Bretagne: [1850]. Contemporary pebbled green morocco. Collection of 119 expertly pressed, mounted and labeled marine algae from Bretagne coast (circa. Mid 1800's). Small 4to(24.5 x 17.2 cm). Contemporayry green morocco binding. Collation: 119 lv, each leaf mounted on stub with single labeled specimen. Each specimen is identified with earlier Latin... More
Paris: AnVIII [1797-1799]. 1/2 Leather. 2 Volumes. Folio (49.0 x 32.5 cm). Half calf with orange paper boards. Collation: Vol. 1- 2 + 176 pp.; Vol. 2- 63 engraved plates hand colored except for last two anatomical plates. This is a complete set of text and plates. The volumes have... More
Faventiae: Typis Ballantianis, 1755. First Edition. Full Vellum. 4to (27 x 20 cm). Contemporary Italian vellum binding over boards.19th century bookplate of the Baron de Warenghien on front paste down. Collation: [I-iv], v-vii, 1-80 pp. + 40 copper engraved plates. The text and plates are in very good condition. All... More
London: Robert Scott, 1674. Full calf. 4to (22.7 x 17.3 cm). Modern full calf with new end papers. [16] 1-96 pp + 52 engravings in text numbered 1-52. Fourteen (14) plates with early coloring and covered with albumen. This copy is a variant with Robert Scott as publisher but with... More
CORNELL UNIVERSITY: 1925. [THESIS]. 1/2 Leather. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm. Half leather and cloth boards. Collation: [5] ,238 leaves + numerous photographs mounted on stiff gray cardboard and an original watercolor of a potato by Bowers. The binding is in good condition with minimal wear to ends of spine... More
Berlin: Verlegts Christ. Gottl. Nicolai, 1721 -1738. Contemporary mottled calf. 4to. Contemporaty mottled calf with gilt ornamented spine and red morocco gilt label. All edges of text block red. Three parts in 1 vol. with 40 engraved folding plates and 13 engraved vignettes. First part in second edition, the others... More
Milan: Hoepli, 1903-1925. 1/2 Leather. Three Volumes. Folio. Modern half green leatherette and marble boards. Collation: Vol. 1- xii, 1-393pp + portrait and 21 plates; Vol. 2- viii, 397-735 pp. + 21 plates; Vol. 3 - viii, 737-1257 pp. + 9 plates. The binding, text and plates are in very... More
Petersburg: Academiae Imper. Scientiarum, 1784. Contemporary red morocco. 4to. Contemporary red morocco. Raised bands and panels on spine with gilt floral patterns and separate black leather title in gilt. Covers have single gilt border. All edges gilt. This is a very clean and bright copy. Collation:164p. + 37 engraved plates... More
London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...; and J. Harding, 1816. First edition. Contemporayr Russian leather. Folio (470 x 294 mm). Contemporary Russian leather with gilt denteles and border on boards; new spine with raised bands; tooling in panels gilt as is title, author and date; extremities abraded... More
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1925. Original Wraps. Three off prints on Theory of Numbers: Théorie Des Nombres & Sur les nombres de Fermat. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, t. 180, p. 799, séance du 16 mars 1925 (4to off print numbered p.1-2.); Sur Le Nombre N= 1/9 (1023 & 1) 8vo..... More
Paris: Hôtel de Thon, 1788- 89. Contemporary mottled calf. 2 Volumes. 4to (25.6 x 18.8 cm). Contemporar mottled calf. Collation: Vol. I- 17, 651 pp. + 2 folding charts and 41 copper engraved plates; Vol. II- [4]. [1] 2-527 pp. + 22 copper engraved plates. Bindings have raised bands and... More
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1810. Fourth edition. 1/4 Leather. Fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. Second issue. 8vo (20.7 x 12.5 cm) . Modern quarter calf on marble boards, new end papters. Collation: xxiv, 580 p. + Copper engraved Portrait and 12 hand-colored, copper engraved plates. The... More
London: Longman et al. 1848. Fourth Edition. Original blind-stamped cloth. 8vo. (22.1 x 13.7 cm). 2 Volumes. Large paper uncut and unopened copy. Contemporary green blind-stamped cloth, gilt author and title on spine with blind-stamped geometric and floral panels, spine sunned, minor wear to hinges. Collation: Vol. I- xii, 406... More
London: Longman et al. 1840. Original Cloth. Uncut copy. 8vo. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt title and author on spine, flora design on covers, wear and some loss at ends of spine, hinges and corners. Collation: xvi, 387, [1], 16 [Ads] pp. + 37 woodcuts in text. Text very clean and bright. More
Franeker: Uldericus Balck, 1625-1631. 1/4 vellum on marble boards. 4to (19.5 x 14.7 cm) Later quarter vellum on marble boards.Collation: [viii], 118; [ii],308 + 2 folding plates;[ii], 102,[14- Index]; [xxiv], 310, [311- 342- tables], 345-352, [353-366-numbered as 153-166] [2]pp. Both works have numerous woodcuts in text. One of the folding... More
circa. 1700. [Manuscript]. 1/2 Vellum. 4to (24 x 17 cm). Half vellum on marble boards. 92 numered pages (duplicates of page no., 74 and 75, as Addendum to the Arithmetic section.) All pages are in Latin script with 3 in text tables, 3 folding tables at end and 4 folding... More
Italy: [1790]. Contemporary marble boards. 8vo (22.0 x 15.8 cm). Contemporary marble boards; paper loss along hinges, ends of spine and edges of boards. Collation: 364 pages of neatly hand written text on half of each page + numerous drawings in pencil and pen in clear half of page and... More
London: Benham, and Reeve, 1848. First edition. Original Cloth. 8vo (25 x 15.5 cm) Original blind stamped green cloth. Collation: [v] vi-xxii [2] [1] 2-226 [2] [1] 2-16 pp. + 35 lithograph plates (24 with full or partial hand coloring). The plates are from drawings by Edward Jenner. The sine... More
Tiguri(Zurich: Sumptibus authoris, typis Gessnerianis, 1708. First unequivocal demonstration that images contained in rock were from prehistoric animals, mainly fish. More
Paris: M. Lambert, 1769. Modern linen and marble boards. 8vo. Modern full calf, raised bands with gilt borders and center flower, title in upper panel. The spine has green morocco label with author, title and date in gilt. Collation: [iv] 1-126 [2-ad for present book by Le Begue] pp. +... More
