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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1787. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (269x210 mm), 15, [1] pp. Modern half brown morocco (slightly rubbed), spine gilt, very minor foxing. A fine wide-margined copy. ---- Duveen-K. 701; see Norman 1289. - FIRST EDITION. Lavoisier was a member of an Academie comittee appointed to report on the terrible and insanitary conditions in Paris hospitals, and particularly the Hotel-Dieu, with a view to replacing it with a new building on the Isle des Cygnes. The committee concluded, that four smaller hospitals would be more efficient than a single large one, and in 1787, Louis XVI ordered their construction. This is the rare second report from the king's private press, signed by Lassone, Dabenton, Tillet, Bailly, Lavoisier, Laplace and d'Arcet. The second report of the commission, dealing with the recommendations for sites on which the projected four new hospitals should be built, was promptly published…
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EXTRAIT des registres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Du 20 Juin 1787. Rapport des Commissaires chargés des Projets relatifs à l'établissment des quatre Hôpitaux
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Eclipsium omnium Ab anno domini 1554 usque in annum Domini 1606. Accurata descriptio & pictura, ad meridianum Augustanum ita supputata, ut quibusuis alijs facilimè accommodari possit, una cum explicatione effectuum tam generalium quàm particularium pro cuiusque genesi
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Augsburg: Philipp Ulhart the elder, 1556. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts in one volume. Folio (316 x 221 mm). 88; 36 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: A-K6 L8 M-N6 O8 P-S6 T2. Including blank leaf L8. Several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, spine lettered in manuscript, further ink inscription to upper cover: "Continens des eclipses de soleil et de la lune" (vellum browned, somewhat soiled and shrinked, bands unfixed from upper pastedown, no free endpapers). Little even browning of text, title leaf frayed at fore-edge and with small holes in blank margins well outside text area, ink smudges to leaf G1, minor worming at upper gutter of gathering L. Provenance: unidentified small collectors ink stamp on title verso. A handsome, unsophisticated copy. ---- VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the main work on celestial mechanics of the court mathematician and astronomer of…
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Ein nützliches Wundartzney Büchlein, des Hochberümpten Lanfranti, auß fürbitt des wol erfarnen Meisters Gregorii Fleugauß, Chyrurgen und Wundartzt zu Straßburg. Dabey vieler bewerter Recepten, heylsamer Salben vnd Ertzneyen, ein außzug ... Durch Othonem Brauenfelß verdeutscht
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Frankfurt am Main: Hermann Gülfferich, 1552. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4to (173x139 mm). 30 ff. Signatures: A-F4, G6. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignette depicting surgical instruments, one woodcut within text and one elaborate full-page illustration on G6v, very minor occasional light spotting and soiling, faint marginal dampstains. Modern vellum-backed paper boards, covers pasted over with a fragment of an rubricated incunable leaf from a work by Nicolaus de Lyra. A fine copy. ---- VD-16 L-256 (2); Waller 5563. Durling/NLM 2726 and Wellcome I, 194 (both earlier eds.), not in Adams, Machiels, BL London, BN Paris, NUC. - Extremely Rare German adaption of the noted medical treatise on wound surgery ascribed to the medieval author Lanfranc of Milan (fl. 1290-1296). An English edition was published by John Hall in 1565.
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Eine neue Art von Strahlen
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Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K.B. Hof- und Universitätsbuch- und Kunsthandlung, 1896. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 12 pages. Original printed wrappers with advertisements in the inner covers and on the back side. Minor repair of edge chipping to wrappers and some soiling and browning. ---- br>The third edition of the groundbreaking presentation of the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in the late part of 1895. X-rays nearly immediately became useful to the medical sciences and Röntgen was presented with numerous medals and prizes, including the Nobel Prize.
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Elemens de mathematique
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Paris: Pierre-Michel Brunet, fils, 1731. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (252x195 mm), two parts in one volume. [12], 66, 155, [9] pp., including woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 22 folding engraved plates, pages untrimmed. Near contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Some creasing to first pages, large woodcut devices on red-colored by hand, occasional ink stains, text little browned and spotted throughout, a few leaves with scribbling in pencil to text margins and verso of some plates, marginal soiling to text and plates, repaired tear at fore-margin of one plate, light damp-staining to text and plates in places and some paper mould at gutter of text, worm hole to lower gutter affecting a few letters. Still good, wide-margined copy. ---- DSB XIII pp. 584-7; Cantor II, 526-7. - FIRST EDITION. "From the papers Varignon left at his death, most of which are now lost, his…
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Elementa Matheseos universae. Tomus Tertius, qui opticam, perspectivam, catoptricam, dioptricam, sphaerica & trigonometriam sphaericam, atque astronomiam, tam sphaericam quam theoricam complectitur. Editio novissima
by WOLFF, Christian von
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Geneva: Henricum-Albertum Gosse, 1747. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (260 x 205 mm). viii, 581 [1] pp. Including 51 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine with two gilt lettered labels and rich floral gilt decoration, red-dyed edges, and marbled endpapers. ---- Graesse VII 469. Final edition. Volume III of the five-volume encyclopedic standard work of mathematics and exact sciences by Christian Wolff (1679-1754). With plates on optics, perspective, catoptrics, spherical trigonometry, and astronomy, including a lunar chart. The south-up map of the full moon is a rather typical example of the "grossly degraded moon map as found in encyclopedias of the late 1700s. The 'Greek phi' shape in Mare Serenitatis shows that it was based very loosely on the Cassini maps" (Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon, p. 86). - Visit our website for additional images!
