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Catalogue
72
Books
from the Past
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94.
SORIANO FUERTES, MARIANO (1817-1880). Musica Arabe-Espanola,
y Conexion e la Musica con la Astronomia, Medicina y Arquitectura.
Barcelona, D. Juan Oliveres, Impresor de S.M., 1853. $450
8vo: pp. [4], 133, [1] (Indice); three diagrams. Full green calf,
tooled in blind on front and back; gilt frame; gilt bands and title
on spine; marbled endpapers; small vignette on title page; head-
and tail-pieces; signature in ink on title; light staining on few
leaves.
LAC; Glasgow; NYPL. Mariano Soriano Fuertes was a Spanish composer,
conductor, teacher and director of music schools, but he was best
known as a music historian. Aside from publishing several works
on music history, he was editor of the journal La Gaceta Musical
Barcelonesa (1861-1865), which promoted the music of Cataluña.
This first edition is extremely scarce.
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95.
SPIX, J[OHANNES] B[APTIST] von. Selecta Genera et Species
Piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX...
.. digessit, descripsit et observationibus anatomicis illustravit
D. L. Agassiz, praefatus est et edidit itineris socius D. F. C.
Ph. de Martius. Munich, Typis C. Wolf, 1829-[32]. First edition.
$12,750
Folio; pp. [8], xvi, II, 6, 138; wanting frontis. portrait but otherwise
complete with 97 plates, 84 hand-coloured of fishes, seven uncoloured
of natives of Brazil, and six uncoloured (one double-page) of natural
history; later quarter-morocco and cloth over boards; binding worn
at spine extremities; private stamp on title-page; text and plates
on very heavy paper; general foxing throughout, heavy on a few pages.
Borba de Moraes, p.829 (lacking initial 8 pp.?); Casey Wood, p.
580; Nissen ZBI 3951. The author (1781-1826) graduated from the
University at Würtzburg and, in 1811, became a member and then
curator of the zoological collections of Munich Academy. From 1817
to 1820 he and K.F.P. Martius accomplished one of the most important
scientific expeditions of the nineteenth century, exploring the
Amazon river of South America. Their collections included specimens
of eighty-five species of mammals, three hundred and fifty species
of birds, nearly twenty-seven hundred species of insects, and fifty-seven
living animals, providing material for a vast number of works by
other scientists; these included Louis Agassiz, who described and
illustrated the fish in this work and dedicated same to his mentor,
Charles de l'Écluse (Clusius). A very scarce work, with all
the plates.
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96.
STOKER, LAURENTIUS. Thermographia Budensis, seu Scrutinium
Physico-Medicum Aquarum Mineralium Budae Scaturientium, De Earum
Origine, Situ, Antiquitate, Numero Mineralibus, Virtutibus &
usu Medico, tam interno, quam externo, per frequentia Mechanico-Spagyrica
experimenta & multiplices easque proprias per novemdecim nunc
annorum decursum observationes Medico-Theoretico-Practicas elaboratium
& bono publico in lucem datum per Laurentium Stoker, Philosophiae
& Medicinae Doctorem Sacrae Caef. Regiaeque Catholicae Majestatis
Praesidij ac Regiae Liberaeque Civitatis Physicum ordinarium. Augustae-
Vindelicorum & Graecii, Sumptibus Philippi, Martini & Joannis
Veith, Fratrum, 1721. First edition. $400
4to; [18], 154, [16]. Signatures: x-xxx4, A-X4, [1]. Later brown
paper wrappers, dusty and chipped; last leaf and back wrapper little
loose. An unopened copy, with decorative head and tail pieces; foliated
initials.
Wellcome, NLM, Yale. The thermal springs of Hungary have long been
recognized for their curative powers. This work discusses in detail
the medicinal properties of the mineral baths in Buda, and their
use in the treatment of various illnesses, from early Roman times
through the occupation by the Turks.
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97.
STRUTT, JOSEPH (1749-1802). Angleterre Ancienne, ou, Tableau
des Moeurs, Usages, Armes, Habillemens, &c. des anciens Habitans
de l'Angleterre, c'est-à-dire, des anciens Bretons, des Anglo-Saxons,
des Danois & des Normands. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de M.
Joseph Strutt, par M.B***, & pouvant servir de suite aux Recueils
de Montfaucon & de Caylus. A Paris, Chez Maradan, Libraire,
Hôtel de Château-vieux, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs,
M.DCC.LXXXIX (1789). Two volumes in one. First French edition.
