Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. Folio (341 x 223 mm). [12], 282 pp., including half-title, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater, final blank leaf Qq4, numerous woodcut and typographic text diagrams throughout. Signatures: pi2 a-b2 A-G2 H-Z4 Aa-Qq4. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, spine with 6 raised bands..... More
Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, 1748. Two parts in one volume. 4to (243 x 197 mm). [4], xvi, 320; [2], 398, [2] pp. Title to each part printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece by Soubeyran after De la Monce, engraved folding portrait of dedicatee Jean Jacques Dortous..... More
Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, 1748. 4to (245 x 195 mm). [2], 398, [2] pp. Title printed in red and black and with engraved title vignette, woodcut head-pieces and initials, including leaf of directions to binder at end. Signatures: [pi]2 (-[pi]1) (A-3D)4. Bound without initial blank. Contemporary full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered..... More
Berlin: Ambrosius Haude, 1744. 4to (228 x 188 mm). [3] 4-187 (i.e. 186) pp., engraved frontispiece by F.H. Fritsch, engraved device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces, 4 folding engraved plates bound at end; bound without the cancel leaf A4 as in most copies. 18th century marbled paper wrappers (minor..... More
Ulrich Zell: Cologne, 1470. [Vita et transitus Sancti Hieronymi]. Two parts in one volume: I. Epistola de morte Hieronymi. Incipit epistola beati Eusebii ad sanctum Damasum portuensem episcopum et Theodosium Romanorum senatorem de morte gloriosi confessoris Hieronymi doctoris eximii. II. [Pseudo-] AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, Epistola ad Cyrillum Hierosolymitanum de magnificentiis Hieronymi..... More
Lyon: Horace Boissat & Georges Remeus, 1667. 4to (223 x 159 mm). [8], 246 pp., including 6 folding engraved plates bound at end, woodcut vignette on title, woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with 4 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering piece, sprinkled edges (light soiling of..... More
Padua: Lorenzo Pasquati, 1603. Folio (415 x 277 mm). [6], 27 [1] pp., index bound at beginning. Signatures: pi2 A-D2. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, ornamental woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Title-leave torn at gutter not affecting text. Recent half vellum, new endpapers. A fine, wide-margined copy. Exceedingly rare as here..... More
Padua: Lorenzo Pasquati / Aloysius Bencius, 1600. I. De formato foetu. Venice: Francesco Bolzetta, 1600 [colophon: Padua, Lorenzo Pasquati, 1604]. Folio (418 x 279 mm). [10], 1-150 [2] 151 [1] pp. Signatures: π1 a-b2, A-E4 F-I2 K4 L-O2 P4 Q2 R-Z4, Aa2, χ1. Engraved title by Giacomo Valeggio, 11 double-page..... More
Bologna: nella stamperia del Longhi, 1709. Folio (324x213 mm). [8], 292 pp., including half-title, several woodcut vignettes in text and to title-page, 9 engraved plates bound at end. Only very little age-toning (except for leaves O, O4 and quire Ee which are more heavily browned), occasional minor spotting, lower corner..... More
Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625. 5 parts in one volume. Folio (403 x 273 mm). General title with engraved printer's device, [4], 150, [2] pp, 34 plates (including unnumbered plate on verso of plate XI, 11 double page), engraving to K4 recto a duplicate of K2 (as called for); 23 [1]..... More
[Oppenheim or Frankfurt]: Johann Theodorum de Bry, 1614. Folio (305 x 195 mm). [8], 163, [11] pp. Fine engraved title, woodcut initials and headpieces, several engraved and woodcut text illustrations, 11 full page, lacking final blank leaf Y4. Bound in old recased vellum of a former Fabrici copy with the..... More
Padua: Antonii Meglietti, 1625. Four parts in one volume (complete). 4to (205 x 150 mm). [8], [2], 118, [2] pp. (signatures: pi1, pi4, A-P4); [4], 1-42, [2], 43-184 (i.e. 174) pp. (signatures: pi2 A-E4 F2 G-Y4 Z2); [2], 123 (i.e. 121) [1], 32 pp. (signatures: A-P4 Q2, 2A-D4); [8], 214..... More
