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16551262906Amsterdam: Elzevier 1655. First edition. 12mo in vellum with flattened corners; VG; moderate soiling or shelf wear and strong binding; ex-libris plate on second front page; pencil and ink inscriptions on back of front board and first end page; dusty edges; clean text in very tight print; two volumes in one book; scarce; this book was published in English in 1656 as "Men before Adam" and burned in public in Paris before La Peyrere recanted and converted to Catholicism; contains a folded map of the Holy Land in very good condition; shelved in Case # 3; VK consignment. 1262906. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Elzevier unknown books
1972Embry 82750U. of Oklahoma Press 1972. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. U. of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1719SS13189London:: Printed for B. Creake . . . J. Sackfield . . .; And sold by W. Mears . . . 1719. 1719. Sm. 4to. xxii 201 5 pp. 10 folding engraved copperplates 5 figs. pp. 24 54 75 112 half-title is a publisher's ad for Boerhaave rear publisher's ads 2 ff. head and tail-pieces; title edges chipped. With errata. Title p.101 perforated stamp and with a rubber stamp on verso of the John Crerar Library eight plates with the ex-library rubber stamp on versos; waterstained throughout. WITH FREQUENT EARLY INK CORRECTIONAL NOTES. Modern half blind-stamped dark calf gilt spine title raised bands marbled paper over boards new endleaves bindery ticket at rear: Pat M. Bruno. Inscription on recto of front blank verso is ad for Boerhaave book "W. --- 1720 Power." SPURIOUS EDITION OF DESAGULIERS' FAMOUS PRIVATE LECTURES CONTAINING NOTES ON BOYLE'S AIR PUMP AND NEWTON ON COLOR THEORY. FIRST ENLARGED EDITION early issue without "All carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr. Desaguliers" on title which otherwise is re-titled "Lectures of Experimental Philosophy". Includes: Sir Isaac Newton's Colours. Proposition. Lights which differ in Colour differ also in Degrees of Refrangibility. Initially published without the author's permission and then by evidence of the printed Preface agreed to issue the book with an erratum. / There are multiple forms of this edition as different copies collate differently Andrade Kenney Honeyman copies. The Honeyman copy called a second edition has two title-pages and the Preface by Desaguliers with an imprint of 1719. There are also differences in the title-pages. The fiasco of the unauthorized edition is the cause of the various issue differences. "Perhaps Dawson hoped . . . to ingratiate himself with his patron but instead he incurred the wrath of the lecturer. Immediately Desaguliers became aware of the book which he called 'ill put together sadly transcrib'd and worse corrected' he approached the booksellers. He found that two-thirds of the imprint had already been sold by Messrs Mears Creake and Sackfield but they paid him ten guineas 'to pacifie me'. They also promised to insert into all remaining copies a preface that Desaguliers would write together with a substantial errata. The preface follows the Dawson dedication in some copies of the book entitled A System of Experimental Philosophy but precedes it in another version called Lectures in Experimental Philosophy." See: Carpenter pp. 34-5 119. / Contents: Mechanical experiments Mechanical powers & definitions; How to make a heavy Body seem to rise it self; gravity balance leaver pulley wheel axle wedge screw laws of nature hydrostatics; Description of Robert Boyle's Air-Pump uses & experiments; How to make an air vacuum; Barometers Thermometers Hydrometers; Catoptrichs; Dioptrichs; Sir Isaac Newton's Colours; Condensing Engine; "Rowley's Horary being a machine to represent the Motion of the Moon about the Earth and the Earth Venus and Mercury about the Sun." / The preface written by Desaguliers himself explains that this volume of lectures was released "before I designed to publish them." He then retells how Paul Dawson "took a copy of the lectures . . . that they may be service to him when he went thro' my courses and they were afterwards sold and published without my knowledge." He obtained a copy of the text and made numerous corrections :: thus the micro-print 1 ½ page errata. The he invites the owner to annotate the book throughout "before he begins to read the lectures." And indeed the owner named Powers did annotate this copy :: clear evidence he read that Preface. A2-3. / The DNB asserts that Desaguliers "held in great esteem by Sir Isaac Newton" "is said to have been the first to deliver learned lectures to general audiences. Lectures by him at his London house were widely attended and were made attractive by experiments." In addition it mentions that Paul Dawson was responsible for the work and that Desaguliers himself "disavowed" himself of the edition. :: DNB pp. 850-1. / Nicholas A Hans describes the types of persons attending Desaguliers' lectures: "merchants craftsmen and clerks and