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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 489 p. ; LC: D52; Dewey: 930 ; similar to OCLC: 8647664 ; stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: History and historians : Greek and Roman -- Mesopotamia and Syria -- Egypt -- Hellas before the Persian War -- Hellas in the fifth century -- Alexander and the hellenistic age -- Early Rome and Italy -- Rome and the Mediterranean world -- The Roman revolution -- The age of Augustus -- The early Roman Empire -- The later Roman Empire ; writers include Aeschylus, Alcaeus, Appian, Apuleius, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arrian, Augustus, Bion, Caesar, Cassius Dio, Cicero, Claudius, Cleanthes, Cleomedes, Demosthenes, Diocletian, Dionysius of Helicarnassus, Epicurus, Euripides, Herodotus, Hesiod, Homer, Horace, Isocrates, Josephus, Juvenal, Lactantius, Livy of Patavium, Lucan, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Nepos, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Polybius, Pseudo-Xenophon, Sallust, Sophocles, Sozomen, Strabo, Suetonius, Tacitus, Thucydides, Tyrtaeus, Virgil, and Xenophon ; marks on first page ; foxing ; flyleaf edge-clipped; slight knock, slight edge wear; else G. Book.…

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Hard Cover Maroon Suede Guilt. Condition: New. No Jacket. Deluxe Hardcover Facsimile Edition Priva. Exact Facsimile Reprint of Original Edition Published: 1898. 293p. This IsAn Interesting Work Famous Throughout The Last Several Hundred Years,Purporting To Be A Dialogue Between Aristotle & Alexander The Great On HowTo Be A Great King, But Said Really To Be A Coded Manuscript On TimeCycles Explaining The Totality Of Universal Phenomena. This VersionIncludes Three Different Versions Translated From French, & Latin, EnoughSource Material For The Best Shot At Decoding.…

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Hardcover. Condition: FAIR. c. 1830s. Cocker, Harris and Finn, London. Acceptable. Signed by Henry Poole with mysterious inscription 'from a lady' - signature appears consistent with Henry Poole (1814-1876) from the prominent family of London clothiers who established the renowned Henry Poole & Co. on Savile Row, tailors to royalty and the British elite, though definitive attribution cannot be confirmed. Name and date 1831 inscribed on leather cover; if the Savile Row Poole, he would have been approximately 17 years old at time of inscription. Hardcover. Full leather worn & chipped in areas, bottom 0.5 in. spine missing, front cover detached, all pages intact, back cover secure. Moisture damage to frontispiece & endpages. Small format (5.5 in. x 3.5 in.). vi, 312, [2] pp. Illustrated w/ period engravings incl striking frontispiece depicting Aristotle with classical figures & anatomical woodcuts throughout. Text fully readable & intact. Intriguing provenance: this scarce pseudo-Aristotelian collection covers procreation, midwifery, and sexual health - provocative material for a respectable young gentleman of the era, suggesting a clandestine gift 'from a lady.' Ships from the USA, quickly and with care, boxed for shipping. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Circa 1830. A scarce early 19th-century printing of the four popular pseudo-Aristotelian manuals on procreation, gestation, and childbirth, signed by Henry Poole with the mysterious inscription 'from a lady.' This Henry Poole of London was likely the Henry Poole from (1814-1876), from the prominent Poole family of London clothiers who would later establish Henry Poole & Co. on Savile Row, tailors to royalty and the British elite. In 1831, he would have been approximately 17 years old a young gentleman from a respectable, well-connected family. His ownership of this provocative text is particularly intriguing given his family's social standing.a young gentleman in 1831 when he inscribed this volume a provocative choice for the era, as these texts contained frank discussions of human sexuality, reproduction, and childbirth that remained shocking to Georgian and early Victorian sensibilities. The inscription suggests this may have been a clandestine gift, perhaps from a lover or confidante, adding intrigue to an already controversial work. …

