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178532851Boston: Printed by Greenleaf and Freeman 1785. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps missing the half title page. 3-23 pages 1 page blank. Stitched trimmed wraps with title on page 3. Previous owner ink inscription of "Capt A Bailey Concord" partially trimmed located at the top edge of page 23. "A Bailey" written top of page 5. <br /> <br /> Rev. Chauncy is retiring after nearly 60 years of work. He writes "I am now grown old and unable through manifold infirmities to go on with the work of the sacred ministry."<br /> <br /> Evans 18953. Printed by Greenleaf and Freeman unknown
176399023HBMünchen:, mit akademischen Schriften, 1763. 2 Teile in einem Band: (38(, 282 Seiten, 2 gestochene Tafeln, 1 gestochenes Kartenblatt (gefaltet), (20) Seiten Register; 232 Seiten, 9 gestochene Tafeln, (8) Seiten Register, interimische Broschur der Zeit, Rückentitel von alter Hand, 22,5 x 18,5 cm. [9 Warenabbildungen]
1777740QUA1777 contenant les règles de tous les jeux , avec des instructions faciles pour apprendre à les bien jouer. Nouvelle édition , augmentée du jeu des échecs , par Philidor , et du jeu du Whisk , par Edmont Hoyle , traduit de l'anglais. à Amsterdam , aux dépents de la Compagnie. 1777. 2 Tomes en un fort volume in 12. plein veau époque. dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés ; pièce de titre maroquin rouge. tranches mochetées rouges. viij + 384 pp et 324 pp. ex-libris manuscrit sur page de titre. BON EXEMPLAIRE. ( défauts d'usage: coins émoussés , coiffe supérieure abîmée et un mors fendu sur 2 cm.) intérieur parfait.
1795ZB1254671Academie des Sciences Paris 1795. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 10 volumes bound in modern green buckram minor library markings else very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Academie des Sciences, Paris hardcover
175311459Paris: Delaguette & Le Prieur 1753. 1st edition. 3 vols. 4to. Frontispieces in each volume engraved by Le Bas after Francois Boucher 1703-70. c.1900pp. 258 x 192mm.Contemporary half calf gilt a little rubbed. Occasional very light foxing or browning faint dampstain on a few leaves in vol. 1 but a fine set still. Bookplate & signatures in vol. 1.</p> <p> FIRST EDITION complete 4to. run later volumes appeared in 12mo. only Collects the prize competition papers of the Royal Academy of Surgery from the 1730's to the 1750's and features a frontispiece repeated in each volume by Francois Boucher considered the greatest French master of the first half of the 18th centuryand probably the most productive and versatile painter of the century. As royal painter Boucher could probably be called on to grace the prize publication of the recently created Royal Academy of Surgery; nevertheless a medical work illustrated by an artist of his rank was no less an exception then as now and should be valued on that basis. Blake 2.</p> . Delaguette & Le Prieur unknown
175311459Paris: Delaguette & Le Prieur 1753. 1st edition. 3 vols. 4to. Frontispieces in each volume engraved by Le Bas after Francois Boucher 1703-70. c.1900pp. 258 x 192mm.Contemporary half calf gilt a little rubbed. Occasional very light foxing or browning faint dampstain on a few leaves in vol. 1 but a fine set still. Bookplate & signatures in vol. 1.</p> <p> FIRST EDITION complete 4to. run later volumes appeared in 12mo. only Collects the prize competition papers of the Royal Academy of Surgery from the 1730's to the 1750's and features a frontispiece repeated in each volume by Francois Boucher considered the greatest French master of the first half of the 18th centuryand probably the most productive and versatile painter of the century. As royal painter Boucher could probably be called on to grace the prize publication of the recently created Royal Academy of Surgery; nevertheless a medical work illustrated by an artist of his rank was no less an exception then as now and should be valued on that basis. Blake 2.</p> . Delaguette & Le Prieur unknown books
1763LLV2074Amsterdam:: n.p. 1763. 1763. Two volumes. Sm. 8vo. 176 x129 mm. Collation: -2 A-Y8 Z4 Z4 blank; -1 A-R8 S2. Pagination: 4 358 2 blank; 2 276 pp. Title is an insert. Illustrated woodcut as chapter-title heading 1 typographic ornament vol. II chapter-title heading; paper flaws in margin vol. I pp.115-118 light spotting occasional worming at gutter one signature loose. Original plain paper wrappers completely untrimmed. Very good. This enormously popular collection of games was first published in 1717 and went through numerous editions well into the 19th century. Gaming in the eighteenth century mostly card games such as "Quadrille" card game popular during the 1700s played by four people with a deck of 40 cards "Hombre" a predecessor to whist and bridge "Piquet" "Comet" "Reversis" "Papillon" "l’Ambigu" Tontine Lottery Triumph Poque Sizette billiards Paume "palm game" – an indoor predecessor to tennis Trictrac similar to backgammon Toc and Chess. STCN 176308 1 copy. Thierry Depaulis Les loix du jeu: bibliographie de la litterature technique de jeux de cartes en francais avant 1800 1994 91; Catherine Perry Hargrave A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming p. 411; F.A. Jackson & G.B. Keen Catalogue of the Chess Collection of the Late George Allen 1878 p.1. n.p., 1763. unknown books
