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
Pharmacy, Pharmacy--Early works to 1800, RS79 .I266 1531
Miejsce wyd. z expl. Antidotarium. Na karcie po Antidotarium sygnet druk. Autor 1, 2 pracy wg bibliografii. Main Heritage Shelves General RS79 .I266 1531 ... Show moreMiejsce wyd. z expl. Antidotarium. Na karcie po Antidotarium sygnet druk. Autor 1, 2 pracy wg bibliografii. Main Heritage Shelves General RS79 .I266 1531 Book Item-ID: i10143889 BIB-ID: 1016024 Dostępne w postaci elektronicznej. Show less
Geometry, Geometry--Early works to 1800, QA31 .E93 1537
Illustrations: With numerous woodcut illustrations within text throughout. With a colophon on recto of final leaf (repeating imprint). Woodcut... Show moreIllustrations: With numerous woodcut illustrations within text throughout. With a colophon on recto of final leaf (repeating imprint). Woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of final leaf. Woodcut head-pieces and initials; text printed in Roman and Italic type. Main Heritage Shelves General QA31 .E93 1537 Book Item-ID: i24470909 BIB-ID: 2608607 Show less
Cyprian War, 1570-1571, History, History, V46 .F64 1585
Preface by Paulus Folieta. Publisher's name from: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane IT\ICCU\BVEE\013277. Includes... Show morePreface by Paulus Folieta. Publisher's name from: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane IT\ICCU\BVEE\013277. Includes index. Errata: p. 326. Main Heritage Shelves General V46 .F64 1585 Book Item-ID: i10236442 BIB-ID: 1025280 Show less
Avicenna. Compendium de anima. De mahad, i[d est] de dispositione seu loco, ad quem revertitur homo vel anima eius post mortem. Aphorismi de anima.... Show moreAvicenna. Compendium de anima. De mahad, i[d est] de dispositione seu loco, ad quem revertitur homo vel anima eius post mortem. Aphorismi de anima. De diffinitionibus & quaesitis. De divisione scientiarum. Ab Andrea Alpago Bellunensi ex arabico in latinum versa. Cum expositionibus eiusdem Andreae colectis ab auctoribus Arabicis. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Guiunta, 1546. 8vo, 1l (bin.) + 1t + 3 + 390 + 1 + 1 + 1l (bin), with woodcut printer's device on title, repeated at colophon; a very good copy in modern stiff vellum with ties. First edition of Alpago's translation (De anima had only once appeared separately before, at Pavia in 1484, in the translation of Johannes Hispalensis and Domingo Gundisalvo). Alpago made his name through his translations of Avicenna. His eminent version of the Canon went through numerous editions, but this book and his other trnaslations appeared in one edition only. "Avicenna insisted on the Soul's individual immortality. To begin with, he held that the immaterial is incorruptible. Moreover he was convinced not only of the soul's immateriality but also of his individuality. He argued for both these points simultaneously: Wehen one refers to himself as 'I', this cannot be a reference to his body. If a man were to come into being fully mature and rational but suspended in space so that he was totally unaware of his physical circumstances, he would still be certain of one thing - his own existence as an individual self" (The encyclopedia of philosophy Die Vorlage enth. insgesamt ... Werke. Main Heritage Shelves General B753.F32 A95 1546 Book Item-ID: i10073760 BIB-ID: 1009012 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, Plague, Plague--Early works to 1800, Nutrition, Nutrition--Early works to 1800, dragocene knjige--v latinščini, dragocene knjige--v latinščini--16. stoletje, R128.6 .O33 1575
(AVICENNA). ODDI, Oddo degli, commentator. In primam fen primi libri canonis Avicennae dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in... Show more(AVICENNA). ODDI, Oddo degli, commentator. In primam fen primi libri canonis Avicennae dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in lucem edita, illustrata, & completa assiduo labore, & longo studio Marci Oddi eiusdem filii. Venice, Paolo and Antonio Meietos, 1575. 4to, 1l + 1t + 1l (cont.) + 6 + 499 + 33 (index) + 1l, with woodcut device on title; good copy in contemporary limp vellum. First edition of Oddi's rare commentary on Book I, fen 1 of Avicenna's Canon, with the Latin versions of Andrea Alpago and Jacob Mantino printed in italic. The commentary was published posthumously by his son Marco, Oddo Oddi having died in 1558. Oddi was a professor at the University of Padua in the 1st half of 16th century. Jacob Mantino was a Jewish physician active in Venice. He translated fens 4 (published in 1530) and 1 (1540), from the Hebrew. BMSTC Italian Books p. 337; Durling 3388; besides the copy in the National Library of Medicine (Durling), NUC records only one further location, Yale, Medical School. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.6 .O33 1575 Book Item-ID: i10106662 BIB-ID: 1012302 Show less
