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.....
[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.....
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.....
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).....
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 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.....
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.....
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”.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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”].....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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].....
Florence: Molini, Landi e Compagnia; 1805. First edition. Folio (14 3/8” x 9 3/8”, 365mm x 239mm): π2 1-142 [$1 signed]. 30 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication), 1 2-56. With 60 engraved plates colored by (a later) hand. Bound in modern half dark green morocco over marbled boards.....
De Gemmis: Leiden: Johannes Maire, 1647. First edition.Isagoge: Strasbourg: Caspar Dietzel, 1631. Octavo (7” x 4 1/4”, 177mm x 107mm): pp. [64], 212, [6]; [6], 176, [10]. With in excess of 40 woodcut illustrations. Bound in contemporary stabbed vellum with yapp edges. Authors and title in ink manuscript to the title. All.....
FIRST EDITION OF KEPLER’S OPTICS WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ANNOTATIONS AND DIAGRAMS BY A HIGHLY-LEARNED SCIENTIFIC READER Frankfurt: Claude de Marne & the heirs of Johann Aubry, 1604. First edition. Quarto (8 3/16” x 6 5/8”, 209mm x 170mm): )(4 (:)4 A-Mmm4 Nnn2 [$3 signed; +A4; Bb2 mis-signed as “B 2”]. 242.....
THE TIXALL–FAIRHAVEN COPY of“THE CENTRAL VOLUME IN BOTANICAL LITERATURE” Amsterdam: [no publisher,] 1737 (but 1738). First edition. Folio (16 ¼” x 9 13/16”, 412mm x 249mm): binder’s blank, π2(π1+1) *-9*2, A-Mmm2 Gggg-Kkkkkk2 Llllll2(–Llllll2) Mmmmmm-Pppppp2, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –**2, 8*2, Mmm2, Nnnn2, Pppppp2; Mmmmmm1 mis-signed as “Mmmmm”]. 246 leaves.....