Boston, N.E. Printed and Sold by Edes & Gill, at Their Printing Office, Next to the Prison, in Queen-Street, 1756. First Edition. 8vo. 7.5 x 4.75" bound in recent sympathetic wrappers. Pp. 5-28. Small number in the upper corner of title page; small chip to lower corner; light, uniform age-toning;..... More
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London: J. Buckland, 1756. Second edition. 8vo. (7.75 x 4.75"). [iv], 44 pp. Modern wrappers in the antique style with calligraphic title on the front cover and artificial "soiling." Last pages a little soiled some slight browning water staining at fore-edge and bottom corner otherwise good. SERMON ON THE 1755..... More
Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils, libraires, 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: [10], cxix, [7], 208 pp. + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom. 1). II: [2], 231 pp. + 1 f. ("Addition") + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom 1 [sic]). First title page with unobtrusive paper..... More
Wilmington, N.C. 1874. Hardcover. Manuscript on paper, 58 unnumbered pages, written in an octavo ruled notebook, the MS occupying the first half, the second being blank. Contemporary American binding (sheepskin over boards), light wear to binding extremities, hinges cracked but firm, marbled edges. An attractive manuscript in very good antiquarian..... More
Stockholm: Lars Salvius, 1758. 8vo. 187 x 115mm. A8 B2 = 20 pp. Disbound, likely extracted from a larger volume. Curiously, the binder missed trimming an outer portion of A2 which was folded, and so retains its original size. Collecting natural history specimens in China at the urging of Carl..... More
London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary photographic celebration of each..... More
Paris: Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1753. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 431 pp., 1 pl. ("Description du fourneau de M. Pott") + CIII pp. ("Table des effets des melanges differents des terres de la lithogeognosie"). Contemporary French speckled boards, edges uncut. Early and prescient study of Quartz and Crystal. According to S.I...... More
Vratislaviae (i.e. Wrocklaw, Poland): [Privately published by] J.D. Grueson, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 4to. 58 pp. COMPLETE with 18 lithographic plates. Original nineteenth-century boards (corners and tail of spine bumped), printed label on upper cover. Some minor foxing. An unsophisticated and partially unread copy, with many gatherings unopened. Important and..... More
London: Printed for J. Worrall (and 3 others), 1755. Seventh edition. 8vo. [viii], 24 pp., disbound (removed from a nonce volume). Front cover a little soiled, water mark at fore-edge and bottom throughout otherwise a good copy. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve backed with lig-free board. Curious sermon occasioned by..... More
![Earthquakes]. The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer For March 1750. The...](/pictures/thumb/2624.jpg?v=1553284838)
Dublin: Printed for Sarah and John Exshaw, 1750. 8vo., pp. [3], 112-164, woodcut vignette of London on title, text clean and bright, one page of engraved music. Attractive recent marbled wrappers. In this, the March 1750 issue of "The London Magazine," are valuable, strictly contemporary accounts of the earthquakes that..... More
![Melissologia [M ], or the female monarchy, being an enquiry into the nature, order and...](/pictures/thumb/2517.jpg?v=1553284792)
London: Printed for the Author, 1744. First Edition. 8vo, xliii, [2], 206, [2] pp. Frontispiece (Cesi's three bees: the first drawing of bees made with the aid of a microscope, 1625) and four copperlate engravings, one folding. Contemporary brown English calf, covers ruled in gilt with double fillet. Early ownership..... More
