Iacobo Castaldo Pedemontano authore. Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Ioannes à deutecum, Lucas à deutecum fecerunt. Engraving attributed to Antonie... Show moreIacobo Castaldo Pedemontano authore. Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Ioannes à deutecum, Lucas à deutecum fecerunt. Engraving attributed to Antonie Wierix. Imprint: [Antwerp] : Gerhardus de Iode excudebat, [1578 or 1593?]. Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00111 Print Map Item-ID: i17065926 BIB-ID: 2764295 Show less
Iacobo Castaldo pedemontano authore ; Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Map of the Arabian Peninsula also showing parts of north Africa and Persia with... Show moreIacobo Castaldo pedemontano authore ; Gerhardus de Iode excudebat. Map of the Arabian Peninsula also showing parts of north Africa and Persia with relief shown pictorially. In lower margin: Ioannes ʹa deutecum, Lucas ʹa deutercum secerunt. Plate 9 from: Speculum orbis terrarum / Gerard de Jode and Cornelis de Jode. Antwerp : Arnold Coninx, 1593. Text on verso: Asiae secunda pars sive Arabia (fol. 9). Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00095 Print Map Item-ID: i17065884 BIB-ID: 1525252 In Latin. Show less
Henricus F. ab Langren Sculpsit. In Latin and Dutch Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00023 Print Map Item-ID: i17065380 BIB-ID: 1525198 Show moreHenricus F. ab Langren Sculpsit. In Latin and Dutch Main Heritage Display General HC.MAP.00023 Print Map Item-ID: i17065380 BIB-ID: 1525198 Show less
1522 reduction by Laurentz Fries of Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 map of India and Southeast Asia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01233 Print Map I... Show more1522 reduction by Laurentz Fries of Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 map of India and Southeast Asia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01233 Print Map Item-ID: 1140448 BIB-ID: 1729748 Show less
emendata a F. de Wit ; Joannes Lhuilier fecit 1662. Countries, states and islands outlined in different colours. Pictorial relief. Decorative title... Show moreemendata a F. de Wit ; Joannes Lhuilier fecit 1662. Countries, states and islands outlined in different colours. Pictorial relief. Decorative title cartouche. Verso: "17" in pencil. Koeman, v.3, p.214 map [80]; p.196 Wit 7 lists "India Orientalis" as plate 17; Nordenskiöld, v.2 p.312 [69], p.317 [85], with "17" preceding title. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01229 Print Map Item-ID: i11404449 BIB-ID: 1172787 Show less
[Ptolémée] ; [éd. Servet]. Gravure sur bois. Ill. : personnages. In : "Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, Prostant... Show more[Ptolémée] ; [éd. Servet]. Gravure sur bois. Ill. : personnages. In : "Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, Prostant Lugduni apud Hugonem à Porta", 1541. Voir Pastoureau, "Atlas français", p. 384, [45]. Auteur et éditeur d'après l'inventaire de la collection. This map belongs to the early collection of "the first modern map" of Southern Asia. The map covers the region from the eastern coast of Arabia to the China. Explanation in Latin is given at the coast. The Persian Gulf is purely rectangular in shape. Human figures. This is the reduction of the Waldseemullers map of the region which was the first map to be printed focusing the region. No scale. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00305 Print Map Item-ID: i11400778 BIB-ID: 1172420 Show less
This map by Jan Huygen van Linschoten is representative of different school of cartpgraphy dating from the end of the 16th century. He used details... Show moreThis map by Jan Huygen van Linschoten is representative of different school of cartpgraphy dating from the end of the 16th century. He used details brought back by numerous voyagers to compile information on the entire region. The shape of the Arabian Peninsula, including the whole of Arabia, is far more accurate than of earlier maps. Julfaf (now called Ras al Khaimah) is indicated for the first time. The arrowhead-shaped Qatar peninsula, called catura, can be clearly distinguished. It is located in the midst of an oyster-bed represented by small pearl-dots. [Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Henricus F. ab Langren]. Relief shown pictorially. From the author's Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien. Includes decorative cartouche and compass rose and col. ill. Some information taken from dealer's appraisal catalog. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00041 Print Map Item-ID: i11401412 BIB-ID: 1783519 Title and place names in Latin and Dutch. Show less
Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .V37 1654
van de Heer Ludowyck di Barthema van Bononien, Ridder &c. : gedaen in de Morgenlanden, Syrien, Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en... Show morevan de Heer Ludowyck di Barthema van Bononien, Ridder &c. : gedaen in de Morgenlanden, Syrien, Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere. Uyt het italiaens in hoogh-duyts vertaelt door Hier. Megiserium en uyt den selven - in't Neder-duyts gebracht door F.S. Rare second Dutch translation of this highly important and adventurous narrative containing the first recorded visit of a non-Muslim to Mecca. This edition includes for the first time several full-page engravings - one depicting a 15th-century battle against camel-riding Arabs. - Ludovico di Varthema or Barthema (ca. 1468-1517) sailed from Venice to Egypt in 1502 and travelled through Alexandria, Beirut, Tripoli, and Aleppo, arriving in Damascus in April 1503. Here he enrolled in the Mameluke garrison and proceeded overland to Khaybar, Medina and Mekka, thereby becoming the first European to enter the two holiest cities of Islam. His travels furthermore took him to South Arabia, Shiraz (Persia), India, Goa, Cochin, and supposedly the Malay isthmus, Sumatra, Banda, the Moluccas, the Spice Islands, Borneo, Java and Malacca. He finally returned to Lisbon in 1508. - "Varthema's Itinerario, first published in 1510, had an enormous impact at the time, and in some respects determined the course of European expansion towards the Orient" (Howgego). His account, moreover, contains a detailed description of Mecca and the Islamic pilgrimage, and four evocative plates (including an illustration of a Sati ritual). - Contrary to the statement on the title-page, this is de second Dutch translation; an earlier and rather elusive rendering had already been published at Antwerp in 1544 (recorded in just one institutional copy worldwide!). The present translation was made by Felix van Sambix de Jonge after Megiser's German translation of the Italian. With a poem by Simon de Vries Main Heritage Shelves General DS7 .V37 1654 Book Item-ID: i16875606 BIB-ID: 1510982 Show less
Chronology, Chronology--Early works to 1800, Z2002 .U48 1650
The Roman numeral date is made with turned C's. Text reads from back to front. Signatures: A-E⁴ F² G-L⁴ M² (-M2) N² O-Q⁴ ²A-F⁴ 2A⁴ 2a⁴ 2B-2I⁴. First... Show moreThe Roman numeral date is made with turned C's. Text reads from back to front. Signatures: A-E⁴ F² G-L⁴ M² (-M2) N² O-Q⁴ ²A-F⁴ 2A⁴ 2a⁴ 2B-2I⁴. First leaf is blank except for rules on verso; leaf ²F4 is blank. Quires F and leaf N1 consist of a full sheet folded lengthwise, slit at the fold up to the bottom edge of the book, and folded into quarto size. A series of tables begins new register following quire Q. "Chorasmiæ, et Mawaralnahræ" by Abū al-Fidāʼ Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī has separate pagination and dated title page printed in red and black; register begins with 2A. Main Heritage Display General Z2002 .U48 1650 Book Item-ID: i1017736x BIB-ID: 1019372 Show less
Henricus F. ab Langren Sculpsit. In Latin and Dutch Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00244 Print Map Item-ID: i23763097 BIB-ID: 2532026 Show moreHenricus F. ab Langren Sculpsit. In Latin and Dutch Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00244 Print Map Item-ID: i23763097 BIB-ID: 2532026 Show less
Portuguese, Portuguese--Africa--Early works to 1800, Portuguese, Portuguese--India--Early works to 1800, Discovery and exploration--Portuguese, Commerce, Commerce, History, DS411.7 .P33 1514
