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A prognostication euerlasting of right good effect : fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary token
Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne., Illustrated t.p., Head and tail pieces; initials; side notes., Bottom margin of t.p. overtrimmed, obscuring part of imprint. Outer margin also overtrimmed, affecting side notes and some illustrations.
Nützliche Betrachtungen über die Wirkung und Wesenheit des Gold und Silbers, vor und nach der ausmünzung / Orsini von Rosenberg, Norisi von Gerberson.
Manuscript., A manuscript copy of the printed book entitled "Useful Considerations on the Virtue and Substance of Gold and Silver, before and after minting." The author is thought to be a member of the boble Austrian Orsini-Rosenberg family writing under the pseudonym Norisi von Gerberson. The true author might have been Vinzenz von Orsini-Rosenberg (1722-1794).
The natural history of the county of Stafford : comprising its geology, zoology, botany, and meteorology : also its antiquities, topography, manufactures, etc.
by Robert Garner., Includes errata., Supplement: p. 61 (8th group) and [1] (9th group)., Supplement imprint: London : John Van Voorst, 1860., Book plate: Oublier ne puis, Hugh Ker Colville., One letter from Charles Darwin, two newspaper clippings, and two plant specimens inserted at the end of text., Table of Cerebrum of Dogs handwritten on sheet of paper inserted at end of text., Author's presentation copy to D. Ball, April 20, 1880., Supplement includes index., Includes bibliographical references.
The wonders of geology; or A familiar exposition of geological phenomena; being the substance of a course of lectures delivered at Brighton.
By Gideon Algernon Mantell., Paged continuously; v. 1 : 1 p. l., xvi, 428 p., 4 l.; v. 2: vii, [429]-795 p., 6 l., [797]-804, [24] p., Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress., Each volume had added title page: The wonders of geology, by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
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.
Johannes Hevelii Prodromus astronomiae, exhibens fundamenta, quae tam ad novum planè & correctiorem stellarum fixarum catalogum construendum, quàm ad omnium planetarum tabulas corrigendas omnimodè spectant; nec non novas & correctiores tabulas solares, al
Quibus additus est uterque Catalogus stellarum fixarum, tam major ad annum 1660, quàm minor ad annum completum 1700. Accessit corollarii loco Tabula motus lunae libratorii ..., Half-title: J. Hevelii Prodromus astronomiae cum Catalogo fixarum, & Firmamentum Sobiescianum., Added engraved half title on double leaves., "Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia," has special t.p., added engr. t.p. on 2 leaves and separate paging., "Edmundi Halleii Catalogus stellarum australium ... partim correctus, & ad annum Christi MDCC completum reductus à Jo. Hevelio," p. [309]-320., "Joannis Ernesti Schmieden Cenotaphium. Illvstri viro Joanni Hevelio ... sacrandam ad memoriam positvm," with special t.p., p. ℓ. 7-10.
Isiodori [sic] Opvscvlvm de temporibvs.
Imprint from Hain., Hain, 93003., BN, v. 75, p. 1196., Imperfect: first and last leaves wanting.