Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .S25 1732
Th. Salmon Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .S25 1732 Book Item-ID: i24922729 BIB-ID: 2668065 Show moreTh. Salmon Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .S25 1732 Book Item-ID: i24922729 BIB-ID: 2668065 Show less
Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology--Early works to 1800, RE41 .G85 1678
The first French work on ophthalmology, drawing on many Greek and Arab sources. First published, in French, in 1585 as Traité des maladies de lóeil... Show moreThe first French work on ophthalmology, drawing on many Greek and Arab sources. First published, in French, in 1585 as Traité des maladies de lóeil. Considered by Garrison & Morton to be the best of Renaissance books on ophthalmology and an epitome of existing knowledge on the subject. This is the second Dutch edition but the first to have been augmented by the well-known Dutch surgeon and ophthalmologist J. Verbrugge, misspelled on the title-page as "Verbrigge". With an engraved frontispiece depicting an ophthalmologist at work. Also with numerous recipes for ophthalmologic problems and with an interesting treatise on dentistry, commonly attributed to Guillemeau although it has also been suggested that Verbrugge might be the author. Jacques Guillemeau (ca. 1520-1613) studied under his father in law, the renowned Ambroise Paré, and became surgeon to the king of France. He was the first to describe the repair of a congenital eyelid coloboma, a full-thickness defect of the eyelid, by freshening the edges and suturing their margins. - A good copy. A rare book by a famous ophthalmologist with an early tract on dentistry. Main Heritage Shelves General RE41 .G85 1678 Book Item-ID: i16828045 BIB-ID: 1508104 Show less
door de heer du Ryer uit de Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt. Benevens een tweevoudige beschryving van Mahomets leven en een verhaal van des... Show moredoor de heer du Ryer uit de Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt. Benevens een tweevoudige beschryving van Mahomets leven en een verhaal van des zelfs reis ten hemel, gelijk ook sijn samenspraak met de Jood Abdias ; alles op nieuws door een liefhebber overzien en van alle druk-fouten gezuivert ; met kopere plaaten verciert. Added engr. title-page. Special t.p. title: Tweevoudige beschrijvinge van Mahomets leeven, d'eerste uit de Sarasijnsche histirie van Georgius Elmacinus Arabier d'andere uit verscheide schryvers der Christenen getrokken en te zamen gesteld. Translated into Dutch by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker. -- Letterkundige woordenboek voor noord en zuid / K. ter Laan (2nd ed.), p. 179. The life of Mohammed is in part tr. from Thomas Erpenius' Latin version of al-Makin's History of the Saracens. Main Heritage Shelves General BP106 .M34 1721 Book Item-ID: i15722338 BIB-ID: 1015679 Show less
Door den Generaal Hendrik Middleton ... ; Als mede dag-register Van Kapiteyn Nicolaas Dounton ... Beyde gedaan in het Jaar 1610. en vervolgens ; Nu... Show moreDoor den Generaal Hendrik Middleton ... ; Als mede dag-register Van Kapiteyn Nicolaas Dounton ... Beyde gedaan in het Jaar 1610. en vervolgens ; Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaald. Rare folio edition of this Dutch translation of the journals of Henry Middleton (d. 1613) and Nicholas Downton (Dounton, 1561-1615). Downton was lieutenant under Sir Henry Middleton on the sixth voyage set forth by the English East India Company, in 1610-12. Their ships landed in Aden before continuing to Al-Mukha (Mocha) in Yemen, where Middleton's ship ran aground and had to be refloated. "After an initially friendly reception, the local ruler changed his tune and imprisoned Middleton and his crew on the pretext pf their breaking an embargo against Christian shipping. After spending three weeks as prisoners at Mocha, they were taken inland to Ta'iz and the San'a, where the Pasha explained that the arrival of English ships had been resented by the local Muslim traders. Released in February 1611, Middleton and his crew returned to Mocha and sailed on 9 Aug. 1611 for Surat in India" (Howgego I, 719; cf. also p. 320). - Slightly browned throughout; title page loosened. The engravings show an English ship exploding the the harbour, Middleton in chains in a Mocha jail, etc. Title vignette. Main Heritage Shelves General G160 .M53 1727 Book Item-ID: i16873464 BIB-ID: 1510761 Show less
Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum industry and trade--Azerbaijan--Baku, Petroleum industry and trade, HD9575.R83 B35 1943
Anton Hantschel. Main Heritage Shelves General HD9575.R83 B35 1943 Book Item-ID: i15536683 BIB-ID: 2498372 Show moreAnton Hantschel. Main Heritage Shelves General HD9575.R83 B35 1943 Book Item-ID: i15536683 BIB-ID: 2498372 Show less