Basel: Froben / Johannes Petreius / Royal Society, 1533. Libri quinque De mensuris & ponderibus: In quibus plaeraque à Budaeo & Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. Basel: Froben, 1533. [9] 10-292 [4] pp. Woodcut printers devices on title and final leaf verso, 5 large historiated woodcut initials, general index at..... More

Paris: David l'Aine, 1743. 4to (219x164 mm). [4], xxvi, [2], 186, [2] pp, engraved title-vignette, 4 engraved folding plates at end. (A few minor marginal stains on title-page and preliminaries.) Contemporary calf (extremities scuffed, boards and spine worn, hinges repaired), very light toning and occasional minor spotting of text. Provenance..... More

Paris: Crochard, 1822. Extract from: Annales de chimie et de physique, par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago, Vol. 20. Paris: Crochard, 1822. 8vo. pp. 60-74, 1 folding plate. Modern boards, text somewhat browned, minor foxing, stronger foxing to plate. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit, with his booklabel on inner cover (his sale..... More

Florence: Lorenzo Torrentini, 1548. 4to (207 x 137 mm). 197 [1], [2, errata] pp. Text in latin and greek. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript, ties gone (soiling, browning and minor spotting of vellum, old repair to spine, small hole in lower cover). Internally quite crisp and..... More

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. 8vo (220x140 mm). 152 pp. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Ex libris label by Stillman Drake on inner cover. ----

DSB; Norman 77; PMM 412. - FIRST EDITION. Aston began researching the different atomic weights of two forms of neon at Cambridge in 1913..... More

Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1662. 12mo (125 x 76 mm). [16], 232, [16] pp., including engraved title and index at end. Contemporary vellum, plain spine with later gilt-lettered morocco label (some soiling and spotting of vellum, corners bumped, new endpapers). Internally quite crisp and clean with only very little occasional spotting and..... More

Venice: Franciscum Pitteri, 1750. 4to (278x191 mm), xl, 367 pp., 2 folding engravings and 1 folding table. Contemporary vellum with lettering piece to spine (spotting, corners bumped, inner hinge starting), some marginal spotting and browning to text. Good, unsophisticated copy. ----

Ebert 1484. Sotheran 5913. Ferchl 18. Wheeler Gift 280..... More

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

Bologna: Colle Ameno, 1758. 4to (310 x 215 mm). [12], 378, [4] pp. Including woodcut pictorial initial, woodcut head- and tailpieces, imprimatur and errata leaf at end. Bound in contemporary full vellum over boards, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges (soiling and staining of vellum, wear..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1903. Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences, Vol. 46. With 13 collotype plates. [4], 360, [4] pp. Original printed boards, section missing from foot of spine, edges foxed. ----

Dibner, Heralds of Science 163; Sparrow 20; PMM 393; Honeyman I, 263; Norman 159. - The first printing of Becquerel's..... 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

Strassburg: Johannis Reinholdi Dulseckeri, 1738. 4to (260 x 204 mm). [8], 304 pp. Title and first text page with large engraved vignette, first dedication leaf verso with large woodcut intitial, 12 folding engraved plates by I.M. Weis bound at end. Signatures: [pi]⁴ A-2P⁴. Contemporary full vellum, gilt-lettered spine label, red-dyed..... More

Paris: Garnery, 1810. 4to (272 x 218 mm). [4], 268 pp., including half-title, woodcut vignette on title, 9 engraved folding plates at end. Original sprinkled paper-wrappers, printed paper-label to spine (paper-label and spine ends partially chipped, upper wrapper partially split towards foot, wrappers slightly creased and corners dog-eared). All pages..... More