Search Results: Titles starting with P from BIBLIOPATHOS FINE ARTS

EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION OF THE RENOWNED "PHARMACOPOEA TAURINENSIS"
MEDICAL/GASTRONOMICAL RECEIPT BOOKS PRINTED IN TORINO CONTAINING NUMEROUS RECIPES OF SPIRITS AND LIQUORS
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE VERMOUTH RECIPEPharmacopœa Taurinensis, nunc primum edita jussu augustissimi regis. Augustae Taurinorum : in Aedibus Academicis, apud Joannem-Baptistam Chais typographum regium, 1736.4to, (238 x 180 mm) contemporary stiff vellum, title on leather label at spine, pp. [8], 246, [16], Coat of arms of the House of Savoy at title page, woodcut head-pieces and head-letters, woodcut cul-de-lampeTWO LARGE ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES (46X34 CM) BY THE FRENCH ARTIST GEORGES TASNIERE (ACTIVE IN TORINO AND WIEN), DEPICTING THE DISTILLATORY APPARATUS NECESSARY FOR THE SPIRITUS SULPHURIS (PLATE I) AND THE SPIRITUS VINI (PLATE II). THE PLATE II IS EXYTREMELY RARE, BEING NOT PRESENT IN THE majority of the COPIES OFFERED ON THE MARKET IN THE LAST YEARS.The two plates were, in fact, meant to be used as… Read More

Rare First Edition
First polyglot printing and earliest Arabic printing of any part of the Bible
Second book printed in Arabic with movable type
The first biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus and the first published account of his second voyage
Giustiniani, Agostino, Psalterium, hebraeum, graecum, arabicum, & chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis. Genuae : impressit miro ingenio Petrus Paulus Porrus : in aedibus Nicolai Iustiniani Pauli, 1516 mense VIIIIbri [Genua, Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516].
Folio (30,2 x 22,5 cm), stiff vellum binding, handwritten title in sepia ink at spine, sprinkled edge, ff. [200], signature: A¹⁰ B-Z⁸ &⁸ ɔ6, printer device at leaf ɔ6r, below the printer device the motto Petrus Paulus Porrus mediolanensis, Taurini degens, title page within woodcut arabesque border and leaf A4v-5r printed in black and red, text on 8 columns on double page, printed in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Roman. 13 woodcut initials, 5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic.
The… Read More