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179929728AB1799. Second Edition. Two Volumes complete set. Dublin Printed by William Porter 1799. Small-Octavo 115 cm x 175 cm. Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 of 329 pages 3 pages missing at the end. Hardcover / Modern very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition ! Regina Maria Roche 17641845 is gauged as a minor Gothic novelist who wrote in the shadow of the pioneering Ann Radcliffe. However she was a bestselling author in her own time. The popularity of her third novel The Children of the Abbey rivalled that of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Born Regina Maria Dalton in Waterford Ireland in 1764. Her father was a Captain in the British 40th Regiment. Her family moved to Dublin and after her marriage to Ambrose Roche in 1794 she moved to England. Her first two novels were published under her maiden name before the success of The Children of the Abbey and Clermont. Both these were translated into French and Spanish and went through several editions. However after her fifth novel The Nocturnal Visit appeared in 1800 Roche suffered financial difficulties having fallen afoul of a duplicitous solicitor and she did not write again until 1807 when she received aid from the Royal Literary Fund. She then wrote 11 more novels most of them set in the rural Ireland but none matched her earlier successes. After her husband's death in 1829 she returned to Wexford. After bouts of depression she died in relative obscurity in the town of her birth at the age of 81. Roche's obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine remembers her as a "distinguished writer who had retired from the world and the world had forgotten her. But many young hearts now old must remember the effect upon them of her graceful and touching compositions." The Children of the Abbey a sentimental Gothic Romance was one of the period's most popular novels of the 1790s. Her book Clermont was Roche's only full attempt at writing a truly Gothic novel. It has a decidedly darker in tone than anything else she wrote. Both novels went through several editions and were translated into both French and Spanish. Clermont was one of the Northanger Horrid Novels satirized by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey. Wikipedia hardcover
177445029Leipzig Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius 1774. Bound in 2 very fine contemp. full calf raised bands richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels in leather on spines with gilt lettering. gilt border on all covers. Blindtooled decorations on covers in Cambridge-style "mirror-binding". Edges gilt. Stamp on foot of titlepages. 22312;16296 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. Light browning to some quires and to top of titles otherwise fine. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of the famous German educators mathematical textbook - his suggestion to how mathematics should be taught in his educational reform. Basedow’s views were based on the writings of men such as John Amos Comenius John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His practical teaching methods were more expansive in their implications for education than those of any of his immediate predecessors in the field and by the early 19th century they had become a fundamental force in Germany’s public school systems.Basedow blev i 1753 ansat af J.H.E. Bernstorff ved Sorø Akademi som professor i moral og de skønne videnskaber. Her kom han bl.a. i forbindelse med den danske oplysningsforfatter og Sorø-professor Jens Schielderup Sneedorff hvis værker han oversatte til tysk. Sneedorff blev selv inspirereret af Basedows pædagogiske idéer. </em> hardcover
178053319Paris Théophile Barrois 1780. 8vo. Fine cont. full mottled calf richly gilt spine and gilt titlelabel in red leather. Edges gilt. LXVIII3333 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate showing his experimental apparatus. Light browning to margins of title-page otherwise clean and with broad margins. A fine copy. <br/><br/><em>First French edition of perhaps the most important work in plant physiology. It is in this work that Ingen-Housz for the first time expounds the ideas and experiments that lead to his discovery of Photosynthesis in plant life and as such it is of fundamental importance in the economy of living things. "His Experiments upon vegetables was published in the autumn of 1779 and was at once recognized as a very important advance. In brief he showed that oxygen evolution by plant is absolutely dependent on light and that it only occurs from those parts which are green.The proof that light and green tissues are both essential for oxygen production finally cleared up the apparent contradictions and variable results of earlier experiments. Priestly was "much pleased" with Ingen-Housz's experiments and pointed immediately to the salient facts that he had established." A.G. Morton: History of Botanical Science. p. 332. Dibner: Heralds of Science No. 29. - Garrison & Morton No. 103. - Horblit No. 55. All the English edition of 1779. </em> hardcover
