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Synopsis optica, in qua illa omnia quae ad opticam, dioptricam, catoptricam pertinent, id est, ad...
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Synopsis optica, in qua illa omnia quae ad opticam, dioptricam, catoptricam pertinent, id est, ad triplicem radium visualem directum, refractum, reflexum breviter quidem, accurate tamen demonstrantur

by FABRI, Honoré

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Lyon: Horace Boissat & Georges Remeus, 1667. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (223 x 159 mm). [8], 246 pp., including 6 folding engraved plates bound at end, woodcut vignette on title, woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with 4 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering piece, sprinkled edges (light soiling of boards, minor repair to hinges and spine ends, corners bumped). Text little browned throughout, scattered minor spotting, erased cancelled signature at top margin of title-page, dampstain to rear pastedown. Still very good copy. ---- Sommervogel III: 515 ; Vagnetti EIII b58; Wellcome III, p.3. FIRST EDITION of Fabri's influential work on optics, the inspiration for Newton's work on light and color. It was through this work that Newton learned of the discovery of diffraction of light by Francesco Maria Grimaldi. Fabri also describes the rings of Saturn (he was involved in a long dispute with Huygens over… Read More
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De brutorum loquela
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De brutorum loquela

by FABRICI, Girolamo (FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus)

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Padua: Lorenzo Pasquati, 1603. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (415 x 277 mm). [6], 27 [1] pp., index bound at beginning. Signatures: pi2 A-D2. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, ornamental woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Title-leave torn at gutter not affecting text. Recent half vellum, new endpapers. A fine, wide-margined copy. Exceedingly rare as here with the title-leave and final blank. ---- FIRST EDITION of Fabrici's treatise on the language of beasts; "a subject very curious in itself, and which has by no means sufficiently attracted notice even in the experimental age. He demonstrates, from the different structure of the organs of speech, that no brute can ever rival man; their chief instrument being the throat, which we uses only for vowel sounds." (H. Hallam, Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, Vol. 4, 1839, p.54-5). Whereas Fabrici's De locutione… Read More
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Opera physica anatomica: de formato foetu, de venarum ostiolis, de formatione ovi et pulli, de...
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Opera physica anatomica: de formato foetu, de venarum ostiolis, de formatione ovi et pulli, de locutione et eius instrumentis, de brutorum loquela. .

by FABRICI, Girolamo (FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus)

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Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 5 parts in one volume. Folio (403 x 273 mm). General title with engraved printer's device, [4], 150, [2] pp, 34 plates (including unnumbered plate on verso of plate XI, 11 double page), engraving to K4 recto a duplicate of K2 (as called for); 23 [1] pp., 8 plates (1 double page); 68, [2] pp., 7 plates (including 4 unnumbered bound at the end); 27, [5] pp., 1 plate; 27, [3] pp. In total fifty engraved copper plates of which twelve are double-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments (binding rubbed, corners and extremities worn, joints slighty cracked), marbled pastedowns. Internally fresh, with only very minor spotting, marginal finger soiling and browning, most plates with the edges folded in, one plate with tear to upper margin affecting image (expertly restored). Leaves may come from two different copies. They have been carefully cleaned… Read More
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De formato foetu / De formatione ovi, et pulli tractatus accuratissimu
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De formato foetu / De formatione ovi, et pulli tractatus accuratissimu

by FABRICI, Girolamo (FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus)

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Padua: Lorenzo Pasquati / Aloysius Bencius, 1600. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. I. De formato foetu. Venice: Francesco Bolzetta, 1600 [colophon: Padua, Lorenzo Pasquati, 1604]. Folio (418 x 279 mm). [10], 1-150 [2] 151 [1] pp. Signatures: π1 a-b2, A-E4 F-I2 K4 L-O2 P4 Q2 R-Z4, Aa2, χ1. Engraved title by Giacomo Valeggio, 11 double-page, 22 full-page, and 1 half-page copper engraved illustrations, additionally numbered I-XXXIII (illustration on p.41 unnumbered), leaf χ1 with errata bound before p.151, large woodcut device and colophon on p.151 ('Patavii, Ex typographia Laurentii Pasquati, 1604'). Engraved title dust-soiled and with minor paper repair to blank fore-margin, a few plates slightly soiled or shaved just within plate mark, leaf D1 with 'Tab III' supplied, repair in margin of D2 just touching side notes. II. De formatione ovi, et pulli tractatus accuratissimu. Padua: Aloysius Bencius, 1621.… Read More
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Tractatus De respiratione & eius instrumentis. De Ventriculo intestinis, & gula. De Motu locali...
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Tractatus De respiratione & eius instrumentis. De Ventriculo intestinis, & gula. De Motu locali animalium, secundum totum. De Musculi artificio, & ossium dearticulationibus. Cum indice rerum copiosissimo

by FABRICI, Girolamo (FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus)