[bound with]:
DU JARDIN, DONATIANUS. Commentarii seu Responsa ad Quaesita:
Quis populorum Belgicae ante seculum aerae Christianae septimum
Vestitus fuerit; quid Idioma; quis Agriculturae, Commercii, Litterarum
Artiumque status? Quibus Palmam Alteram Detulit Caesarea ac Regia
Scientiarum et Litterarum Academia Bruxellis Anno M.D.CCLXXIII (1773).
Auctore Dno. Donatiano Du Jardin Presbytero. Bruxellis, Apud Antonium
d'Ours Bibliopolam. M.D.CC.LXXIV (1774). $600
4to; viii, 324; 23, 67 (ie. 68) engraved plates, some folding; pp.
58, 1 engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards,
worn; black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; each part has
separate title page with vignette; decorative head- and tail-pieces;
notes on front paste-down; first two leaves reinforced with archival
tape at gutter; small tear at fold of one plate. In the first work,
the imprint on the final leaf of Tome I: Veuve Hérissant,
Imprimeur des Bâtimens du Roi. 1789; publisher's list on verso
of the title of Tome I & II ; approbation signed Houard.
First work: Brunet V, 565 (incorrect collation); second work: De
Backer & Sommervogel IV, 743:1. Joseph Strutt was apprenticed
to an engraver at the age of 14, and entered the Royal Academy where
he won medals for his work. As a student in the British Museum,
he discovered what would become his lifelong interest in researching
the costumes, armour and social life of medieval inhabitants of
the British Isles. His drawings and engravings were true to the
styles depicted in early manuscripts. His first work, "A Compleat
View of Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, etc. of the Inhabitants
of England", was published between 1774-1776 in three volumes
(DNB), and was translated into French by the bibliophile Antoine
Marie Henri Boulard (1754-1825). The "Commentarii", by
Du Jardin, originally appeared in the 1773 volume of "Mémoires
sur les questions proposées par la Société
Litteraire de Bruxelles qui ont remportés les prix",
a journal published under the auspices of the "Académie
Impériale et Royale des sciences et belles lettres de Bruxelles".
This periodical was published from 1769 to 1787, and continued under
a variety of titles until 1904 (Scholarly Societies Project, Univ.
of Waterloo Library).
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First Edition of a Classic Work
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98. TISSOT, S[IMON] [AUGUST] [ANDRÉ] D[AVID]. Dissertatio
de Febribus Biliosis; seu Historia Epidemiae Biliosae Lausannensis,
an. MDCCLV. Accedit Tentamen de Morbis ex Manustupratione. Lausanne,
Sumptib. Marci-Mic. Bousquet & Soc., MDCCLVIII (1758). First
edition. $1,850
8vo; pp. xiv, 264; contemporary full vellum; manuscript title on
spine; small stain on front cover; complete with divisional title
between the two works; a fine copy of a scarce work.
RLIN notes copies of this first edition at Yale, Univ. of Chicago,
Nat.Lib. of Medicine, and Princeton; Osler and Wellcome Libraries
appear to have only later editions; not in Morton. The first work
is Tissot's dissertation on a febrile disease, possibly malaria,
that swept through Lausanne in 1755. Riding on the coattails of
this work is the first edition of his work on masturbation, or onanism
(pp. [177]-264). The idea that non-procreative sex is dangerous
had been around much earlier than Tissot's work, but his reputation
as a respected professor of medicine did much to popularize it,
and from the year of its publication it was quickly reprinted in
many editions and many languages. Tissot's theories were more sophisticated
than earlier ones. He followed in the tradition of Greek medicine
when he propounded the theory that the body is an energy system
which requires constant care to maintain equilibrium and, in the
context of this view, assuming that there was a need for balance
of consumption and depletion, sex was particularly vexing. In his
view, the waste or loss of bodily fluid through masturbation could
only be a detriment to the body, and would be the cause of many
conditions and diseases of the body. His work became the bible of
anti-masturbatory hysteria throughout the nineteenth, and into the
twentieth, centuries.
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99.
TISSOT, S[IMON A[UGUSTE] [ANDRÉ] [DAVID]. Essai sur
les maladies des gens du monde... Troisieme Édition Originale
fort augmentée. Lyon, Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, M.DCC.LXXI.
[1771]. $250
Small 8vo; pp. xxiv, 356, [4]; contemporary full mottled calf, spine
gilt; binding worn at corners and at spine; text extremely clean;
tiny contemporary name on first blank; a very good copy.
Not in Garrison-Morton; vide Osler 4112 (1772 Eng. translation).
This work is aimed specifically at the treatment of diseases of
the "higher classes". This edition, published in Lyon
by Bruyset, is much scarcer than that of the same year published
in Lausanne by Grasset.
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