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1799042677Paris: Joseph de Boffe 1799. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Volume 34 of the seminal French scientific journal still published today. Early blue paper wraps worn and discolored. Page edges worn and a little soiled partially unopened - scattered light foxing but largely clean. Dated year VIII of the Jacobin calendar. 336pp 1 folding plate. Sugar cane processing; electricity; ether; Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042677. <br/><br/> Joseph de Boffe paperback
1799043290Paris: Fuchs 1799. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners stamp to title page quite clean internally. 344pp. Published 30 Germinal year VII of the Republican calendar. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 043290. <br/><br/> Fuchs hardcover
1755584791755. Disp. chir. 2/36. - Hrsg. v. Albrecht v. Haller. - Amstelodami Sumptibus Jacobi a Wetstein 1755 4° pp.149-156 Rückenbroschur. unknown
1791042651Paris: Fuchs 1791. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half contemporary leather over marbled boards. Worn at corners hinges slightly cracked stamp to title page. Tome 10 of the first series. 336pp folding plate at rear. Contents include: Investigations on the chemical history of the tepid springs of Buxton Refining of metal for clocks Chemical examination of skate liver etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042651. <br/><br/> Fuchs hardcover
1797043291Paris: Fuchs 1797. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners stamp to title page quite clean internally. 340pp. 2 plates one of laboratory equipment one of a doubler of electricity. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 043291. <br/><br/> Fuchs hardcover
1798042674Paris: Joseph de Boffe 1798. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Volumes 30-31 of the seminal French scientific journal still published today. Early blue paper wraps worn and discolored volume 31 split cleanly down the middle. Page edges worn and a little soiled partially unopened - scattered light foxing but largely clean. Dated year VII of the Jacobin calendar. 344pp; 336pp with 1 plate. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042674. <br/><br/> Joseph de Boffe paperback
17872092902141800547Kashiwabaraya Seiemon 1787. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Kashiwabaraya Seiemon paperback
1793042673Paris: Joseph de Boffe 1793. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Volumes 17-20 1793-1797 of the crucial French scientific journal still published today. Half leather over marbled boards general wear at edges chipped and wear at corners and spine ends bindings tight and intact. Stamp on title pages browning to endpapers. Volume 19 with a dark dampstain all along the top margin not touching the text.<br /> <br /> 335pp two folding plates; 328pp 1 folding plate; 384pp; 396pp 1 folding plate.<br /> <br /> Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042673. Joseph de Boffe hardcover
177644968Paris Imprimerie Royale 1776. 4to. Extracts from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Année 1773. Pp. 305-327. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Monge's second paper on the theory of partial differential equations.In this memoir Monge continued his investigations in "a field of study that was to hold his interest for many years: the theory of partial differential equations. In particular he undertook the parallel examination of certain equations of this type and of the families of corresponding surfaces. The geometric construction of a particular solution of the equations under consideration allowed him to determine the general nature of the arbitrary function involved in the solutions of a partial differential equation. Moreover this finding enabled him to take a position on a question then being disputed by d Alembert Euler and Daniel Bernoulli."DSB. </em> unknown
17795021London: T. Davis T. Paine L. Davis J. Nichols T. Evans W. Davis and H. Payne 1779. Hardcover. Good. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. Vol 1 - xlvi 344 pgs. Vol 2 - 453 pgs. Vol 3 - 340 pgs. Vol 4 - 380 pgs. Full brown calf with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration on spine with leather label with gilt lettering. Gilt decoration to edges of binding. Vol 1 has engraved frontis. Condition of the books is GOOD ; Vol 1 2 and 4 have weak and cracked front hinges vol 3 cover is detached. Edges are worn and chipped spines are dry and crackled with some wear. All have contemporary handwritten notations on the front pastedown in a spidery hand. Calf is nice extremely smooth. Text is good with no foxing and all bindings are internally sound. Drama. RGR. T. Davis, T. Paine, L. Davis, J. Nichols, T. Evans, W. Davis and H. Payne hardcover
1794jbc003.monGB: G. Woodfall printer 1794. Volume I commences at title page. Pagination iii-xx subscribers etc 1-384. Page 317 is misnumbered 319. Plate at page 2. Volume 2 has a title page and then pages 1-372. Folding table at page 304. Volume 3 has a title page and then pages 1- 374. Page 299/300 is creased. Clean tight texts but title pages have verso the circular stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England Library. Stamp repeated on last leaf. Armorial bookplates of RASE to all front pastedowns. Full leather covers all match and front covers are stamped BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 1800. All texts have been fitted with new endpapers and completely respined with matching brown cloth spines lettered in gold MONK - AGRICULTURAL DICTIONARY Volume no 1794. A small label has been removed from the base of each spine leaving a just noticeable bleach mark. Still a presentable set. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW. G. Woodfall (printer) Hardcover
1732129198La Haye : Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme 1732. First Edition. Hardback. Full contemporary tree calf very good. Red Morocco label; spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Generalized wear to extremities with insignificant dust-dulling. Internally altogether clean and quite sound. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 165 pages; Physical desc. : c 165 i. E. 157 2 p. ; 8vo. Subject: Jesus Christ - Resurrection. La Haye : Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme hardcover