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Padua: Antonii Meglietti, 1625. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Four parts in one volume (complete). 4to (205 x 150 mm). [8], [2], 118, [2] pp. (signatures: pi1, pi4, A-P4); [4], 1-42, [2], 43-184 (i.e. 174) pp. (signatures: pi2 A-E4 F2 G-Y4 Z2); [2], 123 (i.e. 121) [1], 32 pp. (signatures: A-P4 Q2, 2A-D4); [8], 214 pp. (signatures: a4, A-Z4 Aa-Dd4). General collection title, dated 1625, with printer's woodcut device. De respiratone without separate title, with Index leaf bound in front and unnumbered leaf bound at end with errata on recto and colophon on verso dated 1615. De Ventriculo with separate title dated 1618 and publisher Laurentii Pasquati, index to verso of title, errata leaf after title, blank leaf after p.42. De motu locali with separate title dated 1618 and publisher Io. Baptistam de Martinis, index on title verso, separate pagination to De alarum actione. De musculi artificio without separate title, with index bound before numbered… Read More
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L'opere cirugiche del signor Girolamo Fabritio d'Aquapendente. Cavaliere, e medico...
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L'opere cirugiche del signor Girolamo Fabritio d'Aquapendente. Cavaliere, e medico cirugico rinomatissimo ... divise in due parti. Nella prima, si tratta de tumori, delle ferite, ulcere, rotture, e slogature. Nella seconda, dell'operationi principali di cirugia; tradotte in lingua italiana

by FABRICI, Girolamo (FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus)

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Bologna: nella stamperia del Longhi, 1709. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (324x213 mm). [8], 292 pp., including half-title, several woodcut vignettes in text and to title-page, 9 engraved plates bound at end. Only very little age-toning (except for leaves O, O4 and quire Ee which are more heavily browned), occasional minor spotting, lower corner of O1 and O2 torn-off not affecting text. Contemporary vellum over thick boards, spine with 6 raised bands and titled vellum spine label (minor repairs to hinges and corners). Protected in custom-made vellum cassette. A fine copy. ---- NLM/Blake, p.141. The rare second edition of Fabrizzi's work in Itanian vernacular. KVK lists no copy outside Italy. The first Italian edition of Fabrizzi's collected works was published in Padua in 1671, also with 9 engraved plates as here. The opere contains surgical works by Fabrici, the teacher of Harvey, including several chapters on the teeth… Read More
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Tractatus Anatomicus Triplex : quorum primus De oculo, visus organo; secundus De aure, auditus...
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Tractatus Anatomicus Triplex : quorum primus De oculo, visus organo; secundus De aure, auditus organo; tertius De laringe, vocis organo admirandam tradit historiam, actiones, utilitates

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[Oppenheim or Frankfurt]: Johann Theodorum de Bry, 1614. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (305 x 195 mm). [8], 163, [11] pp. Fine engraved title, woodcut initials and headpieces, several engraved and woodcut text illustrations, 11 full page, lacking final blank leaf Y4. Bound in old recased vellum of a former Fabrici copy with the original handlettering on spine preserved, original endpapers kept with the case, yapp edges (vellum soiled, some worming to inner hinges and boards. Text quite clean and crisp with only very little browning and occasional minor spotting. Provenance: N. Franchimont (inscribed on title). Very good copy in neatly matching binding. ---- RARE SECOND EDITION of this compilation and the first under this new title. Fabrici's first published anatomical work was originally published in Venice in 1600. It is dealing with the eye, the throat and the ear, all illustrated with detailed engravings. "The major portion of this… Read More
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Opuscula tria. I. Tractatus de vulneribus. II. Expositio in lib. Hipp. de vulneribus capitis....
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Opuscula tria. I. Tractatus de vulneribus. II. Expositio in lib. Hipp. de vulneribus capitis. III. Tractatus de vulneribus oculorum, aliarumque partium corporis. .

