Toulouse: Colomiers, Jacques, 1554.
Toulouse physician and astrologer Auger Ferrier's discussion of the botanical properties of China root [the rootstock of Smilax chinæ] and how it is often confused with apios (spurge), and the New-World plants sarsaparilla and guaiac. China root, an East Asian rootstock with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties.....
Paris: Pierre-Étienne Janet, 1809.
Only edition of a tiny illustrated almanac, produced for children during the height of the Empire Français by the peerless maker and binder of miniature almanacs, Pierre-Étienne Janet, at the acme of his career. Entirely engraved and printed on both sides of a sheet, Le Petit.....
Paris: 1780.
A revised edition of a diminutive illustrated star atlas written for women. The author, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, best known in his day as a studious observer of Uranus, and also, in 1779, as the discoverer of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57 or NGC 6720), a well-known planetary.....
Paris: Jacques Barois, 1741.
[2711 lots, priced.] The auction catalogue of the diverse and well-balanced collection of Michel Peletier de Souzy [1640-1725], director-general of fortifications for Louis XIV. The collection was managed and expanded by de Souzy's son, Michel-Robert, until his own death in 1740. In those fifteen intervening years.....
Paris: Antoine Augereau for Galliot du Pré, 1532.
First Edition of the collected works of poet and playwright Guillaume Coquillart, printed in a comely lettre ronde by Antoine Augereau for Galliot du Pré. Born in Reims, Coquillart studied law in Paris, and eventually gained membership to the Basoche, the Paris.....
?Paris: 1614.
First Edition. Scott H. Duvall calls this work a "ribald tract in which the pseudonymous author states that he prefers food and peace to hunger and the tumults of war," and Alain Mercier calls the book "...un catalogue inépuisable des néologismes les plus fous," and excerpts a bizarre.....
Antwerp: Coppens van Diest, 1564.
First Edition. Valentin Mennher, a member of the St. Ambrose guild of schoolmasters, was born in Bavarian Swabia c1521, and became a well-known editor and writer of mathematical textbooks.1 After travels in Italy, Germany, and Austria, he settled in Antwerp in 1549, where he produced.....
Paris? 1578?
A request directed to Henri III of France to reduce the tax burden on the good subjects of Burgundy, arguing by virtue of case studies of suffering Burgundians that existing taxes and obligatory tributes are too large a strain on the tax base. The treshumble request is framed.....