Various: Various.. Items have various states of preservation, wrappers mostly browned and dust-soiled and with occasional edge-chipping and folds, text generally very little browned, iron staples of Nature issues mostly rusty. The collection comprises:
1. Energy of secondary Röntgen radiation. Offprint from: Proceedings of the Physical Society of London. Vol..... More

London: William Godbid for Robert Scott, 1674. 4to (202 x 152 mm). [12], 127 [1], [2], 147, [3] pp., 27 folding engraved plates. With the 'Benevolo Lectori' preliminary leaf bound before the 'Lectiones Geometricae.' Bound in a contemporary English speckled calf with a spine divided by raised bands into 6..... More

The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1660. 8vo (192 x 122 mm). [16], 592, [14] pp. Including engraved additional title dated 1655, engraved portrait by van Meurs after van Mander, 65 numbered engraved text illustrations (mostly full page), plus one not numbered, and 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges..... More

Frankfurt am Main: Nikolaus Basse, 1582. 4to (193 x 147 mm), [2], LXXXV [1] pp. Signatures: (A-L)4. Title printed in red and black with Basse's woodcut device, floral decorated woodcut initials. The main pages are double-ruled to the right of the text forming three blank columns where users of the..... More

Frankfurt am Main: Mathias Becker for Th. de Bry, 1605. 8vo (c. 185 x 120 mm, the second vol. slightly smaller). Vol. I: [16], 1070, 1069-1099, 1110-1314 (i.e. 1306) pp.; engraved title-page with author's portrait on verso, engraved armorial device on verso of following leaf, 129 full-page text illustrations, final..... More

Wien: Verlag von J. G. Heubner, 1832. 1832: Vol. 1, 384 pp., 5 pls.; 1833: Vol. 2, 386 pp., 3 pls.; 1835: Vol. 3, 376 pp., 4 pls. -

Poggendorff I, 118. Kirchner 9507. - Fortsetzung der Zeitschrift fur Physik und Mathematik, die in 6 Baenden erschien, von Bd. VII..... More

[Turin]: [printer unknown], 1775. 4to (270 x 210 mm). [8], 54, [2] pp. Signatures: [pi]⁴ A-G⁴. With the first blank leaf [pi]1 and the final leaf of Imprimatur G4. Bound in 20th-century patterend paste paper boards. All pages untrimmed. Text very little browned only, occasional minor spotting, small wormtracks to..... More

Berlin: Simon Schropp & Soc. 1837. Berlin: Simon Schropp, 1837. 4to (295 x 235mm), xviii, 412 pp, 5 wood-engraved plates, letterpress title-leaf. Later morocco-backed cloth (lightly sunfaded, new endpapers). Text little browned (plates a bit stronger) and with light scattered foxing, plates with waterstaining towards lower corner. Provenance: William Porthouse..... More

London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802. 4to (276 x 221 mm). vii [1], 87 [1] pp., 12 stipple-engraved plates (11 printed in colours and finished by hand) by T. Medland, John Stewart, W. Archibald and others after Bell, protected by tissue paper. Later three-quarter maroon calf and cloth, spine..... More

Pavia. I. Termo-barometro inventato e descritto. Offprint from: Giornale di Fisica ecc. di Pavia, VI, 1827. Pavia: Nella stamperia Fusi, 1828. 4to (271 x 205 mm). 15 [1] pp., 1 engraved plate of the barometer bound as frontispiece. [Bound with:] II. Nuove sperienze ed osservazioni fisico-chimiche istituite cogli elettro-motori. Offprint..... More

Paris: Baillière, 1855. [Oeuvres diverses]. Paris: Baillière, 1855-1878. A fine set of 10 works in 13 volumes uniformily bound in fine contemporary red three-quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt-lettered spines and gilt top-edges (other edges untrimmed), marbled endpapers, little rubbing to extremities. Half-title to each volume. Text with scattered..... More

Basel: Johann Rudolph & Emanuel Thurneisen, 1713. 4to (210 x 170 mm). [4], 35 [1], 306 pp. Woodcut title device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams in text, 1 folding plate with woodcut diagrams and 2 folding letterpress tables. Signatures: [pi]² a-d⁴ e², A-2P⁴ 2Q². Final section on tennis..... More

Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 1496. Folio (281 x 177 mm). [98] leaves. Signatures: AA-EE⁶ FF⁴ GG-MM⁶ N⁴ O⁶ PP-RR⁶. First two tracts have own colophons dated 1495. Roman letter, 37 lines, capital spaces with guide letters, printer's device at end of first part and after final colophon, register leaf..... More