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Item #JLR0758 Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri xii. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinæ,...

Agricola, Georgius

Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri xii. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinæ, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisque appelationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem de animantibus subterraneis Liber, ab Autore recognitus: cum Indicibus diuersis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus

Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, March 1556. First edition. Folio in 6s (11 ¾” x 8”, 300mm x 204mm): 3 binder’s blanks, α4 χ1 a-z6 A-Bb6, 5 binder’s blanks [$4 signed]. 293 leaves, pp. [10] (title, French privilege, 4pp. epistle, 4pp. verses to the reader) 1-501 538 [74] (21pp.....

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Item #GRM0088 Epitome astronomiae Copernicanæ Usitatâ formâ Quæstionum & Responsionum...

Kepler, Johannes

Epitome astronomiae Copernicanæ Usitatâ formâ Quæstionum & Responsionum conscripta, inq; VII. Libros digesta, quorum tres hi priores sunt de Doctrina Sphæricâ. Habes, amice lector, hac prima parte, præter physicam accuratam explicationem Motus Terræ diurni, ortusque ex eo circulorum Sphæræ, totæm doctrinam Sphæricam nova & concinniori methodo, auctiorem, additis Exemplis omnis generis Computation tegrarum præceptionum vim sunt complexa. Authors Joanne Kepplero Imp: Cæs: Matthiæ, Ordd: q; Illium Archiducatus Austriæ supra Onasum, Mathematico

“KEPLER’S LONGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK” 3 parts in 1. Lentijs ad Danubium [Linz]: Johannes Planeus [and Godefridi Tampachii], 1618–1622 [but 1621]. First edition, second issue of book II. Octavo (6 3/16” x 3 ½”, 157mm x 90mm): *6 **–***4 A–Bb8 Cc4 + Cc5, ††8 Aaa–Mmm8, †6 Aaaa–Vvvv8 [$5 signed; D3.....

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Item #GRM0079 Marcelli Malpighii. Medici, & Philosophi, nec non Professoris Bononiensis,...

Malpighi, Marcello

Marcelli Malpighii. Medici, & Philosophi, nec non Professoris Bononiensis, Regiæ Societatis Anglicanæ Socii. Opera Omnia, seu thesaurus locupletissimus botanico-medico-anatomicus, viginti quatuor tractatus complectens et in duos tomos distributus, quorum Tractatuum Seriem videre est Dedicatione absolutâ.

Two volumes in one. Leiden: Peter Vander, 1687. Second edition. Quarto (9” x 7 ½”, 228mm x 190mm): *4(–*1) **4 A–Aa4, 2A–Hhh4 [$3 signed; –2A1, –Ggg1; S2 signed “S”]. 319 leaves, pp. [14] (title, blank, 3pp. dedication, table of contents, 2pp. preface, section title, blank, 2pp. dedication to the Royal Society, preface, table of.....

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Item #GRM0075 A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of...

Smellie, William

A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery; with a view to illustrate a Treatise on that Subject, and Collection of Cases, By William Smellie, M.D.

Edinburgh: for William Creech, 1792. Octavo (8 7/8” x 5 ½”, 225mm x 140mm): binder’s blank, π4 A–F8 G4 H2 [$3 signed; +E4, –G3, –H2]. 58 leaves, pp. [2] (2pp. blank) i–iii iv–v [1] (blank) 1 2–107 [1] (blank). With 40 engraved plates. Bound in publisher’s blue drab boards, rebacked.....

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Item #JLR0842 Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell’Accademia del Cimento sotto la protezione...

[Magalotti, Lorenzo, Conte (ed.)]

Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell’Accademia del Cimento sotto la protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte dal segretario di essa accademia

“THE BEGINNING OF MODERN PHYSICS” UNSOPHISTICATED IN WRAPS Florence: Giuseppe Cocchini, 1666 [but 1667]. First edition, first issue. Folio (14 3/16” x 10”, 361mm x 2563mm): π-2π2 ✠4 A-Ll4 *6 χ2 (χ2 blank) [$2 signed; –A2, C1, C2, D2, E2, F1, F2, G1, G2, H1, H2, I2, K1, K2, L1.....

