Search Results: Titles starting with L from Mobilis Books

"To know the altitude of the Sun over the Horizon in whichever day and hour by the rays of the Sun"-- the function of the first volvelle instrument in this edition of Peter Apian's Cosmographia
APIAN, Peter. La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, corregida y añadida por Gemma Frisio, Medico y Mathematico. La manera de descrivir y situar los Lugares, con el uso del Anillo Astronomico, del mismo Auctor Gemma Frisio. El sitio y descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la cosmographia de Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez. En Anvers. Por Juan Bellero al Aguila de Oro. Con privilegio de su M. D.LXXV. [1575].
Second Spanish edition. (235 x 170) ff [2], 68, [14] . Contemporary or near contemporary limp vellum binding with manuscript title and date on spine. Some ca. 17th c. binding waste from La vita di Maria Vergine imperatrice by Lucrezia Marinelli. Early owner's notation in front and back of binding. Two lead clasps and string fasteners original to binding.… Read More

EDWARDS, M. Betham. Little Bird Red and Little Bird Blue: A Tale of the Woods. Illustrated by T. R. Macquoid. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. MDCCCLXI [1861].
(185 x 140) pp. 48. With full colour frontispiece and colour-illustrated borders throughout. Text printed with elaborate brown borders. Fully interleaved. Original dark red cloth binding with gild bird motif and title with gilt title on spine and gilt fore-edges. Chromolithography is bright. Owned by a child whose name has been written, and erased, on front fly leaf. No foxing. Overall VERY GOOD condition.
Adapted from the German into English to amuse children, this is a charming pastoral moment of Victorian childhood.