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IBN SINA (AVICENNA). - Canon medicinae [= al-Qanun].Lyon, Jean Trechsel & Johann Klein, 24 December 1498. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 31 × 42 cm). With a diagrammatic woodcut.Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, sewn on 4 double supports, one volume with 2 brass clasps (and traces on the other volume).

379; 357 ll.Important 1498 edition of the complete volumes 2 and 3 (of 4), comprising the complete book III, of the greatest monument of Islamic medicine, al-Qanun written in Arabic by Ibn Sina (ca. 980-1037), known in the West as Avicenna, and translated into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona (ca. 1114-1187) as Canon medicinae. This is the first edition edited by Jacques Ponceau, physician to King Charles VIII of France, and the second published outside Italy. It is here preserved in contemporary Renaissance blind- and gold-tooled calf and nearly untrimmed. The complete five books were first printed ca. 1473 and Cremona’s translation remained the standard into the 17th century. About ten editions appeared before the present of 1498, but only Adolph Rusch in Strasbourg had published an edition outside Italy, in or soon after 1473. For the present Trechsel edition, Ponceau for the first time added the unpublished commentaries of Jacques Desparts (ca. 1380-1458), physician to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and new commentaries by the leading scholar Johannes Lascaris (1445-1534), a Greek living in Italy. Trechsel and Ponceau clearly went to great lengths to surpass all earlier editions in scholarship, and the king of France (Charles VIII, just before his death?) granted their edition a five-year privilege (Armstrong, Before copyright, p. 7, notes it as one of the earliest book privileges), but Trechsel died leaving the work unfinished. While Johann Klein completed some parts that Trechsel had already begun, he published only 4 volumes: the complete book I (vol. 1), the present complete book III (vols. 2-3) and the first fen of book IV (vol. 4). So this edition never included books II, V and the rest of book IV. Fortunately book III (well over half of the present edition) can stand independently, covering the pathology of and therapy for all parts of the body systematically “a capite ad calces” (from head to toe), including ailments of the ear, nose and throat, as well as obstetrics. This is the longest and in many respects, the most important book of the al-Qanun.Ibn Sina’s encyclopaedic al-Qanun is the most authoritative medical text from the Islamic world and Cremona’s Latin translation formed the basis of medical training in the Western world from ca. 1200 to ca. 1650, exerting “perhaps a wider influence in the eastern and western hemispheres than any other Islamic thinker” (Printing and the mind of man). “The ‘Qanun’ ... contains some of the most illuminating thoughts pertaining to distinction of mediastinitis from pleurisy; contagious nature of phthisis; distribution of diseases by water and soil; careful description of skin troubles; of sexual diseases and perversions; of nervous ailments” (Sarton, Introduction to the history of science). “One of the most famous medical texts ever written, a complete exposition of Galenism. Neuburger says: ‘It stands for the epitome of all precedent development, the final codification of all Graeco-Arabic medicine’. It dominated the medical schools of Europe and Asia for five centuries” (Garrison & Morton 43).With a few contemporary manuscript annotations, and traces of bookplates removed from the paste-downs. A pencil note on the front paste-down of vol. 2 notes that the set came from the Fritzlar Cathedral Library, parts of which were dispersed in 1724 and in 1803. It was sold by Venator (Cologne), sale 23/24 (1962), lot 15 (illustration plate IV).Volumes 2 (book III, fens 1-12) and 3 (book III, fens 13-22), without volumes 1 (book I: 452 ll.) and 4 (book IV, fen 1: 142 ll.).Both volumes lack the final blank leaf, but are otherwise complete and nearly untrimmed, giving ample margins and preserving an occasional deckle. Some light browning and marginal water stains (mainly towards end of vol. 2), some mostly marginal worming, but still in good condition. An important edition of one of the greatest work of Islamic medicine, nicely bound in contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf over wooden boards.l BMC VIII, p. 302; BSB-Ink A 964; Claudin IV, 88-93; Corr. Pell. 1668; Goff A1428; GW 3127; IGI 1125 u; ISTC ia01428000; Klebs 131.13; Proctor 8616; not in Oates; Osler; Wellcome.
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GADAMER, Hans-Georg - L'Art de comprendre. Ecrits II. Herméneutique et champ de l'expérience humaine.

