Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. March 24, 1490. Chancery 4to (228 x 177 mm). 442 unnumbered leaves including initial blank a1. Signatures: a-p⁸ q¹⁰ t-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-N⁸ O-P⁶ Q-Z⁸ aa-bb⁸ cc¹⁰ dd-gg⁸ hh¹⁰ (a1 blank). Text in double columns, 60 lines, types 2:130G, 3:62G, 4:92G. Title..... More

Rome: Tipografia delle belle arti, 1862. Sammelband with 5 tracts by Tito Armellini mainly on barometry: Un nuovo barometro moltiplicatore-idrargiro-statico - invenzione del prof. Tito Armellini. Rome: tipografia delle Bella Arti, 1862. 30, [2] pp., title-page with engraved vignette, 1 folding engraved plate. [Bound with:] Due nuovi barometri: invenzioni di..... More

Venice: Remondini, 1781. Two parts in two volumes. 8vo (195 x 135 mm). 446, [2] pp., 11 folding engraved plates; 356 pp., 21 folding engraved plates. All pages uncut. Bound in contemporary Italian carta rustica. Light fraying and marginal dust-soiling, but generally quite crisp and clean. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library..... More

Paris: Carilian-Goeury et Dalmont, 1846. 8vo (224 x 141 mm). viii, 194 pp., including half-title. Later half calf over xylographic paper, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered and ruled, original printed wrappers bound in, pages uncut and mostly unopened (light rubbing of extremities). Text only little age-toned, wrappers dust-soiled, minor..... More

Vicenza: Tipografia Parise, 1810. 4to (257 x 190 mm). lviii, 84 pp., folding letterpress table. Original publisher's printed wrappers, all pages uncut (chipped and partly split at spine, soiled, slightly frayed and dog-eared at outer edges). Text very little browned, light dust-soiling and fraying at outer margins, occasional minor spotting..... More

Paris: Jean Boudot, 1705. In: Histoire de l'Academie des Sciences, avec les Mémoires, Année MDCCIII, pp. 58-63 (Histoire), pp. 85-89 (Memoires). Two parts in one volume. Paris: Boudot, 1705. 4to (241 x 182 mm). Title page with large woodcut vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces, engraved historiated frontispiece, the Mémoires with..... More

Nürnberg: Hieronymus Formschneider, 1532. 22 Nov. 1534. Two works in one volume. Folio (323 x 208 mm). 79 (of 80, lacking blank) and 55 (of 56, lacking blank) unnumbered leaves. Signatures: A-E⁶ F⁴ G-N⁶ O⁴ (-O4); a-k⁶ (-k6). Gatherings b to k of second work misbound after gathering A of..... More

Bologna: heirs of Victorio Benacci for Girolamo Bernia, 1665. 4to (235 x 180 mm). [24], 535 [1], [16] pp. Signatures: [pi]² a⁴ b⁶ A-Z⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 3A-3Z⁴. Including first blank [pi]1, title page printed in red and black and with large engraved vignette, additional letterpress title also printed in red and..... More

Paris: chez l'auteur et Deterville, 1801. 8vo (198 x 122 mm). viii, 432 pp., including half-title, 8 letterpress tables (6 folding). Contemporary calf, plain spine with gilt-lettered morocco label and gilt decoration, boards with double fillet border, gilt-ruled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers (hinges expertly repaired). Little even..... More

London: Longman, Rees, Orma, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. 8vo (230 x 145 mm). [8], 93 [1] pp., hand-coloured lithographed map and 16 lithographed plates (5 folding, one bound as frontispiece facing title), 16-page publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Pages untrimmed, except for the adverts. Contemporary cloth, cloth and..... More

Capetown: Health and Medical Publishing Group, 1967. In: South African Medical Journal, Capetown, Vol. 41, No. 48, December 30, 1967, pp. 1271-1274. 4to (275 x 214 mm). Entire issue (devoted to human heart transplantation), pp. lviii (interspersed adverts), 1257-1278. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (slight bumping to lower corner)..... More

London: R. Brugis for the author, 1709. 4to (203 x 159 mm). [14], 194 pp. Small engraved plate inserted between pp. 160 & 161 and 7 folding engraved plates at the end. Bound without blanks. Contemporary panelled calf (hinges restored, leather rubbed and worn). Text slightly browned and spotted throughout..... More

Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1694. 4to (233 x 172 mm). [8], 929, [7] pp. Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, woodcut initials and tailpieces, some mispaginations. Contemporary English panneled calf, gilt-lettered spine label (repairs to foot of spine and corners, boards scratched, extremities rubbed). Text slightly browned..... More