Deborah Coltham Rare Books - Gallery
A selection of pictures from a few recent acquisitions:
HODSON, Thomas. THE ACCOMPLISHED TUTOR Or, complete system of liberal education: containing the most improved theory and practice of the following subjects: 1. English Grammer, and elocution. 2. Penmanship, and short hand. 3. Arithmetic, vulgar and decimal. 4. Stock-holding, and merchants accompts. 5. Mensuration, and architecture. 6. Optics. 7. Algebra. 8. Doctrines of Annuities. 9. Trigonometry. 10. Logarithms. 11. Geography. 12. Astronomy. 13. Mechanics. 14. Electricity. 15. Pneumatics. 16. Hydrostatics. 17. Hydraulics. 18. Drawing, engraving and painting. And other useful matter. Embellished with twenty copper-plates and six maps, neatly engraved. Second Edition. In Two volumes. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry. 1802. [438] £585
[BALLOONING
EPHEMERA]. [NOTICE OF EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHT].
AVVISO Ferrara li 29. Maggio, Ferrara, Pe’ Soj. Bianchi e Negri, 1809.
[398]
£185
[OCCULT AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE]. RONPHYLE
pseud?, Nicola SPADONI, and Johan Sigismund ELSHOLTZ.
HÖCHSTFÜRTREFFLICHES CHIROMANTISCH-UND PHYSIOGNOMISCHES KLEE-BLAT
Bestehend Aus drey herrlichen Tractaten Und zwar erstlich Des
Kunst-beruhmsten Ronphyle Hand-Wahrsagung; Zum andern Niclas Spadons
Schauplatz der Curiositaten; Und dann drittens D. D. Johann Sigmund
Eltzholtzens Anthropometrie oder Mess-Kunst des Mess-Kunst des
Menschlichen Corpers. Welchen wegen gleichheit der materie Dominici de
Rubeis Physiognomische tafeln Cardani Metoposcopie und Melampus von den
Mählern des menschlichen cörpers miteingerucktz. Alles aus dem
Frantzösischen, Italiänischen, Lateinischen und Griechischen übersetzt
auch mich darzu gehörigen kupffern gezieret und den curiösen liebhabern
eroffnet und gewiedmet. Durch I. G. D. T. Nürnberg, In Verlegung Johann
Ziegers, 1695. 1695 [522]
£2,200
[EDUCATION - MATHEMATICAL BROADSIDE]. BEDIGIS FILS.
ELEMENTS D’ARITHMETIQUE POUR LES COMMENCANTS. Où se trouvent le nom des
Chiffres, les Chiffres Arabes, les Chiffres Romains, les Chiffres
Français, ce que vaut le Zéro, la Table de Numération, l'Addition, la
Soustraction, la Multiplication, la Division et une Table de
Multiplication, avec leurs Explications. A Paris chez les Srs Mondhare
et Jean, rue St Jean de Beauvais pres celle des noyers. Bedigis fils,
fécit. Coulubrier Sculpsit. 1785.
£1,200
[BURTON, Robert].
MELANCHOLY ANATOMIZED: Showing its causes, consequences, and cure. With
anecdotic illustrations drawn from ancient and modern sources, and
principally founded on the larger work entitled, Burton's Anatomy of
Melancholy. London: William Tegg. 1865. [715]
£375
BELL, Sir Charles.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF GREAT OPERATIONS IN SURGERY, Trepan, Hernia,
Amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst,
Rees Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; By A. and R. Spottiswoode,
Printers-Street. 1821.
[631]
£2,750
GUAYNERIO (or GUAINERIO), Antonio. OPUS PRAECLARUM ad praxim non mediocriter necessarium cum Joannis Falconi nonnullis non inutiliter adjunctis ... Reperiuntur Lugduni, ... In bibliotheca Scipionis de Gabiano, 1534. £1,850
HIPPOCRATES. OPERA OMNIA. Graece & Latina edita, et ad omnes alias editiones accommodata ... Joan. Antonidae Vander Linden. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apude Danielem, Abrahamum & Adrianum à Gaasbeeck. 1665. £1,500
[MIDWIFERY]. HOORN, Johan von.
DEN SWENSKA WÄL-ÖFWADE JORD-GUMMAN hwilken grundeligen underwijser huru
med en hafwande handlas, en wandande hielpas, en barna-qwinna handteras,
och det nyfodda barnet skiotas skal. … Stockholm, Tryckt uti Nathanael
Goldenaus Tryckerij. 1697. [bound
with]:
THEN SWENSKA WÄLÖFWADE JORDE-GUMMANS ANDRA DEEL. Bestånde uti Ottatijo
Märckwärdige förlosningar, förrättade, och på Fransöska beskrefne, af
Paul Portal, Bedswuren Felscher, och berömd Jord-Mästare i Paris ...
Stockholm, tryck af H.C. Merckell ... 1723.
[672]
£2,000
[ORTHOPAEDIC BROADSIDE]. MANN, John Preston.
DEFORMITY OF THE SPINE AND LIMBS; Disease of the Joints; Spinal
Curvature; Hip Disease; Stiff Knees; Enlarged and Inflamed Joints;
Contracted Cords; White Swelling; Crooked Feet and Hands; Wry Neck and
Paralysis of all the Limbs. [New York, J.P Mann, No. 133 West 41st
Street. n.d. but but ca. 1880s?].
[680]
£750
RUDIUS, Eustachius.
DE MORBIS OCCULTIS, ET VENENATIS, LIBRI QUINQUE ... Ub quibus hæc
Medicinæ pars reliquarum omnium præstantissima, & utilissima, quæ
hactenus tenebris circumsepta iacuit, soloq empirico ritu tractata suit,
ad lucem, & certam rationalem methodum reuocatur.
Venetiis Apud Tomam
Baglionum, 1610.
[
714]
£3,750
[GREAT EXHIBITION]. TOMLINSON, Charles.
CYCLOPAEDIA OF USEFUL ARTS, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures,
mining, and engineering. Vol. I. Abattoir to Hair-Pencils. With an
introductory essay on the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of
all Nations, 1851. Vol. II. Hammer to Zirconium. The whole illustrated
by forty steel engravings, and two thousand four hundred and
seventy-seven wood engravings.
London: George Virtue ... [1852-] 1854.
[784]
£1,500