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Die Wittenbergisch Nachtigall, Die man yetz höret vberall. Ich sage eüch wo diese schweygen so...
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Zwickau / Bamberg / Nürnberg / Erfurt: Jörg Gastel / Erlinger / Höltzel / Stürmer / Gutknecht, 1523. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. I. Die Wittenbergisch Nachtigall, Die man yetz höret vberall. Ich sage eüch wo diese schweygen so werden die stain schreyen Luce. xix. Zwickau: Jörg Gastel, [1523]. 4to (199 x 140 mm). 14 unnumbered leaves (complete). Signatures: A-B4 C2 D4. Final f. D4 blank, f. D3 missigned C3, f. A1v blank, printer and place from colophon "Gedruckt yn der Churfürstlichen Stadt Zwickaw durch Jörg Gastel" on f. D3v. Title with large pictorial woodcut border. Text somewhat browned, dust- and finger-soiling at outer margins, title more heavily soiled and browned, f. A4 with cipping at fore-edge, short tear at head of title with old repair, first and final leaf strengthened at gutter, short manuscript notes. [Bound after:] II. Disputation zwischen einem Chorherren und Schuchmacher darin das wort gottes unnd ein recht Christlich wesen verfochten würt.… Read More
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[Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss]. Opusculum Johannis de sacro busto...
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[Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss]. Opusculum Johannis de sacro busto spericu[m] cum notabili commento atq[ue] figuris textum declarantibus utilissimis

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Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1499. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (210 x 140 mm). 49 leaves (of 50, lacking I6, blank only). 39 lines, types: 160 (title and headings), 81, (text, leaded), 73 (commentary). Capital spaces with capitals, initial strokes and underlines supplied in red. Woodcut printer's device at end hand-colored in red and green, 28 woodcuts in-text, a few hand-colored in outline in red, one full-page. Signatures: A-C6 D4 E-G6 H4 I6 (-I6). Bound in later stiff vellum, later endpapers (some minor soiling of boards). Text little browned thoroughout, few leaves a bit stronger, occasional brown spotting, dust- and finger-soiling. Copiously annotated in at least three different hands of red-brown and black ink, diagram drawings including a large one depicting the geocentric planetary system on title-page; some annotations slightly shaved at fore-margin. Provenance: Jois Henrici (?)Gisimberti (inscription on title dated 1640); Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat… Read More
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Habes lector Johannis de Sacro Busto sphere textum una cum additionibus non aspernandis Petri...
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Habes lector Johannis de Sacro Busto sphere textum una cum additionibus non aspernandis Petri Cirvelli ... cum ipsiusmet sublimi et luculentissima expositione aliquot figuris noviter adiunctis decorata. Intersertis praeterea quaestionibus domini Petri de Alliaco; Omnia peruigili cura ad amussim castigata. Et rursus coipressa

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Paris: Jean Petit, 1515. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. August 1515. Folio (270 x 190 mm) LXXXI (i.e. 79) leaves, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, without the final blank. Printed in Gothic letter, two columns. Signatures: a-m6 n-o4 (-o4), print date from colophon on n4 verso. 17th-century limp vellum (restored, cover soiled, extremities rubbed, lacking free endpapers but stubs of vellum manuscript preserved). Text only very little browned, occasional mainly marginal brown spotting, tear in leaf d3 slightly affecting woodcut diagram on verso, a few text corrections and markings in ink. A very good copy. ---- Honeyman 2726; Shaaber H325; Moreau II, 1515/1216. - RARE EDITION by Petit with the commentary of the astrologer and mathematician Pedro Cirvelo (1470-1548) who includes the recent discoveries of the New World. Sacrobosco's Sphaera is one of the great… Read More
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Description methodique du cabinet de l'Ecole royale des Mines / Supplement a la Description...
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Description methodique du cabinet de l'Ecole royale des Mines / Supplement a la Description methodique du cabinet de l'Ecole Royale des Mines

by SAGE, Balthasar-Georges

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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1784-1787. Two parts bound in one volume. 8vo (196 x 127 mm). [2], xvi, 487 [1], xi [1]; [2], 156 pp. Bound in near contemporary half calf, plain spine with some gilt decoration and gilt lettering, red-sprinkled edges, light blue endpapers (boards rubbed, extremities worn, corners bumped, joints cracked). Internally crisp and clean with occasional very minor spotting, annotations in very light pencil to several pages of first part, short tear to first title without loss. Very good copy in untouched binding. ---- FIRST EDITION of this important inventory of minerals and precious stones in the collection of the Ecole Royale des Mines. Sage (1740-1824) was appointed extraordinary professor of mineralogy and assaying at the Paris Mint by King Louis XV in 1778, teaching classes in both chemistry and mineralogy. Sage served for 10 years as the first director of the… Read More
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De l'Aluminium, ses propriétés, sa fabrication et ses application

