Leiden: Joh. and Herm. Verbeek, 1732. 4to (247x193 mm.), [8], 344 pp., including title-page with engraved device, printed in red and black and 13 folding engraved plates. Little occasional spotting and browning to text and plates, a few ink stains and annotations in pencil, little worming to lower gutter of..... More
London: Printed by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John Nourse, 1736. 4to (245 x 185 mm). iv, ix-xxiv, 1-140 [2], [143]-[144], [1] 144-339 [1], [2] pp. Engraved plate bound as frontispiece facing title, several woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut initials, head-and tailpices, divisional title, errata/advertisement leaf [T]2 here bound at..... More
Lausanne and Geneva: Bousquet, 1744. With 3 engraved title vignettes, 64 folded copper plates and 2 folded tables. [4], xxviii (recte 38), 420 pp.; [1], vi, 423 pp.; vi, 566 (recte 562) pp., [1]. Pages 157/158 of Vol. 1 folded in at lower margin as imprint exeeds book block; pages..... More
London: for W. Johnston, 1769. Two parts in one volume. 8vo (203 x 124 mm). viii, 1-346, [5], 348-464, [1], 468-536; [2], 63, [3] pp. 3 pages errata and 8 folding engraved plates bound at end of part II. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered red..... More
Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, 1509. [Venice]: Paganinus de Paganinis, [11 June 1509]. 4to (295x208 mm). [1], 2-144 (i.e. 145), [1: blank] ff. Signatures: a10 b-s8. Place and date of printing from colophon (Venetiis Impressum per probum virum Paganinum de paganinis de Brixia [...], M.D.VIIII. Klen. XI Iunii). Title printed in..... More
Paris: Georges Carré, Éditeur, 1889. 8vo (235 x 156 mm). iv, 408 pp., including half-title. Bound in polished half-calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt and with paper sticker (extremities rubbed, slight wear to corners). Text with light even browning and scattered foxing throughout. Illegible pencil signature..... More
Paris: Didot, 1829. 4to (270x207 mm). [2], [1] 2-70 pp. 20th-c marbled paper boards, gilt morocco lettering piece to spine, text foxed (first and last pages stronger), first page folded in at lower margin. Provenance: Sylvestre Francois Lacroix (1765-1843), French mathematician. Dedication by Poisson in black ink to title page..... More
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
Paris: Bachelier, 1835. 8vo (209 x 130 mm). [4], xii, 327 [1]; [4], viii, 327 [1] pp., including half-titles and 6 folding plates, of which 4 are engraved and 2 lithographed. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with two lettering pieces lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers..... More
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1842. 8vo (248 x 155 mm). x, [5]-126 pp., text printed in two columns, 7 lithographed plates at end. Bound in 20th-century brown library cloth, gilt-lettered spine (minor rubbing to extremities, shelf number added to spine). Translator's name added in ink below title, small chip..... 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
Naples: Tipografia Chianese, 1818. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). xvi, 156 pp., including half-title, portrait frontispiece of the author, 5 folding letterpress tables and 3 folding engraved plates of diagrams. Bound in contemporary half polished calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (light rubbing of extremities). Little..... More
Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1539. 4to (195 x 143 mm). [8], 126, [2] pp. Signatures: A-R4. Bound in 18th century German half-calf, blind-tooled spine with 4 raised bands, sprinkled paper-covered boards, blue-dyed edges (slight rubbing to extremities, inner upper hinge repaired and first endpaper renewed). Little dust-soiling and browning of title-page..... More
Rome: Tipografia della Rev. Camera Apostolica, 1858. Folio (327 x 220 mm). [6], 197 [1] pp. Half-title, title with woodcut device, engraved frontispiece and 5 (3 folding) engraved plates. Pages uncut. Bound in fine 20th-century red morocco over xylographic paper boards (slight rubbing to extremities). Light dust-soiling to outer margins..... 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
Dublin: George Grierson, 1723. 8vo (217 x 132 mm). [10], 103 [1] pp., including dedication leaf, woodcut device to title, initials, head- and tailpieces and ornaments, 7 folding engraved plates. The errata leaf (pi)5 pasted to verso of final preliminary leaf (pi)4. Contemporary calf, boards with blind-stamped decoration, spine with..... 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
Palermo: apud Sanctum dominicu, 1550. 4to (205 x 150 mm). [2], xxix leaves, bound without the final blank. Printed in italic throughout, title-page within woodcut architectural border and full-page woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V on verso, woodcut initials and 41 woodcut illustrations in text of which 5 are dated 1549..... More
London: Printed by J.H. for W. Freeman, 1687. Thesaurarium Mathematicae, Or The Treasury of the Mathematicks. Containing Variety of usefull Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Geography, Navigation and Surveying. As also The Mensuration of Board, Glass, Tiling, Paving, Timber, Stone, and Irregular Solids. Likewise it teacheth the Art of..... More
Florence: Amadoro Massa & Lorenzo de Landis, 1644. 3 parts in one, 4to. (220x158 mm), [2], [2:blank], [1-2] 3-243 [1], [1-2] 3-115 (i.e. 151) [1] pp., general half-title, part I title with imprint, section titles to parts II & III, dedication to Grand Duke Ferdinand II de' Medici, part III..... More
Paris: Pierre-Michel Brunet, fils, 1731. 4to (252x195 mm), two parts in one volume. [12], 66, 155, [9] pp., including woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 22 folding engraved plates, pages untrimmed. Near contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Some creasing to first pages, large woodcut devices..... More
Paris: Claude Jombert, 1725. Two parts bound in two volumes. 4to (254 x 187 mm). [28], 387 [1]; [4], 478, [2] pp. 65 engraved folding plates (including additional plate 49bis), woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, without the engr. portrait of the author present in some copies..... More
Paris / Cambridge / New York: Hermann & Cie. / The Technology Press / John Wiley & Sons, 1948. 8vo (253 x 165 mm). 194, [2] pp. Publisher's orange wrappers printed in red and black (wrappers a trifle dust-soiled, lower corner of front wrapper with small dog-ear, slight unobtrusive chipping..... More
Geneva: Henricum-Albertum Gosse, 1747. 4to (260 x 205 mm). viii, 581 [1] pp. Including 51 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine with two gilt lettered labels and rich floral gilt decoration, red-dyed edges, and marbled endpapers. ----
Graesse VII 469. Final edition. Volume III of the five-volume encyclopedic standard work..... More