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Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. ca. 1960 quality facsimile of the 1882 Herder edition. xviii, 330pp. 8vo, sewn binding in orange cloth. Critical text of the original Arabic with German translation followed by a critical text of the Latin commentaries, all preceded by a lengthy German introduction. Spine faintly sunned, very clean and sharp otherwise with tight binding and fresh pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Aristotle's Book of Problems, With Other Astronomers, Astrologer, Physicians, and Philosophers, Wherein is contained divers Questions and Answers, Touching the State of Man's Body. The Twenty-Fifth Edition. London: Printed for J. W./ J. K./ G. C./ D. M./ A. B./ E. M./ R. R./ J. O./ and L./ B. M./ and A. W. n.d. C. 1750. LACKING FRONTISPIECE, 152 pp. Full leather binding measures 5.75 x 3.25". In poor condition. As is. FRONT BOARD ATTACHED VIA ONE PIECE OF CORDING ONLY - VERY FRAGILE. Rear board attached by both pieces of cording. Boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head of spine LACKING with exposed binding; tail of spine scuffed. Hinges broken. Front paste-down lacking with exposed binding - no preliminary leaves or frontis - text-block begins at title page and ends at page 152. Toning and age-staining through text-block. Binding is fragile. Perfect candidate for restoration. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Antonius Zimaras ( c. 1460 - 1532) author of the second section, was active in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This work, written in the form of a catechism, is in essence a medical manual with a particular emphasis on sexual matters ('Of carnal copulation'). First published in 1595 under title: The problems of Aristotle, with other philosophers and phisitions. Commonly packaged with Aristotle' Masterpiece. This is a 25th edition, circa 1750. FORN-SHELF-0666-XX-2608-HK3786. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A fine copy in modern calf preserving a bit of the original leather. Small stain in outer margin of gathering G in the second work, tiny wormholes in lower margin of opening leaves. The folding leaf in the first work has a mended tear to the central fold, slightly affecting the image. There is a small paper flaw to the upper margin of p. 145/6 in the third work, touching the page number on the recto. There are two tears into the text (mended with no loss) on p. 85/6 of the final work. Each book has a woodcut frontispiece. The first work also has six small woodcuts (deformities, a Zodiac Man, conjoined twins, and a palmistry hand) in the text and a folding image of a child in the womb. These four treatises on pregnancy, childbirth, sexuality, folk science, and home medicine, trading on the name of Aristotle, appeared individually and then in collected editions throughout the 18th century, mostly in undated editions. Due to the alluring nature of some of the texts (the "Master-Piece" and "Legacy" had pornographic content) and the utilitarian function of the midwives' manual, all printings are uncommon and rarely found complete. The first work in the volume, "Aristotle's Masterpiece", was an extraordinarily popular guide to sex and pregnancy, designed for the patients who could not afford professional medical care. Originally published in 1684, it was published and pirated into the 19th century. The frontispiece was one of very few erotic images available to the common reader. The "Master-Piece" "was the most popular book about women's bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s. It was not written by Aristotle, it was assembled from a number of popular medical works . . . and is a bizarre assortment of superstition, folklore, and sex facts and fancies, all mixed in with the sort of common-sense medical advice that had been passed down by midwives for centuries."(Fissell, Mary E. "Hairy Women and Naked Truths", pp. 46-64) The second work in the volume is a childbirth manual covering the entire process from conception through pregnancy, labor, and birth. There are instructions for performing complicated deliveries, caring for newborn babies and older children, and contending with stillborn children. The folding plate shows the position of a baby in the womb. The third is a collection of pseudo-Aristotelian questions "How comes it that the heart is continually moving?, "Why do beasts move their ears and not man?", "Why are the lips moveable?", "Why do fish not make a sound?", "Why do madmen's arms become slender?", "Why have men not as great breasts as women?" The fourth is a work on human reproduction and women's sexual health, with detailed descriptions of genitalia, sexual intercourse, and venereal disease. Written for midwives, it is a re-arrangement of relevant chapters from the "Masterpiece". Chapters include "Of Virginity. its Signs and Tokens", "Of the Organs of Generation in Women", "Of the Use and Action of the Genitals", "Of Conception; and how a Woman may know whether she has conceiv'd", "Of Barrenness, with remedies against it", and "Directions to both Sexes how to manage themselves in the Act of Coition". All four works are discussed in more depth below. Contents: I. Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In three parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man: Regularly digested into Chapters and Sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. To which is added, a Treasure of Health; or, the Family Physician: Being Choice and approved Remedies for all the several Distempers incident to Human Bodies. The Twenty-Third Edition. [London]: Printed and sold by the Booksellers, 1749 ESTC T116548 [Bound with:] II. Aristotle's Compleat and Experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. Guide for Child-Bearing Women, . II. Proper and safe Remedies for the Curing all those Distempers that are incident to the Female Sex; . Made English by W- S-, M.D, The Tenth Edition ESTC T116550 (The final line of the paragraph on the title page beginning "A work far more perfect ." reads "men.") London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, [n.d. circa 1750?] [Bound with:] III. Aristotle's Book of Problems, with other Astronomers, Astrologers, Physicians, and Philosophers. Wherein is contain'd divers Questions and Answers touching the State of Man's Body. The Twenty-Fifth Edition. London: Printed and Sold by J.W. J.K. G.C. D.M. A.B. E.M. R.R. J.O. and L. B.M. and A.W., [n.d. circa 1740?] ESTC T116576 (The edition statement set in Roman type, and the imprint including the initials: G.C. and R.R.) [Bound with:] IV. Aristotle's Last Legacy. Unfolding the Mysteries of Nature in the Generation of Man: Treating I. Of Virginity . II. Of the Organs of Generation in Women . III. Of the Use and Action of Genitals in the Work of Generation . VII. Directions to both Sexes how to manage themselves in the Act of Coition . London: Printed for R. Ware, on Ludgate-Hill, C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-Row, and J. Hodges, on London-Bridge, 1749 T116546 (the 112 p. edition) I. The "Master-Piece": The "Master-Piece" "was the most popular book about women's bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s. It was not written by Aristotle, it was assembled from a number of popular medical works . . . and is a bizarre assortment of superstition, folklore, and sex facts and fancies, all mixed in with the sort of common-sense medical advice that had been passed down by midwives for centuries."(Fissell, Mary E. "Hairy Women and Naked Truths", pp. 46-64) "The text repeatedly suggests that women's sexual knowledge is unreliable or deceptive. In addition to proposing that a woman might cuckold her husband without detection if a child resulted, the text raised profound doubts about women's honesty concerning virginity. "The frontispiece depicts two "monstrous" individ.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. All parts bound together in one leather bound book measuring 6 x 4.5". Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece, In Three Part: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. Regularly digested into Chapters and Section, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. To which is added, A Treasurer of Health, Or, The Family Physician, Being Choice and Approved Remedies for all the several Distempers incident to Human Bodies. The Thirtieth Edition. London: Printed and Sold by the Bookellers, 1773. Frontispiece, 144 pp. Aristotle's Complete and Experienc'd Midwife. In Two Parts. I. Guide for Child-Bearing Women. II. Proper and Safe Remedies for the Curing of all those Distempers that are incident to the Female Sex. A Work far more perfect than any yet Extant; and highly Necessary for all Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-Bearing Women. Made English by W-. S-. The Twelfth Edition. London: Printed and Sold by Booksellers. William Salmon (1644-1713), editor. 156 pp + 4 pp Contents. Aristotle's Book of Problems, With Other Astronomers, Astrologer, Physicians, and Philosophers, Wherein is contained divers Questions and Answers, Touching the State of Man's Body. The Twenty-Eighth Edition. London: Printed for J. W. J. K. D. M. A. B. E. R. M. R. T. L. B. M. and A. W. Frontispiece, 156 pp. Aristotle's Last Legacy. Unfolding the Mystery of Nature in the Generation of Man: Treating, I. Of Virginity. II. Of the Organs of Generation in Women. III. Of the Use and Action of Genitals. IV. Of Conception. V. Of the Pleasure and Advantage of Marriage. VI. Of Barrenness. VII. Directions to both Sexes how to manage themselves in the act of Coition. VIII. A Vade Mecum for midwives. IX. Excellent Remedies against all Diseases incident to Virgins and Child-bearing Women. London: Printed for L. Hawes and Co., and S. Crowder, 1772. 