De l'Aluminium, ses propriétés, sa fabrication et ses application

by SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE, Henry

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Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (210x132 mm), ix, (1), 176, 4, 4 pp., 1 folding engraved plate. Bound at the end are two journal extracts by the author, I. From: Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie, August 1858, and II. From: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Vol. 53, August 2, 1858. Foxed, first and last pages waterstained at outer margins. Ownership stamp (Grandeau) on half title. Contemporary half calf with 4 raised bands, spine gilt. Author's dedication copy to Louis Grandeau, French chemist and professor at Nancy University; inscribed and signed by the author on first flyleaf. Interesting association copy. ---- Sparrow, Milestones of Science 173; Duveen 524; Russo, p. 131; Bolton, I, 795; Poggendorf, II, 737; En français dans le texte, n¡ 279. - First edition. Both Oersted and Wöhler had attempted to develop a new light metal - possibly aluminum. Henri… Read More
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Etudes de la Nature [dedication copy, signed by the author]
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Etudes de la Nature [dedication copy, signed by the author]

by SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de

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Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, chez Didot le jeune/ Néé de la Rochelle/ De Senne, 1792. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1790-1792. 12mo (165 x 98 mm). Fourth edition of vols. I to IV dated 1791 (vol. I-III) and 1790 (vol. IV); first edition of vol. V, dated 1792. Vol. I: [4], xxxvi, 648 pp., frontispiece portrait by Moreau le jeune and 1 folding engraved word map; Vol. II: [4], 625 (i.e. 652) pp. and 3 folding engraved plates; Vol. III: [4], 596 pp.; Vol. IV: [4], lxxxviii, 532, [4] pp. including approbation and privilege leaf; Vol. V: [8], xxxiv, 411 [1], lvi, 72, [2] pp. inluding content leaf at end. Half-titles present in all volumes. Uniformly bound in fine contemporary mottled calf, plain spines each with two gilt-lettered morocco labels and some gilt decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (lower hinge of vol. V cracked but firmly holding, light chipping to spine ends, lower corners little scuffed). Internally little browned… Read More
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Museum Anatomicum Acadamiae Lugduno-Batavae
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Museum Anatomicum Acadamiae Lugduno-Batavae

by SANDIFORT, Gerard

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Leiden: S. & J. Luchtmans, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Museum Anatomicum Acadamiae Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden: S. & J. Luchtmans, 1827 and 1835, large folio (511x355 mm). Vol. 3 and 4 (of 4), half-titles, 70 engraved plates, institutional blindstamp on titles, contemporary calf, covers detached on vol. 3 (boards and spine worn), vol. 4 rebacked with moroccco spine, red and green morocco labels (boards scratched, extremities worn). Internally clean with only very minor spotting and no dampstaining, plates bright and unstamped. Choulant, p.141; Blake, p.400. - FIRST EDITION, very rare. Two continuation volumes by Gerard Sandifort that complete the work of his father Eduard Sandifort published in two volumes in 1793. The second catalogue of the anatomical collection of the university of Leyden, with very fine plates on large, heavy paper. The third volume is without plates and contains the additions from the collections of… Read More
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Anatomici summi septemdecim tabulae quas nunc primum edit atque explicat iisque alias addit de...
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Anatomici summi septemdecim tabulae quas nunc primum edit atque explicat iisque alias addit de structura mammarum et de tunica testis vaginali Michael Girardi, in Regia Parmensi Universitate Anatomes Professor Primarius. .

by SANTORINI, Giovanni Domenico

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Parma: [Giambattista Bodoni for] Regia typographia, 1775. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (342 x 248 mm). [8], xxxv [1], 217 [3] pp., frontispiece portrait of the author and 42 folding engraved plates by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and others (including 21 outline key plates) bound-in at the end. Contemporary half vellum over xylographic paper boards, gilt lettering and ruling to spine (wear and some paper chipping at board edges, boards scratched, corners bumped). All pages uncut. Plates and text crisp and bright with only very minor spotting. Exceptional, unsophisticated copy. ---- Choulant-Frank, pp. 262-64; Garrison-Morton 399.1; Wellcome V, 22; Heirs of Hippocrates 788; Norman 1888; Cushing S66, Waller 8476. - FIRST EDITION. Santorini's posthumously published Septemdecim tabulae is noteworthy as the only significant medical book from the press of the great Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni, printer to the Duke of Parma and creator… Read More
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Essais sur l'Hygromètrie
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Essais sur l'Hygromètrie

