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Hortus Cliffortianus
AU$15,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCarl Linnaeus
Amsterdam: No publisher, 1737.One of the foundational texts of modern systematic botany. Linnaeus’ catalogue of the living plants and herbarium of George Clifford III at Hartekamp, near Haarlem, arranged according to the new system of classification Linnaeus introduced in ‘Systema Naturae’ (1735). A precursor to ‘Species Plantarum’ (1753). Produced at Clifford’s expense, it is the most lavish of Linnaeus’ works, containing an allegorical frontispiece by Jan Wandelaar and 36 botanical plates, 20 after drawings by Georg Dionysius Ehret.
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Rituale Romano-Pragense. Jussu & Authoritate Reverendissimi ac Celsissimi Principis, Domini, Domini Ferdonandi, e Comitibus de Khunburg
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cart[Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Prague]
Vetero-Pragae [Prague]: Matthiam Hoger, 1731.The diocesan ritual of the Archdiocese of Prague, issued in the final year of the archiepiscopate of Ferdinand [Franz Ferdinand], Count von Khunburg (Archbishop of Prague, 1713-1731), and printed by Matthias Hoger in his capacity as archiepiscopal printer. Covering all of the rituals of the Catholic Church in Prague: baptism, confirmation, penance, matrimony, extreme unction, burial, exorcism, and blessings of houses, bells, and crops, together with the Prague ceremonial and processional calendar, and musical notation for the chanted rites. This copy bound without pp. 89-134 of the final parts of De Sacramento Poenitentiae, comprising the Bulla Coenae Domini and the related appendices on absolution. The absence of the Bulla is consistent across all recorded copies of the edition, however the appearance of the appendices varies, and one plate is normally found facing p. 135. The Bulla’s absence is best explained by the requirement across Catholic Europe that a papal bull needed civil sanction before it carried legal force and the Bulla Coenae Domini was among the most persistently withheld. This copy with a leather presentation plate to the front board, dated 1829, dedicating the volume “to the Reverend parish priest Carl Sternad, in remembrance, from Joseph Suchanek.”
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A Dissertation on Milk
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Ferris
London: John Abraham, [1785].In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases: Likewise to point out the varieties in the food of the animal, from which it is taken; and the circumstances in the mode of life and conduct of those women, who afford it, which more especially tend to change its appearance, and to impair its salutary qualities: and particularly to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race. One of the more substantial English-language eighteenth-century monographs devoted wholly to milk, combining experimental chemistry with medical, moral, and social thought on infant feeding, motherhood, female bodies, and the transmission of health and character. Ferris undertakes comparative chemical experiments on six milks (ass, human, mare, cow, goat, and ewe) and uses the results to advance a sustained argument for maternal breastfeeding against both wet-nursing and the nursery customs of the day. He maintains that a mother’s own milk is the best possible nutriment and casts a woman’s refusal to nurse her child as ‘one of the worst species of inhumanity’. He approvingly cites the late Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), who believed cancers of the breast occurred disproportionately among women who declined to breastfeed, and condemns the common practice of withholding the breast during the first days after birth. Where maternal nursing proves impossible, Ferris subjects the wet nurse to detailed scrutiny. Her diet, habits, mode of life, and even emotional state are made objects of prescription, the infant being thought to absorb the consequences of her conduct through her milk. The nursing body is thus framed throughout as an object of medical and social management, ordered in the interests of the ‘infant race’. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ferris to The Revd. Mr Tonyn, likely the Revd Charles William Tonyn (1732-1805), Rector of Radnage, Buckinghamshire, a parish situated near Great Missenden, where Ferris settled in 1785.
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Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse by Nicholas Rowe
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cart[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]; Nicholas Rowe
London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753.English translation of the Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan, on the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Landmark work in chemistry and anaesthesia. Published when Davy was only 21, outlining his experiments with nitrous, popularising the term laughing gas, and suggesting its anaesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper.
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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
AU$5,000 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Dictionnaire Portatif de Cuisine, d’Office, et de Distillation;
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Paris: Chez Vincent, 1767.Portable dictionary of cooking, office, and distillation: containing the manner of preparing all kinds of meats, veal, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, etc.: the manner of making all kinds of jellies, pastes .. : and of composing all kinds of liqueurs .. : work equally useful to the most skilled office and kitchen chefs .. : medical observations have been added which make known the property of each food, relative to health, and which indicate the foods most suitable for each temparment.
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Ecole Pratique des Accouchemens.
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. B. Jacobs
A Gand: Chez J. F. Vander Scheuren, 1785.First French translation of the important Dutch obstetrics manual by Jan Bernard Jacobs (1734-1790). At the time of its appearance, it was one of the most complete treatises on the art of childbirth and remained a standard work into the middle of the nineteenth century being described as a pearl of scientific production from the last years before the French Revolution.
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A Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartBenjamin Bell
Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son, 1797.Primarily regarded as surgeon, Bell is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His scientific approach is especially evident in this treatise in which he convincingly argues, against the prevailing medical opinion of the time, that gonorrhea and syphilis are separate diseases. Bell’s work is foundational to the modern understanding of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The rare Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
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A General Abridgment of Law and Equity (30 Volumes)
AU$5,500 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Viner
London and Dublin: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Payment, E. and R. Brooke, T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and L. White, 1791-1806.Second Edition of Viner’s monumental digest of English law, together with the six volume supplement, An Abridgment of the Modern Determinations in the Courts of Law and Equity. (London: A. Strahan, 1799-1806). The work is alphabetically arranged under subject headings, with extensive notes and references throughout. This edition comprises the twenty-four-volume second edition of the General Abridgment and the complete six-volume supplement, issued over a period of fifteen years. The English jurist Charles Viner (1678-1756) devoted much of his life to the compilation of this vast legal encyclopaedia, an undertaking ultimately derived from Rolle’s Abridgment but greatly expanded in scope. Drawing upon reported cases, manuscript authorities, statutes, and earlier legal compilations, it became one of the principal reference works of the common law tradition. J. G. Marvin described it as “the most voluminous production of any single individual in the whole bibliography of the Common Law”, nothing that Viner had “translated, abridged, remodelled” and incorporated material from the older abridgments and reports. A substantial and influential legal reference work, forming one of the foundations of eighteenth-century English legal scholarship.
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Anacreonti Quae Tribuuntur Carminum Paraphrasis Elegiaca
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Hoeufft
Dordraci: Peter van Braam, 1795.Poems by Anaccreon (ca. 575-495 BC), a Greek lyric poet who wrote in the Ionic dialect here translated into Latin by J.H. Hoeufft. His works were meant to be sung or recited to lyre music, and included hymns as well as less virtuous drinking and love songs.