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Item #003689 Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei / Almagestum ... opus ingens ac nobile omnes celorum...

The first two editions of the Almagest in untouched renaissance binding

Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei / Almagestum ... opus ingens ac nobile omnes celorum motus continens.

Venice: Johannes Hamman for the editors, 1496. Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei. Edited by Caspar Grosch and Stephan Römer. Venice: Johannes Hamman for the editors, 31 August 1496. Super-Chancery folio (303 x 212 mm). 107 (of 108) unnumbered leaves (lacking final blank). 48 lines and headline, xylographic title, full-page woodcut of..... More

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Item #002059 Beiträge zur Phytogenesis. Matthias Jacob SCHLEIDEN

The Foundation of the Cell Theory

Beiträge zur Phytogenesis.

Berlin: Veit et Comp. 1838. In: Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin 5, Heft 2 (1838), pp 137-76. Includes two etched and aquatint plates (nos. III and IV) on one folding sheet. Berlin: Veit et Comp., 1838. 8vo (209x128 mm). Whole volume: [2], cxcviii, 608 pp. 16 plates on..... More

Price: 2,400 €

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Item #002249 A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military...

One of just a few copies of the rare lithoprint version signed by Smyth

A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945. Written at the request of Major General L. R. Groves United States Army. Publication authorized as of August 1945.

Washington DC: War Department, 1945. Preface dated July 1, 1945. 4to (263 x 199 mm). [8], I:1-19 [1], II:1-10, III:1-7 [1], IV:1-15 [1], V:1-9 [1], VI:1-14, VII:1-15 [1], VIII:1-17 [1], IX:1-13 [1], X:1-10, XI:1-13 [1], XII:1-12, XIII:1-3 [1], A1:1-6, A2:1-2, A3:1-3 [1], A4:1-5 [1], A5:1 [1]. Leaf IV-9/10 a dublicate..... More

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Item #002781 De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII, iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Laurentii...

De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII, iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita.

[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1588. Folio (348 x 221 mm). [20], 621, [15], 73, [7] pp. Signatures: (par)6 2(par)4 a-3n6 3o4. Double column Greek and Latin text, woodcut device on title. Bound in 17th century morocco, regilded and rebacked. Text little browned, occasional foxing, two leaves in signature ss misbound. Very..... More

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Item #001794 Opera Geometrica [De sphaera et Solidis Sphaeralibus; De Motu Gravium; De Dimensione...

The only work published during Torricelli's lifetime

Opera Geometrica [De sphaera et Solidis Sphaeralibus; De Motu Gravium; De Dimensione Parabolae].

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

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Item #002375 Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a...

A fine association copy

Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man... [ISSUED WITH:] A Philological Essay Concerning Pygmies.

London: Thomas Bennet, Daniel Brown, Mr. Hunt, 1699. Two parts in one. 4to (288 x 213 mm). [12] 1-108, [2] 1-58 [2] pp. Signatures: π4 A2 B-O4 π2 χ2 2B-2H4 2I1, 91 leaves. Imprimatur leaf before title, separate title to second part, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, 8 folding engraved..... More

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Item #003564 On the Theory of Light and Colours [An Account of some Cases of the Production of...

Uncut and in the original paper wrappers

On the Theory of Light and Colours [An Account of some Cases of the Production of Colours, not hitherto described]. The Bakerian Lecture. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 92, Part I, 1802, pp. 12-48, 1 plate & Part II, 1802, pp. 387-97.

London: W. Bulmer for G. & W. Nicol, 1802. 4to (295 x 237 mm). Two parts in two volumes. vi, [2], 1-212, 26; iv, 213-535 [1], [8] pp., part titles, index bound at end, and 17 engraved plates. Original blue simple paper wrappers, all pages untrimmed and partially unopened (wrappers..... More

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Item #102320 Le Istitutioni Harmoniche. Gioseffo ZARLINO

The most important and influential book in the history of music theory

Le Istitutioni Harmoniche.

Venice: Francesco Senese, 1558. 4to (306 x 207 mm), [12], 347 [1] pp., including numerous woodcut diagrams (many full page), including a keyboard instrument, extensive type-set music (including pieces illustrating imitative counterpoint), and historiated 5- & 8-line initials, italic letter. Early 19th-century half vellum (soiled, spine darkened with short crack..... More

Price: 38,000 €

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