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- Parte orientale della China
- dal P.M. Coronelli M.C. cosmografo della serma. rep. di Venetia., "Divisa nelle sue provincie e dedicata al Molto Rev. Padre Antonio Baldigiani della Compagnia di Gesú Professore delle matematiche nell' Università Collegio Romano.", Dedicated to the Jesuit Antonio Baldigiani and decorated with surveying instruments., From: Coronelli's "Corso geografico universale."
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- Diuus Plato.
- Translated from the Greek, with commentaries, by Marsilio Ficino., At head of title: Naldus Nandius [i.e. Naldius?] Florentinus in huius operis laudem; followed by 7 distichs., Imprint from colophon (leaf 2H8 verso)., Signatures: [a]⁴ ²a⁸ b-o⁸ p-q¹⁰ r-z⁸ A-D⁸ E-F¹⁰ G-Z⁸ 2A-2F⁸ 2G-2H¹⁰., Leaves printed on both sides., Text in double columns; 62 lines per page., Guide-letters; catch-words., "Prohemium Marsilij Ficini Florentini in libros Platonis ad Laurentiu[m] Medice[m] viru[m] magnanimu[m]"--Leaf [a]1 verso., "Theologia Platonica Marsilij Ficini Florentini de animorum immortalitate"--Leaves 338a-442b (T2 recto-2H8 verso)., Handwritten notes throughout text., Includes index.
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- Admonitio ad astronomos, rerumque coelestium studiosos : de raris mirisq[ue] : anni 1631, phænomenis, Veneris puta et Mercurii in solem incursu : excerpta ex ephemeride anni 1631 & certo authoris consilio huic præmissa, iterumq[ue]
- An extract from the ephemerides which were based on the Rudolphine tables, used for publicity in an attempt to increase sales in the future book., Joannis Keppleri ... ; edita à Jacobo Bartschio ..., Signatures: A-B⁴., Head-pieces; initials.
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- Wilhelmi Schickardi ... Astroscopium, pro facillima stellarum cognitione excogitatum, & commentariolo illustratum; nunc denuò in usum reipublicæ literariæ locupletius recusum:
- accurante Wilhelmo Schickardo Juniore., Added engraved t.p., Pages 18-19 in reverse order, p. 59-60 bound before p. 57, p. 63-64 before p. 61., Initials; tail piece., First folded plate dated 1687., Includes preface to the 2nd ed., BM (compact ed.), v. 22, p. 842.
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- Traité des poisons tirés de règimes minéral, végétal et animal.
- abridged and partly translated from the French of M.P. Orfila ; by Joseph G. Nancrede., Abridgement of the original English translation of John Augustine Waller published in London, 1815-1817, under the same title., Gift of Margaret Shoemaker Hill in memory of her father Harold A. Shoemaker., Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 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.
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- Elementa universae matheseos
- T.I. Continens geometriam planam. Arithmeticam vulgarem. Geometriam solidorum. Trigonometriam planam, & sphæricam. -- T. II. Continens algebram finitam. -- T. III. Continens sectionum conicarum elementa nova quadam methodo concinnata & Dissertationem de transformatione locorum geometricorum, ubi de continuitatis lege, ac de quibusdam infiniti mysteriis., Title to v. 1 in red and black.
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- 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
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- Sphaera mundi.
- Printer's mark on t.p., and in larger size on verso of f. 102 (with legend "In Pingvi Gallina"), With: Beyer, Hartmann. Qvastiones novae. Parisiis: 1562 -- Proclus. Procli Sphaera. Lutetiae: Gulielmum Cavellat, 1560., "De Ortv Poetico, Hoc Est, exempla ortus & occasus stellarum fixarū, ex variis auctoribus collecta... incerto auctore," f.60b-74., Leaves 3-8 lacking (preface by Philip Melanchton)., Volvelles on figures on leaves 16, 17, 23, 31., With volvelles mounted on figures.