Paris: Courcier, 1807. 4to (255 x 195 mm). xx, [2], 502 pp., including half-title and errata leaf. Contemporary prize binding in green calf, spine lettered in gilt, boards and spine with embossed decoration and gilt ruling, each board with a central gilt vignette of the Academy of Paris lettered "Prix... More
Louvain: Étienne Wauters, Jehan Bathen, 1554. 4to (195 x 153 mm). [16], 365, [3] pp., including 56 full-page woodcut illustrations, title-page with large woodcut device (brown-stained). 19th-century limp vellum in antiqe style with yapp edges, spine lettered in manuscript, red-dyed edges (vellum slighty soiled). Text with light even browning and... More
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
Berlin: Berlinskoe Knigoizdatelstvo, 1925. [c.1924]. 8vo (229 x 157 mm). 59 [1] pp. Original publisher's printed wrappers (little soiled and age-toned), protected in custom cloth cassette with gilt-lettered spine. Text somewhat browned throughout, but generally a clean and untouched copy. ----
RARE FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING of Trotsky's Lessons of October... More
London: T. Payne, P. Elmsly, and E. Brooke, 1776. 8vo (198 x 126 mm). [4], lvii, [3], 208 pp. Including half-title. Bound in 19th-century green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (corners slightly bumbed, some wear to spine ends, extremeties rubbed). Text lightly browned, occasional minor spotting and dust-soiling, some pencil markings at... More
London: John Martin & James Allestry, 1662. 4to (190 x 148 mm). [16], 79 [1] pp. Two folding tables. Bound in 19th-century plain vellum, spine titled in ink, marbled endpapers, several blank leaves bound in at end. Text browned mainly in outer margins, occasional minor spotting, title-page dust-soiled, with two... More
Cologne: Ulrich Zel (Zell), [1467]. Half-sheet 4to (201 x 140 mm). 30 unfoliated leaves including final blank. 27 lines, no printed signatures, 4 pinholes. Collation: [1-38 46] text, 4.5v explicit, 4.6 blank. Type 1B: 96G (leaded to 104). Two 4-line initial spaces, the first with purple and red pen-flourishing infilled... More
Leiden & Utrecht: Pieter van der Aa & Francois Halma, 1696. Large Folio (396 x 261 mm). 40 pp., 930 (i.e. 932) columns, 64 pp., text printed in two columns, half title to each part (second misbound after col. 516)), letterpress title printed in red and black and with engraved... More
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm, 1519. 8vo (132 x 91 mm). [1], 154 (i.e. 151) leaves (f. 135-37 ommitted), some misfoliations (corrected in ink), several woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon on f.154r. Old binding of reused vellum manuscript, later vellum labels on spine (cover soiled and... More
Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1545. 4to (210 x 151 mm). [4], 92 leaves. Signatures: A-Z4 Aa4. Gothic letter, title and a few pages printed in red and black, decorative woodcut initials, woodcuts of abacus reckoning in text. 20th-century three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and... More
Leipzig: Jakob Bärwald, 1550. 4to (184 x 144 mm). [4], 196 leaves, woodcut portrait of the author on title, woodcut initial. Early 19th-century half vellum, spine with gilt-lettered label (soiling of boards and spine, spine label chipped in upper right corner, little chipping of paper at board edges). Text somewhat... More
Lyon: Bartholomaeum Vicentium, 1620. The Horblit-Tomash copy. Three parts in one volume. Lyon: Bartholomaeum Vicentium, 1620. 8vo (198 x 135 mm), [8], 56; [92]; [2] 3-62, [2] pp., separate title page to each part, first title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams in text, privilege leaf at end. Old... More
Berlin: Johann Christian Papen, 1710. First volume only. 4to (194 x 145 mm). [22], 394 pp., including folding engraved allegorical frontispiece, some woodcut diagrams in text, and 31 folding engraved plates. Later carta rustica, modern folding cloth box. Some offsetting and browning of text and plates, minor occasional spotting, some... More
Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1814. 8vo (197 x 124 mm). [4], 190, [2] pp, including half-title, leaf of contents bound at end. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated plain spine and board edges, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label (one corner slightly bumped, extemities little rubbed, top of spine chipped), red sprinkled edges, marbled... More
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1483. 4 July 1483. 4to (214 x 157 mm). 93 unfoliated leaves (of 94, without initial blank). Collation: a-l8 m6 (-a1, a2r incipit, text of the Canons of John of Saxony, b3v supplement to the Canons of John of Saxony, c1r astronomical tables, m3r explanation of figure... More
Paris: Jean Petit, 1515. August 1515. Folio (270 x 190 mm) LXXXI (i.e. 79) leaves, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, without the final blank. Printed in Gothic letter, two columns. Signatures: a-m6 n-o4 (-o4), print date from colophon on n4 verso. 17th-century... More
Paris: Courcier, 1820. 1820, 1816-1825. 4to (250 x 200 mm). [4], cxlii [1], 4-506, [2]; 34; 50; 36; [2], 28 pp. Includes errata leaf, bound without half-title, all supplements separately paged and preceded by a half title each. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving original spine label, gilt stamp of Francis... More
London: Printed for George Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-lys in Little-Britain, 1712. 8vo (200 x 118 mm). [2], vi, 568; [8], 533, [43] pp. Title pages enclosed within double line border, errata on verso of leaf a2 in vol II, final 6 pages of vol. II are a publisher's advertisement;... More
Milan: Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1768. 4to (272 x 201 mm). [12], 420 pp. Printer's woodcut device on title, 6 folding engraved plates. Early 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt and with two gilt lettering pieces (wear to hinges, spine and extremities rubbed), red-dyed edges. Text generally... More
Rome: Domenico Basa, 1586. 4to (212 x 155 mm). [8], 514, [2] pp. Signatures: †4 A-2F4 2G6 2H-2R4 2S6 2T-3M4 3N6 30-3R4. Woodcut Jesuit trigram device with motto "Vocabis nomen eius Iesum" on title page and final leaf recto, each part with separate half-title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces... More
Brescia: Tomaso Bozzola, 1566. Folio (293 x 208 mm). [4], 42 leaves. Signatures: *4 A-G6. Printer's woodcut device on title, historiated initials, large woodcut illustrating the arms of the dedicatee Camilla Torella, letterpress tables. Later half vellum over xylographed paper boards, old ink lettering and shelf label to spine (little... More
Avignon: Jean Piot, 1635. 4to (224 x 171 mm). [12], 228, [16] pp., including engraved additional title, woodcut initials and headpieces, several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (7 full page), index, errata and privilege leaf bound at end. Signatures: π6 A-2G4 2H2. Bound in 20th-century vellum, spine with gilt... More
Paris: chez la veuve Durand, 1801. 8vo (203 x 122 mm). viii, 370, [2] pp., half-title, two folding engraved plates, errata leaf at end. Bound in half marbled morocco over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering piece, edges sprinkled red (worming to hinges, boards rubbed, corners bumped, extremities worn). Text... More
Padua: Agostino Candiano, 1685. 4to (245 x 180 mm). 16, 223, [1], 64, [4] pp., including woodcut head- and tailpieces, 7 folding engraved plates bound at end, without blank leaf b4 of preface. Signatures: A4, b4, B-Ff4, A-H4, k2. Contemporary carta rustica, spine lettered in ink (some spotting and soiling)... More
Venice: Simone Occhi, 1742. Due lettere scritte ad Antonio Magliabechi ... Sopra i Moti, e le apparenze delle due comete apparse sul fine di Novembre 1680 ... pp. 433-458. [Bound with] MONTANARI, Giminiano. Dissertazione sulle Comete, pp. 459-552. Extract from: Francesco Maria Pratelli, Raccolta d'Opuscoli Scientifici, e Filologici, Vol. XXVII... More
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