Padova: L. Bertelli, 1564. 2 parts in one volume. Padua: L. Bertelli, 1564 [part 2: C. Gryphius, 1563 (colophon 1564)]. 4to (220x170 mm). [4], 64, 16, [2] ff. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript (covers browned and little soiled), title page with old ex-libris stamp, text leaves expertly cleaned..... More
Venice: Paul Meietus, 1569. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to (208 x 149 mm). [8], 223, [25] pp. Signatures: *4 A8 B-V4 X6 Y-Cc4 Dd2 a-c4. Separate title-page with woodcut device to each part, woodcut head-pieces and initials, including the blank leaf L4. Internally little browned, occasional minor foxing, some..... More
Venice: Donato Bertelli, 1563. 4to (222 x 154 mm). [3], 101, [1] leaves. Signatures: A3, A* A-Z4 Aa4 Bb6, with both, the cancel and cancelland leaf present. Title page with woodcut vignette, woodcut intials in text, errata on final leaf recto. 19th-century drab boards, spine with gilt-lettered paper label (rebacked..... More
London: John Murray, 1842. 8vo (215 x 136 mm). xiii [1], 664 pp., including half-title, several illustrations in text. Bound in contemporary full polished calf, spine with elaborate gilt decoration and black morocco label lettered in gilt, boards, board edges and leather turn-ins with gilt tooling, marbled edges and endpapers..... More
London: W. Phillips, 1827. 8vo (214 x 136 mm). vii [1], ix [1], 11-656 pp. Woodcut illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered label to spine (rebacked preserving original spine, wear to extremities, corners bumped, boards soiled). Internally little age-toned with minor occasional spotting, dust- and finger-soiling. Provenance: The..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1878. 3 volumes. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1839, 1844, 1855 (but 1878-1882). 8vo (220 x 145 mm). viii, 574; viii, 302; viii, 588 pp. 17 engraved plates (13 folding), woodcut diagrams in text, half-titles in vols. 2 and 3 (not called for in vol. 1), no advertisement leaf..... More
Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1783. 1783-1784. 2 volumes, 8vo (204x127 mm). Vol. 1: [i-iii] iv-xl, [1] 2-299, [3], [4] pp., 9 engraved plates (plate v as frontispiece), folding table; Vol. 2: [2], [1] 2-24, *24-24*, 25-62, [67] 68-366, [2] pp., 5 engraved plates (plate I as frontispiece). Contemporary green paste..... More
Grenoble / Paris: Cuchet / Nyon, Nee & Masquelier, 1778. Large folio (432 x 290 mm). [8], xviii, [2], 460 pp., including 2 engraved vignettes, woodcut initials, approbation leaf, general index, and 20 engraved plates (one double-page). Near contemporary calf, plain spine richly tooled in gilt and with gilt-lettered label..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1895. 20 b&w collotype sheets with 25 topographical charts in original publisher's folder with printed boards (330 x 250 mm), one explanatory sheet pasted onto inner front board. Additional text volume, stapled as issued and with publisher's printed wrappers (287 x 226 mm). x, 66 pp..... More
Bremen: Olbers-Gesellschaft, 1964. 28 folding sheets of lunar maps (22 of large size 695 x 695 mm, and 6 smaller sheets, double-page and printed in red and black), separate volume of 38 pages explanatory text ("Erläuterungen zum Fauth'schen Mondatlas"). Original papercard folding box with publisher's pictorial label on front cover..... More
London: A. Owen & Co., 1907. 8vo (208 x 143 mm). 160 pp. [2], 12 pp. Half-title, colored frontispiece, advertisements, 66 b&w illustrations in text. Original publishers blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper board (a trifle rubbing to extremities and spine ends). Provenance: British Astronomical Association (library stamp and shelf..... More
[Grünwald bei München]: by the author, 1932. Folio (402 x 425 mm). 16 Maps and 1 leaf of explanatory text in original printed grey wrappers, additional hand-lettered paper dust wrapper. Little age-toned, the explanatory sheet soiled at lower margin, light dust-soiling to margins throughout. Ink stamp of the British Astronomical..... More
Venice: Reale Istituto nel Palazzo Loredan, 1899. Memorie del Reale Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Vol. 26, No 5. Venice: Reale Istituto nel Palazzo Loredan, 1899. 4to (333 x 240 mm). 26 pp. Original printed wrappers (edge fraying, upper wrapper detached, browned an brittle at edges). Text browned..... More
