MISCELLANY - ALBERTUS MAGNUS ([?]1193-1280, attrib.). De secretis mulierum, Amsterdam, 1740, contemporary calf. With 14 other books. (15)

MISCELLANY - ALBERTUS MAGNUS ([?]1193-1280, attributed).  De secretis mulierum libellus. Amsterdam: [no publisher], 1740. 12mo (141 x 90mm). Woodcut ornament on title, initial (some light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf (head of spine worn, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Sigillum Residentiae, Mariagyud" (stamp on title). cf. Brunet I, 51 (not citing this edition); Caillet 129 (attributing the work to Henri de Saxe or Thomas de Cantipré); Verminelli 7; Wellcome II, p.24 (all references for earlier editions). With 15 other miscellaneous books including Simon Verepaeus's De epistolis Latine conscribendis libri V (Antwerp, 1614, title trimmed and laid down, later half calf, worn), Lazarus Rivière's Medicina practica in succinctum compendium redacta (Basel, 1663, lacks portrait, contemporary printed parchment over boards), Antoine Banier's Explication Historique des Fables, Où l' on découvre leur origine et leur conformité avec l' Histoire ancienne (The Hague, 1713, 2 vols bound in one, contemporary vellum), Tomasso Tomai's Idea del Giardino del Mondo (Bologna, 1742, modern vellum), Manuel des Rio's Arte de Reloxes[sic] de Ruedas para Torre, Sala, I Faltriquera (Santiago, 1759, vol. one only (of 2, ends on p. 359 with "Finis primi tomi"), 10 mostly horological engraved plates, contemporary vellum), de Romas's Mémoire, sur les Moyens de se Garantir de la Foudre dans les Maisons (Bordeaux, 1776, lacks the 2 plates, contemporary vellum), Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola's Regles des Cinq Ordres d' Architecture (Paris, [c. 1790], engraved title and 50 plates, many cropped, contemporary vellum), [Author unknown:] Der Selbstlehrende Uhrmacher (Frankfurt, 1791, 10 folding horological plates, contemporary paper boards), Jacob Bernoulli's Q. D. B. U. Solutionem tergemini problematis arithmetici, geometrici et astronomici (Basel, [n.d.], full-page woodcut diagram, old marbled wrappers), Abbé Lyonnois's Traité de la Mythologie ... Cinquième Éditon (Mannheim, 1804, 15 folding plates at the end [some bound out of sequence], contemporary half calf) and Boitard and Canivet's Manuel du Naturaliste Préparateur, ou l' Art d' Empailler les Animaux et de Conserver les Végétaux et les Minéraux ... Deuxième Édition (Paris, 1828, contemporary calf). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. The lot sold not subject to return. (16)