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Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July, 1482.
Price: $38,000.00
Bound in fine 20th c. dark green crushed morocco with the gilt monogram and armorial device of the noted collector George Abrams. Leaf a2 is printed in red and black and has two very fine decorative initials on black ground. There is a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on...
London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.
Price: $85,000.00
Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...
Oxford: At the Theater, 1679.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound in 20th c. quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy, some very light damp-staining.An anonymous tract on optics and lenses, attributed variously to Obadiah Walker (“one of the most productive scholars of Restoration Oxford”, Abraham Woodhead, or Robert Cooper. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Pages 1 to 23 concern...
