Treatise Collection (#16)

Du Monceau: First Page
DU MONCEAU: FIRST PAGE. First page of an early edition, owned by John Adams, of Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus A Practical Treatise of Husbandry, published 1762

TEA: TREATISE, 1687. Engraved frontispiece and title page of a treatise on the benefits of tea, coffee and chocolate, by Nicolas de Blegny, published at Lyon in 1687

MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS, 1531. Page from a Latin translation by Peter Argellata of the 10th century treatise on surgical and medical instruments by Arab surgeon az-Zahrawi

Flying by Mechanical Means
Designs for man-powered flight, modelled on birds. 1810

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Renaissance political theorist, Niccolo Macchiavelli (1469-1527), was an official in the Chancery of the Florentine Republic who dedicated to Lorenzo Medici a groundbreaking controversial

FIRST DECANUS OF VIRGO. From a Latin manuscript of astrological treatise by Albumasar, c1403

Manuscript / Circa 1300
The Ascension, and Pentecost, depicted in Somme Le Roi French treatise of Christian teachings

BERLIOZ ( 1803 -1869 )
HECTOR BERLIOZ - Frontispiece of his book A Treatise on Musical Instrumentation and Orchestration

Habit and Horse Cover
The cover of THE HABIT AND THE HORSE, a treatise on Female Equitation by Mrs J Stirling Clarke

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