Science
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# 50465
MELA, Pomponius (c.15 - 45 CE)
De Situ Orbis Libri III.
Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaaci Vossii, et Jacobi Gronovii. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : apud Samuelem et Johannem Luchtmans, Academiae Typographos, 1782. Third edition. Three parts in one volume, thick octavo (215 x 140 x 80 mm), in a contemporary academic prize binding of full vellum, …
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 49891
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1892)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1892. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-third thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (corners a little rubbed, slightly bruised at head and foot of spine, small stain to lower board) original endpapers (lightly …
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# 49890
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (1891)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (forty-first thousand). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (edges slightly rubbed, small stain to lower board), small nicks to head and foot of spine, original patterned endpapers (foxed, …
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# 48245
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species, by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. (1859)
London : John Murray, 1859. First edition (with two quotations only, from Whewell and Bacon, on the verso of the half-title leaf). Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants of London with their binder’s ticket to rear pastedown (very slightly bruised at head and foot of spine, a couple of very small …
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# 46750
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …
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# 49135
IGUCHI, Jōhan
天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)
Osaka : Ganshōdō, 1897 (first published in Osaka by Itamiya Mohe Kaihan, 1689). Meiji-era printing. Five volumes, octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked); printed title labels, 32, 31, 37, 64, 54 folding leaves, with 60 woodcut illustrations of astronomical diagrams, devices and star maps, including a volvelle in volume three; housed in a modern slipcase. …
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# 26670
MORTESON, G.
General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).
[Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed …
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# 49782
HAYES, Denis, FALK, Jim and BARRETT, Neil.
Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.
Melbourne : Friends of the Earth Australia, 1977. Octavo, stapled yellow wrappers printed in red; pp. 96; map; foreword by Manning Clark; a very good copy.
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# 49790
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species (First ‘Australian’ edition)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landcare. [New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1963. Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Griffin Press, Adelaide, South Australia. Quarto, quarter wallaby over …
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# 48656
MEDINA, Pedro de
L’arte del navegar, in laqual si contengono le regole, dechiarationi, secreti, & avisi, alla bona navegation necessarij.
Composta per l’Eccel. Dottor M. Pietro da Medina, & tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar Italiano, à beneficio, & utilità de ciascadun Navigante. Venice : Aurelio Pincio for Gioanbattista Pedrezano, 1554. First Italian edition, first issue (with date of 1554 on title-page and in colophon). Small quarto, early vellum over marbled papered boards, spine with …
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# 12490
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre Giral, 1716-1795; Antonio de and Jorge Juan y Santacilla, 1713-1773
Observaciones astronómicas, y phisicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Perù
Por D. Jorge Juan … y D. Antonio de Ulloa … de las quales se deduce la figura, y magnitud de la tierra, y se aplica a la navegacion. En Madrid : Impresso de orden del rey nuestro señor, por Juan de Zuñiga, Año M.D.CC.XL.VIII. [1748]. First edition. Folio, contemporary full speckled calf with ornamental …
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# 41958
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Third edition)
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of spine, small damp mark to upper panel, small 10 mm mark recoloured to spine), binding variant B (no preference), without full …
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# 47354
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The origin of species (sixth edition, first impression)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1872. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections (eleventh thousand). Octavo, modern full crushed blue Morocco with gilt ornamental edging, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, pp …
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# 41902
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms; with observations on their habits (1881, fourth thousand)
London : John Murray, 1881. First edition. Fourth thousand. Octavo, publisher’s blind blocked dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; previous owner’s name to endpaper, dated 1940, pp. [ii], viii, 326, [2] (adv.); 15 text illustrations, Errata slip, index; uncut; pale foxing to preliminaries, a very nice, clean & fresh copy; very scarce. Darwin’s last …
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# 49021
BARING-GOULD, Sabine
The book of were-wolves: being an account of a terrible superstition.
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1865. Octavo (195 x 135 mm), rebound in handsome gilt-ruled quarter scarlet morocco over red cloth, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and black leather title labels lettered in gilt; pp. xii, 266, 2 (publisher’s ads.); wood-engraved frontispiece plate ‘The Were Wolves’; half-title with some off-setting at bottom edge …