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      • Thomas Henshaw's copy.- France.- Borel (Pierre) Tresor de recherches et antiquitez gauloises et francoises...aussi de beaucoup de mots de la langue thyoise ou theuthfranque, first edition, Paris, …
        Sep. 30, 2021

        Thomas Henshaw's copy.- France.- Borel (Pierre) Tresor de recherches et antiquitez gauloises et francoises...aussi de beaucoup de mots de la langue thyoise ou theuthfranque, first edition, Paris, …

        Est: £600 - £800

        Thomas Henshaw's copy.- France.- Borel (Pierre) Tresor de recherches et antiquitez gauloises et francoises, reduites en ordre alphabetique et enrichies de beaucoup d'origines, epitaphes...aussi de beaucoup de mots de la langue thyoise ou theuthfranque, first edition, title with engraved printers device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some marginal worming, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments and with later gilt and a red leather label, small chip to foot of spine, rubbed, small 4to, Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1655. ⁂ Rare first edition by this French alchemist, physician and botanist. In this work by a fellow alchemist Henshaw would have found biographies of Nicolas Flamel and Michael Sendivogius, along with a catalogue of works on chemistry. Provenance: 'Ex libris Tho: Henshaw, Catalogo inscriptis, Nov:18:1661'.

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      • BOREL, Pierre (c.1620-1671). De vero telescopii inventore... Accessit etiam
        Jul. 13, 2016

        BOREL, Pierre (c.1620-1671). De vero telescopii inventore... Accessit etiam

        Est: £15,000 - £25,000

        BOREL, Pierre (c.1620-1671). De vero telescopii inventore... Accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum. The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1655. 3 parts in one volume, 4° (205 x 151mm). 2 engraved portraits of Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey by J. van Meurs after Berckman, one folding engraved plate and one half-page engraved illustration, several woodcuts in text, including one of a telescope, Centuria with separate title, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Lacking errata at end, lightly waterstained, stronger at beginning and end, light browning at beginning.) Contemporary vellum (rubbed, lightly soiled, spine with two small holes). Provenance: unidentifed bookplate (pastedown) — partly erased inscription on title. first edition. ‘Borel’s work is remarkable on two counts: it was the frst documentary history of the invention of the telescope and microscope, and it contained Christiaan Huygens’s preliminary announcement in anagram form of his discovery of the rings of Saturn and of the Saturnian moon Titan’ (Norman). In this work, Borel presents evidence to show that Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey, both spectacle-makers in Middelburg, Holland, were the frst inventors of the telescope, in that order. He gives a detailed history of the telescope from the earliest times up to Galileo, Descartes, Metius and numerous others. The second part of the book is devoted to microscopic observations. It also gives a full account of the construction of telescopes and microscopes and their lenses. Carli and Favaro 54; Cinti 254; Garrison and Morton 261; Graesse I, p.495; Norman 268; Wellcome II, p.204.

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      • BOREL, Pierre (1620-1689) De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia accessit etiam centuria ob...
        Dec. 01, 2015

        BOREL, Pierre (1620-1689) De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia accessit etiam centuria ob...

        Est: -

        BOREL, Pierre (1620-1689) De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia accessit etiam centuria ob...

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      • Borel, Pierre
        Nov. 20, 2014

        Borel, Pierre

        Est: £3,000 - £4,000

        Borel, Pierre

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      • BOREL, Pierre (c.1620-1671). De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia ... Accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum . The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1655.
        Jun. 04, 2008

        BOREL, Pierre (c.1620-1671). De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia ... Accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum . The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1655.

        Est: £12,000 - £18,000

        BOREL, Pierre (c.1620-1671). De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia ... Accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum. The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1655. Three parts in one volume, 4° (215 x 165mm). 2 fine engraved portraits of Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey by J. van Meurs after Berckman, one folding full-page and one half-page copper-engraving, several woodcuts in text, one showing a telescope, independent title to Centuria. (Occasional light browning and spotting.) Later limp card wrappers, title in manuscript to spine (upper joint cracked, some loss to spine). FIRST EDITION. 'Borel's work is remarkable on two counts: it was the first documentary history of the invention of the telescope and microscope, and it contained Christiaan Huygens's preliminary announcement in anagram form of his discovery of the rings of Saturn and of the Saturnian moon Titan' (Norman). In this work Borel presents evidence to show that Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey, both spectacle-makers in Middelburg, Holland, were the first inventors of the telescope, in that order. He gives a detailed history of the telescope from the earliest times up to Galileo, Descartes, Metius and numerous others. The second part of the book is devoted to microscopic observations. It also gives a full account of the construction of telescopes and microscopes and their lenses. Carli-Favaro 54 (245); Cinti 254 (130); De Caro 49; DSB II 305; Garrison-Morton 261; Norman I 98 (268); Wellcome II 204.

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      • Borel, Pierre
        Jan. 10, 2001

        Borel, Pierre

        Est: $3,000 - $4,000

        Borel, Pierre Les antiqvitez, raretez, plantes, mineravx, & autres choses considerables de la ville, & comte de Castres d'Albigeois & avec le roolle des principaux cabinets, & autres raretez de l'Europe. Castres: Arnaud Colomiez, 1649 8vo (6 7/8 x 4 1/4 in.; 175 x 108 mm). Woodcut ornaments; very slight dust-soiling. Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, spine gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down; minor flaking. FIRST EDITION. This fascinating volume is best known for Borel's own cabinet of curiosities, which included pieces of an Egyptian mummy, American Indian artifacts, and numerous specimens of plants and shells. In his eight-page catalogue of other European cabinets of wonder, Borel gave their special focus, e.g.: antiquities, a chained library, botanical samples, etc. The volume itself is representative of the seventeenth-century desire to capture the world in a nutshell. Reference: Cicognara 3962; (the "1645" edition most likely is a ghost)

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