Textes réunis par P. Fruchon et trad. par J. Julien-Deygout, Ph. Forget, P. Fruchon, J. Grondin et J. Schouwey. Aubier (Bibliothèque Philosophique), Paris, 1991, in-8, br., 378 p. E.O. de cette trad. Bon ex.
EUR 120.00EUR [Appr.: US$ 138.48 | £UK 105.5 | JP¥ 21354] Booknumber: 8733

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[Lord John Russell]: - Memoirs of the affairs of Europe from the peace of Utrecht [2 volumes].

London: John Murray, 1824, 1829. First edition, complete in two hardback volumes. 4to (29cm by 23cm), vii, 571pp; xiv, 600pp. Folding genealogy in volume 2. Full burgundy calf, gilt spines, marbled page edges and endpapers. Bindings a little rubbed and scuffed, endpapers lightly foxed, contents very good. Overall. this set is in good plus condition.
GBP 150.00GBP [Appr.: EURO 171 US$ 197.22 | JP¥ 30413] Booknumber: 20354

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CHUNQIU- SUN WU, SHEN LING,: XIA YIEN (SUN TZU) - Sun Tzu's Art of War (New Graphic Edition) Chinese Language

China Overseas Press. 2016, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9787511362025). Soft cover. 227 pages. Self-flaps binding is sound. Looks about unread. A clean and unmarked book. Cartoons and graphics illustrations throughout. Chinese language only. Near Fine.
USD 22.00USD [Appr.: EURO 19.25 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 3392] Booknumber: TT08

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Nozick, Robert - Philosophical Explanations

Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. xii, 764p. dj. .
USD 30.00USD [Appr.: EURO 26 | £UK 23 | JP¥ 4626] Booknumber: 1415

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Alexander Campbell and John B. Purcell - A Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion: Held in the Sycamore-Stret Meeting House, Cincinnati, from the 13th to the 21st of January, 1837. Between Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Virginia, and the Rt. Rev. John B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, J.A. James & Co, 1837. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 360p. Ex-library. A brown cloth hardcover book in POOR CONDITION. Spine covered in brick-red cloth, which is splitting and frayed and marked with a call number. Edges of boards are stained and wearing through. Old markings on the endpapers, and foxing throughout. Binding is limp due to years of rough handling, but still holds well enough for reading purposes. The first edition of this famous 19th-century debate. Fair .
USD 100.00USD [Appr.: EURO 86.75 | £UK 76.25 | JP¥ 15420] Booknumber: 183154

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EISNER, ELLIOT, W., ECKER, DAVID W. - Readings in Art Education

MA, Blaisdell Publishing Company. 1966. Hard Cover. Publisher: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1966.Good, HB, 468 pp. cover wear. Good.
USD 127.62USD [Appr.: EURO 110.75 | £UK 97.25 | JP¥ 19679] Booknumber: 007010

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Henderson, George; Runciman, Steven - The Age of Illumination. (Early Medieval Art and Civilisation. Byzantine Art and Civilisation. Gothic Art and Civilisation. )

London, The Folio Society, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. 260pp; 184pp; 201pp. Yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, top edges gilt. A fine, unread set in very good+ slipcase with two tears on the top edges. ; Octavo. .
USD 90.00USD [Appr.: EURO 78 | £UK 68.5 | JP¥ 13878] Booknumber: 30617

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RUNCIMAN, STEVEN - Byzantine Civilization

London, Methuen. 1961, 1st Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 320pp paperback, covers rubbed, reprinted good. Good.
GBP 5.00GBP [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 6.57 | JP¥ 1014] Booknumber: 067330

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"Bowler, Michael / Jonathan Wood" - "The Fastest Cars from Around the World"

Parragon, "2000, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar / good copy". ISBN: 9780752541006.
EUR 7.50EUR [Appr.: US$ 8.66 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 1335] Booknumber: 227295140

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