London: Henry G. Bohn, 1840. 4to (307 x 245 mm). viii pp. and 72 engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand, each accompanied by a protective tissue paper and explanatory text leaf. Pages i-ii misbound after iv, v-vi after viii. Contemporary half morocco, spine with 5 raised bands..... More

Paris: Bureaux du Progrès Médical, V Adrien Delahaye & Gie [and others], 1876. 1876-1880. Three parts in three volumes. 4to (227 x 165 mm). Each volume with half-title and title (printed in red and black) with collotype vignette of the Salpêtrière in Paris; woodcut text illustrations. With a total of..... More

Geneva: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. 4to (276 x 178 mm). [4] [1] 2-115 [1] pp., including half-title and double-page chromolithograph map drawn by B. Müller from the author's instructions and lithographed by Pilet & Cougnard, Geneva. Original publisher's printed wrappers, all pages uncut (slight wear of paper over spine with..... More

Toulouse: Veuve de J. Colomiez & R. Colomiez, 1610. 1610 [1612]. 12mo (140 x 80 mm). [16], 222, [2] pp. Woodcut headpieces and initials; errata on recto of final unnumbered leaf L4; the printing date "M DC X" on the title-page changed to 1612 by addition of a hand-printed "II"..... More

Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900. 8vo (225 x 146 mm). [4], 371, [5] pp., a few text diagrams. Bound in contemporary black calico with blindstamped boards and gilt-lettered spine (joints expertly repaired, calico over lower joint partially split, corners bumped). Text bright and clean throughout, lower corner of first..... More

Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544. 30 April 1544. Folio (363 x 241 mm). [36], 533 [1] pp., 210 woodcut text illustrations (of which 30 full-page), ornamental metalcut initials, bound without final blank leaf L6. Roman and Greek types. Signatures: aa⁸ bb¹⁰; a-z⁸ A-I⁸ K-L⁶ (-L6). Bound in later green-dyed reverse calf..... More

Paris: Roret, 1829. 8vo (200 x 125 mm). ii, [2], 244 pp., including half-title. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (light wear to board fore-edges and corners). Light occasional foxing, a bit stronger to first and final pages, but generally quite clean and..... More

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1869. 4to (210 x 140 mm). 16 pp. Drop title, two lithographed plates. Modern thin cardboards, preserved in percaline folder with printed paper label to front cover. Light browning and marginal dust-soiling. ----

Norman 1369. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING, SECOND ISSUE (corrected February 1870). "The correction entailed..... More

Madras: Vepery Mission Press, 1835. Two works in one volume. 8vo (215 x 133 mm). [2], iv, [2], 343, [3]; [2], 98 pp., including advert leaf after title, errata slip, one hand-coloured lithographed plate facing p. 114, and final blank in first work. Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, spine..... More

Venice: ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761. Two parts in one volume. Folio (370 x 231 mm). xcvi, 298; 452 pp., including half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one, titles with engraved vignettes, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Main-body text printed in two columns. Bound without blank leaf Oo6 at end of..... More

Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, 1853. 8vo (226 x 143 mm). xii, 292 pp., front and rear endpapers with publisher's adverts. Original publisher's dark green cloth, boards rules and stamped in blind, gilt-lettered spine (slight rubbing and soiling of boards and spine ends, corners bumped), pages untrimmed. Text very little browned..... More

Zürich: Jacob Gesner, 1563. [February 1563]. 8vo (168 x 107 mm). [16], 718, [2]; [2], 719-951, [53] pp. Text in Latin and Greek. Woodcut initials; separate title-leaf to Gesner's work, dated February 1563. Signatures: [alpha]⁸ a-z⁸ A-2R⁸. Numerous mispaginations. Blank leaf T8 present after p.718. Bound in contemporary pigskin richly..... More