Libros raros de Milestones of Science Books

Gdansk: Simon Reiniger for the author, 1668. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (349 x 224 mm). [38], 913, [47] pp., including half-title, additional engraved pictorial title-page after A. Stech by E. Visscher, letterpress title, 38 engraved plates (4 double-page) numbered A-OO, engraved illustrations throughout, 2 engraved ornamental initials, 2 engraved historiated headpieces, engraved allegorical roundel, ornamental woodcut initials and tailpieces, typographic headpieces. Without the initial blank. Signatures: [a]4 b-e4 A-6E4 (-a1 blank). Bound in 18th-century sprinkled calf, spine with 6 raised bands, compartments with gilt decoration and a gilt-lettered morocco label, gilt tooling to boards and board edges, marbled endpapers, red-sprinkled edges (rebacked preserving most of original spine, boards somewhat scratched). Half-title little soiled and stained, upper corner of leaf F2 and lower corner of Dd2 torn not affecting text, small hole… Leer más

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. March 24, 1490. Chancery 4to (228 x 177 mm). 442 unnumbered leaves including initial blank a1. Signatures: a-p8 q10 t-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-N8 O-P6 Q-Z8 aa-bb8 cc10 dd-gg8 hh10 (a1 blank). Text in double columns, 60 lines, types 2:130G, 3:62G, 4:92G. Title from incipit of Book 1. Colophon reads: Regis aboali hassem filii hali abinsceni liber tot[ius] finitus est vna cum tractatu de viribus cordis translato ab Arnaldo de vilanoua. Impressus [et] diligentissime correctus ma[n]dato et impensis nobilis viri Octauiani Scoti ciuis modoetiensis. Uenetiis. Anno salutis. M. CCCCXC. die. 24. Martij. Contains Avicenna's De viribus cordis (leaves 2g5v-2h4r), translated by Arnaldus de Villanova. Incipit reads: Libellus Auicen[n]e de virib[us] cordis translat[us] ab Arnaldo de villa noua barchinone feliciter i[n]cipit. Rubricated throughout with 3- to 6-line capitals opening paragraphs painted in red or blue, mostly… Leer más

Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (191 x 146 mm). 78, [2], 413, [35] pp., woodcut printer's device on title, 3 section-titles, woodcut initials, numerous woodcut text diagrams and illustrations, errata, French and Dutch privilege on Kkk3-4. Bound in contemporary French calf, gilt-decorated spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering in first compartment, red-sprinkled edges, marbled pastedowns (leather rubbed and scratched, wear to extremities, corners bumped and scuffed, spine ends somewhat scuffed, short split to upper hinge near head of spine). Only little even browning and minor occasional spotting of text, a few small light dampstains to blank margins, lower outer corner of gatherings L to X somewhat gnawed (up to 7 mm from corner but well away form text), upper margin of leaf 3K3 verso trimmed just touching initial headline letter. Provenance: from the library of French journalist and publisher Frédéric Decazes de Glücksbierg… Leer más

Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, 1513. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. September 1513. Two parts in one volume. Folio (306 x 201 mm). [32], 502, [2]; 439 [1] pp. Signatures: 112 24 a-z8 aa10 bb-hh8 ii4; A-DD8 EE4, with both blanks, 2/4 and ii4 present. Title in Greek and Latin, main text in Greek. Greek type 3bis: 90, Roman 12:90; 48 lines and headline. Aldine device (Fletcher no. f4) on title and colophon leaf verso at end, capital spaces with guide letters. 17th century calf over thick boards, rebacked before 1876 with brown morocco leather spine, renewed endpapers, dyed edges, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ruling and lettering, gilt-stamped coat of arms of the Royal Society of London at foot (boards and raised bands rubbed, board edges worn, corners scuffed). Title dust-soiled and spotted, and with edge chipping at head, occasional minor dust-soiling and spotting mostly to outer margins in places, first two gatherings with… Leer más

Heidelberg: Gotthard Vögelin, 1609. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (388 x 250 mm). Work in five parts, each with separate half-title page, but continuous pagination and signatures. Text in Latin with small sections in Greek. [40], 337, [3] pp., folding letterpress table, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, approx. 300 woodcut diagrams in text, complete with first and final blanks. Signatures: π2 (2*-4*)6 (A-2D)6 2E8 π1 and 2E8 blanks). Recased in early 18th century vellum, new endpapers, brown-dyed edges (vellum soiled). Text mostly heavily browned, tiny holes in leaves O6 and P1 with loss of a few letters of text, repaired tear in leaf T1 without loss, a few wormholes at gutter (sometimes touching text), burn hole in leaf S6. Provenance: "Pertinet ad Bibliothecam [--]", obscured inscription on title-page. Although heavily browned as usual, a very good and wide-margined copy. ---- FIRST EDITION, AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE, of… Leer más

Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1515. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 10 January 1515. Folio (312 x 220 mm). [2], 152 leaves. Signatures: *2 a-z6 A6 B8. Woodcut initials, several woodcut diagrams at text margins, final page with woodcut printer's device printed in red and black above colophon. Some neat early annotations at start of text, title page a bit finger soiled, small tear in leaf A6, faint dampstain to lower blank gutter of about 20 leaves at beginning, tiny worm hole at foot, well away from text area. [Bound with:] PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Quadriparti. Ptolo. que in hoc volumine contentur hec sunt: Liber quadripartiti Ptolemei. Centiloquium eiusdem. Centiloquium Hermetis... Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 6 February 1519. [4], 140 leaves. Signatures: 2a4 A-Q8 R-S6. Woodcut initials and horoscopic diagrams, woodcut printer's device below colophon. Bifolium S1_6 at end somewhat browned. Two works in one volume. Bound in contemporary Italian… Leer más

Augsburg: Michael Manger, 1567. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. STOER, Lorenz. Geometria et Perspectiva. Hierjnn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreiner[n] jn eingelegter Arbait dienstlich. auch vil andern Leibhabern zu sonder[n] gefallen geordnet unnd gestelt. Augsburg: Michael Manger, 1567. 12 leaves (complete). Chiaroscuro woodcut title-page printed in black and light brown, 11 woodcut plates, colophon on final plate. The woodcut title-leaf slightly trimmed at fore-margin with loss of a few millimeters of ornamental border, minor occasional spotting and marginal browning; plate 1 with short tear at foot, plate 2 creased, plate 3 with small spot of abrasion. [Bound after: II.] LENCKER, Hans. Perspectiva in welcher ein leichter Weg allerley Ding es seyen Corpora Gebew. Ulm: Johann Meder for Stephan Michelspacher, 1617. [20], 43 [1] pp., title-page with engraved border, engraved portrait of Lencker by Kilian, dated 1616, on leaf )(6v, woodcut… Leer más

Antwerp: Gillis van den Rade, 1575. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (428 x 295 mm). 10 unnumbered leaves, including engraved, hand-coloured and gold-heightened architectural title; the Catalogus Auctorum with 106 names; 91 maps on 70 hand-colored double-page plates mounted on guards, 48 text leaves of index. Signatures: A6 B4, a-h6. 17th-century mottled calf, spine with 7 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered label, original marbled endpapers (minor rubbing of spine and extremities, corners bumped). Paper somewhat browned throughout, very little occasional spotting, loss to lower blank corner of text leaf e4, foot of world map with short split along center fold, 14 maps with old paper repairs of tear along folds (without loss), small hole near center fold of plates 7 and 35, two small patches with abrasion to image of plate 14. Provenance: Conti Lamberti (armorial bookplate with the motto "Cosa fare capo ha" to first flyleaf). ----… Leer más

Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts in two volumes. Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-41. 4to (348 x 268 mm). xvi, 653 [3]; xxii, [2] , 687 [1] pp. Bound with the text and protected by tissue paper are 33 aquatint plates ("vignettes") after Karl Bodmer (numbered vig. I- vig. XXXIII except for plate XXVI =unnumbered), heightened with gum arabic and with the blind-stamp "C Bodmer / Direct", a total of 52 woodcut text illustrations; vol. I with a large folding engraved map partially coloured in outline bound before title; vol. II with 12 pp. list of subscribers, a lithographed plate of Fort Clark bound after p. 70, one small lithographed key plate (to plate XXI) bound after p. 686 and a folding meteorological table bound at end, errata leaf in each vol. Uniformly bound in contemporary German half mottled calf and marbled paper over boards, each spine with gilt decoration and gilt-lettered labels, red-sprinkled edges… Leer más

Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1555. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. August 1555. Large folio (430 x 287 mm). [12], 824, [48] pp. Woodcut title-page, author's portrait on f. a6v, numerous woodcut illustrations (of which 17 full-page), ornamental initials (ranging in size from 7 to 12 lines), 2 folding tables with woodcut diagrams, errata on f. Bb1r and printer's device on verso of final leaf Ee6 which is otherwise blank. Signatures: a-z6, A-V6, X2, Y-Z6, aa-zz6, Aa8, Bb-Ee6. Colophon: Basileae, ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno Salutis Christum partæ MDLV. Mense Augusto. The folded bifolium insert (nervous system) is bound between bb5 and bb6 (numbered pp. 553-554). The single unnumbered f. X2 (consisting of eight anatomical figures, originally intended to be cut out and superimposed on veno-arterial figure on previous leaf) is bound between f. V6 and Y1; leaf X1 is a folded double leaf. Contemporary pigskin over thick boards, spine with 5 raised bands, covers… Leer más

