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Catalogue 40 is partly a stock catalogue, listing most of the books I have in stock, including books that have appeared in previous catalogues as well as new acquisitions.

The catalogue is at the printer and will be posted at the end of February. For a sneak preview, the full illustrated catalogue can be downloaded as a pdf  here > catalogue 40 

The cover illustration, left, is taken from Stelluti, Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato (1630) and is the first illustration made with the use of a microscope in a printed book. The bees are arranged to imitate the arms of the dedicatee, Mafeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VII, still at this time a supporter of Galileo. Stelluti's book is an important source of information on Galileo's work.

Posted on 21 February 2007. The full catalogue can be downloaded as a pdf  here > catalogue 39 

120 medical and scientific portraits with an Introduction by Patricia Fara. The catalogue will be posted with Catalogue 39 on 21 February. The fully illustrated catalogue can also be downloaded here > Scientific and Medical Portraits

was sent out in early June - those on my mailing list should now have a copy. The full catalogue can be downloaded as a pdf here (2mb file)> catalogue 38 .

20 books from 1562 to 1805 including the only known copy of the description of the first Romanian observatory; Oughtred's book describing the first slide rule and 'horizontal instrument' for laying out sundials; and the superb Macclesfield copy of Foster's Miscellanies in a mosaic binding, shown here.

A list of 33 books on Arts and Trades, including several Printer's Manuals; books of Trade Secrets; Trade Regulations and other Manuals. The practical manuals include instructions for keeping public houses; distilling; for dying and bleaching; floriculture, fruit gardening and raising song-birds.