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Renowned italian treatise on mathematic and Practical geometry
the use of the "Squadro Geometrico" (Set Square)
the multiplication "per crocetta" and the first mention of the surveyor's cross
Feliciano, Francesco. Scala Grimaldelli libro di aritmetica, e geometria speculatiua, e pratticale di M. Francesco Feliciano Veronese. Diuiso in tre libri. Nel primo si tratta di cose pertinenti a Mercatanti ... Nel secondo si tratta dell'arte maggiore di algebra ...accresciuto in quest'vltima impressione di dottissimi problemi ... Nel terzo, & vltimo si dimostra il misurar della Terra ... i nuovo ristampato, e da molti errori corretto, e accresciuto di molte cose da M. Filippo Macario Veronese . Venetia : presso Gio. Giacomo Hertz, 1669.
4to (188 x 120 mm), contemporary paper board, handwrtten titles at front board in sepia ink, pp. [8], 240, printer device with Galleon at title page, xylographic head-letters, head-pieces and end-pieces.
Last printed edition of this milestone in the history of mathematic… Read More

First Rare edition in Italian of William Bolts Historical, political and cultural treatise on Bengal
Bolts, William. Stato civile politico, e commerciante del Regno di Bengala ovvero Storia delle conquiste e dell'amministrazione della compagnia inglese in quelle contrade che vengono a formare i tomi 19. e 20. in seguito della Storia filosofica, e politica dell'abate Rainal. Tomo primo [-secondo]. [sl], [se], 1780.
8vo (180 x 120 mm), modern quarter calf binding, boards enriched by handcoloured paper, vol 1: pp. [2], 199, [1], signature [pigreco]1 A-L8 M12. [M12v blank], vol 2: pp. [2], 208, [2], signature π¹ A-N⁸ χ¹; at the end folded map "Carta di Bengala ... formata secondo il piano preso su i luoghi da W. Bolts", signed "Bart.o Nerici sc. Lucae"
Big folded Map of Bengal

Rare First Edition in Italian of William Bolts most important work on denunciation of the activities of the East India Company in the Indian region of Bengal, published for the First Time in 1772 under the title… Read More

Second edition, rarer than the first, of Girolamo Fracastoro poem on Syphilis
The hypothesis of invisible agents causing infective diseases:
personal hygiene, sexual abstinence and use of condoms
as a preventive measure against the disease
Fracastoro, Girolamo. Hieronymi Fracastorii Syphilis, siue morbus Gallicus. Romae, 1531, mense Septembri (Impressum Romae : apud Antonium Bladum Asulanum).
4to (20,5 x 11,5 mm), contemporary limp vellum binding (small defects, restoration at spine with different vellum), ff. [32], signature: A-H⁴, f. The H4 blank, very often missing, is present, xylographic headletter at A2 recto.
Second edition, significatively rarer that the first, published one year before, of the renowned work on Syphilis by Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (Syphilis, or the French Disease), dedicated to his patron, Cardinal Pietro Bembo.
In Italy the Syphilis, since its appearance, took the name of "Mal Francese" (French Disease). "Qualunque origine geografica si voglia attribuire… Read More