Kenneth Grant Hecate's Fountain (Signed Slipcased Limited Edition) PRICE 375 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Deluxe limited edition slipcased hardback published by Starfire Publishing in 2014. Originally published in 1992. Number 109 of 111 copies printed. Hand-numbered and signed by Steffi Grant on the limitation page . PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Books-and-Records.com Kenneth Grant Hecate's Fountain (Signed Slipcased Limited Edition) See Item Bev Bevan The Electric Light Orchestra Story (Signed First Edition Hardback) See Item JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Deluxe Edition) See Item Shane Rimmer From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls (Signed Limited Edition) See Item Martin Gilbert First World War (Signed) See Item

Carrie's Farwell to Physicke (1586) & Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy (13th c.) PRICE £ 5,235 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile In the 9th century, the Persian scholar Al-Farghani wrote his Elements of Astronomy on the Celestian Motions (or, Astronomia differentia , also titled Alfragani Elementa Astronomica , because of the lack of authority titles in the pre-Modern period). In part a summary of Ptolomy ’s Greek Almagest , and in part a scientific tour de force in its own right, the Elements of Astronomy presented a (correct) calculation of the circumference of the earth and the tilt of the Earth’s axis. In the 12th century, this Arabic text was translated into Latin, first by John of Seville , then by Gerard of Cremona . The Latin text puts to bed the tired fallacy that particularly Medieval peoples believed the Earth was flat. On this leaf the last line reads: Dicamusque cum puncto sphere terre esset punctus sphere celi necesse fuit ut superficies circuli equinoctii diei divideret superam terre… [And let us say that when the point of the sphere of the earth be the point of the sphere of the sky, it is necessary that the surface of the equinoctial circle should divide the upper part of the earth…] The content of this section of text deals with the equinoxes and solstices, with “erratic planets”, with the astrological names for the 12 parts of the sky (Capricorn, Aries, and Taurus are named in particular), and with the shockingly accurate calculation of the tilt of the Earth’s axis at 23 degrees and 34 minutes. English features, such as the wedged ascenders on the letters l and b couple with spiky letters g, to place us in the English countryside right as Oxford is about to explode with scholarship in the thirteenth century. The hand is a clear, early Gothic, which is starting to fuse convex curves and has almost entirely adopted the round s. The scribe uses abbreviations but not to the detriment of legibility. The margins are wide, even in its current state, allowing for notes which were never taken. The text that Dante used to write of Beatrice that which has never been written of any other woman and to model his concept of the earthly and heavenly spheres. The text that provided Christopher Columbus the calculations to believe he could make it around the world. This is that text . It has been over 40 years since the last recognised Alfraganus text from this time period was offered on auction. About the Manuscript: [Likely Oxford, England, 1st half of the 13th century] Single partial leaf of Al-Farghani/Alfraganus’ Astronomi differentia (also titled: Alfragani Elementa Astronomica) Chapter V, used as limp vellum binding for 16th century treatise on medicine. (145 x 190mm). Approx. 29 lines, in early Gothic script, with one 2-line initial in red with blue pen-flourishes; one rubricated line filler; red and blue pilcrows. Abbreviations used but still quite legible. Likely originally two columns, bottom foredge-side remains, with ruling still visible. A flaw in the parchment obscures several words. Crossed tironian ets, wedged ascenders, sharp g (bottom bowl occasionally flattened), 2-shaped r, two compartment a (not always closed), some (but not consistent) fusion of convex curves, slash over i, primarily round s with occasional terminal long s, tongued e, round and slated d, single uncial T. Arabic to Latin translations attributed to John of Seville (ca. 1135 or 1142) and Gerard of Cremona (before 1175), both Toledo-based translators. This leaf seems to follow the John of Seville translation. About the Book: CARY, Walter. A briefe Treatise, called Caries farewell to Physick, newlie imprinted and augmented : wherein are to be found diverse and speciall helps for manie ordinarie diseases. Hereunto is adioined an other treatise called the Hammer for the Stone. Published by Walter Carie, for the common vse and benefit of his countrie. At London, Printed in the now dwelling house of Henrie Denham, in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre. [First text undated; 1586] [6], 57, [1]; [24]p. Signatures A-D viii; A vii, B iv. Headlines read “Caries farewell to Physicke.” Bii-Bvi defective, Bvi has a strip torn from the blank fore edge margin which doesn't affect the text and Dv is lacking. The Hammer has a title page dated 1586 with printer’s device featuring goat’s head, unpaginated and with a separate signature sequence. This version unrecorded on ESTC. Carie offers treatments for ailments such as "swimming of the head", "heart-burning", "those who have no appetite to meate", "those who are troubled with the gnawing of the guts of stomach...", both the yellow and black iandesse, "greene sicknes", many times of ague, the plague (of course), the disease of English wanton, and "wormes of all sorts". And let us not forget "those that are troubled with biles, scabs, itches, or suchlike." He could hardly keep his "potion which is to be used in sundrie cures" to himself as he bid a farewell to physicks [being a physician]. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Mobilis Books, LLC Parlour Room Divination: The Birthday Oracle (1883) See Item Fear and Worship in Paris: Leaf from miniature French Book of Hours (early 15th c.) 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PORCACCHI Tommaso – L’isole piu famose del mondo - 1572 PRICE $8100 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile PORCACCHI Tommaso – L’isole piu famose del mondo descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro padovano, al Sereniss. Principe et Sig.re il S. Don Giovanni d’Austria General della Santiss. Lega – 1572. In Venetia, appresso Simon Galignani et Girolamo Porro. Full floppy vellum with handwritten titles on the spine; quarto, 29.8 x 20.8 cm; pp. (2b) + (22) + (2b) + 117 + (2) + (1b); parchment stripped in its entirety except at the upper edge of the spine, slight neckline of the binding at the lower edge in correspondence with the first blank page, some very rare and very slight internal blooms, overall more than good copy, very clean and still crisp paper. Beautiful copper engraved title page in an architectural frame with male figures in the shape of columns, four cherubs, an armillary sphere and two globes, woodcut vignettes and initials, text also in italics, 30 beautiful half-page copper plates of islands – many of which show the rose of the winds and sea monsters – engraved by Girolamo Porro, letterpress on the last page. Copy from the Nassau-Dillenburg Library (as per label applied to the first blank page: “Ad Bibliothecam Principalem Arausio-Nassauiensem Dillengurgicam”, old stamp canceled on the verso of the title page. First edition of this famous treatise by Porcacchi, illustrated by beautiful maps – each of which accompanied by a refined textual description -, of which the first fifteen refer to the Mediterranean islands (Venice, Corfu, Morea, Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Greek archipelago, Euboea, Sicily, Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, Mallorca and Menorca) , followed by six relating to the North Sea (United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Iceland and Gotland) and five others outside Europe (Haiti, Cuba, San Lorenzo Island in Alaska, Sri Lanka, Moluccas Islands, the entire North American continent and Temistitan) Finally, the famous Globe and the beautiful nautical equivalent close the work. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Libreria Belriguardo - Italian Rare Books BIRINGUCCIO Vannuccio – Pirotechnia - 1559 See Item GIOVIO Paolo – Ragionamento - 1556 / Andrea ALCIATI – Les Emblemes - 1539 See Item (Cesare BECCARIA) / VOLTAIRE - Dei Delitti e delle Pene / Commentaire sur le livre Des Delits - 1766 See Item PORCACCHI Tommaso – L’isole piu famose del mondo - 1572 See Item GIOVANNELLI Pietro – Cantus Novi Thesauri Musici - 1568 See Item

