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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. Clean leather with somewhat faded gilt title. Page edges dyed red. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece and chapter headpiece. (167) , 156, (32) , C: 8. The 1st edition was printed by Lycosthenis in 1552. Livio created a Prodigior liber which explained many curious phenomena some which had been interpreted as UFO Sightings. Wonders, unexplained phenomena, Front cover starting with covers firmly attached. Museum of French Art ink stamp. Occult, Magic. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 156 pages.…

First Edition. 4to, pp.[2], 34; woodcut initial, head-piece; browned; otherwise good in contemporary calf over thick boards, rebacked with new lettering-piece, board edges gilt, red edges; a little marked and worn; gilt arms of Pierre-Daniel Huet to covers, shelfmark labels to front pastedown, printed slip pasted at foot of title-page 'Ne extra hanc Bibliothecam efferatur.Ex obedentia.', ink inscriptions to front endpapers (including 'D.de S.607') and at head of title, nineteenth-century bookplate of 'Henri Lambert avocat Versailles'.First edition of this treatise on the ancient oar-driven warships known as triremes by the noted German philologist and archaeologist Johannes Scheffer (16211679), written as a critical response to the De fabrica triremium liber of Marcus Meibom, which had appeared in Amsterdam the previous year. The trireme was the standard warship of the classical world for much of the time from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD, its principal weapon being a bronze ram. The Athenians, whose ships could accommodate a crew of two hundred, were the finest practitioners of trireme warfare. The exact arrangement of the oarsmen has long been a subject of controversy and is dealt with here. Scheffer had a longstanding interest in ancient ships, one of his earliest works being his Dissertatio de varietate navium of c. 1650. He had moved to Sweden in 1648, attracting the favour of Queen Christina, who appointed him professor of eloquence and politics at Uppsala University, where he also served as librarian. Provenance: from the library of the distinguished French savant and bishop Pierre-Daniel Huet (16301721), famous as the originator of the Delphin Classics, for his influential attacks on Descartes, and for his support of fideism. He amassed a library of some 8000 books, many now preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His label appears at the foot of the title with the instruction 'not to be removed from this library'. Language: Latin. …

Kl.-8°. [6] Bl., 406 S. mit Druckermarke u. 3 (1 fast ganzs.) Holzschnitten. Ldr. d. Zt. ADB XXX, 680 f. - Sehr seltene erste Ausgabe. - Der deutsch-schwedische Humanist J. Scheffer, geboren am 2. Februar 1621 in Straßburg, führte seine Abstammung den Mainzer Buchdrucker Peter Schöffer (um 1425-um 1503) zurück. Scheffer studierte ab 1637 an der Universität Straßburg Philologie bei Johan Henrik Boekler. Danach bereiste er Holland, die Schweiz und Leiden. "In Straßburg erschienen seine ersten wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, die Dissertation "de varietate navium apud veteres", 1643; "Agrippa Liberator s. de novis tabulis", 1645; die "Epistola de triremibus", 1646 und die Ausgabe der "Variae historiae" des Aelian, 1647. - Die Kriegsunruhen veranlaßten ihn, die Heimath zu verlassen; er wandte sich 1648 nach Schweden und fand am Hofe der Königin Christina, der seine Schriften bekannt geworden waren, ehrenvolle Aufnahme. Noch in demselben Jahre ernannte ihn die Königin - gleichzeitig mit seinem Lehrer Boekler - zum Skyttischen Professor der Beredsamkeit und der Politik in Upsala; später wurde er daselbst auch königlicher Honorarprofessor für Natur- und Völkerrecht, sowie Assessor im königlichen Collegium der Alterthümer, zuletzt auch Bibliothekar der Universitätsbibliothek. Er starb in Upsala am 26. März 1679. - Scheffer's wissenschaftliche und schriftstellerische Thätigkeit war eine sehr ausgedehnte; ein Theil seiner Arbeiten bezog sich auf die Geschichte und Länderkunde von Schweden, wie die Ausgabe von "Gotrichi et Rolfi Westrogothiae Regum historia", 1664; die "Upsalia antiqua", 1666; die "Memorabilia Suecicae gentis exempla", 1671; die "Lapponia", 1673; die nach seinem Tode, 1680, von Joh. Moller herausgegebene "Suecia literata" und viele andere kleinere Schriften" (R. Hoche in ADB). - Kapital mit Fehlstelle am Rückendeckel, Gelenke teils etwas angeplatzt, Titelblatt gebräunt, einige Blatt mit ausgeschnittenen Anmerkungen im w. Rand (kein Textverlust), sonst gut erhalten.…

First edition of the Dutch translation of a celebrated ethnographic monograph on Swedish Lapland by the German-born professor Johannes Gerhard Scheffer (1621-1679). Scheffer's account contains valuable information on the Lappish culture, with chapters on their ceremonies, houses, diet, clothing, trading customs, handicraft, entertainment, hunting, as well as marriage and death customs. "This history long remained the main source of information on Lapland" (Cox). It has become the liveliest, detailed and uncondescending early modern account of the far north and its population, now known as the Sami. The present Dutch edition was illustrated by the engraver Jan Luyken, one of the most famous illustrators of the Netherlands during the second half of the 17th century. The plates depict the daily life in the north, but also the worship of various idols, encounters with gnomes, etc.Some plates with minor restorations, some occasional foxing and a few small marginal water stains on the last few leaves. Front cover slightly damaged. A very good copy.l Alden & Landis 682/155; Klaversma & Hannema 1282 and 1283; cf. Cox I, p. 178. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Pages: [6], 99; 146; 73, [7] pp. …

Frontispiece, folding map, plates, ornamental capitals and head and tail pieces. xiv, 408 pp. A duplicate leaf A2 is inserted before the map. 1 vols. 4to. Pp. 358-408 are Additions. Old calf and marbled boards, rebacked. Bookplate. Marginal paper flaws to last four leaves Frontispiece, folding map, plates, ornamental capitals and head and tail pieces. xiv, 408 pp. A duplicate leaf A2 is inserted before the map. 1 vols. 4to. …