‎Groom, Winston‎
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‎Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Auspicio et Beneficio Illustriss. I. Mauritii com Nassav illius provinciae et maris summi praefecti adornata : in qua non tantum plantae et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et motes describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur. « The only illustrated work on Brazilian natural history »‎

‎Edition originale de « the only illustrated work on Brazilian natural history » (Borba de Moraes) ornée de 429 gravures sur bois. Batavorum, apud Franciscum Hackium et Amstelodami, apud Lud. Elzevirium, 1648.In-folio de (6) ff. y compris le frontispice gravé, I/ De medicina brasiliensi libri quatuor : 122 pp. et (1) f. d’index ; II/ Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, libri octo : (4) ff., 293 pp. et (7) pp. d’index. Quelques rousseurs et qq. discrètes galeries de vers sans gravité. Relié en peau de truie estampée à froid sur ais de bois, dos à nerfs. Reliure de l'époque. 365 x 230 mm.‎

‎Édition originale de l’un des plus beaux livres du XVIIe siècle sur l’histoire naturelle du Brésil, ornée de 429 gravures sur bois dans le texte dépeignant la flore, la faune : animaux, poissons, insectes et des scènes de la vie quotidienne. Borba de Moraes 675-6 ; Garrison-Morton 2263-1 et 5303 ; Hunt 244 ; Nissen BBI 1533 ; Willems 1068 ; Leclerc 1634. L’éditeur Laet ajouta un chapitre sur le nord-est du Brésil et donna une description des indiens Tapuia et le vocabulaire Tupi. « Recueil estimé donnant un extrait de la grammaire Brésilienne du P. Joseph de Archieta et un vocabulaire Brésilien latin par En. De Moraes. » (Leclerc) “First edition of this ‘pioneer work on tropical medicine’ (Garrison-Morton) and of what was until the nineteenth century, ‘the only illustrated work on Brazilian natural history’ (Borba de Moraes)”. Guillaume Pison accompagna le prince de Nassau dans son voyage au Brésil, emmenant avec lui deux jeunes savants allemands, Marggrav et Kranitz, pour l’aider dans ses recherches d’histoire naturelle. Les découvertes de Pison et Marggrav furent publiées par Laet sous le titre commun de ‘Historia naturalis Brasiliae’, Leyde, 1648, un vol. in-fol. L’ouvrage de Marggrav forme plus des deux tiers du volume. De medicina Brasiliensi libri quatuor, tel est le titre spécial de l’ouvrage de Pison. Le premier livre traite de l’atmosphère et de la nature du pays en général ; le deuxième des maladies endémiques ; le troisième, des poisons et des remèdes, avec neuf dessins ; le quatrième, plus considérable que les trois autres ensemble, des vertus des plantes, avec cent dix dessins. Pison a fait connaitre plus de cent plantes nouvelles, et il est un de ceux qui ont donné les premiers détails un peu étendus sur la canne à sucre et la fabrication du sucre. Nous devons surtout rappeler que c’est lui et Marggrav qui ont les premiers rapporté en Europe et décrit l’Ipecacuanba (Psychotria emetica), qui fut dès lors adopté en médecine. Enfin, son style n’est pas indigne de cette belle période de la latinité moderne. Précieux exemplaire d’une grande pureté conservé dans sa superbe reliure en peau de truie estampée à froid sur ais de bois.‎

‎De Amatoriis Affectionibus Liber. Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi interprete. [Peri Erotikon Pathematon]. - [EDITIO PRINCEPS OF PARTHENIUS' ONLY SURVIVING WORK]‎

‎Basel, in Officina Frobeniana (Per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium), 1531. Small 8vo. Bound in a lovely, charming early 19th century red half calf with gilt title and lines to spine and lovely gold and red ornamented ""romantic"" paper over boards. A bit of wear to spine. Internally a very fine and clean copy. Title-page slightly soiled, and a vague marginal dampstain throughout, on most leaves barely visible. Froben printer's device to title-page, and in a larger version to verso of last leaf. Four large woodcut initials. 76, (44) pp.‎