by FALLOPPIO, Gabriele

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Venice: Paul Meietus, 1569. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to (208 x 149 mm). [8], 223, [25] pp. Signatures: *4 A8 B-V4 X6 Y-Cc4 Dd2 a-c4. Separate title-page with woodcut device to each part, woodcut head-pieces and initials, including the blank leaf L4. Internally little browned, occasional minor foxing, some worming and light dampstaining to top margin of second part, one wormtrack to final leaves of index affecting a few letters, leaf Q4 torn in lower blank margin. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in script (little staining and soiling, spine darkened). Provenance: Joannis Antony Farrelly(?) (signature to lower margin of title-page, dated 1744). A fine, wide-margined copy. ---- NLM/Durling 1429; Adams F136; Castiglioni 372; not in Wellcome, Waller or Bird. FIRST EDITION. Rare work of the famous surgeon and anatomist Gabriele Falloppio dealing with different types of injuries, their care and healing.
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De morbo gallico liber absolutissimus...Additus etiam est in calce De morbo Gallico tractatus,...
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De morbo gallico liber absolutissimus...Additus etiam est in calce De morbo Gallico tractatus, Antonii Fracanciani Bononiae

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Padova: L. Bertelli, 1564. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2 parts in one volume. Padua: L. Bertelli, 1564 [part 2: C. Gryphius, 1563 (colophon 1564)]. 4to (220x170 mm). [4], 64, 16, [2] ff. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript (covers browned and little soiled), title page with old ex-libris stamp, text leaves expertly cleaned. A fine, crisp copy of this important work on syphilis. Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates 334; Garrison-Morton 2370. Wellcome 2152; Waller 2928. RARE FIRST EDITION. In this classic work on "the French disease," Fallopius wrote more knowingly of the Europe-wide scourge of syphilis than previous authors on the subject and was one of the first to oppose the use of mercury in its treatment. Antonio Fracanzano (d. 1567), a teacher of Fallopius at Padua and later his colleague there, contributed a short tract to this work on syphilis published in the year after Fallopius' death. (Heirs of… Read More
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Libelli duo, alter de ulceribus, alter de tumoribus praeter naturam, nunc recens in lucem editi
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Libelli duo, alter de ulceribus, alter de tumoribus praeter naturam, nunc recens in lucem editi

by FALLOPPIO, Gabriele [FALLOPIUS, Gabriel]

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Venice: Donato Bertelli, 1563. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (222 x 154 mm). [3], 101, [1] leaves. Signatures: A3, A* A-Z4 Aa4 Bb6, with both, the cancel and cancelland leaf present. Title page with woodcut vignette, woodcut intials in text, errata on final leaf recto. 19th-century drab boards, spine with gilt-lettered paper label (rebacked with most of original spine preserved, corners scuffed, extremities rubbed, boards stained). Leaves untrimmed. Text only very little browned, faint minor spotting and soiling of outer margins, leaf E2 loose, two leaves with old paper repair to top blank margin. Provenance: Henri Aniere, Paris (sticker to front pastedown). A fine, crisp and wide-margined copy. ---- Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates 333, Cushing F25; NLM/Durling 1438; Waller 2934; Wellcome I, 2156 (2nd edition only). EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION. "Fallopius was a clinician as well as an anatomist, and this treatise on… Read More
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Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry
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Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry

by FARADAY, Michael

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London: John Murray, 1842. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (215 x 136 mm). xiii [1], 664 pp., including half-title, several illustrations in text. Bound in contemporary full polished calf, spine with elaborate gilt decoration and black morocco label lettered in gilt, boards, board edges and leather turn-ins with gilt tooling, marbled edges and endpapers (just a little bumping and wear to corners). Text with very minor even age-toning, half-title with a few faint spots, but in all a crisp and bright. Provenance: Edward Cunard (bookplate to front-pastedown; James Small Brechin (bookplate to first flyleaf), collation notes on rear flyleaf, loosely attached is a photograph of Faraday's home at Hampton Court. An exceptional copy in fine prize binding. ---- DSB IV; Lowndes p. 778; Poggendorff p. 719. - THIRD EDITION, Revised. This is the only separate book published by Faraday. All other books that bear his name were collections of published… Read More
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Experimental Researches in Electricity . . . reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions. 3...
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Experimental Researches in Electricity . . . reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions. 3 volumes