his private audiences consisted of gentlemen and courtiers and included ladies as well." :: Nicholas A Hans New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century 1951 p. 141. / Westfall says of Desaguliers he "became a fixture at the meetings of the Royal Society where he carried out sets of experiments intimately related to various aspects of Newtonian natural philosophy. Some of his experiments such as the transmission of heat through a vacuum influenced Newton's views and other found their way into the third edition of the Principia." :: Never at Rest pp. 685-6. / Writing for the DSB A. Rupert Hall points out that Desaguliers did not produce his own version of these lectures until 1734 "when he took occasion to denounce this unauthorized version. . ." :: DSB IV pp. 43-6. / John Theophilus Desaguliers 1683-1744 born at La Rochelle emigrated to England in 1685 as a Huguenot refugee hidden in a tub at 2-years of age studied at Oxford he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1714. As the Society's experimenter and a close friend of Newton he often verified Newton's theories through experimentation. "In 1717 he published Physico-Mechanical Lectures an eighty-page abstract of the twenty-two lectures of his course. Although not authorized by Desaguliers the present work is the first full account of his lectures edited by his student Paul Dawson. Primarily of interest as a textbook of Newtonian physics many chemical topics are included. The first issue appeared with the title A System of Experimental Philosophy." / REFERENCES: Bakken title: "Lectures of experimental philosophy . . . 1719" pp. 52-3; Goodison English Barometers 1680-1860 p. 369; Keynes Boyle 366 pp. 122-9; Roy G. Neville I p. 354 second issue; Poggendorff I 554; Wellcome II p. 451; Wheeler 249. Not in Babson Barchas Gray or Verne L. Roberts catalogues. See: DSB IV p. 45; Taylor Mathematical Practitioners 1714-1840 35; Audrey T. Carpenter John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England Bloomsbury Academic 2011. FULL TITLE: A System of Experimental Philosophy Prov'd by Mechanicks wherein the principles and laws of Physicks Mechanicks Hydrostaticks and Opticks are demonstrated and explained at large by a great number of curious experiments. . . To which is added Sir Isaac Newton's colours: the description of the condensing engine with its apparatus: and Rowley's Horary; a machine representing the motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun according to the Copernican System. Printed for B. Creake, . . . J. Sackfield . . .; And sold by W. Mears, . . . 1719. hardcover books
19709008458New York: Oxford University Press 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
1969247885New York: Merit Publishers 1969. 29p. staplebound pamphlet wraps lightly soiled 1/2 inch closed tear on front wrap else very good. Second printing. Merit Publishers unknown books
1969228674New York: Merit Publishers 1969. 29p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Second printing. Merit Publishers unknown books
195741807NY: Coward-McCann 1957. First American edn. 8vo pp. viii 245. A little childish scribblin on title the margins of two pages and the little chipped dj o/w a VG tight copy. Coward-McCann unknown books
1970143182New York: Vintage 1970. Paperback. xii 484p. wraps cover warp shelf worn and aged else in very good condition. Vintage Russian Library v-748. The 1970 date is based on the inclusion of an SBN on the bottom right corner of the rear wrap. Vintage paperback books
19639026463New York: Oxford University Press 1963. 1st . Hardcover. Fine condition. Bound in publisher's original cloth.Vol. I: 1879-1921 The Prophet Armed. Volume II: 1921-1929 The Prophet Unarmed. Volume III: 1929-1940 The Prophet Outcast. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
197010215NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0192117041 . First edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
186621279NY: Widdleton 1866. A new edn. 2 Vols. 8vo pp. 419 453. Ex library. hinges tender. o/w VG. Essays on English literature criticism public opinion concerning literature etc. Widdleton unknown books
186472048Cambridge: Riverside Press. Very Good. 1864. Hardcover. Disraeli Isaac. CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. Cambridge: Riverside Press 1864. This is two of four volumes Volumes 1 and 2. Some rubbing to the covers former owner bookplates on the front paste down of each volume. Contents are bright and complete. Very Good. . Riverside Press hardcover books
183330108Boston: Lilly Wait Colman and Holden; New York: William Jackson 1833. First complete American edition of the first series 8vo 3 vols. pp. 386 363 and 375; wood-engraved frontispiece illustration in each vol. folded facsimile of "Mr. Pope's Manuscript Homer" in vol. III; original purple moiré-patterned cloth covered boards stamped and lettered in gilt on spine; moderate wear to extremities the spines faded to tan with ends fraying and chipped joints on each volume cracked with a few inadequate and amateurish tape repairs and light to moderate foxing throughout. The Curiosities was the most popular and most reprinted work by Benjamin Disraeli's father. <br/><br/> William Jackson hardcover books
