PMM - Printing and the Mind of Man
Catalogue 08-2021
50 selected items including several new arrivals
London: Printed for James Allestry, 1667. Folio (299 x 198 mm). [36], 246, [10] pp., title with engraved arms of the Royal Society, imprimatur leaf before title, 38 engraved plates (30 folding of which 2 double-page and mounted on stub), woodcut head-pieces and initials, errata on final page verso. Signatures..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1912. In: Journal of Physiology, Vol. XLIV, Nos. 5 and 6, pp. 425-460. London: Cambridge University Press, 1912. 8vo (229 x 162 mm). Entire volume, 513, [25] pp. Bound in early 20th century beige library cloth, spine titled in black. Text generally clean with little yellowing..... More
Stuttgart und Tübingen / Stuttgart: Cotta / Krais & Hoffmann, 1845. Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Volume 1 to 5. Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, 1845-1862. 8vo (215 x 133 mm). Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, [1851]. Oblong folio (280 x 350 mm). Text volumes: xvi..... More
Edinburgh / London: printed for Cadell and Davies, London, and William Creech / Geological Society, 1795-1899. Edinburgh: printed for Cadell and Davies, London, and William Creech, 1795 (Vol. I and II); London: Geological Society, 1899 (Vol. III). Bound in three volumes, including the posthumous third part edited by Sir Archibald..... More
Heidelberg: Gotthard Vögelin, 1609. Folio (388 x 250 mm). Work in five parts, each with separate half-title page, but continuous pagination and signatures. Text in Latin with small sections in Greek. [40], 337, [3] pp., folding letterpress table, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, approx. 300 woodcut diagrams in text, complete..... More
Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1862. Two volumes. Offprints from: Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861-1862. Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler, 1862-1863. 4to (305 x 238 mm). [4], 43 [1]; [3] 4-16 pp., 5 lithographed plates (3 for part I and 2 for part II; 4 folding). Pages of part II..... More
Paris: Crapelet for Duprat, Bachelier, 1799. Paris: Crapelet for Duprat, An VII [1799] (vol. I-II), Crapelet for Duprat, An XI-1802 (vol. III), Courcier, An XIII-1805 (vol. IV), Bachelier, 1825 (i.e., 1823-1827) (vol. V). Bachelier, 1829 (2nd edition, vol. I-II). 4to (270 x 215 mm). Half-title to each volume, vol. III..... More
Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1789. Two parts in two volumes. Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1789. 8vo (205 x 124 mm). xliv, 322; viii, 323-653, [3] pp., including half title to each part, woodcut vignette to titles, woodcut head- and tailpieces, 2 folding letterpress tables in volume I, 3-pages errata and 13 folding..... More
Leiden: 1695. [Works, in Latin]. I. Arcana naturae detecta. Leiden: Henrik van Kroonevelt, 1695. [8], 568, [14] pages, including engraved additional title, 27 engraved plates of which 15 are folding and several engraved illustrations in text. Paper only very little browned, very minor spotting, plate to p.548 shaved some mm..... More
London: John Redmayne for James Allestry, 1669. 8vo (175 x 109 mm). [16], 220, [20] pp., including 7 engraved folding plates bound at end (plate 1 misbound after 2), preliminary leaf A6 a cancel, ornamental woodcut initials and typographical headpieces; bound without initial blank A1. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with..... More
London: Macmillan, 1939. I: Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction. - II: Physical evidence for the division of heavy nuclei under neutron bombardment (Frisch only). - Products of the fission of the uranium nucleus. - III: Liberation of Neutrons in the Nuclear Explosion of Uranium..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1913. MOSELEY, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys. The high-frequency spectra of the elements / The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements. Part II. In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Sixth series, vol.26, no. 156 (December 1913), pp. 1024-1034, plate XXIII; and Sixth series..... More