‎The extremely scarce first printing, of both the original Greek text and the translation into Latin, of Parthenius's only surviving work, the historiographically, mythographically, and literarily hugely important ""Erotica Pathemeta"" (or ""Sorrows of Love""), which constitutes the only prose work by a Hellenistic poet to survive in its entirety and one of the few extant works of its genre, i.e the mythological or paradoxographical handbook, preserved from any period. The ""Erotica Pathemata"" constitutes the only surviving work by the famous Greek poet Parthenius of Nicea (fl. 1st century BC, Rome), the Greek teacher of Virgil, and the favourite author of Hadrian and Tiberius, who is now often referred to as ""the last of the Alexandrians"".Parthenius was Born in Nicaea in Asia Minor, He was captured in the third Mithradatic war and taken to Italy, where he became the Roman poet Virgil's teacher in Greek. He is considered a main influence on the ""Neoteroi"" - the group of ""modernist poets"" led primarily by Callimachus, and he played an important role in spreading a taste for ""Callimachean"" poetry in Rome.In his time, Parthenius was primarily famous as a poet, but unfortunately none of his poetic works have survived, and only some small fragments have been preserved. What we have in their place is the prose treatise ""Erotica Pathemata"", which has survived in merely one manuscript, probably written in the mid 9th-century. In 1531 Froben printed the editio princeps of both the original Greek text and the Latin version of it, and only in 1675 did it appear again. The Froben editio princeps is of great scarcity.The ""Erotica Pathemata"" is a little prose treatise consisting of thirty-six love stories, all with tragic or sentimental endings. The work was dedicated to Cornelius Gallus, and was, Parthenius explains, meant as ""a storehouse from which to draw material"".""The very concatenation of poetry and prose is interesting, and perhaps important. It could be that the ""Erotika Pathemata"" were first collected by Parthenius for his own use as a poet. But the collection of prose anecdote by a poet also locates Parthenius in the same tradition as Callimachus ..." Nicander ... " and Euphorion of Chalcis ... . Parthenius' is in fact the only prose work by a Hellenistic poet to survive entire. It proclaims its purpose as utilitarian, and begins with an epistolary introduction in which Parthenius offers his work to the poet Gallus as potential raw material for hexameter and elegiac poetry. This detail is of some importance for literary history. The loss of the poetry - not only of Parthenius, but also of his friends in Rome, of Gallus, Cinna, and the other ""neoteroi"" - is admittedly grievous" but the treatise, and particularly the implications of the dedication, offers some insight of their own into literary production in Rome in the middle of the first century BC. It is a period about which we should like to be better informed, the age of the supposed epyllion, of nascent elegy, and of experimentation with new Greek genres. The dedication suggests, on the one hand, intriguing possibilities for the sort of narrative poetry, both hexameter and elegiac, which Parthenius might have expected Gallus and his friends to write and on the other the text can be read (and may also have been intended to be read) for pleasure as a prose work in itself. Thus regarded, it raises questions about the hellenistic historiography in which the stories were embedded, about the diverse kinds of mythography written in the hellenistic period and the two-way relationship between mythography and poetry" about the types of stories it contains, the manner in which they were generated, the structure they exhibit, the messages about social life which are encoded within them. And not the least intriguing question concerns its relationship to the Greek novel, a genre which seems to have been gaining momentum in the first century BC, and other sorts of prose fiction. Stylistically too, the work should be of interest to historians of Greek prose. It is preserved by a lucky accident in a single manuscript, possibly because its Atticism pleased the Byzantines' ear as much as it appealed to their penchant for story-telling, and it is one of the very few surviving works of Greek prose from the middle of the first century BC. Indeed it is one of few extant works of its genre, the mythographical or paradoxographical handbook, preserved from any period."" (Lightfoot, Parthenius of Nicea. The Poetical Fragments of the ""Erotika Pathemata"". Edited with introduction and commentaries. 1999, pp. 2-3). As such, the ""Erotica Pathemata"", along with its author, apart from being of pivotal importance to the study of the ancient novel (the earliest examples of which date from exactly this perioed), Greek prose, and the Greek language (""Parthenius' Greek is of no little interest in view of the dearth of surviving material which is comparable in genre and date"" - Lightfoot, p. 283), also plays a central role in Hellenistic literature and is of decisive character to the development of Roman prose and poetry in the 1st century BC. ""It was Parthenius who taught me Greek -Yes, a freed prisoner-of-war, whose giftWas perfect elegiacs, faultless poems.He gathered brief love-stories, so that GallusCould turn them into song. Parthenius sleepsWatched over by sea-deities, by Glaucus,Panopea, Melicertes - Ino's son -Beside a river graved in celandine."" (Virgil - see Lightfoot, p. (97)).‎

