New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First American Edition from the British sheets. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in printed price-clipped dust jacket; xxvii,[1],692pp.; frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Jacket quite worn with substantial loss affecting nearly the entirety of rear..... More
![Item #27358 A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th & 17th Centuries [with]...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695391265)
New York: Macmillan Company, 1935, 1939. First American Editions from the British sheets. Thick octavos; publisher’s cloth in printed dust jackets; Vol 1: 692pp, frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundred of text illus. throughout; Vol 2: 813pp. frontispiece, sixty-six (66) leaves of plates &..... More
Lugduni [Lyon]: Sumptibus Anisson, & Posuel, 1720. Two volumes; folios (39.5cm.); later limp marbled boards, pink printed spine labels (Vol. II bound upside down); [24],508,[76]; [16],572,[84]pp. (collated complete); large woodcut publisher's devices to both title pages signed in image "Papillon." Ex-seminary library with old shelf labels to spine feet and..... More
Venetia [Venice]: Nicolo Pezzana, 1674. "In questa ultima Impressione, con ogni diligenza rivisti, e corretti." 12mo (15cm.); full contemporary speckled calf, gilt-tooled spine in four compartments, all edges speckled red; 650,[20](collated complete); added engraved title page depicting St. George slaying the dragon, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Binding a...... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. First Edition. Octavo; 20th century black library cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; xvi,504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Light dust-soil to cloth, frontispiece a bit foxed, ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in serviceable and sturdy binding. HOWES Y14;..... More
London: R. Baldwyn, 1681. First Edition. Small quarto; removed pamphlet with perished stitching and gatherings subsequently loose; 40pp. (A-E4). Extremities rather toned and dust-soiled; Good overall. Scathing religious tract questionably attributed to the early Whig politician Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). The tract excoriates what..... More
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1981. Facsimile reprint of the 1674 edition. Octavo; publisher's red printed card wrappers, yapp edges; [10],319pp. Light shelf wear, spine a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature inside upper cover, else Very Good and sound. More
London: Printed, and Sold by E. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1696. First English Edition. Small octavo (17cm.); full contemporary speckled paneled calf, spine in five compartments; [16],134,[2]pp. (collated complete). Leather quite dried, especially at margins and spine with exposure at corners and top spine chord, textblock a bit toned and foxed..... More
Genève: Librairie Droz, 1983, 1994. First Editions. Large octavos (25.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spines; [4],xvii,[1],548; [2],xix,[1],938pp.; facsimiles throughout. Minor wear from handling, corners bumped, two white smudges to Vol. II upper cover, textblocks lightly dust-soiled, else a Very Good, sound set. Issued as Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance Nos. CXCII..... More
Neapoli [Naples]: Apud Aegidium Longum Typographum Regium, 1653. First Edition. Quarto (20cm.); full contemporary mottled roan, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges marbled; [20],208,186,[18]pp. (collated complete); woodcut illus. throughout, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces. Leather dried at margins with scuffed exposure at corners, small chip at spine crown, else..... More
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1870s. Large, thick quarto; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; xxviii,737pp.; 118 plates, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Boards scuffed with exposure at corners, spine sunned and leather dried, stock a bit toned and brittle due to..... More
Dilingae: Apud Udalricum Rem, 1622. Later Edition. Small 12mo (13.5cm.); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titling, all edges speckled; [2],140pp.; woodcut device to title page and initials throughout. Parchment soiled, especially along bottom half of spine and rear cover, textblock rather foxed, else a Very Good, sound copy overall... More
Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1923. First Thus, One of 35 copies printed on papier du Japon of which this is no. 2. Octavo; publisher's stiff brown pictorial card wrappers printed in black and red; xii,228pp.; one full-page woodcut illus. printed in black and grey, half-tone vignettes at the head of..... More
![Item #30585 R.P. Claudii Aquavivae Societatis Iesu Praepositi Generalis Instructio [Bound With]...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30585.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724866679)
Antverpiae: Ioannem Meursium, 1635. Four titles bound in one volume. Small octavo (16cm.); 19th-century paste-paper boards, manuscript spine label, all edges stained red; mixed pagination (all titles collated complete); Jesuit device on title pages of first two titles, woodcut initials throughout. Ex-library (institution unknown) with spine call number crudely painted..... More
Divione [Dijon]: Apud viduam P. Chavance, Typographi & Bibliopolae Regis, in vico S. Ioannis, sub signo pueril Iesu, 1668. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); original drab paper-covered boards; [8],110pp.; title page text and woodcut device printed in red and black, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Boards rubbed and dust-soiled, title page..... More
Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Apud Henricum & Cornelium Verdussern, 1692. "Ultima edition, aucta et recgonita." Thick folio (33.5cm.); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titling, all edges stained red; [8],976,[92]pp. (collated complete); elaborately engraved title page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Parchment quite soiled and darkened along margins and spine, early leaves also..... More
[London]: [Thomas Parkhurst], [1702]. First Edition. Folio (31.5cm.); seven volumes in one; full unadorned contemporary calf; each volume with separate title page and pagination. Lacking first gathering including title page (title and imprint provided by the ESTC), as well as the map plates and final two leaves of..... More
![Item #28345 The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes [sic],...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28345.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702474221)
London: B. Blake, 1838. Sixteenth Edition. Octavo; contemporary half navy blue calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, red spine label, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; [6],743,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece. Boards a bit scuffed with exposure at corners, boards discreetly reattached, small blemish to rear cover, textblock a bit..... More
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white and purple pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],249pp. Light wear, dust jacket very slightly wrinkled from exposure to damp, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series "Studies in..... More
Paris: Chez la Veuve Bordelet, rue Saint Jacques, à Saint Ignace, 1758. First Veuve Bordelet Edition. 12mo (17cm.); full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xix,[5],528pp. (collated complete); woodcut initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with..... More
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, [1956]. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white decorative card wrappers printed in green and white; 362pp. Light dust-soil with some bumping at tail of spine. Forms part of the series "Les Temps et les Destins." More
Lyon: Andre Olyer, rue Tupin a la Crois de Fer, 1666. Two volumes; 12mos (15cm); recent calf to style retaining remnants of contemporary leather binding, new endpapers, all edges speckled red and grey; 287,[1]; 295,[1]pp. (lacking final blank in second volume, else collated complete); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Bindings..... More
![Item #14038 Moral Maxims [Limited Edition]. Duke de la Rochefoucault, Robert Gibbings, printer](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14038.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661869291)
Twyford, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. First Thus, Limited to 325 copies of which this is no. 16. Octavo; publisher's parchment-backed paper-covered boards, front cover and spine embossed in gilt; 133pp. Parchment rather discolored and foxed with heavy smudging down spine, board margins toned, faint glue residue to front pastedown..... More
In 'sGraven-Hage [The Hague]: D.H. van Wallsdorp [H. Verdussen], 1650. First edition. Small quarto (18.5cm.); removed; 24pp. [A-C4]; woodcut title page device, text printed almost entirely in Dutch blackletter. Imprint provided by KNUTTEL 6855. Third gathering separated but present, stock rather toned and dusty, else Good, the impression quite..... More
Londra [i.e. Livorno?]: Presso Gio. Tomo. Masi e Com., 1779. Later Edition. 12mo (16cm.); contemporary roan over mottled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; xix,[1],320pp.; engraved title page and portrait plate. Boards a bit scuffed with exposure at corners and a few worm holes to spine, small early 20th-century bookseller ticket to..... More