Science & Technology

[CADIÈRE, Catherine and Jean-Baptiste GIRARD (subject)]. Historische print- en dicht-tafereelen, van Jan Baptist Girard, en juffrou Maria Catharina Cadiere.
[The Netherlands?], 1735. Small 4to (24 x 18.5 cm). With 32 "scenes", each consisting of an engraved plate with a letterpress poem on the facing page. Gold-tooled red half goatskin morocco (2nd half of the 19th century), richly gold-tooled spine. 24, [128] pp. Full description

CADMAN, John. The geographical journal. Vol. LXXXIV. No. 3.
Beccles, William Clowes & sons, 1934. 4to. With several full-page black and white photographs and maps. Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers. X, 201-280 pp. Full description

CAILLOT, Antoine. Natuur- en geschiedkundige schoonheden der eilanden, bergen en vulkanen. Naar het Fransch.
Rotterdam, Mensing, Van Westreenen, 1824. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With engraved title-page with a vignette, and an engraved frontispiece both by Abraham Vinkeles. Contemporary boards, covered with marbled paper. [4], X, 187, [1] pp. Full description

CAMBRAY, Chevalier de. Maniere de fortifier de Mr. De Vauban. ... Avec un traité de geometrie ...
Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1689. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and 30 numbered engraved plates (A-X & 1-8). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [6], 65, [7]; 99, [5] pp. Full description

CARAMUEL Y LOBKOWITZ, Juan. Caramuelis apparatus philosophicus quatuor libris distinctus, in primo de omnium scientiarum quae schlastice tractari possunt quidditate, dignitate, ordine, utilitate, de artibus vanis, superstitiosis, viribus naturae & daemonis conjurationibus, hominum pactis, divinationibus per Deum, astra, ignem, aquam, manum, terram, aerem, sacra, sortes, literas &c. ...
Cologne, Johann Arnold Cholinus, 1665. Folio. With a small woodcut ornament on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Further with some tables in the text. Stiff paper wrappers with (remnants of) a manuscript title label at the head of the spine. [1], [1 blank], 144, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CARRÉ, Louis. Methode pour la mesure des surfaces, la dimension des solides, leurs centres de pesanteur, de percussion et d'oscillation, par l'application du calcul intégral.
Paris, Jean Boudot, 1700. 4to. With a large woodcut vignette (by Bernard Picart) on the title-page, 4 folding numbered engraved plates containing 43 numbered diagrams, an engraved headpiece and initial at the opening of the main text. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine. [12], 115, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CATANEO, Pietro. I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura.
Venice, Aldus (sons of Aldo Manuzio), 1554. Folio. Woodcut printer's device of Aldus on title and on verso of last leaf, 43 woodcuts in text, of which 8 full-page. Contemp. limp vellum. [2], 54, [2] pp. Full description

CAUS (CAULS), Salomon de. La perspective avec la raison, des ombres et miroirs.
London, John Norton [printed partly by Jan Mommaert the elder in Brussels and partly by Richard Field in London], 1612. Royal folio (52 x 28.5 cm). With an engraved title page and 80 etched and engraved illustrations: 64 on otherwise blank pages, mostly on integral leaves (2 across double-pages, further mostly full-page), and 16 on the text pages (from small to half-page). Contemporary dark brown calf. Rebacked, restored and with new endpapers. engraved title + [5], 49, [16] ll. including engravings. Full description

CAVALIERI, Bonaventura Francesco. Trigonometria plana, et sphaerica, linearis, & logarithmica. Hoc est, tam per sinuum, tangentium, & secantium multiplicationem, ac divisionem iuxta veteres: quam per logarithmorum simplicem fere additionem iuxta recentiores; ad triangulorum dimetiendos angulos, & latera procedens.
Bologna, heirs of Victor Benati, 1643. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 28 geometrical figures on a folding engraved plate. Contemporary vellum, with manuscript title on spine. [16], 71, [1 blank]; [4], 44, [4] ll. (tables) Full description

CEREDI, Giuseppe. Tre discorsi sopra il modo d'alzar acque da'luoghi bassi. Per adacquar terreni. Per levar l'acque sorgenti, & piouute dalle campagne, che non possono naturalmente dare loro il decorso. Per mandare l'acqua da bere alle città, che n'hanno bisogno, & per altri simili vsi.
Parma, Seth Viotti, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette, woodcut decorated initials, 13 woodcut illustrations in the text and 4 folding woodcut plates. Modern half calf, boards covered with two early modern (?) leaves of liturgical music printed on paper in red and black. [1], [1 blank], [18], "100" [= 99], [1 blank] pp. Full description