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Sphaera mundi.
Manuscript notes in margins and on inserted leaves.
Liber chronicarum.
Latin text with Gothic letters., Woodcuts by Wohlgemuth and Pleydenwurff., Supplement has title: De Sarmacia regione Europe., Sometimes referred to as Nuremberg, or Nurnberg chronicle., Colophon reads: ... Ad intuitu autem preces prouidoru ciuiu Sebaldi Schreyer Sebastiani kamermaister hunc librum dominus Anthonius koberger Nuremberge impressit. Adhibitis tame viris mathematicis pingendiq arte peritissimis. Michaele wolgemut et wilhelmo Pleydenwurff. quaru solerti acuratissimaq animadversione tum ciuitatum tum illustrium virorum figure inserte sunt. Consummatu autem duo-decima mensis Julij. Anno salutis nre. 1493.
Trattato del radio latino, istrvmento givstissimo & facile piu d'ogn' altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo, come in terra. Il qvale oltre alle operationi proprie sue fa anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. To
Inventato dall' ill.mo et eccell.mo signor Latino Orsini., "Scritto gia dall' autore dall' istrumento ... con alcune mie annotationi."--Prefatory note "A' lettori. Frate Egnatio Danti.", Title vignette (type ornament)., Initials., Side notes., Errata: p. [7] first group., Manuscript notes in margins., In ms. on t.p.: "Cavazza"., Riccardi I, 393/8., Boffito, p. 92, no. 36.
Principles of geology; being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation.
By Charles Lyell, esq., The word "two" in the phrase "In two volumes" on t.-p. of v.1 changed in manuscript to read 3., Appendices: I. Tables of fossil shells by Monsieur G. P. Deshayes.--II. Lists of fossil shells chiefly collected by the author in Sicily and Italy, named by M. Deshayes., Bibliographical footnotes.
Lithophylacii Britannici ichnographia
First ed., "Hujus libri centrum & viginti tantum exemplaria impressa sunt.", Preface signed and dated: Mongomeriæ, Nov. 1. anno 1698., Signatures: a⁴ B-T⁴., Book plate: Ex Libris Mevin Edward Jahn., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sphaera mundi.
Cichi Esculani cum textu.--Expositio Joannis Baptiste Capuani in eandem.--Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis.--Theodosij De speris.--Michaelis Scoti.--Qõnes reuerẽdissimi dñi Petri de Aliaco [et]c.--Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium.--Tractatus de sphera solida.--Tractatus de sphera Campani.--Tractatus de computo maiori eiusdem.--Disputatio Joannis de Monte Regio.--Textus theorice [Georgii Purbachii] cũ expõne Joãnis Baptiste Capuani.--Ptolomeus De speculis., Includes Sacro Bosco's Sphere and various commentaries on it, as well as other works on the sphere., Originally edited by Hieronymus de Nuciarellis., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶ (2G6 blank), Double columns., Initials; side notes., Woodcut illustration of armillary sphere on leaf 4b., Printer's mark (Kristeller 286) on leaf 253b [i.e. 232], Numbers 181-200 omitted in foliation., Leaf 97 incorrectly numbered 81/, 92 as 192., Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, col. 447-449., NUC pre-56, NS 0014920., Thorndike, L. Sphere of Sacrobosco, p. 343., Lacy Collection bookplate, cop. 1., Manuscript notes in margins, cop. 2., Some initials hand colored; gilded initial on leaf 201, cop. 2., Copy 2 imperfect: lacks t.p. The printed dates on line 3, leaf 2a, "Anno dñi. 1506," and the last line of leaf 3a, "M.D.VII.," of Bartolomeo Vespucci's oration have been erased (leaf 2a) or cut out (leaf 3a) and subsequently added in pencil. According to Thorndike (History of Magic, V, p. 164), this oration was delivered in Padua in 1506, in Ferrara in 1507, and published in 1508. Colophon date of "1484" is probably false ("1518" added in pencil beneath colophon). No references found for this edition with a 1484 imprint date (Proctor, BM 15th cent., NUC pre-56, Goff, Hain). This date also conflicts with the dates on leaves 2a and 3a. In addition, the heirs of Octavianus Scotus (named in the colophon) did not begin publishing until 1516 (cf. Norton, F. J. Italian printers 1501-1520). Thorndike calls the Venice 1518 edition a new and superior compilation, and does not mention a prior imprint of this edition.
Diuina proportione : opera a tutti glingegni perspicaci e curiosi necessaria oue ciascun studioso di philosophia: prospectiua pictura sculptura: architectura: musica: e altre mathematice: suauissima: sottile: e admirabile doctrina consequira: e delectaras
Author's name at head of dedication: Frater Lucas Patiolus ..., Place and date of imprint from colophon., Colophon (at end of Tractatus tertius): "Venetiis impressum per ... Paganinum de Paganinis de Brixia ... Anno redemptionis nostre M.D.VIIII. Klen. Iunii Leonardo Lauretano Ve. rem. pu. gubernante. pontificatus Iulii. II. anno. VI." Colophon also at end of "Pars prima" with slight variations., Title in red and black; initials., The geometrical figures accompanying the text are printed in the margin., Leaf 25 misnumbered 17 (2nd group), 14 as 15 (3rd group), 16-26 as 17-27., Manuscript notes in margins., Manuscript corrections in text: leaf 3a (2nd group)., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
First [and second] report on the facts of earthquake phaenomena.
From the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1850, 1851., Second report printed by Taylor and Francis.
De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, a Carolo Stephano, doctore medico, editi.
Vna cum figuris & incisionum declarationibus, a Stephano Riuerio chirurgo copositis., Three of the full page illustrations, dated 1530-32, signed by Mercure Jollat; all of them apparently engr. by Tory (5 bearing his Lorrain cross mark) cf. Auguste Bernard. G. Tory, tr. by G. B. Ives. New York, 1909, p. 223-226.