176850313Avignon Veuve Girard & Francois Seguin 1768. 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Wear to top of spine. Richly gilt spine titlelabel with gilt lettering. 2XXXI380 pp. and 8 folded engraved plates. On verso of title-page a stamped exlibris. On inside frontcover an engraved exlibris "John Cookney". Internally clean printed on good paper. <br/><br/><em>This edition of the first treatise on the differential calculus first published 1696 is the first with the commentaries by the famous French astronomer Nicolas-Louis De Lacaille taken from his noted "Leçons élémentaires de mathématiques"."The Analyse des infiniment petits was the first textbook of the differential calculus. The existence of several commentaries on it - one by Varignon 1725 - attests to its popularity. The question of its intellectual ownership has been much debated. Jean Bernoulli who is known to have instructed L’Hospital in the calculus about 1691 complained after L’Hospital’s death that he Bernoulli had not been given enough credit for his contributions. L’Hospital himself in the introduction to his books freely acknowledges his indebtedness to Leibniz and to the Bernoulli brothers. On the other hand he states that he regards the foundations provided by him as his own idea although they also have been credited by some to Jean Bernoulli. However these foundations can be found less explicitly also in Leibniz although Leibniz made it clear that he did not accept L’Hospital’s Platonistic views on the reality of infinitely small and infinitely large quantities."DSB. </em> unknown
176949805Berlin Haude et Spener 1769. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres" tome XXIII pp. 165-310. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First edition of a fundamental paper in the Theory of Numbers in which Lagrange gives a solution in integers of indeterminate equations of the second degree - a remarkable turning point in Diophantine analysis. - Fermat had asserted that he could determine when the more general equation x2-Ay2=B was solvable in integers and that he could solve it when solvable but Lagrange solved it in this paper and furthermore he gives the complete solution to the problem of giving all integral solutions of a general equation where the coefficients are integers. - Cajori calls Lagrange "One of the greatest mathematicians of all times." - Poggendorff I:1344. </em> unknown
170231267Frankfurt am Main Apud Johannem David. Zunnerum et Nicolaum Wilhelmum Helwig1702. Small folio. Very nice recent blue hcalf w. gilt lettering on spine. Title-page printed in red and black w. woodcut vignette and stamp: "Jews college London". Some brownspotting but all in all a very nice copy. 12 184 8 Index pp. <br/><br/><em>Second edition of Ludolfus' groundbreaking Ethiopian Grammar. The German Job Ludolf was the first to bring the study of Etiopian subjects into a system and his present work is the first of its kind to see the light of day. It was unusal for the time to take up the study of something like the Ethiopian laguage and after Ludolfus' important philological works followed a long period of neglect which did not end till the second half of the nineteenth century when these studies were finally resumed causing them to flourish. Brunet III pp. 1223. </em> unknown
170642126London: Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill 1706. Hardcover. 1st edition. All Original Period tooled calf with raised bands and spine label. 8vo iv 336 pages. Yolton 299; NCBEL II 1835; Pforzheimer 609. Attig 724. <br> Often credited as a founder of modern "liberal" thought Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law social contract religious toleration and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed. <br> Six substantial pieces compiled by Locke's literary executors Peter King and Anthony Collins with Locke's instructions. Contents are: 1 The Conduct of Understanding 2 An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion. 3 A Discourse on Miracles 4 Part of a Fourth Letter on Toleration 5 Memoirs Relating to the Life of Anthony First Earl of Shaftesbury and 6 Locke's ingenious New Method of a Common-Place-Book. The latter first appeared in French in 1686 in the Bibliothèque Universelle and Shaftesbury's memoirs also first appeared in French 1705 in Bibliothèque Choisie.<br> Those two make their first English appearance here and it is the first appearances in print for the other four. Locke's "Of the Conduct of the Understanding" was especially popular and was reprinted numerous times. It was intended as a later addition to his Essay Concerning Human Understanding but Locke was unable to incorporate this in a later edition before his death. <br> OCLC: 367557024. OCLC locates only 2 copies in North America Yale & BYU.<br> <br> Hinges cracked but hinges very solid and strong. Owner's label and name on blank front endpapers. Paper bright white Very attractive copy in what appears to be the original 300 year old binding. B KH-10-11. London: Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill hardcover
