PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT L.B. TOBIN, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE TOBIN ENDOWMENT*
[MISCELLANEOUS]. -- [ROME]. Roma antica e moderna. Rome: Giacomo Fei ad instanza di Gio. Domenico Franzini, 1653. 8o (160 x 103 mm). Engraved additional title, title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (Lacks text leaf ++7.) 19th-century English calf, spine decorated in gilt, with gilt lettered morocco label. Provenance: Robert Jenkinson (ownership inscription). An early edition of this detailed 800 page travel guide to Rome. Schudt Le guide di Roma 215.
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[MISCELLANEOUS]. -- [ROME]. Roma antica e moderna. Rome: Giacomo Fei ad instanza di Gio. Domenico Franzini, 1653. 8o (160 x 103 mm). Engraved additional title, title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (Lacks text leaf ++7.) 19th-century English calf, spine decorated in gilt, with gilt lettered morocco label. Provenance: Robert Jenkinson (ownership inscription). An early edition of this detailed 800 page travel guide to Rome. Schudt Le guide di Roma 215.
[With:] FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Berthélmy de (1741-1819). Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu. Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1783. 8o (198 x 118 mm). 9 engraved plates including frontispiece, folding table (frontispiece trimmed close at left margin and a bit frayed). Contemporary tree calf gilt (a little rubbing, few chips at ends of spine). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the four page supplement. "THE FIRST SERIOUS TREATISE ON AEROSTATION AS A PRACTICAL POSSIBILITY" (PMM). Dibner Heralds of Science 179; Norman 769; PMM 229. A FINE COPY.
[With:] LUDOLFUS, Henricus Wilhelmus. Grammatica russica quae continet fundamenta russicae linguae... Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1696. Small 4o (190 x 125 mm). Cyrillic, roman, gothic and italic types. Engraved title vignette and one engraved calligraphic plate by W. Burg. (One headline cropped, some light browning.) Modern morocco-backed boards (spine lightly faded). Provenance: Duke of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate, sold Christie's London, 24 February 1982, lot 587). FIRST EDITION. Wing L3463.
[With:] FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Berthélmy de (1741-1819). Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu. Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1783. 8o (198 x 118 mm). 9 engraved plates including frontispiece, folding table (frontispiece trimmed close at left margin and a bit frayed). Contemporary tree calf gilt (a little rubbing, few chips at ends of spine). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the four page supplement. "THE FIRST SERIOUS TREATISE ON AEROSTATION AS A PRACTICAL POSSIBILITY" (PMM). Dibner Heralds of Science 179; Norman 769; PMM 229. A FINE COPY.
[With:] LUDOLFUS, Henricus Wilhelmus. Grammatica russica quae continet fundamenta russicae linguae... Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1696. Small 4o (190 x 125 mm). Cyrillic, roman, gothic and italic types. Engraved title vignette and one engraved calligraphic plate by W. Burg. (One headline cropped, some light browning.) Modern morocco-backed boards (spine lightly faded). Provenance: Duke of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate, sold Christie's London, 24 February 1982, lot 587). FIRST EDITION. Wing L3463.