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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
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
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
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
1778224844Zürich: Orell Geßner Füeßlin und Compagnie 1778. l 578 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf black morocco spine label. Some minor rubbing text block fresh near fine copy. l 578 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Attractive Zürich edition of Tissot's influential 'Avis au peuple sur la santé' one of the most widely translated popular medical works of the late eighteenth century.<br/><br/>From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. Orell, Geßner, Füeßlin und Compagnie unknown books
1767214865Hamburg: Im Verlage der typographischen Gesellschaft 1767. ii 118 724 4; 166 2 ads pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf. Joints rubbed with some old repairs; closed tear in margin of pp. 80/81. Fresh and attractive copy. ii 118 724 4; 166 2 ads pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Early German edition of Tissot's influential 'Avis au peuple sur la santé' first published in Lausanne in 1761 here translated with two related texts on the imperfection of other German medical works and a Swedish work on longevity<br/><br/>From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. Im Verlage der typographischen Gesellschaft 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
17026781Edinburgh ca. 1702. Folio. 1 p. <br><br>The tenants of the Lovat estate petition for a delay in producing the writs and securities of their holdings as the protracted dispute between the Lovat family and the infamous Capt. Simon Fraser of Beaufort who attempted a forced marriage to the family's heiress young Amelia Fraser before successfully kidnapping and wedding her mother the dowager Lady Amelia Murray has left them in a sorry state regarding the payment of creditors.<br>Â Â Â Â Not only does this broadside touch on the common perspective of a great contemporary scandal but it is of interest for its scarcity as well. => No holdings are listed by WorldCat ESTC or NUC Pre-1956. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in ESTC. On Fraser see: Dictionary of National Biography XX 21622. Excellent clean condition with two small sewing holes at inner margin one very small spot of foxing and ink traces from printing process to outer edge. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper. unknown books
180014404Paris: Printed by Langlois 1800. Rare colour-printed copper engraving on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling minor foxing and a tiny nick at the edge of the right margin. A beautiful plate with stunning early colour from Lacépède's "La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration.<br/> <br/>A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of books on zoology physics and music. He was greatly influenced by the pioneering naturalist Georges Louis Marie Leclerc comte de Buffon whom he succeeded as Intendant at the Jardin du Roi which later became the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793. During his tenure Lacépède completed a comprehensive study of amphibians and reptiles Historie Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens which was published as a supplement to Buffon's magnum opus on animal classification Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. In 1800-1 he published the first edition of La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a thorough survey of the various species of quadrupeds reptiles and amphibians in the impressive collection of the Museum of Natural History. This magnificent work was comprised of descriptive text written by Lacépède and his colleague Georges L. C. Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 as well as a number of finely rendered plates after the most eminent natural history artists of the period Nicolas Maréchal 1753-1803 Nicolas Huet 1770-1830 and Léon de Wailly 1801-1824. Painted from life on vellum these beautifully detailed illustrations faithfully captured the appearance of the wondrous animals in the Paris menagerie. A pupil of J. G. Wille and C. N. Cochin Simon Charles Miger was a royal academician and a talented engraver who executed numerous portraits and natural history plates.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol. 9 p. 611; Anker 275; BMNH IV p. 1517; Brunet III 725; Nissen ZBI 2353. Printed by Langlois 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
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
17956348Venice: n.p. 1795. Original edition. Very Good/Libretto of the 1795 oratorio David in the Cave of Engedi by the German-born composer Simon Mayr who emigrated to Italy at age 25 and as choirmaster at Bergamo was Donizetti's music teacher. The current oratorio debuted in Venice with this libretto apparently by Giuseppe Foppa according to Franz Steiger "Opernlexikon I 301. Bound in genuine Remondini 3-color woodblock wraps illustrated in Milano and Villani "Le carte decorate della Raccolta Bertarelli" #59. Octavo 19 cm; 20 pages. Woodblock vignette on title page. Text in Latin. Bound in red green and gold woodblock-printed decorated wraps finished by hand by Remondini. Stain across upper margin mostly on first and last pages. Old vertical fold. Reference for wrappers: Milano and Villani "Le carte decorate della Raccolta Bertarelli" #66 n.p. paperback books
178833060Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1788. 32pp. Disbound and lacking the half title. Good. <br/><br/> Reverend Trumbull an orderly and considerate man "nominated the preacher at his funeral and directed what neighbouring ministers should be desired to attend on that occasion; and who should insert in the public papers the account of his death: he also desired some of his particular friends and leading members of his church to take care that his funeral was conducted with propriety and christian decency. He also ordered the joiner to prepare him a decent but plain unornamented coffin." <br/> The Reverend's "nephew was Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull the only colonial governor to support the war for independence. Gov. Trumbull's son was the artist John Trumbull whose paintings of the Revolutionary War including the signing of the Declaration of Independence are on view in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol building." Trumbull also owned a few slaves. "Rev. John Trumbull" Waterbury's Slave Owners Fortune's Story Website of the Mattatuck Historical Society accessed February 4 2019. <br/>Evans 21574. Trumbull 1568. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
