Science & Technology

EFFENDI, Mahmoud. Mémoire sur le calendrier arabe avant l'Islamisme, et sur naissance et l'age du prophète Mohammad.
[Brussels, 1861?]. 4to. Modern paper wrappers. 45, [1 blank] pp. Full description

EGERTON, Philip Grey. A systematic and stratigraphical catalogue of the fossil fish in the cabinets of Lord Cole and Sir Philip Grey Egerton; together with an alphabetical and stratigraphical catalogue of the same species, with references to their published figures and descriptions.
London, Richard & John E. Taylor, 1837. Large 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Contemporary blue wrappers. [22] pp. Full description

EMPIRICUS, Sextus. Adversus Mathematicos ... Opus eruditissimum, complectens universam Pyrrhoniorum acutissimorum Philosophorum disputandi de quibuslibet disciplinis & artibus rationem, Graecè nunquam, Latinè nunc primùm editum, Gentiano Herveto Aurelio interprete. Eiusdem Sexti Pyrrhoniarum Hypotypooseoon libri tres ... Graecè nunquam, Latinè nunc primùm editi, Interprete Henrico Stephano. Accessit & Pyrrhonis vita, ex Diogene Laërtio ... Item, Claudii Galeni Pergameni contra Academicos et Pyrrhonios, D[esiderio] Erasmo Roterodamo interprete.
Paris, Martin Le Jeune, 27 May 1569. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title pages of both parts, at the end of the second part (p. 584) and at the end of the index, further with several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled quarter calf. [8], 584, [32] pp. Full description

ERZEY, Adrianus. Wiskonstige beschryving der reguliere lichamen, aantoonende hoe men die uit massieve stoffe kan maaken, hun inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven zonnewyzers beschryven.
Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 8vo. With the title page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates showing mathematical figures by F. de Bakker, and several woodcut tailpieces. Modern half green buckram. [10], 164, [2] pp. Full description

ETTMÜLLER, Michael Ernst. Opera medica theoretico-practica.
Frankfurt am Main, [heirs of Johann David Zunner the younger?], 1708. 2 volumes bound as 3. Folio. With an interesting engraved frontispiece by Joseph Montalegre, the title page is printed in red and black with an engraved vignette, an engraved plate, and 5 engraved headpieces (incl. repeats). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines with a beige title label lettered in gold and the volume number lettered in gold below on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges. [36], 1020; [1], [1 blank], 1108; [1], [1 blank], 848, [100] pp. Full description

EUCLID and Christopher CLAVIUS (editor). Elementorum Libri XV.
Including: Posteriores libri IX.
"Cologne" [= Venice], Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The title page of each part is set within an elaborate woodcut border, with woodcut decorated initials (at least 3 series), headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, numerous woodcut mathematical figures in the text, large woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank verso of the last leaf of both parts. Later blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [15], [1 blank], 359, [1 blank]; 355, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description

EUCLID and Lucas BRUNN (translator). Elementa practica. Oder Ausszug aller Problematum und Handarbeiten auss den 15. Büchern Euclidis. Allen und jeden, des uhralten geometrischen nutzlichen Gebrauch, dess Cirkels Liebhabern ...
Nürnberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1625]. 4to. With the title set in an engraved border, and numerous woodcut mathematical figures in text. Contemporary limp vellum. [8], 92 pp. Full description

EUCLID and Jan Pieterszoon DOU. De ses eerste boecken Euclidis.
Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1626. 8vo. With numerous woodcut geometrical figures in the text. Contemporary vellum. [14], 224 [2 blank] pp. Full description

[EUGENIUS, Johann] and Joannes EDELIUM. Manuale bombardicum oder: Hand-Büchlein, über die Bixenmeisterey.
Augsburg, Jakob Koppmayer, 1693. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (including 5 folding) and a letterpress folding table. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment. 78, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

FABRE, Pierre Jean. Myrothecium spagiricum; sive pharmacopoea chymica, occultis naturae arcanis, ex Hermeticorum medicorum scrinijs depromptis abundè illustrata...
Toulouse, Pierre Bosc, 1646. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the divisional title page of part two, 9 woodcut headpieces, 4 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. 20th-century blind-tooled brown morocco. 448, [22], [2 blank] pp. Full description