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Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex - library. Proceedings of a symposium presented by the South Wales and Monmouthshire Branch of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Swansea, 27 - 29 March 1968. Boards are lightly marked. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped, worn and nicked. Library labels on front board and warped FEP. Stamps on page block, front pastedown and reverse of title page. Page block and pages are lightly marked and creased. Contents are clear throughout. Binding remains intact. HCW Ex - Library
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex - library. Marks and scores on laminated boards. Film is blistered on front spine side. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn and bumped. Library labels on spine foot and FEP. Library stamps on page block, FEP, title page and a few further points. Minor pen on title page. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Ex - Library
Small folio (230 x 288 mm). (10), 256, (3), XXVII, 257-406, (3), XXVII, 18 pp. With woodcut title vignette and 14 numbered lithographed plates. Contemporary blue wrappers with stamped volume number to spine. Academic periodical of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala, comprising papers in Latin and French by prominent Swedish scholars, including the orientalist Carl Johan Tornberg (1807-77). The plates show Islamic and pre-Islamic coins studied by Tornberg. - Near-contemporary handwritten ownership of B. E. Hovén to title-page, dated 4 December 1880. Slightly worn at extremities. A partly uncut copy.
4to. (8), 89, (13), 52, (8), 46, (10), 63, (13), 109, (17) pp., 1 blank f., 70, (10) pp. With engraved title page and 3 engraved plates (2 folding). - (Bound with) II: Welsch, Georg Hieronymus. Consiliorum medicinalium centuriae quatuor. Augsburg, Lorenz Kroniger / heirs of Gottlieb Göbel, 1698. (6), 496, (56) pp. Title printed in red and black. With engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 engraved plates (1 folding). - (Bound with) III: Welsch, Georg Hieronymus. Exotericarum curationum et observationum medicinalium chiliades duae. Ulm, [Christian Balthasar Kühn], 1676. (4), 484, (60) pp. - (Bound first) IV: Schroeck, Lucas. Memoria Welschiana, sive Historia vitae viri celeberrimi, Dn. Georgii Hieronymi Welschii, Augustani. Augsburg, Koppmayer for Theophil Göbel, 1678. 90 pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary full vellum. The principal medical writings of the German physician and oriental scholar Georg Hieronymus Welsch (1624-77), including his biography, published a year after his death. "The author [was] a learned German doctor and one of the earliest members of the 'Societas Naturae Curiosum'" (Duveen, p. 617). Welsch, the son of an Augsburg pharmacist, studied classical and oriental languages, philosophy and medicine in Tübingen, Strasbourg and Padua, during which time he visited Central Italy and Rome. He returned to Augsburg to practice medicine, but due to an illness (possibly a form of depression) he was unable to maintain a regular practice and instead shifted his efforts into the field of writing. A correspondent of Leibniz's, he is also remembered as a translator of Avicenna. - The "Sylloge", which had first appeared in the previous year, is an extensive collection of medical works by earlier writers, several here making their first appearance in print: treatises by Marcel Cumanus, Hieronymus Martius, Achilles Gasser (the supporter of Copernicus and Rheticus), Ulrich Rumler, and Hieronymus Reusner, as well as a another by Welsch himself. This is the second issue; although it ends with "Finis", it wants a final part (19, [8] pp.). - Bound with this is Welsch's massive two-part work "Consiliorum medicinalium" (a posthumous 1698 re-issue) and (with its own 1676 title-page and issued separately) "Exotericarum curationum". The first part contains four centuries of medical case studies, compiled and edited from manuscripts in the author's private library (including sources by Gasser, Rumler, Marquard Slegler, and many others). Welsch's knowledge of oriental medical science is evident from his copious learned footnotes, frequently quoting (in Arabic) the works of "Ebnsina" (Ibn Sina, Avicenna). It is also remarkable for its numerous engraved diagrams, still largely in an alchemical and astrological vein. The second part contains two thousand items of medical observations and cures, drawn from the same sources and similarly annotated by Welsch. - Prefixed to these is the Life of Welsch, written a year after his death by the respected Augsburg physician Lukas Schröck (1646-1730). - Some browning and brownstaining throughout as common due to paper, but well preserved. I: VD 17, 1:062768Y. Krivatsy 12934. Waller 9857. Jöcher IV, 1883. - II: VD 17, 547:693998F. Jöcher IV, 1883. Cf. Krivatsy 12923 (1676, counted as "Part 1" of a joint issue with the following). - III: VD, 17 12:188321G. Krivatsy 12923 (counted as "Part 2" of a joint issue with the previous). - IV: VD 17, 23:241931E. Krivatsy 10663. Waller 17972. Jöcher IV, 1883.
