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
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476. Chancery folio (310 × 220 mm). Incomplete with 402 (of 470) unnumbered leaves only. Lacking blank leaves a1 and H10, lacking first 12 text leaves (signatures a2 to b3), these supplied from a copy of the 1481 Leonardus Wild 58-lines bible (leaves remargined), bound without the... More
Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1537. June 1537. 4to (200 x 145 mm). 35 (of 36) unpaginated leaves, lacking title-page (replaced in neat manuscript) and the folding letterpess table (as often). Includes 23 woodcut illustrations, of which 19 full-page (including two repeats) and 4 half-page within text, the full-page woodcuts printed on... 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
Florence: Stamperia Imperiale, 1757. 4to (257 x 182 mm). [8], cxxiv, 336, [2] pp. Signatures: [cross]4 a-g8 h6, A-X8 [chi]1. Title-page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, 14 engraved plates (including 2 tables, 13 folding), errata leaf, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards... More
Palermo: apud Sanctum dominicu, 1550. 4to (205 x 150 mm). [2], xxix leaves, bound without the final blank. Printed in italic throughout, title-page within woodcut architectural border and full-page woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V on verso, woodcut initials and 41 woodcut illustrations in text of which 5 are dated 1549... More
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1741. 8vo (203 x 125 mm). xxxii, 133 [3] pp. Woodcut title-vignette, head-piece and ornament; several woodcut diagrams in text (many full-page), letterpress tables, final blank present. Bound in contemporary French calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered morocco label (little rubbing... More
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749. 4to (254 x 188 mm). [24], cx, [2], 394, [2] pp. Woodcut device on title, engraved head-pieces, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, 9 folding engraved plates including one of Peruvian profiles and another entitled Carte des Triangles de la Meridienne de Quito, errata leaf at end. With... More
Venice: Typis Joannis Baptistae Pasqualis, 1749. 4to (320 x 227 mm). 18 unnumbered leaves including title, woodcut device on title, head-piece, 3 engraved plates by Arimini bound at end. Signatures: a-c4 d6. Contemporary carta rustica (inner hinges weak). Very minor occasional spotting to final leaves, excised lower blank portion of... More
London: printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew Crooke, 1652. Two parts in one volume. Folio (280 x 190 mm). [8], 137; [5], 138-214, 216-244, 244-274 leaves. Signatures: )(4 2)(4 A-4A4. Second part has separate title and 4 preliminary leaves, but foliation and signatures are continuous otherwise. Two woodcut devices on... More
Geneva: Ex officina Ioannis Gerardi typographi, 1550. 4to (246 x 162 mm). [32], 735, [81] pp. [alpha]-[delta]4 a-z8 A-Z8 2A-2K4. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, white-on-black criblé initials, with final blank Kk4. Several neat marginalia in at least three different contemporary hands and later text markings and underscoring in one... More
Göttingen: Johann Wilhelm Schmid, 1749. 4to (226 x 175 mm). [4], xxvi, [2], 86 pp., title printed in red and black and with engraved armorial vignette, 12 engraved plates (10 folding), without final blank L4. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked and corners repaired (upper joint a little cracked at foot, extremities... More
Oelsna Silesiorum: Johann Seyffert, 1650. Two parts in two volumes. Oelsna Silesiorum: Johann Seyffert, 1650. Folio (315 x 192 mm). [24], 1-144 [i.e. 146], [2], 147-264, [2]; 268, [2] pp., including half-title, title printed in red and black, 3 errata leaves, and 2 (of 3) folding letterpress tables, lacking table... More
London: Typis T. Roycroft, Impensis Cave Pulleyn, 1667. 8vo (156 x 100 mm). [32], 223 [1] pp. Bound in contemporary vellum over thin boards, spine title in manuscript (little soling of vellum). Text little browned, occsional minor spotting, shelf marks to front pastedown and title. Very good copy in untouched... More
London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1846. 8vo (232 x 146 mm). [3] 4-31 [1] pp. Original printed self-wrappers as issued, stitched, pages partially unopened and uncut. Very little age-toned, faint offsetting on title-page. A clean, crisp and completely unsophisticated copy. ----
Dibner 16; Sparrow 1; Norman 7; Evans 24; DSB... More