‎Nachtrag zum cubischen Reciprocitätssatze für die aus dritten Wurzeln der Einheit zusammengesetzten complexen Zahlen. Criterien des cubischen Characters der Zahl 3 und ihrer Theiler (+) Transformations remarquables de quelques séries (+) La loi de réc... - [""THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY THREE EPOCH-MAKING MATHEMATICIANS: ARCHIMEDES, NEWTON, AND EISENSTEIN""]‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1844. 4to. In ""Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 28 Band, 1 Heft, 1844"". In the original printed wrappers, without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Eisenstein:] Pp. 28-35" Pp. 36-43 Pp. 44-48 Pp. 49-52" Pp. 53-67. [Entire issue: IV, 96, (2) pp. + 2 folded plates.].‎

‎First printing of six exceedingly influential papers by the German mathematics prodigy Eisenstein. Even though he died prematurely at the age of 29, he managed to prove biquadratic reciprocity, Quartic reciprocity (Presented in the present: ""Lois de réciprocité""), Cubic reciprocity (Presented in the present: ""Nachtrag zum cubischen Reciprocitätssatze...""), to be imprisoned by the Prussian army for revolutionary activities in Berlin and making Gauss state that: ""There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein"". Alexander von Humboldt, then 83, accompanied Eisenstein's remains to the cemetery. The papers presented in the present issue is among his most prominent and made him famous throughout the mathematical world. (James, Driven to innovate, P. 88). ""The twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth volumes of Crelle's Journal, published in 1844, contained twenty-five contributions by Eisenstein. These testimonials to his almost unbelievable, explosively dynamic productivity rocketed him to fame throughout the mathematical world. They dealt primarily with quadratic and cubic forms, the reciprocity theorem for cubic residues, fundamental theorems for quadratic and biquadratic residues, cyclotomy and forms of the third degree, plus some notes on elliptic and Abelian transcendentals. Gauss, to whom he had sent some of his writings, praised them very highly and looked forward with pleasure to an announced visit. In June 1844, carrying a glowing letter of recommendation from Humboldt, Eisenstein went off to see Gauss. He stayed in Göttingen fourteen days. In the course of the visit he won the high respect of the ""prince of mathematicians,"" whom he had revered all his life. The sojourn in Göttingen was important to Eisenstein for another reason: he became friends with Moritz A. Stern-the only lasting friendship he ever made. While the two were in continual correspondence on scientific matters, even Stern proved unable to dispel the melancholy that increasingly held Eisenstein in its grip. Even the sensational recognition that came to him while he was still only a third-semester student failed to brighten Eisenstein's spirits more than fleetingly. In February 1845, at the instance of Ernst E. Kummer, who was acting on a suggestion from Jacobi (possibly inspired by Humboldt), Eisenstein was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by the School of Philosophy of the University of Breslau.Eisenstein soon became the subject of legend, and the early literature about him is full of errors. His treatises were written at a time when only Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet had any conception of what a completely rigorous mathematical proof was. Even a man like Jacobi often admitted that his own work sometimes lacked the necessary rigor and self-evidence of methods and proofs."" (DSB)‎

