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VALERIANO BOLZANI, Giovanni Pierio. I ieroglifici ouero commentarii delle occulte significationi de gl'Egittij, & altre nationi. Venice: G.B. Combi, 1625. 2° (296 x 208mm). About 270 woodcut illustrations (crude marginal repairs in last leaf with slight loss, minor flaw in F3, lower margins cut close affecting a few catchwords and signatures, some discolouration and a few stains). 19th-century half calf (rubbed). Provenance: Ettore Ghislieri (later 17th-century signature on title) -- Nerine Oratory at Bologna (library stamp on title) -- John Jackson of Warrington (bookplate). Second Italian edition of this popular emblematic work first published in Latin at Basel in 1556. Praz p. 521.
MOORE, Jonas (1617-1679). Moores Arithmetick: discovering the Secrets of that Art, in Numbers and Species. London: T. Harper for N. Brookes, 1650. 8°. 3 folding letterpress tables (lacks portrait, title-border shaved at fore-margin, top fore-corner of Ee4 torn away with loss of pagination, light discolouration). 19th-century blind-stamped sheep (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Jackson of Warrington (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Smith p. 622; Wing M2563. (2)
MOORE, Jonas (1617-1679). Moores Arithmetick: discovering the Secrets of that Art, in Numbers and Species. London: T. Harper for N. Brookes, 1650. 8°. 3 folding letterpress tables (lacks portrait, title-border shaved at fore-margin, top fore-corner of Ee4 torn away with loss of pagination, light discolouration). 19th-century blind-stamped sheep (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Jackson of Warrington (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Smith p. 622; Wing M2563. (2)
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