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Item #JLR0830 The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Charles Darwin

Darwin, Charles

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex

Two volumes. London: William Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 ¼” x 4 13/16”, 185mm x 121mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, A4 B-2D8 2E4 2B8 [$2 signed]. 224 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, blank, title, by the same author, contents) vi-viii 1 2-5 6-9 10-423.....

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Item #GRM0070 Historiæ naturalis De exanguibus aquaticis libri iv. Cum figuris Æneis. Joannes...

Jonston, John; Hendrik Ruysch

Historiæ naturalis De exanguibus aquaticis libri iv. Cum figuris Æneis. Joannes Jonstonus Med. D. concinnavit WITH Theatri universalis animalium pars quarta sive historiæ naturalis de exanguibus aquaticis libri iv. Cum Enumeratione Morborum quibus Medicamina ed his Animalibus petuntur, ac Notitia Animalium, ex quibus vicissim Remedia præstantissima possunt capi, cura Henrici Ruysch, M.D.

[Historiæ naturalis]: Amsterdam: Johannis Jacobi Schipperi, 1657. [Theatri universalis animalium]: Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetstenios, 1718.Historiæ naturalis: folio in 4s (14 13/16” x 9 ¼”, 375mm x 236mm): a–f4 g6 [$3 signed; +g4; e2 signed “d2”]. 30 leaves, pp. 1–2 3–58 [2] (index, instructions for the binder). With an engraved vignette.....

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Item #GRM0069 Testacea musei cæsarei vindobonensis, quæ jussu Mariæ Theresiæ Augustæ...

Born, Ignaz Edler von

Testacea musei cæsarei vindobonensis, quæ jussu Mariæ Theresiæ Augustæ disposuit et descripsit Ignatius a Born, equ. S. Cæs. Reg. Apost. Majest. In re monetaria et metallica a consiliis aulicis. Academ. Scient. Imp. Nat. Curios. Petropolit. Londinens. Holmens. Göttingens. Tolosan. Upsaliens. Sienens. Manacensis &c. Sodalis

Vienna: Joannis Pauli Kraus, 1780. Second edition, expanded. Folio (17 9/16” x 10 13/16”, 446 x 275mm): binder’s blank, *2 **–9*2 A–Zzzzz2, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –**1, *****1]. 248 leaves, pp. i–vii viii–xxxvi 1 2–442 [18] (17pp. index, blank). With an engraved vignette, numerous in-text engravings, and 18 engraved plates.....

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Item #GRM0068 Hortus cliffortianus Plantas exhibens quas In Hortis tam Vivis quam Siccis...

Linnaeus, Carolus

Hortus cliffortianus Plantas exhibens quas In Hortis tam Vivis quam Siccis Hartecampi in Hollandia, coluit vir nobilissimus & generosissimus Georgius Clifford juris utriusque doctor, Reductis Varietatibus ad Species, Speciebus ad Genera, Generibus ad Classes, Adjectis Locis Plantarum natalibus Differentiisque Specierum. Cum tabulis æneis. Auctore Carolo Linnæo, Med. Doct. & Ac. Imp. N. C. Soc.

Amsterdam: 1737 [1738]. First edition. Folio (16 7/8” x 9 ¾”, 428mm x 248mm): binder’s blank, π4 (–π4)*–9*2 A–Mmm2 Gggg–Kkkkkk Lllll2 (–Llllll2) Mmmmmm–Pppppp2 [$2 signed; 9*2 signed 8*2 ; – Mmm2, Pppppp2] 246 leaves, pp. [32] (half-title, blank, title, blank, verses, blank, 6pp. dedication, to the reader, preface, 18pp. bibliography).....

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Item #JLR0821 A treatise on the external characters of fossils. Abraham Gottlob Werner, trans....

