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- Perspectiva : In qua, qvae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, neruose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant.
- Nunc primum in lucem edita opera & studio Johannis Combachii., Bound with the author's Specvla mathematica. Francofvrti, 1614.
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- Saggi di naturali esperienze
- fatte nell'Accademia del cimento sotto la protezione del serenissimo principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte del segretario di essa Accademia., Dedication is dated: 14. luglio 1667, and signed: Il saggiato segretario [Lorenze Magalotti]., Engraved port. signed: Franciscus Spierre Lotaringus sculpebat., Includes errata., Title in red and black; engraved head and tail pieces; initials., Includes index.
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- Epitome astronomiae Copernicanæ : usitatâ formâ quæstionum & responsionum conscripta, inq[ue] VII. libros digesta, quorum tres hi priores sunt de doctrina sphæricâ ...
- [v. 1], Liber 1-3. Doctrina sphærica -- [v. 2], Liber 4. Physica cœlestis -- [v. 3], Liber 5-7. Doctrina theorica., avthore Joanne Kepplero ..., Book IV ([v.2]) is a second issue, the first published in 1620., Paged continuously., Pagination: [v. 1]: [28], 1-400, 409-417, [1] (blank) p.; [v. 2]: [2], 419-622, [2]; [v. 3]: [12], 641-780, 785-932, [16] p., For full pagination, signatures, and contents, cf. Caspar, M. Bib. Kepleriana, 55, 63, 66, 69., Head and tail pieces; initials., Numerous pagination errors., Book IV has special t.p. with imprint: Lentiis ad Danubium, impensis G. Tampachii, excudebat I. Plancus, 1622. Books V-VII have collective t.p. with imprint: Francofvrti, sumptibus G. Tampachij, 1621., Includes indexes., Errata: [v. 1], p. [27-28] (1st group); [v. 2], p. [623]; [v. 3], p. [14-16] (last group)., Manuscript notations in margins., Books IV and V-VII have title Epitomes astronomiæ Copernicanæ.
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- The history of four-footed beasts and serpents...
- Collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors, by Edward Topsel. Whereunto is now added, The theater of insects... by T. Muffet., Paged continuously., Vol 1 is largely a translation of books 1 and 5 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell. The second part has title: The history of serpents. Or, The second book of living creatures... By Edward Topsell. London, Printed by E. Cotes, 1658., Vols. 2, a translation of Moffett's Insectorum... theatrum, has title: The theatre of insects: or, Lesser living creatures... By Tho. Mouffet... London, Printed by E. C., 1658.
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- Historica narratio, de initio et progressu missionis Societatis Jesu apud Chinenses, ac præsertim in regia pequinensi
- ex litteris R.P. Joannis Adami Schall ex eadem societate ... collecta., Includes errata., Signatures: )(⁶ A-Q⁸ R⁷., Initials; head- and tail-pieces.
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- Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia, per l'uso, dilucidatione, e fabbrica delle sfere, globi, planisferj astrolabj, e tavole geografiche, e particolarmente degli stampati, e spiegati nelle publiche let
- dal P. Maestro Vincenzo Coronelli., "Dell' eccellenza inuenzione, e progresso dell' astronomia, discorso del Sig. Carlo Malavista": p. [9]-[16] at front.
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- Kritischer Kommentar über die östreichische Provinzialpharmakopee, mit einem Entwurfe zu einem gemeinnüzigen verbesserten Dispensatorium
- Z. Gottlieb Huszty von Raszynya., Includes errata., Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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- Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi : in artem geometrie incipit quã foelicissime.
- Title from: Incipit leaf [1]b., Books 1-13 are by Euclid; book 14 is by Hypsicles (2nd cent. B.C.); book 15 by a student of Isidore of Miletus (6th-7th cent.). Cf. Dict. of Scientific Biog.; Oxford Classical Dict., 2nd ed., p. 413., Leaf 137b colophon: Opus elementorũ Euclidis Megarensis in geometriã artẽ in id quo[que] Campani p[re]spicacissimi cõmentationes finũit ..., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., 46 lines to a full page., Leaf [138] blank., Leaf a2: initial and border on 3 sides illuminated; title printed in red.
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- Annalen der Physik (1900)
- 4. Folge, Bd. 1, No. 1 (1900)-4. Folge, Bd. 87, No. 24 (1928); 5. Folge, Bd. 1, Heft 1 (1929)-5. Folge, Bd. 43, Heft 8 (1944); 6. Folge, Bd. 1, Heft 1/3 (1947)-6. Folge, Bd. 20, Heft 7/8 (1957); 7. Folge, Bd. 1, Heft 1/3 (1958)-7. Folge, Bd. 48, Heft 8 (1991); 8th ser., v. 1 (1992)-, Later issues published: Berlin : Wiley-VCH., Title from cover.
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- Kurtzer Bericht vom Gebrauch des proportional Cirkels : samt zugeh[ö]rigen Figuren hiebevor
- aufgesetzet durch Andream Alexandern ; anietzo aber damit es mit recht ein Compendium der gantzen Geometrie heissen m[ö]ge aus des Weltber[ü]hmten Galilæi de Galilæis Tractat vom Proportional- Cirkel mit einen grossen Zusatz vermehret., Signatures: a² A-G⁴ H³., Initials; head and tail pieces; marginal notes (printed).
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- Zaagmans comptoir almanach op 't schrickel-iaer onses heeren Iesu Christi, M. DC. LXXX. na de nieuwe en oude-stijl ...
- door Dirck Rembrantsz. van Nierop .., A-D 4.
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- Memoir and correspondence of Caroline Herschel
- by Mrs. John Herschel ; with portraits., Publisher's advertisements: p. [1]-32 (5th group)., Book plate: Fanny Hersee., Includes bibliographical references and index.