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

Castris [Castres]: Apud Arnaldum Colomerium, 1653. Two parts in one volume. 12mo (148 x 88 mm). [24], 240 pp. Small woodcut device on titles, separate title-page to second part, woodcut illustration of a siamese twin on p.180, woodcut initials and headlines, errata on final page. Bound in contemporary plain vellum..... More

Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1554. Folio (328 x 222 mm), [12], 248 (i.e., 250); [14], 238, [18]; 90, [10] pp. Signatures: *⁶ a-v⁶ x-z⁴, A-T⁶ V⁴ X⁶ Y⁴ Aa-Gg⁶ Hh-Ii⁴, k signed "lz"; mispaginations in text. Woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf verso, woodcut portrait of Fernel on *3v..... More

Venice: Octaviani Scotus for Boneto Locatellus, 1502. Folio (314 x 208 mm). 135, [1] leaves. Signatures: a-r⁸ (r8=blank). Publisher's device with initials O.S.M. at foot of leaf r7v. Colophon with imprint and full date: "Anno salutifere Incarnatio[n]is D[omi]nice. Secu[n]do supra. Millesimu[m] q[ui]nge[n]tesimu[m]q[ue]. Decimo sexto Kalen. Ianuarias." Woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled..... More

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1855. 8vo (222 x 148 mm). 42, [2] pp. including final advert leaf. Original printed wrappers (minor repair to fold and edges, soiled and spotted). Text somewhat browned and spotted, two pages with old ink markings, one page with annotation in contemporary hand. Provenance: Inscribed by Helmholtz..... More

Paris: P.G. Cavelier, 1766. 8vo (165 x 98 mm). [8], 270, [2] pp. Half-title, woodcut head- and tailpieces, final leaf blank. Contemporary French specked calf, rebacked retaining original richly gilt-decorated spine and gilt-lettered morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers (extremities slightly rubbed). Text crisp and clean with only very minor..... More

Paris: Jean Le Royer, 1561. 28 February 1561. 8vo (160 x 108 mm). [10], 276, [12] leaves, including final leaf of privilege, several woodcut illustrations of anatomy and surgical instruments, lacking the title-leaf (loosely inserted as good facsimile). Signatures: [pi]⁴ *⁸; A-Z⁸ Aa-Nn⁸ (-[pi]1). Contemporary tanned vellum (tightly bound, hinge..... More

Basel: Conrad Waldkirch, 1603. Two volumes, 8vo (177 x 104 mm). [16], 679, [25]; [16], 972, [20] pp. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Uniformly bound in contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, spines hand-lettered (leather ties mostly gone, slight wear to extremities, vellum soiled and spotted). Text unevenly browned throughout..... More

Turin: Jean Radix & Jean Francois Mairesse, 1720. 4to (222 x 155 mm). [16], 135 [1] pp. Half-title, woodcut vignette on title, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata on final leaf verso. Contemporary vellum, soiled and spotted. Text little browned, some light oil(?) staining to title and first few leaves..... More

London: John Chuchill, 1858. 8vo (223 x 144 mm). viii, xliv, 443 [1], 34 pp., including woodcut text illustrations, publisher's catalogue (dated May 1861*) at end. Original publisher's blindstamped pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt (cloth over spine ends repaired, corners worn). Text only little age-toned, occasional minor finger soiling..... More

Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1935. 4to (245 x 170 mm). Offprint from "Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", pp. [189]-245, drop title, diagrams in text. Original green printed wrappers with circular woodcut device on upper wrapper (some very light marginal staining, slight creasing of lower wrapper), contained in modern..... More

Amsterdam: Gerbrandus Schagen / Daniel Elzevir, 1663. I. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae: Quarum prior agit de fermentatione, sive de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore; altera de febribus, sive de motu earundem in sanguine animalium. His accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis. . . Amsterdam: Gerbrandus Schagen, 1663. [32], 376 pp., including..... More

Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1668. 12mo (134 x 78 mm). [12], 338, [22] pp. Engraved portrait of the author on leaf *6v, woodcut printer's device on general title, sections with individual running titles, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, final blank Q6. Signatures: *6 A-O12 P-Q6. Bound in 18th-century vellum, yapp edges..... More