179415958Philadelphia: Robert Folwell 1794. Leather. Acceptable. Full calf leather. 500 pages. Includes 4 bound volumes 1794-1796: Acts Passed at the First Session of the Third Congress of the United States of America 1794 Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Third Congress.1794 Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fourth Congress.1795 Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Fourth Congress.1796 and a lengthy Index to the Laws. While binding is tight leather boards are rubbed scuffed and bent; the back board is loose but secure; hinge is cracked. Text block is soiled. The first few pages up to and presumably including the Primary title page are missing. The lower 1/4 of the first title page is missing. All other pages are present and easily readable albeit with rubbing and chipping to edges and corners soiling and foxing to pages and text block appropriate for its age and apparent use. A remarkable piece of history. Pictures available upon request. Robert Folwell unknown
1799LTH16-B-18London: W Bent 1799. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". None. A late eighteenth century edition of The New Week's Preparation. With an engraved frontispiece. Legitimised by the recto of frontispiece which states 'published by authority'. The note observes that this edition is printed on fine paper with a copper-plate frontispiece and title page. The statement is then signed by William Bent the proprietor and publisher of this work. In two parts this work is a guide to the week for Christians and includes prayers hymns as well an altar companion. In a full calf binding. Externally heavily rubbed to the boards and spine. Loss to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Loss to the tail of the rear joint. Crack to the tail of spine. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front free endpaper dated 1802. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned mostly to edges/ Pages 135-142 of part I are severely age toned with marks to pages. The occasional handling mark to pages and light spotting throughout. Good W Bent hardcover
1718FF2503Utrecht:: Apud Guilielmum vande Water 1718. 1718. Two parts in one volume. Octavo. 62 398; 258 70 pp. Elaborate engraved frontispiece woodcut title vignette head & tail pieces index. Title printed in red & black. Internally generally clean and tight with offsetting to title. Later full red straight grain morocco single-ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped and lettered spine with solid single gilt roll to edges foot of spine gilt-stamped: TRAJ: AD RHEN publisher: 1718 all edges gilt marbled endsheets; somewhat rubbed. Bookplates of Thomas M. Lowndes and Henry Drury. Very good. With a fore-edge painting depicting a scene of HAWICK ROXBURGHSHIRE SCOTLAND after an engraving by John Greig fl. 1800-1843 from an original study by Luke Clennell 1781-1840. The fore-edge painting is based on an engraving found in Sir Walter Scott's Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Longman & Co. 1814-1817. This well-painted scene is likely of 20th century vintage. / The Dutch scholar Peter Burman was professor of the art of rhetoric and the history of Utrecht and also of Greek philology. In 1715 he succeeded Perizonius receiving the chair of history and the Greek language and the art of rhetoric at the Lyon-Batava Academy. Later he was librarian and director of the Lyon-Batava Academy. This is his commentary on Phaedrus which was originally issued in 1698. PROVENANCE: Thomas M. Lowndes – Henry Drury both pre-fore-edge – Jack Bartfield Fine Books New York – Randall J. Moskovitz MD Memphis Tennessee. Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1718. unknown
