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Add to basketSold by libreria antiquaria perini Sas di Perini, Verona, VR, Italy
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AbeBooks Seller since 18 September 2006
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Add to basketIn 4? (230x180 mm), pagg. (6), 397, (2) di errata. Con decine di figure nel testo, 5 sono a piena pagina di cui una in rame. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena solida, titolo in oro al dorso, tagli rossi.Prima edizione collettiva di 36 scritti di Vossius. Questo lavoro presenta il risultato della sua ricerca in una serie di campi, in particolare il mondo classico, su cui Vossius era una nota autorit? Molti scritti sono pubblicati qui per la prima volta e toccano argomenti di natura geografica, scientifica, astronomica, navale, militare. Sono incluse osservazioni sull'antica Roma ed altre citt? importanti del periodo classico come Alessandria, Babilonia, citazioni su scrittori come Virgilio e Tertulliano; tratta ancora diverse tematiche: viaggi nelle Indie e in Giappone, Passaggio a Nord-Est (De Patefacienda per Septentrionum ad Japonenses et Indos Navigatione), dell'invenzione della polvere da sparo, anelli lunari e profezie sibilline. Vossius (1618-1689), figlio del filologo Gerhard Johann Vossius, bibliotecario di corte della regina Maria Cristina di Svezia; possedeva la pi? bella biblioteca privata del mondo. Fu uno dei dotti ugonotti olandesi emigrati in Inghilterra, dove divenne canonico di Windsor.Era un grande ammiratore delle scoperte e delle invenzioni cinesi (L?wendahl).Noto per la sua eccentricit? crebbe in una famiglia erudita, studiÚ greco antico, geografia e l'arabo. Dal 1641 viaggiÚ per l'Europa, (in particolare Firenze), conoscendo studiosi come James Ussher e Hugo Grotius e cominciando la propria collezione di manoscritti, finchÈ nel 1644 tornato nella citt? natia divenne bibliotecario della citt? Alla morte del padre nel 1650, spedÏ la sua biblioteca personale in Svezia, ma all'abdicazione della regina Cristina si trasferÏ in Inghilterra.Bell'esemplare marginoso, completo della dedica a Carlo II, che in molti esemplari risulta mancante, poichÈ veniva strappato dopo la morte del re.Antiche annotazioni di studio a inchiostro bruno al margine di alcune pagine. Lievi e uniformi bruniture internamente. Nota di possesso manoscritta al frontespizio. Graesse VI 2, 398; Krivatsky, 12499 Nr.cat: Cod 8591.
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