Search Results: Authors starting with A from Mobilis Books

ANDERSON, Hans Christian. The Tinderbox. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. London, George Routledge [n.d.]
(170 x 110 mm) pp. 150 + ads. Color frontispeice. Red embossed cloth binding with gold stamp with title on cover and spine.

ANDERSON, Hans Christian. The Silver Shilling. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. London George Routledge [n.d.]
(170 x 110 mm) pp. 151 + ads. Color frontispeice. Red embossed cloth binding with gold stamp with title on cover and spine.

"To know the altitude of the Sun over the Horizon in whichever day and hour by the rays of the Sun"-- the function of the first volvelle instrument in this edition of Peter Apian's Cosmographia
APIAN, Peter. La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, corregida y añadida por Gemma Frisio, Medico y Mathematico. La manera de descrivir y situar los Lugares, con el uso del Anillo Astronomico, del mismo Auctor Gemma Frisio. El sitio y descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la cosmographia de Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez. En Anvers. Por Juan Bellero al Aguila de Oro. Con privilegio de su M. D.LXXV. [1575].
Second Spanish edition. (235 x 170) ff [2], 68, [14] . Contemporary or near contemporary limp vellum binding with manuscript title and date on spine. Some ca. 17th c. binding waste from La vita di Maria Vergine imperatrice by Lucrezia Marinelli. Early owner's notation in front and back of binding. Two lead clasps and string fasteners original to binding.… Read More