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HULSIUS, Levinus. Tractatus primus instrumentorum mechanicorum ...
Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.
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(2) IDEM. Tractatus secundus. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo dilucide exponitur usus baculi...
Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.
(3) IDEM. Tractatus tertius. Instrumentorum mechanicorum. Quo traditur descriptio atque usus circine proportionalis Iusti Burgi ...
Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for the author, 1605.
3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. Ad 1: with a large engraving on the title-page, 14 engraved plates (including 2 folding), 40 numbered illustrations in the text (35 woodcuts and 5 engravings). Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut head-pieces, and 1 large woodcut tail-piece. Ad 2: with a large engraving on the title-page, 8 illustrations in text (7 woodcuts and 1 engraving). Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and 1 woodcut head-piece. Ad 3: with a large engraving on the title-page. Further with 2 woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut head-pieces. Contemporary limp vellum with 2 sets of leather closing ties. [1], [1 blank], [6], 121, [1], [2 blank]; "16" [= 17], [3 blank]; 29, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HUME, William Fraser. Terrestrial theories. A digest of various views as to the origin and development of the earth and their bearing on the geology of Egypt.
Cairo, Government Press, 1948. Large 8vo. With a chromolithographed folding geological map of the Atlantic Ocean, South America and Africa (loosely inserted in a pocket), 45 plates (some line drawings, maps, diagrams, etc.; some photographs probably reproduced by photogravure) and 37 figures in the text. Contemporary half cloth with original publisher's printed paper sides. XLIX, [1], 522, 160 pp. Full description

HUTTON, Thomas. The chronology of creation; or, geology and scripture reconciled.
Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co. (back of title-page and colophon: printed by J.C. Sherriff, Bengal Military Orphan Press), 1850. Large 8vo. With a coloured lithographic frontispiece of a camel, lithographed by T. Black at the Asiatic Lithographic Press in Calcutta, and 3 coloured lithographic plates illustrating Huttons theories about the creation of the earth (2 orthographic azimuthal projections and 1 cross-section). Contemporary green cloth. [2], XVI, [2], 503, [1 blank] pp. Full description

AL-IDRISI, Muhammad and Joannes Melchior HARTMANN (translator). Africa.
Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1796. 8vo. Slightly later black half goatskin. CXXIV, 530, [50] pp. Full description

INDAGINE VON HAGEN (ROSENBACH), Johannes. Chiromantia 1 Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis. 2 Periaxiomata, de faciebus signorum. 3 Canones astrologici, de judiciis aegritudinum. 4 Astrologia naturalis. 5 Complexionum noticia, juxta dominium planetarium.
(Colophon: Strasbourg, Johann Schott, 1534). Folio (31 x 21.5 cm). With a large woodcut portrait of the author on the title-page, the author's full-page woodcut coat-of-arms on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 93 woodblock illustrations (including 3 hand blocks and a few square astrological diagram blocks used repeatedly with varying content). 20th-century half maroon goatskin morocco. 126, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

INGEN-HOUSZ, Jan. Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de le corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont à l'ombre; auxquelles on a joint une méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de sa salubrité de l'atmosphère ... Traduit de l'anglois, par l'auteur.
Paris, P.F. Didot le jeune, 1780. 8vo. With a folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. LXVIII, 333, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

ISLA, Lázaro de la [and José HOMEM DE MENEZES, translator]. [above the title: "Jesus."] Breve tratado da arte da artelharia, e geometria, & artificios de fogo ...
Lisbon, Domingos Carneyro, 1676. Small 8vo. With woodcut arms of Portugal on the title-page. Contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, lacking ties. 96 pp. Full description

JARS, Gabriel. Voyages métallurgiques, ou recherches et observations sur les mines & forges de fer, la fabrication de l'acier, celle du fer-blanc, & plusieurs mines de charbon de terre, faites depuis l'année 1757 jusques & compris 1769, en Allemagne, Suéde, Norwege, Angleterre & Ecosse.
Lyon & Paris, Gabriel Regnault, L. Cellot, P. Didot et al., 1774-1781. 3 volumes. 4to. With 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary French mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. XXXII, 416; XXVIII, 612; VIII, 568 pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT]. JOFFROY, Joannes Baptista (Jean-Baptiste). Daegelyksche aenteekening van alle de goederen te verwen komende bij Joannes Baptista Joffroy begonst 1734.
[Mechelen (Malines, Belgium), 1 April 1734-31 August 1759]. Folio (32.5 x 21 cm). Manuscript journal of accounts in dark brown ink on paper, written in Dutch in an upright gothic hand, with each page ruled in double and single lines to make 4 or 5 columns and up to 22 rows, decorated with hundreds of pen flourishes, three forming pictures of birds as tailpieces and with a decorative cross to begin 1750 (some other years with a simpler cross), a couple headings with additions in red. Contemporary vellum. [268] pp. Full description

JUNGHUHN, Friedrich Franz Wilhelm. Terugreis van Java naar Europa, met de zoogenaamde Engelse overlandpost, in de maanden september en october, 1848.
Zaltbommel, Johannes Noman and son, 1851. 8vo. With 6 lithographed plates (2 folding, including 4 chromo-lithographed views). Modern half cloth. [6], 127, [3] pp. Full description