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LIBAVIUS, Andreas. Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum alchymiae arcanorum, tomus primus. [vol. 2:] Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum, ..., tomus secundus. [vol. 3:] Appendix necessaria syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum.
Frankfurt, printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann for Peter Kopf, 1613-1615. 3 volumes. Folio. With the letterpress titles of volume 1 and 2 within the same engraved border (signed "G.Keller / 1605"), 1 woodcut plate, 3 double-page letterpress tables and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines. [12], 480, [8]; [12], "453" [= 450], [15]; [12], 279, [13] pp. Full description

LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph and Georg FORSTER. Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur.
Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1780. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of James Cook as frontispiece of part 2, 5 engraved plates (including one coloured by hand), 4 folding engraved plates (including one printed on blue paper and with highlights in silver) and one folding plate with letterpress music. Modern paste-paper boards. [8], 168; [1], [1 blank], 169-334; Full description

LINDBLOM, Ulf and Wissam S. AL-HASHIMI (editors). First Arab seminar on underground storage of oil and gas.
Stockholm, 1981. Large 8vo. With approximately 150 figures, illustrations, photographs, maps, graphs, formulas and tables in the text, and 24 pages of Arabic text including a separate title-page at the end of the work. Original publisher's green cloth. XIX, [5], 261, [3], 22, [2] pp. Full description

[LISTINGH, Nicolaas]. Incitamentum & adiumentum. Dat is Opweckinge ende aanleydinge, tot het uytvinden van bequaame middelen en gronden om de zee-dycken, in Hollandt en West-Vrieslandt, tegens het soo dickwils doorbreecken en geduyrig afspoelen beter, als tot nog toe te beschermen en te bevreyden.
Amsterdam, Paulus Matthijsz., 1702. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 10 large folding engraved plates on dykes and dyke construction.
With: (2a) [IDEM]. Incitamentum & Adiumentum Secundum, dat is een tweede opwecking en aanleiding tot (...) van de oude magteloose Muyder-Zeedyk (...) nu ontdekt en wederlegt door N.L.
Amsterdam, 1705.
(2b) [IDEM]. Na brief.
Amsterdam, August 25, 1704. Contemporary vellum [6], 86; 40, 4 pp. Full description

[LONDON - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS]. Pharmacopoeia collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis. M.DCC.IX. Editio altera.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (colophon: printed by G. Woodfall), 1817. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, title label on spine, marbled sides. XXXVI, 198 pp. Full description

LUCHET, Jean Pierre Louis de (= Marquis de LA ROCHE DU MAINE). Essais sur la minéralogie et la métallurgie.
Maestricht, J.E. Dufour & P. Roux, 1779. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5 cm). Contemporary decorated paper wrappers. [4], XXVII, [1], 232 pp. Full description

LUDERS, Theodoric. Traicté mathematique contenant les principales definitions, problemes et theoremes d'Euclide. l'Arithmetique decimale. . . . La fortification Hollandoise. Francoise. Italienne. Et Espagnolle.
Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. With engraved title-page, engraved table, and 34 numbered engraved plates (11 double-page).
With: (2) LUDERS, Theodoric. Traité d'arithmetique contenant les reigles necessaires aux marchands, banquiers, changeurs, &. financiers: . . .
Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (50×34.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine (rebacked with original backstrip laid down). Full description

MAIGNAN, Emmanuel. Perspectiva horaria, sive de horographia gnomonica tum theoretica, tum practica libri quator ...
Rome, Philippus Rubeus, 1648. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 45 engraved plates (2 folding, 43 full page), a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved headpiece with portrait to the dedication, a folding table, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in the text. Contemporary Southern European limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [28], 705, [1] pp. Full description

MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Including: [IDEM]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.
Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco. [1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp. Full description

MANBY, George William. Papers relating to Captain Manby's plan for affording relief in cases of shipwreck: viz. Copies of instructuions, given by His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpose of carrying into effect the plan of Captain Manby, for affording relief in cases of shipwreck.
[London, House of Commons, 1816]. Folio. With several woodcuts and wood engravings of the inventions in text. Sewn. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description