WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

BONANNI PHILIPPUS
Numismata Summorum Pontificum, Roma, Felice Cesaretti, 1696



Complete.


Rebound and nicely restored, just one small black stain (ink?) at the end of the work.


Good copy.

TOMMASO DE ROSA
Tractatus De Executoribus, Venezia, Paolo Baglioni, 1697


Contemporary vellum, handwritten title on the 5-rib spine, very good copy.

PROSPERO FAGNANI
In Quartum-Quintum Decretalium, Venezia, Paolo Baglioni, 1697



Two parts plus index in one volume, with separate title pages. Contemporary vellum, very fine copy

PIETRO MARIA PASSERINI
Commentaria In Tertium Libri Sexti Decretalium, Venezia, Paolo Baglioni, 1700

folio, contemporary hard vellum

fine copy

AA.VV.
Decisiones Reverendorum Patrum Dominorum Rotae, Venezia

4°


Contemporary limp vellum with handwritten title on the 3-rib spine, slightly damaged. Good copy.

FEDRO
Fabularum aesopiarum libri V. Notis illustrravit in usum serenissimi Principis Nassavii
Ex typ. Francisci Halmae, Amstelodami, 1701

In-4 large 28.5x22.2 cm
Allegorical frontispiece, frontispiece in red and black with central vignette. Intaglio portrait of the dedicatee of the edition, John William the Frisian, engraved by Gunst from an invention by Vaillant and folded f.t.

FRANCISCUS MARIA CAMPIONI
Instructio Pro Se Praeparantibus, Roma, Antoniius De Rubeis, 1703

8°. Contemporary limp vellum, good copy.

VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI
Cronologia Universale, Venezia, S.T., 1707

folio


Original hard vellum, 4-rib spine, slightly damaged. All plates missing, fair copy.

GIOVAN MARIO CRESCIMBENI
Le Vite Degli Arcadi Illustri, Roma, Antonio De Rossi, 1708

4°


Three volumes. Contemporary hard vellums. With engraved plates depicting the noblemen. Very good copies.

ANTONIUS DE SOLIS
Istoria Delle Conquista Del Messico, Venezia, Andrea Poletti, 1715

4°


Contemporary vellum with hand-written title on the spine, slightly damaged and partially disbound. 7 full-paged engraved illustrations. 1 plate missing. Some stains on the first pages. Fair copy.

RUGGERO CALBI
La Filosofia Esposta In Sonetti, Faenza, Archi E Zannoni, 1715

8°. Contemporary vellum, 4-rib spine, handwritten title, lacking last leaf (blank?)

SCIPIONE MAFFEI
Della Scienza Chiamata Cavalleresca, Venezia, Luigi Pavino, 1716



Complete.


Contemporary hard vellum, title manuscripted on the spine.


Good copy.

Michael Johann Baptist De Wenzel (1724 -1790), Jakob Wenzel (? - 1834?)


Traité de la cataracte avec des observations qui prouvent la necessité d inciser la cornée transparente & la capsule du crystallin, d’une manière diverse, selon les différentes epèces de Cataractes: Par M. de Wenzel, fils, … A Paris, chez P.J. Duplain, 1786









§ 8vo (13x2x2,5 cm.); xij, 224, [2] pp., signature; a1-2, b1-4, A-O1-8, []1, 1 engraved folding plate. Contemporary calf, spine and leading edge gilt, gilt title piece on spine. Front hinge weak, spine a little worn, title piece loosening. Content very fine.



First edition. Actually written by Jakob Wenzel the work describes the method used by his father, the Baron Michel Jean Baptiste and it is generally attributed to the latter. That both of them were ophthalmologists and that the son wrote about the work of the father, create quite a confusion and often their work and their lifes are mixed up; it is thus possible to find online that Michel Jean Baptiste (who died in 1790) was appointed oculist to George II in 1808, the date of death is given by different websites as 1819, 1820 or 1834 (again confusing father and son) and no mention is generally done of the actual authorship of the work that, even though the title clearly states M. de Wenzel, fils, it is generally attributed to the father. It is of course unfortunate that M(onsieur), usual in French before the surname, can be mistaken in this case with the father’s initial M(ichel), but such a confusion would have been impossible at the time of publishing. “... Wenzel wrote nothing. Much of what we know of him comes from the pen of his devoted son and disciple, Jakob, ... So strongly was the young Wenzel attached to his father, and so concerned was he to defend his father's achievements that his own personality becomes quite submerged in that of his parent. His books have the authorship ascribed to "de Wenzel (Michel-Jean-Baptiste) fils". It is not surprising that the Larousse of 1876 confuses the two and, under the name of the father, records the career of the son” (Wyman, p. 78-79).


