Bassano: Giovanni Antonio Remondini, c1658.
The first illustrated edition of the Tuscan poet and proto-feminist Chiara Matraini's highly personal retelling of the life of the Virgin, written when the author was nearly 75. Very little is known of Matraini's early life, though she certainly participated at age 16 in the.....
London: J. Legat and J. Okes, 1639.
A fine pairing of first editions of the English scientist and husbandman Gabriel Plattes's first two books: A Discovery of Infinite Treasure, a pioneering work on idealized solutions to agriculture problems, and A Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure, one of the first major works.....
Wittenberg: Joannes Berger, 1661.
First edition of the pioneering German zoologist and rector at University of Wittenberg Joannes Sperling's posthumous treatise on the characteristics and properties of fruits and tree nuts, as well as their medical and gastronomic uses. Sperling discusses lemons and limes, apples, citrons, hazelnuts and chestnuts, figs.....