Paris: Crapelet for Duprat, Bachelier, 1799. Paris: Crapelet for Duprat, An VII [1799] (vol. I-II), Crapelet for Duprat, An XI-1802 (vol. III), Courcier, An XIII-1805 (vol. IV), Bachelier, 1825 (i.e., 1823-1827) (vol. V). Bachelier, 1829 (2nd edition, vol. I-II). 4to (270 x 215 mm). Half-title to each volume, vol. III..... More

Frankfurt am Main: Godtfriedt Tampach, 1610. 4to (185 x 156 mm). 90 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: )(⁴, )()(⁴ A-V⁴ X². Including title with small woodcut device, 2 woodcut initials, 4 preliminary leaves of dedication to Markgraf Georg Friedrich von Baden, 3 leaves of registrum, and final blank leaf X2. Bound in..... More

Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 4to (296 x 210 mm). [1-3] 4-20 pp., text diagrams. Original publisher's printed wrappers (very light fading along spine and edges). Text very little age-tonend, mostly to outer margins. An almost pristine copy. ----

Dibner 168; Norman 963; DSB VI, pp. 16-17. FIRST..... More

Innsbruck: Daniel Agricola, 1619. 4to (215 x 164 mm). [12], 1-199, 100-138, 239-254 pp., engraved allegorical plate bound after dedication, several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Pp. 200-237 mispaginated 100-137. Bound in contemporary vellum, spine painted over and lettered in ink, boards with blind-ruling..... More

Paris: Jean Anisson, 1694. 4to (249 x 184 mm). [24], 1-179, [2], 180-233 [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, one unsigned double leaf with engraved lunar map and facing explanatory text inserted before p. 179, several diagrams and a few illustrations in text. Bound..... More

Paris: Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1799. An VII [1799]. 4to (270 x 215 mm). [i-vi] vii-viii, 351 [1] pp. including half title. Preserved in the original pink mottled wrappers with original printed spine label, all pages uncut, housed in a custom-made slip-case (minor chipping and fraying of paper over spine. Text..... More

London: Benjamin Motte, 1729. Exceptional set in its original bindings, virtually untouched internally and complete in every respect. 8vo (196 x 122 mm). Volume I with engraved frontispiece by A. Motte, [38], 320 pp. and with 25 folding engraved plates (numbered I to XXV, plate I of vol. II misbound..... More

London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1823. 8vo (227 x 140 mm). [6], 83 [1], [2] pp., 8 plates (7 engraved, 1 folding, 1 bound as frontispiece), all but one engraved by Lowry after Francis Ronalds, errata leaf at the end. Near contemporary grey drab boards, pages uncut (light soiling and..... More

Berlin: Gedruckt in der Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Commission bei F. Dümmler, 1827. 4to (282 x 232 mm). 24 pp. Later plain wrappers, pages uncut and unopened, contained in modern cloth pocket folder. Text crisp and clean, lower blank corner of p.21/22 torn. Provenance: Peter and Margarete..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 1896-1898, 8vo (211 x 137 mm). viii, 204; x, 265 [1] pp., including half-titles, woodcut devices to titles, diagrams in text. Contemporary three-quarter roan over marbled paper, spines with 4 raised bands and gilt-lettered label (rubbing of leather and extremities, paper over lower board scratched)..... More

London: C. Davis, 1753. A Letter from Mr. Franklin to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. concerning the Effects of Lightning. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 47, pp. 289-291. [Ibid] A Letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq; to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. concering an electrical Kite, pp. 565-567..... More

London: John Murray, 1842. 8vo (215 x 136 mm). xiii [1], 664 pp., including half-title, several illustrations in text. Bound in contemporary full polished calf, spine with elaborate gilt decoration and black morocco label lettered in gilt, boards, board edges and leather turn-ins with gilt tooling, marbled edges and endpapers..... More

Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1862. Two volumes. Offprints from: Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861-1862. Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler, 1862-1863. 4to (305 x 238 mm). [4], 43 [1]; [3] 4-16 pp., 5 lithographed plates (3 for part I and 2 for part II; 4 folding). Pages of part II..... More