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Macrobii aurelii theodosii viri consularis in Somnium Scipionis, libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Nunc denuo recogniti, & multis in locis aucti by Macrobius, Aurelius Theodosius (approx. 370-430 C.E.)

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Title: Macrobii aurelii theodosii viri consularis in Somnium Scipionis, libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Nunc denuo recogniti, & multis in locis aucti
Author: Macrobius, Aurelius Theodosius (approx. 370-430 C.E.)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf. The text is printed in italic, with passages in Greek. Illustrated with eight woodcut diagrams, including maps of the Ptolemaic world (p. 110) and the solar system (p. 73); and the world divided into five climate zones. There are several large and fine woodcut initials. Soter’s woodcut device appears on the title page. This edition is a reprint of the one edited by the German humanist Arnoldus Vesaliensis (1484-1534) published in Cologne in 1526 by Eucharius Cervicornus. Arnold of Wesel, linguist, poet, and philosopher, taught at Cologne University. A canon of Cologne Cathedral, Arnold was present at the Diet of Augsburg (1530). MACROBIUS: Written in the late fourth or early fifth century, during the twilight years of Roman paganism, Macrobius' "Saturnalia" and "Commentary on the Dream of Scipio" are two of the last works produced in antiquity that present us with an intellectual and cultural vision that ignores Christianity altogether. In the "Saturnalia" we have a Neoplatonic symposium, held by a group of highly cultured interlocutors dining together during the pagan festival of year's-end. The conversations are wide-ranging, with weighty discussions of religion, philosophy, and literature (above all the works of Vergil), balanced by jokes, talk of the pleasures of wine, the price of fish, the question of how far an insult can go and still be funny, and matters of digestion. The Saturnalia itself (its origins, the worship of Saturn, etc.) is also discussed, as are other pagan religious festivals. The Neoplatonist Cosmos: Commentary on the Dream of Scipio: The “Somnium Scipionis” (Scipio’s Dream) originally constituted Book VI of Cicero’s “De Republica”, a discourse now mostly lost. The “Dream” was preserved and circulated separately in late antiquity, thanks in large part to Macrobius, who wrote a cosmological commentary on the “Dream.” Cicero cast his work in the form of a Platonic dialogue, in which the main interlocutors are Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio Africanus the Younger) and the ghosts of his father, Aemilianus Paullus, and grandfather, Scipio Africanus the Elder. The ghosts foretell the young Scipio’s future, instructing him to be just and dutiful toward his country as the surest way of achieving heaven. The ghosts then take the young Scipio to “a high place full of stars, shining and splendid" where they reveal to him the organization of the cosmos, emphasizing the contrast between earthly temporality and the eternity of the cosmos. In expounding the workings and nature of the universe, Scipio’s grandfather, “tells him that there is life after death and introduces him to the ‘perfect’ numbers seven and eight (numbers whose meanings were attributed by contemporary Greek mathematicians to Pythagoras.) He goes on to show Scipio the nine spheres that make up the universe. Eight of them, he says, revolve at extremely high speeds, emitting seven tones that form an extraordinarily harmonious musical chord. This chord is inaudible to humans, but they nevertheless try to imitate it with the seven strings of the lyre and in song. This description is the earliest known of the harmony of the spheres.”(Joost-Gaugier, “Measuring Heaven”, p. 28) "Possessed of a finely tuned sensibility for the signifying value of Cicero's dream-text, Macrobius exploited the text's cryptic images in order to display the philosophical erudition of the Neoplatonic tradition… "According to Macrobius, an entire Neoplatonic encyclopedia lay encoded in Cicero's 'Dream'. Because Cicero hinted at 'profound truths… with amazing brevity, concealing his deep knowledge of things beneath a concise form of expression,' Macrobius took as his task the patient unfolding of the depths of knowledge lurking in these alluring hints. He proceeded systematically by following the topics introduced in the 'Dream' in the order of their appearance. For example, Cicero's mention of the dreamer Scipio's destined age ('seven times eight recurring circuits of the sun') leads Macrobius into a lengthy recitation of Pythagorean arithmetic; a brief description of the celestial sphere issues in a very detailed presentation of astronomical theory; and so on. Macrobius covers three of the four sciences in the quadrivium, mathematics, astronomy, and music, and partially covers the fourth (geography being a part of geometry), as well as giving a passionate and lengthy disquisition on Neoplatonic views of the origin, nature, and immortality of the soul."(Miller, "Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture", p. 98).

