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175228099Dublin: Re-printed by and for George Faulkner 1752 1752. Second Dublin edition stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. Edges gently rubbed; very good copy. 8vo contemporary calf maroon leather label gilt rules and lettering. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations in the 18th century. It was originally attributed to the Bishop of Ireland and prolific writer-philosopher George Berkeley. Berington was not identified as the author until 1935. Lee Ellison in his essay on Gaudentio di Lucca in the PMLA 1935 comments on Berington's believable realistic narrative compared with earlier imaginary voyages: "The earlier utopias lacked concreteness . . . Berington's Mezzorania on the other hand is as real as Mexico and Peru; and integrated with his philosophy and social theory is a narrative that runs the whole gamut from idyllic romance to luscious intrigue and bloody adventure." Contemporary ink signature of "Thos. Moore" on the title-page. <br/><br/> Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752 unknown books
173856251Dublin: reprinted by and for George Faulkner 1738. 8vo pp. xiv 310; contemporary calf boards; 19th-century rebacking; leather scuffed around board edges; head of title page clipped and mended; otherwise very good. A fictional story about an Italian man who discovers a mythical paradise called Mezzoramia in the African desert. The author Simon Berington 1680-1755 was a Catholic priest. The title page states that the text was copied from a manuscript in St. Mark's Library in Venice but this is a fictional account; the text was initially written in English and first published in London in 1737 and received a number of reprints. <br/><br/> reprinted by, and for George Faulkner hardcover books
171048930London: Printed and to be sold by A. Baldwin near the Oxford - Arms in Warwick - Lane 1710. 1st Edition Goldsmith 4608; Kress 2645. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bit of age-toning and dusting to outer leaves Very Good. 16 pp. Partially unopened. 8vo: A8. 7-7/16" x 4-11/16" <br/><br/> Printed, and to be sold by A. Baldwin, near the Oxford - Arms in Warwick - Lane unknown books
1796262349Versailles: D. Pierres 1796. hardcover. very good. 21 sepia engravings small 4to original marbled boards rubbed brown leather spine label half title and title page have been repaired not affecting the text. Versilles: D. Pierres 1796. Very good .<br/><br/> Nissen 2B1 995.<br/><br/> D. Pierres unknown books
177641822London: F. Blyth 1776. Plate: 183x115 mm. Margin: 301x216 mm. Slight marginal discoloration in top margin faint crease in bottom left corner light soiling faint foxing. F. Blyth unknown books
179341820I. Caulfield 1793. Plate: 178xx110 mm. Margin: 277x167 mm. Faint creasing three small pinholes in right margin faint soiling very faint foxing. I. Caulfield unknown books
1746WRCLIT59097London: Printed for W. Webb 1746. 460pp. Small octavo. Modern wrappers printed label. Light foxing but a very good copy with the half-title. First edition. An anonymous critique of the frequently reprinted and expanded MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF LORD LOVAT that appeared under the imprint of M. Cooper in the wake of Fraser's trial and conviction for treason. There was another printing in 1746 paginated at 44pp. priority not certain. ESTC T4555. Printed for W. Webb unknown books
1747WRCLIT59096London: Printed for M. Cooper at the Globe. 1746; and London. 1746 - 1747. 88;8pp. Octavo. Modern wrappers printed label. Latter work exhibits old horizontal fold and some smudging; HEH duplicate release stamp on last leaf of each work else very good. Early editions of two works that saw several printings/editions in the immediate period following Fraser's execution for high treason based on his participation in the Rebellion of 1745. The first title conforms to ESTC T200511 and the latter to ESTC T145891. The first work was most frequently reprinted in editions ranging from 40 to 123pp. generally under minor variants of Cooper's imprint and the text is generally considered to be embellished. All the editions/printings are uncommon. ESTC T200511 & T145891. Printed for M. Cooper at the Globe..., 1746; and [London. 1746 - unknown books
17347880Halae Magdeburgicae: Typis Ioan. Friderici Grunteri 1734. 4to. 36 pp. <br><br>Inaug. diss.--Halle Johann Conrad Eilhardt respondent 1734. Removed from a bound volume. Typis Ioan. Friderici Grunteri unknown books
