“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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

THE ESSENTIAL XVIIc WORK OF OPTICS   Paris: Chez Thomas Jolly & Simon Benard, 1671. (Colophon: printed by Jean Cusson, 1670.) First edition.   Folio in 4s (13 9/16” x 9 1/8”, 345mm x 231mm): binder’s blank, π4(π1 blank) ẽ4 ĩ4 õ4 ũ4 ãã4 A-Fff4 Ggg2 Hhh-Kkk4 Lll4(–Lll4) [$3 signed].....