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 / 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

Venice: Benedictus Hectoris, 1501. 27. May 1501. 4to (205 x 137 mm). 3 parts in one volume. 118 unnumbered leaves, including index and end and final blank leaf C6. Signatures: a-z⁴ &⁴ [revc]⁴ [rum]⁴ A-B⁴ C⁶. Latin text in Roman type, with Gothic title. Imprint from colophon on A4v reading..... More

London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1805. Entire volume, parts I + II offered. 4to (295 x 235 mm). vi, [2], 1-175 [1], 27 [1]; iv, 177-353 [1], [6] pp., part titles, index bound at end, and 9 engraved plates (2 folding). Original blue simple paper wrappers, pages untrimmed and unopened..... More