120 pp. In good to fair condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine LACKING (including head/tailbands); hinge cracked; raised bands rubbed; leather on spine showing signs of desiccation. Pencil marginalia on front paste-down. Old-hand ownership signature, in ink, found on front end-page: "Henry Foster". Normal toning and sporadic age-staining through text-blocks. Rear fly-leaf and end-page LACKING. Binding is intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular in England from the early modern period through to the nineteenth century. It was first published in 1684 and written by an unknown author who falsely claimed to be Aristotle. As a consequence the author is now described as a Pseudo-Aristotle, the collective name for unidentified authors who masqueraded as Aristotle. Reputable publishers and booksellers might have been cautious about selling Aristotle's Masterpiece, at least in the wake of the 1857 Obscene Publications Act. Although many people in the twenty-first century might think of early modern readers as prudish, Aristotle's Masterpiece was not only a book on midwifery but also a sex manual. It therefore gave frank explanations of topics ranging from childbirth to "the purpose, pleasures, and particulars of sex." Also, unlike many later texts, it acknowledged women's sexual pleasure - something that people often downplayed in later centuries after male midwives rose in popularity and open conversations about sex became less common. Sammelband of original 18th century versions of Aristotle's Masterpiece. First printed in London in 1684, it was imported to the American colonies and then became a staple of early publishing in the United States, going into hundreds of editions. RAREB1773DVXB - 08/26 - HK3785.…

pp. viii, 9-352. 6 plates, printed in red, a few text figures. Original decorated cloth, one leaf with corner torn not affecting text, edges stained red, a very good copy. *OFFERED WITH 8 nineteenth century editions, 3 in publisher's leather, 5 in cloth, all bar one, complete and in good condition, PLUS 3 eighteenth century editions, variously at fault, one with title-page, all 11 copies without calculated charge. TOGETHER WITH a collection of 86 related titles dealing with SEXUAL MATTERS CLINICAL & SOCIAL : BIRTH CONTROL, PARTURITION, ANATOMY, MARRIAGE, MORALS, etc.A detailed list on request. …

4to (156 x 200 mm). (88) pp. With woodcut printer's device in the colophon. - (Bound after) II: Köbel, Jacob. Astrolabii declaratio, eiusdemque usus mire iucundus, non modo astrologis, medicis, geographis, caeterisque literarum cultoribus multum utilis ac necessarius [.]. Mainz, Peter Jordan, 1532. (44) pp. With woodcut title-page and several woodcut illustrations in the text. - (Bound with) III: [Sacrobosco, Johannes. Sphaera Mundi]. Venice, Giacomo Penzio, 1519. 46 (instead of 47), (1 blank) ff. With woodcut illustrations throughout. - IV: "Quatuor plagas mundi Ubi fint feire". (100) pp. Latin manuscript on paper. Contemporary limp vellum with four later leather straps. All edges red but faded. Rare Spanish edition of one of the most widely read texts of the High Middle Ages - the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets", purportedly a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, astrology, alchemy, magic, and medicine, supposedly based on a tenth-century Arabic text. The present edition is one of only seven works attributable to the printer Andrés de Burgos, only briefly active in Burgos between May 1503 and June 1505. - Modern scholarship assumes the text to date from after the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity and before the work of Ibn Juljul in the late tenth century. The section on physiognomy may have circulated as early as AD 940. The Arabic text was translated into Persian (at least twice), Ottoman Turkish (twice), Hebrew, Spanish, and twice into Latin. The Hebrew edition also formed the basis for a translation into Russian. The first partial Latin version was prepared for the Queen of Portugal in ca. 1120 by the converso John of Seville; it is now preserved in about 150 copies under the title "Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis" ("Aristotle's letter to Alexander on good health"). The present second translation, and the first of the whole work, was done at Antioch ca. 1232 by the canon Philip of Tripoli for Bishop Guy of Tripoli. - II: First edition of Jacob Köbel's famous treatise on the astrolabe, including a full-page woodcut of a muse holding the sphere of the universe on the reverse of the title-page. Essentially an instruction on the use of the astrolabe, it demonstrates how to calculate time, location, and hours, including various explanatory diagrams and charming illustrations. - III: Rare Venice edition of one of the