Author's name appears in caption title (p. [3]): "Dieghi Pacecchi Iur. Consult. In praestanda Obedientia pro Emanuele Lusitanor: Rege Inuictiss:... Show moreAuthor's name appears in caption title (p. [3]): "Dieghi Pacecchi Iur. Consult. In praestanda Obedientia pro Emanuele Lusitanor: Rege Inuictiss: Leoni. X. Pont. Opt. Max. dicta oratio." Printer from Proctor although date assigned differs. Damião de Goes reports in his Chronica do ... Rei Dom Emanuel, Lisbon, 1566-67, v. 3, f. 101, that the speech was delivered to Leo X by Diego Pacheco in March of 1514. Main Heritage Shelves General DS411.7 .P33 1514 Book Item-ID: i10050152 BIB-ID: 1006651 Show less
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800, QD25 .J33 1682
De perfectione magisterii in sua natura -- De principiis magisterii, & de perfectione ejusdem -- De consideratione rerum ex quibus est perfectio... Show moreDe perfectione magisterii in sua natura -- De principiis magisterii, & de perfectione ejusdem -- De consideratione rerum ex quibus est perfectio magisterii -- De medicinis sermone universali, et de quinque differentiis perfectionis earum -- Libri investigationis magisterii Gebri, philosophi perspicassimi, ac Indiae Regis -- Testamenti Gebri philosophi perspicacissimi, ac Indiae Regis -- Libri trium verborum Kallid Rachaidibi philosophi acutissimi. Extremely rare, complete copy with the engraved title page, the errata leaf, and all nine plates. Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan (known as "Geber" in the Latin tradition) is the name of an author whose historical existence is under debate, but who, according to Arabic culture, is said to have lived in the second half of the eight century, been the head of a hermetic school, and left an extensive body of works on natural philosophy and alchemy. The rediscovery of Geber for the history of chemistry and alchemy, was introduced by Hermann Kopp in the 19th century. The first German edition, published in Vienna in 1751, was entitled "Geberi des Königes der Araber [...] vollständige Chymische Schriften, worinnen in den vier Büchern das Quecksilber, Schwefel, Arsen inn Gold, Silber, Bley, Zinn, Kupfer, Eisen & Oefen [..], Destillationen [...], Essenzen, Salze, Alaune [...], Cinnober, Glaß, Boras, Essig &c. abgehandelt werden; wie auch das Testament, Güldene Buch der dreyen Wörter Kallid Rachaidibi, und andere Chymische Tractätgen, Summa, die ganze Kunst die unvollkommenen Metalle [...] in Vollkommene, als Silber und Gold zu verwandeln; das ist: wie man Silber und Gold machen soll, enthalten [...]". - Publisher's printed dedication to Caspar Richter ("Polonixe Secretario"). Binding somewhat rubbed and stained; very slight trimming to top edge of engraved t. p. Title stamped and with contemp. ms. ownership. Very occasional comtemp. underlinings and marginalia. One edge tear to a single leaf. Slight worming throughout (more pronounced near end). Slight waterstaining to a few leaves; occasional insignificant browning or brownstaining. This edition not in German auction records since 1950. Added engraved t.p. signed "N. Lang scr. 1682." Head- and tailpieces; initials. Errata: p. [19]. Signatures: a⁸ [$5 signed] b⁴ [$2 signed] A-R⁸ [$5 signed]. Errors in pagination: 113 as 110 (corrected in mss.); no p. 114-119 (pagination and register continuous). Main Heritage Shelves General QD25 .J33 1682 Book Item-ID: i16817515 BIB-ID: 1507131 Bound with: Joannis Braceschi Brixiani De alchemia dialogi duo nunquam ante hac conjunctim sic editi, correcti, & emaculati -- Sendivogi Novum lumen chymicum novo lumine auctum. Bound together subsequent to publication. Show less
1522 reduction by Laurentz Fries of Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 map of India and Southeast Asia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01233 Print Map I... Show more1522 reduction by Laurentz Fries of Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 map of India and Southeast Asia. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01233 Print Map Item-ID: i11404486 BIB-ID: 1729748 Show less
