Augsburg: Michael Manger, 1567. STOER, Lorenz. Geometria et Perspectiva. Hierjnn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreiner[n] jn eingelegter Arbait dienstlich. auch vil andern Leibhabern zu sonder[n] gefallen geordnet unnd gestelt. Augsburg: Michael Manger, 1567. 12 leaves (complete). Chiaroscuro woodcut title-page printed in black and light brown, 11 woodcut plates, colophon on..... More

Geneva: Cramer, 1759. 12mo (163 x 95 mm). 299, [7] pp. Signatures: A-M¹² N⁸. Woodcut title vignette, repeated on p. 193 and 266, other woodcut ornaments and vignettes in text, binder's 'avis au reliure' leaf N8 and blank leaf N7 bound at the end. Leaves B4, B9, D6 and D7..... More

Ulrich Zell: Cologne, 1470. [Vita et transitus Sancti Hieronymi]. Two parts in one volume: I. Epistola de morte Hieronymi. Incipit epistola beati Eusebii ad sanctum Damasum portuensem episcopum et Theodosium Romanorum senatorem de morte gloriosi confessoris Hieronymi doctoris eximii. II. [Pseudo-] AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, Epistola ad Cyrillum Hierosolymitanum de magnificentiis Hieronymi..... More

Paris: Robert le Mangnier, 1571. 8vo (152 x 104 mm), [8], 179 (i.e., 280), [12]; [8], 64 ff. Colophon leaf OO3 with portrait of the author. Signatures: ã⁸ A-NN⁸ OO⁴ (OO4 final blank); a⁸, A-H⁸. Printer's device on title pages, woodcut head pieces and initials, second work leaves [5]-[7] with..... More

Berlin: G. Reimer, 1839. 12mo (135 x 100 mm). [4], 280 pp. Illustrated with 6 hand-colored lithographed plates (of which one bound as frontispiece) and 6 woodcut tailpieces, after E.T.A. Hoffmann. Contemporary red morocco backed marbled boards, spine with gilt ruling, original endpapers, marbled edges (small repairs to spine, some..... More

Warrington: William Eyres, 1777. Two parts bound in one volume. 1777-1784. 4to (280 x 204 mm). Part I: [8], 489, [23] pp., 3 folding engraved plates. Part II: [8], 286, [10] pp., 18 engraved plates (15 folding). Includes first blank leaf A1 to part II and half-titles to both parts..... More

1845. 160 x 175 mm. Salt print from calotype negative, mounted on card, verso with unrelated pencil note in Calvert Jones' hand [Schaaf no. 326]. Condition: some fading to image as usual.
Henry Fox Talbot set up a photographic studio in Reading in 1844 (the 'Reading Establishment'), and many of..... More

Rome: ex typographia Varesij, 1663. Two parts in one volume. Folio (329 x 230 mm). 148, 23 [1] pp., including woodcut with motto of Kircher on title page, woodcut initials, one engraved folding plate and two letterpress folding tables, appendix with separate pagination. Bound in contemporary vellum over thin boards..... More

Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, 1556. Folio (320 x 195 mm). [10], [2: blank], 538 [i.e. 502], [74] pp. With woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf verso, large woodcut initials, 2 folding woodcut plates bound after i2, 273 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (many full page)..... More

Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1910. 8vo (224 x 157 mm). 12 pp. Contemporary green cloth, gilt lettered spine, original printed pictorial wrappers bound in. Minor dust soiling of wrappers, little age toning, but generally crisp and clean throughout. ----

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, offprint issue (or separate printing) of..... More

Geneva/Paris: B. Glaser/Anselin, 1842. Genève / Paris, B. Glaser / Anselin, 1842. Entire volume no. 41, 8vo (207 x 129 mm). [5], 6-420 pp, including half-title and a folding table. Bound in contemporary half-calf, blue marbled boards, spine with gilt decoration and two orange labels lettered in gilt, yellow-dyed edges..... More

Prague: Vydalo Aventinum, 1920. 8vo (222 x 150 mm). [1-7] 8-96 [97-100] pp. Original printed wrappers, uncut, unbound/unsewed as issued with gatherings loosely inserted (first and final leaves glued to wrappers), professional paper restorations to portion of spine (loss of 3 letters) and wrapper edges, upper wrapper with minor edge..... More

Paris: Christian Wechel, 1535. Folio (318 x 210 mm). 40 unnumbered leaves (of which 10 folding), woodcut printer's device on title-page and final leaf h6 verso, 21 woodcut illustrations and diagrams, historiated initials, errata on h5v. Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c⁴+chi1 d⁴ e⁶ f⁴+chi1 g⁴ h⁶, with extensions to b1, b4..... More