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1830124608London: Newton Son & Berry c. 1830-1836. Fine pair of rare early 19th century celestial and terrestrial table globes published by Newton Son & Berry. Both the celestial and terrestrial globe measure 12 inches in diameter with a calibrated brass meridian ring and 19 inch mahogany horizon ring decorated with mounted hand colored decorations. Mounted on ebonized oak stands. Each globe is comprised of 12 richly detailed hand-colored gores with polar calottes the terrestrial globe detailing the earth's landmasses major countries and cities and the celestial showing the major stars in various sizes related to their brightness displayed with a table of magnitudes. Major constellations and all twelve zodiac signs are illustrated with detailed hand-colored drawings. The cartouche on the celestial globe is inscribed "Newton's New & Improved Celestial Globe On which all the Stars Nebulae & Clusters contained in the extensive Catalogue of the late E. Wollaston E.R.S. are accurately laid down their Right Ascensions and Declinations having been recalculated for the Year 1830 by W. Newton. Manufactured by Newton Son & Berry Chancery Lane London Published 1836." In near fine condition with some light restoration. Each globe measures 19 inches tall. The sphericity of the Earth was established by Greek astronomers in the 3rd century BC with the earliest terrestrial globe appearing during that period. The earliest known globe was constructed by Crates of Mallus in Cilicia now Cukurova in modern-day Turkey in the mid-2nd century B.C.E. Now known as the Erdapfel the earliest extant terrestrial globe was produced in 1492 by German mapmaker navigator and merchant Martin Behaim in Nuremberg Germany. Traditionally globes were manufactured by gluing a printed paper map onto a sphere often made from wood. Newton, Son & Berry unknown books
18481803065Daniel Adee 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine TRUE first American edition 1st issue as stated on the title page. Some water stains on page edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing on outside spine and corners and at bottom of spine. Tape at endpapers and pastedowns along gutters. Housed in custom-made slip case. Daniel Adee hardcover books
18481803065Daniel Adee 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine TRUE first American edition 1st issue as stated on the title page. Some water stains on page edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing on outside spine and corners and at bottom of spine. Tape at endpapers and pastedowns along gutters. Housed in custom-made slip case. Daniel Adee hardcover
1856323434New York: G.P. Putnam & Co 1856. Three engraved plates folding engraved map woodcut text figures. 8vo. Original printed wrappers untrimmed; some occasional light marginal foxing wrappers chipped at head and foot of spine. Three engraved plates folding engraved map woodcut text figures. 8vo. The first appearance of the discovery of greenhouse gasses as delivered on Foote's behalf before the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS on August 23 1856 she was not a member although there were two women members by 1850 three years after its founding. Although in the early 19th Century Joseph Fourier suggested that the Earth's temperature was warmed by more than just the sun and Claude Pouillet suggested that water vapor and carbon dioxide must effect it it was Foote who provided the first experimental proof of the insulating effects of various gasses proving that increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the air would increase the ground temperature.<br /> <br /> "Foote's paper demonstrated the interactions of the sun's rays on different gases through a series of experiments using an air pump four thermometers and two glass cylinders. First Foote placed two thermometers in each cylinder and using the air pump removed the air from one cylinder and condensed it in the other. Allowing both cylinders to reach the same temperature she then placed the cylinders with their thermometers in the sun to measure temperature variance once heated and under various states of moisture. She repeated this process with hydrogen common air and CO2 all heated after being exposed to the sun." McNeill<br /> <br /> Her work predates that of John Tyndall who presented a paper the relation between thermal radiation and various gasses in 1859 and that of Svante Arrhenius who quantified the effect of airborne carbon dioxide on the ground temperature of the Earth in his paper "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" 1896 forty years after Foote.