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Elementa Physicae conscripta in usus academicos ... Editio quinta veneta
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Venice: Remondini, 1781. 5th Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 5th Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two parts in two volumes. 8vo (195 x 135 mm). 446, [2] pp., 11 folding engraved plates; 356 pp., 21 folding engraved plates. All pages uncut. Bound in contemporary Italian carta rustica. Light fraying and marginal dust-soiling, but generally quite crisp and clean. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. Very good, unsophisticated copy. ---- DSB IX, p. 594-97; Bierens de Haan 3493. Fifth(?) Italian edition (first published Leiden, 1734) of van Musschenbroek's famous textbook of the fundamentals of physics. It has been a groundbreaking and defining work in the history of Physics, mainly because of van Musschenbroek's didactic qualities and the fact that he retained the Newtonian thought in the Netherlands and the rest of the learned world. The fifth Venetian edition appeared after the death of Musschenbroek. The first three Venetian editions are obscure. "Underlying Musschenbroek's…
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Elementa conica Apollonii Paergei et Archimedis opera nova & breviori methodo demonstrata..
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Rome: apud Mascardum, 1679. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo (141x75 mm). [12], 283 [5] pp., including separate half title to Archimedes' Opera, final blank and 8 folding engraved plates at end. Contemporary limp vellum, a few leaves a little browned. Provenance: Bibliotheca Podolin (ink inscription to title). Good copy of a rare work printed on strong paper. ---- Bibliotheca Mechanica, p.42; Riccardi I, 44; Smith, History of Mathematics, I, 368; DSB II, p.308-9 (Florence ed.). - The Rome edition of Borelli's treatise on conic sections, published in the year of his death. "His edition of book V, VI, and VII of Apollonius' conic sections first appeared in Florence in 1661. In 1672 Borelli was forced to fly Messina with a price on his head as the result of political upheavals there; his redaction of Maurolico's edition of Archimedes, in press at that time, was confiscated by the hostile regime. Borelli was also responsible for an edition of…
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Elementorum myologiae specimen, seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere
by STENO, Nicolaus [STENSEN, Nils]
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Florence: [Joseph Cocchini], 1667. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (280 x 167 mm). [8], 123 [1] pp. Signatures: ✠4 A-P4 Q2, 66 leaves. Woodcut Medici arms on title, 7 plates: 3 large folding woodcut plates numbered Tabula I-III and 4 full page engraved plates numbered Tab. [IV], V, [VI], VII (bound at the end with the engravings first). 18th-century roan-backed boards, vellum tips, gilt-tooled spine (extremities little rubbed, front endpaper removed, corners bumped). Small stain in preliminaries, some very light occasional spotting, a few early ink annotations and 3 neat ink diagrams in text. A fine, fresh and clean copy. Provenance: library of Walter Pagel (label fixed to inner pastedown). ---- Norman 2012; Garrison-Morton 577; NLM/Krivatsy 11432; Osler 4021; Waller 9223; LeFanu, Notable Medical Books from the Lilly Library, p. 79. - FIRST EDITION of "the first outline of a scientific theory of the development of the earth" (Norman), also important for Steno's…
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The Elements of Commerce, Politics and Finances. In Three Treatises on those Important Subjects. Designed as a Supplement to the Education of British Youth, after they quit the public Universities or private Academies
by MORTIMER, Thomas
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London: Printed for the Author and sold by Hooper, Whiston etc., 1772. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (266 x 210 mm). [2], xii, [1] iv-v [1], 464, [2] pp. including advert leaf at end, woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary diced calf, spine with 4 raised bands, rich gilt decoration and gilt-lettered red morocco label (joints split but cords holding, boards scratched, extremities rubbed, corners worn). Text bright, crisp and clean, light pencil annotations throughout (mostly shaved and offsetting to opposite page), very minor occasional spotting (title stronger), final 2 leaves with repaired tear at inner margin. Provenance: Daniel Conner (bookplate to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION, AND EXTREMELY RARE, of "Mortimer's most important work" (Palgrave II, 824). It was later reprinted with a preface in which Mortimer accuses Adam Smith of plagiarism. "Mortimer studied modern history and elocution before serving as English viceconsul for the Austrian Netherlands. His…
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Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Part I. Vol. I (all published)
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London: J. Johnson, 1812. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, [2], 505 [3], [506]-507, [508]-509, [510]-511, [2] pp. including errata leaf, leaf at end with notice of other works by Davy, and 12 engraved plates. 20th century cloth, spine with gilt lettering pieces. Internally only little age-toned, light foxing to plates. Provenance: The library of Hugh Selbourne; Birmingham University Library (shelf-mark label to front pastedown and stamp to p.51 and title verso). ---- Norman 609; Duveen, p.160-61; Wellcome II, p.436. - FIRST EDITION. "One of the earliest connected treatises on physical chemistry, as known at the date of publication and incorporating the results of important discoveries made by the author. These include a description of fluor spar, the origin of fluoric compounds, the naming of hydrofluoric acid, and a modification of Lavoisier's classification of the elements." (Duveen).
