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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.
Libro de abacho ...
[Piero Borgi da Venetia], The title is followed by a poem, the first line of which reads: Chi de arte matematice ha piacere., Leaf 2 recto begins: Qui comēza la nobel opera de arithmeticha nelaqual se tracta tutte cose a merchantia pertinente facta [et] compilata per Miser [sic] Piero Borgi da Venetia., Reprint of Venice ed. of 1509., Author statement from leaf 2 recto; imprint from colophon on leaf [100] verso., Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴., Initials., Error in foliation: no. 91-94 repeated., Manuscript notations on leaf 1 recto and leaf [100] verso., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
Les nouvelles conquêtes de la science
t. 1. L'électricité -- t. 2. Grand tunnels et railways métropolitains -- t. 3. Les voies ferrées dans les deux mondes -- t. 4. Isthmes et canaux., par Louis Figuier., Harlow Collection bookplate., Stamp on half-title: Léo de Lima è Silva., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tychonis Brahe Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica.
First published at Wandsbek in 1598., Engraved port. on t.p., Head and tail pieces; initials., Text enclosed in single rule border., Waller, E. Bib. Walleriana, 11999., Houzeau and Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 ed.), 2703., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
F. Marini Mersenni Ordinis Minimorvm S. Francisci de Pavla Qvaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim, cvm accurata textvs explicatione : in hoc volvmine athei, et deistae impvgnantvr, & expugnantur, & Vulgata editio ab haereticorum calumnijs vindicatur : Graeco
Cramoisy's device on t.p., Commentary on chapters 1-6 only. The 2nd part was never published; the ms. is preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale (Fonds latin nos. 17261-2). An earlier issue of which only a few copies exist, contains on col. 669-676 a list of persons accused of atheism. The suppressed passage was reprinted in Chauffepié's Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique III (1753) p. 80-81. Cf. J. Vogt, Catalogus historico-criticus (4th ed., Hamburg, 1753, p. 461); B. Hauréau, Histoire littéraire du Maine, t. 8 (1876), p. 112-179., Numbering of columns irregular, some leaves being numbered as pages; last column numbered 450 instead of 440. One unnumbered leaf "Errata potiora" of col. 1-1828, inserted after col. 1827-28., The treatise on Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata has separate t.p. and pagination: F. Marini Mersenni Ordin. Minimor. S. Francisci de Pavla Observationes, et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii Veneti Problemata, in hoc opere cabala evertitvr., "Qvaestio LVI. Qvaenam fverint instrvmenta harmonica, quibus tam Hebræi, quàm Graeci, caeterae que nationes vtuntur, aut etiam antiquitus vtebantur": col. 1515-1530., "Qvaestio [LVII]. De vi musicae tvm antiqvorvm, tum nostrae", col. 1530-1712 (includes an account of the Académie de musique et de poésie founded by J.A. de Baïf and Thibault de Courville, and of the reforms in French poetry and orthography, advocated by Baïf)., "Paralipomena ... ea, quae in quaestione de musica omissa sunt", col. 1853-1916 (includes part of 4th "cercle" of La Galliade, a didactic poem by Guy Le Fevre de La Borderc, first published in Paris in 1578).
New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects : (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine).
Written by way of letter to Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle.
United States exploring expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
v. 1-5. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-42 / by Charles Wilkes. 1845 -- v. 10. Geology / by James D. Dana. 1849 -- v. 17. Botany : Cryptogamia ; Musci / by William S. Sullivant ; Lichenes / by Edward Tuckerman ; Algae / by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey ; Fungi / by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley ; Phanerogamia of Pacific North America / by John Torrey ; ed. by Asa Gray. 1874., under the command of Charles Wilkes., v. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York : G.P. Putnam ; London : Putnam's American Agency, [n.d.]., Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France.", By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies. Mr. Wilkes, however, secured copyright on his Narrative of the expedition, under which privilege he published several editions of that part of the reports. Later, also, the authors themselves, or publishers who might be willing to undertake it, were allowed to issue an additional 150 copies of most of the various reports, and under this arrangement, from 100 to 150 copies of most of the volumes were published in addition to the 100 copies provided for by the government. The official edition however was 100 copies only., The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany / by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants / by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology / by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics / by Charles Wilkes., Volumes of unfinished plates--some of them in proof before lettering--are found, without t.p. or other printed matter. The Library of Congress has two such volumes: one of 71 pl. (4 col.) from the atlases to Botany, and one of 32 col. pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells., v. 10 book plate: Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans
Etymologiae.
Goff gives imprint as: Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, after 1500. BM 15th cent. does not include this work, but states that Scotus died on Christmas Eve 1498 after which time Locatellus worked for Scotus' heirs and other patrons and his press was active throughout the first decade of the 16th cent. Cf. BM 15th cent., V, p. 435., Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2m⁶ 2n⁴ a-c⁶ d⁴., Numbers 7-8 repeated in foliation of first numbered section., Text in double columns; woodcut initials; woodcut illustration (tree of consanguinity) on verso of leaf 35., "In Christi nomi[n]e i[n]cipit liber p[re]mus Sancti Isidori Hispalensis episcopi De summo bono": head of recto of leaf 1 of 21 leaf section., "Aetymologiaru[m] tabula": verso of leaf 75 and recto and verso of following unnumbered leaf., Klebs. Incunabula, 536.8 [after 1500], Stillwell. 2d census, I 160 [after 1500], Inscription on t.p. (later crossed out): Liber Ambrosij Schwaiger Mannusii. A later inscription on t.p.: Sum ex Libris Pompei Pompeati Doctoris Medici ac Philsophi. q̀. Anno 1659., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
Nicolai Raymari Ursi dithmarsi Fundamentum astronomicum : id est, Nova doctrina sinuum et triangulorum, eaque absolutissima et perfectissima, eiusque usus in astronomica calculatione & observatione ...
"Cui adiunctae sunt: I. hypotheses nouae ac verae motuum corporum mundanorum. II. Extructio Canonis finuum, vulgaris quidem, sed solitâ viâ facilior. III. Sectio anguli datâ ratione, seu in quotlibet partes. IV. Quadratio circuli demonstrabili ratione, eiusque demonstratio. V. Solutio triangulorum vsitatiorum nouâ ac facillimâ ratione. VI. Solutio plerorumque triangulorum per solam prosthaphaeresin. VII. Eiusdem prosthaphaereseos apodixis, causa, ac demonstratio. Omnibus seculis problemata sanè desideratissima, aliaq[ue] priùs nec audita nec anteà visa paradoxa quàm plurima.", Title vignette., Signatures: *⁴ A-K⁴.
Observations made by the missionairies at Pekin
Transmitted to the supra-cargoes at Canton, by the Rev. Father Louis Cipolla, of the tribunal of mathematics, and communicated to the Royal Society by the Court of Directors of the East-India Company., Detached from v. 64 of the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.