179840475Paris: Firmin Didot 1798. <p>Strength of Materials</p> <p>Girard Pierre Simon 1765-1835. Traité analytique de la résistance des solides et des solides d'égale résistance . . . 4to. lv 238 2 incl. errata 48pp. 9 folding engraved plates. Paris: Firmin Didot; Dupont an VI 1798. 248 x 196 mm. Tree sheep c. 1798 gilt spine with black gilt-lettered label "Ecole royale regimentaire d'Artillerie de Metz" tooled in gilt on front cover light rubbing corners and upper spine extremity a bit worn. Very good.</p> <p>First Edition of the work that named the discipline known as the strength of materials. Girard was trained at the École des Ponts et Chaussées and was one of the few engineers of his time with sufficient mathematical knowledge to read the works of Euler. In 1787 Girard began investigating the strength of wood as a structural material and was able to apply his first results in this field in 1790 when he won the Académie des Science's competition on the theory and practice of canal and harbor lock construction. In 1798 he published his Traité analytique de la résistance des solides containing the results of his researches on the strength and resistance of building stone timber and wrought iron; it was the first book published in France to deal with the theory of beams in all its aspects strength flexural strength elastic stability yield strength. In the same year Girard traveled with Napoleon's army to Egypt where he studied the surface elevation and bed characteristics of the Nile; on his return to France Napoleon appointed him director of the Paris water supply. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Nouvelle biographie générale. </p> . Firmin Didot unknown books
176525986Dublin: Printed and Sold by W. Sleater 1765. 2nd Dublin Edition. Period full calf with maroon leather title label to spine. Overall VG joints starting though board solidly held by cords/spine label chipped/period ownership signature in the top margin of the t.p./bpt evidence to front paste-down. 2 iv 2 239 5 pp. Adverts last 5 pp. Frontis. Head- and tailpieces. 12mo: A4 B - L12 M2. 6-5/8" x 4" <br/><br/> Printed and Sold by W. Sleater hardcover books
175920079London: Nyon et al. 1759. Nouvelle Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled brown calf. All edges marbled. Very good. 2 vols. 407 490 pages. 17 x 10 cm. "Peruvian Tales related in One Thousand and One Hours by one of the Select Virgins of Cusco to the Yncka of Peru." Text in French. The author a French magistrate and prolific writer of tales. PALAU 110068 & SABIN 29143 for the English editions. Raised bands spine panels richly gilt marbled endpapers bookplates modest tip rubbing generally clean and fresh copy. Nyon et al. unknown books
1725319361La Haye: Gosse 1725. 3 plates in volume 1; 4 plates in volume 2 . 8 323 4; 2 290 6 23pp. 24mo. Blue morocco 2 hinges off a.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 3 plates in volume 1; 4 plates in volume 2 . 8 323 4; 2 290 6 23pp. 24mo. The last time this edition came up at auction it was this copy at Anderson Galleries in 1930 lot 216 Gosse unknown books
177168470With 12 Hand-Colored Plates of Dance Positions GUILLAUME Simon. Almanach dansant ou Positions et Attitudes de L'Allemande: Avec un discours prÈliminaire sur l'origine et l'utilitÈ de la danse. DÈdiÈ au beau sexe par Guillaume maitre de danse ; pour l'annÈe 1770 ou se trouve Un recueil de contredanse et menuets nouveaux. Paris: A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruÎ des Arcis maison du commissaire Valade libraire rue St. Jacques vis a vis celle de la Parcheminerie; 1771. A reissue of the sheets to the 1770 edition with pages 17-18 canceled being the divisional title page "Recueil de contredanses et menuets nouveaux et choisisî the final number of the date on the title-page covered in ink and the price information removed from title-page. Twelvemo 6 x 4 inches; 153 x 105 mm. 2 16 19-31 1 pp. With 12 pages of music and 12 colored plates. With two additional leaves bearing the ìAlmanach d'agenda pour l'annÈe 1771.î Printed in red and black pasted to wrappers as endpapers. The Harvard copy notes ìletterpress almanac for 1771 inserted following the t.p.