Entsefalometricheskiye issledovaniya mozga v svyazi s polom, vozrastom i cherepnymi ukazatelyami [i.e. En ephalographic Research of the Brain in Connection with Sex, Age and Skull Measurements] by Altukhov, Nikolai

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Title: Entsefalometricheskiye issledovaniya mozga v svyazi s polom, vozrastom i cherepnymi ukazatelyami [i.e. En ephalographic Research of the Brain in Connection with Sex, Age and Skull Measurements]
Author: Altukhov, Nikolai
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Moscow, 1891. The First Stereotact INstrument for Mapping the Brain Altukhov, Nikolai. Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic]. iii, 55, [1]pp. 6 folding plates, text illustrations. Moscow: Izdatelstvo Moscovskogo Universiteta, 1891. 265 x 180 mm. (mostly unopened). Original printed wrappers, spine repaired, edges strengthened. Minor foxing but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin (1863-1915), a Russian zoologist who described many previously undiscovered mammals of Russia and Central Asia. First Edition. In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a stereotaxic instrument, an arc-based device for cerebral mapping that he called an encephalometer. In a preliminary communication on his device, published in the Russian journal Trudy Fiziko-meditsynskogo Obshestva Moscovskogo Universiteta (Vol. 2 [1889]: 70-80), Zernov stated: "I built an instrument which enables to project the pattern of cranial sutures or cerebral sulci or deep-seated brain structures on the spherical surface and then transform it onto the plane similar to the projection of the terrestrial globe on the map. The localization of a given point on the brain surface is determined by the degrees of latitude and longitude (quoted in Lichterman, p. 1)." Two years later Zernov's student Nikolai Altukhov gave a complete description of the encephalometer in the present thesis, which included six detailed projection maps based on 40 post-mortem examinations. "Projections of anterior and posterior parts of the corpus callosum, insula and some basal ganglia (thalamus, nucleus lenticularis and caput nuclei caudate) were localized on the surface of the head. [Altukhov] also noted similarity in female and pediatric brains and concluded that the former are underdeveloped" (Lichterman, p. 3). Since both Zernov and Altukhov's papers were published only in Russian, Western scientists did not learn of Zernov's encephalometer until much later. Lichterman, "The first instrument for cerebral mapping: Zernov's encephalometer and its modifications," Kopf Carrier no. 61 (April 2005): 1-5. .

Internationale tentoonstelling van gemeentelijke openbare werken te Utrecht Holland 1930 :I.T.O.W.U. : van 11 tot en met 20 maart by I.T.O.W.U

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Title: Internationale tentoonstelling van gemeentelijke openbare werken te Utrecht Holland 1930 :I.T.O.W.U. : van 11 tot en met 20 maart
Author: I.T.O.W.U
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Description: 1930. I.T.O.W.U. Internationale tentoonstelling van gemeentelijke openbare werken te Utrecht. 35 pp. 4to, publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new red cloth folding box with black label. Amsterdam: Buys & Zoon, 1929 A small masterpiece by the Dutch designer Anton Kurvers. A rare book with OCLC listing just 2 copies, both in Holland.

An archive of 49 offprints on the biology and classification of fishes by Jordan, David Starr

