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Index-Catalogi Catalogorum I-V.pdf

Five engraved plates on four sheets & numerous woodcut diagrams & illus. in the text. 4 p.l., 66 (i.e. 64), 255 pp. Folio, early 18th cent. mottled sheep (title, final leaf, & plates somewhat browned, occasional light spotting), spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Linz: J. Planck for G. Tampach, 1619.
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<P><B>—.</B> <I>Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium Cosmographicum de Admirabili Proportione Orbium coelestium…</I> One large folding engraved plate, four large folding woodcut plates, & numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. 4 p.l., 163 (i.e. 159), 50 pp. Two parts in one vol. Folio (some browning, light & mostly marginal dampstains to a few leaves). Frankfurt: E. Kempfer for G. Tampach, 1621.
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<P><B>HORTENSIUS, Martinus.</B> <I>Responsio ad Additiunculam D. Joannis Kepleri, Caesarei Mathematici, praefixam Ephemeridi eius in Annum 1624. In qua cum de totius Astronomiae Restitutione, tum imprimis de observatione Diametri Solis, fide Tubi dioptrici, Eclipsibus utriusque Luminaris, luculenter agitur.</I> Woodcut printer’s device on title & several woodcut diagrams in the text. 4 p.l., 54, [2] pp. Small 4to, uncut. Leyden: J. Maire, 1631.

KEPLER, Johannes.

4 p.l., (1st leaf a blank), 143, 152-66 pp., one blank leaf. Small 4to, cont. calf (a little rubbed & worn), double gilt fillet round sides, central panel in gilt with gilt fleurons in each corner. London: N. Okes for N. Bourne, 1623.

JOBSON, Richard.

Woodcut device on title & numerous attractive woodcut illus. & diagrams in the text. [8], 314 (misnumbered 306), [6] pp. Small 4to, very attractive antique red morocco (a bit of foxing), panelled in gilt with gilt fleurons in each corner, triple gilt fillets round sides, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. Leyden: appresso gli Elzevirii, 1638.

GALILEI, Galileo.

Finely engraved frontis. by Stephano della Bella showing Aristotle, Ptolemy, & Copernicus and several woodcut diagrams & illus. in the text. 5 p.l. (including frontis.), 458, [32] pp. 4to, cont. vellum over boards. Florence: G.B. Landini, 1632.

GALILEI, Galileo.

[<I>Liber Abbaci</I>, chapters 14 and 15]. Manuscript on paper written in brown ink in an Italian humanist cursive hand, single column, ca. 24 lines; initials and chapter headings left blank for rubrication. 117 leaves, 1 blank leaf. Small 4to (218 x 160 mm.), 19th-century marbled boards (minimal soiling). [? Venice, ca. 1480].

FIBONACCI, Leonardo [or LEONARDO OF PISA].

Engraved frontis. & 187 fine engravings, all printed on SATIN and mounted on thick paper. Folio (410 x 315 mm.), late 18th-century olive-green straight-grained morocco, covers with a Greek key border, small corner stars & rules forming panel, spine with five double raised bands with red gilt morocco inlays, compartments with antique head surrounded by starbursts, purple silk doublures & endpapers, inner gilt dentelles with pineapple cornerpieces, a.e.g. [London: 1768].

[WORLIDGE, Thomas].

Eleven engraved or aquatint plates (one folding, one double-page, & one with an overlay), one folding map, & one folding hand-colored plate depicting soil strata. 1 p.l., 4 pp., 5-14 leaves. Oblong 12mo, orig. printed boards. London: “gedruckt bei G. Schulz, 13, Poland Street,” 1827.

(THAMES TUNNEL).

xi, 754 pp. Thickish 8vo, cont. red half-morocco & marbled boards, flat spine gilt. London: W. Stewart, 1806.

8 p.l., 384, [36] pp. Thickish 8vo, cont. Croatian (?) binding of calf over boards (three corners & head of spine a little worn, occasional minor foxing), covers ruled in blind. Zagreb: A. Reiner, 1758.

SILOBOD BOLSIC, Mihalj.