Peringskiöld, J.

Historia Hialmari regis Biarmlandiae atque Thulemarkiae, ex fragmento runici MS.ti literis recentioribus descripta, cum gemina versione Johannis PeringskioldI.

[Stockholm, Johan Peringskiöld Sr., 1701] Folio (30.5 x 20.0 cm). [43] p., including woodcut facsimile on pp. [3-18], printed in red on pp. [3-4]. Full polished leather with marbled leather rectangular inlay. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with elaborate gilt-rolled or stippled borders, gilt corner-pieces, and central vignette. gilt-rolled edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges, top edge gilt. 11 additional blanks bound in the rear. In later marbled slipcase (31.7 x 20.7 x 1.6 cm).

€2,500.00

An innkeeper's thesis

Burckard, J. J. [Burckhart]

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de Radice Senecka.

€350.00

Fiction and Science: A frog turns into a fish and Leibniz improves the barometer

Leibniz, G. W. and others

Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. Ephemerides sive Observationum Medico-Physicarum a Celeberrimis viris. Centuria III & IV. Cum, Appendice.

Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Wolfgang Michahelles, 1715. Small, thick 4to (20.3 x 16.4 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, title, half title, 738 pp. ([xii], 484, [ii], 232, [viii]); 15 engraved plates (several larger, folded), three portraits. Contemporary full vellum. Title neatly written on the spine in an old (probably contemporary) hand. Edges speckled blue.

€1,200.00

An ultra-rare complete copy

Carpeau du Saussay (ed.)

Voyage de Madagascar, connu aussi sous le nom de l'isle de St Laurent. Par M. de De V.... Commissaire provincial de l'artillerie de France. Dedié à S. A. S. M. Le Prince de Contry.

Paris, Jean-Luc Nyon, 1722. 12mo (15.4 x 9.1 cm). Engraved title " Nouveau Voiage de Madagascard", letterpress title, [xviii], 304 pp.; six engraved plates; large, multi-folding map. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine rich gilt, with five gilt-rolled raised bands; compartments with gilt floral borders and crowned shield with a lion; boards with triple gilt borders and large gilt vignettes, showing a Celtic warrior waving a banner, "Brithan" and captioned "Foy de Brehan". Gilt-lined board edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Edges red.

€2,750.00

A well-illustrated early work on the development of bones in human foetuses

Kerckring, T.

Opera omnia anatomica; continentia spicilegium anatomicum, osteogeniam foetuum: nec non anthropogeniae ichnographiam. Accuratissimus figuris aeri incisis illustrata. Editio tertia.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Theodorus Haak and Samuel Luchtmans, 1729. Three works in one. 4to (23.2 x 18.3 cm). Frontispiece engraving by A. Blotelingh; title page with woodcut vignette "Tuta sub Aegide Pallas", xx, 303 pp., including titles to the Osteogenia foetuum, in qua quis cuique ossiculo singulis accedat mesibus, quidve decedat, & in eo per varia immutetur tempora, accuratissimè oculis subjicitur (with copper engraved vignette "Structa super lapidem qui ruet ista domus" and blank verso) and Anthropogeniae ichnographia sive conformatio foetus ab ovo usque sad ossificationis principia, in supplementum osteogeniae foetuum (with wood-engraved vignette); 40 engraved plates (several large, folding); Marbled limp paper boards, green label with script title on the spine.

€1,600.00

A gathering of geckos from one of the 18th-century's most splendid natural history achievements