176028775Amsterdam sans nom d'editeur 1760 -in-12 PLEIN VEAU 2 tomes en un volume , reliure d'époque plein-veau brun in-douze (binding full calfskin in-12) (10,2 x 17 cm), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands), décoré "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), titre frappé "or" avec un filet "or" en encadrement, entre-nerfs à fleuron "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or" avec rinceaux "or" aux angles, filet à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, roulette "or" en pied, trés léger manque de cuir à la coiffe de tête, mors fendus sur 1 cm en tête au premier plat mais la reliure est bien solide, coins émoussés, Toutes tranches lisses rouges, pages de titre imprimées en rouge et noir, sans illustrations (no illustration) excepté une vignette en bas du Titre gravée sur bois en noir et rouge + bandeaux fronts de chapitres, lettrines et culs-de-lampes historiés gravés sur bois en noir, [(20 p. de Tables) + 384] + [294] pages, 1760 à Amsterdam, sans nom d'Editeur,
1780266788Petropoli Saint Petersburg: Typis Academiae scientiarum 1780. 18 folding engraved plates at end one folding table in text. viii LACKING 84 pages of introductory matter pp. 1-395 pp. Articles in Latin and in French. 1 vols. 4to. Modern quarter brown morocco and marbled boardsnew endpapers. Ex-library with discard stamp on original endpaper. 18 folding engraved plates at end one folding table in text. viii LACKING 84 pages of introductory matter pp. 1-395 pp. Articles in Latin and in French. 1 vols. 4to. Part two of the report on the year 1777 by the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. Articles include<br /> <br /> Peter Simon PALLAS article on the giant anteater Observationes circa Myrmecophagam Africanam at pp. 223-231; Description du Bufle i.e. Buffalo à Queue de Cheval.pp. 232-257; Observations sur l'Asne dans son état sauvage ou sur le veritable onagre des anciens pp. 258-277.<br /> <br /> An article by Daniel BERNOULLI at pp. 109-129 on the mesurement of time; and several articles by the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard EULER: De integratione formulae; De valore formulae integralis; Novae demonstrationes circa resolutionem numerorum in quadrata; Considerationes circa brachystochronas; Sur l'effet de la refraction dans les observations terrestres; De motu oscillatorio penduli cuiuscunque dum arcus datae amplitudinis absolvit; De theoria lunae ad maiorem perfectionis gradum evehenda. Typis Academiae scientiarum unknown
1780266788Petropoli Saint Petersburg: Typis Academiae scientiarum 1780. 18 folding engraved plates at end one folding table in text. viii LACKING 84 pages of introductory matter pp. 1-395 pp. Articles in Latin and in French. 1 vols. 4to. Modern quarter brown morocco and marbled boardsnew endpapers. Ex-library with discard stamp on original endpaper. 18 folding engraved plates at end one folding table in text. viii LACKING 84 pages of introductory matter pp. 1-395 pp. Articles in Latin and in French. 1 vols. 4to. Part two of the report on the year 1777 by the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. Articles include<br/><br/>Peter Simon PALLAS article on the giant anteater Observationes circa Myrmecophagam Africanam at pp. 223-231; Description du Bufle i.e. Buffalo à Queue de Cheval.pp. 232-257; Observations sur l'Asne dans son état sauvage ou sur le veritable onagre des anciens pp. 258-277.<br/><br/>An article by Daniel BERNOULLI at pp. 109-129 on the mesurement of time; and several articles by the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard EULER: De integratione formulae; De valore formulae integralis; Novae demonstrationes circa resolutionem numerorum in quadrata; Considerationes circa brachystochronas; Sur l'effet de la refraction dans les observations terrestres; De motu oscillatorio penduli cuiuscunque dum arcus datae amplitudinis absolvit; De theoria lunae ad maiorem perfectionis gradum evehenda. Typis Academiae scientiarum unknown books
1740j8919France: B W M Endteri Consortium. Worn condition. Boards mis-matched and detached with heavy wear and loss to leather on back cover. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. Scattered foxing and off-setting throughout. Pages browned commensurate with age. 1740. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 200mm x 180mm 8" x 7". xxvi 546pp 208pp plates. 6 b/w fold-out plates with 3 additional plates from separate volume loosely laid-in. . B W M Endteri Consortium hardcover
174419498Besançon, Nicolas Couché, 1744. Cette thèse présidée par M. Nicolas Marquis, fut soutenue par Etienne Plantenet de Vereux, de Gray, le 14 août 1744 au matin, avec pour sujet : "De donationibus".
