Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625. 5 parts in one volume. Folio (403 x 273 mm). General title with engraved printer's device, [4], 150, [2] pp, 34 plates (including unnumbered plate on verso of plate XI, 11 double page), engraving to K4 recto a duplicate of K2 (as called for); 23 [1]..... 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

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

Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1783. 1783-1784. 2 volumes, 8vo (204x127 mm). Vol. 1: [i-iii] iv-xl, [1] 2-299, [3], [4] pp., 9 engraved plates (plate v as frontispiece), folding table; Vol. 2: [2], [1] 2-24, *24-24*, 25-62, [67] 68-366, [2] pp., 5 engraved plates (plate I as frontispiece). Contemporary green paste..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1895. 20 b&w collotype sheets with 25 topographical charts in original publisher's folder with printed boards (330 x 250 mm), one explanatory sheet pasted onto inner front board. Additional text volume, stapled as issued and with publisher's printed wrappers (287 x 226 mm). x, 66 pp..... More

London: A. Owen & Co., 1907. 8vo (208 x 143 mm). 160 pp. [2], 12 pp. Half-title, colored frontispiece, advertisements, 66 b&w illustrations in text. Original publishers blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper board (a trifle rubbing to extremities and spine ends). Provenance: British Astronomical Association (library stamp and shelf..... More

London: Macmillan, 1934. In: Nature 133, June 16, 1933, pp. 898-899. 4to. ----

D.S.B. Fermi 99, Norman 784 - Shortly after Joliot and Joliot-Curie's discovery of artificial radioactivity produced by alpha-particle bombardment of stable nuclei, Fermi and his assistants began a line of similar experiments using neutrons as projectiles, since..... More

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Volume one only. 8vo (235 x 148 mm). xxviii [4], 1-559, 556-597 [1] pp. including half-title, engraved frontispiece, errata leaf, and 16 engraved plates (including one folding map) and 2 folding maps loose in front cover pocket. Original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers..... More

London: John Churchill, 1861. Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body: Exhibiting their Origin, Divisions and Connections, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the cutaneous Surface and to all the Muscles. London: John Churchill, 1861. Large folio (485 x 336 mm), 8 pp. and 6 double-page lithographed..... More

Gouda: P. Rammazenius, 1638. 3 Parts in 1 volume. Folio (304 x 200 mm). [4], 152 (i.e. 144); 30 leaves. Half-title, engraved title illustration to both parts of the Philosophia Moysaica, and over 30 illustrations (4 engravings and 26 woodcuts) in text. Without the final errata leaf. Signatures: (*)4 A-Nn4;..... More

Pavia: Giuseppe Bolzani, 1771. 8vo (193 x 116 mm). [16], 160 pp., including initial blank leaf, half-title, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Print date from colophon on final page. Near contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (rubbing to boards and extremities..... More

Paris: Bachelier, 1851. In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences 32, Paris, Bachelier, 1851. 4to. (266 x 216 mm); pp. 135-138 (entire volume: 1010 pages). New endpapers. Library stamp of Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn and some additional library markings on the lower margin of page 2. Pages 959 to..... More