Dublin: W.F. Wakeman, 1833. 8vo (230 x 140 mm). xxv [1], 332 pp. 12 pp. publisher's advertisement bound in before title, errata on final preliminary page. Original publisher's card boards with original paper lettering piece on spine (upper joints cracked but cords holding firmly, lettering piece rubbed and chipped, spine..... More

London: E. Flesher, H. Brome and N. Hooke, 1672. 4to (204 x 148 mm). [52], 534, [2] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, title-page printed in red and black, type-set initials, 2 engraved folding plates, small woodcut text diagrams on pp. 384 and 456, erata leaf at end, bound..... More

Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, Krais & Hoffmann, 1845. Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Volume 1 to 5. Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, 1845-1862. 8vo (210 x 129 mm). Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, [1851]. Oblong folio (283 x 337 mm). Text volumes: xvi, 493 [1]; [2]..... More

Nürnberg: In der Schrag'schen Buchhandlung, 1820. 8vo (199 x 118 mm). Entire volume: viii, 1-50, [4], 55-96, [4]; 101-204; 245-256, [4]; 261-384, [4]; 389-520, [4] pp., folding table facing p. 50 and 2 folding engraved plates; pp. 205-44 are skipped (pagination error). Contemporary sprinkled half calf over marbled boards, spine..... More

Geneva: de Tournes, 1768. 6 volumes. 4to (245 x 201 mm). Each volume with general title and index bound at the end; each part with separate title-page and pagination. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, author's portrait by Pierre Savart, 2 folding letterpress tables, woodcut text illustrations and diagrams, and a total..... More

Paris: l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 1780. 12mo (198 x 125 mm). 3 folding engraved plates (including 1 map). Original marbled wrappers, spine with modern hand-lettered paper label (slight edge fraying and dust soiling). All pages uncut. Text crisp and clean throughout with just a little marginal dust-soiling and age-toning of..... More

Venice: Franciscus Francesci and Johann Criegher, 1568. Folio (317 x 215 mm). [12], 510, [46] pp. Large woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut anatomical illustrations (some full-page), woodcut initials and head-pieces, leaf 2d5 (p.321) contains figures to be cut out and superimposed on the illustration on 2d3 is left intact..... More

Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1677. Folio (355 x 220 mm). Three parts in one volume. [20], 119 [1], 106, [2], 78, [20] pp. Title with engraved vignette, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations in text, 2 engraved plates, separate half-titles to second and third part, bound without blank leaf dd*2. Signatures: Signatures: a-e²..... More

London: Richard Taylor, 1833. 4to (278 x 220 mm). Without separate title-page, 25 (of 91) figures (no. 25 to 49) only of the 8 engraved plates of the nebulae and clusters, cut out and pasted on 4 separate leaves at the end. Bound in near contemporary green cloth, gilt lettered..... More

Berlin: Selbstverlag / chez l'auteur, 1801. Large Folio (428 x 260 mm). viii, 32, 96 pp. Text in two columns in German and French, list of subscribers fo the Uranographie on pp. vii-viii. Bound in contemporary full tree calf, double gilt fillet borders, spine richly gilt-decorated and with black morocco..... More

Robert Oppenheim (Gustav Schmidt): Berlin, 1895. Vol. 32, 1895-1896, numbers 13-24, bound in one volume. Berlin: Robert Oppenheim (Gustav Schmidt), 1896. xv [1], (201)-408 pp.. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered (extremities somewhat rubbed). With numerous art supplements, pictorial plates and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Emil..... More

Geneva: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. 4to (276 x 178 mm). [4] [1] 2-115 [1] pp., including half-title and double-page chromolithograph map drawn by B. Müller from the author's instructions and lithographed by Pilet & Cougnard, Geneva. Original publisher's printed wrappers, all pages uncut (slight wear of paper over spine with..... More

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1869. 4to (210 x 140 mm). 16 pp. Drop title, two lithographed plates. Modern thin cardboards, preserved in percaline folder with printed paper label to front cover. Light browning and marginal dust-soiling. ----

Norman 1369. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING, SECOND ISSUE (corrected February 1870). "The correction entailed..... More