<br /> <br /> Eunice Newton Foote 1819-1888 was a scientist inventor and campaigner for the rights of women. She was a neighbor and friend of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and attended the 1848 Senaca Falls Convention the first women's right's convention where she and her husband signed the declaration of the legal rights of women and helped prepare the proceedings of the convention. Her scientific work was overlooked in preference to that of her male peers until more recently and the American Geophysical Union started a prize in her name in 2022 honoring discoveries in earth and life sciences. L. McNeill "This lady scientist defined the greenhouse effect but didn't get the credit because sexism" SmithsonianMag.com 5 December 2016; E. W. Reed American women in science before the Civil War 1992 2019 pages 64-68; R. P. Sorenson "Eunice Foote's pioneering research on CO2 and climate warming" Search and discovery American Association of Petroleum Geologists Tulsa no. 70092 31 January 2011; J. Perlin "Science knows no gender: Eunice Foote the woman who in 1856 discovered the cause of global warming" symposium UC Santa Barbara 17 May 2018; Baum Sr. Rudy M. 2016. "Future Calculations: The first climate change believer". Distillations. 2 2: 38-39 2018 G.P. Putnam & Co unknown
1803122898London: Printed for H.D. Symonds 1803. First complete edition in English of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia the greatest work of physics in the exceedingly rare original boards. Octavo 3 volumes bound in original boards uncut 54 folding copper-engraved plates of diagrams and figures all but one folding; 2 folding tables. with 22 folding. In near fine condition with light toning to the text. An exceptional example rare and desirable in the original boards. Housed in a custom clamshell box. "Newtons Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the greatest synthesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation could be explained in mathematical terms with a single physical theory. With him the separation of the natural and supernatural of sublunar and superlunar worlds disappeared. The same laws of gravitation and motion rule everywhere; for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens. The whole cosmos is composed of inter-connecting parts influencing each other according to these laws. It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought equaled perhaps only by that following Darwins Origin of Species Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the founder of mathematical physics" PMM 161. "It is perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make" Einstein. Printed for H.D. Symonds hardcover books
1848140949208New York: Daniel Adee 1848. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing with date 1848 on title page and publisher's address listed as 107 Fulton-Street. 4 v-viii 9-581 pp. illustrated with engraved frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Recently bound in maroon buckram title label to spine. Very Good with light wear to covers and slight bumping to lower corners; title label beginning to lift at one corner. Band of paper residue to front free endpaper. Light toning and moderate foxing to textblock edges and contents dampstain to outer textblock edge and outer margin throughout. Cohen pp. 347-352.<br /> <br /> <p>The first American edition of the foundational physics text first published in Latin in 1687. Andrew Motte's 1729 translation was reprinted in 1803 and 1819 in Britain but subsequent 19th century editions were printed only in the United States and Germany. The New York-based publisher Daniel Adee deposited a copyright for the Principia in 1846 then printed five issues between 1848 and 1850. A contemporary notice in the Scientific American declared:<br /> <br /> <p>"For a long time the 'Principia' was kept far out of the reach of the mere English Scholar as if Newton had written it exclusively for the classical student and philosopher. It was a scarce book when printed in the Latin language; it is now thanks to the spirit of an American publisher printed in our mother tongue and should find a place in every family library. Daniel Adee unknown
1803327150London: Symonds 1803. hardcover. near fine. 3 volumes. 55 folding copper engravings and small engravings throughout the text frontispiece copperplate portrait of Isaac Newton in volume 1. 8vo handsomely rebound in full dark brown calf with blind-stamped design on covers and spine black leather spine labels. Some scattered age toning and spotting; neat small ownership name at top of title pages and half titles. London: H. D. Symonds 1803. A scarce set in a handsome binding.<br/> <br/> Symonds unknown
18552091202133212831Bell and Daldy 1855. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Bell and Daldy paperback