178116722Santiago: Ignacio Aguayo. 1781. Hardcover. Bound together with "Cotejo del Modo de Intercalar los Anos Bisiestos en el Computo Gregoriano. " also by a Monk of the Congregacion de San Benito. Contemporary full leather marbled endpapers 8x6" 21x15cm 204 pp. 48 pp. Cotejo fold-out page of pump diagrams. A page at the end of the Cotejo has apparently been torn out tears & wrinkling on the fold-out some small stains inside but no foxing boards warped scrapes & stains on covers overall a clean solid copy of this early work on hydraulics. . Santiago: Ignacio Aguayo hardcover
178044972Paris Moutard Panckoucke 1780. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Tome IX. Pp. 345-381 a. 2 folded engraved plates. And pp. 382-440 a. 3 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of two importent papers by Monge in differential functions and infinitesimal geometry - in the first he discussed the nature of the arbitrary functions involved in the integrals of finite difference equations. He also considered the equation of vibrating strings a topic he later investigated more fully. In the second memoir Monge returned to infinitesimal geometry. Working on the theory of developable surfaces outlined by Euler in 1772 he applied it to the problem of shadows and penumbrae and treated several problems concerning ruled surfaces. "It is in this paper that he gives a general representation of developable surfaces."Morris Kline "Mathematical Thoughts from Ancient to Modern Times" p. 567. </em> unknown
1714AQ15134London: Printed and Sold by J. Roberts 1714. 21pp 1. Without half-title. Recent red half-morocco red cloth boards lettered in gilt T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of an anonymous elegiac satirical epitaph upon army officer and politician John 1st Duke of Marlborough who contrary to the title survived until 1722 and indeed would certainly not have been interred at Antwerp given the allied offensive against the city during the recently concluded War of Spanish Succession. The prefatory remarks addressed to the publisher are signed by Thomas Johnson presumably the pseudonym of the unknown author. In those same remarks our author claims membership of the apparently fictional Marlborough Club who desired that he carry out this translation so that 'our own People may see the just Esteem which Foreigners have for the Memory of that Great MAN' a highly ironic proclamation that informs the intention of the epitaph as a whole. ESTC locates only copies at only three locations in the UK BL Cambridge Trinity and Oxford and ten in the United States Duke Folger Illinois Indiana Kansas Minnesota Missouri Newberry North Caroline and Texas. ESTC T120685. First edition. 8vo. Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts hardcover
17920010124Good with no dust jacket. 1792. Ephemera. On offer is a superb document drawn on September 22 1792 the very first official day of the French Republic République française founded following the French Revolution. In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1789 and the abolition of the monarchy the First Republic of France was established on September 22 of 1792. The National Convention was made up of groups representing differing political outlooks. At their first meeting the Convention decided to try King Louis XVI for treason based on his attempt to flee the country the previous year. They later found him guilty and executed him on January 21 1793. September 22 1792 was also established as the beginning date of the new Revolutionary Calendar. This document is a record of some of the minutes of that first convention and are dated September 22nd the first day of the new government. It is titled: Extract Du Proces-Verbal De La Convention National Relatif au renouvellement des Corps administrifs municipaux et judicairesTranslation: Extract From The Minutes Of The National Convention Relative to the renewal of the administrative municipal and judicial bodiesIt opens with a recording of these motions: Un membre fait la motion que toutes les administrations et tribunaux soient renouveles. Un autre demande que les operations faites a cet egard par les corps electoraux soient confirmes. Plusiers autres membres insistent pour que toutes les administations soient renouvelees et qu'il soit fait au repport prochain sur l'existance et laformation des tribunauxTranslation: A member makes the motion that all the administrations and courts be renewed. Another asks that the operations made in this respect by the electoral bodies be confirmed. Several other members insist that all the administrations be renewed and that the existence and formation of the courts be reported soon. The next few pages go on to detain other proposals and requests generally concerning legal matters. The document bears the printed signature of Monge and Garat. Gaspard Monge was a Minister of State serving as Minister of the Navy and Colonies. Interestingly Monge was a noted matheematician and founder of Differential Geometry. Garat was Dominique Joseph Garat Minister of the Interior. These minutes were ordered printed and distributed throughout France and this copy was sent to the City of Nancy in the north east of France. For a historian or a collector of material from the earliest days of the French Revolution this is a superb item documenting the earliest efforts of the French people to establish a republican government separate from the monarchy and the feudal system. The document measures 9.0 inches by 7.0 inches and is folded to make 4 pages. The printed text occupies all 4 pages and it bears not only a printed signature but also a fairly solid hand signature. When it was printed the paper was not placed squarely on the press and therefore the text is not aligned perfectly horizontal. The page bears the initial stamp of the new government displaying the Phrygian cap or liberty cap that was adopted as a symbol of the revolution. The paper is in good condition with some slight staining from dampness and age.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 4 pages; Signed by Author .
