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

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. Offprint from: Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris. Memoires; vol. 22, 1896. 66 pp., 15 photographic images (1 heliogravure and 14 collotypes) of the moon on 10 leaves of plates, each plate with printed overlay with principal features marked and named, caption title on first page..... More

Solingen: Johannes Soter, 1538. 8vo (160 x 101 mm). [8], 337 (i. e., 339) [1]; [8], 30, [2] leaves. Signatures: A⁸ a-z⁸ A-T⁸ V⁴ 2A⁸; A-D⁸ including blanks A7-8, V4, and ²D8. Woodcut initials, separate title-page to second part. Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, spine title in ink, additionally..... More

Bologna: Clementi Ferroni, 1653. 4to (228 x 164 mm). [16], 543 [1] pp., half-title, woodcut publisher's device on title, woodcut diagrams in text, historiated woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces, some mispaginations. Contemporary limp vellum, ink-lettered spine, original endpapers (head of spine frayed, vellum over upper hinge partially split, light..... More

London: Printed by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John Nourse, 1736. 4to (245 x 185 mm). iv, ix-xxiv, 1-140 [2], [143]-[144], [1] 144-339 [1], [2] pp. Engraved plate bound as frontispiece facing title, several woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut initials, head-and tailpices, divisional title, errata/advertisement leaf [T]2 here bound at..... More

Grenoble / Paris: Cuchet / Nyon, Nee & Masquelier, 1778. Large folio (432 x 290 mm). [8], xviii, [2], 460 pp., including 2 engraved vignettes, woodcut initials, approbation leaf, general index, and 20 engraved plates (one double-page). Near contemporary calf, plain spine richly tooled in gilt and with gilt-lettered label..... More