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Hale,
Sir Matthew. (1609-1676) The Primitive Origination Of Mankind Considered
And Examined According to The Light of Nature. Written By the Honourable
Sir Matthew Hale Knight: Late Chief Justice of His Majesties Court
of King’s Bench.
London: Printed for Wiliam Godbid, for
William Shrowsbery at the Sign of the Bible in Duke-Lane, 1677.
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Folio, 12.5 x 7.5 in. First edition. A4, b2, B-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Bbb4,
Ccc2. This work has a frontisportrait of the author, two woodcut diagrams,
and two tables. This book is bound in contemporary speckled panel
calfskin. The spine has gold decoration and a red title label. It
is in good condition internally with some typical browning.
“The manuscript [which included the text of the Primitive Origination]
was submitted to Bishop Wilkins, who showed it to Tillotson. Both
advised condensation, for which Hale never found leisure. The first
part was published after his death as ‘The Primitive Origination
of Mankind.’ In this very curious treatise Hale in the first
place attempts to show that the world must have had a beginning; next,
with lawyer-like caution, that if by possibility this were not so,
the human race at any rate cannot have existed from eternity; then
passes in review certain ‘opinions of the more learned part of
mankind, philosophers and other writers, touching man’s origination,’
and finally defends the Mosaic account of the matter as most consonant
with reason. The book was translated for Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg,
the great elector, by Dr. Schmettau in 1683. The other parts have
never been published.” (DNB)
Wing H-258; Porter, p. 11.
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Herwig,
Henning Michael. (fl. late 17th c.) The Art of Curing Sympathetically,
or Magnetically, Proved to be most true both by its theory and Practice,
Exemplified by several Cures performed that way. With a Discourse
concerning the Cure of Madness, and An Appendix to prove the reality
of Sympathy. Also, an account of some Cures perform’d by it in
London. Written Originally in Latin by H. M. Herwig, MD.
London: Printed for Tho. Newborough at the Golden Ball in St. Pauls
Church-yard, R. Parker at the Unicorn under the Piazza of the Royal-Exchange,
Cornhil; and P. Buck at the Sign of the Temple, at the Temple-Gate
in Fleetstreet, 1700.
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Duodecimo, 2.9 x 5.3 in. First edition. A-G12, H4. This book is disbounded
from its full eighteenth century calf binding. The binding is very
interesting with gilded emblematic decoration. In a central square
are the initals of King George (III?). There are two triangles with
Christian symbolism inside: the top one contains a shining dove and
the bottom contains a shining cross with a snake coiled around it.
The leaves themselves are clean with only slight browning. Henning
Michael Herwig, MD, was a physician from Culenborg in the Netherlands
who practiced his trade in London for one season in 1699. Herwig’s
book is primarily concerned with sympathetic magic and the use of
loadstones for curing diseases which he also refers to as the “Magnetick
Cure.” The use of loadstones by early scientists and alchemists
is considered the origins of the understanding of electricity. “So
also, say they, the cure of bodies, although very far distant, without
all doubt may be performed by a energy arising from thence.”
(p. 41)
Wing H-1604. Hunter and MacAlpine p. 274.
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Imperiali,
Giovanni. (1596?-1670) Musæum Historicum et Physicum Ioannis
Imperialis Phil. et Med. Vicentini. In primo Illustrium literis uiror
imagines ad uiuum expresse continentur Additis Elogys Eorundem vitas,
et mores notantibus. In Secundo animorum imagines, siue Ingeniorum
nature, differentie, cause, ac signa physice perpenduntur. Adeo vt
artis exactissime loco possit esse, dignoscendi ad quam quisque artem
ac scientam sit habilis.
Venice: apud Juntas, 1640.
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Quarto, 6.2 x 9 in. First edition +8, A-Z4 (S2 is lacking), Aa-Bb4,
Cc6, *4, A-Z4, Aa-Cc4, Dd6, Ee-Ff4, Gg3.