17920010071France. Good with no dust jacket. 1792. Ephemera. On offer is a superb copy of the laws relating to the French national debt and the seizure of property of those French nobles who fled France to escape the guillotine. At the outset of the French Revolution Frances national finances were in total disarray. The country had virtually bankrupted itself in the Seven Years War with Britain and with its participation in the American Revolution. Moreover the French Royalty and nobility were a study in corruption and excess. Taxation only applied to the peasants. Making matters worse levying taxes at a local level was controlled not by the French government but by local boards who were very reluctant to impose more taxes on their already deeply-burdened local communities. It had to boil over at some point and that point came in 1789 with a full national revolution. The new republic still had the same financial mess on its hands. This document describes part of the efforts to deal with that mess. The first 8 pages deal with the financial levies that were imposed on local regions. This was an entirely new concept and it may have gone nowhere except for the looming shadow of the guillotine. However many regions appealed their levies and sought relief: Repartition des decharges accordees a titre de degrevementSequestre des biens des EmigresL'Assmblee Nationale ayant entendu le rapport du son comite de l'ordinaire des financees sur les petitions qui lui ont eye adressees par plusieurs departments afin d'obtenir un degrevement sur leur part dans les contributions des anees 1791 et 1792 ainsi que les trois lectures du projet de decret dans ses seances des 1re et 9 aout et 12 septembre et decrete qu'elle etoit en etat de deliberer definitivementTranslation: Breakdown of discharges granted as a rebateThe seizure of the property of the EmigrantsThe National Assembly having heard the report of its ordinary committee of finances on the petitions which were addressed to it by several departments in order to obtain a relief on their share in the contributions of the years 1791 and 1792 as well as the three readings of the draft of decree in its sessions of the 1st and 9th of August and 12th of September and decrees that it was in a position to deliberate definitively.The Law then goes on to address various issues raised and proposals to deal with them. Of interest is a chart inserted at what would normally be the end of the legal document that details the breakdown of discharges granted to each of the 17 Departments of France. Following the chart are pages 7 & 8 a far more sinister law relating to the properties and belongings of those French nobility and wealthy bourgeoisie who fled France at the outset of the Revolution known to history as Emigres. As the country spiraled downward into chaos and violence thousands fled France. Many went to neighbouring European countries and to Great Britain. They were definitely seen as a threat to the Revolutionary government. Fearful of these monarchists outside the country and with an all-but-destitute public treasury the leader of the Revolution hit upon the idea of seizing the property of all who had fled. They were offered the opportunity to return and failing that would lose all of their property and be executed if they ever returned. These 2 pages speak directly to that: Sequestre des biens des Emigres.La loi du 8 avril dernier relative aux sequestre des biens des emigres s'applique sauf les exceptions y portees a tous Francois sortis du royaume soit a l'epoque de la publication du decret du 9 fevrier precedent soit depuis ou qui viendroient par la fuite a emigrer. Translation: The seizure of the property of the Emigrants.The law of last April 8 relative to the sequestration of the property of emigrants applies except for the exceptions contained therein to all French citizens who left the kingdom either at the time of the publication of the decree of the preceding February 9 or since or who would emigrate by flight. The document is signed in print by Monge and Danton. Monge was Gaspard Monge a noted mathematician and founder of differential geometry. He was Minister of Marine. He later was heavily involved in new developments in French education and served in Napoleons administration. Danton was Georges Danton a leading figure of the Revolution. He died on the guillotine. For a historian this is a superb document. It is a direct connection to the chaos of the Revolution and the dark underside of popular revolutions. This is a 10-page document. It measures 9.0 inches by 8.5 inches and is 10 pages in length. The pages are bound together with thread. There is a large stain on the top left of the front page but it does not interfere with the legibility of the text. There is slight staining around the edges die to age. The document is printed and is very legible. Interestingly there is a chart inserted into the document between pages 6 and 7. It too is numbered Page 6. It is a single-sided chart. ; 9"x8.5"; 10 pages; Signed by All Authors .