‎Théorèmes sur les Formes cubiques et Solution d'une Equation du quatrième Degré à quatre indéterminées (+) Über die Anzahl der quadratischen Formen, welche in der Theorie der complexen Zahlen zu einer reellen Determinante gehören (+) Allgemeine Auflös... - [""THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY THREE EPOCH-MAKING MATHEMATICIANS: ARCHIMEDES, NEWTON, AND EISENSTEIN""]‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1844. 4to. In contemporary half cloth. In ""Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik"", 27. band, Heft 1-4, 1844. Entire volume 27 offered. A small library stamp to lower part of p. 1 and a white label pasted on to upper part of spine. Light occassional brownspotting, otherwise fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of these influential papers by the German mathematics prodigy Eisenstein. Even though he died prematurely at the age of 29, he managed to prove Cubic reciprocity (presented in the present papers) biquadratic reciprocity, Quartic reciprocity, to be imprisoned by the Prussian army for revolutionary activities in Berlin and making Gauss state that: ""There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein"". Alexander von Humboldt, then 83, accompanied Eisenstein's remains to the cemetery. The papers presented in the present issue is among his most prominent and made him famous throughout the mathematical world. (James, Driven to innovate, P. 88). ""The twenty-seventh (the present and most extensive) and twenty-eighth volumes of Crelle's Journal, published in 1844, contained twenty-five contributions by Eisenstein. These testimonials to his almost unbelievable, explosively dynamic productivity rocketed him to fame throughout the mathematical world. They dealt primarily with quadratic and cubic forms, the reciprocity theorem for cubic residues, fundamental theorems for quadratic and biquadratic residues, cyclotomy and forms of the third degree, plus some notes on elliptic and Abelian transcendentals. Gauss, to whom he had sent some of his writings, praised them very highly and looked forward with pleasure to an announced visit. In June 1844, carrying a glowing letter of recommendation from Humboldt, Eisenstein went off to see Gauss. He stayed in Göttingen fourteen days. In the course of the visit he won the high respect of the ""prince of mathematicians,"" whom he had revered all his life. The sojourn in Göttingen was important to Eisenstein for another reason: he became friends with Moritz A. Stern-the only lasting friendship he ever made. While the two were in continual correspondence on scientific matters, even Stern proved unable to dispel the melancholy that increasingly held Eisenstein in its grip. Even the sensational recognition that came to him while he was still only a third-semester student failed to brighten Eisenstein's spirits more than fleetingly. In February 1845, at the instance of Ernst E. Kummer, who was acting on a suggestion from Jacobi (possibly inspired by Humboldt), Eisenstein was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by the School of Philosophy of the University of Breslau.Eisenstein soon became the subject of legend, and the early literature about him is full of errors. His treatises were written at a time when only Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet had any conception of what a completely rigorous mathematical proof was. Even a man like Jacobi often admitted that his own work sometimes lacked the necessary rigor and self-evidence of methods and proofs."" (DSB).‎

‎Conchologie Néogènique de l’Aquitaine. Tome I, Livraison I-II, Tome II, Livraison I. Tome III (text only). Tome IV, Livraison II (text only). Tome V, Livraison I (text only).‎

‎1909-1927 221, 211, 204, 696, 369, 202, p., num. figs, 18, 10 pls, 3 maps, a composite incomplete set of the 8vo edition, partly hcloth/cloth, partly paperbound/loose in modern wrappers. Lower right corner of pp.133-148 worn off, but not affecting the text.All treated species were subsequently numbered by the authors, and as page numbers vary as the result of being published in separate parts in journals, it seems better and easier to use the species numbering in this description of the set. The bivalve part consist of the introduction and Bivalve species numbers 1 till 196, and 332-443 and covers groups as Tellinidae, Psammobiidae, Donacidae, Veneridae, Mactridae, Solenidae, Corbulidae, Teredidae, Pholadidae, Thraciidae, Astartidae, Carditidae, Nuculidae Ledidae, Arcidae, etc. and has 28 plates depicting these groups. The gastropod part (including Scaphopods and Polyplacophora) is text only and includes species numbers 1--987.The whole work was published between 1909 and 1932 in separate parts, so complete copies are very rare and seldom offered.‎