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: Nicolas Buon, 1625. 4to (238 x 175 mm). [36], 1-506, [2], 553-786, [78] pp. Signatures: a⁶ e⁴ i⁴ o⁴ A-3B⁴ 3C² 3D-3S⁴ 4A-5Q⁴. Including blank leaves o4 and 3S4, addenda leaves 5Q2-3, and errata leaf 5Q4. Title printed in red and black, roman and italic type, a few words..... More

Paris: Claude Jombert, 1729. 12mo (165 x 99 mm). [22], 164, [4] pp. 3 folding engraved plates, woodcut initials and headpieces, 2 leaves with errata and printer's advert. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments and gilt-lettered red morocco label, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers (extremities..... More

London: [publisher unknown], 1680. Folio (297 x 195 mm). [2] 3-18 pp. Woodcut vignette to title, woodcut headpiece and initial. Blue paper wrappers. Text little browned, first and final leaf dust-soiled, final leaf creased and torn at upper blank margin without loss, occasional finger-soiling and small marginal waterstain. Very good..... More

London: Brindley, 1747. 4to (217 x 213 mm). xvi, 197, [3] pp., including half-title, final blank leaf Cc4, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Inscribed on first flyleaf verso "From the Author" and further up "Grand papier". About 5 cm at head of half-title trimmed (away from text field) and restored with..... More

London: John Murray, 1873. 8vo (182 x 117 mm). xxi [1], 458 pp. Includes half-title and one folding lithographed plate facing p.91. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, blind-stamped boards, original brown endpapers, inner hinges sound (spine ends a trifle bumped, minor wear to corners). Occasional minor foxing to outer..... More

London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo (196 x 125 mm). ix [1], 502, 32 pp., including half-title, publisher's advertisements at end dated 'January 1860', and folding lithographed table facing p.117. Original publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, binding variant c (spine ends slightly frayed, corners bumped, extremities little rubbed), original brown endpapers, Edmonds..... 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 24). 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

Manchester: Printed by S. Russell, 125, Deangate, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, 1808. A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]. Manchester: S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff, 1808 [vol. 1, part I]; Russell and Allen for R. Bickerstaff, 1810 [vol. 1, part II]. 8vo (204 x 125 mm)..... More