Recent Arrivals from Milestones of Science Books

Copenhagen: N. Möller and others, 1761. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1761-1883. 18 volumes, folio (368 x 239 mm) including Liebmann & Lange's supplement (1874), plus 1 volume (Lange's Index) 4to (260 x 205 mm). Each folio volume in 3 fascicles (together 54) and each fascicle with 60 plates. Altogether 3240 hand-colored engraved and etched… Read more about this item

Paris: Garnerey & Baudoin, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (252 x 204 mm). 302 pp., including half-title and 3 engraved folding plates. Contemporary French prize binding of the Collège Royal de Versailles in full sprinkled calf, spine and boards tooled in gilt, spine with gilt-lettered black morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers (extremities… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to (245 x 181 mm). [28], 484, [8] pp. Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette; engraved folding plate of the cometary orbit facing p. 465; woodcut text diagrams throughout. Bound in full contemporary speckled calfskin, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt-tooled… Read more about this item

Paris: Henry Le Gras, 1658. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to (197 x 148 mm). 78; [2], 294, [26] pp., woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, half-titles for "La dioptrique" and "Les météores" (the former outside pagination), woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout (some full page). Signatures: a4 b-k4 A-Z4 Aa-Rr4. Bound in contemporary untouched… Read more about this item

Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1837-1841. 4 volumes. 8vo (220 x 141 mm). [4], xxxi [1], 910, [2] pp., 9 engraved plates; xv [1], 980 pp., 5 plates; xiii [1], 932 pp., 2 plates; xiii [1], 926, [2], LIII [1], [2] pp., 2 plates. Half-title to each volume; blank leaves present… Read more about this item

Paris: chez Gabriel Buon, au clos Bruneau, à l'enseigne S. Claude, 1582. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (214 x 159 mm). [16], 74 (of 76) leaves, title with printer's woodcut device, 12 woodcut illustrations in text of which 6 full-page; woodcut initials and headpieces. Lacking the separate plate with portrait of the author and… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlag der Sander'schen Buchhandlung (G. E. Reimer), 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. Berlin: Verlag der Sander'schen Buchhandlung (G. E. Reimer), 1839. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). xviii, 270 pp., 4 folding engraved plates by C. E. Weber after… Read more about this item

Ferrara: Victorius Valdinus, 1600. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1600-1601. Two parts in one volume. Large folio (406 x 268 mm). [56] (of [60]), 191 [1]; 126, [2] pp. Engraved title, engraved portrait of the author, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 34 full-page anatomical engravings (22 of the vocal organs, 12 of the auditory organs);… Read more about this item

Paris: Caille & Ravier, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (341 x 265 mm). [6], lxxxviii, 616 pp., including half-title and 24 engraved plates with contemporary hand-coloring. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with 4 raised bands tooled in blind and gilt and with gilt lettering (joints repaired). Text with minor browning and… Read more about this item

Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (222 x 145 mm). 53 [1] pp., including one plate. Half brown cloth over blue cardboards, gilt-lettered spine (no dust-jacket, upper portion slightly sunned, light wear to corners). Text crisp and bright throughout, faint pale foxing to pp. 4-5. Provenance: Inscribed and signed by… Read more about this item

Paris: Lauwereyns, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (314 x 248 mm). Atlas only. [8], 48, [2] pp., including half title; text illustrations; 10 chromolithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaf. Modern black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text with occasional light foxing. Provenance: M. Saxtorph, Professor of Surgery, Copenhagen (visiting card to… Read more about this item

Paris: chez Firmin Didot, 1805. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1805 (an XIII). 4to (264 x 212 mm). viii, 80 pp., engraved plate bound at end. Simple pink paper wrappers, all pages uncut and partly unopened (somewhat frayed and dust-soiled and spotted, endpapers browned). Light even browning and spotting, exposed outer margins of… Read more about this item

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (229 x 148 mm). viii, 387 [1] pp. including half-title, 12 engraved plates protected by tissue paper, 85 illustrations in text. Contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered and gilt-tooled in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers (exceptionally well preserved binding). Text… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: L. Elzevier, 1641. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (152 x 97 mm). [16], 279 [1] pp., title with woodcut device, 14 full-page engraved illustrations numbered I-XIIII and a small unnumbered text engraving; woodcut initials and tailpieces. Signatures: *8 A-R8 S4, including blank leaf *8. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine with faint hand-lettering,… Read more about this item

Paris: Houel et Ducros, Théophile Barrois, 1797. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (228 x 154 mm). 88 pp., 2 folding engraved plates by Picquet at the end. Signatures: A-E8 [chi]4. Bound in contemporary Italian xylographic paper wrappers, all pages uncut, spine titled in manuscript (wrappers dust-soiled and with chipping at foot, small… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, London and Montreal: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (230 x 152 mm). [6], 175 [1] pp., numerous text illustrations. Original publishers red cloth, spine gilt lettered (a trifle rubbing of extremities). Text clean and bright throughout. Provenance: A. Ward (bookplate to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION of… Read more about this item

Paris: Charles Angot, 1666. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1666-1667. Three volumes. 4to (222 x 168 mm). [24], 540; [16], 564, [4]; [24], 646 pp., titles with woodcut device, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout. Bound without final blank leaf 4M4 in vol. III. Contemporary uniform sprinkled calf, spines with 5… Read more about this item

Nürnberg: [Friedrich Peypus?] for the author, 1506. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (207 x 148 mm). Signatures: [pi]2 A-Z6 a-k6 l-m4 (-m4 blank). [2], 205 leaves, bound without final blank. Roman types. 57 (1 full-page) woodcut illustrations. The title flanked by 3 woodcut stars and small man-in-moon, on title verso a full-page circular woodcut… Read more about this item

Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In: Populäre Wissenschaftliche Vorträge, drittes Heft. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1876. 8vo (213 x 136 mm), vii, [3], 139 [1]; [1], vi-xxv, [2], 582-598 pp. Simple card boards, cloth backed spine, hand-lettered paper label (spine worn, label chipped). Text somewhat browned and with… Read more about this item

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