Mainz: Jacob Mydenbach, 1491. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 23 June 1491. Chancery Folio (285 x 197 mm). 441 (of 454) unnumbered leaves, lacking the first printed leaf A1 and the final two gatherings 2D-2E of the index including colophon (11 unillustrated text leaves and final blank). Text in two columns; spaces left blank for initials, some with printed guide letter. 6 (of 7) full-page and 1066 (of 1066) column-width woodcut illustrations of herbs, plants, animals and human activities in text, all in fine contemporary hand-color. Signatures: A-B⁸ C-Z⁸̇̇⁻⁶ a-l⁶̇̇⁻⁸ ²M⁸ n-z⁸̇̇⁻⁶ [et]⁸ aa-hh⁶̇̇⁻⁸ ii-ll⁶ [chi]⁸ ²v⁶ ²A⁸ ²B-²E⁶ (-A1, -D⁶, -E⁶). Leaf A4 unsigned; leaf n unsigned; leaf v1 unsigned, leaves v2-v3 signed "v j" and "v ij"; leaf ee2 unsigned; gathering [chi] signed on [chi2]-[chi4] as follows: "ij", "iij" and "iiij"; leaves ²v1-²v3 signed "v", "vj" and "vij". Gathering ²B… Leer más

Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 30 October 1475. Folio (285 x 210 mm). 263 (of 294) unnumbered leaves, including two final blanks, but lacking 31 text leaves (f.1-15, 24-26, 34-35, 129-136, 153, 287-288 including entire gatherings b and p). With 9 (of 12) full-page woodcut illustrations, all in original hand-color, each opening the chapters 3 to 5 and 7 to 12 (lacking the first two and that to chapter 6); two- to three-line Lombard initials printed in outline, five- to eight-line hand-colored woodcut Maiblumen-initials opening each chapter. Signatures: [a2 b12 c-i10 k8 l6 m-o10 p-r8 s-z10 A-C10 D-E8 F-G10 H-I8 (-a2, b12, c1, c10, d1-2, d10, e1, p8, s1, I1-2). All leaves uncut with the deckle edges entirely preserved. [Bound with II.] Regimen sanitatis - Das ist von der ordenung der gesuntheyt. Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 13 November 1475. 46 (of 52) leaves (lacking first blank a1, the register a2, text leaves b8,… Leer más

Paris: Librairie Grecque-Latine-Allemande, N.Maze, and Gide Fils, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. 1815-1825. 7 volumes (all published). Elephant Folio (530 x 345 mm). Half-title and general title to each volume, section titles to volumes I and VII, dedication to Nicolaus Jacquin, 714 engraved plates by Turpin, all but two (3 and 96) with find hand-color, the plates numbered to 700, including all "bis", "1"/"2" or "a"/"b" plates (332(1)/(2), 481(a)/(b), 483(a), 499(a)/(b), 514(b), 532(b), 547bis, 548(b), 562bis, 645bis, 647bis, 659bis, 660bis, and 688bis. Present are the cancel plates 216, 479 and 480, but the respective cancellanda were not bound-in. The plate numbering is not in order in several places but generally follows the text. Vol. I of our set is lacking the diagram showing the vegetation zones (never bound in). Pagination: [8], xlvi, 302; [8], 324; [8], 356; [8], 247 [1]; [8], 338; [8], 420, [2]; [8], 399 [1] pp. The set in magnificient and… Leer más

Königsberg and Leipzig: Johannn Friederich Petersen, 1755. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (172 x 104 mm). [56], vi, [2], 200 pp., including section title A4 to first part (misbound before the general title a1), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Signatures: a-c8 d4, A4 2A8 B-M8 N4. Contemporary half-calf over sprinkled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, portion of hand-lettered paper label to spine, red-dyed edges, original endpapers (spine heavily worn with chipping and cracking of leather, joints split but cords holding, corners scuffed and bumped, rubbing to boards, paper over boards partly chipped at lower corner and edges). Text with minor even browning and spotting in places, ink marginal to p. 165. Provenance: Rössler (contemporary inscription to first flyleaf); Hartmut Patzke (bookplate to front pastedown dated in pencil 23.10.2012). A very good, untouched copy in original binding. ---- FIRST EDITION, AND OF UTMOST RARITY, of Immanuel Kant's Universal… Leer más

Copenhagen: N. Möller and others, 1761. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1761-1883. 18 volumes, folio (368 x 239 mm) including Liebmann & Lange's supplement (1874), plus 1 volume (Lange's Index) 4to (260 x 205 mm). Each folio volume in 3 fascicles (together 54) and each fascicle with 60 plates. Altogether 3240 hand-colored engraved and etched plates, all except supplement with consecutive Roman numbering, and c. 366 leaves of text (including fascicle- and volume title-pages). Each plate bears the inscription Flora Danica except for the supplement vol. which is inscribed Supplementum Florae Danicae). The first 2360 plates with the Latin plant names added in neat manuscript. The general titles of the first 10 vols are printed in red and black. Variant title pages for vols. 7-12 present. The set is uniformly bound in contemporary full calf (vols. 1-6) and matching 19th-century three-quarter calf over marbled boards (the remainder of the set); each vol. with gilt-lettered red… Leer más