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Péking : histoire et description
par Alph. Favier, Prêtre de la Congregation de la Mission, dite de Saint-Lazare, Missionnaire Apostolique, Vicaire Général de Péking, etc., etc., etc., "660 gravures anciennes et nouvelles reproduites ou exécutées par des artistes indigènes d'après les plus précieux documents ; 124 phototypies, 24 collographies hors texte.", P. 550-552 misnumbered 560-562., Includes bibliographical references (p. xii) and index.
Veterum Romanorum religio, castrametatio, disciplina militaris, ut & balne, ex antiquis numismatibus & lapidibus demonstrata
auctore Guilielmo du Choul e Gallico in Latinum translata., Added engraved t.p. dated 1685., Many errors in paging.
Prose de' signori accademici Gelati di Bologna ...
Discorso sopra le giostre, ed i tornei / Berlingiero Gessi -- Ristretto del trattato dell'arme delle famiglie intitolato l'Araldo / Gasparo Bombaci -- Dell'imprese accademiche lettera discorsiua / Francesco Carmeni -- Della filosofia morale / Alberto Caprara -- Perche nelle cantilene si adoperi la quinta diminuita, e la quarta superflua e non questa diminuita e quella superflua : come altres`i, per qual ragione si rigetti ogni sorte d'interuallo, o sia superfluo, o sia diminuito dalla Ottaua / Battista Sanuti Pellicani -- Cagioni fisiche degli effetti simpatici, ed antipatici / Ercolagostino Berò -- Che ogni scrittore illustrar dee l'idioma natiuo & anche arricchirlo talora con alcune forme giudiciosamente portate dal Latino / Giouanfrancesco Bonomi -- Della tragedia / Innocenzo Maria Fiorauanti -- Dell'isopo di Salomone / Ouidio Montalbani -- La politica, e la ragion di stato vnitamente con istorici tratti abbozzate / Alessandro Barbieri -- Il marmo augustale, in cui dichiarandosi vna antica iscrizione si ragiona copiosamente delle Terme, Bagni, Esercizi, e Giuochi degli antichi Romani / Giouambattista Capponi -- Delle sette de'filosofi, e del genio di filosofare / Antonio Felice Marsili -- Della musica / Girolamo Desideri -- Del metter' in carta / Angelmichele Guastauillani -- Sopra la sparizione d'alcune stelle, & altre nouità celesti / Geminiano Montanari., pubblicate sotto il principato accademico del Sig co. Valerio Zani., Edited by G.B. Capponi., Each contribution has author's emblem., P. 161-168 numbered on one side only., Library copy imperfect: p. 393-400 bound before p. 385., Signatures: A-V⁴ X⁸ Y-3H⁴., Engraved t.p.; head- and tail-pieces., Handwritten notes throughout text., Gift of James G. Harlow., Includes bibliographical references and index.
The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara.
Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung by H. Billingsley ... Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions of the best mathematiciens ... With a ... preface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scieces, what they are, and wherunto commodius: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies greatly missed., Engraved t.p., Many errors in numbering of leaves., Portrait of the printer, J. Daye, above the imprint on last page., "The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464.
Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflexions and colours of light.
Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures.
Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinum ... Quatuor his suaru[m] Institutionum geometricarum libris ... denuo ad scripti exemplaris fidem omnia diligenter recognita, emendatius iam in lucem e
Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁶ Q⁴., The illustrations on P6r and Q1r have folded flaps., Printer's device on t.p. and on leaf at end., Several errors in paging., Lib. III contains Dürer's expositions on the construction of letters, with many large woodcut specimens of roman capitals., With: Dürer, Albrecht. Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti ... De urbibus, archibus, castellísque compendis ... Parisiis : C. Wecheli, 1535.
The true intellectual system of the universe : the first part, wherein, all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated
by R. Cvdworth ..., Many irregularities in paging, including 85-96, and 301-302 omitted and 155-156, 305-306 repeated in numbering., Errata at foot of last page of Contents., No more published., Signatures: A⁴ *² **² ***² B-I⁶ K-U⁶ X-Z⁶ Aa-Ii⁴ Kk-Tt⁴ Uu⁴ Xx-Zz⁴ Aaa-Iii⁴ Kkk-Uuu⁴ Xxx-Zzz⁴ Aaaa-Iiii⁴ Kkkk-Uuuu⁴ Xxxx-Zzzz⁴ Aaaaa-Hhhhh⁴ Iiiii⁵ a-i⁴ k⁴ l²., Head-pieces., Book plate: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society MDCCCXLIX : The Library Taunton Castle : Presented by Mr. Ed. Bageboh., "Somershire Archaeological Society : Presented by Edw. Bageboh, Esq., Nov. 1876[?]."--p. [2] of cover., Wing C7471; Gathorne-Hardy & Williams T2., Handwritten note on p. 805., Quotations in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare.
Bound with the author's Difesa di Galileo. Venetia, 1607.
De historia stirpivm commentarij insignes
adiectis earundem viuis, & ad naturæ imitationem artificiose expressis imaginibus, Leonharto Fuchsio ... autore ... ; triplex item index, prior stirpium Latinas nomenclaturas, alter officinis & vulgò vsitatas, tertius gallicas dabit., Signatures: aa-bb (last leaf blank) a-z A-2H⁸., Portrait of author on verso of t.p., Initials., Side notes., Numerous pagination errors., Includes indexes., Some ill. partially colored., In ms. on t.p.: "Ioannis Baptistae forzani 1602.", Author's name defaced on t.p., Manuscript notations in margins.