The treatment of eye diseases was at the time largely neglected by respectable medical men and generally practised by irregular practitioners which were usually regarded as quacks and charlatans. Without an officially recognized training, Wenzel has been often considered as such a quack, but his ability and his successes were nontheless recognized and he was appointed Oculist to the Queen of Hungary (Maria Theresa) and Oculist to the King (George II). Wenzel accepted the opinion of Daviel who, around 1750, advocated a new treatment for cataract, by extraction instead of the method of couching traditionally in use, an opinion that was not easily accepted and remained controversial for a long time; Wenzel improved the method and developed a remarcable ability in the performance of the operation, so much so that his intervention was required by high-placed people from several countries. “In the Traite de la cataracte of 1786, the young Wenzel explained that he was describing the methods used by his father for about 35 years.” (Wyman, p. 79). Conscious of the changing times, Wenzel wanted his son properly trained, and Jakob studied with Joseph Barth, who had been trained by Michael Wenzel in the cataract operation. “The Baron, aware of his own limitations, left his son in Vienna to study anatomy and diseases of the eye under Barth's tuition, and so become properly trained. The young Wenzel obtained his doctorate in Paris in 1779. By 1783, he was one of the doctors Regent in the Faculty of Physic in Paris, and by 1786 he was a member of the Faculty of Medicine of Nancy. He later became a member of the Academie de Medecine. The son thus became part of the medical establishment, and achieved the respectability and recognition denied to the father.” (Wyman, p. 82).


& A.L. Wyman Baron de Wenzel, Oculist to King George III: his impact on British ophtalmologists In:

JOHN KEILL (1671 - 1721)

Joannis Keill, M.D. Regiae Soc. Lond. Socii, In Acad. Oxon. Astronomiae Professoris Saviliani Introductiones ad veram Physicam et veram Astronomiam. Quibus accedunt Trigonometria. De viribus centralibus. De legibus attractionis. Lugduni Batavorum, apud Joh. Et Herm. Verbeek Bibliop., 1725.


§ 4to (253 x 195), [4], 636, [12] pp., 47 folding plates; sign.: *2, A-NNNN4, OOOO2 (last leaf blank), red and black title page.). Contemporary full vellum binding with gilded title on label on the spine.

First edition of the posthumous opera omnia of the Scottish mathematician and astronomer John Keill, one of the first authors dedicated to the systematic dissemination of Newton's Principia and his tireless defender in the polemic against Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz concerning the paternity of calculus.
The present collection of texts is important also because it preserves the original edition of Keill’s studies of the last period, concerning the central forces - and in particular the centripetal force - (De viribus centralibus, pp. 583-620) and the force of gravitational attraction (De legibus attractionis, pp. 621-636). Ref: De La Lande, p. 380; Houzeau-Lancaster, 9240; OCLC 257773059

DAVIS GREGORIUS
Astronomiae Physicae Et Geometricae, Geneve, Apud Marcum -Michelem Bosquet, 1726

4°


Contemporary five-rib calf, with gilded ornaments on the spine. Two volumes, complete with 41+5 folding plates. Vey good copies.

THOMAS EX CJHARMES
Theologia Universa, Venezia, Antonio Rosa, 1727

folio, 19th century half calf

good copy

COLLEGIUS MEDICUS RATISPONENSIS
Conspectus Materiae Medicae, Ratisbonae, Ioh. Conradus Petzius, 1727


Complete.


Moderate foxing due to paper quality. Some worm holes.


Nice copy.

PUBLIO PAPINIO STAZIO
La Tebaide, Roma , Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1729

folio


Contemporary five-rib calf, with gilded spine. Very good copy.

GUGLìIELMO ROBERTSON
Storia Dell'America, Pisa, Francesco Pieraccini, 1730

folio


Contemporary velum, rebound. Very good copy with a few handwritten notes on the margins.

DIONISIO LONGINO
De Sublimi Libellus, Verona , Joh.Albertus Tumermani, 1733

folio


Contemporary hard vellum, with handwritten title on the spine. Very good copy. Bilingual text: greek & latin.

CRISPI. GIROLAMO
Omelie, Roma, Antonius De Rubeis, 1733


Contemporary calf, decorated gilded 5-rib spine. Engraved frontispiece. Very fine copy

ANACREONTE
Anacreonte Tradotto In Versi Italiani, Venezia, Francesco Piacentini, 1736

4°


Contemporary paperboards. Very fine copy.

GIOVAN FILIPPO CERTANI
Riti Della Messa Privata, Bologna, Stamperia S. Tommaso D'Aquino, 1737



Complete.


Woodcut portrait on the fourth page. Contemporary hard vellum, manuscripted title on the spine.


Good copy.

BARTHOLOMAEUS GAVANTUS
Thesaurus Sacrorum Ritus, Roma, Ex Tipographia Vaticana, 1737

4°


Contemporary limp vellum with handwritten title on the spine. Good copy except for some water stains. Complete with three engraved plates.