by FARADAY, Michael

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London: Bernard Quaritch, 1878. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3 volumes. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1839, 1844, 1855 (but 1878-1882). 8vo (220 x 145 mm). viii, 574; viii, 302; viii, 588 pp. 17 engraved plates (13 folding), woodcut diagrams in text, half-titles in vols. 2 and 3 (not called for in vol. 1), no advertisement leaf at end of vol. 1. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Uncut and largely unopened. Text very clean, crisp and virtually unfoxed. Provenance: The library of Hugh Selbourne. An outstanding, well preserved and greatly unsophisticated copy, with only a few gatherings opened. ---- PMM 308, Horblit 29; Norman 762 (all for 1st ed.); DSB IV, 527-40. QUARITCH REPRINT of the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with line "Facsimile Reprint" to title-pages. Containing the 29 papers published by Faraday in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society between 1832 and 1852. The collection includes all of… Read More
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Chemical Manipulation; Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the methods of performing...
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Chemical Manipulation; Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the methods of performing experiments of demonstration or of research, with accuracy and success

by FARADAY, Michael

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London: W. Phillips, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (214 x 136 mm). vii [1], ix [1], 11-656 pp. Woodcut illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered label to spine (rebacked preserving original spine, wear to extremities, corners bumped, boards soiled). Internally little age-toned with minor occasional spotting, dust- and finger-soiling. Provenance: The library of Hugh Selbourne. ---- Bolton I, 434; Duveen p.207. FIRST EDITION. This is the only separate book published by Faraday. All other books that bear his name were collections of published papers or edited reports of his lectures. The purpose of this work was to make the general methods of chemistry, as distinguished from its results, the subject of special study and popular exposition. As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation… Read More
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Description des experiences de la machine aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles auxquelles cette decouverte a donne lieu

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Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1783. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1783-1784. 2 volumes, 8vo (204x127 mm). Vol. 1: [i-iii] iv-xl, [1] 2-299, [3], [4] pp., 9 engraved plates (plate v as frontispiece), folding table; Vol. 2: [2], [1] 2-24, *24-24*, 25-62, [67] 68-366, [2] pp., 5 engraved plates (plate I as frontispiece). Contemporary green paste paper boards (light chipping along spine and edges). Internally crisp, with only very minor occasional spotting and toning, offsetting to a few plates, title and frontispiece of vol. 2 slightly soiled, leaves partially untrimmed. Provenance: Gaston Tissandier (ex-libris to front paste-downs); Aéro-club de France (ex-libris stamp and affixed deaccession card to first fly-leaves). A fine, wide margined set with interesting provenance. ---- Dibner, Heralds of Science 179; PMM 229; Norman 769; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 179; Tissandier p.21 (this copy). - FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the four page supplement. "THE FIRST… Read More
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Recherches sur les Volcans eteints du vivarais et du Velay; Avec un Discours sur les Volcans...
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Recherches sur les Volcans eteints du vivarais et du Velay; Avec un Discours sur les Volcans brülans, des Memoires analytiques sur les Schorls, la zeolite, le Basalte, la Pouzzolane, les Laves & le differentes Substances qui s'y trouvent engagees, &c

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Grenoble / Paris: Cuchet / Nyon, Nee & Masquelier, 1778. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Large folio (432 x 290 mm). [8], xviii, [2], 460 pp., including 2 engraved vignettes, woodcut initials, approbation leaf, general index, and 20 engraved plates (one double-page). Near contemporary calf, plain spine richly tooled in gilt and with gilt-lettered label, margins and edges of boards tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, red-sprinkled edges (boards and extremities rubbed and scratched, lower board edges and corners worn). Text and plates generally crisp and clean, just some minor finger soiling, insignificant dampstain at lower margin of a few leaves leaves, very light uneven browning, plate 13 slightly brown-stained from formerly inlaid paper slip. Provenance: collectors stamp of unknown origin on title-page. A fine, wide-margined copy with the plates in strong impressions. ---- En Français dans le Texte 169; DSB IV, p.548; Brunet II, 1192; Hoover Coll. 294;… Read More
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Grosser Mond-Atlas

