Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1865. Dedication copy to Elie de Beaumont, inscribed and signed by the author, also signed by publisher. 1865-1866. Two parts in two volumes. 4to (273 x 220 mm). i-ix [2] x-xxxii, 428 pp., 12 engraved plates; [viii], 452 pp., 6 engraved plates. Contemporary three-quarter sheep over grained percaline... More

London: A. Millar / Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1753. London: A. Millar (vol. I and IV); Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson (vol. II and III), 1753-1756. 4 volumes. 12mo (157 x 96 mm). [4], 331 [1]; iii [1], 250; [4], 257 [1], [2: ad]; [4], 270 pp... More

Rome: Varese, 1665. 4to (226 x 168 mm). [16], 301, [11] pp., including final blank, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 folding letterpress tables (one in red and black), full-page woodcut arms of dedicatee on verso of title-page, woodcut initials, tailpieces and illustrations. Two neat composite eclectic zodiacs in contemporary ink are... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. In: Zeitschrift für Physik. Vol. 33, pp. 879-893. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 8vo (220 x 151 mm). Entire volume offered, with 256 text illustr. and vii [1], 950 pp. Contemporary half black library cloth with gilt-lettered spine (rebacked preserving the original spine), sprinkled edges. Text with... More

London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-lane, 1651. 12mo (146 x 82 mm). [44], 363 [1] pp. Engraved additional title "Philosophicall rudiments concerning goverment [sic] and civill society", signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp", 3 full-page engravings, decorated woodcut initials, final leaf S4 (index of chapters) bound... More

Leipzig: Weidmann, 1792. 4to (235 x 192 mm). viii, 104, [2] pp., title with engraved vignette, errata leaf, and 10 folding engraved plates bound at end. Bound in contemporary half leather over papercard boards (little wear, spine ends repaired, corners bumped). Text and plates only little browned, very minor occasional... More

Treviso: Michele Manzolo, 1480. 30 June 1480. Folio (288 x 198 mm). 167 (of 168) unfoliated leaves, lacking the initial blank leaf only. Signatures: a⁸ (-a1) b⁶ c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g⁸ h⁶ i⁸ k⁶ l⁸ m⁶ n⁸ o⁶ p⁸ q⁶ r⁸ s⁶ t⁸ u⁶ x⁶, A-B⁸ C⁶. 44 lines... More

London: Printed for W. Sandby, in Fleet Street. [by Richardson and Clark], 1766. 8vo (153 x 94 mm). [3], vi-xv, [1], 73 [1] pp. Printer's name from colophon on final page. Later (late 19th century) card-boards, spine with gilt-lettered morocco label (spine slightly chipped at head). Text very little browned... More

Geneva: Robert Estienne, 1554. Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, co[n]tra prodigiosos errores Michaelis Serveti Hispani: ubi ostenditur haereticos iure gladii coercendos esse,... [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, 1554. pp. 261 [1]. Signatures: a-q⁸ r⁴ [-r4], bound without blank leaf r4. Printer's woodcut device to title, floral woodcut initial, list of subscribers... More

Paris: Chez Abel l'Angelier au premier pilier de la grand'Salle du Palais, 1602. 8vo (192 x 127 mm). [8], 1165, [77] pp. Signatures: a⁴, A-4C⁸, 4D-4E⁴, 4F-4I⁸, 4K⁶. Engraved title page, small woodcut initials, index and final blank at end. A portrait of Montaigne (not called for in this edition)... More

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Volume one only. 8vo (235 x 148 mm). xxviii [4], 1-559, 556-597 [1] pp. including half-title, engraved frontispiece, errata leaf, and 16 engraved plates (including one folding map) and 2 folding maps loose in front cover pocket. Original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers... More

Paris: Chereau et Joubert, 1741. Large folio (513 x 330 mm). Engraved title, two leaves of engraved explanatory text, and 14 engraved plates of anatomical illustrations by Huquier after Bouchardon, numbered 2 to 15. Contemporary blue papercard boards (rubbed, extremities worn, spine and joints chipped). Internally little browned only, light... More

Basel: Henricus Petri, 1557. 8vo (161 x 113 mm). [30], 1194, [64] pp. Woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, two folding plates, folding table, woodcut initials, and several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (2 full page). 19th century half calf over marbled boards, plain spine with gilt-lettered... More