Nürnberg: Johannes Petreius, 1534. Folio (304 x 205 mm). [80], 146, [2] pp. Title printed in red and black and with large woodcut depicting two astronomers by Brosamer after Dürer; full-page woodcut coat of arms on a2r; final blank ss6; numerous woodcut diagrams in text; woodcut initials. Signatures: a-k4 aa-rr4..... More

Lyon: Joseph and Pierre Vilort, 1652. 8vo (238 x 175 mm). [8], 247 [1] pp. Signatures: )(⁴, A-P⁸, Q⁴. Woodcut device to title-page, several astrological woodcut diagrams and astronomical tables in text. Bound in 20th-century vellum over boards, new endpapers. All pages untrimmed. Little browning of text, minor spotting and..... More

Rome: Tipografia delle belle arti, 1862. Sammelband with 5 tracts by Tito Armellini mainly on barometry: Un nuovo barometro moltiplicatore-idrargiro-statico - invenzione del prof. Tito Armellini. Rome: tipografia delle Bella Arti, 1862. 30, [2] pp., title-page with engraved vignette, 1 folding engraved plate. [Bound with:] Due nuovi barometri: invenzioni di..... More

Turin: Pei Tipi del Nobili e. Comp. 1835. 8vo (195 x 129 mm). [13], 4-37 [1] pp., including half-title and 1 folding astronomical diagram. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled and spotted, spine chipped, light browning and foxing of text. ----

FIRST EDITION of this small treatise on the appearance..... More

Copenhagen: Auguste Friderich Stein, 1784. 4to (257 x 213 mm). 54, [2] pp. including final blank. Modern plain wrappers. Untrimmed with pages unopened. Some minor foxing and light marginal browning. ----

DSB II, p.56. Very rare first edition of a prize essay by the French mathematician Jean Bernoulli in which..... More

London: Taylor, Walton, and Marberly, 1852. 4to (285 x 225 mm). xxi, 251 [1] pp., lithograped frontispiece, text illustrations, pages uncut and mostly unopened. Original publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine, original yellow endpapers (spine sunned, boards little soiled, corners bumped, binding a bit weak) Provenance: Birr..... More

Paris: F. Pelican, 1645. L' Optique. Comprenant la cognoissance de l'oeil de la lumiere, et des couleurs. Quantité d'experiences touchant la veuë. Diuerses façons d'agir, ou d'eclairer, directament, par reflexion, ou par refraction. L'appareil contenant les fonctions des principales parties de l'oeil ... Les miroirs ardens, & leurs effects. Paris..... More

Nürnberg: L. Hulsius, 1602. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Nürnberg: L. Hulsius, 1602. Folio (311 x 194 mm). 54 unnumbered leaves, title with engraved portrait of the author, 6 large engravings and 23 woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Signatures: )::(⁴ A-E⁶ F⁴ G-H⁶ I⁴. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin with stamped..... More

Paris: chez David fils, 1743. 8vo (188 x 113 mm). xl, 305, [5] pp., engraved title vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, numerous woodcut text diagrams. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt-tooled in compartments, gilt lettering piece, red sprinkled edges (wear to extremities, worming at spine..... More

Rome: Francesco Zanetti, 1581. Folio (321 x 228 mm). [16], 654, [2] pp. Signatures: [cross]⁸ A-E⁶ F⁸ G-GGg⁶ HHh⁸. Engraved title, several woodcut diagrams and tables in text, decorated and historiated woodcut initials. Colophon and printer's woodcut device on final leaf 3H8r. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (vellum..... More

St. Petersburg: Academie des Sciences, 1738. 4to (241 x 178 mm). 284, [12] pp., woodcut initials and text diagrams, 13 folding engraved plates bound at the end. Contemporary polished and mottled calf with cat's paw motif, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments, boards ruled in blind, red-dyed..... More

Paris: Henry Le Gras, 1658. 4to (197 x 148 mm). 78; [2], 294, [26] pp., woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, half-titles for "La dioptrique" and "Les météores" (the former outside pagination), woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout (some full page). Signatures: a⁴ b-k⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Rr⁴. Bound in contemporary untouched..... More

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