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Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (250 x 180 mm). xlix [1], 96, [2] pp. Half title, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, engraved portrait of the author after Pietro Anichini, imprimatur leaf bound at the end, woodcut initials and ornaments,… Read more about this item

London: Peter Short, 1600. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio (278 x 190 mm). [16], 240 pp. Signatures: *8, A-V6. Woodcut title device and large woodcut arms on verso, one folding plate facing p. 200, 87 woodcuts in text of which 4 full-page, decorative woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. In its original contemporary… Read more about this item

Venice: ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 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… Read more about this item

Nürnberg: J. Petreius, 1550. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (309 x 201 mm). [36], 371 [1] pp. Roman type, italic marginalia. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, blank leaf D6. Signatures: A-C4 D6 a-z4 aa-yy4 zz6. 204 leaves. Bound in… Read more about this item

Modena: Societatem Typographicam, 1792. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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… Read more about this item

Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, 1556. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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… Read more about this item

New Haven: Published by the Academy, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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… Read more about this item

Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4to (268 x 215 mm). viii, 442 pp., 13 lithographed plates (of which 5 hand-colored). Contemporary half roan and marbled boards (rubbed and scuffed, minor edge chipping, head of spine torn). Little browning internally and some, mostly marginal, spotting… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Entire first year (1899) and second year (1900) of this journal present, bound in one volume. 8vo (223 x 148 mm). vi, 292; vi, 260 pp., including general titles, member directories, and text diagrams. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boads (interim binding), spine with hand-written… Read more about this item

Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 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… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1789. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (212 x 138 mm). xliv, 322; viii, 323-653, [3] pp., including half title to each part, woodcut vignette to titles, woodcut head- and tailpieces, 2 folding letterpress tables in volume I, 3-pages errata and 13 folding engraved plates bound at end of volume II. Original… Read more about this item

London: Peter Elmsly, 1798. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (292 x 235 mm). Entire volume (part I) offered: vi, 199 [1], 26 pp., 7 folding engraved plates and folding table. All pages uncut. Original blue wrappers, spine hand-lettered in ink (paper dust-soiled and spotted, paper… Read more about this item

Heidelberg: Gotthard Vögelin, 1609. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 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,… Read more about this item

London: W. Bulmer for G. & W. Nicol, 1802. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to (295 x 237 mm). Two parts in two volumes. vi, [2], 1-212, 26; iv, 213-535 [1], [8] pp., part titles, index bound at end, and 17 engraved plates. Original blue simple paper wrappers, all pages untrimmed and partially… Read more about this item

Wiesbaden: J. F. Bergmann, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (237 x 165 mm). xii, 199 [1] pp. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered, marbled edges (minor rubbing to extremities). Minor age-toning, but generally crisp and clean. Provenance: Medizinisch-Klinisches Institut München (library ink stamps to… Read more about this item

Basel: Johann Rudolph & Emanuel Thurneisen, 1713. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 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… Read more about this item

Oxford: Henry Hall for R. Davis and B. Took, 1680. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 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… Read more about this item

Paris: Crapelet for Duprat, Bachelier, 1799. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paris: Crapelet for Duprat, An VII [1799] (vol. I-II), Crapelet for Duprat, An XI-1802 (vol. III), Courcier, An XIII-1805 (vol. IV), Bachelier, 1825 (i.e., 1823-1827) (vol. V). Bachelier, 1829 (2nd edition, vol. I-II). 4to (270… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1772. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In: Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenuious in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. 62, pp. 147-264. London: Printed for… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 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. ---- … Read more about this item