There are an engraved title-page and fifty-five of fifty-six engraved
portraits of famous scientists by Andrea Salminico. This book, two
parts in one volume, is bound in eighteenth century calfskin with
gold ornamentation along the borders and on the spine. The title and
date are printed in gold on the spine. The front board is loose with
about an inch long tear. The pastedowns are marbled. This copy contains
the same error as the Harvard same edition copy- both lack the engraved
portrait on page forty-seven. This copy also lacks S2 in the first
book which should contain text relating to Jacopo Mazzoni and the
portrait of of Jacopo Critoni on verso. This leaf has been replaced
by a blank with several lines of writing in a contemporary hand. Leaves
S-S4 in the first book are misnumbered 237-244, rather than 137-144
but are correctly collated. Part two has half title: Musaeum physicum;
sive, De humano ingenio, and a colophon on p. 219 dated 1639. The
leaves are clean with only some minor browning on the central leaves.
Overall, this book is in very good condition.
“The first part of this work is a collection of engraved full-page
portraits and short biographical sketches of famous men of science,
medicine, and religion. Among the nearly sixty portraits are those
of Arnoldus de Villanova, Ulisse Aldovandi, Jean Fernel, Girolamo
Fracastoro Giovanni Argenterio, Jean Riolan, Giovanni Battista della
Porta, and Andreas Vesalius. The second part is an interesting study
of memory and the nature of genius based in part on the lives of the
men whose portraits appear in the first section of this book.”
(Eimas)
Cushing I3; Osler 6686; Waller 16011; Wellcome 3394; See Graesse vol.
3, 420; Eimas 471; Krivatsy 6135; Hoefer XXV, 832f; Camerini, Giunti,
1342.
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Jonston,
Joannis. (1603-1675) Historia Naturalis de Insectis. Libri III. [bound
with] de Serpentibus et Draconibus Libri II Cum aeneis Figuris Iohannes
Ionstonus Med. Doctor Concinnavit.
Francofurti ad Moenum Impensis Haeredum Merianoru, 1653.
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Folio, 8 x 13 in. First edition. A-I4, þ2, K-Z4, Aa-Cc4, a-e4, L2
Frontisplate and thirty-six full-page engraved plates by Caspar and
Matteus Merian. Twenty-six are in Insectis and ten are in Serpentibus.
This book is bound in the original vellum. The leaf edges are speckled.
Overall the leaves have some browning and spotting but nothing that
impairs legibility. Jonston’s encyclopedia of insects, snakes,
and dragons is accompanied by beautifully illustrated plates. Included
are description and illustrations of various spiders, snails, slugs,
worms, mosquitos, flies, bees, honeycombs, snakes, winged dragons,
moths, and aquatic insects.
“Of Scottish extraction [but born in Poland], Jonston gained
an extensive education while traveling (sometimes as a private tutor)
in Germany, Scotland, England, and Holland. He attended St. Andrews,
Cambridge, Leiden, and Frankfurt Universities, obtaining M.D. degrees
in 1632 at Cambridge (ad eundem) and Leiden, where he later practiced
medicine at Leiden in 1640, but in 1642 he did become, for a short
while, professor of medicine at Frankfurt.
“Jonston’s widespread education is reflected in his prolific
and wide-ranging writings, which comprise natural history, medicine,
and miscellaneous works.” His works demonstrate the “growing
interest in natural history during the first half of the seventeenth
century. For example, four of his dictionary-style works on fish,
birds quadrupeds, and insects-- published between 1650 and 1653 with
excellent illustration-- were widely read and translated.” (DSB)
Jonston was influenced by Pliny, Aristotle, Oppian, Gesner, and Aldrovandi,
whose works in natural sciences were his inspiration and provided
much of the data and information about the species included.
Graesse vol. 3, 477.
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Jonston,
Joannis. (1603-1675) Iohannis Ionstoni Thaumatographia Natvralis,
In Classes decem divisa: in quibus Admiranda coeli, Elementorvm, Meteororum,
Fossilivm, Plantarvm, Avivm, Qvadrvpedvm, Exangvivm, Piscivm, Hominis
Amsterdam: Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1633.
$2,000
Octavo, 2.5 x 4.6 in. Second edition. A-Z12, Aa12, Bb2. This book
is bound in the original laced case construction vellum. The leaves
are very clean and overall this book is in excellent condition.
Jonston composed his Thaumatographia in an attempt to organize all
contemporary knowledge of the natural sciences. He arranged this information
in ten classes: sky, elements, meteors, fossils, plants, birds, quadrupeds,
invertebrates, fishes, and man. He based his work on Aristotle, Aldrovandi,
and Galen.
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