Inset: Jazirat Kh塲g. Main Heritage Compact General Print Map Item-ID: i26588717 BIB-ID: 2752287 Show moreInset: Jazirat Kh塲g. Main Heritage Compact General Print Map Item-ID: i26588717 BIB-ID: 2752287 Show less
di Cesare Campana. Printer's device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head pieces. Italic type. First edition of Campana's "Historical Compendium of... Show moredi Cesare Campana. Printer's device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head pieces. Italic type. First edition of Campana's "Historical Compendium of the Latest Wars between Christians and Turks and Persians". After a biographical overview of the ruling house of Ottoman Turkey (the folding plates offers a genealogical table of the ruling Ottoman dynasty from Soliman to Mehmed III). Camapna details the armed conflicts carried out in the course of the Ottoman-Safavid War (1577-90) between Safavid Persia under Mohammed Khodabanda (and later Abbas I) and the Ottoman Empire under Murad III. The Ottomans had started the war with the objective of conquering Azerbaijan and the Caucasus, and they effectively came to rule over those areas as far as the Caspian Sea. A peace of Istanbul was concluded in 1590, in which Persia confirmed these Ottoman conquests and promised to end Shiite propaganda in Ottoman territories and persecution of Sunnis in her own lands. The advent of the Ottoman-Safavid war temporarily deflected Ottoman interest from European affairs, where the Ottoman Empire had been active with the Franco-Ottoman alliance and the support of the Dutch Revolt, in an interesting episode of mutually-supportive relations between Islam and Protestantism. - The volume's second part is dedicated to the Turkish Wars in Hungary and Transylvania during the 1590s; the end is brought up by a chronicle of events in Turkish history from 1257 to 1596. - Inkstains to title page; faint waterstain throughout; occasional worming restored (no loss to text). Main Heritage Shelves General DB924 .C36 1597 Book Item-ID: i16817308 BIB-ID: 1507109 Show less
Astronomy, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Cosmology, Medieval, Cosmology, Medieval--Early works to 1800, Science, Science--Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Cosmology, Medieval, Science, QB41 .G35 1632
Includes index. Frontispiece engraved by Stefan Della Bella. Printer's device, head- and tail-pieces; initials; woodcut diagrams. Mounted label on p.... Show moreIncludes index. Frontispiece engraved by Stefan Della Bella. Printer's device, head- and tail-pieces; initials; woodcut diagrams. Mounted label on p. 92 containing lines omitted in printing. cf. Riccardi. Bib. mat. ital. vol. 1, col. 512. Errata lists: p. 1-2, last count; signature register: p. 32, last count. Leaves 2B3 and 2B4 missigned as 2B2 and 2B3, respectively. Suppressed by the Inquisition in 1633. Main Heritage Shelves General QB41 .G35 1632 Book Item-ID: i23174109 BIB-ID: 2452139 Show less
Prester John, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G159 .R36 1554, 910.8
Title for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et... Show moreTitle for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto." Title page vignettes; initials and printed marginalia. Vol. 2 dated MDLXXXIII; vol. 3 dated M D LXV. Leaves 22, 24, 104, 154 of vol. 1 misfoliated 15, 25, 105, 134. The 6 plates (double maps) are in vol. 1; the folding maps and plan in vol. 3 are each counted as 2 leaves in the foliation except for the last. Main Heritage Shelves General G159 .R36 1554 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i20302472 BIB-ID: 1009464 Show less
Prester John, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G159 .R36 1554, 910.8
Title for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et... Show moreTitle for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto." Title page vignettes; initials and printed marginalia. Vol. 2 dated MDLXXXIII; vol. 3 dated M D LXV. Leaves 22, 24, 104, 154 of vol. 1 misfoliated 15, 25, 105, 134. The 6 plates (double maps) are in vol. 1; the folding maps and plan in vol. 3 are each counted as 2 leaves in the foliation except for the last. Main Heritage Shelves General G159 .R36 1554 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i10078289 BIB-ID: 1009464 Show less
Prester John, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G159 .R36 1554, 910.8
Title for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et... Show moreTitle for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto." Title page vignettes; initials and printed marginalia. Vol. 2 dated MDLXXXIII; vol. 3 dated M D LXV. Leaves 22, 24, 104, 154 of vol. 1 misfoliated 15, 25, 105, 134. The 6 plates (double maps) are in vol. 1; the folding maps and plan in vol. 3 are each counted as 2 leaves in the foliation except for the last. Main Heritage Shelves General G159 .R36 1554 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20302459 BIB-ID: 1009464 Show less
Sessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show moreSessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show less
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, QD25 .J33 1541
First edition of a miscellaneous work on Alchemy which gathers some works of different authors, being Gebri, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, considered the... Show moreFirst edition of a miscellaneous work on Alchemy which gathers some works of different authors, being Gebri, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, considered the father of the Arab chemistry, the author who opens the volume which includes parts of four of his works. His treatises are followed by a short one, Speculum Alchemiae, traditionally credited to Roger Bacon, on the origin and composition of metals; a work by Richardus Anglicus; and another treatise of the Arab author Khalid ibn Yazid al-Umawi. The volume ends with the Tabula Smaragdina and its comment. The Tabula Smaragdina is a concise, compact and cryptic piece reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia and its transmutation, highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art. It is attributed to Hermes Trimegistus but, virtually all literature ascribed to this name is incorrectly so attributed. Although technically it is not the name of a real person in origin, it became regarded as such from early times. This text was a popular summary of alchemical principles, wherein the secrets of the philosopher's stone were thought to have been described. The last text of the whole edition is a commentary by the medieval alchemist Hortulanus, who composed his commentary before 1325. It is the second part of a work in which Hortulanus believes alcohol or quintessence is the hidden primordial heat in all material things. Signatures: aa-bb⁴, cc2, a-z⁴, A-Z⁴, & Woodcuts in initials; xilographic paintings Main Heritage Shelves General QD25 .J33 1541 Book Item-ID: i2150054x BIB-ID: 1946517 Some of the text are translated from Arabic. Show less
1954 printing of 1928. Main Heritage Shelves General BP109 .P3 1928 Book Item-ID: i10219225 BIB-ID: 1023558 Show more1954 printing of 1928. Main Heritage Shelves General BP109 .P3 1928 Book Item-ID: i10219225 BIB-ID: 1023558 Show less
This volume is the unique edition of this early Persian-English poetry anthology, containing selected texts of some fables together with fragments... Show moreThis volume is the unique edition of this early Persian-English poetry anthology, containing selected texts of some fables together with fragments of well-known Persian poets such as Enveri, Daqiqi, Jami, Saadi, Ammar, Shirazi, Rashid al-Din , Firdawsi and Rudegi. It is atributed to Stürmer who prepared the collection during his studies at Viennas Oriental Academy, although the work is also attributed to Bernhard Jenisch. in Latinvm translata ac Mariae Theresiae Avgvstae honoribvs dicata a Caesarea Regia Lingarvm Orientalivm Academia. Several handwriting notes on the title page and at the margin of the text. Main Heritage Shelves General PK629 .A58 1778 Book Item-ID: i19660200 BIB-ID: 1779918 Text in Persian and translation in Latin From the library of the great Königsberg Oriental scholar Peter van Bohlen (1796-1840) with his notes and underlinings in black and auburn ink throughout. His autogr. ownership on the title page is dated "Halle 1821", marking this as an early acquisition of scholarly literature by the former tailors apprentice, batman, ships scullion, waiter, and footboy after having graduated from the Hamburg Johanneum in 1821. Later in the collection of the Dresden mathematician and librarian Carl Kuschel (1814-99); his autogr. ownership on t. p.; his acquisition note on pastedown: "Hocce Bohlenii exemplar im meam migravit bibliothecam die 10mo Aprilis 1844 (constat 15 gr. arg.)". Subsequently in the collection of the Halle historian and orientalist Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg (1826-1907); his autogr. ownership on t. p. Sold by Harrassowitz to the Zurich printer and publisher Friedrich Paul David Bürkli (1818-96) in 1895, a year before his death (his autogr. ownership to t. p.; his bookplate on pastedown). Bürkli took an avid interest in the history and culture of the orient and amassed a vast library on the subject. His collection, numbering some 1500 titles, passed almost entirely to the Zurich Municipal Library (now in the Zurich Central Library). Show less