î Engraved title-page title within ornamental border all hand colored. And with 12 engraved color plates depicting a couple dancing the allemande. These plates were issued both hand- colored and uncolored. An additional 12 pages of engraved dance music by Sauton and Lahante; signed at end: Coulubrier sculp. Also of note our copy has the pages of music printed out of order. No copy at auction of any edition in over 40 years and less than a handful of of all editions on OCLC. Bound in newer cream wrappers. Some wear and fraying to page edges. A small red stamp on bottom margin of title-page. Some occasional soiling to plates generally not affecting image. Traces of glue residue on inner blank margins of a few plates. Music leaves with some dampstaining. Housed in a green reverse calf folder. Overall a very nice copy. Referring to the allemande ìWhen the dance was introduced in Paris where it became popular in the 1760s and 1770s it was done quite differently from the German way at least according to the French dancing master Simon Guillaume. The main interest of the French version lay in a series of joined hand positions through which the partners moved by passing under each other's arms turning each other around and passing behind each other's back. The steps to the dance were of secondary importance judging from the perfunctory manner in which they are treated in French books describing the allemande and seem to have been subject to some variation.In his Almanach Dansant 1770 Guillaume described two allemande steps out of the several he said existed the main one in 2/4 time and another in 3/8.î The International Encyclopedia of Dance. HBS 68470. $3000 A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruÎ des Arcis maison du commissaire, Valade libraire r unknown books
1715WRCAM39741London 1715. Small folio broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Ornamental initial. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Some foxing. Else very good. Different from the 1714 work of the same title the text here begins: "Whereas by an Act of Parliament." A rare document petitioning Parliament to further government protections of the coach business through stricter licensing rules. This document is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. Rare with Hanson and ESTC recording only one copy at Oxford. HANSON 2193. unknown books
1778S13109Leipzig:: Johann Friederich Junius 1778. 1778. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm. 4to. xxiv 303 1 pp. Title vignette 4 folding engraved plates with 32 figs. head and tail-pieces. Original half calf decorative boards; very worn joints splitting extremities well worn. Title page signed by J. G. Kohler; bookplate of Ing. Dr. Edmund Neusser. First edition dedicated to the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler 1707-1783. Klugel based his writings on that of Euler's work on optics. In his parts VII and VIII he deals with the telescope and especially the microscope. / Euler's own work on the theory of the achromatic microscope was written as early as 1762 and 1771 when he dealt with the subject more fully. In 1774 Euler's pupil and friend Nicolas Fuss wrote a little book on how to construct an achromatic microscope. Klugel translated that work in 1778 and then followed that with this more thorough treatment being his Analytische Dioptrik also 1778. Due to the crudeness of design of the objective made in 1791by Francois Beeldsnyder 1755-1808 a colonel in the Amsterdam cavalry Mayall asserts and others uphold this view that he feels the discussion of the dates of origin or this instrument are at best unclear. :: Mayall. See also: S. Bradbury The Evolution of the Microscope pp. 179-180. / Georg Simon Klugel 1739-1812 German mathematician and physicist born in Hamburg studied under Abraham Kastner "the best teacher of mathematics in Germany" :: Vincenzo De Risi Gerolamo Saccheri 1667-1733 Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated . . . 2014 p.52. at the University of Gottingen. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Helmstedt and then was chair of mathematics and physics at the University of Halle. In this compendious work he corrected some of Euler's results and expanded with his own findings. In 1803-31 he published his famous dictionary of mathematics Mathematisches Worterbuch 5 vols. / Provenance II: I Johann Gottfried Kohler 1745-1801 Germen astronomer known for discovering a number of nebulae start clusters and galaxies. He was a colleague of Johann Elert Bode another German astronomer of importance. In 1785 Kohler was appointed jointly director of the Desden Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon and the Kunstkammer. His catalogue of nebulae was published in 1780. He wrote a