179241771Honiton England 1792. Folio leaf 16" x 13." Folded to 4 pp. Printed on verso of first leaf and recto of second leaf only. Light old folds spine with early reinforcement tape. Text clean and bright. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Public enthusiasm for the tenets of the French Revolution and Thomas Paine worried those who supported the established monarchy and British parliamentary government. <br /> In response Loyalists created local Societies like this one pledging "that we will to the utmost of our power & at the expence of every thing dear to us maintain and support the Principles of the British Constitution as established at the Glorious Revolution whenever they shall be attacked with open Violence or be secret and designing Treachery."<br /> The Association expresses its "deepest Abhorrence of the Authors and Publishers of those seditious Pamphlets which under the specious disguise of Liberty are calculated only to promote Licentiousness and Disorder to encourage Rebellion against the State and Treason against Society." More than thirty supporters sign in type. E. Holland and C. Gidley sign in type as Chairman and Secretary respectively.<br /> ESTC records this rare document only at the British Library. OCLC does not list it. <br /> ESTC T22340 1- British Library. Not on OCLC as of March 2026. unknown
1773C2470vii384 pages with numerous woodcuts and decorative initials throughout. Small quarto 8" x 5 3/4" bound in half leather over marbled boards. Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: Not listed From the library of J W Rimington Wilson. Second edition. First edition published in 1769. <br /><br />Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friend with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio is known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of <i>Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi</i> <i>The Incomparable Game of Chess</i>. As Ponziani did not include his name in this work <i>Opera d'Autore Modenese</i> it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham <i>The Incomparable Game of Chess</i> attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. In the opening the primary objective is to obtain the maximum amount of mobility for the pieces aiming in particular for vulnerable points such as the f2 or f7 square. No importance is attached to formation or maintenance of a pawn center pawns are used to drive back enemy pieces. Ponziani 1782 also gave an example of an endgame blockade or fortress in which the inferior side is able to hold a draw despite having only two minor pieces for the queen by hemming in the opposing king. In the opening Ponziani is best known as the eponym of the Ponziani Opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 although he did not originate it as it was published by Lucena around 1497. His name is properly attached to the Ponziani Countergambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 f5 in the Ponziani Opening as he published the first analysis in 1782. Wikipedia<br /><br />James Wilson Rimington-Wilson 1822-1877 was one of the great collectors of books about chess as well as books about other games and sports. He was a strong amateur chess player and records of some of his games survive including a victory over Wilhelm Steinitz the first official world champion of chess. Rimington-Wilson developed an extensive gaming library which was maintained and perhaps added to by his son Reginald Henry Rimington-Wilson 1852-1927. After the death of R. H. his son Captain H. E. Rimington-Wilson 1899-1971 ordered the sale of the library by auction at Sotheby's. It was the Quaritch firm that purchased the vast majority of the Rimington-Wilson lots at Sotheby's. They offered the books in two catalogues shortly after the sale.<br /><br />Condition: Provenance J W Rimington Wilson with his signature to front paste down. Contemporary half calf rebacked and recornered earlier ink calculations and annotations in Italian on front free end paper Brooklyn Public Library ink stamp on back free end paper else very good. Simone Occhi hardcover
1792305549London: Downing Street 1792. With Mackenzie's docket "From Mr. Pitt 6 Feby. 1792. His opinion of my pamphlet.". 4to. Old folds. With Mackenzie's docket "From Mr. Pitt 6 Feby. 1792. His opinion of my pamphlet.". 4to. Reading in part:<br /> ".I really cannot forbear expressing how very sincerely I feel myself obliged to the author.if its political tendency were out of the question.it would. afford me more pleasure than almost any publication I ever remember to have read."<br /> MacKenzie was known as the "Addison of the North. Downing Street unknown