1875000140New York: W. J. Widdleton 1875. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾. Book. 1874 ed. for Amenities 1875 for Curiosities all volumes bound in black cloth. Some soilage to boards some minor chips vol. 1 of Amenities has small tear upper spine right. Still atttractive 6 volume set. Interiors tight pages age toned clean with name of owner written neatly into title pages owner was famous American statesman of time 1876. Isaac Disraeli was belletrist of note and father of British PM. This work was a monument to bibliophilia and is considered a minor classic in own right without regard to son. Basically a collection of strange and fascinating trivia about literary figures and other miscellany. <br/><br/> W. J. Widdleton hardcover books
1875RDISCUR00CCWW.J. Widdleton 1875. Good. Disraeli Isaac. Curiosities of Literature 4 volume set. New York: W.J. Widdleton 1875. 446 468 466 472pp. Indexed. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Good with chipped heads of spines and bumping and rubbing to edges.Light soiling. All four volumes are tightly bound and internally clean. Each volume has a contemporary bookseller's leabel and a presentation bookplate on its front pastedown. A collection of the writings of Isaac D'Israeli with a commentary on his life and work by his son British Prime Minister Benjamin D'Israeli. W.J. Widdleton hardcover books
1849008152London: Edward Moxon 1849. Three volumes finely bound in contemporary polished calf black morocco labels and intricate gilt decorations back marbled end papers and edges the bookplates front paste downs of William Jones Loyd 1821-1885 a partner in the London branch of Jones Loyd & Co and who was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1861. Frontispieces with 2 engraved portraits and one tinted lithographic view. xlii 525 vii 606 viii 588 pp. Very Good Plus light rubbing and soiling to boards moderate toning at end pages and title pages interiors clean and bright. A handsome set. . Fourteenth Edition . Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edward Moxon Hardcover books
186532138London: Routledge 1865. Three volumes. Half calf extremities rubbed; very good otherwise. Feom the library of Ira Gershwin with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Routledge unknown books
186632139London: Routledge 1866. Polished calf. Extremities rubbed; very good otherwise. Inscribed to Ira Gershwin by Gershwin biographer Edward Jablonski and other family members. With Ronald Fuller's 1925 Merton College bookplate by Rex Whistler. <br/><br/> Routledge unknown books
1859UDISCAL00ECRoutledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. Good. Disraeli Isaac. The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors : With Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters And Memoirs for Our Literary History. London: Routledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. 552pp. Indexed. 12mo. Book condition: Good only. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped. The top edges of the pages are very lightly moisture stained. Pp. 419-430 are hanging on by a thread. Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge unknown books
187131902New York: W.J. Widleton 1871. Cloth edges worn. Bookplate of Alexander Eakin. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> W.J. Widleton hardcover books
1868W61816New York: W.J.Widdleton 1868. Original 3/4 tan calf 5 raised bands enclosing red and black morocco labels and fleurons. Matching marbled boards edges and endpapers. Some general light wear to edges joints and tips. Owner label on each front pastedown. One volume "Literary Character" 4 volumes "Curiosities of Literature" 2 volumes "Amenities of Literature" and 2 of "Calamities and Quarrels of Authors". The series was edited by Isaac's son Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. W.J.Widdleton Hardcover books
186437372New York: Hurd & Houghton 1864. "A New Edition". Original publisher's tan half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards eps & edges. Gilt decorated spines. Average wear. Armorial bookplate of Henry T. Babcock. A VG set. 2 volumes: viii 9 - 419 3 blank; iv 5 - 453 5 blank pp. Index Vol II. Crown 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Hurd & Houghton hardcover books
1979173666New York: the author 1979. 160p. very good in wraps corners lightly shelfworn; short stories in Yiddish. the author unknown books
27445hardcover. Folding chart. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Random House 1964. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
196479789NY:: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. B000H54GG2 . Stated first printing. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Random House, hardcover books
