Third rare edition del De Temporibus, composed in 703 and focused on the divisions of time, lunation, on the principles for determining the date of Easter according to the Roman custom adopted by the Synod of Whitby (664), with a chronicle of the six ages of the world taken from Saint Isidore. Bede's text is followed by De regionibus Urbis Rome the catalogue of buildings and thoroughfares in ancient Rome spuriously attributed to Publius Victor.
Bede the Venerable… Read More

Extraordinary rare first edition of the famous treatise on Cyprus wine by Giovanni Mariti
A complete analysis on wines, grapes, vines and production technique
Mariti, Giovanni. Del vino di Cipro, ragionamento di Giovanni Mariti, socio corrispondente dell'Accademia dei georgofili di Firenze: Rei agrariae avgendae. [Firenze] : [G. Cambiagi] MDCCLXXII [1772].
8vo, (220 x 155 mm), original printer cardboard, pp. [2], XVI, 127, [1], illustrations along the text, engraved title page, before the dedicatory letter, at leaf a1r, a chalcographic vignette with coat of arms of the dedicatee, Lord Nassau Clavering, signature a⁸ (π+a1) A-H⁸.
xylographic illustrations along the text one full page plate, depicting tool for wine production
In his treatise Del vino di Cipro (About the Cyprus Wine) , published in Florence in 1772 by Cambiagi, Mariti dedicates an ample analysis to the wine of Cyprus, discussing a lot about the types and varieties of the vines and wines produced in the different regions of the island… Read More

First Edition
GORGEOUS COLLECTION OF HANDCOLOURED AQUATIN PRINTING
DEPICTING GLIMPSES AND VIEWS OF THE HOLY LAND
amazing copy, clean and with wide margins
Ferrario, Giulio. Descrizione della Palestina o Storia del vangelo : illustrata coi monumenti / dal dottor Giulio Ferrario. Milano : Società tipogr. de' classici italiani, 1831.
In-4° (26,5 x 18,5 cm), contemporary half percaline binding, handcoloured paper at boards, gilt titles at spine, pp. [4], 171, [5]
31 hand-colored plates , 1 hand-coloured engraved plan, 1 uncoloured plate and one folding map of Palestine coloured in outline.
First independent edition of Ferrario's work on Palestine originally published as part of the work Il Costume Antico e Moderno. In the preface Ferrario claims to have corrected the errors of the first edition from various accounts, including those of Mayer and Chateaubriand.
Descrizione della Palestina is an extensive work that weaves together the geographical with the scriptural, offering a thorough description of… Read More