Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy pour l'Imprimerie Royale, 1676. 1676 [i.e., 1677]. 6 parts in one volume. Large folio (557 x 402 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Goyton after Sebastien le Clerc, general title with engraved vignette incorporating the royal arms of Louis XIV, half-title to each tract, numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces..... More

St. Louis: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, 1962. 2nd edition, November 1962. Scale 1:5,000,000. Single lithographed sheet, size 34 x 35 in. (864 x 889 mm, lunar diameter 27 in). The map a bit yellowed, a few marginal kinks, but generally well preserved. ----

"The USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic (LEM)..... More

Basel: Froben / Johannes Petreius / Royal Society, 1533. Libri quinque De mensuris & ponderibus: In quibus plaeraque à Budaeo & Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. Basel: Froben, 1533. [9] 10-292 [4] pp. Woodcut printers devices on title and final leaf verso, 5 large historiated woodcut initials, general index at..... More

Venice: Francesco Franceschi, 1565. 8vo (220 x 161 mm). 404, [28] pp. Roman type, 44 lines plus headline. Signatures: A-Cc8 Dd6. Title within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of the author on verso of title, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations (with additional bifolium signed S and bound after S6 containing full-page woodcuts..... More

Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1494. Sammelband of 7 Editions, all printed in Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis: (1) [Physica:] Phisicorum siue De phisico auditu libri octo. 31 January 1494/95. - (2) [Metaphysica:] Aureus liber Methaphisice & Diuisus in libros. xiij. 18 December 1494. - (3) De Anima..... More

Venice: Gio. Battista Recurti, 1753. 8vo (185 x 130 mm). [2] 3-7 [1], 338 (i.e. 298), [6] pp. Signatures: *⁴ A-T⁸. With allegorical engraved additional title, woodcut printer's device to letterpress title, woodcut initials, and 12 folding engraved plates depicting numerous instruments. All pages uncut. Bound in contemporary carta rustica..... More

Paris: Caille & Ravier, 1817. Folio (341 x 265 mm). [6], lxxxviii, 616 pp., including half-title and 24 engraved plates with contemporary hand-coloring. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with 4 raised bands tooled in blind and gilt and with gilt lettering (joints repaired). Text with minor browning and..... More

Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1907. 8vo (210 x 135 mm). Entire annual volume 64 including "Literaturheft": x, 1033, [5], 232* pp., including plate of photographic reproduction (disbound) and several text illustrations. Contemporary half brown cloth and marbled paper boards, marbled edges (light rubbing of extremities, spotting of spine). Light age-toning and..... More

Paris: Crochard, 1822. Extract from: Annales de chimie et de physique, par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago, Vol. 20. Paris: Crochard, 1822. 8vo. pp. 60-74, 1 folding plate. Modern boards, text somewhat browned, minor foxing, stronger foxing to plate. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit, with his booklabel on inner cover (his sale..... More

Paris: Etienne Michallet, 1682. 12mo (153 x 90 mm). [8], 367 (i.e. 363) [1] pp. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams in text, errata on final leaf verso. Lacking the woodcut plate. Contemporary speckled sheepskin, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated in compartments, red-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (spine ends chipped, patch..... More

Leipzig: M. Blum, 1543. 1543 (Kolophon: 1544). 8vo (151 x 97 mm). 207 (of 208) unnumbered leaves (lacking final blank c8 only), text with woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Signatures: A-Z⁸ a-c⁸ (-c8). Page numbers added in pencil. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards by workshop Urban Köblitz, Leipzig (Einbanddatenbank..... More

Ingolstadt: Apian, 1533. Introductio geographica in Verneri annotationes. Ingolstadt: (Peter) Apian, 1533. 88 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: A-E⁴ a⁴ b-c⁶ d⁸ e-h⁶ i⁸ k-l⁶ (D3 missigned E3). Title printed in red and black and with large woodcut illustration, full-size woodcut coat of arms on verso, historiated woodcut initials, several woodcut diagrams..... More

Washington, D.C. NASA. Ed Mitchell Autograph on a NASA (8x10") black and white publicity photo picturing the LM on the lunar surface. Mitchell has signed in silver ink "Fra Mauro Base".

Apollo 14 (January 31 - February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program..... More