GREAT NEAPOLITAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1857. THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF OBSERVATIONAL SEISMOLOGY. de MALLET, Robert.: - 1862

London, printed for & sold by Edward Ryland, at No 67 in the Old Bailey, no date, (1790).. Title continued: decorated with 34 copper plates curiously drawn and elegantly engraved. Price 1s Plain, 2s Coloured. Edition not known, circa 1790, 16mo in eights, approximately 120 x 90 mm, 4¾ x 3¾ inches, LACKS 2 COLOUR PLATES, Nos 9 (School Boys correcting their Master) and 27 (Old Women ground Young) hand coloured facsmiles inserted (see images), AND LAST LEAF OF TEXT FOR PLATE 31 (D8, 63/64), facsimile inserted for page 63 but lacking final page 64. Hand coloured frontispiece, engraved title page with hand coloured vignette, unnumbered hand coloured plate facing Introduction, the rest numbered 1-31, pages: (2 - title page, verso blank), ii (2 page verse introduction), (3)-62 numbered on versos only, collation: pi1, A-D8 (-D8), verse text, quarter brown roan, marbled boards. Binding rubbed, endpapers inscribed by 2 early owners (1802) and 1 20th cent., lacking rear endpaper, light creasing to… Leer más

London, Kent & Co 1864-67.. Volumes VI-X, each with its own title page except for Volume X, bound in 1 volume, Volumes VI and X defective. 1864-67, 8vo, 245 x 170 mm, 9½ x 6½ inches. Volume VI 1864 is defective, pages: title page, 49-146, pages 101-104 duplicated, lacks first 48 pages. Volume VII, 1865, pages: title page 1-140 plus 1 page of index; Volume VIII, 1866, pages: title page followed by 1 page wrongly numbered 4, 3-141 plus 1 page index; Volume IX, 1867, pages: 1-142, pages 85-96 duplicated, nothing missing; Volume X defective having pages 1-48 only. 1 full page illustration, 1 double page and 2 folding plus many illustrations in the text. VOLUMES 7,8 and 9 COMPLETE. bound in quarter black leather with raised bands, gilt title, gilt date at foot of spine, gilt decoration to raised bands and small floral decoration between the raised bands, pebble cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Occasional brown spot, some creases to lower corners due to bad turning, pale age-browning to margins and… Leer más

Circa 1880?. TITLE CONTINUED: for the utility and profit of his natural country. Whereunto is added, the tale of the second taking of the counterfeit crank, with the true report of his behaviour, and also his punishment for his dissembling, most marvellous to the hearer or reader thereof, circa 1880. Facsimile edition of the 1573 edition, no printer, place of publication or date, this edition not listed in the "Library Hub Discover". 8vo, approximately 210 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 8 text illustrations including the one on the title page, pages: [4], i-xiii, 14-123, [1] - notes and observations, bound in half calf over marbled boards, vertical wine coloured morocco title label with gilt lettering and extra gilt decoration to spine, double gilt dividing rules, marbled endpapers. Pale foxing to free endpapers, half-title and last page, occasional pale foxing to outer margins, otherwise a very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST.… Leer más

London, Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly. 1872.. THIRD EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION 1872, TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD. Small slim 4to, approxmately 225 x 160 mm, 8¾ x 6 inches, pages: xxiv, 1-36, (101 quatrains), quarter roan spine with gilt title, purple cloth boards, dark brown coated endpapers, engraved bookplate pasted to first pastedown (E-Libris, Roberti-Comiti-De-Crewe). Spine slightly rubbed, corners slightly worn, pale age-browning to title page, 2 margins in the notes section have a tiny neat repair, nowhere near text, otherwise a very good clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Amsterdam, no publisher, MDCCXL (1740).. Later edition of an early work, 1740. Text in Latin. 12mo, approximately 160 x 90 mm, 6½ x 3¾ inches, pages: 1-328, [6] - index, contemporary vellum, gilt lettered label to spine, blue sprinkled edges. Binding lightly stained, 1 small scuff with slight loss of vellum, small repair to bottom corner of title page, chipping to edges of endpapers, title page and 2 other leaves, 1 tiny hole to 1 leaf (173), affecting a few letters verso and recto, pale age-browning throughout, no loose pages, a good tight copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Circa 1880?. TITLE CONTINUED: for the utility and profit of his natural country. Whereunto is added, the tale of the second taking of the counterfeit crank, with the true report of his behaviour, and also his punishment for his dissembling, most marvellous to the hearer or reader thereof, circa 1880. Facsimile edition of the 1573 edition, no printer, place of publication or date, this edition not listed in the "Library Hub Discover". 8vo, approximately 210 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 8 text illustrations including the one on the title page, pages: [4], i-xiii, 14-123, [1] - notes and observations, bound in half calf over marbled boards, vertical wine coloured morocco title label with gilt lettering and extra gilt decoration to spine, double gilt dividing rules, marbled endpapers. Pale foxing to free endpapers, half-title and last page, occasional pale foxing to outer margins, otherwise a very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST.… Leer más

London, Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly. 1872.. THIRD EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION 1872, TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD. Small slim 4to, approxmately 225 x 160 mm, 8¾ x 6 inches, pages: xxiv, 1-36, (101 quatrains), quarter roan spine with gilt title, purple cloth boards, dark brown coated endpapers, engraved bookplate pasted to first pastedown (E-Libris, Roberti-Comiti-De-Crewe). Spine slightly rubbed, corners slightly worn, pale age-browning to title page, 2 margins in the notes section have a tiny neat repair, nowhere near text, otherwise a very good clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Amsterdam, no publisher, MDCCXL (1740).. Later edition of an early work, 1740. Text in Latin. 12mo, approximately 160 x 90 mm, 6½ x 3¾ inches, pages: 1-328, [6] - index, contemporary vellum, gilt lettered label to spine, blue sprinkled edges. Binding lightly stained, 1 small scuff with slight loss of vellum, small repair to bottom corner of title page, chipping to edges of endpapers, title page and 2 other leaves, 1 tiny hole to 1 leaf (173), affecting a few letters verso and recto, pale age-browning throughout, no loose pages, a good tight copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

En Suisse, chez les Libraires Associés, 1780.. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION 1780, 2 volumes bound together in 1 volume. Text in French. Thick 8vo, approximately 190 x 120 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, 3 folding plates at the end of each volume, bound in half roan over speckled boards, gilt lettered label to spine, gilt rules between raised bands, blue speckled edges, pages: [2], 1-344; [2], 1-364, patchy fading to spine, covers rubbed with some loss to surface, spine pasted down, slight minor pale browning to 3 plates, endpapers age-browned, ink name and number to first pastedown, occasional small spot otherwise text clean, good tight copy. Guillaume Le Gentil was born in Coutances and intended to enter the church before turning to astronomy. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus). On his voyage to observe the transit of Venus he had many… Leer más

London, printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1712.. FIRST EDITION 1712. Part 3 only from "The Young Gentleman's Astronomy, Chronology, and Dialling". 8vo, approximately 190 x 120 mm, 7½ x 4½ inches, 11 engraved folding plates, 9 numbered and 2 unnumbered, pages: [8], 1-56, bound in quarter modern calf, pale brown cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine, bookplate to first free endpaper of Arthur Frank. Repairs to blank side of plate 8, no loss to image, pale stain to tops of last three plates and lower margins of pages 47-56, 3 pale spots to lower margin of plate 9, not affecting image, slight creasing to the larger folding plates, ink name and notes to last 2 blank endpapers, small repairs to inner lower margins of same, a good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.