Verona: L. Mainardi, 1810. I. Sui barometri luminosi: con appendice dimostrante nel barometro una macchina elettrica singolare. Offprint from: Societa? Italiana delle Scienze, XV, pt. 2 (1810), pp. 76-103. Verona: L. Mainardi, 1810. 30 pp., 1 folding engraved plate. [Bound with] II. Indagini per sottomettere a calcolo il barometro nelle..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1866. 8vo (246 x 165 mm). [2], iv, 42 pp. White-on-black-ground woodcut diagrams in text. Original printed wrappers (dog-earing of outer corners, spine reinforced with paper, upper spine chipped, light spotting. Text little age-toned, but generally bright and clean internally. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ----

DSB VIII, p.429-34;..... More

Paris: Gratiot, 1808. 8vo (185 x 122 mm). [8], 82 pp., 1 folding table. Contemporary paper wrappers (little soiled and dog-eared). Text little browned, occasional minor spotting. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ----

Rare treatise on the French metric system and a comparison of it with Italian weights and measures. Saverio..... More

Milan: E. Treves, editore, 1872. 8vo (194 x 128 mm). 96 pp., with a folding map of the moon bound as frontispiece, half-title and title, text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Text little browned and dust-soiled. Provenance: Regia Bibliotheca Mediolanensis Milano (red ink stamp to title), Biblioteca Istituto del Nastro Azzurro..... More

Saumur / Angers: F. de Gouy / Veuve Foureau, 1765. 8vo (170 x 101 mm). 133, [3] pp., woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Includes unnumbered leaf at end titled "Supple?ment pour le page 83." 19th century half-calf over marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, red-sprinkled edges, marbled..... More

Liverpool: John Sadler, 1761. 8vo (190 x 115 mm). [1-3] 4-16 pp. Printer's woodcut device depicting Britannia on title, woodcut initial and tailpiece. Simple paper wrappers. Title-page dust soiled and spotted, little browned throughout, repaired clean tear to title. Provenance: John Grant Booksellers of Edinburgh; purchased in the 1950s by..... More

Arnhem: Johan Jansen, 1603. Three parts in one volume, folio (295 x 198 mm). 2, 90, 132 (including 4 fold. bifols.), 26 (including 8 folding and 1 double-page bifols.) unnumbered leaves. With separate title to each part, Dürer's woodcut monogram on general title and on first two part-titles, woodcut intials..... More

Venice: per Gregorium de Gregoriis expensis Benedicti Fontanae, 1496. July 13, 1496. Folio (311 x 215 mm). [4], 403 (i.e., 503), [1] leaves. Signatures: aa⁴ a-g⁸ h⁶ i-s⁸ t⁶ u-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ &⁸ [cum]⁸ [rum]⁸ A⁸ B-C⁶ D-N⁸ O⁶ P-OO⁸ PP-QQ⁶. 44 lines and headline, types 135G, 110R; printer's device..... More

Venice: Antonio di Bartolommeo da Bologna (Miscomini), 1476. October 1476. Folio (340 x 235 mm). 291 (of 292) leaves, lacking the final blank leaf only. Roman type 4:78R, 63 lines. Signatures: a-y¹⁰ z⁸ A⁸, <1-5>¹⁰ <6-10>¹⁰ <11-15>¹⁰ <16-20>¹⁰ <21-24>⁸ <25-28>⁸. Rubricated throughout with capital strokes and initials opening paragraphs painted..... More

Ulm: Balthasar Kühnen, 1655. Ulm: Balthasar Kühnen, 1655. [2], 10, 132, [4] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device, text in double column, 43 engraved plates. Little evenly browned internally, a few spots in places, title with vertical screase, most leaves with damp-softening at fore-margin, 14 plates..... More

Frankfurt am Main: Godtfriedt Tampach, 1610. 4to (185 x 156 mm). 90 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: )(⁴, )()(⁴ A-V⁴ X². Including title with small woodcut device, 2 woodcut initials, 4 preliminary leaves of dedication to Markgraf Georg Friedrich von Baden, 3 leaves of registrum, and final blank leaf X2. Bound in..... More

London: John Chuchill, 1858. 8vo (223 x 144 mm). viii, xliv, 443 [1], 34 pp., including woodcut text illustrations, publisher's catalogue (dated May 1861*) at end. Original publisher's blindstamped pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt (cloth over spine ends repaired, corners worn). Text only little age-toned, occasional minor finger soiling..... 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