number of astronomical papers in German and the following in the Philosophical Transactions "Observations on the transit of Mercury 1786 May 4 at Dresden" P.T. 1787. See: Hockey Thomas The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 2009; Poggendorff pp. 1290-1. / II: Ing. Dr. Edmund Neusser 1852-1912 born in Krakow was appointed in 1893 a full professor and director of medicine in the University of Vienna. A highly respected clinician he specialized in disorders of the blood and wrote about the circulatory system liver and adrenal glands. See: Austrian Biographical Encyclopaedia. / DSB VII pp. 404-05; Poggendorff I 1277; John Mayall Cantor Lectures on the Microscope p. 61. See: Dieter Gerlach Geschichte der Mikroskopie 2009 p. 200. Johann Friederich Junius, 1778. hardcover books
175622766Paris: n. p. 1756. First edition 12mo pp. 4 124; lacking the errata leaf; head- and tail-pieces throughout; contemporary mottled calf the spine gilt in six compartments red morocco label in 1 and all edges red; light wear to extremities small worm trail on back cover affecting leather only and a small 1-inch diameter illegible stamp in red on title-page; overall a very attractive clean copy. An important treatise on crop rotation. La Salle de l'Etang d. 1765 provides one of the earliest systematic plans for rotating food crops with "artificial" pastures allowing tilled lands to rebuild nutrient reserves. In addition the author advocates raising livestock for manure to fertilize dry and sterile lands. In order to facilitate his plan he calls for the establishment of a national bureau of agriculture that would be responsible for record-keeping distributing produce throughout the country in times of famine and regional crises regulating foreign trade in agricultural products and maintaining fair prices. A second edition of La Salle de l'Etang's treatise appeared in 1758 and a third expanded version of 330 pages in 1762 both with a Brussels imprint. Six copies in US libraries: Harvard Yale Delaware UC-Davis and 2 others. <br/><br/> [n. p.] hardcover books
1796216893Paris: Cercle-Social 1796. First. hardcover. near fine. 314 2; 312 4 pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. Short thick 8vo rubricated edges original full mottled calf ornately gilt spine. Paris: Imprimerie du Cercle-Social An IV 1796. First edition. Extremely rare. A near fine clean copy.<br/><br/> "One of the most successful popularizations of science ever composed." -DSB. An accompaniment to the author's lectures on calculus mechanics and astronomy. Contains sections on observable astronomical phenomena real motion of planets satellites and comets a summarization of his work in gravitational mechanics and a survey of the history of astronomy. "An elegant non-mathematical classic on astronomy. It is in this work that Laplace introduced one of his most notable contributions although he himself did not take it very seriously at first -- the so-called nebular hypothesis which provided a conjectural account of the origin of the solar system" which exercised powerful influence on scientific thought throughout the 19th century. PMM 252.<br/><br/> Cercle-Social unknown books
1796154868Paris: Cercle-Social 1796. First. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. 314 4; 312 4 pages. 8vo early marbled boards with paper spine labels bindings well-worn but very firm; uniform light foxing throughout. Paris: Imprimerie du Cercle-Social An IV 1796. First edition. Extremely rare. A very good copy.<br/><br/> "One of the most successful popularizations of science ever composed." -DSB. An accompaniment to the author's lectures on calculus mechanics and astronomy. Contains sections on observable astronomical phenomena real motion of planets satellites and comets a summarization of his work in gravitational mechanics and a survey of the history of astronomy. "An elegant non-mathematical classic on astronomy. It is in this work that Laplace introduced one of his most notable contributions although he himself did not take it very seriously at first -- the so-called nebular hypothesis which provided a conjectural account of the origin of the solar system" which exercised powerful influence on scientific thought throughout the 19th century. PMM 252.<br/><br/> Cercle-Social unknown books
