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Part 1 has half title; part 2 has special title page and half title; "An appendix to the first section of the second part" has half title.
"The publisher to the reader" signed: Ro: Sharrock.
Vol. 1: [20], 127, [7] p.; v. 2: [2], 417 [i.e. 409],…

Title in red and black.
Head- and tailpieces; initials.
Each section has special half-title; pagination and register continuous.
Signatures: pi²)( -2)(² 3)(1 A-4N⁴ 4O-4R² 4S1 a-d² chi².

Reproduction of original from the National Library of Medicine.

Includes index

Add a descriptionSignatures [A] through [L] are printed within square brackets.
Translation of De augmentis scientiarum, which is itself an enlarged translation of the author's Advancement of learning.
Includes index.

Facsimile edition of work first published in abridged edition of 1558, and then in this full English edition in 1658. A miscellany of early scientific beliefs, observations, and experiments by della Porta and his little group of amateur…

Added engraved title page.
"The measure of the earth" (2d group of paging) has special title page.
The text is of the same setting as the 1687 ed.
Translation from the Mémoires of Claude Perrault. Cf. British Museum catalogue, v. 179 (1963) col.…

A list of primary and secondary resources which contributed to the creation of the exhibit.

Signatures: a-b⁸ A-3A⁸ 3B² (b8 blank)
Engraved t.p.
Bound in mottled brown calf

Imperfect: leaves 25-34 wanting.
Library holds 1620 volume and printed fragment removed from early binding.
Microfilmed for preservation.
Binding: vellum.