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Early Eyewitness Account On The New World


ACOSTA, Jos Tr. REGNAULT, Robert. Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Indes, tant Orientalles quOccidentales. O'est traictes choses remarquables du ciel, des elemens, Metaux, Plantes & Animaux qui sont propres de ces . Paris, Marc Orry, 1598.

Scarce first French edition of this classic on the Natural History of Latin America.
$6,800





With 154 Engraved Plates


BĂ–CKLER, Georg Andreas. Theatrum Machinarum Novum, das ist, Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der Mechanischen K. Nuremberg, Paulus F, 1673.

Scarce German edition and unusually fine copy in its original binding of this machinery book devoted to pumps, presses and milling machinery by the Nuremberg architect Ber.
$9,850





The First Treatise On Capillarity


BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus Liber... Calabria, Dominici Ferri, 1670.

Very rare first edition of this important work on mechanics by Borelli and the first treatise on capillarity.
$8,850





Apollonius Epitome


[Archimedes] BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. Elementa Conica'et Archimedis Opera Nova & breviora methodo demonstrata. Rome, Mascardi, 1679.

Scarce first edition of this pocket epitome of Apollonius' Conics along with a pr's of the arguments of various works of Archimedes.
$1,450





Briggs And Napier Come To The Continent
In A Contemporary Binding


BRIGGS, Henry / NAPIER, John / VLACQ, Adrian. Arithmetica Logarithmica sive Logarithmorum Chiliades Centrum, pro numeris naturali serie crescentobus ab Unitate ad 100000. Una cum Canone Triangulorum Seu Tabula Artificialium Sinuum, Tangentium & Secantium . Gouda, Petrus Rammasenius, 1628.

Rare editions of two works important for bringing the new computational technique of Briggs and Napier to the Continent.
$4,500





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