Various: Various.. The collection includes most of Dewar's significant papers on the subject, including those which Dahl cites in the first chapter of his book. Several are presentation copies. All wrappers somewhat browned and dust-soiled, pages more or less age-toned. Housed in a custom clamshell box, gilt-lettered spine label.
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London: W. Phillips, 1823. 4to (205 x 130 mm). xv [1], 508 pp. Illustrated with 391 intertextual woodcut diagrams, mainly of crystal structurs, throughout. Original drab boards, spine with original printed paper label (spine chipped with loss, upper joint cracked but holding, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). All pages uncut and... More about A Familiar Introduction to Crystallography Including an Explanation of the Principle and Use of...

Rome: Domenico Basa, 1590. Folio (417 x 287 mm). [1], 108 (i.e. 112), [4] ff., including engraved title, additional engraved title with portrait of Fontana, woodcut initials, and 38 full-page etched and engraved illustrations by Natali Bonifazio da Sebenico (including 3 double-page), 3 diagrams in text. Occasional spotting, finger soiling... More about Della trasportatione dell'obelisco Vaticano et delle fabriche di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V....

Paris: Chez M.lle Delaunay, 1827. Folio (296 x 221 mm). [6], 49 [1] pp., including half-title and 11 numbered lithographic tables, all but one folding, engraved by Dupuis and Tavernier, each table accompanied by an explanation sheet. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with black morocco label lettered in... More about La méthode Ovalaire, ou nouvelle methode pour amputer dans les articulations [...] avec onze...

London: For Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673. Three parts in one volume. 8vo (167 x 105 mm). [24], 107, [21], 16, 13-172 pp. Signatures: a⁴ A-U⁸, (U3, U4 misprinted T3, T4). With lengthy eighteenth-century annotations concerning Harvey to both endpapers. Contemporary calf, spine expertly rebacked and with some gilt... More about The Anatomical Exercises ... Concering the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of...

Paris: Francois Ambroise Didot l'Aine, 1786. Large folio (471 x 333 mm). [8], 123 [1] pp. of text, including half title, title, dedication leaf to Louis XVI, hand-colored aquatint frontispiece (supplied), accompanied by an engraved explanation leaf. [2], 1-17 [1]; [2], 20-38; [3], 42-68; [3], 72-87 [1]; [3], 90-111 [1]... More about Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie, avec des planches coloriées représentant au naturel les...

Venice: F. Sansovino, 1561. 8vo (143 x 97 mm). [8], 262, [1] leaves. Includes title with printer's woodcut device, woodcut headpieces and pictorial initials, final colophon leaf, lacking the final blank leaf Kk8. Signatures: *⁸, A-2K⁸ (-2K8). Bound in 17th-century vellum, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label (some soiling and... More about Secreti medicinali ... Ne quali si contengono i rimedi che si possono usar in tutte l'infermità...

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...