23 items found

A rare set with a huge amount of partly unfolded plates

[Various authors]

Annales des Mines. Series III-VI. Atlases.

Paris, Ecole de Mines, 1832-1866. Two series in four. Oblong folio (40.5 x 22.0 cm) with 758 (of 759? see below) engraved and lithographed plates and maps, of which 29 are hand-coloured geological maps or profiles. Contemporary uniform red cloth. Gilt titles on the spines and front boards. Marbled endpapers.

€5,500.00

A special copy with additional rare papers on the same subject

Lecoq, H.

[Auvergne] Itinéraire de Clermont au Puy de Dome, ou description de cette montagne et de la Vallée de Royat et Fontanat; seconde edition. [AND] Two other papers on the geology of Auvergne, by A. C. P. F. Von Lasaulx, and by J. B. Bouillet, bound in.

€950.00

Herschel's important second catalogue, listing 434 double stars discovered since the delivery of his first catalogue

Herschel, W.

Catalogue of double stars. Read December 9, 1784.

€1,000.00

A rare and well-illustrated work on the extinct volcanos of central France

Lecoq, H. and J. B. Bouillet

Coup d'oeil sur la structure géologique et minéralogique du groupe des Monts Dores, accompagné de la description et des échantillons des substances minérales qui le composent.

Paris, Levrault and Clermont-Ferrand, Bouillet, Thibaud-Landriot, 1830. 8vo (20.0 x 13.1 cm). 48 pp.; five handcoloured lithographed plates (two much larger, folded) of geological views and profiles of the volcanological region of Puy-de-Dôme. Later red quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€750.00

A unique piece of "volcaniana" - signed and dedicated by the author

Verneau, F.

Cratere del Vesuvio nel mese di Febbraio 1862.

€300.00

A fine copy of a rare and unusual almanac and gazetteer made and published by an unsuccessful painter

Hohe, F.

Der Begleiter. Wissenschaftliche Tabellen und Notizen mit vier kolorirten Karten. Eine Gedächtnisshife für Jedermann.

€450.00

A rare, complete set, entirely in first edition and with a unique "dust jacket"

Gmelin, J. F. [Linnaeus]

Des Ritters Carl von Linne Königl. Schwedischen Leibarzes & c. vollständiges Natursystem des Mineralreichs nach den zwölften lateinischen Ausgabe in einer freyen und vermehrten Uebersetzung. Erster - Vierter Theil. [Complete].

Nürnberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1777-1779. Four volumes in four. 8vo (19.3 x 12.0 cm). Title pages, 2274 pp. (I [1777]: [ii], 652; II [1778]: [xiv], 496, [viii]; III [1778]: [xiv], 486; IV [1779]: lxiv, 528, [x]); 57 finely engraved plates [1-5; 1-9; 1-9, 5B, 5C, 6B, 7B; 10-36, 16b, 20b, 21b]. Contemporary boards with two, burgundy and near-uniform brownish morocco labels with gilt or black, embossed title and volume number. Edges red. One volume with a contemporary binding in half-vellum-over-speckled-boards beneath.

€3,900.00

The binding is quite exceptional, of historical interest, and beautifully preserved

Faber, F. C. Von

Die Kraterpflanzen Javas in physiologisch-ökologischer Beziehung.

€200.00

The rare, important and profusely illustrated mining and mineralogy section of the first true encyclopaedia

Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)

Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres mis en ordre par Mons. Diderot. Histoire naturelle. Règne mineral.

€2,000.00

The second recorded copy

Silvestri, O.

Etna. Eruzione e terremoti del Maggio-Giugno 1879. Fotografie fatte per incarico del R. Governo Italiano sotto la direzione del Prof. Orazio Silvestri.

[Catania], A. T. Tagliarini, "1879" [1880]. Oblong folio, with 30 (of 33 or 34?) original albumen prints of slightly variable size, on average 17.5 x 32.0 cm (plates 1-22), or four times 19 x 24 cm (plates 23-24), all mounted on 24 (of 25?) very large printed boards, each 48.5 x 56.8 cm and with a gilt frame of 29.2 x 39.1 cm (plates 1-22), or four times 20.4 x 25.8 cm (plates 23-24) with printed captions mounted, and printed captions on the boards. In clamshell box of navy pebbled cloth over marbled boards (58.3 x 51.4 x 3.7 cm) with original printed labels on the front board recto and verso.

€18,000.00

Rare work on the true cause of the demise of Pompei and Herculanum

Lippi, C.

Fu il fuoco, o l'acqua che sotterro Pompei ed Ercolano? Scoperta geologico-istorica, fatta dall'autore il di 14 e 26 Ottobre 1810, e da lui scritta nelle lingue latina, inglese, francese, italiana, tedesca, e spagnuola in due lettere. Seguite dalle scritture pro et contra, presentate all' Accademia di scienze di Napoli, per di lei ordine; e dalle decisioni di questa Società, relative al' argomento. Prima edizione Italiana.

€600.00

Copy with a unique addition

Serao, F.

Histoire du Mont Vésuve, avec l'explication des phenomenes qui ont coûtume d'accompagner les embrasements de cette montagne. Le tout traduit de l'Italien de l'Académie des Sciences de Naples. Par M. Duperron de Castera. Dédiée a monseigneur le Dauphin.

€850.00

Volcanology