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- Dialogo di Vincentio Galilei nobile fiorentino della mvsica antica, et della moderna.
- Title within ornamental design: printer's mark at end.
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- Klaudiou Ptolemaiou harmoniko vivlia iii Klaudii Ptolemi Harmonicorum libri tres.
- Ex cod. mss. vndecim, nunc primum grce editus. Johannes Wallis ... recensuit, edidit, versione & notis illustravit, & auctarium adjecit., Title vignette., Appendix: De veterum harmonica ad Hodiernam comparata: p. 281-328.
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- The herball : or, Generall historie of plantes
- Epistle Dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley]--[Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin]--To the courteous and well-willing Readers.--First booke of the Historie of Plants, containing Grasses, Rushes, Corne, Flags, Bulbose, or Onion-rooted Plants.--Second booke ... Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc.--Third booke ... Containing Trees, Shrubs, bushes, Fruit-bearing plants, Rosins, Gums, Roses, Heath, Mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... Also Mushrooms, Corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc.--Index latinvs ... stirpivm.--Index nominum Herbarum, quibus Pharmacopolarum officinae, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur.--Nominvm/et opiniovin harmonia et consensus.--Table of the English names.--Supplement or appendix vnto the general Table, and to the Tables of English names: gathered.--Table, wherein is contained the Nature, Vertue, and Danger of all the Herbes, Trees and Plants., gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie., Colophon: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, M.D.XCVII., Title, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portaita of author facing p. 1, dated 1598., Signatures: (A4), B, Xxx, Aaaa-Tttt., Title page, illus. and initials colored by hand.
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- Disputatio de coelo : in tres partes diuisa, de natura cœli, de motu cœli, de motoribus cœli abstractis : adjecta est apologia dictorum Aristotelis de via lactea, de facie in orbe lunæ
- Caesaris Cremonini ..., At head of title: Caesaris Cremonini centensis in schola patavina philosophi primæ sedis., Adiecta est apologia dictorum Aristotelis de via lactea, de facie in orbe lunæ has separate t.p. and page numbering., Includes errata., Signatures: [dagger]-3[dagger]⁴ 4[dagger]⁶ A-3D⁴ a-m⁴., Head- and tail-pieces., Includes indexes.
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- La Tour Eiffel en 1900
- G. Eiffel ..., Statement of responsibility transposed from position at head of title., Stamp on t.p. verso: Wellcome Library, Historical Medical.
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- Johannes Hevelii Prodromus astronomiae, exhibens fundamenta, quae tam ad novum planè & correctiorem stellarum fixarum catalogum construendum, quàm ad omnium planetarum tabulas corrigendas omnimodè spectant; nec non novas & correctiores tabulas solares, al
- Quibus additus est uterque Catalogus stellarum fixarum, tam major ad annum 1660, quàm minor ad annum completum 1700. Accessit corollarii loco Tabula motus lunae libratorii ..., Half-title: J. Hevelii Prodromus astronomiae cum Catalogo fixarum, & Firmamentum Sobiescianum., Added engraved half title on double leaves., "Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia," has special t.p., added engr. t.p. on 2 leaves and separate paging., "Edmundi Halleii Catalogus stellarum australium ... partim correctus, & ad annum Christi MDCC completum reductus à Jo. Hevelio," p. [309]-320., "Joannis Ernesti Schmieden Cenotaphium. Illvstri viro Joanni Hevelio ... sacrandam ad memoriam positvm," with special t.p., p. ℓ. 7-10.
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- Isiodori [sic] Opvscvlvm de temporibvs.
- Imprint from Hain., Hain, 93003., BN, v. 75, p. 1196., Imperfect: first and last leaves wanting.
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- Encyclopédie méthodique.
- t. 1. Notices des théories de la terre, & des autres ouvrages qui ont trait à la Géographie-physique ... [Arduino-Woodward]. Supplément aux notices qui précèdent [Bergman-Lavoisier]. Considerations générales et particulières sur la géographie-physique. Table des notices des ouvrages qui ont trait à la Géographie-physique ... -- t. 2. [Aa-Azof] -- t. 3. [Baar-Dyle] -- t. 4. [Eau-Noyant] -- t. 5. Avertissement / [J.N. Huot]. [Oasis-Zurich]. Supplément depuis la lettre A jusqu'a la lettre N inclusivement., par le cit. Desmarest., T. 1-4 edited by Nicolas Desmarest; t. 5 edited by J.B. Bory de St.-Vincent, G.T. Doin, C.-J. Ferry, and J.-J.-N. Huot; see Braunrot & Hardesty Doig., Accompanying plates are found in: Atlas encyclopédique : contenant la géographie ancienne, et quelques cartes sur la géographie du moyen age, la geographie moderne, et les cartes relatives a la géographie physique. A Paris : [Panckoucke], Hôtel de Thou, Rue Poitevins, MDCCLXXXVII-MDCCLXXXVIII [1787-1788]; and, Atlas encyclopédique : conténant les cartes et les planches relatives a la géographie physique. A Paris : Chez Mme veuve Agasse, Imprimeur-Libraire, Rue des Poitevins, no 6, MDCCCXXVII [1827]., T. 1: 1794 or 1795; t. 2: 1803; t. 3: 1809; t. 4: 1811., T. 1: [4], 400, 401-857, [1] p.; t. 2: [4], 400, 401-896 p.; t. 3: [4], 384, 385-704 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; t. 4: [4], 400, 401-767, [1] p.; t. 5: viij, 958 p., [2] folded leaves of plates., Signatures: v. 1: pi² A-5P⁴; v. 2: pi² A-5V⁴; v. 3: pi² A-4T⁴; v. 4: pi² A-5D⁴; v. 5: pi⁴ A-6D⁴ 6E⁴ ( -6E4)., Title ornaments; tail-pieces., Text in double columns., Printer's waste used as end papers., Errata slip tipped in t. 5., Includes bibliographical references.