1794CAT000515London: G. Woodfall 1794. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in contemporary full speckled calf hinges a little rubbed a few corners slightly bumped light occasional age toning internally - a nice set. Old Lawes Agricultural Trust stamps to titles and endpapers list of subscribers in volume one. xix 1 384pp; 372pp; 374pp.<br/><br/>A carefully curated collection of farming wisdom from a variety of sources tips on cultivation cattle bee keeping cheese making etc. Size: 8vo. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Cooking Wine & Dining. Inventory No: CAT000515. G. Woodfall hardcover
171650002165London: J. Tonson 1716. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original hardcover. Title pages shows date of MDCCXVI 1716. Printed by J. Tonson at Shakespear's Head over-against Catharine - Street in the Strand. Includes lengthly dedication by R. Molesworth 9dated march 16 1716 to the Princess Her Royal Highness Carolina Princess of Wales. Total pages: dedication 46 pp. Poems 156 pp. 4 pages of advertisements. Three-quarter-bound lin leather with marbled paper boards. Spine is missing about 1" at top and 1.75" at bottom. Small 1" tear on one of the advertisement pages and several pages have pencil tic marks which can be erased if desired. An extremely rare copy. <br/> <br/> J. Tonson hardcover
179440625Paris: Comité De Salut Public. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1794. First. Vellum. B/ W ; 4to 8.25 x 10.5; 231 plates pages; 60 folding engraved plates; 4 folding tables. 4 viii 231 pages. 4to later vellum-backed boards gilt-lettered spine-label; generally clean and sound. Volume bulging from quantity of prints and fold outs. First edition of a work on " The principles of a gun-founding and manufacture of artillery iron and bronze" Piling 320. French language. Some foldouts protruding from book. . Comité De Salut Public hardcover
179825<p><b>LEWIS'S "TO THE READER" EXPLAINS HIS AFRICAN SLAVE CHARACTER HIS "MISANTHROPIC NEGRO"</b></p><p><b>LEWIS Matthew Gregory "Monk". </b><i>The Castle Spectre: A Drama. In Five Acts. First Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane on Thursday December 14 1797. By M. G. Lewis M. P. Author of The Monk &c. </i> 8vo disbound pp. 103 1 ad. London: Printed for J. Bell 1798. <br /></p><p>First Edition. An extraordinary commercial success although not a universal favorite of the critics. To the critics who objected to his use of black slaves in a Gothic story he defended himself by saying that if he could "have produced the same effect by making my heroine blue blue I should have made her." "As far as Lewis's search for novelty and striking effects is concerned it is interesting to highlight the character of Hassan an African servant.Hassan is in Ormond's service because the earl has cruelly snatched him from his family and hating the white race that he considers responsible for his sufferences the black slave refuses to escape only because he is aware of his master's evil propensity to torture people around him. Lewis exploited this unusual figure to introduce something new and surprising in his play but also to underline the demonic instincts of the villain."-Bertrand Evans <b>Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley</b>1947 online. Lewis's <i>To The Reader </i>pp. 100-103 admits borrowing from other authors saying: "To the originality of character I make no pretence.but I shall not so readily give up my claim to novelty when I mention my misanthropic <i>Negro: </i>He has been compared to <i>Zanga </i>but Young's hero differs widely from what I meant in <i>Hassan.Hassan</i> is a man of violent passions and warm feelings whose bosom is filled with the milk of human kindness but that milk is soured by despair.he has lost everything even hope; he has no single object against which he can direct his vengeance and he directs it at large against mankind. He hates all the world.that heart was once feeling and kind." This Lewis's most famous play went into eight printed editions by the following year and a total of eleven by 1803. "A brilliant example of the more thrilling type of melodrama accompanied by music by Michael Kelly.The story tells how Osmond the villain captures Angela.Father Paul is based on Juliet's nurse and on Sheridan's Father Paul."-Nicoll <b>A History of English Drama 1660-1900 </b> vol. III pp. 99-100. The play was particularly indebted to <i>The Castle of Otranto The Mysteries of Udolpho </i>and<i>Die Räuber. </i> Coleridge described it as a "peccant thing of Noise Froth and Impermanence." Despite its lack of originality "it was an excellent vehicle for presenting a series of striking scenes of suspense or spectacle--the sudden appearance of the ghost in an atmosphere prepared by forebodings.Kemble and Mrs. Jordan were by all accounts superb in the leading roles.But the principle reason for its success was the appearance of the ghost in Act IV.Louis F. Peck <b>A Life of Matthew G. Lewis </b>1961 pp. 73-74. Edith Birkhead <b>The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance </b>p. 66. Summers <b>A Gothic Bibliography </b>p. 254. <b>Nicoll </b>III p. 281. No copies have appeared at auction since at least 1975 nor as of this writing are there any online. Minor browning first and last leaves moderately so. 84146 ABAA-VBF<br /></p> J. Bell
