WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

MAFFEO BARBERINI
Prose Toscane, Roma, Stamperiai Rev, Camera Apostolica, 1625



Complete


Contemporary hard vellum


Title manuscripted on the spine


One engraving


Good copy

JOHANNES NEANDER (1596 c.-1630 c.)


Tabacologia: hoc est Tabaci, seu Nicotianae descriptio Medico Chirurgico Pharmaceutica vel ejus praeparatio et usus in omnibus fermè corporis humani incomodis. Per Johannem Neandrum Bremanum Philosophum et Medicum. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Isaaci Elzeviri, 1626.


§ 4to (225 x 145); Engraved portrait and title, [36], 256, [4] pp. (pp. 249-256 misbound), signature *1-2, **-*****1-4, A-Z1-4, Aa-Hh1-4, Ii1-6, woodcut head-piece, 9 full-page engraved illustrations, first three by the author, next three by Moses van Uytenbroeck, and last three by Michel Le Blon.. Contemporary half calf; spine renewed. Fine copy.

First published in 1622. The authors gives information concerning all aspects of the production and use of tobacco; he recommend its medical use, but he warns against its recreational abuse as, in his opinion, excesses bring to the ruin of both mind and body. The finely engraved illustrations depict not only the plant and some Amerindian and Persian smoking pipes, but include the first known printed images of Native Americans harvesting and processing tobacco
Ref.Willems 204; Heinrich Schecker Der Bremer Kulturhistoriker und Arzt Johannes Neander In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 29, 1924, pp. 121-126; Georg A. Brongers Nicotiana tabacum The history of tobacco and tobacco smoking in the Netherlands Amsterdam, 1964.

PHILIPPUS CLUVER
Introductionis De Universa Geographia, Leiden, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1627

16°. Contemporary limp velum, title hand-written on the spine, disbound, two folding plates. Good copy.

CAMILLUS BORRELLI
Decisionum Universarum Totius Christiani Orbi, Venezia, Apud Iuntas, 1627

folio


Contemporary hard vellum, 6-rib spine with handwritten title, damaged. Some slight water stains on a few pages. Overall good copy.

GIULIO CESARE CLAUDINI
Responsionum Et Consultationum Medicinalium, Hanover, Apud Claudium Marnium, 1628



Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum, slightly disbound. A large water stain on the first pages. Worm hole on N quire.


Overall a good copy.

MACCIO, PAOLO, e CORIOLANO, G. BATTISTA
Emblemata.
Bologna, Clemente Ferroni, 1628.

In-8 19.5x14.5 cm
First edition.
Nineteenth-century binding in full vellum, handwritten title to the spine, some browning inside and signs of wear here and there. External marg. of pp. 177-182 reinforced, finger marks to upper corner of some pages, red ink scrawl on p. 312, lower margin of front cover reddened, lower margin a bit short, ex. a little tired. Beautiful copper engraving on p. p. depicting the Virgin and Child, and 81
numbered copper engravings by various Bolognese artists.

CAROLUS CARAFA
Commentaria De Germania Sacra, Aversa, Egidio Longhi, 1630



Contemporary limp vellum, handwritten title on spine, severely damaged copy, sold as it is.

MASCARDI AGOSTINO
Prose Vulgari, Venezia, Bartolomeo Fontana, contemporary paperboards

4°


Contemporary coloured paperboards. Inside good copy.

MASCARDI AGOSTINO
Prose Vulgari, Venezia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1630

4°


Contemporary coloured paperboards. Inside good copy.

FRANCESCO STELLUTI
Persio Tradotto In Verso Sciolto, Roma 1631


Modern hard vellum. Wormholes evidently restored with brown paper. Otherwise good copy.

FRANCESCO PIPERNO
De Magicis Affectibus, Napoli, Domenico Roncagliolo, 1634

4°


Modern half calf. Handwritten dedication on the first blank page. Ownership stamps on same pages. Last two two folios restored, affecting the text. Fair copy.

BARTOLOMAEUS GILIANUS
Comopendium Iuris Municipalis Perusiae, Perusiae, Apud Angelum Bartolum, 1635



Contemporary half vellum. First four pages with wormholes, otherwise good copy.