London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, 1704. 4to (244 x 191 mm). 181 leaves, [4] 1-144, 1-137 [1] 138 [1] 139-211 [1] pp. Signatures: (pi)2, A-S4, Aa-Bb4 Dd-Zz4, Aaa-Ddd4, Eee2 + single leaf inserted before Tt2 being the divisional title to Enumeratio linearum tertii..... More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1858. Two works in one volume. 8vo (222 x 141mm). [4], iv, [9], vi-xix, [2] 2-12, 2, xxx, 66, xlvii [1], iv, 67-80, xxxiv [2], 81-176, [2], 177-234, xliv, 235-332, xxvii [1], 333-556, lviii, 557-567 [1] pp; iv [2] v-x, 28, 133 [1], 23 [1] pp..... More
Cologne [i.e., Paris]: Pierre de la Vallée, 1657. 4to (237 x 170 mm). 18 separately published letters with a general title-page and Avertissement in 6 pages (first issue, spelled "Advertissement" and mentioning only 17 letters), with the 8-page Refutation to the 12th letter, the second letter in second state dated..... More
Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. 12mo (152 x 86 mm). [82], 365 [1], [22] pp. Signatures: ã12 ē12 ī8 o8 u1 A-P12 Q4 R8 S2. With 'Approbation des Prelats' leaf, 2 leaves of privilege with errata on verso of second, and the table on content. Title with printer's monogram device, engraved..... More
London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1772. In: Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenuious in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. 62, pp. 147-264. London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the..... More
Berlin: Veit et Comp. 1838. In: Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin 5, Heft 2 (1838), pp 137-76. Includes two etched and aquatint plates (nos. III and IV) on one folding sheet. Berlin: Veit et Comp., 1838. 8vo (209x128 mm). Whole volume: [2], cxcviii, 608 pp. 16 plates on..... More
Washington DC: War Department, 1945. Preface dated July 1, 1945. 4to (263 x 199 mm). [8], I:1-19 [1], II:1-10, III:1-7 [1], IV:1-15 [1], V:1-9 [1], VI:1-14, VII:1-15 [1], VIII:1-17 [1], IX:1-13 [1], X:1-10, XI:1-13 [1], XII:1-12, XIII:1-3 [1], A1:1-6, A2:1-2, A3:1-3 [1], A4:1-5 [1], A5:1 [1]. Leaf IV-9/10 a dublicate..... More
London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. 8vo (193 x 120 mm). xii, 148, [6], 164; [6], 154, [8], 199 [1] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece by Sheppard after Sturt in volume 1, 5 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate of the automatic writing machine, woodcut head and tail pieces, plus other small decorations..... More
Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1470. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, not after 1470. 76 unnumbered leaves. Collation: [a-g10 h6]. Bound with 8 other theological tracts printed by Zainer, 1472-1473, in identical format and layout. Foliation added in contemporary manuscript. 35 lines, gothic type, large, 3 to 6 line, opening initial to each work..... More
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1588. Folio (348 x 221 mm). [20], 621, [15], 73, [7] pp. Signatures: (par)6 2(par)4 a-3n6 3o4. Double column Greek and Latin text, woodcut device on title. Bound in 17th century morocco, regilded and rebacked. Text little browned, occasional foxing, two leaves in signature ss misbound. Very..... More
London: Thomas Bennet, Daniel Brown, Mr. Hunt, 1699. Two parts in one. 4to (288 x 213 mm). [12] 1-108, [2] 1-58 [2] pp. Signatures: π4 A2 B-O4 π2 χ2 2B-2H4 2I1, 91 leaves. Imprimatur leaf before title, separate title to second part, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, 8 folding engraved..... More
[Geneva]: [Cramer], 1759. 12mo (163 x 94 mm). 299 [3] pp. Signatures: A-M12 N8 (-N7-8). Woodcut title vignette, repeated on p. 193 and 266, other woodcut ornaments and vignettes in text, bound without binder's 'avis au reliure' leaf N8 and blank leaf N7 as almost always. Leaves B4, B9, D6..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792. 8vo (214 x 135 mm). xix [1], 452 pp. Text block only slightly trimmed preserving several uncut edges. Near contemporary calf, spine with gilt-lettered label and some gilt decoration; boards, board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers (light rubbing of..... More
