Physics from Milestones of Science Books

Paris: Garnerey & Baudoin, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (252 x 204 mm). 302 pp., including half-title and 3 engraved folding plates. Contemporary French prize binding of the Collège Royal de Versailles in full sprinkled calf, spine and boards tooled in gilt, spine with gilt-lettered black morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers (extremities… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to (245 x 181 mm). [28], 484, [8] pp. Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette; engraved folding plate of the cometary orbit facing p. 465; woodcut text diagrams throughout. Bound in full contemporary speckled calfskin, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt-tooled… Read more about this item

Paris: Henry Le Gras, 1658. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to (197 x 148 mm). 78; [2], 294, [26] pp., woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, half-titles for "La dioptrique" and "Les météores" (the former outside pagination), woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout (some full page). Signatures: a4 b-k4 A-Z4 Aa-Rr4. Bound in contemporary untouched… Read more about this item

Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1837-1841. 4 volumes. 8vo (220 x 141 mm). [4], xxxi [1], 910, [2] pp., 9 engraved plates; xv [1], 980 pp., 5 plates; xiii [1], 932 pp., 2 plates; xiii [1], 926, [2], LIII [1], [2] pp., 2 plates. Half-title to each volume; blank leaves present… Read more about this item

Paris: Houel et Ducros, Théophile Barrois, 1797. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (228 x 154 mm). 88 pp., 2 folding engraved plates by Picquet at the end. Signatures: A-E8 [chi]4. Bound in contemporary Italian xylographic paper wrappers, all pages uncut, spine titled in manuscript (wrappers dust-soiled and with chipping at foot, small… Read more about this item

Paris: Charles Angot, 1666. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1666-1667. Three volumes. 4to (222 x 168 mm). [24], 540; [16], 564, [4]; [24], 646 pp., titles with woodcut device, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout. Bound without final blank leaf 4M4 in vol. III. Contemporary uniform sprinkled calf, spines with 5… Read more about this item

Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (250 x 180 mm). xlix [1], 96, [2] pp. Half title, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, engraved portrait of the author after Pietro Anichini, imprimatur leaf bound at the end, woodcut initials and ornaments,… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1805. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (199 x 115 mm). xxviii, 303 [1] pp., 2 folding engraved plates. Bound in late 19th century cloth over blue card boards, spine lettered and ruled in black (minor soiling of spine, extremities rubbed, corners bumped and scuffed). Text crisp and clean throughout. Provenance: from the… Read more about this item

Paris: chez David fils, 1743. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (188 x 113 mm). xl, 305, [5] pp., engraved title vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, numerous woodcut text diagrams. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt-tooled in compartments, gilt lettering piece, red sprinkled edges (wear to extremities, worming at spine… Read more about this item

London: Peter Short, 1600. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio (278 x 190 mm). [16], 240 pp. Signatures: *8, A-V6. Woodcut title device and large woodcut arms on verso, one folding plate facing p. 200, 87 woodcuts in text of which 4 full-page, decorative woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. In its original contemporary… Read more about this item

Nürnberg: In der Schrag'schen Buchhandlung, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (199 x 118 mm). Entire volume: viii, 1-50, [4], 55-96, [4]; 101-204; 245-256, [4]; 261-384, [4]; 389-520, [4] pp., folding table facing p. 50 and 2 folding engraved plates; pp. 205-44 are skipped (pagination error). Contemporary sprinkled half calf over marbled boards, spine… Read more about this item

Robert Oppenheim (Gustav Schmidt): Berlin, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vol. 32, 1895-1896, numbers 13-24, bound in one volume. Berlin: Robert Oppenheim (Gustav Schmidt), 1896. xv [1], (201)-408 pp.. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered (extremities somewhat rubbed). With numerous art supplements, pictorial plates… Read more about this item

London: Freethought Publishing Co, 1881. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (183 x 124 mm). 144 pp., 2 folding lithographed plates. Original publisher's blindstamped red cloth, upper board lettered in black, original yellow endpapers, folding plate in pocket (spine and inner upper hinge repaired, spine ends scuffed, boards soiled and spotted). Even light browning internally,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1860-1861. Entire volumes, 8vo (208 x 128 mm); IX [1], 668 pp., 8 folding plates; X, 660 pp., 8 folding plates. Uniformly bound in contemporary polished half-calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco labels, marbled edges (extremities slightly rubbed,… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Teubner, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In: Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärtze, vol. 80, part II, pp. 4-9. Versammlung zu Cöln. 20.-26. September 1908. Leipzig: Verlag von F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. 4to (240 x 167 mm). Parts I, II/i-ii and 'Geschäfts-Bericht' bound in single volume.… Read more about this item

London: Samuel Smith, 1685. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1684/85 [i.e. 1685]. 8vo (159 x 98 mm). [18], 112, [16] pp. Typographic headpiece to first page of text, 11 pp. of publisher's advertisements bound at the end. Signatures: A8 B2 C-K8 (-B2, H3 unsigned), bound without blank leaf… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two parts in two volumes. 8vo (228 x 155 mm). x, 852; vi, 697 [1] pp., including 624 text illustrations, 10 lithographed plates of which 6 printed in colors. Uniformly bound in contemporary half sheepskin and marbled… Read more about this item

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo (222 x 144 mm). xxix [3], [1] 2-425, [5]; xxiii [1], [1] 2-444, [2], 15 [1] pp. Including 21 lithographic plates (1 bound after p.148 of vol. I, the rest at end of volumes), half-titles, errata slip to vol. I, numerous diagrams… Read more about this item

Modena: Societatem Typographicam, 1792. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (278 x 210 mm). xxvi, 80 pp. and 3 folding engraved plates (plate III in first state with the letter 'E' in fig. 22 uncorrected); woodcut headpieces; bound without intermediate blank leaf C6 as usual. Contemporary Italian cardboard, pasted over with orange metallic paper, red-sprinkled… Read more about this item