Basel: Froben / Johannes Petreius / Royal Society, 1533. Libri quinque De mensuris & ponderibus: In quibus plaeraque à Budaeo & Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. Basel: Froben, 1533. [9] 10-292 [4] pp. Woodcut printers devices on title and final leaf verso, 5 large historiated woodcut initials, general index at... More about Libri quinque De mensuris & ponderibus. . . / De ponderibus propositiones XIII. / An account...

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1944. Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, vol. 22, 1944. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1944. 8vo (230 x 155 mm). Stapled as issued (spine enforced with yellow tape). Internally somewhat browned throughout. Provenance: small coat of arms stamp. Inscribed and monogrammed 'Mit freundlichen Grüssen C. F.' by the author... More about Über die Entstehung des Planetensystems. pp. 319-355

London: Printed for J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, 1750. Two volumes. 8vo (190 x 120 mm). viii, [20], 452, [46]; [2], xvi, 483 [1] pp., including woodcut printer's device on titles, woodcut tailpieces, 10 leaves of contents and 23 leaves of general index in vol. I, bound without the final... More about The Spirit of laws. Translated from the French ... With corrections and additions communicated by...

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477. 22 January 1477. 4to (218 x 162 mm). 152 unnumbered leaves, including initial and final blanks. Gothic type, double columns, 40 lines to a page. Rubricated initials in red and blue, and with 7-line decorated initial 'R' in blue with additional red... More about Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum

Amsterdam: Joan Janssonius van Waesberghe, 1667. Folio (384 x 250 mm). [14], 237, [11] pp. Including engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page, letterpress title-page with printer's woodcut vignette, engraved portrait of the author, 2 double-page and folding maps (of China and South-East-Asia), 23 engraved plates (2 folding), 61 engraved vignettes, several engraved... More about China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis,...

Bologna: Colle Ameno, 1758. 4to (310 x 215 mm). [12], 378, [4] pp. Including woodcut pictorial initial, woodcut head- and tailpieces, imprimatur and errata leaf at end. Bound in contemporary full vellum over boards, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges (soiling and staining of vellum, wear... More about Dell' elettricismo. Lettere di Giambattista Beccaria . . . dirette al chiarissimo Sig. Giacomo...

Cologne: [Heirs of Heinrich Quentel], 1511. 4to (204 x 140 mm). 20 unnumbered leaves, gothic type, woodcut diagram on title, large woodcut of the HolyTrinity by or after Lucas Cranach the Elder on title verso, full-page woodcut of arms of Cologne on last page. Signatures: A-E⁴. Author and printer according... More about Arithmetice lilium triplicis practice qua pulcherrime utputa. Tum in integris tum in fractis. Tum...

Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1536. 4to (207 x 159 mm). 94 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: [*]⁶ A-V⁴ X⁶ [Y]². Contemporary limp vellum with 2 (of 4) ties still present, spine titled in manuscript (covers soiled and spotted, book block rehinged). Pages partially uncut. Text quite crisp and clean with only very minor... More about Tabulae astronomicae, quas vulgo, quia omni difficultate & obscuritate carent, resolutas...

London: Printed by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. From the estate of Marsha & Robin Williams. Two parts in two volumes. Folio (400 x 254 mm). Unpaginated. Collation: vol. I: [A]²... More about A Dictionary of the English Language in which the words are deduced from their originals, and...

Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1873. 8vo (220 x 155 mm). viii, 134, [2] pp., including half-title, one folding lithographed plate, and errata leaf. 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (light rubbing to extremities). Original printed wrappers bound in. Faint spotting on the plate, wrappers... More about Over de continuiteit van de gas- en vloeistoftoestand. Academisch Proefschrift . . . aan de...

New York: W. J. Johnston, 1892. 8vo (173 x 123 mm). ix [1], 146, [4] pp., including frontispiece portrait of Tesla, tissue guard with tear, several text illustrations, and 2 leaves of adverts at end. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (extremities slightly rubbed, lower corners bumped). Text little age-toned... More about Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency. A Lecture delivered...

Bouillon / Paris: Société typographique / Jombert, 1779. 12mo (168 x 102 mm). viii, 597 [1], [2] pp., including half-title, errata leaf, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt-decorated plain spine with gilt-lettered morocco label, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). Text only... More about Nouveau systeme de mineralogie, ou Essai d'une nouvelle exposition du regne mineral, auquel on a...

Florence: Giovanni Marenigh for heirs of the author, 1816. Elephant folio (666 x 513 mm). [8], 4-35 [1], [22] pp., 15 engraved plates (numbered I-XV). Text Includes title, dedication to Fernando III, preface, introduction, index, and one explanatory text leaf each for tables VI to XV (no called for for... More about Anatomia per uso degli studiosi di scultura e pittura. Opera postuma