Prague: In Commission bei Calve / ...bei Borrosch & Andre, 1845. I. Über eine bei jeder Rotation des Fortpflanzungsmittels eintretende eigenthümliche Ablenkung der Licht- und Schallstrahlen, zunächst angewandt auf mehrere theils schon bekannte theils neue Probleme der praktischen Astronomie, ein weiterer Beitrag zur allgemeinens Wellenlehre. From: Abhandlungen der königlich böhmischen..... More

Paris: J.-B. Ballière, 1855. 8vo (215 x 138 mm). x (of xii), 926 pp, 108 wood-engraved text illustrations, bound without half-title. 20th century quarter red morocco with black morocco lettering piece, marbled edges. Text little browned at margins, light foxing mainly to to title and final leaves. Dr. Cordes, Geneve..... More

Nürnberg: Hieronymus Formschneider, 1532. 22 Nov. 1534. Two works in one volume. Folio (323 x 208 mm). 79 (of 80, lacking blank) and 55 (of 56, lacking blank) unnumbered leaves. Signatures: A-E⁶ F⁴ G-N⁶ O⁴ (-O4); a-k⁶ (-k6). Gatherings b to k of second work misbound after gathering A of..... More

Nürnberg: [Hieronymus Andreas Formschneider], 1525. Folio (281 x 203 mm). 89 (of 90) unnumbered leaves, lacking final blank Q4 only. Signatures: A-N⁶ O-Q⁴ (-Q4). Numerous woodcuts of geometrical diagrams and architectural renderings, two woodcuts on P4 verso and Q1 recto extended with pasted-in folding slips to demonstrate a point in..... More

Lyon: Ioannis Lertout, 1577. 16mo (105 x 70 mm). [16], 548, [12] pp., including final blank. Signatures: ***8 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8. Contemporary flexible vellum with yapp edges, spine titled in ink (vellum darkened, wrinkled and soiled, head of spine damaged, lower inner hinge split). Fraying and chipping to upper corner of..... More

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

Berlin: J. A. Barth, 1907. Berlin: J. A. Barth, 1907. 8vo (223 x 147 mm). Entire "Heft 1" (part 1) offered, 208 pp., 1 folding plate, text diagrams. Original publisher's printed orange wrappers (front cover torn and repaired at upper corner with partial loss of border and at foot affecting..... More

London: Thames And Hudson, 1950. 8vo (215 x 138 mm). [6], 282 pp., frontispiece photographic portrait. Publisher's blue cloth, printed dust jacket (somewhat frayed at head, 5 cm long tear without loss at foot of lower wrapper, extremities a bid rubbed). Text clean and bright throughout. Provenance: C. Sharp (bookplate..... More

Brussels: chez J.-B. Balliere, 1838. Des maladies mentales considerées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-legal ... Accompagees de 27 planches gravees. Paris, London, Leipzig: chez J.-B. Balliere, 1838 [edition Bruxelles]. 4to. 2 volumes of text (240x159 mm); 1 atlas volume of plates (225x148 mm). vi, [2], 393 [3]; vi..... More

Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. Folio (341 x 223 mm). [12], 282 pp., including half-title, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater, final blank leaf Qq4, numerous woodcut and typographic text diagrams throughout. Signatures: pi² a-b² A-G² H-Z⁴ Aa-Qq⁴. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, spine with 6 raised bands..... 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