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Elements of the Art of Dyeing; With a Description of the Art of Bleaching by Oxymuriatic Acid ...translated from the French, with notes and engravings, illustrative and supplementary by Andrew Ure
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London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2 vols. 8vo., xxviii, 408 pp.; vii, 453 pp., 9 engraved plates, some folding. Contemporary half cloth. - Lawrie 55. Ron, Bib. Tinctoria, 101. Manning 10; Duveen, p.74 (for 1st) - Second Edition ("Although the pigments Berthollet considers were for the dyeing industry, some were also used for paining. Originally published in Paris in 1791, the first edition is listed as no. 9 in Edelstein's "Thirteen key books in the history of dyeing and bleaching" (Historical notes on the history of the wet processing industry, 1972, p. 85, where he calls this "the first modern book on dyeing and the first general theory of its principles.") This is the second English edition, translated from the second French edition of 1804 by Andrew Ure. There was a previous English translation by William Hamilton in London in 1791. This is the first edition of the Ure…
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Elémes de Chimie Médicale. Two volumes
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Paris: chez Crochard, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (193 x 121 mm). xxviii, 610 pp. and 12 engraved plates; xvi, 575 [1] pp. and 2 engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf, spines decorated in gilt and with gilt-lettered labels (boards rubbed, corners bumped, worming to boards and spine), marbled endpapers. Little age-toned internally, very minor occasional spotting. Fine set. ---- Duveen, p.440; Bolton I, 707. - FIRST EDITION of Orfila's textbook of medical chemistry which went through eight French editions and was translated into several languages. Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (1787-1853) was a Minorcan-born French toxicologist and chemist, and the founder of the science of toxicology. He was appoined Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris in 1819.
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Encyclopaediae, seu Orbis disciplinarum, tam sacrarum quàm prophanarum, Epistemon: Pauli Scalichij de Lika . . . Eiusdem, Theses mysticae philosophiae. Eulogus, seu de anima separata, eiusque passione. De iusticia aeterna . . . Encomium scientiarum
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Basel: J. Oporinus, 1559. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (234 x 161 mm). 755 [1], [60] pp. Two folding woodcut tables, historiated woocut initials, general index bound at end. Signatures: a-z4, A-3Z4, 4A-4K4. Text in Latin, Greek and Hebraic; final leaf blank. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled and blind-stamped pigskin, spine lettered in red manuscript and with old paper shelfmark sticker (leather chipped at place of lettering, spotted and soiled, boards bend outwards, leather somewhat rubbed, corners bumped), brown-dyed edges. Text with even light browning, narrow band of light brown-staining at top margin throughout, old paper repair of upper corner of gathering o, a few annotations and text markings in ink, occasional spotting and foxing. Provenance: Wendelin Obendorff (Brigiensis), Frankfurt, April 17, 1566 (inscription on front pastedown); Miltenberg Franciscan Convent (old ink stamp on title and final text page). A very good copy in…
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Engineer special study of the surface of the moon - Lunar Rays
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Washington, D.C.: Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, 1960. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. 1st Edition. No Binding. 1 folding map, 1440 x 975 mm, image size 1275 x 940 mm. Light yellowing of paper, some paper thinness on old folds, but generally in a very good condition. ---- VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Army Corps of Engineers published the first edition of Arnold Mason and Robert Hackman's four-sheet Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon map set in July 1960. The USGS published a second edition with "minor revisions" in 1961. "Even after the creation of NASA, the Army and USAF studied lunar surface bases ... The USAF also began lunar mapping using Earth-based telescopes. The first attempt to map lunar features for scientific and engineering purposes did not, however, originate within the Defense Department. It was begun instead by Arnold Mason of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Military Geology Branch in Washington, DC. ... Early in 1959 - soon after…
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The English Euclide