by SAUSSURE, Horace Benedict de

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Neuchatel: Samuel Fauche pere et fils, 1783. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (220 x 148 mm). xii, 524 (i.e. 506) pp., 2 folding engraved plates and 11 tables (8 folding, 4 within pagination), some mispaginations (pp. 129-130, 155, 164-172 omitted). Signatures: a4 A-2H8 2I5. Contemporary brown wrappers, spine with ink-lettered paper label (heavy chipping and wear to spine, some fraying and dust-soiling of outer page margins, rear wrapper chipped), protected in custom-made slip case. scattered marginal spotting, occasional toning. All pages uncut. Text and plates quite crisp and clean, only very minor occasional spotting or soiling, two leaves (Aa2, Gg7) with closed tears without loss of text (one repaired). Provenance: Lagarde (cancelled ink inscription dated 1799 on title-page); Giancarlo Beltrame Library; pencil notes to half-title. A very good unsophisticated copy, collated complete. ---- Norman 1894; Sparrow, Milestones of Science… Read More
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Dissertatio philosophica de planeticolis quam una cum thesibus ex universa philosophia ... in...
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Dissertatio philosophica de planeticolis quam una cum thesibus ex universa philosophia ... in Lyceo Tridentino praeside p. Gaspare Savoy ... publicae disputationi subjecit ... Jos. Alphonsus Widmann de Corredensis Annaniensis : mense Julio anno MDCCLXX

by SAVOY, Gaspare

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Trento: ex typographia episcopali Monauniana, 1770. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [1770?]. 4to (234 x 175 mm). viii, 120 [i.e. 112], 8 pp., 2 engraved folding plates, 1 woodcut within text. Later plain wrappers, internally fresh and unspotted, a few occasional annotations in contemporary hand. Collated complete. ---- FIRST EDITION, very rare work on the habitability of the moon and other planets by Gaspare Savoy. The first copper engraving shows the solar system after Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes. The other engraving represents a map of the moon after Riccioli. Worldcat knows of 4 copies only, all in Italian libraries. Gaspare Savoy was a missionary who taught poetry and between 1768 and 1773 Philosophy at the College of Trento. He published three works: in 1770 the "Dissertatio de philosophica planeticolis ...", in 1772 the "Dissertatio de usu et philosophica effectiveness… Read More
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Sull'aneurisma riflessioni ed osservazioni anatomico-chirurgiche..
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Sull'aneurisma riflessioni ed osservazioni anatomico-chirurgiche..

by SCARPA, Antonio

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Pavia: nella tipografia Bolzani, 1804. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Elephant folio (640 x 487 mm). [4], iv, 114 pp., 15 engraved plates by Pietro Zuliani and Pietro Anderloni after Faustino Anderloni, numbered I-X, including additional outlines to plates I, III, IV, V, and VII. Contemporary full calf, boards with gilt-decorated frame, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, original marbled endpapers (old rebacking, leather at head of spine chipped-off, boards scratched, wear to extremeties). The text and plates quite bright with only very minor occasional dust soiling, head of book block slightly bumped, short clean tear to blank fore-margin of p.103/4 and 109/10. An exceptionally crisp and clean copy. This copy comes from a private Italian collection and has an export certificate from the Italian government. ---- Garrison Morton 2975; Heirs of Hippocrates 1103; Wellcome V, p.36; Loria, Antonio Scarpa, p.62; not in Waller or Norman. RARE FIRST EDITION of… Read More
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Sämmtliche Physische und Chemische Werke, nach dem Tode des Verfassers gesamlet und in Deutscher...
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Sämmtliche Physische und Chemische Werke, nach dem Tode des Verfassers gesamlet und in Deutscher Sprache herausgegeben von D. Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt

by SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm

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Berlin: Heinrich August Rottman, 1793. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two parts in two volumes. 8vo (190 x 117 mm). xxxii, 264; 446 pp., folding engraved plate at the end of the second part. Uniformly bound in contemporary sprinkled cardboard, each spine with hand-lettered paper label, red-sprinkled edges (minor rubbing and dust-soiling, original pastedowns, no free endpapers). Light uniform age-toning, some scattered spotting mostly to outer margins, a few dog-ears and creases. Provenance: from a private Swedish collection. A very good copy in original bindings. ---- FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, AND VERY RARE, of Scheele's works in German, which contains in vol. 1 his independently made discovery of oxygen in his famous chemical treatise on the air and fire (Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer). The treatise includes accounts of the numerous chemical experiments Scheele performed to demonstrate that common air, when freed from… Read More
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Oculus hoc est: Fundamentum Opticum, in quo ex accurata Oculi Anatome, abstrusarum experientiarum...
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Oculus hoc est: Fundamentum Opticum, in quo ex accurata Oculi Anatome, abstrusarum experientiarum sedula pervestigatione, ex invisis specierum visibilium tam everso quam erecto situ spectaculis, necnon solidis rationum momentis Radius Visualis eruitur; sua Visioni in Oculo sedes decernitur; Anguli Visorii ingenium aperitur. .

