Berlin: 1849. 192 pp., 6 coloured engraved plates. Large folio (460x290 mm). Uncut, in contemporary wrappers, some foxing (some pages stronger), somewhat creased and torn, spine repaired, wrapper detached from book block. ----

Poggendorff I, 646 (dat. irrig 1847); Pritzel 2639; Roper 30. - First edition of Ehrenberg's scientific study..... More

London: George Philip & Son, 1895. 8vo (246 x 155 mm). viii, 173, [3] pp., 4 double-page maps of the moon, half-title and advert leaf at end. Original publishers blue cloth, lettering to upper board and spine, cloth heavily waterstained, rubbed and worn at extremities, binding a bit weak (inner..... More

Basel: Johannes Herwagen, 1533. September 1533. Folio (307x205 mm). [12], 1-268, 1-115 [1] pp. With numerous woodcut diagrams printed in text, register and colophon on K4r, woodcut printer's device on K4v and title, decorative woodcut border on p.1. 17th century full flexible vellum (soiled, little bumped), spine titled in manuscript..... More

Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, 1748. 4to (245 x 195 mm). [2], 398, [2] pp. Title printed in red and black and with engraved title vignette, woodcut head-pieces and initials, including leaf of directions to binder at end. Signatures: [pi]2 (-[pi]1) (A-3D)4. Bound without initial blank. Contemporary full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered..... More

Paris: chez Gabr. Martin, J. B. Coignard & H. L. Guerin, 1749. 4to (216 x 179 mm). iv, 123 [1] pp., folding engraved plate; 2 folding tables. Later simple paper wrapper, disbound, red-sprinkled edges. A few pages folded-in to protect extending mathematical equations. Paper little browned, faint foxing and occasional..... More

Ulrich Zell: Cologne, 1470. [Vita et transitus Sancti Hieronymi]. Two parts in one volume: I. Epistola de morte Hieronymi. Incipit epistola beati Eusebii ad sanctum Damasum portuensem episcopum et Theodosium Romanorum senatorem de morte gloriosi confessoris Hieronymi doctoris eximii. II. [Pseudo-] AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, Epistola ad Cyrillum Hierosolymitanum de magnificentiis Hieronymi..... More

Padua: Lorenzo Pasquati, 1603. Folio (415 x 277 mm). [6], 27 [1] pp., index bound at beginning. Signatures: pi2 A-D2. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, ornamental woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Title-leave torn at gutter not affecting text. Recent half vellum, new endpapers. A fine, wide-margined copy. Exceedingly rare as here..... More

Bologna: nella stamperia del Longhi, 1709. Folio (324x213 mm). [8], 292 pp., including half-title, several woodcut vignettes in text and to title-page, 9 engraved plates bound at end. Only very little age-toning (except for leaves O, O4 and quire Ee which are more heavily browned), occasional minor spotting, lower corner..... More

[Oppenheim or Frankfurt]: Johann Theodorum de Bry, 1614. Folio (305 x 195 mm). [8], 163, [11] pp. Fine engraved title, woodcut initials and headpieces, several engraved and woodcut text illustrations, 11 full page, lacking final blank leaf Y4. Bound in old recased vellum of a former Fabrici copy with the..... More

Padova: L. Bertelli, 1564. 2 parts in one volume. Padua: L. Bertelli, 1564 [part 2: C. Gryphius, 1563 (colophon 1564)]. 4to (220x170 mm). [4], 64, 16, [2] ff. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript (covers browned and little soiled), title page with old ex-libris stamp, text leaves expertly cleaned..... More

Venice: Donato Bertelli, 1563. 4to (222 x 154 mm). [3], 101, [1] leaves. Signatures: A³, A* A-Z⁴ Aa⁴ Bb⁶, with both, the cancel and cancelland leaf present. Title page with woodcut vignette, woodcut intials in text, errata on final leaf recto. 19th-century drab boards, spine with gilt-lettered paper label (rebacked..... More

London: W. Phillips, 1827. 8vo (214 x 136 mm). vii [1], ix [1], 11-656 pp. Woodcut illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered label to spine (rebacked preserving original spine, wear to extremities, corners bumped, boards soiled). Internally little age-toned with minor occasional spotting, dust- and finger-soiling. Provenance: The..... More

Washington, D.C. National Academy of Sciences, 1915. Original brown cloth, interior browned. Ownership inscription to inner board, 36 plates of maps.

Oliver Cummings Farrington (1864-1934) was an American geologist, who became curator of geology in the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History in 1894. He published many articles and books..... More