Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....
Anvers: Chez Van der Hey, Libraire, 1735. First edition. OCLC 8848288 records five copies (Yale, Smithsonian, Virginia, Sydney, and one in Germany); COPAC records four later editions, but not this one. The gossipy and scandalous memoirs of the eccentric and learned Abbe de François Timoleon Choisy (1644-1724), who, at his.....
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1811. First edition. A study of the influence on French literature of over 40 French women authors, from Radegonde of the 6th century to Madame Cottin of the 19th, by one of the most famous and prolific of all French women authors, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830).
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Early edition, and probably the first of three editions issued in Amsterdam soon after the first edition, in quarto, was issued in London by Octavius Pulleyn earlier in 1651. Garrison & Morton 467 & 6146. ¶ Garrison-Morton describes this as "the most important work on.....
Amsterdam: Antonium Schonenburg, 1730. Eighth edition; the first was published in 1658. ¶ A handbook to the gods of the ancients by Francisco Pomey, S.J. (1619-1673), prefect of Lyon and author of other educational books and well-known mythographer. From the library of 20th century scholar Gershon Legman, with his signature.....