170753206Utrecht: P. van Lankom 1707. Hardcover. Very good. Eight parts octavo: asterisk8 A-2M8 2N4 K5 signed K3 292 leaves pp. 16 416 413-564 i.e. 568. Title in red and black; separate half-titles for each part. Woodcut lettrines; printed side notes. Numerous citations in Hebrew and Greek. Contemporary vellum soiled slight separation at upper joint. Mild embrowning at the edges. Text fine and crisp throughout. Overall a very good copy.<br /> <br /> First edition of this compendium one of two issues the other published by Johann Coster in which nine celebrated early modern Christian hebraists advance their views on the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton YHWH. The celebrated hebraist and Old Testament scholar Adriaan Reland 1676-1718 judged by Bayle to be one of the most learned writers of the eighteenth century is best remembered for his works on Jewish antiquities. He edited various other collections of essays and dissertations including Analecta Rabbinica 1702; Dissertationes miscellaneae 1706-1708; Dissertationes de nummis veterum Hebraeorum 1709. His opinion on the proper pronunciation of YHWY agrees with the first five hebraists in the present collection as well as the current scholarly consensus.<br /> <br /> I.- Johannes Drusius the elder 1550-1615 Tetragrammaton sive de nomine Dei proprio.<br /> <br /> II. - Sixtinus Amama 1593-1629 De nomine tetragrammato. with a response to Fuller. <br /> <br /> III. - Louis Cappel 1585-1658 Oratio de SS. Dei nomine tetragammato YHWH ac genuina ejus pronunciatione -- see Burnett Buxtorf 229: “Shortly after his appointment ot Saumur in 1613 he began his studies in biblical philology and textual criticism. His lecture on the Tetragrammaton delivered on June 22 1614 attests to a preoccupation with methodology which would distinguish his later work.†This was later printed in the Arcanum punctationis 1624 and here in our volume. <br /> <br /> IV. - Johann Buxtorf the elder 1565-1629 Dissertatio de nomine YHWH -- see Burnett Buxtorf 124: “For the Tetragrammaton alone Buxtorf devoted ten pages of discussion in his 1615 Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum.†<br /> <br /> V. - Jacob Alting 1618-1679 Exercitatio grammatica De punctis ac pronunciatione tetragrammati YHWH.<br /> <br /> VI. - Nicolus Fuller 1557-1626 Dissertatio de nomine YHWH -- see Orme and his note on Drusius’ charge of plagiarism against.<br /> <br /> VII. - Thomas Gataker 1574-1654 De nomine tetragrammato dissertatio. London 1645 - Gataker later defended himself against Cappel in Thomae Gatakeri . Dissertationis de Tetragrammato suæ a D. Ludovici Cappelli in diatribæ de eodem suæ defensione nuperâ adversus eandem objectis Vindicatio London 1652.<br /> <br /> VIII-X. - Johannes Leusden 1624-1699 Dissertationes tres de vera lectione nominis Jehova. P. van Lankom hardcover
1758121901London: Sold by J. Wilkie 1758. Vol. IV Nos. 236-313. Hardcover. Good. 4 632 p. 28 cm. Bound in black cloth with new endpapers. Dampstains ink stamps some dark marks but almost entirely legible. Chipped top front corner of last number p. 625. Occasional text cut off when cutting. <br/><br/>2 page index at beginning. The paper includes news Britain France Denmark Russia America etc. letters medical cases and cures properties for sale naval affairs ship news obituaries fashion new publications poetry. Description of Quebec "on the most navigable river in the universe" by P. Charlevoix pp. 180-181 descriptions of New York and New England p. 605 letter describing North American Indians p. 474. Sold by J. Wilkie hardcover
171531816Drumfries: Printed by Robert Rae. 1715. 4to. 4 27. 1 blank pp. Disbound lightly toned and dusted portions of several lower blank margins spotted. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Observing "That by Disputes about Religion Contentions only are inflamed" the author seeks a solution to this "thornie" issue. "That both Church and State may enjoy each their own Priviledges is the design of this Essay." The University of Glasgow's entry on OCLC names John Pollock as the author. <br /> England's established Church causes the author to advocate a greater involvement of civil government in religious matters than prevails in the United States. But otherwise his prescription is very much like modern American conceptions of religious liberty: the Church is in charge of spiritual matters and gives "all due Respect and Obedience to the Civil Magistrate; whatever with Scripture warrant they can allow him will not be wanting." The Magistrate provides the environment for the free exercise of worship. "Even Heathen Magistrates may and ought to aid and help the Church. Whence it is that by God's Command Prayers are to be made for them." Differences of religious opinion do not justify disobedience to the civil ruler.<br /> OCLC 181867601 location unlisted as of October 2025 previously listed at U Glasgow. ESTC T56725 four copies in the British Isles one in the U.S. at the U of KS. Printed by Robert Rae... unknown
17892110502150902863Not Available 1789. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