Werner, Abraham Gottlob; trans. Thomas Weaver

A treatise on the external characters of fossils

THE LADY MARY LUCY TALBOT–BARRY YAMPOL COPY Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell for M.N. Mahon; London: Longman, Rees, Hurst and Orme; 1805. First edition in English of Werner’s first book. Octavo (9 1/16” x 5 ¾”, 232mm x 146mm): a8 b8 B-X8 [$2 signed; D2 signed “D”]. 176 leaves, pp.....

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Item #JLR0766 Andreae Vesalii bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinæ professoris, de Humani...

Vesalius, Andreas

Andreae Vesalii bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinæ professoris, de Humani corporis fabrica Libri septem

THE RENAISSANCE OF ANATOMY, THE ANATOMY OF THE RENAISSANCE Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. First edition. Folio in 6s (15 11/16” x 10 3/8”, 399mm x 264mm): *6 A-Z6 a-l6 m8(+χ1) n-z6 Aa-Ll6 Mm8 [$4 signed; –*1; +Mm5; p5 signed “p4”]. 359 leaves, pp. [12] (woodcut title, blank, 6pp. dedication.....

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Item #JLR0753 A brass and mahogany Waywiser, banded in iron. Troughton

Troughton

A brass and mahogany Waywiser, banded in iron

The brass dial signed by Troughton, London (ca. 1800), with scrollwork steel hands and the Roman numerals wax-filled black. 50 ½” tall; 32” wheel with six spokes; 7 ¾” dial. The waywiser — also called a way-wiser, a perambulator or a surveyor’s wheel — is a tool for measuring distance.....

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Item #Bellows Breakfast is Served AND Mr. Barnstaple Awakes. George Wesley Bellows

Bellows, George Wesley

Breakfast is Served AND Mr. Barnstaple Awakes

GEORGE BELLOWS ILLUSTRATES H.G. WELLS Breakfast is ServedConté crayon on card.Sheet: 26 5/16” x 20 ⅝”, 669mm x 526mm; ruled: 554mm x 449mm.Signed “Geo Bellows” at lower left (within the image).Titled as above and numbered (“-7-”) in graphite (below the image).1922. Mr. Barnstaple AwakesConté crayon on card.Sheet: 29 ⅛” x 22 ¼”.....

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Item #JLR0744 Genera of birds. Thomas Pennant

[Pennant, Thomas]

Genera of birds

London: B. White, 1781. Second edition, first illustrated. Quarto (9 3/8” x 7 11/16”, 237mm x 195mm): a2 B-N4 [$2 signed]. 50 leaves, pp. [4] (advertisement, blank, 2pp. dedication) i ii-xxv [1] (explanation of the figure on the title-page), 1 2-68, [2] (2pp. index). [=xxx, 68, ii] With an engraved.....

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Item #JLR0743 Le Grand & Nouveau miroir ou Flambeau, De la Mer contenant la description de...

[Goos, Pieter,] trans. Paul Yvounet

Le Grand & Nouveau miroir ou Flambeau, De la Mer contenant la description de toutes les Costes Marines Occidentalles & Septentrionalles, desmonstrant en plusieurs Cartes tres necessaire tous les ports, fleuves, bayes Rades, profondeurs & bancs chascun tres exactement couché selon leur vraye hauteur pollaire, & pourveu des descouvrements des terres principales, & á quel cours & distance elles sont situées les unes des autres. Jamais Par cidevant si Clairement mis en lumiere & outre ce augmenté & amandé pour le bien & utilité de tous Mariniers & Navigateurs. . . Traduict de Flaman en Francois par Paul Yvounet. De Linprecion De Pierre goos. & Se vant Par Jaques Robin

AN UNRECORDED FRENCH EDITION PRESENTED TO THE MATHEMATICIAN ÉMILE PICARD Le Grand & Nouveau miroir ou Flambeau, De la Mer contenant la description de toutes les Costes Marines Occidentalles & Septentrionalles, desmonstrant en plusieurs Cartes tres necessaire tous les ports, fleuves, bayes Rades, profondeurs & bancs chascun tres exactement couché.....

