Boston: Press of John Wilson and son, 1877. From: Proceedings of the American Academy of arts and science. New Series vol. IV, whole series vol. XII, from May 1876 to May 1877. 8vo. iv, (1)-10 pp. General journal title and content list bound in as issued. Later (20th century) black... More about Researches in Telephony

Venice: Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1496. Tabula practice Gordonii dicte Lilium medicine. Venice: [Joannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis for] B[enedictus] F[ontana, January 16, 1496/7]. 4to (175x131 mm). [4], 271, [1] ff. (final blank). 2 cols., Gothic. Title with large woodcut device of publisher Fontana, decorative woodcut initials. Colophon (last 4 1/2... More about Tabula practice Gordonii dicte Lilium medicine

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1856. In: Supplemént aux comptes rendus hebdomaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. Vol. 1. Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1856. 4to (28x22,5 cm), pp. 379-563, 5 folding stipple-engraved and aquatint plates by Borromee after Bernard, Lackerbauer and Leveille, 3 hand-colored. Whole volume contains 28 (26 colored, 5 folded) engraved plates... More about Mémoire sur le pancréas et sur le role du suc pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs,...

Paris: Didot l'Aîné, 1787. 4to (253 x 190 mm). [4], lxvi, 331 [1] pp., 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine with morocco letting piece and 5 raised bands gilt in compartments (wear to extremities, old repair to spine ends, corners bumped, hinges partly split), marbled endpapers. Internally... More about Nouveaux Principes d'Hydraulique appliques a Tous les Objets d'Utilite, et particulierement aux...

Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 1496. Folio (281 x 177 mm). [98] leaves. Signatures: AA-EE⁶ FF⁴ GG-MM⁶ N⁴ O⁶ PP-RR⁶. First two tracts have own colophons dated 1495. Roman letter, 37 lines, capital spaces with guide letters, printer's device at end of first part and after final colophon, register leaf... More about Scriptores rei Militaris. Four parts in one: I. FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius. De re militari...

Paris: Didot, 1803. 8vo (203x123 mm). 2 volumes, viii, 543 pp.; 555 [1] pp., including half titles. Old library stamps to half titles. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, spine gilt (hinges repaired), some browning and spotting to pages, marbled endpapers. ----

Norman 221 - FIRST EDITION. Trained as a.... More about Essai de Statique Chimique

London: Robert Baldwin, 1814. An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy, by the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and Chemical Proportions. London: Robert Baldwin, 1814. 144 pp., including publisher's adverts at pp. [13]-144. [Bound with] WARDROP, James. On Blood-letting. An Account of the Curative Effects of the... More about An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy, by the Application of the...

Leipzig: Sumpt. Io. Ludovici Gleditschii & Maur. Georg. Weidmanni, 1714. 8vo (183 x 117 mm); [28], 258, [14] pp. 1 folding table. Signatures: a⁶, b⁸, A-R⁸. Contemporary carta rustica, ink lettered spine (soiling and spotting of covers, corners bumped). All pages uncut. Text heavily browned throughout. Provenance: P. Rocca(?), inscribed... More about Syntagma de ponderibus, et mensuris, quo veterum nummorum pretium, ac mensurarum quantitas...

Paris, London, Brussels: J. B. Baillière, 1828. Two volumes: text vol. 8vo (197 x 125 mm), atlas vol. 4to (342 x 265 mm). xv, 653 [1] pp; [5] 6-8 pp. Including half-title and errata in text volume; title, dedication and 10 plates in atlas volume, of which two in aquatint... More about Traité des maladies des enfans nouveaux-nés et a la mamelle. . . / Atlas d'anatomie...

London: A. Millar, 1744. 8vo (201 x 124 mm). [6], 458, [16] pp. Publisher's adverts leaf bound before title and another after final numbered page, 16 pp. index bound at the end. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label (hinges cracked but holding, spine ends chipped, little... More about The Life of the honourable Robert Boyle

Venice: Venturino Rossinello for Curzio Nav & Fratelli, 1540. 8vo (210 x 155 mm). [8], 168 leaves. Signatures: [+]⁸ A-X⁸. Title with woodcut border illustrating pieces of machinery and with the figure of Venice in the upper part, the Nav lion device below, second Nav device on title verso, 84... More about De la pirotechnia libri X. Dove ampiamente si tratta non solo di ogni sorte & diversita di...

Amsterdam: Johannes van Someren, 1681. 4to (260x210 mm), [8] 1-494 [2] pp., engraved title by Jan Luyken, 5 engraved plates and 60 engraved full-page text illustrations, library stamps, contemporary ink notes to front endpapers, waterstaining to upper edge, title page ruled in red, browning and soiling, p.135 with tear to... More about Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, infectorum,...