1811164685London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies by J. McCreery 1811. The root of the Shelleys' vegetarianism First edition of this pioneering work of vegetarianism in which the author advocates for the medical and intellectual benefits of a meat-free diet. It was a great influence on fellow vegetarian Percy Bysshe Shelley as well as on Mary Shelley's depiction of the Creature as a herbivore in Frankenstein. This is a particularly well-preserved copy in the original boards. Newton 1767-1837 promoted a diet of fruit vegetables raisins bread eggs milk and potatoes and he drank only distilled water because of his belief that the Thames was contaminated with animal fat. Unlike his mentor William Lambe 1765-1847 Newton was not a vegan. He inspired several significant figures to adopt a vegetarian diet including the physician John Snow 1813-1858 and Percy Shelley whose Vindication of Natural Diet 1813 echoed Newton's ideas. "It is from his meeting with John Newton in November 1812 that Shelley's proselytising vegetarianism dates. From Newton's book he drew many of his arguments" Crook and Guiton p. 77. The two men differed in the fact that Newton was mainly concerned with the scientific benefits rather than the moral implications of vegetarianism. "Though not a doctor Newton regarded The Return to Nature principally as a work of medicine; he had himself found relief from chronic asthma through vegetarianism and was anxious to impart to others the knowledge of its benefits in a number of diseases" ibid. However "in one of his most surprising and emphatic passages" Newton ventures into a diatribe against "the monster syphilis with all its gorgon terrors" and explains his hope that vegetarianism could cause it to "be driven from the earth" p. 131. This was expanded upon by Shelley in his own writing through his emphasis on the immorality of consuming flesh in all its guises along with his link between a carnivorous diet and alcoholism. He made use of the allegory of Prometheus; it was only through the unnatural theft of fire that humans gained the ability to transform meat from bloody flesh into something fit for consumption. Newton was also an occasional guest of Mary Shelley's father William Godwin a fellow proponent of the vegetarian diet. Presumably it was because Newton's ideas filtered through Shelley and Godwin that Mary Shelley decided to describe the Creature in Frankenstein as a vegetarian: "My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. The picture I present to you is peaceful and human." The Return to Nature is rare in commerce particularly so in original boards. We can trace just one copy thus at auction which appeared over 50 years ago. Octavo. Uncut in original brown paper-backed blue boards printed paper spine label. Dedication leaf misbound following introduction. Head of spine crumpled corners worn light foxing to boards and contents but otherwise very crisp initial leaves creased at upper margin leaf A3 partially loose at lower cord and consequently standing proud: a very good copy. Nora Crook & Derek Guiton Shelley's Venomed Melody 2010. hardcover
1858155260Cambridge: Joseph Lovering 1858. One of only two known papers by the author Uncommon first edition of the first article by a woman published in the Proceedings of the AAAS: a well-preserved copy in the original wrappers with the ownership signature of American ornithologist George N. Lawrence 1806-1895 listed as a member of the AAAS on p. xxxviii of this volume. The American scientist inventor and women's rights campaigner Eunice Newton Foote 1819-1888 is best remembered for her discovery of the absorption of thermal radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapour: namely the greenhouse effect. Her famous paper on the topic was presented to the AAAS in August 1856 read on her behalf by Joseph Henry first Secretary of the Smithsonian and published shortly after in the American Journal of Science and Arts. This is Foote's second paper which provides an early experimental description of the effect of a pressure-driven change on the static electricity of air with reference to observations by Humboldt Sabine and de Saussure. It was presented to the AAAS on 14 August 1857 again read by Joseph Henry on her behalf. Its first appearance in print was in the Proceedings; abbreviated versions later appeared in the American Journal of Science and Arts and in the Philosophical Magazine. In Mary Creese's landmark study of American and British women scientists from 1800 to 1900 she noted that of the approximately 3400 scientific publications authored by women in the period - less than 1% of the total published - there were "just 16 papers by American women in physics over the whole century. Only two pre-date 1889 and they are the two papers by Eunice Foote" Jackson p. 117. John Perlin author and visiting scholar at the UCSB Physics department which hosted a 2019 exhibition on Foote remarked that she was "the only woman to be published in serious physics journals until Madame Curie" quoted in Jacobs. Octavo. Five folding plates one engraved with astronomical illustrations the rest featuring diagrams and graphs and two engraved plates numerous illustrations in text. Original buff printed wrappers. Faint pencilled signature "Geo. N. Lawrence" along upper edge of front cover pencilled number at centre of spine. Wrappers expertly restored spine ends chipped contents crisp and clean: a very good copy. Roland Jackson "Eunice Foote John Tyndall and a Question of Priority" Notes and Records 74 2019 pp. 105-18; Tom Jacobs "More than a Historical Foote Note" UCSB's The Current 6 November 2019 available online. unknown