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Item #GRM0007 The mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise shewing the ample Uses of...

Collins, John

The mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise shewing the ample Uses of a Circle equally divided, or of a Line of chords and equal Parts, Divided into Three Books or Parts. Being contrived to be had either alone, or with the other Parts. I. The first containing Geometrical Rudiments, and shewing the Uses of a Line of Chords. . . II. The second shewing the Uses of a Line of Chords, in resolving all the Cases of Spherical Triangles, by Projecting the Sphere Orthographically. . . III. The third part shewing the Uses of a Line of Chords, in resolving all the Cases of Spherical Triangles Stereographically that is on the Circular Projection with Dyalling, from three Shadows of a Gnomon on a regular Flat, or by two Shadows, &c. . .

The mariners plain scale new plain’d: or, A treatise shewing the ample Uses of a Circle equally divided, or of a Line of chords and equal Parts, Divided into Three Books or Parts. Being contrived to be had either alone, or with the other Parts.I. The first containing Geometrical Rudiments.....

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Item #GRM0005 The Quarterly Review. Vol. LXV. Published in December, 1839, & March, 1840....

[Darwin, Charles (reviewed)]

The Quarterly Review. Vol. LXV. Published in December, 1839, & March, 1840

AN EARLY NOTICE OF DARWIN’S FIRST BOOK EX-COLL. THE LONDON LIBRARY & THE HOUSE OF COMMONS London: William Clowes & Sons for John Murray, 1840. Octavo (8 3/16” x 5 3/16”, 207mm x 131mm): π2(π1+2π1) B–U8 X4 Y2(–Y2), Z8 2A–2R8 2S4 [$2 signed]. 308 leaves (160 in issue CXXIX, 148.....

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Item #JLR0714 Description des plantes rares cultivées a Malmaison et a Navarre. Aimé...

Bonpland, Aimé; illust. Pancrace Bessa and Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Description des plantes rares cultivées a Malmaison et a Navarre

A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE TO SIR HUMPHRY DAVY EX-COLL. JOHN CAMPBELL, 2nd MARQUESS OF BREADALBANE and of HENRY ROGERS BROUGHTON, 2nd BARON FAIRHAVEN Two parts in one volume. Paris: P. Didot l’ainé, [1812–]1813. First edition. Folio (20 ¾” x 13 5/8”, 526mm x 347mm): binder’s blank, π2(+χ1) 1-82, binder’s.....

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Item #JLR0653 Andreae Vesalii bruxellensis icones anatomicae. Andreas Vesalius

Vesalius, Andreas

Andreae Vesalii bruxellensis icones anatomicae

VESALIUS’S LAST GASP Munich: the Bremer Press (Willy Wiegand) for the New York Academy of Medicine and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Library, 1934 [1935]. Limited edition, no. 129 of 615, of a total edition of 725. Folio (21 ½” x 15 ¼”, 545mm x 387mm): 188 leaves. With the English translation.....

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Item #JLR0605 ALS to "My Dear Madam" (Theophila Gwatkin?). Basil Hall, Captain

Hall, Basil, Captain

ALS to "My Dear Madam" (Theophila Gwatkin?)

LOCKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT’S HAIR, SENT TO A LADY BY CAPT. BASIL HALL Slough, 23 March 1832. Single sheet (half a sheet of cut writing-paper: 7 3/16” x 4 ½”, 183mm x 114mm) mounted to heavier stock. With a small (ca. 8mm) patch of red wax affixing a dozen.....

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Item #JLR0600 La curiosité naturelle redigee en questions selon l’ordre Alphabetique. Par M....

