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- Ephemerides Andreæ Argoli a Talliacozzo medici, & philosophi ad longitvdinem almæ vrbis Romæ : Ab anno Incarnationis Dominicæ MDCXXI. vsque ad MDCXL. ex Prutenicis tabulis concinnè supputatæ : Eiusdem Isagogæ, & canones absolutissimi prima præcepta omnia
- These astronomical tables were based on Erasmus Reinhold's Prutenic tables and on the observations of Tycho Brahe., Chiefly tables., The publisher statement appears after the date of publication., Signatures: [cross]⁴ A-P⁸ Q⁴ R⁸ S⁴; A-2M⁸ 2N² (as recorded in regestrum on last page)., Title in black and red, with printer's vignette (woodcut)., Page 175 misnumbered as 169., Leaf signed R4 misnumbered as A4.
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- De la pirotechnia. Libri .x. dove ampiamente si tratta non solo di ogni sorte & diuersita di miniere, ma anchora quanto si ricerca intorno a la prattica di quelle cose di quel che si appartiene a l'arte de la fusione ouer gitto de metalli come d'ogni altr
- Colophon: Stampata in Venetia per Venturino Roffinello. Ad instantia di Curtio Nauo. & fratelli. Del M.CCCCC.XL., Signatures: *, A-X (last leaf blank), Title within ornamental border; initials., On verso of t.-p.: Dedication "al molto magnifico m. Bernardino di Moncelesi da Salo, Cvrtio Navo"; followed by publisher's device (rampant lion in center with springing lion on top of shield held by "Scipion" and "Fabio") below which is lettered "per Cvrtio Navo et fratelli. Al Segno del lion"., First edition.
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- Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.
- Vol. 1 (1808/09/10)-, Ceased publication with vol. 8, pt. 1 in 1838., Title from volume title page.
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- In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius
- Nunc quartò ab ipso auctore recognitus, & plerisque in locis locupletatus., Title vignette (sphere); t.p. printed in red and black., Head and tail pieces; initials., Text and side notes enclosed in single rule border., Dedicatory letter to D. Guilhelmo dated, "Romæ anno M.D.LXXXI. xiiij Kal. Octobris.", Includes index.
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- M. Vitrvvii De architectura libri decem, summa diligentia recogniti, atq[ue] excusi, cum nonnullis figuris sub hoc signo * politis nunq[uam] antea impraessis. Additis Iulij Frontini De aqueductibus libris, pro[p]ter materiae affinitatem.
- Title in red, within ornamental border., Edited by Giovanni Giocondo., Errors in foliation: no. 81-96 of first series omitted; no. 17 of the second series numbered 19.
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- In sphaeram Ioannes de Sacro Bosco.
- Title printed in red and black., Numerous paging errors., Woodcut illus. (some full-page) and diagrams; illus. of astronomical globe on t.p. repeated on p. 24., American reference: p. 134 (map) and p. 135., Side notes., Initials; tail piece., Text and side notes within double line borders., Includes index., Backer, II, 1212-1213., Shaaber, British authors printed abroad in languages other than English, to 1641, no. 440., Lalande, Bibliographie astronomique 1781-1802, p. 144., Houzeau, Vade-mecum de l'astronome, sect. 62, no. 658.
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- Ratio ponderum libræ et simbellæ : in qua quid è Lotharii Sarsii libra astronomica, quidque è Galilei Galilei Simbellatore, de cometis statuendum sit, collatis utriusque rationum momentis, philosophorum arbitrio proponitur
- auctore eodem Lothario Sarsio sigensano., Written as an answer to Galileo's Il Saggiatore, the title of which is burlesqued as Simbellatore (i.e. Zimbellatore)., Lothario Sarsio sigensano is an anagram of Horatio Grassio salonensi., Includes errata., Signatures: [sec.]⁴ A-T⁴., Head- and tail-pieces., Includes bibliographical references and index.