1780104691780 Paris, chez les Editeurs… et chez Mérigot le jeune, 1780; in-12° plein maroquin vert olive, guirlande dorée encadrant les plats avec fleurons d'angle, dos lisse orné de filets et titre et tomaison sur 2 étiquettes de maroquin vieux rouge se tenant, tranches dorées;petits fers dorés, titre et tomaison dorés sur 2 étiquettes de maroquin vieux rouge se tenant, tranches dorées, la devise “A L'IMMORTALITE“ dorée est poussée au centre des plats dans un encadrement d'une guirlande laurée; 287pp. Portrait de François Maynard en frontispice. Cachet du corps législatif au titre. Devise de l'Académie française poussée au 1er plat.
17068832A Cologne, [sans nom], 1706. In-18 de 95 pages, plein veau brun, dos à nerfs orné de filets et fleurons dorés (coiffes absentes, coins frottés, mors fendu). Notre exemplaire contient des notes manuscrites dans les marges, certaines rognées par le relieur.
17628659S.l. s.e. 1762 Un volume in-folio plein veau raciné de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, double-filet doré sur les coupes, réunissant: - M. de Réaumur, Nouvel Art d'adoucir le fer fondu et de faire des ouvrages de fer fondu aussi finis que de fer forgé. 1762. viii+124pp., 7pl.- M. le Marquis de Courtivron et M. Bouchu, De la forge des enclumes. 1762. 11pp., 1pl. - M. Duhamel du Monceau, Art des forges et fourneaux à fer. 1762. 198pp., 9pl.- M. de Réaumur et M. Duhamel du Monceau, Fabrique des ancres. 54pp., 6pl.Épidermures, manque à la coiffe supérieure, léger travail de vers sur les plats et premiers feuillets, mouillure claire en marge supérieure à la fin de l'ouvrage.
1728952281Nürnberg & Altdorf: Johann Daniel Tauber Erben. 1728. Quarto. 199 x 163 mm. (Wohlerhalten. Es fehlen die beiden gestochenen Frontispize sowie 11 ganzseitige gestochene Portraits, im Ganzen sehr frisches Exemplar) [6 Warenabbildungen] [10], 195, [5] (Register) Seiten. Geheft mit Rückenstreifen aus Pergament,
179253921St. Gallen, in Commission bey Huber und Compagnie, 1792. 8°. Mit gest. Titelportrait u. gest. Titelvignette. 4 Bll., 147 (1) S., Marmor. Kart. d. Zt.
1777MM2153T. Becket & P. Elmsly 1777. ~Freshly rebound in full red buckram cloth gilt lettering and ruling to spines. All edges yellow top edges darkened. A few small spots to fore-edges and minor marking to bottom edges of Vol. I. Replacement endpapers. Two small Birmingham University Library stamps to each title page and to final page of each volume. All title pages and final pages browned at edges. Title page of vol.1 professionally laid down. Foxing to early and late pages and very minor scattered foxing throughout in all vols. Three plates and one fold-out inscription to Vol. 3 all signed by E. Malpas each with small library stamp to reverse. Size: 4to 21 x 27cm. The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres founded in 1663 published 317 volumes of learned commentary the 'Histoire et Memoires de l'Academie' between 1717 and 1793. These volumes bring together a selection from these works. Robust packaging. 1st edn. Hardback. Hardback. Very Good. lx 656 ccviii 495 lxviii 696pp. T. Becket & P. Elmsly Hardcover
177713107Londres: T. Becket & P. Elmsly 1777. 4to 27 cm 10.6". 3 vols. I: 2 iii 1 lx 656 pp. pagination skips 1732 text uninterrupted. II: 2 iii 1 ccviii 495 1 blank pp. III: 2 iii lxviii 1 696 pp.; 1 fold. plt. 2 plts. <br><br>Sole edition thus: Three-volume set of selected pieces from the Histoire et mémoires de l'Académie a massive collection of French-language commentary and criticism on Greek and Latin classics. The printing of the Histoire et mémoires commenced in 1717 and ran through 1809 with the total number of volumes coming to 51; the present compilation offers especially noteworthy treatises from the beginning of the series through 1763.<br>Â Â Â Â The third volume includes two plates and one oversized folding plate reproducing two inscriptions and a frieze engraved by E. Malpas.