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VENTURI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA.
Commentari sopra la Storie e le Teorie
dell’Ottica . . . Tomo Primo
[
ALL PUBLISHED
]. Engraved portrait and 10 folding plates.
4to, 303x224 mm, original blue paste-paper stiff wrappers, spine and cover edges worn;
scattered foxing on plates and in text, gathering 11 incorrectly folded with leaves out of
order, dampstaining in lower inner corners in second half of volume.
Bologna: Fratelli Masi, 1814
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION
.
Honeyman Sale 3037 (this copy); Riccardi appendix I, 52.
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VIMERCATI [or VIMERCATO], GIOVANNI BATTISTA.
Dialogo . . . de gli
Horologi Solari.
3 (of 4) folding woodcut plates; numerous full-page woodcut diagrams.
[32], 1-79, 89-130, [2] pages. 4to, 205x149 mm, early 19th-century
1
/
2
sheep gilt, top of
spine chipped; scattered foxing, blank upper outer corner off D3, clean tear in N3, worm-
ing through blank portions of title, next leaf, last 2 text leaves, and second and third plates,
first plate partly separated at folds, last plate heavily foxed.
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1567
[800/1,200]
Treatise on sundial construction first published in 1565. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 541 (origi-
nal edition); Houzeau & Lancaster 11367; Riccardi II, 602.
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WILKINS, JOHN.
Mercury; or, The Secret and Swift Messenger: shewing,
how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a
Friend at any Distance.
[14] (of [16]), 180 [i. e. 170], [4] pages, including 2 blanks at end;
lacks the initial blank. 8vo, 164x113 mm, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked, endpapers
renewed, front cover detached; marginal dampstaining through most of volume with occa-
sional faint traces of mold, slight paper corrosion along fore edge of opening leaves,
contemporary owner’s inscriptions on blanks at end
London: I. Norton for John Maynard and Timothy Wilkins, 1641
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of the first book in English devoted to cryptography, “not merely a practical
guide in the use and decoding of ciphers, but a broadly based discussion of the means of commu-
nication, or what today would be called semiotics”—DSB XIV, 365. Wing W2202.
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ZWEISSIG, JOSEPH, S.J., and FEICHTMAYR, NICOLAUS, S.J., praesides.
Tractatio de theoria descensus et ascensus gravium obliqui, eiusque multiplici
applicatione, proposita . . . Benno Ignatius de Hoffstetten . . . in Electorali Lyceo
Monacensi publice propugnaret.
Folding engraved allegorical portrait of the dedicatee,
Maximilian III Joseph, Duke of Bavaria; 3 engraved plates. [10], 74, [22] pages. Folio,
329x210 mm, contemporary marbled wrappers; contents generally clean.
Munich: Franz Joseph Thuille, [1765]
[150/250]
FIRST EDITION
of a thesis on the motion of falling bodies and pendula.
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