Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1533. Physica S. Hildegardis. Elementorum, Fluminum aliquot Germaniae, Metallorum, Leguminum, Fructuum, & Herbarum : Arborum, & Arbustorum: deniq[ue], Volatilium, & Animantium terrae naturas & operationes. IIII. libris mirabili experientia posteritati tradens. Oribasii, Medici, de Simplicibus Libri Quinque. Theodori physici Dieta, docens quibusnam salubriter utendum, uel abstinendum. Esculapii..... 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

Linz / Frankfurt: Johann Planck / Gottfried Tampach, 1618. Epitome astronomicae Copernicanae [libri I. II. III] de doctrina sphaerica. Linz: Johann Planck, 1618. - Epitomes astronomiae Copernicanae Liber quartus. Doctrinae theoricae primus: quo physica Coelestis. Linz: Johann Planck and Frankfurt: Gottfried Tampach, 1622. - Epitomes astronomiae Copernicanae libri V. VI..... More

Frankfurt & Leipzig: Laur. Sigismund. Cörnerum, 1676. 8vo (162 x 95 mm). 6 parts in one volume. [16], 352, [30]; 86; 55 [3]; [32], 178, [30]; 40; [16], 167, [9] pp., general title printed in red and black, separate part-titles, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, engraved and woodcut text illustrations..... 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

Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. 4to (191 x 146 mm). 78, [2], 413, [35] pp., woodcut printer's device on title, 3 section-titles, woodcut initials, numerous woodcut text diagrams and illustrations, errata, French and Dutch privilege on Kkk3-4. Bound in contemporary French calf, gilt-decorated spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering..... More

Venice: Johannes Alvisius, 1499. 18 May 1499. Chancery folio (302 x 197 mm). 268 unnumbered leaves. 57 lines plus headline, initial spaces, most with printed guides. Types 2:83R, 3:180G. Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁶ g-z⁸ &⁸ A-I⁸ K⁶. Colophon on K6r reads "C. Plynii Secundi de naturali historia libri .xxxvii. Ex castigationes..... More

Paris: Jean Le Royer, 1561. 28 February 1561. 8vo (160 x 108 mm). [10], 276, [12] leaves, including final leaf of privilege, several woodcut illustrations of anatomy and surgical instruments, lacking the title-leaf (loosely inserted as good facsimile). Signatures: [pi]⁴ *⁸; A-Z⁸ Aa-Nn⁸ (-[pi]1). Contemporary tanned vellum (tightly bound, hinge..... 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

Pavia: Giovanni Capelli, 1814. 4to (330 x 240 mm). vi, [2], 145, [VII] pp. Uncut, with deckle edges; frontispiece engraved portrait of Volta by G. Garavaglia, without the addenda slip tipped to the last page in only a few copies. 20th-century marbled paper boards. Text generally crisp and clean with..... More

Nürnberg: Fleischmann für den Verfasser, 1746. 4 parts in 4 volumes. 4to (203 x 163 mm). 3 hand-coloured engraved titles (as called for vols. 1-3) and 286 hand-coloured engraved plates (of which 4 folding), woodcut tailpieces and initials, wanting the author's portrait in vol. IV only. Bound in uniform contemporary..... More

London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1772. In: Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenuious in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. 62, pp. 147-264. London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the..... More