1796231280Paris: Imprimerie du Cercle-Social 1796. First edition with half-titles without errata as usual. 314 4; 312 4 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary blue-patterned boards contrasting spine labels. Some toning joints just starting heads a bit chipped. Verso of half-title in volume I bears a few bibliographical notes in pencil. Very good. First edition with half-titles without errata as usual. 314 4; 312 4 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. "Among the most influential scientists in all history" - DSB. "Book I begins with what any attentive observer may see if he will open his eyes to the spectacle of the heavens on a clear night with a view of the whole horizon. Book II . sets out the "real" motions of the planets satellites and comets and gives the dimensions of the solar system. Book III is a verbal précis of the laws of motion as understood in eighteenth-century rational mechanics with special reference to astronomy and hydrostatics. In Book IV Laplace in effect summarized his own work in gravitational mechanics. Much of it consists of simplification of the prefatory sections to the published memoirs. The topics are perturbations in planetary motions the shape of the earth the attraction of spheroids and the rings of Saturn motions of the tides and atmosphere the moons of Jupiter precession and lunar motions. Only Book V contains material that Laplace had not written up in technical form or presupposed. It gives an overview of the history of astronomy and concludes with the speculation since called the nebular hypothesis and another on the nature of the universe in outer space." - DSB. PMM 252 note Imprimerie du Cercle-Social unknown books
1758263129Paris: Chez de Bure 1758. First. hardcover. good. l'Histoire Naturelle; les Moeurs Coutumes & Religion des Naturels. folding map of the Gulf of Mexico 40 engraved plates including the folding plan of New Orleans lacks large folding map of Louisiana. 3 volumes. 16mo contemporary mottled calf gilt spines spines and some edges of covers worn on all volumes shellac applied to all spines ex-lib lacks errata leaf in volume I. Paris: Chez de Bure 1758. First Edition.<br/><br/> "One fo the most useful contemporary authorities on French Louisiana. Le Page du Pratz lived there for 16 years and his detailed description is one of the main sources of his period." Streeter Sale 127. "Relation based on a residence from 1718 to 1734 valuable for showing French claims to the southern territory east of the Mississippi and for particulars concerning Indian nations there." Howes L-266. Ex libris from the library of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris with their bookplate on the front and back endpapers of each volume. Clark I: 75. Graff 2462. Field 910. Sabin 40122. Raines p. 73.<br/><br/> Chez de Bure unknown books
1789291069Geneve.: Barde Manget & Compagnie. 1789. 1st Edition. Marbled boards. . Very good spine had pulled small hole in title page. . 4to. 25x20 cm. French text. A nice copy of this work by the Swiss mathematician noted for his work in mathematical analysis and topology. weight: 0.8 lb. 2 folding plates. Barde, Manget & Compagnie. hardcover books
17758980Paris: N.p. 1775. 1st Edition. Boards. Very good. 1751pp. Old calf-backed marbled boards extremities somewhat rubbed. Treatise on monastic life by an important French journalist & writer. "Shortly before his execution during the Terror his fame in France rivaled that of Beaumarchais and even Voltaire E.B." There is another edition of 179pp. also 1775. N.p. hardcover books
17834570London: Thomas Spilsbury. Et se trouve d'Bruxelles 1783. Sm. 8vo. 2172pp. Printed on blue tinted paper. Orig. paper wrappers uncut worn spine strip mostly lacking. Bottom corner of half-title torn no text loss. Linguet 1736-1794 was an 18th century intellectual heretic of France. There are a number of pirated reprints with the Thomas Spilsbury 1783 imprint. Ours has 172 pages without errors in the pagination. Thomas Spilsbury... Et se trouve, d'Bruxelles unknown books
1783WRCLIT52015Dublin: Printed by J.A. Husband for Messrs. H. Whitestone et al 1783. xii114;162pp. 12mo. Early 20th century library buckram. Lacks the half-title bookplate binding indicators and faint stamps of a defunct mercantile library early tissue overlaying two clean tears in title small discoloration in a few margins; a sound copy. First Dublin printing of this translation published the same year as a London printing. Set up in two parts with separate pagination but signed contiguously. Lignet was imprisoned for twenty months in the Bastille. ESTC N22034. Printed by J.A. Husband for Messrs. H. Whitestone [et al] hardcover books