1781006339London: J Nichols 1781. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VG 1st ed 1781 9 pls includes the 2 maps. In contemporary marked boards. Respined to style raised bands gilt tooling gilt titles to red morocco label. Internally 2 iii-iv 2 iii-viii 1 2-342 1 tp ff 1 344-470 471-477 preface 1 471-540 547-557 pp 1 errata text is complete 2 portrait 5 tables 1 folding 2 maps 1 folding Mozart pl from another copy new endpapers bookplate to fpd Thomas Swanwick MD 1 map cropped in corner to border edge board tips repaired ink no to ffep woodcut to tp. Folio 207267 mm. ESTC T39448 Sabin 3628. Allibone 9. Barrington judge antiquary and naturalist who between 1774 and 1776 published several pamphlets on the possibility of reaching the north pole by sea. These together with Barrington's translation of the journal of the Spaniard Francisco Antonio Maurelle's 1775 voyage in search of the passage were included with many of Barrington's other writings. As in much of his other work Barrington relied heavily-in his arguments favouring the prospect of a northern passage-on accumulating testimonies in this case of seamen and other travellers making reports of ice-free waters in high latitudes. See ODNB. <br/> <br/> J Nichols hardcover
17988291Dublin: H Fitzpatrick; A Cunninghame; J Milliken Carter 1798. An unrecorded edition of Charles Jackson's Narrative of his role in the Wexford Rebellion is the star item in this fascinating collection of Dublin imprints from the 1790s. Small octavo-sized volume bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards with red morocco spine label: 'Tracts'. Endpapers with 1794 dated watermark. The imprints appear as follows: A von Kotzebue translated by Anne Plumptre The Natural Son A Play Dublin H Fitzpatrick 1798 xii pp108 half title present; ESTC T59599 19 locations; not Harvard Arthur Murphy Know Your Own Mind: a Comedy 1788 Dublin A Chamberlaine 8 pp 85 3 half title present; T29504 12 locations not Oxford Cambridge Harvard or Yale Charles Jackson A Narrative of the Sufferings and Escape of Charles Jackson Late Resident at Wexford in Ireland 1798 Third Edition Dublin 1798 2 x pp11-90 - seemingly unrecorded third Irish edition Not OCLC ESTC COPAC of this important account emerging from the Wexford Rebellion which was printed in London Dublin and Sligo in the immediate aftermath of the traumatic suppression of the rising. All the surviving early Irish editions of this loyalist work are scarce. The First Number of the Report of the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor Dublin 1800 William Watson xii xxiv pp72 pp110 Appendix ESTC T119239 BL & Irish Academy only Jackson's unrecorded edition of his Narrative is the most significant item in the collection of which we can find no institutional record - several of the early editions seem to have disappeared entirely. No doubt its sensational content contributed to its being devoured on first appearance. The Report with which the volume ends is also rare and fascinating to find it next to Jackson's account. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1798 H Fitzpatrick; A Cunninghame; J Milliken, Carter hardcover
1769123270London: J Cooke 1769. Hardcover. Good. Rare. 4vo. 792pp with list of subscribers. From the George III preface onwards the condition of the text is very good/fine as is that of all the many full page engravings. The full leather binding is probably original but the front board is missing and the back boards and last few pages are detached. There are no front endpapers but the binding of all the rest of the text until the last pages is tight and robust. The title page has wear and tear with some inches of paper loss to the top edge near the spine and a little paper loss also to the middle of the outside edge. No foxing. Photos available on request. <br/> <br/> J Cooke hardcover
173542459Paris Imprimerie Royale 1735. 4to. Fine recent marbled boards. Printed titlelabel on frontcover. 6144 pp. and 1 double-page folded engraved plate. Johann B's paper: pp. 1- 91. - Daniel B's papers: pp. 93- 122 and pp. 123-144. A few marginal brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First edition of these prize winning papers by father Jean and son Daniel. - Both papers deals with the cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits relative to the solar equator. - In Daniel's paper he put foreward the hypothesis of the existence of an atmosphere resempling air and rotating around the solar axis resulting in an increasing inclination of the planetary orbits toward the equator of the sun. Daniel was the first importent Newtonian outside Great Britain. The problems faced here by Daniel are treated in Newtonian manner.The publication of these papers by father and son resulted in a controversy between the two forcing Daniel to leave his fathers house. - Poggendorff I:161. </em> hardcover
