Strasbourg: D. Hauttius for the Elzevirs [at Leiden], 1635. 8vo (194 x 150 mm), [xvi], 495 [1], [24] pp. Engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait by Jacob van der Heyden, woodcut diagrams, final leaf of errata. Text browned throughout as usual, leaves O3 and 3Q2 with small paper flaw at top... More about Systema cosmicum ... in quo quatuor dialogis, de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico et...

Cologne: [Heirs of Heinrich Quentel], 1511. 4to (204 x 140 mm). 20 unnumbered leaves, gothic type, woodcut diagram on title, large woodcut of the HolyTrinity by or after Lucas Cranach the Elder on title verso, full-page woodcut of arms of Cologne on last page. Signatures: A-E⁴. Author and printer according... More about Arithmetice lilium triplicis practice qua pulcherrime utputa. Tum in integris tum in fractis. Tum...

Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1536. 4to (207 x 159 mm). 94 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: [*]⁶ A-V⁴ X⁶ [Y]². Contemporary limp vellum with 2 (of 4) ties still present, spine titled in manuscript (covers soiled and spotted, book block rehinged). Pages partially uncut. Text quite crisp and clean with only very minor... More about Tabulae astronomicae, quas vulgo, quia omni difficultate & obscuritate carent, resolutas...

London: Printed by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. From the estate of Marsha & Robin Williams. Two parts in two volumes. Folio (400 x 254 mm). Unpaginated. Collation: vol. I: [A]²... More about A Dictionary of the English Language in which the words are deduced from their originals, and...

Lyon: Nicolai Wolff, 1503. 29 November 1503. Three works in one volume. 4to (254 x 177 mm). [98]; [1], CXLVI, [3]; [1], CXXVI, [3] leaves. Signatures: a-l8 m10; A-K8 L6 M-T8; aa-pp8 qq10. Including blank leaves m10 and T8. Printed in Gothic type, two columns. Pictorial and floral woodcut initials... More about Expositio magistri Petri Tartereti in summulas Petri Hyspani summa accuratione atque lucubratione...

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. ----

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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 about Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen, Waar in de veelerley Aart en bijzondere Eigenschappen...

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 about Deutsche Arithmetica. Inhaltend. Die Haussrechnung, Deutsche Coss, Kirchenrechnung

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 about Logarithmorum canonis descriptio seu arithmeticarum supputationum mirabilis abbreviatio; II....

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 about Habes lector Johannis de Sacro Busto sphere textum una cum additionibus non aspernandis Petri...

London: A. Bettesworth, W. Innys, and C. Rivington, 1729. 8vo (194 x 120 mm). xvi, 408 pp. Title printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces, woodcut tailpieces (two signed by Aris). Contemporary English panelled calf (extremities rubbed, corners slightly bumped), red-sprinkled edges. Text crisp and clean with only very minor... More about A New System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy: wherein all the decays of the...

Paris: Courcier, 1805. An XIV = 1805. 4to (273 x 215 mm). xxiv, 314 (of 318), [48] pp., including half-title, 10 folding engraved plates, lacking final two leaves of text and 4 leaves of errata. All pages uncut. Reused diced calf, spine with some ink lettering (covers soiled and spotted)... More about Traité de géodesié, ou exposition des méthodes astronomiques et trigonometriques, appliquées...

Rome: Gio. Maria Salvioni / Rocco Bernabo, 1723. Del moto che nei mobili si rifonde per impulso esteriore Trattato Fisico-Matematico. Rome: Gio. Maria Salvioni, 1723. [28], 208 pp., including half-title, title-page printed in red and black and with copper-engraved allegorical vignette, copper-engraved headpieces, woodcut initials and 7 folding engraved plates... More about Del moto che nei mobili si rifonde per impulso esteriore Trattato Fisico-Matematico / Del moto,...