Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

ACCUM,   Friedrich (1769-1838). A Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits; exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the Art of ...

ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy. London : R. Hindmarsh, sold by the Author, 1794.  5 volumes, 8vo. Fron...

ADANSON, Michel (1727-1806). Familles des Plantes. Paris: Vincent, 1763.  2 volumes, 8vo (188 x 117mm). One folding engraved plate. (Some minor to...

ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697-1770). Historia musculorum hominis. Leiden: Theodor Haak and Hendrik Mulhovius, 1734.  4to (255 x 192mm). 8 engr...

AMBROSINI, Giacinto (1605-1671). Phytologiae; hoc est De Plantis partis primae tomus primus. Bologna: sumptibus Haeredum Evangelistae de Duccijs, ...

[ANONYMOUS]. Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd. Wherein is Discovered the natural Causes of Metals, Stones, Precious Earths, Juyces, Humors, and Spirits, ...

[ASTRONOMY]. A group of 4 works, comprising:PONTECOULANT, Gustave De. Theorie Analytique Systeme Du Monde. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1856. Volume I...

[ASTRONOMY]. A group of 5 works, including:PRITCHARD, Charles. Uranometria Nova Oxoniensis. Oxford, 1885. 2 ALSs tipped-in before title-page: Copy...

BARROW, Isaac (1630-1677). Lectiones opticae & geometricae. Edited by John Collins, with revisions and corrections by Isaac Newton. London: Willia...

BATE, George (1608-1669). Pharmacopoeia Bateana ... Huic accesserunt Arcana Goddardiana. Edited by J. Shipton. London: Samuel Smith, 1691.  12mo (...

BERNARD, Claude (1813-1878). Lecons de physiologie experimentale appliquee a la medecine faites au College de France. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1855...

BERNARD, Claude. (1813-1878).  Lecons de physiologie operatoire. Paris: Balliere et Fils, 1879  8vo. 116 illustrations in text (a few with color)....

[BONNEFONS, Nicolas de]. Le jardinier Francois, qui enseigne à cultiver les Arbres, & Herbes Potageres... Sixiesme edition. Amsterdam: Jean Blaeu...

[BOTANY]. A group of 5 works, including:[LINNAEUS, Carolus]. An Introduction to the Science of Botany ... from the Works of Linnaeus. London: F.C....

BOUGUER, Pierre (1698-1758). Essai d'optique, sur la gradation de la lumiere. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1729.  12mo (160 x 97 mm). 3 folding engraved...

[CARDIAC DISEASE]. A group of 8 works, including:LATHAM, P.A. Lectures on Subjects ... Comprising Diseases of the Heart. London, 1845. 2 volumes. ...

CHAPTAL, Jean Antoine Claude (1756-1832). Traite theorique et pratique sur la culture de la vigne, avec l'art de faire le vin, les eaux-de-vie, es...

CLAVIUS, Christoph (1537-1612). Algebra. Rome: Bartholomaeus Zanettus, 1608.  Contemporary flexible vellum, manuscript title on spine (spine darke...

CULLEN, William (1710-1790). Synopsis and Nosology, being an Arrangement and Definition of Diseases. Hartford: Nathaniel Patten for Isaiah Thomas,...

DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650). L'Homme et la Formation du Foetus. Paris: Charles Angot, 1677.4to (245 x 185mm). Illustrated with numerous anatomical...

[DICKSON, R. W. (fl. 1799-1815)]. A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening ...by Alexander McDonald, Gardener. London: R. Taylor and Co. for G...

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume (1806-1875). De l'Electrisation Localisee et de son application a la physiologie, a la pathologie et a la therapeu...

ERNSTING, Arthur Conrad (1709-1768). Historische und physikalische Beschreibung der Geschlechter der Pflanzen. Welcher Hrn. Linnaeus systematische...

[EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.)]. CLAVIUS, Christoph (1537-1612), Editor. Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Accessit liber XVI. Cologne: Peter Cholinus, 16...

[FERNS & GRASSES]. A group of 7 works, including:SCHNEIDER, G. The Book of Choice Ferns. London: L. Upcott Gill, 1891-1894. 3 volumes.   -- MAPP, ...

[FLORA]. A group of 10 works, including:TORREY, John. A Flora of North America. NY et al, 1838-1840. 2 volumes. Contemporary calf. Provenance: Edw...

[FLOWERING PLANTS]. A group of 13 works, including:HOOKER, William Jackson. Flora Scotia. London et al, 1821. 2 volumes in one. Original boards   ...

FREART, ROLAND, Sieur de Chambray (ca 1606-1676). A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern in a Collection of ten Principal Authors ...

FUESSLI, Johann Caspar (1742-86). Archives de l'histoire des insectes. Winterthur: J. Ziegler, 1794.4to (240 x189mm). Half title, errata/binder 's...

[GARDENING ALMANACS] -- [CALENDARS] -- [ENCYCLOPEDIAS]. A group of 10 works, including:JUSTICE, James, Sir. The British Gardener's Calendar ... Cl...

[GARDENING]. A group of 22 works, including:HANDASYDE. The Four Gardens. Philadelphia & London, 1912. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- [McINTOSH, Charle...

