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SOLE SURVIVING CONTEMPORARY<br> FUNERAL ORATION FOR LORENZO DE MEDICI? <br><br>Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita

SOLE SURVIVING CONTEMPORARY
FUNERAL ORATION FOR LORENZO DE MEDICI?

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita by [INCUNABLE] [MEDICI, Lorenzo de] / BIENATUS, Aurelius.

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Title: SOLE SURVIVING CONTEMPORARY
FUNERAL ORATION FOR LORENZO DE MEDICI?

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita
Author: [INCUNABLE] [MEDICI, Lorenzo de] / BIENATUS, Aurelius.
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Description: 4to. [20.5 x 15 cm], 4to. [20.5 x 15 cm], (8) ff., rather dog-eared at edges and with some light soiling. Disbound in a cloth-covered box. Rare, first edition of this funeral oration for Lorenzo de Medici, read in Santa Maria Nuova on 16 April 1492, evidently the only contemporary printed oration of the many delivered and printed in his honor to survive. "Lorenzo de' Medici… (born January 1, 1449, Florence [Italy]—died April 9, 1492, Careggi, near Florence), Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters, was the most brilliant of the Medici. He ruled Florence with his younger brother, Giuliano (1453–78), from 1469 to 1478 and, after the latter's assassination, was sole ruler from 1478 to 1492." (Brittanica.com) The present publication is the sole oration devoted to Lorenzo in the Short-Title List of Funeral Orations from the Italian Renaissance, Ca. 1374-1534 compiled by John McManamon, and the only printed example featured in the 1992 exhibition at the Bibliotheca Nazionale Centrale, Lorenzo dopo Lorenzo La Fortuna Storica di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Notwithstanding the poor survival rate of ephemeral publications and the controversial character of the laudandus, the statistic remains remarkable. The motive for the present oration was overwhelmingly political and meant to insure continuation of the traditionally strong alliance between Naples and Florence at a difficult time of dynastic transition. According to Miglio (DBI X.369-70), the work was published before it was read. A Naples edition was published the same year from the press of Cristannus Preller (IGI VI.1722-A). The work was re-published in the 19th century by Vito Capialbi in Memorie di R. Zeno e A. Bienato (Naples 1838) 49-86. Milanese born, Aurelio Bienato was Reader in Rhetoric at the University of Naples (1470-80), and later elected Bishop of Martirano (modern Catanzaro), in which sinecure he remained until his death. Miglio also lists an unpublished commentary on Quintilian (Iter Italicum I.415-16, II.570), and a collection of Latin verses, Elegantiarum epithomata, an epitome of Lorenzo Valla's Elegantiae linguae latinae, which went through a number of incunable editions (1479/80; 1488; 1491). US copies (ISTC): Huntington, Newberry and Yale. Provenance: Ritman copy.*Goff B-667; BMC vi.784; GW IV.1346; Paolo Pira ed., Lorenzo dopo Lorenzo. La Fortuna Storica di Lorenzo il Magnifico (Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, 1992), I.24); John M. McManamon, Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism (1989), p. 256 & 41-43.

Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by Herschel, John Frederick William

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Title: Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy
Author: Herschel, John Frederick William
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Description: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor, 1831. First edition (later printing--1st 1830). 1831 EARLY PRINTING OF HERSCHEL'S LANDMARK GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCED DARWIN IN CRAFTING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 11x18 cm red cloth boards, paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Jas. R. Holcome, Jes. Coll. Oxford, laid-in list of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library , Vol 1, and Advertisement future volumes; 12 pp publisher's advertisements, vii, 372 pp, [1], 12 pp publisher's advertisements dated January 1831. Cover edges faded, edges worn, corners bumped, spine faded. unopened, text clean and unmarked, very good minus. SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792 - 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, and botanist. His Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopedia set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship between observation and theorizing. It became an authoritative statement of the methods of scientific investigation, anticipating John Stuart Mill in the formulation of the famous four methods of scientific investigation. He described nature as being governed by laws which were difficult to discern or to state mathematically, and the highest aim of natural philosophy was understanding these laws through inductive reasoning, finding a single unifying explanation for a phenomenon. This became an authoritative statement with wide influence on science, particularly at the University of Cambridge where it inspired the student Charles Darwin with "a burning zeal" to contribute to this work. He arrived in Cape Town on 15 January 1834 and set up a private 21 ft telescope. Amongst his other observations during this time was that of the return of Comet Halley. Herschel himself thought catastrophic extinction and renewal "an inadequate conception of the Creator" and by analogy with other intermediate causes, "the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process". When HMS Beagle called at Cape Town, Captain Robert FitzRoy and the young naturalist Charles Darwin visited Herschel on 3 June 1836. Later on, Darwin would be influenced by Herschel's writings in developing his theory advanced in The Origin of Species. In the opening lines of that work, Darwin writes that his intent is "to throw some light on the origin of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers", referring to Herschel. Herschel returned to England in 1838, was created a baronet and published Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope in 1847. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy is one of seven early 19th century science books described in James Secord's Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (2014). "Science was pervasively bound up with defining and maintaining canons of behaviour, from cultivating appropriate modes for discussion to encouraging the avoidance of outright fraud. Spelt out for the first time in an accessible book at an affordable price, these qualities could now provide a foundation for good character across the social spectrum. The Preliminary Discourse is thus seen as the expression of a set of precepts relating to scientific method, with positions uneasily poised between those of the metropolitan empiricist John Stuart Mill on the one hand and the idealist Master of Trinity College, William Whewell, on the other. As a philosophical work advocating induction from particular facts to general theories, the book is also seen to underwrite a hierarchical vision of social organization within science, in which networks of observers pass their findings to a limited circle of authoritative specialists. The first issue, of over 7,000 copies, sold out in a few months. 2,000 more were printed in March 1831, and 2,000 more in June. The years 1832 and 1833 saw further issues of 2,000, and the imprint dates of further issues show that the work sold well for many years--at least until the middle of the nineteenth century and later than that in the United States. The Preliminary Discourse recommends that we be constantly aware of our sensory limitations. Previous opinions need not be abandoned, but they cannot be considered as dogmas, and we must be willing to consider instances to the contrary."

THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN 1898 by Wheeler, Major-General Joseph

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Title: THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN 1898
Author: Wheeler, Major-General Joseph
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Description: Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co, 1898. First edition. 8vo. xvii, 369 pp. Illustrated, frontispiece portrait of the author, five folding maps. Wheeler (1836-1906), lieutenant-general and senior cavalry officer in the Confederate Army of Tennessee for much of the Civil War, commanded the American cavalry during the Spanish-American War's Cuban campaign. Very good. Original navy cloth, gilt spine title. (11216).

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