Venice: Venturino Rossinello for Curzio Nav & Fratelli, 1540. 8vo (210 x 155 mm). [8], 168 leaves. Signatures: [+]⁸ A-X⁸. Title with woodcut border illustrating pieces of machinery and with the figure of Venice in the upper part, the Nav lion device below, second Nav device on title verso, 84..... More

[no printer]: [No place], 1660. Folio (318 x 195 mm). [22], 343 (i.e. 363) [1] pp. Several mispaginations. Engraved title-page and 16 folding engraved plates bound at end. 18th-century half vellum over marbled boards (paper over boards heavily chipped at outer edges, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). Text somewhat browned throughout..... More

Braunschweig: F.W.Meyer, 1738. Folio (348 x 213 mm). [20], 612, [68], 198, [26] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved headpiece with 2 portraits, 58 (57 folding) engraved plates. Contemporary three-quarter calf, spine with gilt-lettered label (label chipped with loss, spine ends and hinges expertly repaired), red-coloured edges. Text very little age-toned and..... More

Dessau & Leipzig: Verlagskasse für Gelehrte und Künstler, 1785. Folio (390 x 255 mm). [6], x, 244, [2] pp., including dedication leaf, final blank, 9 (8 folding) large hand-colored geological plates (one hightened with ground mica) by G. M. Kraus, Capieux a.o. after F. H. Spoerer, Laenge a.o.; and 5..... More