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, QD25 .J33 1531
GEBER De alchimia libri tres. Eiusdem liber investigationis perfecti magisterij, artis alchimicae. Lis additus liber trium verborum. Epistola item... Show moreGEBER De alchimia libri tres. Eiusdem liber investigationis perfecti magisterij, artis alchimicae. Lis additus liber trium verborum. Epistola item Alexandri Imperatoris, qui primus regnavit in Graecia. Parsarum quoque exitit Imperator: Super eadem re. [colophon:] Strasbourg, Jean Gruninger, 29 August 1531. Folio, 120p with large title woodcut and numerous large Woodcut illustrations; a good, large copy, washed, in modern vellum. Extremely rare, and finely illustrated edition of this famous work, also known under the title Summa perfectionis. This was the last work printed by Gruninger, famous for his illustrated books: the title woodcut here is probably by Wechtelin. Gruninger first issued it in 1529, an edition which appears to be even rarer than the present one. Gruninger's is the first illustrated edition of Geber. Centainly, De alchimia and the other works of the Geberian corpus were of greatest influence on Western chemistry and "whether they by translations or elaborations, they represent the amount of Arabic chemical knowledge made available to Latin reading people toward the end of the thirteenth century" (Sarton II, p. 1044). DAB, 7, 37-39; EI, II, pp. 357-59; Sezgin, IV, pp. 132-269. BMSTC German Books p. 434; Ritter, Bibliotheque Nationale de Strasburg 937; NUC records only one location, Yale University. Show less
Lot No:99 Main Heritage Shelves General JC89 .P36 1602 Book Item-ID: i22798389 BIB-ID: 1951321 Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599. Commentariorum, in Notitiam ... Show moreLot No:99 Main Heritage Shelves General JC89 .P36 1602 Book Item-ID: i22798389 BIB-ID: 1951321 Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599. Commentariorum, in Notitiam vtranqve Imperii Romani. Liber Secundus. Venetiis : Apud Ioan. Antonium, & Iacobum de Franciscis, MDCII Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599. De qvattvordecim Regionibvs vrbis Romae earvmdemqve aedificiis tam publicis qum priuatis. Libellvs Eodem Praestantissimo Ivre consvlto Liber Secundus. Venetiis : Apud Ioan. Anto. & Iacobum de Franciscis Frat., 1602 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, RB24 .I266 1543
[SERAPION, the elder]. Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri VII.... Show more[SERAPION, the elder]. Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri VII. partim Albano Torino Vitodurano paraphrste, partim Gerardo iatro Cremonensi mataphraste ... Basle, Henric Petri [1543] Small folio, 1 l(b) + 1t + 1 + 8(pref.) + 14(ind.) + 491 + 1device) + 1 l(b), with woodcut printer's device on verso of colophon leaf; contemporary blind tooled calf, rebacked, new endleaves, clasps restored. First edition of Alban Thorer's (Albanus Torinus) paraphrase of books I-IV of Serapion's Therapeutica methodi, the remainder in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, with the Aphorisms published for the first time. Serapion the elder was a Christian physician who flourished in Damascus in the second half of the ninth century. He wrote, in Syriac, two medical compilations, one in 12, the other (as here) in 7 books. The latter was several times translated into Arabic, and thence into Latin by Gerard of Cremona. Serapion's theraputics were "very popular in the Middle Ages. Sezgin, III, pp. 240-42. Adams I14; Bird 1294; Choulant p. 347; Durling 4778; Parkinson & Lumb 2278; Wellcome 4272. Main Heritage Shelves General RB24 .I266 1543 Book Item-ID: i10104847 BIB-ID: 1012120 Show less
