[prior to 1750]. Hardcover. Small quarto (19.5 by 14.8 cm). 351 (pp. 344 and 345 blank but for the note "hic nihil de est" -- there is nothing here), [2: blank], 352-449 (pp. 446-449 blank), [1: blank] pp. Bound manuscript. Text in Latin. Contemporary cat's-paw calf; gilt-tooled spine with raised..... More

Hamburg: Lucas Gräfe & Sillem (Edmund Sillem), 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 10"). [4], 109, [1]pp (Text), lxxv (i.e. 80) leaves (Photographic plates). Original olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Illustrated with original x-ray photographs of broken bones, imbedded bullets, etc.. "Röntgen-Atlas der Kriegsverletzungen..... More

Paris: H. Lauwereyns, 1882. Third revised. Quarto. III, 128pp. Uncut. 3/4 red leather over marbled boards with gold-stamped borders and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Silk endpapers. Rare and fascinating work on skin diseases, profusely illustrated with 60 full-page albumen photographs of patients with various skin diseases. This third..... More

Berlin: Siemens & Halske AG Wernerwerk, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 6pp., 8 photos, 8pp., 4 photos, 7 tech. drawings, 4 of them foldouts. Original green track folder with handwritten lettering on cover holding cyanotype block. This incredibly scarce peice is a description and operating manual for the "Klangfilm"..... More

NP, n/d. Hardcover. 4 volumes, folio size. Each volumes divided into 6 sections, with separate t.p.s. and paging. Contains 218 (/219 issued) fold-out copper plate engravings, as follows: 1) vol. I: 44, numbered by chapter, as issued 2) vol. II: 55, numbered by chapter, as issued 3) vol. III: 59..... More

Cologne: Salon Verlag, 2004. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed Thomas Ruff on verso of color print (3 x 3.5"), hand-numbered here 04 97/200, placed in pocket of inside cover with printed "Ex Libris Thomas Ruff" on pocket. (4) leaves, 33 plates, some folding, including gatefold. Original illustrated black paper-covered boards with..... More

[Erfurt]: [Grosch], 1724. Hardcover. Small quarto. A-C4 D2 (= 14 leaves). 26, [2 additamenda] pp. Woodcut initial, head- and tailpieces. Recent decorative boards (old wrappers retained). Tightly trimmed, resulting in loss of publisher information at bottom of title, else a fine copy. First edition of this doctoral thesis "pro licentia..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873. First edition in book form. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], 450, [2], 495, [1]pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering and ruling on spines. In 1873, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau published this two-volume work summarizing his decades of research into soap bubbles and related phenomena due to surface tension..... More

Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 6 leaves, 60 (Nos. I–LIX plus XXXIb) plates, two of them folding, the others doubled-paged. Original three-quarter red morocco over green pebbled cloth, tightened with twelve original metal pegs, with gilt lettering and decor embossed medallion of cover, gilt lettering..... More