Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $11,526.25
Shipping: $42.00
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $11,568.25
3 - 6 days
6 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $11,568.25 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $11,526.25
Shipping: $42.00
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $11,568.25

You are about to purchase:

Del modo di fortificar le città

Del modo di fortificar le città by ZANCHI, Giovanni Battista Bonadio de’

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $15.00
Details
$10,500.00
( US$)
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Del modo di fortificar le città
Author
ZANCHI, Giovanni Battista Bonadio de’
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Venice: Pinio Pietrasanta, 1554. FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural border, separate leaf with portrait of the author, 17 decorative woodcut initials and 8 woodcut text illustrations (5 full-page). Bound in decorative modern boards. Other than a couple of very small and mild damp stains, a lovely large copy. First edition of the first Italian book devoted exclusively to fortification of cities. It was preceded only by Durer’s Etliche underricht, zur befestigung der Stett (1527). Italian works by Valle (1521) and Cataneo and Tartaglia (both 1554) contained only chapters on the subject. Zanchi (1515-1586), a military engineer in the Venitian service under Marcantonio Colonna, took part in several campaigns including the long siege of Siena where he became acquainted with Belluzzi, and was a friend of Girolamo Maggi. He remarks that “the invention of artillery had necessitated a new system of fortifying cities, and that those who might have been qualified by experience to write on the subject were not sufficiently versed in its theory to do so” (Cockle, 767). The system he describes herein is the favoured Italian bastion trace, limited to the square (with acute-angled bastions but already with an attempt to reinforce the curtains) and the octagon (again strengthening the curtains). This design improved the defense of the fortress as covering fire had to be provided often from multiple angles. The woodcuts are among the earliest showing the new pentagonal form of bastion. Zanchi left the manuscript of his work with Girolamo Ruscelli when he had to leave Venice; on his return, Ruscelli sought and obtained permission to edit and publish the work, which he recognized as a pioneering effort.
No image available

A treatise on the venereal disease... by [ASTRUC]. CHAPMAN, Samuel

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $10.00
Details
$650.00
( US$)
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
A treatise on the venereal disease...
Author
[ASTRUC]. CHAPMAN, Samuel
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: W. Owen, 1770. Contemporary full calf. Joints weak, spine rubbed. Second edition, much expanded from Chapman's 1755 translation of Astruc's De morbis veneris, Books II-IV. Astruc (1685-1766), a professor of anatomy in Paris, was an eminent historian of syphilis who utilized pathological anatomy in his studies of the venereal diseases. He was later personal physician to kings in France and Poland. Chapman was a physician in Aberdeen and a Licentiate of the College of Physicians. In his lengthy introduction, he notes that he will quote all those physicians who have deviated from Astruc's methods or have introduced newer methods, including his own observations, which are sprinkled liberally throughout.
No image available

The poems of Mark Akenside, M.D. by AKENSIDE, Mark

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $10.00
Details
$350.00
( US$)
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
The poems of Mark Akenside, M.D.
Author
AKENSIDE, Mark
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Dublin: James Williams, 1772. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. Full contemporary calf, worn and chipped at edges, head and foot of spine; minor browning and spotting. Ownership inscription and stamp of Skaneateles Library Association on end-paper. First Dublin edition of this collection, printed in London the same year. Edited by Jeremiah Dyson, Akenside’s lifelong friend, this work contains a complete collection of his poems, “either reprinted from the original editions, or faithfully published from copies which had been prepared by himself for publication.” Akenside, a butcher’s son who originally studied theology before switching to medicine, rose to prominence both as a physician and a poet. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and served at St. Thomas’s Hospital. Among his works included here are The pleasures of the imagination (1744), the neoclassical Odes on several subjects (1754) and the Epistle to Curio (1744), a vigorous political satire. Akenside’s conversion from Whig to Tory principles at the accession of George III earned him the appointment of Physician to the Queen.
No image available

Studies of the Pathology of Human Teeth, with Special Reference to the Etiology of Caries.; Read before the American Dental Association at Minneapolis, Minn., August 5, 1885 by ABBOTT, Frank

6 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $7.00
Details
$26.25
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Argosy Book Store
Title
Studies of the Pathology of Human Teeth, with Special Reference to the Etiology of Caries.; Read before the American Dental Association at Minneapolis, Minn., August 5, 1885
Author
ABBOTT, Frank
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description
pamphlet. Several text illus. 13 pages. Slim 8vo pamphlet, original gray printed wrappers; somewhat chipped at edges. N.Y., 1885. Reprinted from the Transactions.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.