WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

MARTENS FRIEDRICH
Viaggio di Spizberga o Grolanda fattola Federico Martens amburghese l’anno 1671.
In Venezia, Iseppo Prodocimo 1680

In-16 16x9.4 cm
A rare account of the FIRST JOURNEY TO GREENLAND in modern times and the first book in which whaling is described. This edition was published in the same year as the Bologna princeps edition. Of extreme rarity, only 3 copies are recorded in Italian public libraries.
Coeval hardback, with barbe.

FRANCISCUS MARIA PECCHIUS
Tractatus De Aquaeductu, Ticinii Regii, Ex Officina Andreae Magri, 1681

folio, contemporary hard vellum

fine copy
3 volumes . first edition, spine restored

JACOBUS SPONIUS
Miscellanea Eruditae Antiquitatis, Lyon, Sumptibus Auctoris, 1685


Contemporary vellum with 6-rib spine, engraved on the front. Perfect copy with illustrated plates.

CHARLES HENRY FRANÇOIS DESMARTINS

L’expérience de l’architecture militaire, où l’on apprendra à fonds la méthode de faire travailler dans les places…. Paris, Maurice Villery, 1685


§ 12mo; 14 double-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Fine copy.

First edition.. Almost nothing is known about the author but his position of commissaire ordinaire des guerres (military personnel and officials responsible for military administration, accounting, stewardship and logistics) and, surprisingly, as inventor of games (war games, naturally). It is thanks to this activity and the discovery of a previous unknown set of card that it is possible to gather few more information about Desmartins: “Charles François Henry Desmartins is not the most famous inventor of 17th century games. ... In fact, we do not know the date of his birth, nor the date of his death. In February 1673, he received a thirty-year privilege for the manufacture and sale of a game ... He was then qualified as “commissaire ordinaire des guerres” [ordinary commissioner of wars Ref: Jordan n. 877; Thierry Depaulis and Maxime Préaud Découverte d’une rareté de la carte à jouer du XVIIe siècle français In: Nouvelles de l’estampe 254 (2016) pp. 18-36

francesco Redi (1626-1697)

Osservazioni intorno alle vipere fatte da Francesco Redi Gentiluomo Aretino, Accademico della Crusca, rivedute dall’autore, e da lui scritte in una lettera all’Illustr. Sig. Conte Lorenzo Magalotti Gentiluomo della Camera e ora Cavalier Trattenuto del Serenissimo Granduca di Toscana. Firenze, per Piero Matini all’Insegna del Leone, 1686. Bound with: The same Lettera di Francesco Redi accademico della Crusca sopra alcune opposizioni fatte alle sue osservazioni intorno alle vipere. In Firenze, Per Piero Matini, 1685


§ Two parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 180 ); 66.; 31, [3] pp. (last 2 blanks); signature: π1-2, A-G1-4, H1-3, [H4], leaf H4 title page of the second part; A-D1-4 (D4 blank). Large-size engraved printer’s device on first title page, woodcut head - and tail-pieces and initials; title pages in red and black. Contemporary vellum, gilt frame and gilt fleurons in the corner of both covers. Very fine copy.

Originally published in 1664, these Observations on vipers are to be considered as one of the first work dealing with experimental toxicology..The experiments conducted on specimens of vipera aspis L. arrived from Naples in 1663 to the Ducal Pharmacy (superintended by Redi himself), showed that the poisoning resulted from the inoculation through the bloodstream of the stagnant liquid in the sheaths of the reptile teeth, while the poison was completely harmless if ingested. Moreover the beliefs about the therapeutic virtues traditionally attributed to the viper by-products used for the preparation of theriaca were denied.
In 1669 the French apothecary Moyse Charas (1619 - 1698) published his Nouvelles expériences sur la vipère (Paris, chez l’Auteur et Olivier de Varennes), stating that the stagnant liquid in the sheaths of viper's teeth, in itself harmless, was transformed into a deadly serum by animal spirits altered by the snake's anger. Redi replied in 1670 with the Lettera constituting the second part of the present volume that reaffirmed the validity of the many experiments carried out, from which he proved the lethal effects caused even by the poison extracted from dead vipers. Ref: Brunet IV, 1174-1175; Gamba 819 and 821; Krivatsy 9462; Prandi 4 and 14.

GIUSEPPE URCEOLO
Consultationes Forenses, Ginevra, Samuel De Touirnes, 1686


Complete.


