Bologna: Typis Haeredis Victorii Benatii, 1645. 4to (223 x 160 mm). [16], 228, [4] pp., including half-title, fine engraved frontispiece with Medici arms by Coriolano, errata and imprimatur/colophon leaves at end, the latter with large printer's device. Numerous woodcut astronomical diagrams in text. Text within ruled borders throughout. Contemporary full... More about Kitab al-Zij]. Mahometis Albatenii de Scientia Stellarum Liber cum aliquot additionibus Joannis...

Uppsala: W. Schultz, 1868. Two parts comprising text volume and atlas folder with plates. Text volume: 4to (310 x 240 mm), Plates: oblong folio (320 x 500 mm). Text volume: [4], 42, xv [1] pp., lithographed frontispiece. Atlas volume: title leaf and 6 lithographed plates. Original publisher's printed wrappers to... More about Recherches sur le Spectre Solaire. [Atlas contenant les longeurs d'onde des raies...

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 about Ptolemaeus Parvus in Genethliacis junctus Arabibus

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 about Mémoire sur la proposition de construire de nouvelles tables du soleil et de la lune, qui a...

Rome: apud Joannem Mariam Salvione, 1728. Folio (390 x 270 mm). viii, 92 pp., including engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, two engraved initials, engraved headpiece, 3 mezzotint engraved illustrations in text, and 10 (4 folding) engraved plates (the first in mezzotint). Contemporary calf... More about Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa planetam Veneris unde colligitur....

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798. Vol. 1 and Part 2 of Vol. 2 only, bound in 2 Volumes, (2), LVI, 301, 156, 202 pp.; (2), 396 pp. Contemporary half leather, spines gilt, with labels, rubbed, bumped and somwhat soiled. Spine of vol. 2 torn.. Old stamp on title recto cancelled; glue... More about Astronomical Observations, made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, from the year 1750 to the...

Brescia: Tomaso Bozzola, 1566. Folio (293 x 208 mm). [4], 42 leaves. Signatures: *⁴ A-G⁶. Printer's woodcut device on title, historiated initials, large woodcut illustrating the arms of the dedicatee Camilla Torella, letterpress tables. Later half vellum over xylographed paper boards, old ink lettering and shelf label to spine (little... More about Tavole nuove a modo di almanaco : per trovare con il giuoco di tre dadi perpetuamente il far...

Paris: Chez Michel Lambert, 1760. 8vo (196 x 125 mm). [2] i-xiv, [1] 2-247 [1] pp. Woodcut device on title, letterpress tables, 2 folding engraved plates bound at the end. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt-lettered red morocco label, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers... More about Théorie du mouvement des comètes, dans laquelle on a égard aux altérations que leurs orbites...

Utrecht: Barthélémy Wild, 1780. 4to (257x202 mm). [4], 239 (recte 237) [1] pp. , including 3 engraved plates and 7 folding tables. Contains the following contributions: - 1. CONDORCET, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. Essai sur la théorie des comètes. - 2. TEMPELHOFF, Georg Friedrich von. Essai sur la solution... More about Dissertations sur la théorie des comètes qui ont concouru au prix proposé par l'Académie...

Oelsna Silesiorum: Johann Seyffert, 1650. Two parts in two volumes. Oelsna Silesiorum: Johann Seyffert, 1650. Folio (315 x 192 mm). [24], 1-144 [i.e. 146], [2], 147-264, [2]; 268, [2] pp., including half-title, title printed in red and black, 3 errata leaves, and 2 (of 3) folding letterpress tables, lacking table... More about Urania propitia sive Tabulae astronomicae mirè faciles, vim hypothesium physicarum à Kepplero...

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 about Sur les inégalités du mouvement de Saturne & de Jupiter: Piece qui a remporté le prix de...

Berlin: A. Haude, 1744. 4to. (246x185 mm). [2]-187 (i.e. 188) pp., engraved frontispiece by F.H. Fritsch, device on title and 4 plates; without the cancel leaf A4 as in almost all copies. Quarter calf, rebacked preserving original spine. Ex libris label by Peter P. Stucker to inner front board, presentation... More about Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum. Continens methodum facilem... orbitas cum planetarum cum...

London: for R. Bentley and S. Magnes, 1688. 8vo (162 x 102 mm). [12], 152 pp. Signatures: A⁶ B-K⁸ L⁴. E4 is a cancel leaf. Contemporary mottled calf, elaborate gilt spine (upper joint neatly repaired, head of spine slightly chipped), preserved in cloth slipcase. Internally only slightly browned, a little... More about A Plurality of Worlds. Written in French by the Author of the Dialogues of the Dead. Translated...