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Auldjo John
Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on the 8th and 9th August, 1827
London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828Sold Out
First edition of a rare Italian treatise on papermaking and the Hollander beater, published under the authority of the Bourbon government of Parma. An important early example of the transmission of French industrial technology to Italy, adapting the investigations of the Académie Royale des Sciences to the practical requirements of local manufacture.
Osservazioni intorno all’arte di fabbricare la carta, dedotte da varj autori dell’Accademia Reale delle Scienze per la maggior perfezione delle cartiere negli stati di S.A.R. il Sig. Infante D. Filippo Duca di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla ec. ec. ec. Con la dimostrazione del Mulino all’Olandese fatto a cilindro. Date dalla Segreteria della R. Azienda
Parma, Fratelli Borsi stampatori, e libraj, 1762$1,100
With respectively 47 and 38 engraved portraits of learned men and women
Tomasini Giacomo Filippo
Illustrium virorum elogia iconibus exornata. Illustriss. et Revereniss. D.D. Io. Baptistae Agucchiae
Padua, Donato Pasquardi & C., 1630$1,380
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Du Pinet de Noroy Antoine
Historia plantarum. Earum imagines, nomenclaturae, qualitates, & natale solum. Quibus accessere simplicium medicamentorum facultates, secundum locos & genera, ex Dioscoride
Lyon, Gabriel Cotier, 1561Sold Out