Paris: Compagnie des libraires, 1716. 12mo (162 x 93 mm). [16], 447 [1]; [8], 509, [3] pp., engraved frontispiece facing title-page in each volume and 18 engraved plates by Antione Clouzier (8 in vol. I and 10 in vol. II), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata leaf to each volume... More
Treviso: Michele Manzolo, 1480. 30 June 1480. Folio (288 x 198 mm). 167 (of 168) unfoliated leaves, lacking the initial blank leaf only. Signatures: a8 (-a1) b6 c8 d6 e8 f6 g8 h6 i8 k6 l8 m6 n8 o6 p8 q6 r8 s6 t8 u6 x6, A-B8 C6. 44 lines... More
La Haye [i.e. Paris]: Coustellier, 1742. 12mo (160 x 96 mm). [6], 137 [1] pp. Signatures: *4 A-E12 F8 G2 (-G2). Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved vignettes by Fokke after De Sève, bound without the final blank leaf G2. Contemporary French mottled calf, plain spine... More
London: Printed for W. Sandby, in Fleet Street. [by Richardson and Clark], 1766. 8vo (153 x 94 mm). [3], vi-xv, [1], 73 [1] pp. Printer's name from colophon on final page. Later (late 19th century) card-boards, spine with gilt-lettered morocco label (spine slightly chipped at head). Text very little browned... More
![[Opera]. Prohemium Marsilii Ficini Florentini in Plotinum ad Magnanimum Laurentium Medicem patriae servatorem. . PLOTINUS.](/pictures/thumb/002993_01.jpg?v=1534688561)
Florence: Antonio di Bartolomeo Miscomini, 1492. 7 May 1492. Folio (330 x 220 mm). 441 (of 442) unnumbered leaves (lacking initial blank a1 only). Signatures: a10 (-a1) b8 c-n10 o12 p10 q-z10 &10 aa-uu10, [chi]2. 45 lines, roman type, 3- to 9-line initial spaces with printed guides, woodcut printer's device... More
Geneva: Robert Estienne, 1554. Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, co[n]tra prodigiosos errores Michaelis Serveti Hispani: ubi ostenditur haereticos iure gladii coercendos esse,... [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, 1554. pp. 261 [1]. Signatures: a-q8 r4 [-r4], bound without blank leaf r4. Printer's woodcut device to title, floral woodcut initial, list of subscribers... More
![De triplici vita libri tres : primus de uita sana: siue de cura ualitudinis eorum: qui incumbunt studio litterarum : secundus de uita longa : tertius de uita coelitus comparanda : apologia quaedam: in qua de medicina: astrologia: uita mu[n]di : ite[m] de magis: qui Christum statim natum salutauerunt : quod necessaria sit ad uitam securitas & tranquillitas animi : praeclarissimarum sententiaru[m] huius operis breuis annotatio. Marsilio FICINO.](/pictures/thumb/002977_01.jpg?v=1532274226)
Venice: Benedictus Hectoris, 1501. 27. May 1501. 4to (205 x 137 mm). 3 parts in one volume. 118 unnumbered leaves, including index and end and final blank leaf C6. Signatures: a-z4 &4 [revc]4 [rum]4 A-B4 C6. Latin text in Roman type, with Gothic title. Imprint from colophon on A4v reading... More
Paris: Chez Abel l'Angelier au premier pilier de la grand'Salle du Palais, 1602. 8vo (192 x 127 mm). [8], 1165, [77] pp. Signatures: a4, A-4C8, 4D-4E4, 4F-4I8, 4K6. Engraved title page, small woodcut initials, index and final blank at end. A portrait of Montaigne (not called for in this edition)... More
![Rethorica Diuina de Oratione domini Guilermi Parisien[sis]. (Rhetorica divina). Guilelmus ALVERNUS, ARVERNUS or William of Auvergne.](/pictures/thumb/002953_01.JPG?v=1532274177)
Freiburg i. Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Kilian Fischer), 1491. Not after 1491. Folio (303 x 210 mm). 58 unfoliated leaves. Signatures: (*)8 a-b6 c4 d-f6 g4 h-i6. Colophon on i6r: "Explicit Rethorica diuina de oratione domini Guilermi parisiensis." Printed in blackletter, 2 columns, 51-52 lines, red painted lombards and rubricated throughout... More
Ingolstadt: Gregor Hänlin for Johann Wagner, 1647. 8vo (149 x 95 mm). [16], 636, [52] pp. Title with large engraved vignette by W. Kilian of a werewolf-like creature captioned 'Venite et videte opera DOMINI, quae posuit prodigia super terram'. Contemporary full vellum, yapp edges, remnants of ties, spine with hand-lettered... More
Brussels: Por Huberto Antonio, 1618. 8vo (168 x 101 mm). [8], 604 (i.e. 504) pp. Signatures: *4 A-Z8 Aa-Hh8 Ii4. Page numbers 368-467 omitted. Bound in contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, yapp edges (slight soiling and browning of vellum, laces gone). Text somewhat browned throughout, occasional minor spotting, tiny... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Volume one only. 8vo (235 x 148 mm). xxviii [4], 1-559, 556-597 [1] pp. including half-title, engraved frontispiece, errata leaf, and 16 engraved plates (including one folding map) and 2 folding maps loose in front cover pocket. Original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers... More
Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 1479. 20 September 1479. Folio (369 x 270 mm). 406 leaves with signatures and foliation: [1], I-CCCXCIX, [6]. 58 lines and headline, gothic letter, in two columns, spaces for initial capitals, with a 12-line initial "F" on fol. a2r supplied in red and blue with... More
Paris: Chereau et Joubert, 1741. Large folio (513 x 330 mm). Engraved title, two leaves of engraved explanatory text, and 14 engraved plates of anatomical illustrations by Huquier after Bouchardon, numbered 2 to 15. Contemporary blue papercard boards (rubbed, extremities worn, spine and joints chipped). Internally little browned only, light... More
Florence: Vincenzo Batelli, 1843. Large folio (468 x 330 mm). [5] 6-59 [1] pp. Including half-title, letterpress title, 232 lithographic plates (one double-page) by Ridolfi, Batelli and Stefani based on drawings by Ottavio Muzzi, of which 169 are water-colored by hand. Index bound at the end with the text in... More
Basel: Henricus Petri, 1557. 8vo (161 x 113 mm). [30], 1194, [64] pp. Woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, two folding plates, folding table, woodcut initials, and several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (2 full page). 19th century half calf over marbled boards, plain spine with gilt-lettered... More
London: Macmillan, 1939. I: Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction. - II: Physical evidence for the division of heavy nuclei under neutron bombardment (Frisch only). - Products of the fission of the uranium nucleus. - III: Liberation of Neutrons in the Nuclear Explosion of Uranium... More
Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1644. Principia philosophiae. Amsterdam, L. Elzevir, 1644, [24], 310, [2] pp., device on title, woodcut illustrations, some full page, with the blank leaves at end of preliminaries and at the end; [bound with] Specimina philosophiae: seu Dissertatio de methodo recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae... More
London: Royal Society, 1859. Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 149,1859, pp. 43-48, 2 engraved plates. London: Royal Society, 1859. 4to (304 x 232 mm). Original plain wrappers (soiled and little frayed), 2 engraved plates of fossil bones. Text and plates little age-toned only, some... More
London: Printed by W. Nicol, 1827. Offprint from: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royl Society of London. 4to (302 x 236 mm). [2], 14 pp. Bound without wrappers, title-page and final page dust soiled and frayed in margins, light fraying and marginal dust soiling to text pages. Provenance: Author's presentation... More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1932. 8vo (215 x 160 mm). 210 pp. Twelve colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations to text, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, trimmed pictorial dust jacket front wrapper tipped in between first endpaper. Text pages with minor spotting to edges and outer margins. Very... More
Leiden / Basel: Johann & Daniel Elzevir / Typis Johann. Conradi a` Mechel, 1654. HUYGENS, Christiaan. De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Johann & Daniel Elzevir, 1654. [8], 71 [1] pp. Woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, errata on final page... More
Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900. 8vo (222 x 143 mm). [4], 371, [5] pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decoated in gilt (extremities slightly rubbed), marbled edges, few gatherings working loose but holding. Text little age-toned only, faint staining at fore-margin of title page, otherwise... More
Carlsruhe: ex officina Christiani Friderici Müller, 1822. 3 Volumes comprising two volumes of tables, double elephant folio (717 x 531 mm), and one volume of text printed in German and Latin, 8vo (220 x 170 mm). xv [1], 379 [1] pp.; atlas volumes with 38 hand-coloured lithographic plates, each accompanied... More
London: The Royal Society of London, 1888. 1888-1923, volume 178 to 211, bound in 33 (of 34) volumes, lacking vol. 182 (1891) only. Series B present only, containing papers of a biological character. 4to (275 x 215 mm). Contemporary calf or half calf, leather generally dry and rubbed, few volumes... More