by FAUTH, Philipp

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Bremen: Olbers-Gesellschaft, 1964. 1st Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. 1st Edition. No Binding. Large Folio. 28 folding sheets of lunar maps (22 of large size 695 x 695 mm, and 6 smaller sheets, double-page and printed in red and black), separate volume of 38 pages explanatory text ("Erläuterungen zum Fauth'schen Mondatlas"). Original papercard folding box with publisher's pictorial label on front cover, an inserted pocket for the text volume, and the original ties present. Generally very clean and bright with only very minor soiling and wear. ---- FIRST EDITION OF FAUTH'S MAGNUM OPUS, PUBLISHED POSTUMOUSLY BY HIS SON, HERMANN. One of the most renowned and meticulous lunar observers of the time, Fauth was the last great lunar cartographer to rely principally on visual observations. "The depth of understanding of the nature of lunar topography demonstrated by Fauth was superior to that possessed by the majority of his contemporaries. The morphology revealed by his… Read More
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Astronomische Beobachtungen und Resultate aus den Jahren 1893 und 1894. Neue Beiträge zur...
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Astronomische Beobachtungen und Resultate aus den Jahren 1893 und 1894. Neue Beiträge zur Begründung einer modernen Selenographie und Selenologie. Gesammelt aus seiner Privatsternwarte zu Kaiserslautern... Mit einem Atlas von 25 Topographischen Spezialkarten des Mondes

by FAUTH, Philipp

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Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 20 b&w collotype sheets with 25 topographical charts in original publisher's folder with printed boards (330 x 250 mm), one explanatory sheet pasted onto inner front board. Additional text volume, stapled as issued and with publisher's printed wrappers (287 x 226 mm). x, 66 pp. Publisher's advert sheet announcing this work loosely inserted. Printed paper-slip of (new) publisher pasted over original imprint on both, upper board of folder and front cover of text volume. Boards of folder rubbed and browned in margins, cloth of spine cracked at upper hinge and somewhat chipped, some wear to extremities, one folder flap detached; little marginal browning to wrappers of text volume, text and charts clean and little age-toned only. Still a fine and unsophisticated copy. ---- Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall 33. - EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Fauth's first… Read More
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The Moon in modern Astronomy. A Summary of twenty Years Selenographic Work, and a Study of Recent...
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The Moon in modern Astronomy. A Summary of twenty Years Selenographic Work, and a Study of Recent Problems. Translated by Joseph McCabe, with an Introduction by J. Ellard Gore

by FAUTH, Philipp

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London: A. Owen & Co, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (208 x 143 mm). 160 pp. [2], 12 pp. Half-title, colored frontispiece, advertisements, 66 b&w illustrations in text. Original publishers blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and upper board (a trifle rubbing to extremities and spine ends). Provenance: British Astronomical Association (library stamp and shelf mark on front endpaper, rear endpaper with library card in pocket); cancelled inscription on half-title. ---- FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, originally published in German the year before. Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth (March 19, 1867 - January 4, 1941) was a German selenographer. Born in Bad Dürkheim, he worked as a schoolteacher. As an amateur astronomer, he studied the formations on the Moon with great intensity and meticulousness. He compiled an extensive atlas of the moon between 1884 and 1940 (which was not completely published until 1964, and prized… Read More
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Neue Mondkarten und neue Grundlagen einer Mondkunde auf 16 Tafeln. Publikation VI seiner Sternwarte
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Neue Mondkarten und neue Grundlagen einer Mondkunde auf 16 Tafeln. Publikation VI seiner Sternwarte

by FAUTH, Philipp

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[Grünwald bei München]: by the author, 1932. 1st Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. 1st Edition. No Binding. Large Folio. Folio (402 x 425 mm). 16 Maps and 1 leaf of explanatory text in original printed grey wrappers, additional hand-lettered paper dust wrapper. Little age-toned, the explanatory sheet soiled at lower margin, light dust-soiling to margins throughout. Ink stamp of the British Astronomical Association to wrappers. ---- Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall, 36 - EXCEEDINGLY RARE. "Fauth published a number of works on the moon between his initial maps of 1895 and his death in 1941: a general book on the moon in 1907, a work espousing the glacial theory of the moon in 1925, a map in six sections adopting the new nomenclature system of the International Astronomical Union of 1935, and a comprehensive guide to the moon in 1936; all are in the Library's collections. In addition, he published these 16 studies for a large-scale moon map that he never completed. The… Read More
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Delle Meccaniche, lette in Padova l'anno 1594 da Galileo Galilei. Per la prima volta. .
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Delle Meccaniche, lette in Padova l'anno 1594 da Galileo Galilei. Per la prima volta. .

by FAVARO, Antonio

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Venice: Reale Istituto nel Palazzo Loredan, 1899. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Memorie del Reale Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Vol. 26, No 5. Venice: Reale Istituto nel Palazzo Loredan, 1899. 4to (333 x 240 mm). 26 pp. Original printed wrappers (edge fraying, upper wrapper detached, browned an brittle at edges). Text browned throughout. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library.
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