Dupleix, Scipion

La curiosité naturelle redigee en questions selon l’ordre Alphabetique. Par M. Scipion du Pleix Conseiller & Advocat du Roy au siege Presidial de Condom, & M. des Requestes ordinaire de la Royne Marguerite

ONE OF TWO KNOWN EXAMPLES Ex-coll. Hunt Botanical Library and the Real Convento de la Paciencia de Cristo, Madrid Paris: Chez la Vefve Dominique Salis, 1609. Second edition (see below). Duodecimo (5 5/16” x 3 3/16”, 136mm x 81mm): ã12 ê6 A-Cc12 [$6 signed, – ã1, B6; E6 mis-signed “E vij”].....

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Item #JLR0595 Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’interieur de l’Amérique...

de La Condamine, [Charles Marie]

Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’interieur de l’Amérique méridionale. Depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud, jusqu’aux Côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la riviere des Amazones; Lûe à l’Assemblée publique de l’Académie des Sciences, le 28. Avril 1745. . . BOUND WITH Lettre a Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excitée En la Ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29. d'Août 1739. Contre les académiciens des sciences, Envoyés pour la mesure de la Terre

THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT of INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’interieur de l’Amérique méridionale. Depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud, jusqu’aux Côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la riviere des Amazones; Lûe à l’Assemblée publique de l’Académie des Sciences, le 28. Avril.....

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Item #AMB0204 Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la...

Pasteur, Louis

Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable, avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation, Par M. L. Pasteur, Membre de l'Institut de France et de la Société royale de Londres, Membre de l'Académie de Médecine et de la Société centrale d'Agriculture de France, des Sociétés royale et médicale d’Edimbourg, etc., etc.

PRESENTATION COPY TO A MILITARY HERO Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition. Octavo (9 3/8” x 6 1/8”, 240mm x 155mm). π41-38 4*8(±44.5) 5-248 255 [$2 signed; +4*4 as “4..*”; –82, 112]. 200 leaves, pp. i-vii (half-title, imprint, title, blank, dedication, blank, preface) viii, 1 2-387, blank, 21 (advertisements) 22-4.....

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Item #JLR0508 Atlas d'ophthalmoscopie médicale et de cérébroscopie montrant chez...

Bouchut, Eugène

Atlas d'ophthalmoscopie médicale et de cérébroscopie montrant chez l'homme et chez les animaux les lésions du nerf optique, de la rétine et de la choroïde produites par les maladies du cerveau, par les maladies de la moelle épinère et par les maladies constitutionelles et humorales. . .

Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1876. First edition. Folio in 4s (14” x 10 5/8”, 356mm x 270mm): π4 1-184 192 [$1 signed]. 78 leaves, pp. i-vii (half-title, list of other works, title, blank, preface, blank, contents) viii, 1 2-148. With 14 chromolithographed plates. Bound in the publisher’s maroon.....

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Item #JLR0503 Joannis Sculteti Physici Ulmensis olim felicissimi Armamentarium Chirurgicum, Olim...

Schultes, Johann

Joannis Sculteti Physici Ulmensis olim felicissimi Armamentarium Chirurgicum, Olim auctum Triginta novem Tabulis, tam veteres quam recentiores machines & operationes exhibentibus; Nec non observationum medico-chirurgicarum centuria collecta a Joh. Baptista a Lamzweerde, Ph. & Med. Doct. & observationibus Petri Hadriani F. Verduin, Studio Johannis Tilingii M. D. editis. Nunc vero In meliorem ordinem redactum, ab innumeris mendis expurgatum, & locupletissimo indice provisum studio Johan. Christophori de Sprögel, Med. Doc. & Membri Acad. Nat. Curios. Nymphodorus dicti

FROM THE LIBRARIES OF TWO DISTINGUISHED HEART DOCTORS: PAUL DUDLEY WHITE & FRANCIS L. CHAMBERLAIN Amsterdam: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1741. Revised edition. Octavo (8 1/8” x 5 1/8”, 206mm x 131mm): *8(–*8) **6 A-Y8 Z4 [$5 signed; –*1]. 193 leaves, pp. [26] (title-page, blank, 3pp. to the reader, 3pp. authors.....

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