Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1543. 4to (248 x 174 mm). [6], 196 leaves. 148 woodcut text diagrams, including 6 repeats (Gingerich count), tables of calculations and ornamental woodcut initials. Bound without errata leaf which is found in only a few copies*. Signatures: π6 a-z4 A-Z4 Aa-Cc4. Leaf 52 misfoliated 49. Mid-19th..... More
Augsburg: Johann Schüssler, 1471. 16 February 1471. Chancery folio (296 x 215 mm). 209 leaves (of 212, without the final 3 blanks). Collation: [a-s10 t12 v10 x7]. 35 lines, gothic type 1:117G. Title in incipit (leaf [a]1r): Petri de crescentiis civis. Bononiensis epistola in libru[m] co[m]modoru[m] ruralium. Illuminated throughout including..... More
Basel: M. Isengrin, 1542. Folio (362 x 237 mm). [28], 896, [4] pp. Signatures: α6 β8 A-Z6 a-3f6. Greek, roman and italic types. 509 full-page botanical woodcuts, 3 smaller cuts in the text, by Veit Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmauer and Albert Meyer, full-page portrait of the author on title..... More
Heidelberg: Gotthard Vögelin, 1609. Folio (388 x 250 mm). Work in five parts, each with separate half-title page, but continuous pagination and signatures. Text in Latin with small sections in Greek. [40], 337, [3] pp., folding letterpress table, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, approx. 300 woodcut diagrams in text, complete..... More
Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. 30 October 1475. Folio (285 x 210 mm). 263 (of 294) unnumbered leaves, including two final blanks, but lacking 31 text leaves (f.1-15, 24-26, 34-35, 129-136, 153, 287-288 including entire gatherings b and p). With 9 (of 12) full-page woodcut illustrations, all in original hand-color, each..... More
Mainz: Jacob Mydenbach, 1491. 23 June 1491. Chancery Folio (285 x 197 mm). 441 (of 454) unnumbered leaves, lacking the first printed leaf A1 and the final two gatherings 2D-2E of the index including colophon (11 unillustrated text leaves and final blank). Text in two columns; spaces left blank for..... More
London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, 1704. 4to (244 x 191 mm). 181 leaves, [4] 1-144, 1-137 [1] 138 [1] 139-211 [1] pp. Signatures: (pi)2, A-S4, Aa-Bb4 Dd-Zz4, Aaa-Ddd4, Eee2 + single leaf inserted before Tt2 being the divisional title to Enumeratio linearum tertii..... More
Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1470. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, not after 1470. 76 unnumbered leaves. Collation: [a-g10 h6]. Bound with 8 other theological tracts printed by Zainer, 1472-1473, in identical format and layout. Foliation added in contemporary manuscript. 35 lines, gothic type, large, 3 to 6 line, opening initial to each work..... More
