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Dell' historia naturale : Libri XXVIII : nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere, e pietre : con alcune historie di piante, & animali, sin'hora non date in luce
di Ferrante Imperato ..., Pagination errors: 229-234 omitted in numbering; 241-244 repeated after 248, followed by 251-254; numbering then resumes at 249.
Transactions of the Geological Society.
Vol. 1 (1811)-v. 5 (1821); 2nd ser., v. 1 (1822/24)-v. 7 (1845/56)., Title varies slightly., Signatures of 2nd series, v. 1 called v. 6.
Etudes sur les glaciers
par L. Agassiz. Ouvrage accompagne d'un atlas de 32 planches., Plates 1-14 each preceded by leaf with outline drawing of objects represented, lettered 1a-14a., Atlas has illustrated cover-title: Etudes sur les glaciers, par L. Agassiz. Dessines d'apres nature et lithographies par Jph. Bettannier 1840. Neuchatel, Lithographie de H. Nicolet.
Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti comprese in tre lettere
scritte all'illvstrissimo signor Marco Velseri ... dal signor Galileo Galilei ... Si aggiungono nel fine le lettere, e disquisizioni del finto Apelle [Christoph Scheiner], Title vignette (device of the Accademia dei Lincei), Includes four letters from Welser to Galilei., Edited by Angelo de Filiis., The "Lettere e disquisizioni" of Scheiner has separate paging with half-title: De macvlis solaribvs tres epistol. De iisdem et stellis circa Iovem errantibvs. Disquisitio ad Marcvm Velservm August Vind. II. virum prf. Apellis post tabvlam latentis. Tabula ipsa aliarumq. obseruationum delineationibus suo loco expositis.
Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus ; qvo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distibutio, verbo Pantamorphon Protei regnum, universae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur ; abdit
Added t.p., engraved: Athanasii Kircheri Mundus subterraneus., "Libros digestus quibus mundi subterranei fructus exponuntur, et quidquid tandem rarum, insolitum, et portentosum in foecundo naturae utero continetur, ante oculos ponitur curiosi lectoris.", "Catalogus librorum, a p. Athanasio Kirchero hactenus editorum": v. 1, p. 346., Includes indexes.
Cosmographiae introdvctio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principijs ad eam rem necessarijs.
Author statement from Index Aureliensis pt. 1, v. 2, no. 106.424., Leaves printed on both sides., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A-D⁸., Printer's device of Melchior Sessa on verso of final leaf., Woodcuts: t.p. ill., printer's device, ills., maps, initials., Running title: Rvdimenta cosmographiae., Abridgement of: Cosmographicus liber, 1524.
Dissertatio cum Nuncio sidereo nuper ad mortales misso a Galilæo Galilæo
Ioannis Kepleri ..., Handwritten on t.p.: Monastery B.V.M. in Osser, Anno 1721.