<br>Â Â Â Â ~> Uncommon outside of Great Britain's libraries. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T113913; Brunet I 26; Lowndes I 5. Contemporary treed calf spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; leather worn at edges and moderately rubbed with joints cracking. Front pastedowns with private bookplates and signs that a plate was removed on front free endpaper one vol. endpaper holed; impressions of old pencilled shelf numbers on title-pages and one lightly inked old date. First two leaves of vol. III with upper margins stained and final leaf browned; some pages with a few spots of faint foxing most clean and crisp. T. Becket & P. Elmsly hardcover books
1770102581770 basane mouchetée, dos à n. (le deuxième plat est détaché). fort in-4, (2ff.), XCIVpp., (1f.) 543pp. (1f.), 21pp., 72pp., 29 planches depl., Paris Pancoucke 1770,
17801100021780 Chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi, quai de Gêvres et Chez Durand, Neveu, Libraire, rue Galande, Hôtel de Lesseville - M. DCC. LXXX. (1780), Septème Edition - Avec Aprobation & Privilége du Roi - In-12 (17 x 10,5 cm), plein veau marbré de l'époque, avec titres et caissons à motifs floraux en doré au dos - xii, 392 pages - Bandeaux, cul-de-lampe et trois gravures
178914255En Valencia: En la Oficina de D. Benito Monfort Impresor de la Real Academia. Año 1789.- 2 h. 53 p.; en Folio; Gran papel de hilo verjurado; Cuidada impresión con un fino grabado al cobre el la portada diseñado por J. Camarón y grabado por M. Brú; Plena Piel Valenciana Epoca con rueda dorada en tapas y cantos lomera con filetes dorados.- MAGISTRAL EDICION DEL FAMOSO IMPRESOR VALENCIANO "BENITO MONFORT". MUY RARO. EN IMPECABLE ESTADO CON EL PAPEL BLANCO Y TERSO. Solamente la cabeza del lomo tiene un ligero deterioro que ha sido restaurado. Tiene repetidas 2 hojas correspondientes a las páginas 33-34 y 35-36. ARTE ESPAÑOL EN GENERAL E HISTORIA DEL ARTE ESPAÑOL Libro en español En la Oficina de D. Benito Monfort hardcover
175558476Breslau Korn 1755. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Light wear to top of spine. A name cut from title-page only loss of blank paper. 12776 pp. 39 folded engraved plates of 42. <br/><br/><em>Papers by Petit Winslow Geoffroy Jussieu Reaumur Boulduc etc. etc. </em> hardcover
174929077Hamburg und Leipzig Grund Grunds Witwe und A.H. Holle 1749-62. 8vo. Bound in 22 cont. uniform hcalf. Titlelabels in leather on backs gilt. Small paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. A few spine ends worn. Light wear to backs. Stamp on titles and verso. Light occasional browning but a good sound copy. Having numerous engraved folded plates. With Kätners: Zwiefaches Universalregister über die ersten XXV Bände von den Abhandlungen.der Königl. Schwed. Akademie der Wissensch. nach der deutschen Uebersetzung des Herrn Kästners gefertiget. Lpz. Holle 1771. Cont. hcalf. 6302 pp. <br/><br/><em>A long importent run of the first Series of the Transactions from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the German translation of Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar. It includes many importent contributions by Torben Bergman Georg Brandt Anders Celsius A.F. Cronstedt Pehr Elvius Carl Linnaeus Linné Sven Rinman H.T. Scheffer Mårten Triewald J.G. Wallerius and many others. - Bernhard Lundstedt: Sveriges Periodiska Litteratur No. 40. </em> hardcover
174935572Breslau Johann Jacob Korn 1749. 8vo. Contemporary full vellum. 10902 pp. some textillustr. and 4 folded tables. <br/><br/><em>First German edition of the papers from the Paris-Academy as published here in the years 1707-10. The main part of the contributions are of astronomical content and there is many importent papers by Cassini de La Hire and others. 1710 contains Reaumur's R.A.F. de Reaumur two papers: "Untersuchung der Seide der Spinnen" and "Von der Bewegung an statt des gehens der Muscheln Meernesseln und Meersterne" pp.706-776. </em> hardcover