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Innsbruck: Daniel Agricola, 1619. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (215 x 164 mm). [12], 1-199, 100-138, 239-254 pp., engraved allegorical plate bound after dedication, several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Pp. 200-237 mispaginated 100-137. Bound in contemporary vellum, spine painted over and lettered in ink, boards with blind-ruling, blue-dyed edges (worming to boards, joints and pastedowns, hinges split at head of spine, spine with cancelled ink shelf-marks). Preserved in marbled slip-case. Text crisp and clean with only very minor occasional spotting. Provenance: neat inscription on title "Ex dono (cancelled "libris") Eliae Schilleri"; old shelf marks in ink to title and flyleaf. Exceptional copy in unrestored binding. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of one of the most famous and important works in the history of optics. Christoph Scheiner (1573-1650), a Jesuit astronomer and pioneer in… Read More
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Rosa ursina sive Sol ex admirando facularum & macularum suarum phoenomeno varius, ... a...
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Rosa ursina sive Sol ex admirando facularum & macularum suarum phoenomeno varius, ... a Christophoro Scheiner Germano Sueuo, e Societate Iesu. Ad Paulum Iordannum 2. Ursinum Bracciani ducem

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Bracciano: apud Andream Phaeum, 1626. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 1626-1630. Folio (380 x 265 mm). [40], 124 pp; 125-149 [i.e. 160] leaves; [4], 149-784, [38] pp. Signatures: Ï€4 a-b6 c4 A-E6 F4 G-R6 2a-2s6 2t4 2u-2x6 2y4 3A-4M6 (F4, R6, 4I6 blank). Main text in double columns. Imprimatur dated 1630. Additional engraved title, letterpress title with printer's device by M. Greuter, half-title with dedication and engraved portrait of Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano on verso; numerous engraved text illustrations and diagrams, several full-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata leaf at end. Errors in pagination and foliation. 12 leaves following f.148 are all foliated 149. Contemporary full calf over thick boards, spine with ink lettered paper label, boards ruled in blind, red-dyed edges (binding restored). Very little browning, occasional minor pale dampstaining at outer blank margins, letterpress title soiled, full-page… Read More
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Herbarium diluvianum collectum
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Herbarium diluvianum collectum

by SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jakob

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Zürich: David Gessner, 1709. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (370 x 245 mm). [2], 44 (i.e., 42) pp., including engraved title with large vignette by J.H. Huber after J.M. Füssli, 10 folding engraved plates depicting fossil plants (one printed in brown) bound at the end. Page numbers 33-34 omitted in pagination. 20th century three-quarter calf over black cloth covered boards by Period Binders of Bath, gilt lettered spine, new endpapers (light rubbing of extremities). Text and plates crisp and clean troughout, very minor occasional spotting, small torn-off portion of title at lower inner margin backed by paper (outside print area). Provenance: H.W.J. Van Amerom (bookplate to front pastedown), plates with explanations added in light pencil. Very good copy. ---- FIRST EDITION with plates depicting specimens believed by Scheuchzer to have been relics of Noah's flood. This work firmly entrenched Scheuchzer (1672-1733) as the father of… Read More
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Natur-Geschichte des Schweitzerlandes: samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge....
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Zurich: D. Gessner, 1746. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Natur-Geschichte des Schweitzerlandes: samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Aufs neue hrsg. und mit einigen Anmerkungen versehen von Joh[ann] Georg Sulzern. Zürich: David Gessner, 1746. 16, 488, [2]; [8], 381 [1] pp. First title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, errata leaf at end of vol. I, 30 engraved plates (7 folding). Tear in folding plate to p.191 in vol. II verso repaired by tape, some minor browning and occasional spotting. [Bound with]: SULZER, Johann Georg, Untersuchung von dem Ursprung der Berge, und andrer damit verknüpften Dinge. Zürich: David Gessner, 1746. 44 pp. 1 folding engraved plate, woodcut tailpiece. [Bound with:] SULZER, Johann Georg. Beschreibung einiger Merckwürdigkeiten, welche er in einer Ao. 1742 gemachten Berg-Reise durch einige Oerter der Schweiz beobachtet hat. Zürich: David Gessner, 1747. 71 [1] pp. Engraved title vignette, woodcut initials,… Read More
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Grundzüge der Wissenschaftlichen Botanik nebst einer methodologischen Einleitung. . . Two...
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Grundzüge der Wissenschaftlichen Botanik nebst einer methodologischen Einleitung. . . Two volumes in one