GASPAR, Nicolas. Tratado, e arte de Arismetica para fazer hum perfeyto Cayxeyro. Edited by Manuel de Figueiredo.   Lisbon: Bernardo da Costa de Ca...

[GEOLOGY]. A group of 16 works, including:TUTTON, A.E.H. Crystallography and Practical Crystal Measurement. London, 1922. 2 volumes. Dust jackets....

GIHOUL, Louis (1831-1854). Culture forestiere des arbres resineux coniferes. Brussels: Librairie de Deprez-Parent, 1847.8vo. 9 hand-colored lithog...

GRAY, Asa (1810-1888). Plantae Wrightianae Texano-Neo-Mexicanae: An Account of a Collection of Plants made by Charles Wright in an expedition from...

HEDWIG, Johann (1730-1799). Theoria Generationis et Fructificationis Plantarum Cryptogamicarum. St. Petersburg: typis Academiae Imper. Scientiarum...

[HOW, William (1620-1656)]. Phytologia Britannica, natales exhibens indigenarum stirpium sponte emergentium. London: Richard Cotes for Octavian Pu...

HUA SHOU. Jushi Keiraku Hakki. Shih-Ssu Ching Lo Fa Hui [Elucidation of Elucidation of the Fourteen Meridians]. Kyoto, Genroku 12 [1699].2 volumes...

[INVENTION & INNOVATION]. A group of 5 works, including:FERGUSON, James. Ferguson 's Lectures on Select Subjects. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1814. 3 ...

LOWER, Richard (1631-1691). Tractatus de Corde. Item de motu et colore sanguinis et chyli in eum transit. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier, 1669.  8vo (...

[MANUSCRIPT - ASTRONOMY]. "Capo D. Sfera terrestre tranisetto." [Italy, ca mid-18th century].64 leaves, 8vo (202 x 135 mm). In Italian.   Written...

[MANUSCRIPT - ASTRONOMY]. ORIANI, Barnaba (1752-1832). Italian manuscript on astronomy. [Italy, ca 1790].182 leaves, 8vo (220 x 158 mm). In Italia...

[MANUSCRIPTS—CONCHOLOGY]. TERVER, Ange Paulin (1798-1875). 2 manuscript notebooks containing a profusion of fine and accurate drawings of mollusks...

[MANUSCRIPT "“ ENGINEERING].   "Mines de Commentry." France, ca 1900.84 leaves, 4to (265 x 213 mm).   In French.   Written in cursive in black in...

[MANUSCRIPTS - MATHEMATICS]. Notebook containing exercises in geometry and trigonometry. [France, 17th century].ca 184 pp, 12mo (132 x 71mm). In F...

[MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS]. Manuscript on arithmetic and algebra, beginning "Institutions of Arithmetick Byway of Preface ..." [England, late 17t...

[MANUSCRIPTS - MATHEMATICS]. Geometrie Pratique ou Recueil de Plusieurs Traites Concernants La Geometrie. [France], 1740.  294 pp., 165 x 96mm. In...

[MANUSCRIPTS - MATHEMATICS]. "Cours de Mathematiques". [Paris, ca1790].  3 Volumes (246 x 184mm): Geometrie 193 pages, plus 60 blank leaves; Alge...

[MANUSCRIPTS - MATHEMATICS]. Manuscript notebook on geometry. [France, late-18th or early- 19th century].369 pages, plus 55 folding plates, 4to (2...

[MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS]. "Geometrie." Paris, 1901-1902.36 leaves, folio (325 x 242). In French. Written in a fine calligraphic hand in black i...

[MANUSCRIPTS - MEDICINE]. MOHR. A large compendium of medical and surgical treatments and cures for "different infirmities of human life," kept b...

[MANUSCRIPT - NATURAL HISTORY]. "Cours de Culture. 1855-56". [France, c.1856].769 pages, plus blanks and index at end, 4to (190 x 146mm). In Fren...

[MANUSCRIPT - PERFUMERY]. Collection of formulas for perfumes and soaps. [France, ca 1850-1860s].39 leaves (including 2 partial leaves), folio (ca...

[MANUSCRIPT "“ PHYSICS]. "Geostatica." France, 17th/18th century?110 leaves, 8vo (176 x 145 mm). In Latin. Written in neat cursive in brown ink. ...

[MANUSCRIPT - PHYSICS]. "A System of Natural Philosophy." [South Devon], 1720.116 leaves, 8vo (170 x 100 mm). Written in cursive in black ink. Tw...

[MANUSCRIPT - SURVEYING]. GAMBU, Andre (1647-1718). A bound volume of land surveys of the lands in Aiserey and Brazey-en-Plaine in the Côte-d 'Or...

[MANUSCRIPTS - WORLD WAR I]. "Mitrailleuse Vickers." France, [early 20th century].8 leaves, 12mo (143 x 93 mm). In French. Finely drawn in black ...

MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit. Offprint from: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung,  Volume 18. Leipzig and Berlin...

[MURRAY, Charlotte, Lady]. The British Garden. A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous, or Cultivated in the Climate of Great-Britain....

[NEUROLOGY]. A group of 9 works, including:JOFFROY, A. et al. Archives de Neurologie. Paris: Bureaux du Progres Medical, 1897. Second series, volu...