Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1483. 4 July 1483. 4to (214 x 157 mm). 93 unfoliated leaves (of 94, without initial blank). Collation: a-l8 m6 (-a1, a2r incipit, text of the Canons of John of Saxony, b3v supplement to the Canons of John of Saxony, c1r astronomical tables, m3r explanation of figure..... More
Leipzig: Astronomischen Gesellschaft, 1890. Published 1890-1910. 9 Volumes set. Half cloth with red morocco lables. Fundamentalkatalog. -
Die endgültige Fassung der "Bonner Durchmusterung", exakte Auflistung mit Standorten aller Sterne der Zonen -2° bis -18° und +1° bis +80°. - Die Messungen beruhen auf Beobachtungen der wichtigsten Sternwarten der Welt (Nicolajew..... 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
Wittenberg: Casparus Heiden, 1624. Sammelband including three works. Astrologia Seu De Stellarum Natura, affectionibus, & effectionibus. Exercitatio : Qua difficultates praecipuae, de Stellarum Definitione, caußis, Ordine, . . . succincte & nervose ecpediuntur; Cum Indice Quaestionum. Editio Septima Correctior mendos a tertia & melior . . . [Wittenberg]: Casparus Heiden..... 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
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
Berlin: Haude u. Spenerschen Buchhandlung, Ferd. Dümmler and others, 1774. 8vo (204 x 124 mm). In total 18380 pages and 116 engraved folding plates (2 hand coloured). The supplements are dated 1793 (I), 1795 (II), 1797 (III), and 1808 (IV), the Erläuterungen über die Einrichtung und dem Gebrauch seiner astronomischen..... More
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
Frankfurt: Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1648. 4to (221 x 178 mm). 470, [10] pp. (last leaf blank); 217, [5] pp., including 2 leaves of dedication by Schönwetter bound at the end. Separate title-page to second part, printer's woodcut devices to each title-page and page [218] of second part, numerous (9 full..... More
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
Paris: Dessaint & Saillant, 1765. 4to (252x200 mm), [1-3] 4 [5] 6-7 [8], [1] 2-161 [1] pp. and folding plate with diagrams. Contemporary French calf with 5 raised bands, gilt in compartments and with red morocco label (hinges cracked, extremities worn, boards rubbed), red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers, text only very..... More
Paris: M. Lambert, 1760. 8vo (200 x 123 mm). [2] i-xiv, [1] 2-247 [1] pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, spine gilt. Little browning and spotting to text. Lacking the two engraved plates. Ex-libris to front pastedown. ---
Norman 487, D.S.B, Freitag 483. - First Edition. EXEEDINGLY RARE! In..... More
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
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
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
Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1644. Principia philosophiae. Amsterdam, L. Elzevir, 1644. [22], 310 pp., printer's device on title, woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text, some full page, bound without the blank leaves b4 and 2Q4. [Bound with:] Specimina philosophiae: seu Dissertatio de methodo recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae..... 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
Hastings, NY: Henry Draper, 1863. Size 536 x 435 mm (21 x 17 inches) laid down on original mount (702 x 547 mm) which bears a printed label 'Photograph of the Moon, taken by Prof. Henry Draper, M.D., with a silvered glass Telescope, Fifteen and a Half Inches Aperture, Hastings..... More
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
Gouda: P. Rammazenius, 1638. 3 Parts in 1 volume. Folio (304 x 200 mm). [4], 152 (i.e. 144); 30 leaves. Half-title, engraved title illustration to both parts of the Philosophia Moysaica, and over 30 illustrations (4 engravings and 26 woodcuts) in text. Without the final errata leaf. Signatures: (*)4 A-Nn4;..... More
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
Venice: [Nicolini da Sabio?], 1538. 4to (210 x 150 mm). [4], 78 leaves. Full-page woodcut portrait of Fracastoro on verso of leaf [4], several woodcut diagrams and initials within text. Contemporary limp vellum (binding restored, new endpapers), spine with faint hand-lettering. Paper repair to lower blank margin of title-page and..... More
Breslau: Maruschke & Berendt, 1901. 1901-1903. Two volumes. 4to (315 x 235 mm). vi, [2], 116 pp., 6 collotype plates of moon phases (one bound as frontispiece); iv, 120 pp., 6 plates of moon phases and diagrams (incl. 1 collotype). Uniformly bound in half cloth, gilt-lettered spines, printed upper boards..... More
München: Lentner, 1817. In: Denkschriften der königlichen Academie der Wissenschaften zu München für die Jahre 1814 und 1815, vol. 5, pp. 193-226, 3 engraved folding plates (2 folding). München: Lentner, 1817. 4to (270 x 230 mm), whole volume [8], xlii, 62, 226, 91 [1] pp., including half-title, general title page..... More
Milan: Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1768. 4to (272 x 201 mm). [12], 420 pp. Printer's woodcut device on title, 6 folding engraved plates. Early 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt and with two gilt lettering pieces (wear to hinges, spine and extremities rubbed), red-dyed edges. Text generally..... More