1819183664London: Printed for Sherwood Neely and Jones; and Davis and Dickson 1819. The Newtonian ascendancy A handsomely bound edition bringing together Newton's masterpiece with several works refining Newtonian theory and an early draft of the Principia itself. This translation of the Principia together with the Laws of the Moon's Motion by John Machin c. 1686-1751 is drawn from the first edition in English published in 1729. William Davis 1771-1807 originally brought out the three-volume edition in 1803 revising and extending Motte's translation to cover the remaining third of Newton's text. This is thus only the second edition of a complete translation of the Principia into English. No further edition was published until the "modernized" version brought out by the University of California Press in 1934 and no entirely new translation was made until 1999. This edition pairs these works with the Short Comment on and Defence of The Principia 1770 by William Emerson 1701-1782 and Newton's own System of the World written 1685. By the turn of the 19th century the Principia's theory of gravity had become widely accepted in scientific circles and Davis's edition "made this available to a number of generations of nineteenth-century students" ODNB. 3 vols octavo 212 x 127 mm. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 56 plates 8 of which folding. Extensive tables and formulae in the text. Contemporary calf spines lettered decorated and ruled in gilt and with red and black morocco labels covers panelled in blind light brown coated endpapers edges sprinkled brown. Spine ends restored. Light bumping and wear minor browning and offsetting to contents: a very good copy. Babson 22; Grey 25; Wallis 25. unknown
186449256London: Sold by R.H. Porter 1864 1902 1905 1907. Sole editions. Four parts bound in two volumes. Large 8vo. xl 525 3 527-532; vi 665 1 96 4 pp. Expertly bound in recent quarter red morocco over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered black labels lettered direct to another and with a gilt device repeated to the others the original printed wrappers to all four parts bound in at the rear of volume II adjacent to the first wrapper is a 3 pp. autograph letter signed from Newton addressed to "My dear Edge" on Magdalen College Cambridge headed paper parts II and III feature tipped in handwritten notes presenting them "with the editor's compliments" parts II and IV also come with letters from Newton to the original recipient's son finally the set is complemented with two pieces of interesting egg related printed ephemera. Photogravure portrait frontispiece 21 chromolithograph plates of bird eggs numbered I-XXI 16 lithograph plates tinted chromolithographic or uncoloured depicting birds nests and landscapes lettered A-P and a folding colour map of Lapland. John Wolley 1823-1859 was an ornithologist and egg collector first becoming interested in the subject whilst studying at Cambridge. Over time he became something of an expert on the Dodo and later on the Great Auk. His studies led to travels in Europe and Scandinavia and it was during one of these trips in the 1850s that he interviewed the men that had killed the last of the Great Auk species the previous decade. Wolley fell ill after one of these foreign trips and eventually passed away at the tender age of 36. On his demise his notes and remaining egg collection passed to his close friend Alfred Newton who painstakingly edited and published Wolley's notes over the next half century. Alfred Newton 1829-1907 became one of the pre-eminent ornithologists of the age being one of the founders of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1858 and ascending to the chair of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge in 1866 a post that he held until his death. In these later decades Newton also edited or contributed to many other important ornithological works such as editions of Yarrell's Birds the Encyclopaedia Britannica and his own Dictionary of Birds four volumes 1893-96 but his editorship of Wolley's work was by far his crowning achievement in print. The first letter is dated September 1864 and is evidently written to James Thomas Edge 1827-1894 originally James Thomas Hurt he took his mother's maiden name early in his adult life. Newton explains that he had asked Van Voorst to send Edge a copy of the work but that the publisher had ignored his instruction to inscribe the volume with his wishes. This omission prompted Newton's belated letter which had been delayed due to a summer long bird watching trip to Spitsbergen. The later letters are both addressed to Edge's son Thomas Lewis Kekewich Edge 1856-1931 the first of these references the senior Edge's collection - the importance of certain pieces within it and the need to ticket them. Newton's final letter is dated March 1907 just three months prior to his death. He is glad that Edge has had "the 4th and last part of this book and seems to like it" and commends an extract that Edge had quoted from his father's journal in a previous letter apparently confirming a conclusion