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APIANUS, Petrus.
Cosmographia introductio...
Venice, Sabiensis, 1551.
16mo., several woodcut illustrations; a fine copy in contemporary vellum.
A particularly attractive copy of one of the early editions of Apian's classic description of the earth and its...
Alden, 'European Americana', 551/5 (two copies only); Karrow, p.53; NUC, 0354519; Van Ortroy , 92.
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ARAGO, Francois.
Inauguration de la Statue de François Arago a Paris Le Dimanche 11 Juin 1893.
Paris, Chamerot et Renouard, 1893.
Quarto, 64 pp.; a very good unopened copy in the original grey titling wrappers, some edge wear.
Publication commemorating the inauguration of the statue erected to honour the eminent French physicist and astronomer...
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ARAGO, Francois.
Inauguration de la statue de Francois Arago a Perpignan.
Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1879.
Quarto, title-page with engraved vignette, plus pp. 17-43; spine split else fine in original green printed wrappers.
Offprint by the Institut de France, from the publication commemorating the erection of the statue of François Arago in...
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[ARCTIC] ANDRÉE, S.A., Nils STRINDBERG & Knut FRÆNKEL.
Med Örnen mot Polen.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, 1930.
Octavo,485 pp., numerous plates and several maps (one colour), small tear to endpaper repaired; publishers blue cloth...
First edition, later issue published the same year: an excellent copy of this tragic story of the Swedish Arctic...
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[ARCTIC] PEARY, Robert E.
The North Pole.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Thick octavo, photographic illustrations and folding map; a little marked especially to the blank endpapers and the...
A very good copy of the illustrated London edition of Commander Peary's own account of his historic attainment of the...
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[ATLAS] YAMAZAKI, Giko.
Dai Nihon yochi benran [Japanese Atlas including double-page world map by Giko Yamazaki].
Japan, Tsu: copyright by Yamazaki-ke, Tenpo 5, that is, 1834.
Two volumes, small quarto; xylographically printed and sewn in the Japanese manner paper, brief textual introduction,...
A wonderful two-volume woodblock atlas of Japan published in 1834, including an anachronistic double hemisphere map...
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[AUSTRALIA CLIPPER] D'ALBERT, Charles.
The Lightning Galop.
London, Chappell, 50 New Bond Street, circa, 1854.
Sheet music, 8 pp. and colour-lithograph cover, browning a little to edges, disbound but with early stitch-sewing still...
A racy tune by the dance composer Charles d'Albert (1809-1886), this rare early sheet music features a particularly...
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AUTOUROU (purported author).
Histoire des Revolutions de Taiti…...
Paris, Chez Lamy, 1782.
Two volumes bound in one, the title to volume I a cancel as required by Kroepelien, lacking the first half-title, the...
First edition, and very rare, with the cancel title for 1782. This is an intriguing contemporary study of Tahiti,...
Kroepelien, 1054; O'Reilly-Reitman, 9296.
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BANKS, Sir Joseph.
A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn...
London, printed for J. Harding, 1805.
Octavo, 32 pp. including the half-title, with a folding plate; some waterstaining in lower part of most pages, mostly...
One of remarkably few works published by Banks, but an apt demonstration of his wide range of scientific interest. The...
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BANKS, Sir Joseph and William CURTIS.
A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn...
London, Printed for H.D. Symonds and Curtis, 1805.
Octavo, six engraved plates in the first work, and one folding engraved plate by Bauer in the second work; some...
One of remarkably few works by Joseph Banks to have appeared in print. Despite his general pre-eminence in scientific...
Carter, p. 172.
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