Kiøbenhaffn, (Matz Vingaard), (1588-)89. Folio. (39 x 27 cm.). Samtidigt hellæderbind i brunt kalveskind over svært træ og med kanter i smig. Lettere ophøjede bind på ryg. Håndsyede kapitælbånd. Lille hak i skindet på nederste rygfelt.

Paris, Jean Houzé, 1615-19. 4to. (VI) + 334 + XXIV + 80 + (VIII) + 91 + (1) pp. 2 pages with older handwritten music. Portrait frontispiece in vellum.Title printed in red and black.

Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Schrag, 1812-1813-1816. 3 vols. 8vo. 3 contemporary uniform (!) marbled paper bindings with hand-written paper title-labels to spines (hand-writing not legible).

Kjøbenhavn, Trykt hos Niels Hansen Møller, 1745. Imprimatur: C. Thestrup. Folio. (2) + 104 s. 25 tresnitt, hvorav 1 foldet kart. Samtidig skinnbind med 4 opphøyde bind. Ryggtittel litt avskrapet. Litt kantslitasje. Ex libris på forsats. Litt brunplettet.

Milano, Genio, 1804. Lex 8vo. Large-paper copy, completely uncut, on extra-thick paper, in the original wrappers of hand-blocked patterned paper. With a few contemporary hand-written annotations/corrections and marginal markings. An extraordinarily fine copy with minimal wear. 78 pp. + 1 f.

Venedig, Bernardino de Tridino - Stagnatius (Bernardino Benalio and Giovanni de Tridino / Bernardino Benalio and Giovanni de Tridino alias Tacuino), 10. April 1486. Folio (binding: 33x22 cm, block: 31,5x21,5 cm). In a charming contemporary full blindstamped pigskin binding over wooden boards.

Amsterdam, Apud Ioannem Blaeu, 1668. 4to. All eight parts bound in two excellent, contemporary full vellum bindings with yapp edges and neat handwritten titles to spines.

's Gravenhaage, Isac van der Kloot, 1729. Large folio. (57 x 34 cm.). Bound uncut (!) in 2 contemp. hcalf. 6 raised bands. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to spine-ends. A small stamp on foot of title-pages. Title-pages printed in red/black. Engraved titlevignettes.

Parma, Galeazzo Rosati, 1688. 4to. In contemporary (original?) cardboardbinding with title in contemporary hand to spine. Occassional brownspotting, primarily to first and last leaves, throughout in margins. Hinges a bit worn, otherwise a nice and completely unsophisticated copy. (4) ff.

Lutetiae (i.e. Paris), (? Guillaume Morel for) Henri Estienne (II), 1554. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties to boards.

Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1787. 4to. Uncut in the original interrim boards. Small exlibris-stamp (J. L. Prevost) to front free end-paper. Light brownspotting throughout. An excellent unsophisticated copy. (4), 77, (1) pp + 11 plates (by S. Capieux).

First edition of Chladni’s landmark work on the production of sounds from solid bodies, inaugurating the field of acoustics.

Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 1496. Folio. a8-z8,A8-L8. Sista sidan blank. Med fina handmålade röda initialer och andra detaljer i texten. Fint samtida skinnbd med breda upphöjda bind och rikt blindpressade pärmar. Gammal vackert textad titeletikett på ryggen.

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1571. Folio. (12) + 977 + (3) + (105) pp. Greek and latin text in double-columns. Woodcut vignette on title-page. 26 double-page woodcut maps. 6 woodcut maps in text. Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards. Spine with 5 raised bands.

Amsterdam, Rudolph and Gerhard Wetstein, Joannes Oosterwyk, Hendrik van de Gaete, 1714. Folio (327 x 211 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, title printed i red and black. (6) + 472 + (12) pp. 2 large folding engraved maps.

London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside; Late Boydell and Co, 1820 (but more exactly 1830). Folio. 418 x 263 mm. Complete with title-page, index to the plates, introduction, half-tite, text to all plates, 80 aquatint plates. Contemporary green morocco.

First edition. Amsterdam 1737. Folio (390-250 mm). (32), I-X, 1-231 + (1 blank), 301-501 + (17) pp. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Wandelaar (dated 1738). 36 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar and others (of which 20 after Georg Dionysius Ehret). Complete with Wandelaar’s 1 pp.

First edition. Amsterdam 1737. Folio (410 x 245 mm). (32), I-X, (pp. V-X misbound in front), 1-231 + (1 blank), 301-501 + (17) pp. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Wandelaar (dated 1738). 36 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar and others (of which 20 after Georg Dionysius Ehret).

(Paris), Gallimard, (1943). Bound with the original printed wrappers, also the backstrip, in a contemporary (no later than 1955) beautiful, very elegant grey half morocco binding with five raised bands and gilt title to spine (Gemet&Plumbelle). A beautiful, near mint copy.

The seminal first edition, presentation-copy for Claude Gallimard, one of 15 large paper copies, of Sartre's groundbreaking play, "The Flies", which constitutes his very first play as well as the only one he himself characterized as a "drama".

Havniæ (København), Augusti Friderici Steinii, 1777-1783. I. (4) + LII + 349 + (1 blank) s. Kobberstukket vignett på tittelbladet. Kobberstukket vignett på s. I: 2 foldede slektstavler. 1 stort foldet kobberstukket kart over Skandinavia. II: XII + 400 s. Kobberstukket vignett på tittelbladet.

Skalhollte 1688. illustration: Med helsides træsnit og vignetter. (10)+182+(20) s. Moderne helbind i naturel kalv, som er skjoldet efter vandskade. Forperm med indpræget ejernavn. Indholdet restaureret og med lidt fugtrand.

Lugduni [Leiden], Jacobum Chouët, 1662. 12mo. Partly uncut in a nice later full calf binding (19th century?) with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Hinges with a bit of wear and small piece of leather lacking on top of spine.

Hamburg,von Wiering, 1712. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Embossed ornamentation to spine. Lower part of back hindge and back board with worm hole. Last three works with small wormtract to lower part of leaves (not affecting Lawson's work, other wise a good copy.

Husum, Matthias et Nicolaus Petersen, 1652. Folio. (48x34 cm.). Bound in a fine contemp. full calf with raised bands. Covers with rectangular triple gilt borders and a large gilt centerpiece. The binding expertly restored with rebacking, edges and corners neatly repaired.

Sth., C. Delén a. Others, 1802-1829. Lex8vo. 10 nice hcalf from ab. 1900 in old style, richly gilt backstop edge gilt.(G.Hedberg). Spines a little faded. Uncut. With 720 handcoloured engr.plates.

First edition of the first Swedish colour-plate book on flowers. Palmstruch had learned drawing from Desprez and planned his magnificent work using Flora Danica and Sowerby's English Botany as models. The work was esteemed by contemporaries as an enterprise of national importance.

Paris, Bossange père; Londres, Martin Bossange et Comp., 1822 & 1823. 8vo. [Traité:] Two lovely contemporary, uniform half calf bindings with gilding and blindstamped ornamentations to spines. "E.