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
[Turin]: [printer unknown], 1775. 4to (270 x 210 mm). [8], 54, [2] pp. Signatures: [pi]4 A-G4. With the first blank leaf [pi]1 and the final leaf of Imprimatur G4. Bound in 20th-century patterend paste paper boards. All pages untrimmed. Text very little browned only, occasional minor spotting, small wormtracks to..... 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. 1837. Berlin: Simon Schropp, 1837. 4to (295 x 235mm), xviii, 412 pp, 5 wood-engraved plates. Later morocco-backed cloth (lightly sunfaded, new endpapers). Text little browned (plates a bit stronger) and with light scattered foxing, plates with waterstaining towards lower corner. Provenance: William Porthouse (inscribed on..... 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
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
London: Longman etc. 1816. 4to (271 x 215 mm). xx, 49 [1] pp. Half-title, 9 etched plates after Bell (4 folding), bound without advert leaf. Contemporary half-calf over sprinkled boards, rebacked and recornered, with spine ruled and lettered in gilt, original endpapers (minor rubbing of boards and extremities). Light, mostly..... More
Pavia. I. Termo-barometro inventato e descritto. Offprint from: Giornale di Fisica ecc. di Pavia, VI, 1827. Pavia: Nella stamperia Fusi, 1828. 4to (271 x 205 mm). 15 [1] pp., 1 engraved plate of the barometer bound as frontispiece. [Bound with:] II. Nuove sperienze ed osservazioni fisico-chimiche istituite cogli elettro-motori. Offprint..... 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
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
Paris: Baillière, 1855. [Oeuvres diverses]. Paris: Baillière, 1855-1878. A fine set of 10 works in 13 volumes uniformily bound in fine contemporary red three-quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt-lettered spines and gilt top-edges (other edges untrimmed), marbled endpapers, little rubbing to extremities. Half-title to each volume. Text with scattered..... More
Oxford: E Theatro Seldonio, 1688. 4to (183 x 99 mm). [16], 261, [83] pp., 4 engraved plates (3 folding, 1 on Chinese weights), woocut title vignette, initials and tailpieces. Contemporary polished sprinkled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, boards with some blind- and gilt-tooling, upper board with gilt embossed crowned..... 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
Basel: Johann Rudolph & Emanuel Thurneisen, 1713. 4to (210 x 170 mm). [4], 35 [1], 306 pp. Woodcut title device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams in text, 1 folding plate with woodcut diagrams and 2 folding letterpress tables. Signatures: [pi]2 a-d4 e2, A-2P4 2Q2. Final section on tennis..... More
Copenhagen: Auguste Friderich Stein, 1784. 4to (257 x 213 mm). 54, [2] pp. including final blank. Modern plain wrappers. Untrimmed with pages unopened. Some minor foxing and light marginal browning. ----
DSB II, p.56. Very rare first edition of a prize essay by the French mathematician Jean Bernoulli in which..... 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
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
London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo., xxviii, 408 pp.; vii, 453 pp., 9 engraved plates, some folding. Contemporary half cloth. -
Lawrie 55. Ron, Bib. Tinctoria, 101. Manning 10; Duveen, p.74 (for 1st) - Second Edition ("Although the pigments Berthollet considers were for the dyeing industry, some were also..... More
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
Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1810. 4to (225 x 180 mm). vi, 72 (i.e. 82), [2] pp., including errata leaf at end. Bound in 19th century marbled paper card, gilt-lettered paper spine label (paper chipped ant spine ends, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). Printed on blue paper. Little age-toning, minor scattered foxing. Provenance: Georg..... More
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
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
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1863. xx, 712 pp. 77 woodcut-engravings in text. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (corners bumped), inner front hinge broken but firm, minor browning to text. ----
Garrison-Morton 5608; Heirs of Hippocrates 1952; Norman 235. - FIRST EDITION. "Billroth, the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery, may..... More
Paris: Garnery, 1810. 4to (272 x 218 mm). [4], 268 pp., including half-title, woodcut vignette on title, 9 engraved folding plates at end. Original sprinkled paper-wrappers, printed paper-label to spine (paper-label and spine ends partially chipped, upper wrapper partially split towards foot, wrappers slightly creased and corners dog-eared). All pages..... More
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
