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An astronomical catechism : or, Dialogues between a mother and her daughter
by Catherine Vale Whitwell ; illustrated with numerous engravings., Book plate: Ex Libris Docteur R. Rickeart., Includes bibliographical references.
L'atmosphère; météorologie populaire;
ouvrage contenant quinze planches tirées en chromotypographie, deuz cartes en couleur et trois cent sept figures insérées dans le texte., Published also under titles: L'atmosphère : descriptions des grands phénomènes de la nature; and L'atmosphère et les grands phénomènes de la nature., "Appendice": p. [787]-804.
Über Ammoniten : über ihre Sonderung in Familien, über die Arten, welche in den älteren Gebirgsschichten vorkommen, und über Goniatiten insbesondere
von Leopold von Buch., "Zwei in der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften gelesene Abhandlungen.", Offprint from Abhand. K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1830, p. 135-158, 159-188., Stamp on t.p.: F.F. Bibliothek Donaueschingen., With: Über Terebrateln : mit einem Versuch, sie zu classificiren und zu beschreiben / von Leopold von Buch. Berlin : Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1834.
De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis liber secundus
The 2nd volume of a projected work on recent astronomical phenomena. The 1st volume was published in 1602 under title: Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata. The 3rd and final volume was never written. Cf. Tycho Brahe / J.L.E. Dreyer. 1890. p. 162-163., Running title: De cometa anni 1577., A reissue of the 1588 ed. with a new t.p. and added preliminary matter. Cf. Dreyer, p. 369. Pages 465-[466] are reset and the colophon is new., Dedication signed: Franciscus Gansneb Tengnagel., Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-3M⁴ 3N²., Printer statement in imprint is from colophon.
Tychonis Brahe, Dani, Epistolarvm astronomicarvm libri
Quorum primvs hic illvstriss: et lavdatiss: principis Gvlielmi Hassiae Landtgravii ac ipsius mathematici literas, vnaq́; responsa ad singulas complectitur., Imprint from colophon., "Cvm Caesaris et Regvm qvorvndam privilegiis.", Contains the astronomical correspondence between T. Brahe and Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse., Letters in Latin or German, those in German being followed by their Latin translation., Signatures: *⁴ (:)⁴ ):(⁴ (*)⁴ )*(⁴ A-2Q⁴., T.p. verso (p. [2]) and p. [8] blank., Numerous errors in pagination., "Errata typographica": p. [1] at end., Title vignette, initials, tail pieces, printer's device (at end)., Description of Uranienborg Castle and Stjarneborg Observatory, built by T. Brahe (1576-84), with engraved drawings and plans of the buildings, and a map of the Island of Hven, in the Sound, where they were located (p. 219-264)., The original vellum covers, with the Gartered and Crowned Crescent of Henry, 9th or 10th earl of Northumberland, are inlaid inside the newer leather binding., Bookplate of Vernon Watley.
Voyages dans les Alpes, precedes d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Geneve.
Par Horace-Benedict de Saussure., v. 2 has imprint: Geneve, Barde, Manget & compagnie, 1786., v. 3-4 have imprint: Neuchatel, L. Fauche-Borel, 1796.
Dialogo di Vincentio Galilei nobile fiorentino della mvsica antica, et della moderna.
Title within ornamental design: printer's mark at end.
Mudkhal al-kabīr ilā ʻilm aḥkām al-nujūm.
Translation by Hermannus Dalmata of: Al-Mudkhal al-kabīr ilā ʻilm aḥkām al-nujūm., Colophon: Opus introductorii in astronomia[m] albumazaris abalachi explicit feliciter, Erhardi ratdolt mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper venetijs nunc auguste vindelico[rum] excellit no[n]iatissimus.7. Idus Februarij. 1489., Signatures: a-h⁸ j⁶., Book plate: Hon. Jam. Murray Esq., Handwritten notes throughout text.
Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis : ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori, insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus, exornatæ specimen primum ...
præside ... Joanne Bartholomæo Adamo Beringer ... ; submittit Georgius Ludovicus Hueber ..., Signatures: )(², )(² A-Z², ²A-C²., Head- and tail-pieces; engraved frontispiece., Includes errata., Book plate: Ex Libris Melvin Edward Jahn., Thesis--Würzburg., Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17).
Etymologiae.
Registrum in libros etymologicarum.--Etymologiae.--Rubrice libri primi[-terti] de sumo bono.--De sumo bono., Title from incipits on leaf 2 (2nd group) and leaf 1 (3rd group)., Imprint from colophon (leaf 28, 3rd group)., "Incipit epistola Isidori iunioris hispalensis episcopi ad Braulionem Ce̜saraugustanũ episcopũ"--Incipit on leaf 1, 2nd group., "Incipit liber primus etymologiarũ sancti Isidori hispalensis episcopi. De disciplina [et] arte."--Incipit on leaf 2, 2nd group., "In christi nomine incipit liber primus sancti Isidori hispalensis episcopi de sũmo bono ..."--Incipit on leaf 1, 3rd group., "Hec est arbor consanguinitatis" (full-page woodcut) (leaf 48v.)., History of Science copy has the "Rubrice ... de Sumo bono" bound in at end., Manuscript notes in margins., Hand-colored initial on leaf 1, 2nd group.
Vranometria, omnivm asterismorvm continens schemata. Nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa.
Bound with the author's Explicatio characterum aeneis uranometrias imaginum. Vlmae, 1697.