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ELLIS, Havelock - Studies in the Psychology of Sex PRICE $ 1750 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile THE FIRST MEDICAL TEXT ON HOMOSEXUALITY Watford: The University Press 1897 and 1900, 1897. Two volumes. 8vo. Volume I. Sexual Inversion. 1897. pp. xviii, 204. Volume II. The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Eroticism. 1900. pp. [viii], viii, [1], 314. Eleven plates of diagrams. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine, rubbing to corners but overall in near-fine condition and now Mylar protected and housed on a custom slipcase. Contents are in excellent condition. A very good example of this rare and important two volume work on sexual psychology. The publishing history is slightly complex as one would expect for, what was then, a controversial subject. Volume I being offered here is the November 1897 reissue (under the title Studies in the Psychology of Sex) of Sexual Inversion, co-authored with John Addington Symonds. This first edition was almost immediately withdrawn and the November 1897 edtion was published under Ellis's sole name but with the October 1897 preface. Volume II, dated 1900, is the true first edition of this volume. Although it claims to have been published by the University Press at Leipzig, it was in fact the University of London press in Watford which published it together with the second issue of Volume I. Despite these early complications, Ellis's book became the leading work on practices regarded, at the time, as perverted at best, criminal at worst. Sexual Inversion sought, through a serious study of the subject following many interviews, undertaken with Symonds, with gay men, to remove the stigma of degeneracy attaching to homosexuality. In Volume II Ellis coined the term auto-eroticism. Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English-French physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and auto-eroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis (Wikipedia). PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Reginald C Williams Rare Books LLC NIETZSCHE, Friedrich -The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche contra Wagner, Twilight of the idols, The Antich See Item VIRCHOW, Rudolf - Cellular Pathology as based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology See Item BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis - From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt See Item POE, Edgar Allan - THE WORKS OF THE LATE EDGAR ALLAN POE, WITH A MEMOIR AND NOTICES OF HIS LIFE.. See Item HUBBLE, Edwin - The Realm of the Nebulæ See Item PASTERNAK, Boris - Doctor Zhivago. Russian edition (Cyrillic). PUBLISHERS ARCHIVAL COPY with stamp. See Item MAYNARD, Nettie Colburn - Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? or, Curious Revelations from the Life See Item BUDGE, Ernest Alfred THOMPSON WALLIS - Amulets and Superstitions See Item CLARKE, Arthur Charles - Interplanetary Flight: An introduction to astronautics See Item GODWIN, William - Lives of the Necromancers. or, an Account of the Most Eminent Persons...... See Item FLEMING, Ian - From Russia With Love See Item ELLIS, Havelock - Studies in the Psychology of Sex See Item

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