Nürnberg: [Bestelmeier], 1803. Oblong 4to (194 x 245 mm). General title, general introduction, and 8 installments, each with separate title page and pagination, plus a total of 70 engraved plates of items numbered 1 to 1111. Introduction and index: 32 pp.; part I: 10 pp., 7 pls.; part II: 15..... More

Strassburg: Wendelin Rihel, 1543. Folio (327 x 202 mm). [44], 505, [3] pp. Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]⁶ [delta]⁴ A-Z⁶ a-s⁶ t-v⁴. Includes title-page woodcut vignette (printer's device) and woodcut initials in text. Leaf [delta]4 and v4 are blanks. Title-page bears an encomium from Johannes Sturm: "Ioannes Sturmius. Ioannes Caluinus homo accutissimo iudicio..... More

Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1583. 4to (220 x 154 mm). [40], 621, [11] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title and at end, woodcut initials, some historiated. Variant title page with "Duce" in 9th line. Contemporary vellum (old remboitage binding), spine hand-lettered, faded blue edges. A few leaves with faint stains or..... More

Cologne: Ulrich Zel (Zell), [1467]. Half-sheet 4to (201 x 140 mm). 30 unfoliated leaves including final blank. 27 lines, no printed signatures, 4 pinholes. Collation: [1-3⁸ 4⁶] text, 4.5v explicit, 4.6 blank. Type 1B: 96G (leaded to 104). Two 4-line initial spaces, the first with purple and red pen-flourishing infilled..... More

London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo (196 x 125 mm). ix [1], 502, 32 pp., including half-title, publisher's advertisements at end dated 'January 1860', and folding lithographed table facing p.117. Original publisher's green blind-stamped cloth (spine ends slightly frayed, corners bumped, extremities little rubbed), original brown endpapers, Edmonds & Remnants ticket..... More

Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1783. 1783-1784. 2 volumes, 8vo (204x127 mm). Vol. 1: [i-iii] iv-xl, [1] 2-299, [3], [4] pp., 9 engraved plates (plate v as frontispiece), folding table; Vol. 2: [2], [1] 2-24, *24-24*, 25-62, [67] 68-366, [2] pp., 5 engraved plates (plate I as frontispiece). Contemporary green paste..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. In: Zeitschrift für Physik. Vol. 33, pp. 879-893. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 8vo (220 x 151 mm). Entire volume offered, with 256 text illustr. and vii [1], 950 pp. Contemporary half black library cloth with gilt-lettered spine (rebacked preserving the original spine), sprinkled edges. Text with..... More

Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1690. 4to (198 x 158 mm). [8], 1-124 [2] 125-128 [2] 129-180 pp. Signatures: *⁴ A-P⁴ Q² R⁴ S² T-Z⁴ Aa². Two parts in one, separate title to part two, continuous pagination, general title printed in red and black, both titles with printer's woodcut device..... More

Amsterdam: Janssonius-Waesberge, 1665. 1664-1665. Folio (393 x 238 mm). [28], 346, [6]; [12], 487 [1], [10] pp., including allegorical additional title to each part (both dated 1664), engraved portrait of Kircher and dedicatee Pope Alexander VII, engraved device on title of part 1, 21 (12 double-page, one folding) engraved maps..... 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

Berlin: Friedrich Vieweg, 1793. 4to (267 x 210 mm). [6] pp., 444 columns, [4] pp. Fine engraved title by W. Arndt and C. Jack after Sprengel and Jack, and 25 engraved plates by J.S. Capieux, A. Wohlgemuth and J.D.H. after Sprengel. 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and..... More

Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1873. 8vo (220 x 155 mm). viii, 134, [2] pp., including half-title, one folding lithographed plate, and errata leaf. 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (light rubbing to extremities). Original printed wrappers bound in. Faint spotting on the plate, wrappers..... More