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A splendid account of Early Medicine. Hippocratis magni coacae praenotiones... interprete & enarratore Ludovico Dureto.Thick Folio. [12], 578, [58] pp. Woodcut printer's device to title page and woodcut chapter headings & initials. First edition of Hippocrates' Prognostics edited and translated by Louis Duret and, completed posthumously, by his son Jean Duret. Text in Greek and Latin, concluding with an index. Vellum spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering, later binding and endpapers

Personal copy of Prince Gholam Mohammed Sultan of Calcutta, with his calling card (bookplate) fixed to pastedown of front cover. Prince Gholam Mohammed was the only legitimate son of Tipoo Sultan.
8vo, full brown morocco gilt, inner dentelles, binding signed by W.H. Dalton, all edges gilt, 4 engraved plates (3 hand-colored). Corners lightly bumped, very slight edge wear, some offsetting from illustrations.
The inside of the front cover has a larger card inscribed, "This Book was presented to me by His Highness Prince Gholam Mahumed son of Tippoo Sultan on the occasion of my visit to him, 9 June A.D. 1859. British Hotel, Cockspur Street, London."
A very unique copy with historic provenance!

The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1772.
First edition, quarto, v, [9], xvi, 812, [12]p; folding engraved chart bound opposite title page; illustrated with 24 folding engraved plates; bound in nicely rebacked modern full sheepskin, neatly done in period style; minor offsetting in a few plates as usual but internally clean and superb. 10 x 8 in. Crook S/479; ESTC T36343.
Joseph Priestley, a household name for his famous discovery of oxygen gas, was a notable English scientist. This comprehensive account of the discoveries and properties of light, colour and vision provides an elaborate history of Optics from the early days, through Newton's contributions and offers a contemporary analyses and discussion, including Priestley's own theories and experiments.
Just like his History of Electricity (1767), this account was highly popular in the scientific community as "the only English work on the subject for 150 years and the… Read More

8vo, pp. [5],3-5,9-[139]pp. including sixty-three chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece) and one heliochrome plate. Large quarto. Bound in original green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt.
The "heliochrome, " printed by the Heliotype Printing Co., is an early example of a colored photographic plate print, as in the plate of the Old State House.
Very nice copy of landmark architectures of Boston in England and Boston in the US. Bookplate of previous owner inside. Minor tear in upper right hand corner of a blank page. Illustrations and internal pages are in near fine conditions.