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- Observationes circa viventia, qvæ in rebvs non viventibvs reperivntvr. Cvm Micrographia cvriosa siue Rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus, quæ ope microscopij recognitæ ad viuum exprimuntur : His accesserunt aliquot animalium testaceorum icones non antea
- Frontispiece, dated 1692., Tail pieces; initials; side notes., Errata: p. [1] (5th group)., "Pars secunda; seu, supplementum recreationis mentis et oculi in observatione testaceorum quorum aliqua exprimuntur non antea in lucem edita": p. [308]-335 has engraved half-title page; "Micrographia curiosa ...": p. 1-103 at end., The Micrographia curiosa was later published separately: Romae : Typis Antonii de Rubeis, MDCCIII. [1703], Includes indexes., Backer. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, v. 2, col. 377-378., Nissen. Zoologische Buchillustration, 752., Pritzel, no. 1374 (Micrographia curiosa only)., Copy [1]: DeGolyer Collection book plate; wanting frontispiece (torn out)., Copy 2: Pages xv-xvj bound in before pages xiij-xiv; p. 35 misnumbered 53 (first group); wanting [4] p. (5th group); illegible bookstamps on t.p.
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- Calendarium.
- Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): Avreus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulia.--Gema kalendario: quod docet istud opus ... Hoc Ioannes opus Regio de Monte probatum Composuit: tota notus in Italia.sd Quod Ueneta impressum fuit in tellure per illos Inferius quorum nomina picta loco. 1476. Bernardus Picor de Augusta, Petrus Loslein de Langeneen, Erhardus Ratdolt de Augusta., Printed in black and red. Leaves [19] and [32], containing diagrs. of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together., Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *13776. Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent) v, p. 243 (IB.20481), Diagrs. of eclipses painted yellow.
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- Sopra il turbine; che la notte tra gli xi, e xii giugno del MDCCXLIX dannegio una gran parte di Roma
- dissertazione del P. Ruggiero Giuseppe Boschovich. Dedicata a sua eminenza il Signor Cardinale Silvio Valenti.
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- Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
- Edited by Arnoldus Vesaliensis., Publisher and place of publication named on colophon., Signatures: a-i⁸ k-p⁸ q¹⁰ r⁸ s¹⁰., Includes errata., Ownership inscription of Joseph von Lassberg, 1821 leaf 1 (1st group)., Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Trattato dell'vso et della fabbrica dell'astrolabio.
- Di F. Egnatio Danti ... con l'aggivnta del planisferio del Roias ..., Title vignette (coat of arms of the Medici)., Historiated initials., Numbering of pages [1]-16 a mix of pages and leaves.
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- The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey ... concerning the motion of the heart and blood
- William Harvey ; with the preface of Zachariah Wood ; to which is added James de Back his Discourse of the heart., Discourse of the heart has separate pagination and t.p.: The discourse of James De Back, in which he handles the nullitie of spirits, sanguification, the heat of living things ; there is premis'd a speech to the reader ; and annex'd an addition in defence of Harvey's Circulation. London : Printed by Francis Leach, 1653., With: Harvey, William. Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. 1653.
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- Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.
- Auctore Isaaco Newtono, equite aurato., Edited by R. Cotes.
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- Memoire geologique sur le sud-ouest de la France, suivi d'observations comparatives sur le nord du meme royaume, et en particulier, sur les bords du Rhin
- par M. Ami Boue., Extrait des Annales des sciences naturelles, aout 1824.
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- Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atqve technica historia, in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam diuisa.
- Avthore Roberto Flud aliàs de Fluctibus ..., Engraved title-pages; only the first treatise of v. 1 has general t.p.; the other parts have special title pages: Tractatus secundus De natvræ simia seu technica macrocosmi historia. Oppenheimio, ære Iohan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1618 (788 p., 5 l.); Tomvs secvndvs De svpernatvrali, naturali, præternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. Oppenhemij, in tractatus tres distributa. Oppenhemij, impensis Iohannis Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1619 (1 p.l., 277 p.); Tomi secvndi, tractatus primi, sectio secunda, De technica microcosmi historia [n.p., n.d.] (191, [1] p., 5 l.); Tomi secundi, tractatus secundus, De præternaturali utriusque mundi historia. Francofurti, typis Erasmi Kempfferi, sumptibus Joan. Theodori de Bry, 1621 (6 p.l., 199 p.), The second volume ends with the first section of the second treatise. It was to have contained three treatises, but was never completed., Includes several folded leaves., Head and tail pieces; initials., Errata: last page., Hist. of Sci. Coll. wanting v. 2., In ms. on t.p. and p. 1 (v. 1): "Bernard Bernard".
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- An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variol vaccin, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox
- By Edward Jenner., Bound with the author's Further observations on the variole vaccinae, or Cow pox. London, 1799., Errata slip mounted at end of text.
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- Memoire sur les tremblemens de terre de la Calabre pendant l'année 1783
- par le commandeur Déodat de Dolomieu., Title vignette., History of Science Coll. copy lacks cover.