... Hardcover, good condition, with lightly slanted, somewhat compressed sp. very lightly bumped corners. Brd tops bumped near sp. somewhat tanned p. edges, some light soil. Ltly tanned eps, pp. Cln, tight, unmarked. Dj g., ltly to somewhat tanned, ltly r
Dust jacket lightly rumpled at top. Previous owner signature on end paper. Otherwise, looks as new, clean, tight, free of any marks. ...
Rubbing wear and some light chipping to DJ edges. Text is clean, tight and bright
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked gold-coloured rexine type boards, slight traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Translucent spider's web design paper cover over boards with some tearing. 276pp. Catalogue and instruction manual of tube and tube fittings.
Folio. 3 vols. 9, (3), 295, (1) pp. 9, (1), 296-546 pp. 16, 547-902 pp. With 364 colored lithogr. ornithological plates and numerous text illustrations. Conmtemp. half calf with title to gilt spine; faux raised bands colored black and raised with gilt fillets, enclosing the image of a bird). All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. A magnificent publication and the standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Originally published between 1828 and 1838 in 105 installments. In addition to the original 184 plates, the present second edition contains reproductions of further drawings by the Wright brothers newly discovered in the Kungl. Vetenskaps-Akademien Stockholm and in the Helsingfors University Library. - "[D]ie Bilder schwedischer Vögel der Brüder von Wright [sind] so vorzüglich [...], daß man sie noch ein Jahrhundert später einer Neuausgabe für wert gehalten hat, wobei noch fast die gleiche Anzahl bisher unveröffentlichter Tafeln ans Licht gekommen ist" (Nissen, p. 54f.). - A fine, appealingly bound copy. Nissen, Vogelb. 1026. Anker 544. Wood 637.
pp. (12), 555. Illustrated with numerous folding tables, plans and diagrams. Very dampstained. Inked ownership of Sam Carpenter, Dec. 2nd 1803. Samuel Carpenter, was born in 1765, at Lancaster County, PA. He was a farmer for many years. In 1807 he moved to Lancaster for the purpose of having better opportunities for the education of his children. Here he engaged for some years in the business of inn-keeping. Lancaster at the time being the seat of the State government, and a great resort for strangers from all parts of the State, he developed wealth and influential connections. He was appointed an Alderman, and not long thereafter was elected Mayor of the City of Lancaster, a position to which he was frequently reelected. 205mm. Original full leather binding, very worn. Front board fragile. Sixth Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! VERIA BX 1
Hardcover green octavo with gilt title to spine and front cover (stiff cloth covered paper boards). xv, 495 pages : b/w illustrations, tables, diagrams ; 19 cm by Charles B. Breed, Professor of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. || Contents: Surveys and their purposes; Sources of surveying information -- Measurement of distances -- Measurement of direction; The magnetic compass -- Measurement of angles; Use of the transit -- The engineer's level and its use -- Traverses and land surveys -- Calculation of closed traverses and land areas -- The United States system of surveying public lands -- Contours -- Stadia surveying with transit and plane table -- Aerial surveying -- Lines and grades -- Cross-sections; volumes -- Miscellaneous surveying problems -- Plotting and finishing maps -- Tables || Surveying -- Public lands -- United States.
Hardcover with green cloth boards, no dust jacket. Faint marks to rear board and light foxing to page block face. Previous owner's details penned to FEP and a couple of small foxing marks to endpapers. Clean throughout and binding tight. AD Used
... No continuous pagination. Softcover, good condition, with lightly rubbed wraps, a few light marks and creases. light reading crease. 2 cm. horizontal tear at top at sp. Sm crease at lower r. corner. very lightly bumped corners. somewhat tanned p. edge
A very good paperback. Clean, tight, unmarked. ...
