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]
£150
[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]
£1,800
[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
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.
£1,600
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.
£1,200
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