PMM - Printing And The Mind Of Man from Milestones of Science Books

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

Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, Krais & Hoffmann, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Volume 1 to 5. Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, 1845-1862. 8vo (210 x 129 mm). Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, [1851]. Oblong folio (283 x 337… 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

Geneva: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 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… Read more about this item

Lyon: Jean Girin & Barthelemy Rivière, 1674. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (355 x 228 mm). [36], 1346 pp., including half title, engraved frontispiece by G. Audran. Some mispaginations. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary French calf, spine with 6 raised bands,… 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

Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (230 x 152 mm). [4], 371, [5] pp., a few text diagrams. Contemporary dark-blue cloth with the original upper and lower printed wrapper bound in, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers (spine ends and extremities slightly rubbed, lower corners bumped). Lower- and fore-edge… 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: 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

Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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… Read more about this item

Warrington: William Eyres, 1777. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts bound in one volume. 1777-1784. 4to (280 x 204 mm). Part I: [8], 489, [23] pp., 3 folding engraved plates. Part II: [8], 286, [10] pp., 18 engraved plates (15 folding). Includes first blank leaf A1 to… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Gillis van den Rade, 1575. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (428 x 295 mm). 10 unnumbered leaves, including engraved, hand-coloured and gold-heightened architectural title; the Catalogus Auctorum with 106 names; 91 maps on 70 hand-colored double-page plates mounted on guards, 48 text leaves of index. Signatures: A6 B4, a-h6. 17th-century mottled calf,… Read more about this item

Geneva: Cramer, 1759. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (163 x 95 mm). 299, [7] pp. Signatures: A-M12 N8. Woodcut title vignette, repeated on p. 193 and 266, other woodcut ornaments and vignettes in text, binder's 'avis au reliure' leaf N8 and blank leaf N7 bound at the end. Leaves B4, B9, D6 and D7… Read more about this item

Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, 1748. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts in one volume. 4to (243 x 197 mm). [4], xvi, 320; [2], 398, [2] pp. Title to each part printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece by Soubeyran after De la Monce, engraved… Read more about this item

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (215 x 144 mm). [4], 138, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary half cloth, gilt-lettered spine, red sprinkled edges (minor rubbing of boards and extremities). Text very little age-toned, but generally clean and bright. A near fine copy,… Read more about this item

Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (152 x 86 mm). [82], 365 [1], [22] pp. Signatures: ã12 ē12 ī8 o8 u1 A-P12 Q4 R8 S2. With 'Approbation des Prelats' leaf, 2 leaves of privilege with errata on verso of second, and the table on content. Title with printer's monogram device, engraved… Read more about this item

Venice: Francesco Senese, 1558. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (306 x 207 mm), [12], 347 [1] pp., including numerous woodcut diagrams (many full page), including a keyboard instrument, extensive type-set music (including pieces illustrating imitative counterpoint), and historiated 5- & 8-line initials, italic letter. Early 19th-century half… 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