John Wolley had also come to. Interestingly Wolley's father Francis also changed surname during his adult life - taking on his wife's maiden name. Prior to becoming a Wolley Francis' surname had been Hurt. Thus it transpires that as well as sharing a keen interest in ornithology and oology John Wolley and James Thomas Edge were second cousins. The ephemera comprises an 1865 printed sale notice from the auctioneer J.C. Stevens offering a "Rare & Remarkable Egg" of a bird "presumed to be quite extinct" which he states was "probably the Dinornis ingens of Owen". Richard Owen had been sent a fragment of an unusual bone that had been excavated in New Zealand in the late 1830s. After studying it for several years he came to the conclusion that it was almost certainly a part of a bone from a giant flightless bird which he named Dinornis novaezealandiae more commonly known by its Maori name of Moa which had long since been extinct. Also inserted is a 24 pp. sale catalogue of eggs dated 1858 offered by the same auctioneer the eggs collected by John Wolley himself in Lapland the previous year. A handsome set of a what is ordinarily an uncommon work this set rendered unique with its the family association letters from the editor and the related ephemera. London: Sold by R.H. Porter unknown
1870110127New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1870. Rare early edition of this work by Newton. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by Moody on the front free endpaper "To John Syme D.L. Moody My dear Brother be useful be earnest be fruitful and the blessing of God will rest on you." In good condition. Signatures of the legendary evangelist are rare especially with such a lengthy inscription. Dwight Lyman Moody also known as D. L. Moody was an evangelist and publisher connected with the Holiness Movement who founded the Moody Church Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was "Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy." Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism working first in the Civil War with union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian commission. In Chicago he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation which it is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey he toured the country and Britain Europe drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style that preached God's love and friendship kindness and forgiveness rather than hellfire and condemnation. Robert Carter and Brothers hardcover books
1870110127New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1870. Rare early edition of this work by Newton. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by Moody on the front free endpaper "To John Syme D.L. Moody My dear Brother be useful be earnest be fruitful and the blessing of God will rest on you." In good condition. Signatures of the legendary evangelist are rare especially with such a lengthy inscription. Dwight Lyman Moody also known as D. L. Moody was an evangelist and publisher connected with the Holiness Movement who founded the Moody Church Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was “Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.“ Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism working first in the Civil War with union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian commission. In Chicago he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation which it is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey he toured the country and Britain Europe drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style that preached God's love and friendship kindness and forgiveness rather than hellfire and condemnation. Robert Carter and Brothers hardcover
182219114Glasgow: Andreae et Joannis M. Duncan 1822. FIRST GLASGOW EDITION. Numerous text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary calf all covers with blind-stamped floral border within gilt floral borders within gilt-lined borders spines in compartments with gilt decoration spine labels; first few leaves of each volume spotted otherwise an excellent set. First Glasgow reprint of the first Jesuit edition printed in Geneva from 1739-1742. This edition of Newton’s Principia was edited by John Martin Frederick Wright of Trinity College who contributed additional commentary. Babson notes that Glasgow’s printing of this edition of the complete text was a great credit to the university whereas Cambridge was “satisfied with reprints of the first three sections of the first book.â€<br /> <br /> Babson 32; Gray 17; Wallis 17. Andreae et Joannis M. Duncan unknown
1831254561London 1831. Miniature globe in turned walnut case with domed lid. 1.5 inch diameter. 12 hand colored globe gores with original varnish and metal pins at each pole which enable the globe to spin in the case. Cartouche set in north Pacific. Stains along the equator in the Pacific.<br/><br/> This terrestrial globe is the smallest version made by Newton and Berry Sumira p. 189. Wonderful detail included for such a small globe. The track of Captain Cook's final voyage of 1776 is shown when Captain Clarke and Gore sail to the Bering Sea after Cook is murdered. John Newton 1759-1844 is the founding member of this family firm. Miles Berry joined the firm in 1803. They also made planetaria and mechanical models. An excellent example of a pocket globe.<br/><br/> unknown books
