Virescit vulnere virtus (Virtue grows stronger from being wounded) Orontii finei delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, de solaribus horologiis… Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Parisiis: apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1560 First edition QB215 F55 1560 Oronce Fine was the son of a physician who drew, in part, upon astrology for his medicine, as was the...
“A colour shines in its surroundings. (Just as eyes only smile in a face)” - Ludwig Wittgenstein Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2000 xBF 789 C7 W513 2000 During the last few years of his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein...
An Account of the siege of the noblest Austrian city of Vienna by Sultan Suleyman, the grandest Turkish tyrant, with an immeasurable army. With courtesy and allowance of the mightiest Kaiser Carolus & his brother the illustrious King Ferdinand of Hungary and also Bohemia. Viennae avstraiae vrbis...
"I here present the English Reader with the most diverting as well as instructive Book that France has produced these many Years. It is wrote with a Strength of Reasoning, a Freedom of Thought, and a Vein of just Humour, which that Nation was hardly...
At last the Father of the Gods sent Hermes to fetch Persephone back to earth, on condition that she had eaten nothing while in the kingdom of Pluto. Alas that very day she had tasted six seeds of a pomegranate...
"Concise Algebra easily described, which brings forth the great wonders of arithmetic" "[R]omance is a reaction from the algebra" -- Booth Tarkington Algebrae compendiosa facilisqve descriptio, qua depromuntur magna Arithmetices miracula Johann Scheubel (1494-1570) Parisiis: Apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1551 First edition DR507 V54 1530 Johann Scheubel was born in Kirchheim unter Teck,...
“In the beginning was the Word…” John 1:1 Postilla Matej Vaclav Steyer Prague, 1691 xBS2348 C8 S74 The word postil or postilla is an abbreviated term for a marginal note or Biblical commentary. Derived from the Medieval Latin phrase,“post illa verba textus” (after these words), postils were intended to provide clarification...
"But these kinds of problems are an understood part of how I choose to go about making books. The goal is to learn by doing, a process that often involves diving headlong into something for which I am thoroughly unprepared. I can't locate exactly what...
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams The Outsider Jon Edgar Webb New Orleans, Lousiana : Loujon Press, 1961-1970 xPS1 O9 (vol 1-5) Jon and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb were bohemian fugitives living in Cleveland, Ohio with a penchant for...