Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, 1556. March 1556. Folio (332 x 223 mm). [10], [2: blank], 538 [i.e. 502], [74] pp. With woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf verso, large woodcut initials, 2 folding woodcut plates bound after i2 (the first folded in at fore-margin), 273 woodcut..... More
Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1504. Folio (308x212 mm). 12, [16], 273 [1] ff. Signature: [12], a-b8, a-p8, o-p6, r-u8, x8, v8, z8, &8, A-M8, N6. Woodcut Aldine device on [1]. Separate title to "Problematum Aristotelis" with Aldine device on E1r. Leaf p6r with colophon "Venetiis in Domo Aldi mense Maio M.DIII"..... More
![Item #003254 [Canon medicinae]. Liber Canonis primus quem princeps aboali abinsceni de medicina...](https://milestone-books-de.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/003254_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1611008109)
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. March 24, 1490. Chancery 4to (228 x 177 mm). 442 unnumbered leaves including initial blank a1. Signatures: a-p8 q10 t-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-N8 O-P6 Q-Z8 aa-bb8 cc10 dd-gg8 hh10 (a1 blank). Text in double columns, 60 lines, types 2:130G, 3:62G, 4:92G. Title..... More
Basel: Johann Rudolph & Emanuel Thurneisen, 1713. 4to (210 x 170 mm). [4], 35 [1], 306 pp. Woodcut title device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams in text, 1 folding plate with woodcut diagrams and 2 folding letterpress tables. Signatures: [pi]2 a-d4 e2, A-2P4 2Q2. Final section on tennis..... More
Rome: Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680. De motu animalium. Opus posthumum. 2 volumes. Romae, Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680-81. 4to (22.2x15.4cm). Vol. I, 1680: (xii), 376, (12) pp., 14 folding plates; Vol. II, 1681: (iv), 520 pp., 4 folding plates. Woodcut device on titles. The 4 plates in vol. 2..... More
Oxford: Henry Hall for R. Davis and B. Took, 1680. Two parts in one volume. 8vo (164 x 110 mm). [22], 440, [28], 268 pp., advertisement leaf bound before title in second state with date January 1679/80. Second part with separate title page and pagination. Signatures: [pi]1 A8 a2 B-2E8..... 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
Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1787. 4to (212 x 176 mm). [4], 77 [1] pp.; 11 folding engraved plates bound at end. Contemporary quarter calf, rebacked spine lettered and decorated in gilt, remnant of paper sticker to front board. Text browned throughout, occasional minor brown spotting, tiny burnhole in p.3/4..... More
![Item #001757 A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]. John DALTON](https://milestone-books-de.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/001757_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1644180191)
Manchester: Printed by S. Russell, 125, Deangate, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, 1808. A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]. Manchester: S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff, 1808 [vol. 1, part I]; Russell and Allen for R. Bickerstaff, 1810 [vol. 1, part II]. 8vo (204 x 125 mm)..... More
Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. 4to (191 x 146 mm). 78, [2], 413, [35] pp., woodcut printer's device on title, 3 section-titles, woodcut initials, numerous woodcut text diagrams and illustrations, errata, French and Dutch privilege on Kkk3-4. Bound in contemporary French calf, gilt-decorated spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering..... 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
Paris: Bachelier, 1851. In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences 32, Paris, Bachelier, 1851. 4to. (266 x 216 mm); pp. 135-138 (entire volume: 1010 pages). New endpapers. Library stamp and deaccession stamp of Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn and some additional library markings on the lower margin of page 2..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1822. 4to (254 x 200 mm). [4], xxii, 639 [1] pp., including half title and two engraved plates at end. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (spine very little rubbed, head of spine chipped), endpapers and cut edges marbled. Internally crisp and..... 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
Strasbourg: D. Hauttius for the Elzevirs [at Leiden], 1635. 8vo (194 x 150 mm), [xvi], 495 [1], [24] pp. Engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait by Jacob van der Heyden, woodcut diagrams, final leaf of errata. Text browned throughout as usual, leaves O3 and 3Q2 with small paper flaw at top..... More
Modena: Societatem Typographicam, 1792. 4to (278 x 210 mm). xxvi, 80 pp. and 3 folding engraved plates (plate III in first state with the letter 'E' in fig. 22 uncorrected); woodcut headpieces; bound without intermediate blank leaf C6 as usual. Contemporary Italian cardboard, pasted over with orange metallic paper, red-sprinkled..... More
![Item #003659 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, pp. 108-248 [With:] On the...](https://milestone-books-de.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/003659_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1678436460)
New Haven: Published by the Academy, 1874. 1874-78. 8vo (227 x 143 mm). Entire volume: xi [1], 529 [1] pp., including 60 photo-lithographed plates and errata on final unnumbered page. Contemporary half sheepskin over marbled boards, spine blind-ruled and lettered in gilt, red-sprinkled edges (extremities rubbed, traces of white paint..... More
Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544. 30 April 1544. Folio (356 x 243 mm). [36], 533, [3] pp., including final blank, 210 woodcut text illustrations (of which 30 full-page), ornamental metalcut initials. Roman and Greek types. Signatures: aa8 bb10; a-z8 A-I8 K-L6. Early 17th century calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-ruling..... More
Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 4to (296 x 210 mm). [1-3] 4-20 pp., text diagrams. Original publisher's printed wrappers (very light fading along spine and edges). Text very little age-tonend, mostly to outer margins. An almost pristine copy. ----
Dibner 168; Norman 963; DSB VI, pp. 16-17. FIRST..... More
London: for W. Innys and R. Manby, and T. Woodward, 1727. I: Vegetable Staticks; or, an account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. Also . . . an Attempt to analyse the Air, by a great Variety of Chymio-Statical Experiments... - II: Statical Essays: containing haemastaticks; or..... More
Paris: Gogue & Nee de la Rochelle, 1784. 8vo. (192x120 mm). [8], 236 pp. Half-title, 8 folding engraved plates by Sellier after Fossier. Contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt. Somewhat browned and foxed, half title stronger). ----
Dibner 92; Horblit 47; Sparrow 93; Norman 1021-1022, Ward & Carozzi, Geology Emerging, 1984..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre, 1794. An II [1793/94]. 8vo (213 x 140 mm). [2] iii-xiv, [1] 2-147 [1], [28] pp., including 3 engraved plates and weight conversion tables at end. Pages untrimmed and partially unopened. Original paste-paper wrappers, spine titled in manuscript, shelf-mark paper labels to front wrapper..... More
Berlin: G. Reimer, 1847. 8vo (220 x 139 mm). [4], 72 pp. Contemporary German half cloth over marbled boards, hand-lettered paper label to upper board, original printed wrappers bound in, original endpapers, custom black cloth clamshell case (rubbing of boards and extremities, smaller patches of frayed cloth along hinges). Light..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. Über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen; Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen; Über einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung. In: Annalen der Physik 31, neue Folge, 1887, pp. 421-448, 543-544, 983-1000. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. 8vo (209x136 mm). Contemporary..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Hofmeister, 1851. 4to (265 x 217 mm). viii, 179 [1] pp. and 33 numbered engraved plates bound at end, each with numerous figures illustrating plant structure. Contemporary half sheep, gilt-lettered spine, re-sprinkled edges (extremities and boards rubbed, corners worn, leather at spine and boards partially chipped..... More