1865152733London: Day & Son Limited 1865. Presentation copy with letter First edition presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper of vol. I "Gaisford from the author Feb 1866" and with a 6-page autograph letter signed from the author loosely inserted. The letter headed British Museum 10 January 1852 details Newton leaving his position in the British Museum to take up a role as vice-consul at Mytilene. "My dear Sir you will probably be surprised to hear that I am going to leave the British Museum and also England. I have for some time wishes to exchange my present location for one where I could have more leisure time for literary pursuits & a warmer climate for my health has suffered from residence in London. After a good deal of deliberation I thought that if I could get a small Consulship in the Levant when the official duties were not very heavy I should be enabled to pursue archaeology by the study of remains in situ". Newton goes on to detail the circumstances of his being awarded the position. The recipient of the volumes was a member of the Gaisford family headed by the classical scholar and Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 to whom the letter is probably addressed Newton notes his hope to visit Oxford soon. Thomas Gaisford was deceased by the time of the book's presentation and consequently the recipient of the volumes is likely one of his seven children who would have paired them with the letter. The volumes originate from the Gaisford family home of Howth Castle near Dublin. Newton worked as vice-consul at Mytilene from 1852 to early 1853 then as acting consul at Rhodes from April 1853 to January 1854. In both positions he was authorized to undertake considerable archaeological excavations and purchases for the British Museum which he followed by excavations in Kalymnos in 1854 and 1855 financed by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe the British ambassador at Constantinople. The present book gives his account of these travels and excavations. On his return he became the first keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Museum in 1861. He was closely involved in the foundation of three highly influential archaeological institutions: the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies to which he gave an inaugural address in June 1879; the Egypt Exploration Fund founded in 1882; and the British School at Athens opened in November 1886. 2 vols tall octavo. Folding map frontispiece to each 12 lithographic plates from photographs by Francis Bedford after drawings by Newton and his wife 20 plates one of which folding the majority etched after photographs by Colnaghi and Spackman 2 double- and 2 full-page maps one double- and 2 full-page plans numerous wood-engraved illustrations to the text. Original green pebble-grain cloth spines lettered in gilt blind panelling to covers pale yellow endpapers. Obituary of Newton mounted to front pastedown of vol. I with another for his friend Reginald Stuart Poole loosely inserted. Very light rubbing and peripheral bumping cloth still bright and fresh without wear and with joints and hinges intact light foxing to contents as usual some leaves unopened towards end of vol. I. An excellent copy. Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 284. hardcover
1813143137London: Printed for G. Kearsley J. Walker J. Stockdale R. Lea E. Jeffery & 10 others 1813. A "vastly ambitious survey" First edition of this extensively illustrated Georgian encyclopedia a "vastly ambitious survey of human genius learning and industry" ODNB here presenting particularly nicely in contemporary red morocco. 12 vols octavo 232 x 145 mm. Illustrated throughout with engravings many with contemporary hand colouring. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco spines lettered and tooled in gilt covers with foliate border in gilt and blind gilt turn-ins grey endpapers gilt edges. Contemporary ownership signature to half-titles pencilled doodle to front free endpaper of vol. I. Bumping at head of contents of vol. IV. A very handsome set the bindings without wear and the contents clean. unknown