... Hardcover, good condition, w. lightly slanted, ltly compressed sp. V. ltly bumped top corners, smwht bumped bottom corners. Smwht tanned p. edges, sme soil/soil foxing, esp on p. tops. Ltly to smwht tanned eps. Ltly tanned pp. O/w cln, tight, unmarked
pages are clean, bright and tight. bumps to the ends of the cover and spine. Used
pp. xviii, 454. Mimeograph errata sheet insert. Numerous charts and graphs. XLib. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, slightly worn. Hardbound. This self-published first edition is rather scarce. SPACE/5
209pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex-library. Spine is faded. Library labels on spine foot and front pastedown. Library stamps on page block, title pages, rear pastedown and a few text-pages. Pen on copyright page. Paper damage on front pastedown. Contents are clear. AM Ex-Library
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 251pp. Sequel to Time's Eye by two of the greatest talents in science fiction writing.
Large quarto in beige mottled baords and ywllow and black illus original jacket; multiple pagings (78, 96, 96, 96, 64 pages), heavily photo-illus in B&W; 28 cm. Scarce in jacket. Contents: Sunset ideas for building plant shelters and garden work shelters.--How to build walls, walks, patio floors.--How to build fences and gates.--Sunset barbecue book.--The portable garden.|| Garden ornaments and furniture. Garden ornaments and furniture. DIY Do it yourself.Carpentry, Construction.
First edition. Hardcover with faded spine, bumped lower leading corners and lightly rubbed foot of spine. Edge worn dust jacket with nicked and lightly creased upper edge and nicked foot of spine and leading corners. Pages are lightly tanned. Binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T Used
11, (1) SS. 4to. OBr.
8vo. (8), 322 [but: 422] pp., (2 pp. publisher's catalogue). Bound in attractive and very well-preserved full contemporary calf with spine in six compartments, red and gilt title label, gilt florets. Scarce early separate edition of Fontenelle's eulogies, and the first biography of Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli to appear publicly outside of the Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences. The work introduces the public to 14 members of the Académie des Sciences deceased between 1725 and 1730, including Czar Peter, Isaac Newton, and Nicolas Hartsoeker. The present edition, however, contains 7 new eulogies which had only appeared previously in the annual journal of the Académie des Sciences: Camille d'Hostun de la Baume, duc de Tallard (Marshal of France); Père Sébastien Truchet, active in mathematics, hydraulics, graphics, and typography; Francesco Bianchini, who worked on calendar reform for three successive popes; Giacomo Filippo Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician; Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, official historiographer to Louis XIV; Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Ottoman traveller and Hapsburg cartographer; and Guichard Joseph Duverney, anatomist and author of one of the earliest comprehensive works on otology. - As one of the earliest examples of a popular publication of Fontenelle's eulogies (preceded only by a 1731 Hague printing), the work is an important symbol of what today is seen as Fontenelle's primary accomplishment: while history has smiled on men such as Marsigli and du Verney, it is often forgotten that it was due to works like Fontenelle's, which heavily publicised their achievements to a popular audience, that they are remembered and acknowledged today. "It was Bernard Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) who by his eulogies of scientists first bridged the gap between the scientific communities and the world at large [...] the éloges of the old Academy of Sciences acquainted laymen with a discipline that was at once esoteric by its novelty and forbidding by its terminology and methodology. Hence the éloges, aside from the other functions they performed in the service of science, also served as a public relations organ in the same manner as journals, textbooks, public lectures, literary dialogues, scientific expositions, and cabinets de physique and d'histoire naturelle" (Paul, Science and immortality: the éloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-2). - One corner and lower edge of cover slightly rubbed, otherwise a lovely copy, pages clean and fresh. Cf. Charles B. Paul, Science and immortality: the éloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1980). For a bibliographical review of Fontenelle's éloges see Suzanne Delorme, "Contribution à la bibliographie de Fontenelle", pp. 303-307, Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, Tome 10 n°4, pp. 300-309 (1957).