Contemporary hard vellum


Five-ribs on the spine with manuscripted title


Moderate foxing due to paper quality


Fair copy

SARDI, PIETRO
L'Artiglieria, divisa in tre libri. Nel Primo dei quali, si discorre sopra le Macchine Antiche, et
Armi da offendere. Nel secondo si tratta, che cosa sia Artiglieria ... Nel Terzo Libro si tratta
con somma facilità .. dell' Uso di tale Artiglieria.
Bologna, Gio. Parisini all’insegna della Rosa, 1689.

Folio 37x24.7 cm
Contemporary vellum with covered spine and handwritten title, slight halo at top and bottom corners, signs of usage and small marginal restorations, 3 tables trimmed in the outer margin, however still a
fair copy; ex-libris. Engraved frontispiece with a portrait of the author within 2 cannons, surmounted by the coat of arms of the city of Bologna, to whose senate the publisher and engraver (?) Antonio Maria Orsoni, 'bombardier' in force in the city, who monogrammed the plates. pp. (14 incl. Frontispiece), 142 and 2 original bb., with 23 engraved plates, some of which are full-page, and 4 overleaf (there should actually be 9, but 5 of these are included in the numbering system).

MICHELANGELO DE LA CHAUSSE
Museum Sive Thesaurus, Roma, Jean Jacob Komarek, 1690

folio


Contemporary five-rib calf, with gilded ornaments on the spine, damaged. The volume is complete with all engraved plates depicting the artefacts of Roman museums. Very good copy except for the plate 1 after the page 124 marked with the blue pen.

ANGELO MARIA LENTI
Aspetti Di Compunzione Di Sacre Poesie, Fermo, Andrea De Monti, 1692



Contemporary veLlum, with handwritten title on the spine, pp. 397/400 missing portion of text, some stains and foxing. One plate. Fair/good copy.

GIOVANNI PIETRO DE CRESCENZI
Il Nobile Romano, Bologna, Eredi Di Antonio Pisarri, 1693

folio


Contemporary vellum, partially unbound. Some stains inside the book. Overall good copy.

Cesare Cittadella (1732-1809)


Catalogo istorico de' pittori e scultori ferraresi e delle opere loro con in fine una nota esatta delle più celebri Pitture delle Chiese di Ferrara. Tomo I-IV In Ferrara, Per Francesco Pomatelli,1782-1783






§ 4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (12x18x3; 12x18x5 cm.); 1st vol.: title pge, 42, 197, [5] pp.(last 2 blanks); title page, vi, 246 pp. Signature: []1, A-O1-8, P1-10 (P10 blank); A-P1-8, Q1-4. 2nd vol.: title page, vi, 326, [2] pp.; title page, iv, 344, [4] pp., signature: []1, A-Y1-8, X1-7; A-Y1-8. Title pages within ornamental woodcut frame, signed Luigi Ughi, 25 engraved portrait of Ferrarese painters. Contemporary vellum, gilt title piece on spines. Title piece of the 1st volume missing, of the second one frayed. Quire N1-8 of the first part misbound after O8. Small stain on white lower margin of leaf D1 of the first part. Fine copy.



First edition. The author, Cesare Cittadella, was a priest and, according to Ughi, a poet of some reknown. Ornamental title pages frames signed Luigi Ughi. Ughi (the same painter or an homonimous?) describes the origin of the work: the memoirs of Carlo Brisighella came into into the hands of the Archpriest Girolamo Baruffaldi, who added his own supplement and on this basis Cittadella wrote the present work. The editorial vicissitudes of Brisighella works, however, seem to be more complicated than what reported by Ughi and Varese not only does not mention Baruffaldi Vite de' pittori (published much later, in 1844) as the basis of Cittadella’s work, but reports as the latter was published (according to Cittadella himself) precisely to remedy the absence (due to the non-publication of Baruffaldi’s work) of a work dealing with the unjustly ignored Ferrarese artists.


& Graesse II, p. 189; Luigi Ughi Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi nella pietà, nelle arti, e nelle scienze colle loro opere, o fatti principali: compilato dalle storie, e da manoscritti originali Ferrara, eredi di Giuseppe Rinaldi 1804, p. 130; Novelli, Maria Angela Description of the Paintings and Sculptures of the City of Ferrara by Carlo Brisighella

ANDREAS
Specimen Universae Rei Nummariae, Lipsia, J Thomas Fritsch, 1695

8°


Contemporary hard vellum with hand-written title on the 7-rib spine, slightly damaged. Burnished pages. Otherwise good copy.