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Primo volume dell'vso et fabbrica dell'astrolabio, et de planisferio.
Di maestro Egnatio Danti., Title vignette (coat of arms of the Medici), Initials., Printer's mark on recto of last leaf., The "Istromenti astronomici" described, include the "Astrolabio armiilare" and other instruments of Ptolemaeus, and the "Diottra d'Hipparco.", First edition published, Firenze, Giunti, 1569. A projected second volume was never published., "Anemografia di maestro Egnatio Danti ... In dichiarazione delle anemoscopio, instrumento mostratore de'venti: tradotto di latino in vulgare, da m. Pietroantonio Cattani": p. 251-272.
Essay de dioptrique
Nicolas Hartsoeker.
The mathematical principles of natural philosophy.
By Sir Isaac Newton. Tr. into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity. By John Machin., Title page of v. 2 varies slightly., "The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity," with half-title and separate pagination, is added at end of v. 2.
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.
British phaenogamous botany : or, Figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants
by W. Baxter ..., Includes errata at end of each vol., Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupedes, ou l'on retablit les caracteres de plusieurs especes d'animaux que les revolutions du globe paroissent avoir detruites.
v. 1 Le discours preliminaire et la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris.--v. 2. Les pachydermes des couches meubles et des terrains d'allurion.--v. 3. Les os fossiles des environs de Paris.--v. 4. Les ruminans, les onquicules et les reptiles fossiles.
Nova stereometria doliorvm vinariorvm, in primis Austriaci, figuræ omnium aptissimæ; et usus in eo virgæ cubicæ compendiosissimus & plane singularis. Accessit Stereometriæ Archimedeæ supplementum.
Authore Ioanne Kepplero ..., Errata leaf tipped in at end., Title vignette., Initials., P. 61-62 extra long and folded at bottom., With: Kepler, Johannes. Ausszug auss der uralten messekunst Archimedis ... Lintz, gedruckt durch H. Blancken, 1616., Harlow Collection bookplate.
Cosmographiae introdvctio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principijs ad eam rem necessarijs.
Author statement from Index Aureliensis pt. 1, v. 2, no. 106.424., Leaves printed on both sides., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A-D⁸., Printer's device of Melchior Sessa on verso of final leaf., Woodcuts: t.p. ill., printer's device, ills., maps, initials., Running title: Rvdimenta cosmographiae., Abridgement of: Cosmographicus liber, 1524.
Joh. Baptistæ Ferrarii senensis, S.I., Flora, seu, De florum cultura lib. IV.
Added t.p., engraved., Pritzel (2nd ed.), 2877., Imperfect: Hist. of Science Coll. copy wanting engr. t.p., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
The 'Opus majus' of Roger Bacon
ed. with introduction and analytical table by John Henry Bridges.
Dioptrice.
Signatures: )(⁴ a-c⁴ d² A-K⁴ chi².