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Item #004192 Underweysung der messung, mit dem Zirckel un richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd...

DÜRER, Albrecht / APIAN, Peter [APIANUS, Petrus].

Underweysung der messung, mit dem Zirckel un richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen. / Instrument Buch.

Nürnberg/Ingolstadt: Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider / Cum gratia & privilegio caesareo ad triginta annos [P. Apianus], 1525. DÜRER, Albrecht. Underweysung der messung, mit dem Zirckel un richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen. Nuremberg: [Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider], 1525. 90 (of 90) unnumbered leaves, including final blank Q4. Signatures: A-N⁶ O-Q⁴. Numerous..... More

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Item #004072 Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung. In: Mitteilungen der Physikalischen Gesellschaft...

EINSTEIN, Albert.

Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung. In: Mitteilungen der Physikalischen Gesellschaft Zürich - Zum Andenken an Alfred Kleiner, no. 18, 1916, pp. 47-62.

Zurich: Gebr. Leemann & Co., 1916. 8vo (227 × 158 mm). Entire number: 143 pp. With portrait of Alfred Kleiner in heliogravure bound as frontispiece. Original printed wrappers (somewhat tanned at margins, little wear to spine ends, weak vertical strain from bending). Protected in custom-made red linen case. Provenance: Dr..... More

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Item #004094 New Feldt Artzny Buch von Kranckheiten und Schäden, so in Kriegen den Wundartzten...

FABRICIUS HILDANUS (FABRY VON HILDEN, Wilhelm).

New Feldt Artzny Buch von Kranckheiten und Schäden, so in Kriegen den Wundartzten gemeinlich fürfallen. Als, heisser unnd kalter Brandt, Braüne, unmässiges Bluten ausz der Nasen, rote Ruhr, geschossen Wunden, Gliedwasser, und wie die erharte, und krumme Glieder zu erweichen ... sein; item ein chirurgischer Reiszkasten; das ist, Beschreibung der Artzneyen und Instrumenten, damit ein Wundartzet im Krieg soll versehen sein.

Basel: Ludwig König, 1613. Two parts in one volume. 8vo (155 x 97 mm). [32], 17-374, [2], 1-276 pp. Main body text starts at p.17. Second part with separate pagnation. 1A4 is a blank. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, numerous woodcut text illustrations (mostly..... More

Price: 8,500 €

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Item #004102 Protomathesis: opus varium, ac scitu non minus utile quam iucundum, nunc primum in...

FINÉ, Oronce.

Protomathesis: opus varium, ac scitu non minus utile quam iucundum, nunc primum in lucem foeliciter excusum.

Paris: G. Morrhy & J. Pierre, 1530. Print date 1530-1532. Four parts in one volume. Folio (352 x 238 mm). [8], 207 (i.e., 209), [1] leaves. Leaves F8 and N6 within pagination are blanks, errata leaf at end. Title within architectural woodcut border by Lassere after Finé's design. Part titles..... More

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Item #003965 Klinische Studie über die halbseitige Cerebrallähmung der Kinder. Beiträge zur...

FREUD, Sigmund & RIE, Oscar.

Klinische Studie über die halbseitige Cerebrallähmung der Kinder. Beiträge zur Kinderheilkunde aus dem 1. öffentlichen Kinderkranken-Institute in Wien. Herausgegeben von Dr. Max Kassowitz. III. Heft.

Vienna: Moritz Perles, 1891. 8vo (260 x 167 mm). [2], 220, [2] pp., 8 folding tables. Entirely uncut and unopened. Original publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers with light edge chipping and fraying, spine panel with splitting of paper and loss at head and foot, minor repair to upper right corner of..... More

Price: 15,000 €

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Item #004083 Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Primùm à R.P. Gaspare...

GUERICKE, Otto von.

Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Primùm à R.P. Gaspare Schotto ... nunc verò ab ipso Auctore Perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis Experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam De Aeris Pondere circa Terram; de Virtutibus Mundanis, & Systemate Mundi Planetario; sicut & de Stellis Fixis, ac Spatio illo Immenso, quod tàm intra quam extra eas funditur.

Amsterdam: Johannes Jansson a Waesberge, 1672. Folio (310 x 197 mm). [16], 244, [6] pp., including engraved title, letterpress title, engraved portrait of the author, woodcut initials, two double-page engraved plates, and 21 engraved text illustrations (many full-page, pl. XVIII repeated, as is correct), final leaf of errata. Bound in..... More

Price: 25,000 €

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Item #004098 Traité d'anatomie pathologique generale et special ou description et...

LEBERT, Hermann.

Traité d'anatomie pathologique generale et special ou description et iconographie pathologique des alterations morbides tant liquides que solides observees dans ls corps humain.

Paris: J. B. Baillière & fils, 1857-1861. Print years: 1857-1861. Two parts bound in three volumes (2 text and 1 atlas). Large folio (455 x 297 mm). Text volumes: [4], ii, 760; [6], 733 [1] pp., including half titles, list of subscribers and index; atlas volume: [2], 46; [2], 44..... More

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Item #004076 Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst. Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der...

LILIENTHAL, Karl Wilhelm Otto.

Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst. Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der Flugtechnik. Auf Grund zahlreicher von O. und G. Lilienthal ausgeführter Versuche.

Berlin: R. Gaertners Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1889. 8vo (227 x 154 mm). viii, 187 [1] pp., colour lithographed frontispiece of storks in flight, 8 folding lithographed b&w plates bound at the end, illustrations and diagrams in text. Original publisher's decorated brown cloth, front board and spine gilt-lettered, printed endpapers (spine-ends and corners..... More

Price: 4,000 €

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Item #004079 Historie di Nicolo Machiavegli cittadino, et segretario Fiorentino, al santissimo et...