180211944Paris: Chez Bernard 1802. 2 volumes bound as one. First French edition. Extensively illustrated with folding engraved diagrams of geometric problems. 4to contemporary calf with gilt tooling on covers and spine. Red morocco lettering panel. Gilt stamp of the “Prix du College Royal D’Henry IV†on both covers. xxiv 252; 258 errata1 ad. A fine especially bright copy with a small tear to upper spine. A VERY SCARCE ISSUE OF THESE IMPORTANT MATHEMATICAL LECTURES. These algebraic lectures given by Newton at Cambridge were first published by William Whiston in 1707. Whiston “extracted from Newton a somewhat reluctant permission to print it. Among several new theorems on various points in algebra and the theory of equations Newton here enunciates the following important results. He explains that the equation whose roots are a solution of a given problem will have as many roots as their are different probable cases.He extends Descartes rules of signs to give limits to the number of imaginary roots.The most interesting theorem contained in the work is his attempt to find a rule analogous to that of Descartes for real roots by which the number of imaginary roots of a equation can be determined.†Later with the idea of stimulating annotations to the work Gravedsande published SPECIMIN COMMENTARII IN ARITHMETICAM UNIVERSLAEM; and Maclaurins’s ALGEBRA seems to have been written in response to this. Chez Bernard unknown
1855M7534London: Bell & Daldy 1855. Very good folding map laid down on contemporary canvas. Notes: This very decorative and large-scale mid-19th century map engraved on copper by Thomas Sherralt represents London at the time of Henry VIII circa 1517 from Westminster Abbey to the Tower. A pink line represents the area destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. A decorative border encases the map illustrated by the royal coat of arms important English shields the names of important Englishmen and kings and allegorical figures around the title cartouche. Two indexes sit in the upper corners a compass rose and scale sit beneath the upper right index and a dedicatory cartouche sits in the lower right. The map folds and is backed by dark navy cloth.<br><br>The map is accompanied by a historical text by William Newton "London in the Olden Time." It is in matching dark navy cloth a small folio. Paginated x 120 pp. The whole comes in a navy cloth case with the title gilt on the upper board. Unlike the map the cloth case is scuffed and rubbed at the extremities in good condition. Size : 1020x1370 mm 40.16x53.94 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps City Maps; Maps Europe United Kingdom England London;Maps Folding Maps; Bell & Daldy hardcover
1855542536London: Bell and Baldy 1855. A very scarce hard cover within a protective rigid pocket folder both in very good condition for their age. An extensive and decorative historical map of the capital in the time of Henry VIII. Its full title is "London in the Olden Time being a Topographical and Hiftorical Memoir of London Weftminster and Southwark Accompanying a Pictoral map of the City and its Suburbs as they exifted in the Reign of Henry VIII before the Diffolution of the Monafteries." The map laid on linen is presented within the hard cover book. This details the history of London and contains a complete index to the map. According to details penned to title page this copy was presented to the Herne Bay Literary Institute by Miss Newton the daughter of the author William Newton d.10.07.1861 Herne bay in July 1883. Brown cloth pocket folder rigid has bright gilt title and decoration to the front. Light fading rubbing and wear to front edges and corners with bubbling to rear board where a section of cloth has lifted from card. No tears present. Pocket folder 'closing' flap is worn creased and faded with marble backing paper torn and missing in places. Boards show wear to edges and corners bumped light wrinkling and fading to cloth cover creasing to spine head and foot closed tear to spine foot split to spine head and occasional blemish. Front board is decorated as per card case. Map within shows some age-related discolouration at folds but details and colours are bright and true. A pink line represents the area of London destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Beautifully illustated border comprises of a royal coat of arms various English shields the names of notable Englishmen and Kings and allegorical figures around the title cartouche. Within pages and map are securely bound. Tanning and foxing is present to pages and reverse of map however none is overly significant and content is bright and clear. More pictures are available upon request. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Sherratt Thomas Original engraving. Used. Bell and Baldy Hardcover
1892457459Cincinnati; Chicago 1892. Near Fine. A small archive of six letters written to C. Jay French general manager of the American Bell Telephone Company including two holograph letters and a telegram written in 1879 by the Theodore Vail who oversaw the building of America's first coast to coast telephone system. The remaining four letters are from four business colleagues in 1892. Each set of letters is neatly pinned together at the upper left corner: the first with an autograph note by French; and the second with a clipping outlining French's career. Both sets are in fine condition overall.<br /> <br /> Contemporary journalists called Theodore Vail the “Cincinnatus of Communications†and modern biographers call him “one of the two or three foremost organizing geniuses in the history of American industry.