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- Memoire sur les tremblemens de terre de la Calabre pendant l'année 1783
- par le commandeur Déodat de Dolomieu., Title vignette., History of Science Coll. copy lacks cover.
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- Essai sur la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris, avec une carte geognostique, et des coupes de terrain
- par G. Cuvier et Alexandre Brongniart., Has caption title: Memoires de la classe des sciences mathematiques et physiques.
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- Litheosphorus, sive, De lapide Bononiensi lucem in se conceptam ab ambiente claro mox in tenebris mire conservante : liber
- Fortunii Liceti ..., Title vignette; initials.
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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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- Aristarchi De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber
- cum Pappi Alexandrini explicationibus quibusdam ; a' Federico Commandino vrbinate in latinum conuersus, ac commentarijs illustratus., "Cum priuilegio pont. max. in annos X.", Title vignette: publisher's device. Initials.
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- Io. Bapt. Portae Neopolitani Magiae natvralis libri XX. Ab ipso authore expurgati, & superaucti, in quibus scientiarum naturalium diutiae, & delitiae demonstrantur demonstrantur.
- Title within ornamental border, with motto: Aspicit et inspicit., Initials; head and tail pieces.
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- Henrici Dodwelli De parma equestri Woodwardiana dissertatio
- accedit Thomæ Neli Dialogus inter reginam Elizabetham & Robertum Dudleium ... academiæ Oxoniensis cancellarium, in quo de academiæ ædificiis præclare agitur ; recensuit ediditque Tho. Hearne ... qui & Dodwelli operum editorum catalogum praemisit., For a history of this book and its suppression by the Heads of houses of Oxford University cf. Remarks and collections of Thomas Hearne, v. 4, p. 126, 137-138; and the remains of Thomas Hearne, by Philip Bliss (2d ed., 1869) v. 1, p. 227-278 (footnote)., Neal's Dialogus has special t.p.: Collegiorum scholarumque publicarum Academiæ oxoniensis topographica delineatio., Signatures: b-d⁴ A-T⁴., Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Essai sur la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris, avec une carte geognostique, et des coupes de terrain
- par G. Cuvier ... et Alexandre Brongniart ..., Originally published in Annales du museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, tom. XI, 1808 (p. 293-326)--and again, with additions, in Memoires de la classe des sciences mathematiques et physiques de l'Institut imperial de France, annee 1810, published 1811--of which the present edition is a reissue with addition of a preface., A new edition, 1822, has title: Description geologique des environs de Paris.
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- Martis circa axem proprium reuolubilis obseruationes Bononiae
- Discusses the dark areas of Mars, Mars' rotation and markings., a Io. Dominico Cassino habitae., Cover title., Issued as three separate reports, but forming one bibliographic unit., The second report has a caption title: De alijs Romanis obseruationibus macularum Martis., The third report has caption title: De periodo quotidianæ reuolutionis Martis., Initials., In slipcase.
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- Sphaera triplex artificialis, elementaris, ac caelestis. Varias planetarum affectiones; & praesertim motus, facillime explicans.
- Gabrielis Beati ..., Includes index.
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- Gvidi Vbaldi è marchionibvs Montis Mecanicorvm liber, in quo haec continentur ...
- From t.p.: De libra -- De vecte -- De trochlea -- De axe in peritrocheo -- De cuneo -- De trochlea., At foot of leaf 104: F. Andreas Berna Minorita Conu. vidit, & ad verbum castigauit., Title vignette., The publisher statement appears after the date of publication.