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Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (341 x 223 mm). [12], 282 pp., including half-title, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater, final blank leaf Qq4, numerous woodcut and typographic text diagrams throughout. Signatures: pi2 a-b2 A-G2 H-Z4 Aa-Qq4. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, spine with 6 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered red morocco label in second compartment, red-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (boards rubbed and scratched, joints partially split but cords sound, wear to extremities, corners bumped). Light pale dampstaining to first 4 leaves, leaf a2 of prelims with paper repair of tears (without loss), very minor occasional spotting, generally quite crisp and clean throughout. Provenance: Sir William Beauchamp Proctor* (his armorial bookplate with motto "tria juncta in uno" to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION of Scarburgh's…
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
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[Lyon]: Imprimé à Paris; et se vend a Lyon, chez T. Amaulry, 1686. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo (155 x 84 mm). [28], 359 (i.e. 361) [1] pp. Woodcut device on title, folding engraved plate by J. D'Olivar, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, pagination errors. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered red morocco label, original endpapers (joints, spine ends and corners repaired, spine leather slightly cracked, extremities rubbed). Text with minor even browning, occasional very minor spotting, two leaves with torn-off upper corner not affecting text, clean tear in p.269/70 without loss. Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A very good, clean and tall copy with several leaves untrimmed at lower edge. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of Fontenelle's influential work of scientific popularisation, in which he expounded upon the works of Copernicus and…
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Ephemeri Vita or the Natural History and Anatomy of the Ephemeron
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London: Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, 1681. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (214 x 163 mm). [8], 44, [8] pp. Signatures: A-G4 H2. 8 engraved plates on 5 sheets (2 folding). Bound in 20th century calf antique, spine with morocco gilt lettering piece, gilt dentelles, new endpapers. Text and plates quite crisp and clean with only very little browning and occasional spotting, small hole in title page and abrasion to first letter of title with slight loss, lower margins of H1 and H2 repaired and reinforced, light browning. Provenance: collection of Roman Vishniac, Russian-American biologist, photographer and pioneer in photomicroscopy. ---- FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, and exceptionally rare, of Swammerdam's monograph on the mayfly, originally published in Dutch in 1675 and translated by the well known British anatomist Edward Tyson. Swammerdam made remarkable observations on insect anatomy, including his description in this work of metamorphosis,…
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Epiphanie medicorum. Speculum videndi urinas hominum. Clavis aperiendi portas pulsuum. Berillus discernendi causas & differentias febrium
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Nürnberg: [Friedrich Peypus?] for the author, 1506. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (207 x 148 mm). Signatures: [pi]2 A-Z6 a-k6 l-m4 (-m4 blank). [2], 205 leaves, bound without final blank. Roman types. 57 (1 full-page) woodcut illustrations. The title flanked by 3 woodcut stars and small man-in-moon, on title verso a full-page circular woodcut of a physician demonstrating uroscopic analysis to a student, surrounded by a border of urine glasses with xylographic abbreviated captions of different diagnoses, table on facing page with the same urine glasses with full (unabbreviated) typographic captions; three small cuts at beginning of each part of a physician attending a patient in bed and performing the diagnostic procedure described in that section, several different small woodcuts of urine glasses repeated throughout part 1. Bound in sprinkled calf of c. 1800, spine gilt-tooled and with red morocco label lettered in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, red-sprinkled edges…
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Esperienze intorno alla generazione degli' insetti . . . scitte in una lettera all' illustrissimo signor Carlo Dati
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Florence: All'Insegna della Stella, 1668. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (239 x 174 mm). [6], 128 pp. Half-title, title-page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette of the Accademia della Crusca, leaf with proverb in Arabic type, 28 numbered engraved plates (3 double page), 10 full-page unnumbered and 2 smaller illustrations within text pagination. Without the blank leaf. Contemporary vellum, spine titled in script (rebacked with original portion of spine laid down, little worming to hinges and boards, little soiling), yapp edges, endpapers renewed. Internally only little browned, some minor spotting in places, final leaf with repair to inner blank margin. A handsome, wide-margined copy. ---- Dibner 188; Horblit 88; Norman 1812; NLM/Krivatsy 9448; Nissen ZBI 3319. - FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE without additional plate 29. Because it appears in relatively few copies, the plate may have been added as an…
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