London: Peter Elmsly, 1798. 4to (292 x 235 mm). Entire volume (part II) offered: v [1], [1] 202-598, [8] pp., 17 folding engraved plates, folding table. All pages uncut and mostly unopened. Original blue wrappers (paper dust-soiled, paper over spine mostly gone, edges slightly frayed). Text and plates with light..... More

Paris: Crochard, 1819. 8vo (200 x 121 mm). Entire volume, 448 pp., half-title, general title and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt decoration, gilt-lettered labels and additional printed and hand-lettered paper label, brown sprinkled edges, original light-blue endpapers (lower joint split, upper joint..... More

Paris: Crochard, 1819. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). Entire volume: 448 pp., including half title and general title, 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt decoration, gilt-lettered labels and additional printed and hand-lettered paper label, brown sprinkled edges, original light-blue endpapers (leather and extremities..... More

Cordoba: for the author by Pedro Arias de la Vega and Domingo Acosta, 1735. Two parts in one volume. [56], lxxxxv, 442, [204] pp., woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, letterpress tables, title to second part, general index at end. Signatures: §-14§², ¶-24¶², A-F⁴, G⁸, I-Z², Aa-Zz², Aaa-Zzz², Aaaa-Zzzz²..... More

Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Joannem Moretum, 1596. 4to (255 x 175 mm). [16], 267, [9] pp., engraved printer's mark on title-page, woodcut printer's mark at final leaf recto, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 33 mostly full-page etched illustrations showing battle formations and examples of military engineering. Text in Latin..... More

Bracciano: apud Andream Phaeum, 1626. 1626-1630. Folio (380 x 265 mm). [40], 124 pp; 125-149 [i.e. 160] leaves; [4], 149-784, [38] pp. Signatures: π⁴ a-b⁶ c⁴ A-E⁶ F⁴ G-R⁶ 2a-2s⁶ 2t⁴ 2u-2x⁶ 2y⁴ 3A-4M⁶ (F4, R6, 4I6 blank). Main text in double columns. Imprimatur dated 1630. Additional engraved title, letterpress..... More

London: Printed for the Royal Society, 1928. February 1928. Entire volume, 8vo 243 x 170 (mm), vi, 720, [2], xxxvi pp., 24 plates, text illustrations and diagrams. Bound in three-quarter dark-red morocco over cloth (extremities rubbed, joints and spine ends slightly chipped, corners bumped and scuffed). Text with some even..... More

Paris: F. Pelican, 1645. L' Optique. Comprenant la cognoissance de l'oeil de la lumiere, et des couleurs. Quantité d'experiences touchant la veuë. Diuerses façons d'agir, ou d'eclairer, directament, par reflexion, ou par refraction. L'appareil contenant les fonctions des principales parties de l'oeil ... Les miroirs ardens, & leurs effects. Paris..... More

Paris: Valade (de l'imprimerie de Gueffier), 1776. 8vo (197 x 124 mm). [4], xxxii, 444 pp. Including half-title, title with printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpiece, 1 folding engraved plate bound at end. Late 19th century half calf, dark-blue marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, yellow-dyed edges, new..... More

London: John Murray, 1861. 8vo (198 x 124 mm). xix [1], 538 pp., including half-title, single leaf of "Mr. Murray's General List of Works" and 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at end, dated 'January 1865', folding lithographed table facing p.123. Original publisher's green blind-stamped cloth (extremities very little rubbed, corners very..... More

Amsterdam: J. Janssonius, 1660. 1660-1661. c. 460 x 545 mm. Engraved map, hand-colored and heightened in gold, from the celestial atlas Harmonia macrocosmica (plate 27). Without the publisher's note and the plate number in the engraved plate, which were added to the maps of the second edition in 1708 by..... More

London: W. Innys, 1729. 4to (215 x 168 mm). Entire volume offered: [6], 293-661 [1] pp., including general title, drop titles for individual numbers, content leaves outside pagination, and 14 engraved folding plates. Contemporary panelled calf (spine rebacked, extremities worn, corners heavily scuffed. Text and plates somewhat browned, dust-soiled (some..... More

Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1515. 10 January 1515. Folio (312 x 220 mm). [2], 152 leaves. Signatures: *² a-z⁶ A⁶ B⁸. Woodcut initials, several woodcut diagrams at text margins, final page with woodcut printer's device printed in red and black above colophon. Some neat early annotations at start of text, title..... More