Libros raros de Sam Gatteno Books

Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1954.. Soft cover. Good. Octavo. 200 pages. First edition. Original wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication by Cocteau to Noth. The dedication reads: "A Ernst Erich Noth ce salut amical de Jean Cocteau 1954

Geneva: Apud Eustache Vignon, 1596.. Hardcover. Good. Thick quarto. Four volumes bound in one. With no separate title-pages to volumes II-IV. I: [iv]ff., 436cols.; II: 958cols.; III: 636cols.; IV: 714cols.; Index and Privilege - 40ff. I: 4, A4-O4, P2; II : aa8-zz8, Aa8-Gg8; III: a8-v8; IV: Aa8-Yy8, Zz4 ; Index & Privilege: A8-E8. Last leaf, E8, is blank and lacking. Engraved title-page. In a contemporary vellum binding.

Antwerp: Ex Officina C. Plantini, 1579.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 239 pages. With Plantin's device on the title-page. Historiated woodcut initials. In a vellum binding. GRAESSE II, 176.

Paris: Chez Jean Boudot, libraire de l'Académie Royal des Sciences, 1700.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. viff., 116pp. a4, e2, A4-O4, P2. First edition. Contemporary calf, repaired. With perspectival projections of geometrical solid bodies on four folding engraved plates. The plates with explanatory figures can be folded out in such a way that they can be studied while solving the problems given in text. Poggendorff I, 383-384; Sotheran I, 704; not in Honeyman Collection. First edition of the first complete work on integral calculus.

A Paris: Chez Agasse, An V (1797).. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii, 392pp. []4, A8-Z8, Aa8, Bb4. Half-title present. Third edition, published by Sophie Condorcet and Daunou. Later quarter calf over boards by GKB Pynaker, Bookbinders at the Hague, with their small bookplate. A. Martin & G. Walter, Catalogue de l'histoire de la Révolution Française 8083.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 22 volumes. In half brown morocco over boards. Spines gilt. The "Large-Paper edition," limited to 500 copies, and extensively illustrated. With a customs document, signed by Hawthorne. Some rubbing, the top of the spine bent in a couple of volumes, repaired. A fine set. Shipping cost to be considerably more due to weight of set.

London: Printed for the author, and sold at the Park coffee-house, the south side of St. James's park; and at the Union coffee house, opposite the Royal Exchange, [1760].. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 56pp. A4-G4, []1. With an errata slip. Contemporary calf, rebacked at an earlier date. Top and bottom of spine chipped. ESTC T113963; Jessel 625; Horr 499. Copy in the "Catalogue of Books for the Year MDCCCXXXIV, on Sale at the prices affixed, by Thomas Rodd" - Item 6583 for 2s (1834). Copy in the "List of Books, for sale at W. Gardiner's, 48, Pall-Mall. At the ready moneyprices affixed" - Item 918 for 2s6d (1814).