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Title: An archive of 49 offprints on the biology and classification of fishes
Author: Jordan, David Starr
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Description: 1896 - 1926. First editions. 1896 - 1926 COLLECTION OF 49 OFFPRINTS ON FISHES OF THE WORLD BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, FOUNDER OF AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERISTY. 49 offprints 9 1/2 - 11 inches tall, in self or printed wrappers, some with notations on covers, several with age-toning and edgewear, text unmarked, very good. Covers bear the handstamp of Herman Adair Fehlmann or Ernest A. Cachner, both curators at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington. The collection is housed in an archival document box with metal reinforced corners. HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.THE COLLECTION INCLUDES: 1) The history of ichthyology. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, 1902; 2) A review of the giant mackerel-like fishes, tunnies, spearfishes and swordfishes. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, September, 1926; 3) Notes on fishes, little known to science. Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, 1896; 4) On a collection of fishes from Fiji, with notes on certain Hawaiian Fishes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington, 1908; 5) On a collection of fishes made by Mr. Alan Owston in the deep waters of Japan. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Washington, 1904; 6) On the species of white chimaera from Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington, 1904; 7) The trout and salmon of the Pacific coast. The Pacific Monthly, April, 1906 (entire issue); 8) A list of fishes collected in Japan by Keinosuke Otaki, and by the United States Steamer Albatross with descriptions of fourteen new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Washington,1900; 9) Notes on fishes of Hawaii, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, October, 1907; 10)Fishes from islands of the Philippine Archipelago. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, December, 1908. DAVID STARR JORDAN (1851 - 1931) was president of Indiana University and subsequently the founding president of Stanford University. Jordan arrived at Stanford in June 1891 and immediately set about recruiting faculty for the university's planned September opening. He served Stanford as president until 1913 and then chancellor until his retirement in 1916. While chancellor, he was also elected president of the National Education Association. Jordan was inspired to enter ichthyology by Louis Agassiz in the summer of 1873, at the Anderson School of Natural History on Penikese Island, Massachusetts. From 1876 he customarily spent each summer collecting, the earliest trips being largely along the rivers of the Allegheny Mountains and in much of the South. Later, for the U.S. Fish Commission he collected and presented taxonomic monographs on fishes of the Pacific coast, the Gulf coast, Florida, and Cuba, and the fish faunas of the major American rivers. While at Stanford, besides making many trips within California, Jordan visited Mazatlán, Mexico, the Bering Sea, Japan, Hawaii, Samoa, Alaska, and Europe. From 1908 to 1910 he served as the U.S. International Commissioner of Fisheries for the conservation of fisheries along the Canadian border. The result of Jordan's work was the naming of 1,085 genera and more than 2,500 species of fishes, as well as synopses of the classification. An uncanny ability to distinguish similar species, an unfailing intuition of diagnostic characters, and a phenomenal memory made Jordan an outstanding taxonomist. Why Fish Don't Exist, an interesting account of Jordan and his obsession with classification, was published by Lulu Miller in April 2020, and reviewed in Science (12 June 2020 - Vol 368, p 1197). COMPLETE LIST OF THE 49 OFFPRINTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.

BY AN ENGLISH BOTANIST. An Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by Ker, John Bellenden

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Title: BY AN ENGLISH BOTANIST. An Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes
Author: Ker, John Bellenden
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Description: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Co. and Coupland, Southampton, 1837. A New Edition. SCARCE HISTORY OF POPULAR PHRASES AND NURSERY RHYMES BY ENGLISH BOTANIST. Two volumes, 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 red leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt titles to spines; light soiling to covers, wear to spine ends, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, Vol. I, xi, 290 pp; Vol. II, v, 304 pp, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. JOHN BELLENDEN KER (1764 C. - 1842), originally John Gawler, was an English botanist. He is noted for having written Recensio Plantarum (1801), Select Orchideae (c.1816) and Iridearum Genera (1827). He edited Edward's Botanical Register from 1815 to 1824 and was famous as a wit and botanist as well as being the author of Archaeology of Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes (offered here).

Minneapolis; Gateway To The Northwest

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Title: Minneapolis; Gateway To The Northwest
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Description: Chicago, S.J. Clarke, 1923. Deluxe supplement. Professionally rebound in quarter leatherette and cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine, t.e.g., uncut, 876 pp., 172 full-page portraits. Contains biographical sketches of Minneapolis pioneers, early industrialists, politicians, and prominent citizens. Title page lightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy in a handsome new binding.

A BOOK OF DUBLIN

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Title: A BOOK OF DUBLIN
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Description: [Dublin]: Corporation of Dublin, 1929. Square 8vo, pp. 90 + adv is the front and back. Bound in printed wraps (semi-yapp edges- some water stain to cover edges, but nice and clean inside. Fold out plan of the harbour, maps, illustrations, advertisements.

El Toreo (The Art of Bullfighting): Short Historical Notes by Alvarez, Rafael Vilar; Inigo y Samaniego, Enrique (translator)

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Title: El Toreo (The Art of Bullfighting): Short Historical Notes
Author: Alvarez, Rafael Vilar; Inigo y Samaniego, Enrique (translator)
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Description: Mexico: Editorial Eduardo Cabal, 1975. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Alvarez, Rafael Vilar. No publisher date. Rear wrapper soiled. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1975 Stapled Binding. 50 pp. A history of the art of bullfighting with illustrations throughout.

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