176941682Berlin Haude et Spener 1769. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" tome XIX. 2 =halftitle Mémoires.141-220. 1.memoir pp. 141-179 a. 1 enraved plate. - 2. pp. 180-193. - 3. pp. 194-220. - 4. pp. 221-234 a. 1 plate. <br/><br/><em>First printing of these 4 fundamental papers on the perturbations of the moon as Euler was the first to use of the Calculus on the motion of the moon in relation to the attractive powers of the Moon the Earth and the Sun. The theories laid down here is also called Euler's second theory and it is the most interesting. It was of the greatest importtence as a basis for later developments."He applied his mathematics to astronomy working out the nature of some perturbations being in this respect the precursor of Lagrange and Laplace. He began to replace the geometric methods of proof used by Galileo and Newton with the algebraic a tendency carried to its conclusion by Lagrange. In particular he worked on lunar theory that is on the analysis of the exact motion of the moon the complications of which have been the despair of astronomers and mathematicians since the time of Kepler. - Eneström: 398 399 400 a. 401. </em> unknown
173246579Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water."The one serious drawback to Réaumur’s thermometer was that different strengths of alcohol have different coefficients of dilation so that while one type of alcohol might expand one degree after the application of a certain amount of heat another might expand two degrees under the same conditions. It was vital that all thermometers scaled according to his system have the same grade of alcohol. Réaumur suggested that the alcohol used in his thermometers be of a type that would dilate 80 degrees - that is 8 parts in 100 - between the temperature of ice and the temperature at which the alcohol began to boil in an open thermometer tube. Owing to an unfortunate confusion of language in his article on the thermometer however nearly everyone believed that 80° on his scale was the temperature of boiling water; and as a result when so-called Reaumer thermometers began to be made by the artisans of Paris they were nearly all scaled linearly with respect to two fiducial points 0° for ice and 80° for boiling water." DSB.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1730 P. </em> unknown
178344413Neuchatel Samuel Fauche 1783. 4to. Bound in fine contemp. full sprinckled calf raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to head of spine. Without the 2 free endpapers. Halftitle present and with stamps. XXIV367 pp. 2 engraved plates 1 folded. The folded plate depicts his two types of Hair-Hygrometers a. 1 engraved vignette. A fine clean and wide-margined copy. <br/><br/><em>First edition of a fundamental work in Meteorology in which Saussure describes how to construct a hygrometer from human hair that can measure the relative humidity and discussing the principles behind it. Cuvier regarded this book as one of the greatest contributions to science of the eighteenth century."A milestone work in chemistry physics and meteorology which established hygrometry as an exact science. Primarely a geologist who explored and published on the Alps Saussure 1740-1788 was the first to prove that air expands and becomes less dense the more humidity it contains. In these Essais the work offered he describes his experiments with the hair hygrometer of his invention and his theory of the evaporation and hygrometry with their applications to meteorology. he also enunciates his theory of the evaporation of water in hydrogen carbon dioxide and other gases."Neville II p. 427 a."In his essay on the theoretical principles of hygrometry which he conceives as "the art of measuring the absolute quantity of water suspended in the air" De Saussure distinguishes three classes of methods of determining humidity which respectively utilize i observations of changes in the weight dimensions or shape of a hygroscopic body; ii observations of the capacity of the air for taking up water; and iii observations of the quantity of water condensing from the air under given conditions on a cold surface or of the degree of cold necessary to start such an condensation."Wolf "A History of Science Technology & Philosophy in the 18th Century" I p. 326 ff.Partington III 763. - Partington "Breakthroughs" 1783 M - Poggendorff II 755-56. </em> hardcover
175147143London: Printed for T. Osborne 1751. Leather bumped rubbed and scratched with some minor staining to boards and minor chipping to spine. Hinges/joints cracked. Small period ink notation to corner of front pastedown. Occasional foxing and browning throughout otherwise textblock clean and solid. Second Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. Folio. Printed for T. Osborne Hardcover
