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189456228N.p. Cambridge Mass. 1894. 4to approx. 200 pages several diagrams and drawings in loose sheets often with paste-overs and cancels and bound in contemporary marbled boards tied with string and nearly broken; spine perished; good or better and legible. For a good account of Holmes see DAB. Born in 1815 in Peterborough N.H. and a graduate of Phillips-Exeter Harvard and Harvard Law he removed to St. Louis where he was first the city then the county attorney. In 1868 he returned to Cambridge where he became a professor of law at Harvard. He "did no legal writing but was widely interested in other subjects. His Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself 1888 exhibits extensive philosophic and scientific reading but has no perceptible influence and now seems unreadable . His scholarship and fairness have been praised by his opponents. In his old age he compiled a Genealogy of the Holmes Family of Londonderry N.H. containing garrulous sketches of his relatives and a long autobiography" DAB. As well as this extensive treatise on gravitation and electricity begun when he was nearly 80. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1785876331785. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: TO THE END OF THE YEAR MDCCLXXXIII. Vol. 1: Boston: Adams and Nourse 1785. i-iii - xxxii 568pp. 1 f.errata. 4to 10 1/2" x 8 1/2". Six folding plates. Contemporary calf binding. Front and rear hinges cracked but attached. Vol. 2: pt.1 Isaiah Thomas & Ebenezer T. Andrews 1793. i-v- 200. pt.2 Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge 1804. i-iii - 24. 1- -168. Bound as one in contemporary calf. Contains 3 plates including one folding plate of a reproduction of James Winthrop's sketch of the Deighton Rock petroglyphs.Front board detached; rear hinge cracked. Ex-library copy previously owned by noted Boston physician Buckminster Brown. Text is mostly clean with some mild foxing and ink staining . First two volumes of the series published by one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the country. Created during the Revolution it included John Adams Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock among other luminaries. Volume 2 which includes an obituary of George Washington published in 1804 is quite scarce. $3250.00. unknown books
1734D4425Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1734. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes comprising Vol. III parts I to III of Memoires de lAcadémie Royale des Sciences depuis 1666 jusquà 1699. Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1733-1734. Part I: 231pp.; Part II: 294pp.; Part III: 215pp. 97 engraved folding plates depicting animals and skeletal diagrams. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Claude Perrault in first volume. Contemporary French calf spines gilt edges red; some occasional browning; repairs to joints some rubbing. Unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown beneath monogrammed bookplate D.P. with chipmunk and two mice. A later reduced format edition of Perraults Memoires of 1671-1676 Perraults study of this nature was first published in 1669 with the results of investigations of five animals and later expanded with studies of over forty animals. Prior to 1670 most descriptions of animals paid little attention to their internal structure and there were very few images in natural history encyclopedias that depicted skeletons or muscles. That changed with the establishment of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the approval of King Louis XIV. The Academy functioned with neither statutes nor regulations until 1699. At that time the Academy used the term mathématique to encompass the fields that are now called astronomy mathematics and physics and the term physique to encompass the fields that are now called anatomy botany zoology and chemistry. In January 1699 Louis reorganized the Academy giving it first regulations. The effect was to give the King more control over their activities in exchange for becoming an official institution under his protection with the new name Académie Royale des Sciences. One of the original academicians the physician Claude Perrault organized regular sessions at which participants could dissect deceased animals from Louis XIVs royal menagerie and record all they observed. Lions chameleons bears gazelles wolves ostriches crocodiles monkeys eagles tigers porcupines and salamanders among some were all laid open by the academics scalpels. These superb folding plates record in great detail the pioneering work at the Academy. These three volumes in three parts focus on the transformative and foundational years of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and Claude Perraults efforts which had made comparative anatomy a vital tool for the classifying naturalist. <br/><br/> Par La Compagnie des Libraires hardcover books