†In 1878 he was called to run Bell Telephone as its general manager just two years after Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention of the telephone in 1876. He helped establish the country’s first commercial telephone exchange lines in 1878 and organized the Bell empire in the 1880s.<br /> <br /> The two Vail letters retained by French reveal his direct management style: the first was written to the head of a regional Bell company at Cincinnati to introduce French: “… As he will be in your city for a few days I would like if you would give him all the insight possible into the manner of conducting an exchange and also any other information in regard to the Telephone business that may be in your power.â€<br /> <br /> The second letter outlines French’s duties: “You will make it your first duty to visit the different agencies of this Co. and establish a correct uniform and prompt system of reports to this Company … You will consult freely and fully with all agents … You will impress upon the agents the necessity of the Company being fully advised as to the operations of the agency. In all cases we desire reports of the business – In all cases also it is the desire of this Company that the agents’ interest be consulted.â€<br /> <br /> The other set of letters were written by four leading managers to congratulate French for his promotion to general manager of the American Bell Telephone Company in 1892. A scarce cache of letters documenting the beginning of America’s telephone exchange network. A list of both sets of letters is available. unknown
1813117185London: H.M.S.O. 1813. First edition thus of Newton's reports to the Privy Council or the Treasury during his position of Master of His Majesty's Mint the report signed and dated in print 21 September 1717. Newton was first appointed warden of the Mint in May 1696 rising to the position of Master following the death of Thomas Neale in December 1699. "Macaulay avers in his history that Newton - independently I suppose of his public action in reference to the Re-Coinage - has left no exposition of his opinions touching the currency. The eloquent historian thus leaves out of view the well-known report of 1717 upon which was based the reduction of the Guinea from 21 shillings and 6 pence to 21 shillings. It would seem then that the doctrinal importance of this Report had escaped recognition from the English historian though as I have had occasion to ascertain it was the subject of appreciative comment in France and Prussia more than a century ago. Indeed I read it first in a German translation printed at Berlin in 1762." Horton quoted in Gray. Foolscap folio 332 x 202 mm pp. 3. Docket title printed on final blank for folding. Disbound two sewing holes as issued. Two small sewing holes to centre fold; in excellent condition. Gray 350; Wallis 350.6. World Cat and Library Hub Discover record a 4-page version with the title "Return to an order of the House of Commons dated 1 March 1813; - for copies of all reports or memorials; made by Sir Isaac Newton when Master of his Majesty's Mint to the Privy Council or to the Treasury on the state of the coin of these realms: so far as relates to the Treasury." taken from the series of British Parliamentary papers; Accounts and papers Great Britain Parliament. Session 1812-13. House of Commons; 77. We can find no record of the present version. unknown
189163025London: George Bell & Sons York Street Covent Garden 1891. First edition. 8 103 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Gray cloth stamped in black endpapers with ads and 4 extra pp. of ads at front and back for Spaulding Draper and Maynard. Very good copy of an extremely scarce book. First edition. 8 103 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Will Baseball Replace Cricket Written by the President of National Baseball League of Great Britain; Formerly United States Consul Manchester. He advocates baseball in England and his book as "practical assistance to the large and rapidly increasing number of young men in this country who have manifested a desire to acquire a knowledge of baseball."<br/><br/>Advertisement at back for The Baseball Association of Great Britain and Ireland President The Rev. F. Marshall<br/><br/>This book is part of "The All-England Seies." Smith 758 George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden unknown books
185046378Boston: Snow & Wilder Publishers 1850. 1850. First edition with the words in print "September 1850 - 1st Edition" on the front cover noting that "A Second Edition will be issued Sept. 16th." Publisher's illustrated wrappers showing a railway carriage 110 pp. of schedules plus 18 pp. of advertisements and a two-sided folding map at the front. The booklet measures 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" and the map when unfolded measures 7" x 9 1/4." One side of the map details the railroad lines of New England and the verso shows the city of Boston. Some small tears and small chips to the extremities else a very good copy. Snow & Wilder, Publishers, 1850. unknown
