Various: Various.. Items have various states of preservation, wrappers mostly browned and dust-soiled and with occasional edge-chipping and folds, text generally very little browned, iron staples of Nature issues mostly rusty. The collection comprises:
1. Energy of secondary Röntgen radiation. Offprint from: Proceedings of the Physical Society of London. Vol..... More

London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1801. Two parts in one volume. London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1801. 4to (261 x 212 mm). xv [1], 175 [1]; 198, 2 pp., including half-title with imprint 'Knight and Compton, printers', engraved frontispiece portrait of author printed on strong paper..... More

Wittenberg: Casparus Heiden, 1624. Sammelband including three works. Astrologia Seu De Stellarum Natura, affectionibus, & effectionibus. Exercitatio : Qua difficultates praecipuae, de Stellarum Definitione, caußis, Ordine, . . . succincte & nervose ecpediuntur; Cum Indice Quaestionum. Editio Septima Correctior mendos a tertia & melior . . . [Wittenberg]: Casparus Heiden..... More

Turin: Pei Tipi del Nobili e. Comp. 1835. 8vo (195 x 129 mm). [13], 4-37 [1] pp., including half-title and 1 folding astronomical diagram. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled and spotted, spine chipped, light browning and foxing of text. ----

FIRST EDITION of this small treatise on the appearance..... More

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1840. 4to (307 x 245 mm). viii pp. and 72 engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand, each accompanied by a protective tissue paper and explanatory text leaf. Pages i-ii misbound after iv, v-vi after viii. Contemporary half morocco, spine with 5 raised bands..... More

Warrington: printed by W. Eyres for J. Johnson, 1778. 12mo (165 x 100 mm). vi, [2], 400 pp., advertisement leaf for J. Johnson bound after preface. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers (rebacked, boards rubbed and soiled). Slightly browned internally, minor occasional foxing (stronger to title..... More

Bologna: Colle Ameno, 1758. 4to (310 x 215 mm). [12], 378, [4] pp. Including woodcut pictorial initial, woodcut head- and tailpieces, imprimatur and errata leaf at end. Bound in contemporary full vellum over boards, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges (soiling and staining of vellum, wear..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1903. Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences, Vol. 46. With 13 collotype plates. [4], 360, [4] pp. Original printed boards, section missing from foot of spine, edges foxed. ----

Dibner, Heralds of Science 163; Sparrow 20; PMM 393; Honeyman I, 263; Norman 159. - The first printing of Becquerel's..... More

Berlin: Simon Schropp & Soc. 1834. Lithographed lunar map by C. VOGEL after W. BEER and J.H. MÄDLER. 4 sections, mounted on a single sheet of brown linen and folding, 95 x 99 cm (total size). Berlin: Simon Schropp & Soc., 1834. Slightly foxed, with owner's entry of A. SCHWEIZER..... More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821. Oblong folio (274 x 380 mm). viii, 134 pp., 20 etched plates (of which 17 with full or partial hand-coloring), woodcut text illustration. Bound in original publisher's morocco-backed cloth, gilt-lettered morocco label to upper board, gilt-lettered spine (upper joint partly split, heavy..... More

London: T. Payne, P. Elmsly, and E. Brooke, 1776. 8vo (198 x 126 mm). [4], lvii, [3], 208 pp. Including half-title. Bound in 19th-century green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (corners slightly bumbed, some wear to spine ends, extremeties rubbed). Text lightly browned, occasional minor spotting and dust-soiling, some pencil markings at..... More

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

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