by SCHLEIDEN, Matthias Jacob

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Leipzig: E A. Brockhaus for Wilhelm Engelmann, 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1842-1843. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). [i-xi] xii-xxvi, [1] 2-289 [3]; [i-v] vi-xvii, [1] 2-564 pp., including half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol. I, pp. 225-240 misbound after p.272 in vol. I, errata on pp. [559]-564 in vol. II. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (head of spine chipped, extremities little rubbed and chipped, upper inner hinge cracked, corners bumped, front endpaper repaired, binding somewhat weak, tape residue to boards). Light browning and occasional minor spotting of text, some dog-earing and creasing to lower corner, little staining of second half title from formerly inserted pressed plant. Provenance: Botanische Staatssammlung München (library stamps to front flyleaf, half-title and some text pages, shelf mark in pencil to half-title). Still very good copy. Collated complete. ---- Dibner 31; Horblit 93b; Sparrow 177; Norman 1908;… Read More
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Beiträge zur Botanik - Gesammelte Aufsätze
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Beiträge zur Botanik - Gesammelte Aufsätze

by SCHLEIDEN, Matthias Jacob

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Leipzig: Verlag von Wilh. Engelmann, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (218 x 131 mm). viii, 242 pp., including half title, 9 lithographed plates. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (corners bumped and scuffed, extremities rubbed). Text and plates with scattered foxing throughout. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. ---- FIRST EDITION of Schleiden's collected papers published previously and which includes his "Beiträge zur Phytogenesis" beside 13 other articles. "Schleiden . . . taking the embryonic cell as his starting-point proceeded to attempt a reconstruction of the development of the cell. He went seriously astray in this but he insisted on the independence of the cell and presented for the first time the notion that a plant, for example, is a community of cells." (PMM). References: Garrison-Morton 112; cf. PMM 307(a) (both citing Schleiden's Beiträge zur… Read More
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Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken. . . nebst einem vollständigem...
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Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken. . . nebst einem vollständigem Probier-Buch. Two parts in one volume

by SCHLÃœTER, Christoph Andreas

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Braunschweig: F.W.Meyer, 1738. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (348 x 213 mm). [20], 612, [68], 198, [26] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved headpiece with 2 portraits, 58 (57 folding) engraved plates. Contemporary three-quarter calf, spine with gilt-lettered label (label chipped with loss, spine ends and hinges expertly repaired), red-coloured edges. Text very little age-toned and virtually unspotted, title-page with little finger-soiling at lower corner, plates with little browning and spotting, occasional light dampstaining to corners of plates, last plate repaired at gutter. A fine, wide-margined copy. ---- Duveen 534; Darmstaedter 105; Hoover 725; Honeyman 2793; Ferchl 480; Roller-G. II, 408. - FIRST EDITION of the most important mining book of the 18th century. "Schlüter was an official in British pay at Braunschweig and he dedicates his book to George II. He describes not only German mines, but also those of… Read More
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Das erst buch der Geometria. Ein kurtze Unterweisung, was und warauff Geometria gegründet sey,...
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Das erst buch der Geometria. Ein kurtze Unterweisung, was und warauff Geometria gegründet sey, und wie man nach anweysung der selben mit dem Circkel und Richtscheydt allerley Lini, Flech, und Cörper ausstheylen und in fürgegebner Proportion machen soll

by SCHMID, Wolfgang

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Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1539. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (195 x 143 mm). [8], 126, [2] pp. Signatures: A-R4. Bound in 18th century German half-calf, blind-tooled spine with 4 raised bands, sprinkled paper-covered boards, blue-dyed edges (slight rubbing to extremities, inner upper hinge repaired and first endpaper renewed). Little dust-soiling and browning of title-page, very minor occasional spotting, faint brownstain to first gathering, oversized woodcut diagram on p. 63 shaved at fore-margin, 3 further woodcuts elsewhere only very slightly affected from trimming, but generally crisp and clean throughout. ---- VD16 S 3115; Honeyman 2795; Graesse, VII, 308; M. Friedman, A History of Folding in Mathematics, p. 67/68; Fleur Richter, Die Ästhetik geometrischer Körper in der Renaissance, Stuttgart, 1995, pp. 60-61. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Geometria is one of the oldest treatises on geometry published in the German language.… Read More
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