most influential works of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe, Johannes de Sacrobosco's "De Sphaera Mundi" from ca. 1230, which introduced the fundamental elements of astronomy. Drawing heavily on Ptolemy's Almagest and Arabian astronomical concepts, it was one of Europe's most influential works on astronomy before Copernicus. The first edition was printed in Ferrara in 1472, and over 90 editions were published in the following two centuries. - IV: An anonymously composed Latin manuscript on astronomy, geometry, trigonometry and arithmetics, drawing on the works of Bohemian astronomer Christian of Prachatice (ca. 1360-1439) and Johannes von Gmunden (ca. 1380-1442), founder of the Vienna School of Astronomy, as well as other scholars. The text elaborates on astronomical calculations and the use of the astrolabe, including some trigonometric sketches for measuring height and angles. Prepared by at least three hands, the manuscript forms two distinct parts (the first comprising 44 pp., the second one 56 pp.) with Sacrobosco and Aristotle bound in between. - Binding somewhat spotted, chipped and frayed. - I: A7 has two burn holes, one repaired, causing some text loss. Marginal manuscript annotations throughout. - II: Small marginal tears to title-page, A2 and A3. Some waterstaining. - III: Lacks title-page (supplied in facsimile). - Some more waterstaining to final manuscript section. - I: Cranz 107.722. Norton 315. Palau I, 114. - II: VD 16, K 1591. DSB VII, 419. Adams I, 611. Cf. BM-STC German 474 (1535 ed.). - III: Cf. DSB XII, 60-63. This edition not in BM-STC Italian or Adams. …

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Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. lxxxvii, 903pp. B/W facsimile frontispiece. Thick 8vo, sewn binding in black cloth with gilt stamped lettering. Some very trivial shelfwear and spine just faintly faded, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise with tight binding. Out of print with the publisher, though Brill will sell you a pdf for $475, and quite scarce in trade. 'A first edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew text of the Problemata Physica, ascribed to Aristotle, which has been elaborated in later Antiquity in Greek. The text, corresponding with the first 15 books of the existing Greek text, contains chiefly medical problems, but also biological and mathematical ones. Therefore this volume deals with a comparison of the existing Greek text and the lost extended Greek version, only transmitted in this Arabic translation and in this Hebrew translation of the Arabic version. The authorship of the famous translator Hunain Ibn Ishaq has been discussed. The role of the Problemata Physica in Arabic literature has not been omitted. Interesting for Semitic linguistics is the description of the language used by ?unain ibn Ish?q and Moses ibn Tibbon, and of the influence of Arabic on the Hebrew of the translators. Glossaries have been added to give the reader the opportunity to compare the Arabic text with the Greek and the Hebrew ones.' (Publisher's blurb).…

London, Miller, Law, and Cater, n.date, (Ca.1800). Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf., spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Hinges weakening, corners bumped. A bit of leather lacks on backcover. IV,317,(1) pp., 8 textillustrations in woodcut. A few brownspots. A very popular work containing medical extracts from various writings, first published in 1690 and published in more than 40 editions onwards. (Wellcome II, p. 56, listing many editions, but not this one.…

Condition: ESTC T83421. 18mo. 3.5 x 5.75 inches. 166 pp. Bound in recent half mottled morocco over marbled boards with new endpapers; spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt lines, gilt title. A well used copy with light foxing. A title, with a traditional attribution to Aristotle, but not in fact by him, first published in translation in 1595, although ESTC records no copies earlier than the twenty fifth edition of c. 1710. This copy does not include the often separately published Aristotle's Last Legacy. Antonius Zimaras, author of the second section, was active in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This work, written in the form of a catechism, is in essence a medical manual with a particular emphasis on sexual matters ('Of carnal copulation') and this may explain the somewhat furtive manner of its publication with no named publisher. Certainly it must have filled a need, being published in over thirty editions throughout the century. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE MEDICINE MEDICINE NATURAL HISTORY 18TH CENTURY NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.…