178544970Paris Moutard 1785. 4to. Extracted from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Tome X. Pp. 511-550 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper by the "greatest geometer of the century" in which he solves some main problems in coordinate geometry especially he introduced the "distant formula" for three dimensions years before it was used by Lagrange. He laid the foundation of a completely new branch of mathematics known as descriptive geometry. The paper was delivered already in 1771 but not published until 1785. "His first important original work was "Memoire sur les développées les rayons de courbure et différents genres d inflexions des courbes á double courbure" He published an extract from it in June 1769 in the Journal encycyclop´matiques and in October 1770 he finished a more complete version that he read before the Academie des Sciences in August 1771; the latter however was not published until 1785 Mémoires de mathématiques et de physique présentés á ’Academic par divers scavanns. By then some of the most important ideas in the memoir no longer seemed so original because Monge had employed them in other works published in the intervening years. Nevertheless this memoir is of exceptional interest for it presents most of the new conceptions that Monge developed in his later works as well as his very personal method of exposition which combined pure geometry analytic geometry and infinitesimal calculus."DSB. </em> unknown
1710135031Amsterdam: Pierre Brunel 1710. Second edition bound as issued with Jacques Mondoteguy's Traité des Arbitrages also published by Pierre Brunel in 1710 but in Paris. Le negoce d'Amsterdam was first published in both Dutch and French in 1694. Jacques le Moine de l'Espine d. 1696 was a merchant dealer in art and maps mathematician and writer on economics who was based in Amsterdam from 1697 onwards. Quarto 221 x 165 mm. Title printed in red and black separate divisional title leaf for Traité des Arbitrages continuously paginated with that gathering Hh having five leaves. Woodcut title page vignettes to both head- and tailpieces initials numerous tables to text. Contemporary calf rebacked preserving the original spine title lettered in gilt to second compartment rest elaborately tooled in gilt raised bands marbled endpapers edges sprinkled red and blue. Early ownership signature "Jouxtel" hand written in ink to front pastedown "Jouxtely" to title page and final page "Jou:tel" to fore edge of book block likely the same hand which has carefully amended the catchword on the final page of Le Moine de L'Espine's work to match the first word of Mondoteguy's title page and neatly corrected a figure on p. 235; engraved bookplate of Jean R. Perrette to front pastedown. Corners restored a few marks to boards lower corner of book block up to p. 170 a little gnawed front free endpaper laid onto following blank occasional marginal dampstain but generally contents crisp a few pen trials to title page and last few blanks natural paper flaw along lower margin of leaf Ff1 resulting in small loss to lower corner not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 4601. hardcover
179456237Paris Comité de Salut Public AN 2 1794. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small tear to leather at top of spine and joint. 4VIII231 pp. 4 folded tables and 60 large folded engraved plates. The first few leaves with scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First edition. The plates are identical with those in Panckoucke's Encyclopedie. " Between 1786 and 1788 Monge investigated with Berthollet and Vandermonde the principles of metallurgy and the composition of irons cast metals and steels. This research enabled them to unite previous findings in these areas to obtain precise theoretical knowledge by means of painstaking analyses and to apply this knowledge to the improvement of various techniques." DSB - Poggendorff II184. </em> hardcover
