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A dobsinai jégbarlang ... Die eishöhle von Dobschau. Im auftrage der K. Ungarischen naturwissenschaftlichen gesellschaft untersucht und beschrieben
von dr Jos. Alex. Krenner ... Mit 6 lithographirten tafeln und 3 holzschnitten., In portfolio., Hungarian and German in opposite columns.
Heronis mechanici Liber de machinis bellicis : necnon Liber de geodaesia
a Francisco Barocio ... latinitate donati, multis mendis expurgati, & figuris, ac scholijs illustrati., Traditionally attributed to Hero of Alexandria; later research identifies author as Hero, of Byzantium, also known as Hero mechanicus and Hero tertius. Cf. Dain, A. La tradition du texte d'Heron de Byzance., Title vignette, head-pieces, initials.
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.
Completa raccolta di opuscoli, osservazioni, e notizie diverse contenute nei Giornali astrometeorologici dall' anno 1773. sino all' anno 1798.
del fu signor abate Giuseppe Toaldo ... coll' aggiunta di alcune altre sue produzioni meterologiche e pubblicate ed inedite ..., Edited by Domenico Tiato., A projected fifth volume (cf. Avviso at end of v. 4)--was never published., "Elogio di Giuseppe Toaldo scritto da Angelo Fabroni.
Astronomicarum institutionum libri III
Signatures: a⁸ A-2A⁸., Woodcut title vignette: printer's device., Head-pieces., Includes errata.
The wonders of geology; or A familiar exposition of geological phenomena; being the substance of a course of lectures delivered at Brighton.
By Gideon Algernon Mantell., Paged continuously; v. 1 : 1 p. l., xvi, 428 p., 4 l.; v. 2: vii, [429]-795 p., 6 l., [797]-804, [24] p., Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress., Each volume had added title page: The wonders of geology, by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Io. Grammatici Philoponi Alexandrei Commentaria in libros posteriorum analiticorum Aristotelis : denuo maxima diligentia castigata, ac ad Græcorum exemplar longe fidelius quàm antea collata.
Signatures: A-I⁸ K⁴., "Io. Grammatici" in cartouche at head of title page., Title page vignette; head-pieces and initials., Text printed in double columns., Handwritten notes throughout text.
Nouae gnomonices libri quinque
Unpublished autograph manuscript on dialing, with numerous illustrations, by the celebrated Italian polymath Bernardino Baldi., Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallae abbate, autore., Statement of responsibility corrected by author with different pen and ink to: Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallenesis ecclesiae abbate autore., Holograph., Date from last page.
Epitome metheorologica de' tremoti, con la cronologia di tutti quelli, che sono occorsi in Roma dalla creatione del mundo sino agl' ultimi successi sotto il pontificato del regnante pontefice Clemente XI.
Aggiuntovi per fine un catalogo di tutti gli autori theologici, scritturali, filosofici, legali, politici, & istorici sacri, e profani, che hanno discorso, e scritto de' terremoti.