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo.

Historie di Nicolo Machiavegli cittadino, et segretario Fiorentino, al santissimo et beatissimo padre signor nostro Clemente Settimo Pontefice Massimo.

Rome: Antonio Blado, 1532. 25 March 1532. 4to (198 x 135 mm). [4], 5-179 [1] leaves (complete). Title page with printer's device. Signatures: [Latin cross]⁴ A-Y⁸. Bound in later limp vellum. Little age-toning internally, some marginal light waterstaining in places; 11 leaves (G2-H5) with excellent, unobtrusive paper repair, of what..... More

Price: 25,000 €

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Item #004089 Mao zhuxi yulu [Quotations from Chairman Mao]. Zedong MAO, MAO Tse-Tung

MAO, Zedong [MAO Tse-Tung].

Mao zhuxi yulu [Quotations from Chairman Mao].

Beijing: Central Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1964. Printed [May 1964]. 16mo (139 x 102 mm). [8], 2, 2, 250 pp. Half-title printed in red, title-page printed in red and green, portrait of Chairman Mao printed in sepia, uncorrected calligraphic endorsement leaf of Lin Biao printed in..... More

Price: 5,500 €

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Item #004064 Beschryving eener ongemeen groote electrizeer-machine, geplaatst in Teyler's...

MARUM, Martinus van.

Beschryving eener ongemeen groote electrizeer-machine, geplaatst in Teyler's Museum te Haarlem - Description d'une très grande machine électrique, placée dans le Muséum de Teyler à Haarlem, et des expériments faits par le moyen de cette machine / Eerste vervolg der proefneemingen, gedaan met Teyler's electrizeer-machine - Première continuation des expériences faites par le moyen de la machine électrique Teylerienne / Tweede vervolg der proefneemingen gedaan met Teyler's elektrizeer-machine - Seconde continuation des expériences, faites par le moyen de la machine électrique Teylerienne.

Haarlem: J. Enschedé en Zoonen and J. van Walré, 1785. 1785-1795. 4to (258 x 208 mm). Three parts and Supplement bound in one volume. Each volume with two title-pages in Dutch and French, parallel text in Dutch and French facing each other. Pagination: Vol. I: xxxi [1], 205 [1] pp...... More

Price: 22,000 €

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Item #004104 Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt: darinnen aller Monarchien...

MÜNSTER, Sebastian.

Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt: darinnen aller Monarchien Keyserthumben Königreichen Fürstenthumben Graff- und Herrschafften Länderen Stätten und Gemeinden; wie auch aller geistlichen Stifften Bisthumben Abteyen Klöstern Ursprung Regiment Reichthumb Gewalt und Macht Verenderung Auff- und Abnehmen zu Fried- und Kriegszeiten sampt aller ubrigen Beschaffenheit.

Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1628. Folio (379 x 237 mm). [14] leaves (including engraved title), 26 double-page maps, 1752 (i.e. 1748) pages. Pages 1206-9 omitted, pp. 1039-41 should be 1039-[43]. Blank leaf ):(8 present. Letterpress title printed in red and black; engraved additional title by M. Merian, 26 double-page woodcut maps..... More

Price: 17,500 €

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Item #004006 Hocus Pocus oder Taschen-Spieler. Darin die Kunst auss der Taschen zu spielen, gar...

PILULAND, Elias [HOCUS POCUS JUNIOR].

Hocus Pocus oder Taschen-Spieler. Darin die Kunst auss der Taschen zu spielen, gar deutlich beschrieben wird, auch mit schönen Figuren erkläret, dass ein Unwissender hierauss nach weniger Ubung dieselbe Kunst völlig erlernen könne.

unknown: unknown, 1667. 8vo (152 x 92 mm). [16], 134 (i.e., 136), [4] pp. Typographic title with woodcut vignette, additional title with large woodcut bound before, numerous woodcut text illustrations, the final two unnumbered leaves and both title-leaves verso with Latin text. Bound in its original full sheep, boards blind-tooled..... More

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Item #004059 On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. In:...

TURING, Alan Mathison.

On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2nd series, vol. 42, pp. 230-265.

London: C.F. Hodgson & Son, 1937. On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2nd series, vol. 42, pp. 230-265. [WITH:] On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem: A Correction. In: Proceedings of The London Mathematical Society, 2nd Series, vol..... More

Price: 45,000 €

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Item #004092 The most excellent workes of chirurgerie, made and set foorthe by Maister John Vigon...

VIGO, Giovanni de.

The most excellent workes of chirurgerie, made and set foorthe by Maister John Vigon head chirurgien of oure tyme in Italie; translated into English; wherunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and vnknowen symples, belongyng to the arte.

London: Thomas East and Henry Middleton, 1571. Print date 17 July 1571. Folio (274 x 196 mm). [6], CCLXX, [16] leaves. Black letter type printed in double columns, title with woodcut headpiece, woodcut initials of various sizes and styles, 30 pp. of index at end, last leaf a blank. Signatures..... More

Price: 12,000 €

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Item #004191 On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different...

VOLTA, Alessandro / HERSCHEL, William.

On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different kinds. In a letter from Mr. Alexander Volta, F.R.S. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pavia, to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. / Investigation of the Powers of the prismatic Colours to heat and illuminate Objects. / Experiments on the Refrangibility of the invisible Rays of the Sun. / Experiments on the Solar and on the Terrestrial Rays that occasion Heat.

London: W. Bulmer & Co. for Peter Elmsley, 1800. VOLTA, Alessandro. On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different kinds. In a letter from Mr. Alexander Volta, F.R.S. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pavia, to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart..... More

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