17562053Frankfurt and Leipzig 1756. 8vo 170 x 100 mm. 12 292 pp. Typographic title ornament woodcut and typographic head-pieces and tail-piece. Some light spotting and discoloration small light dampstain to some upper blank corners but a very good copy. Old signature on title. Contemporary half parchment sides with speckled paper red edges.Only Edition. Winter's stark beauties are precisely described by a writer of deep learning and broad interests. Citing literature and the classics including Pindar Hesiod Aristophanes and Homer in Greek as well as contemporary sources from scientific journals to travel accounts the author examines the seasons the meteorological manifestations of winter its effect on humans and its aesthetic and bodily pleasures. He discusses "absolute cold" the causes of wind snow's qualities and colors superstitious beliefs in its healing powers frost and hoarfrost avalanches glaciers ice and its different qualities chemical experiments for manufacturing artificial ice and physiological and physical effects of winter and cold on animals for example whose fur changes color; on humans when they freeze to death or nearly so; or on windowpanes which "sweat" with condensed moisture. The seventh and final chapter on the "various pleasures of winter" contains a well-informed digression into music and opera with an appraisal of celebrated contemporary composers instrumentalists and singers including Händel Porpora G. Giacomelli Predieri Farinelli Caffarelli Francesca Cuzzoni the violinist Guignon the viola da gambist Desmarets and the flutist Blavet. While he praises the opera Härter quotes from some of the many contemporary diatribes against the genre by Gottsched Pluche and others who deplored its irrational and amoral pleasures. He concludes that neither adoration nor scorn of the opera are reasonable but that it can be a legitimate wintry pleasure. In the final pages he considers the spiritual benefits of winter so conducive to introspection and in his concluding remarks recommends it as the best season for experiments in electricity.The work is dedicated to Otto Christian von Lohenschiold 1720-1761 Rector of the Academy University of Tübingen. In a humorous preface the author's friend Johann Kies Professor of physics and mathematics at Tübingen and author of several physics treatises including a dissertation on the rainbow concedes that unwilling to be reminded of a season that he loathes he could not bring himself to read the book but should his friend write a treatise on one of the other seasons he promises to read it! No copies in American libraries; outside Germany OCLC locates a copy in Denmark. Holzmann-Bohatta VI 7444 apparently erroneously citing a Tübingen edition with the same date. unknown books
1797013025Edinburgh: Excudebat Adamus Neill 1797. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. vi 47 pages of text. Disbound from a larger volume. On the reverse of the dedication page is inscribed by the author "Mr. Farrel with best wishes from his friend signed S. Reardon." Complete with front blank endpaper and a half-title page. Many pages have a now superfluous number handwritten at the top corner from the previous nonce volume numbering system. Minor browning to several pages of text. Title continues ".quam annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri D. Georgii Baird SS.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : necnon amplissimi senatus academici consensu et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto : pro gradu doctoratus summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis eruditorum examini subjicit. Excudebat Adamus Neill Paperback 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
1774263043Londres 1774. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes bound in 1. 12mo; xxxii 148 256 pp.; contemporary mottled calf spine richly gilt with black and red spine labels marbled endpapers rubricated edges. Londres 1774. Very good. Scarce.<br/><br/> 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
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
1770262898Lausanne: Francois Grasset 1770. First. paperback. very good. xiv 212 4 pages. Small 8vo contemporary marbled wrappers with manuscript spine label paper on spine is mostly missing but still firmly sewn; pages quite clean. Lausanne: Francois Grasset 1770. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> First published in the spring of 1770 this book of advice to "people of fashion" particularly women had such an immediate vogue that many pirated editions soon followed. -- Norman 2083; Blake 452.<br/><br/> Francois Grasset unknown 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
179228996"A Parme de l'imprimerie de Bodoni" 1792. Two volumes 164 168 pp. 19th c. half morocco by Lebrun signed at the foot of the spine. Very good condition with some discoloring to the margins in a portion of vol. 1. Ownership inscription dated 1938. One of 25 copies all on vélin paper.This copy nearly matches one recorded in the BNF however ours has additional title pages to both parts both of which carry the author's name and also has the supplementary pages 25 bis. - 44 bis. lacking in the BNF copy. First published in 1787 in an edition limited to 15 copies. OCLC locates only a single copy of each edition. Not in Brooks Edizione Bodoniane the publication data is likely fictitious. "On trouve des ex. de ces fables avec les dates de 1787 de 1792" Grasse IV 493. Apparently the text sheets were printed in 1787 & later supplied with new t.-p.'s & preliminary matter when copies were distributed by the author. Simon-Pierre Mérard de Saint-Just 1749-1812 was for a time in charge of the household for the king's brother Louis Stanislas the future Louis XVIII; after retiring in 1783 he devoted his fortune to collecting books and publishing his works in small editions. <br/><br/> 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
