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Imperial Botany
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AMMAN, Johannes. Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium icones et descriptiones. St. Petersburg, Academia Scientiarum, 1739.
Two important and generously illustrated botanical works produced by respected Linnaean correspondents at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg.
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ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David. ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ. Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata. Paris, Claude Morel, 1615.
First edition of the most influential seventeenth-century edition of Archimedes’ complete works.
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Dedicatee's Copy "The First Opening For a Scientific Treatment Of a Remarkable Subject” – DNB
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BRADLEY, James. A letter to the Right Honourable George, Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an apparent motion observed in some of the fixed stars. London, 1747.
First edition, separately printed, of Bradley's letter announcing his discovery of nutation of the earth's axis, and the dedicatee's copy, bearing stamps from the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, himself a keen amateur astronomer.
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EUCLID / CAIANI, Angelo, ed. & tr. I quindici libri degli elementi di Euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana. Rome, [Antonio Blado Asolano], 1545.
Rare first edition of Euclid extracts in Italian, preceded only by Tartaglia’s translation of 1543, of which it is independent.
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Galileo (And Scheiner)On Sunspots
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GALILEI, Galileo. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti comprese in tre lettere scritte all’illvstrissimo signor Marco Velseri Linceo… Si aggiungono nel fine le Lettere, e Disquisizioni del finto Apelle. Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.
Rare issue of the first edition of Galileo’s book on sunspots, bound with the works by Scheiner that provoked its writing.
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