OSIO, Carlo Cesare (b. 1612). Archittetura Civile Demostratiuamente Proportionata et Accresciuta di Nuove Regole con l' Use delle quali si Facilita l' Inventione d' Ogni Douuta Proportione nelli Cinque Ordini. E Col Ritrovamento d' un Nuovo Strumento Angolare si dà il Modo à gl' Operarii medesimi di Practicamente Stabilire le Sacome in Ogni loro Necessario Contorno. Milan: Nella Stampa Archiepiscopa, 1661. Folio (330 x 220mm). Woodcut ornament on title, initials and ornaments, diagrams, some full-page (lacks frontispiece and additional engraved allegorical title, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Contemporary vellum (foot of spine worn, corners bumped, some staining). Berlin Kat. 589; Cicognara 589; Graesse V, 58; Riccardi II, 222; not in Brunet or Fowler.
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OZANAM, Jacques (1640-1717). Recreations Mathematiques et Physiques, qui contenant Plusieurs Problemes d' Arithmetique, de Géometrie, de Musique, d' Optique, de Gnomonique, de Cosmographie, de Mécanique, de Pyrotechnie, & de Physiques. Avec un Traité des Horloges Elementaires ... Nouvelle edition. Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750. 4 volumes, 8vo (192 x 125mm). Headpieces, initials, ornaments and tables, 136 engraved plates, a few folding (vol. II lacks title page, some ink spots to edges of plates in vol. III, some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces and raised bands, red edges (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: old bookseller's label of Henry Bottin, Mons, mounted on front pastedown; old signatures exuberantly scribbled out on front free endpapers of vols. I, III and IV; later signatures of [?]Madame de Rouillé on titles; some old annotation. Brunet III, 607: (citing only an edition of 1778 or 1779); cf. Caillet II, 4900; Wheeler Gift 426. (4)
PENTHER, Johann Friedrich (1693-1749). Praxis Geometriae, worrinnen nicht nur alle bey dem Feld-Messen vorkommende Fälle, mit Stäben, dem Astrolabio, der Boussole, und der Mensul. Augsburg & Leipzig: Jenisc und Stageschen Buchhandlung, [c. 1788]. Folio (356 x 220mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 39 engraved plates, 2 of which folding (some staining at gutter, occasional light staining, browning and spotting). Old paper boards (heavily stained, rubbed and creased). Ninth edition of this perennially popular German work on surveying which was first published in 1732 with just 25 plates. Poggendorff II, 399-400.
PERRAULT, Claude (1613-88). Recueil de Plusieurs Machines, de Nouvelle Invention. Ouvrage Posthume. Paris: Chez Jean Baptise Coignard, 1700. 4to (238 x 180mm). Large woodcut printer's device on title, engraved illustrations at head of dedication and on A1, initials, woodcut diagram, 11 folding engraved plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (some wear to foot of joints, extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: old library stamp on verso of title; old manuscript library shelf numbers on front pastedown; some old annotation referring the text to plate numbers. FIRST EDITION. Plate IX depicts the Abaque Rhabdologique (the author's own name for it), a calculating device which can be considered a forerunner of modern calculating and computing devices. Other machines described in this work include a mechanism for anchor cables, for raising a bridge, for rotating a telescope, and a water clock. Cicognara 948; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing P46.
PETISCO, Giuseppe Michele (1724-1800). Compendio della Vita del Ven. Servo di Dio il Fratello Antonio Alonso Bermejo .... Scritta in Ispagnuolo dal Sig. Abbate Don Giuseppe Michele Petisco, e Tradotta in Ataliano da un Divoto del Venerabile. Venice: Presso Sebastiano Valle, 1792. 8vo (200 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece full-length portrait of the author with a walking stick, typographical ornament on title, engraved plate with printed caption "Il Ven. Fratello Antonio Alonso Bermejo ancor giovine trionfa della natural repugnanza, e lambe le piaghe più schiffose" (last leaf of "Tavola" torn without loss, title lightly browned, occasional light spotting and staining, darker waterstain to a few leaves at the front). Contemporary decorated wrappers (backstrip a little frayed). FIRST EDITION of this puzzling work: the plate shows the author apparently licking the sores on a man's leg. Palau 224145: "First and only edition of this work since the Catalonian original has never been published."
![PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23-79 AD). Naturalis historie libri xxxvii. [Colophon:] Venice: "Impressum Veneti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/875d0c71-c33f-491c-8656-ac2b00ee4984/468x382.jpg)
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23-79 AD). Naturalis historie libri xxxvii. [Colophon:] Venice: "Impressum Venetiis summa diligentia per Melchior Sessam, & Petru Serenae, Socios, Anno reconciliare natiuitatis," 24 March 1525 [Colophon to index dated April 24 1525]. 2 parts including index by J. Camertes, with the index bound first, folio (294 x 210mm). Titles printed in red and black with historiated woodcut borders, woodcut printer's devices, woodcut initials, 38 woodcut illustrations including maps of Europe and Africa, index printed in triple column (severe V-shaped stain from folio CCVIII to the penultimate leaf, intermittent heavy staining at lower gutters, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, oviii torn at margin). Modern buckram, later endpapers. Provenance: old annotation to first [index] title and at a few margins. Adams P1559; Graesse V, 339; Mortimer 388; Sander 5764; Wellcome I, 5117; this edition not in Brunet.
![[PLUCHE, Noël-Antoine (1688-1761)]. Le Spectacle de la Nature, ou Entretiens sur les Particularités de l' Histoire Naturelle](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/de41991b-d224-4ba2-8bfd-ac2b00ee5632/468x382.jpg)
[PLUCHE, Noël-Antoine (1688-1761)]. Le Spectacle de la Nature, ou Entretiens sur les Particularités de l' Histoire Naturelle, qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les Jeunes-Gens curieux, & à leur former l' esprit ... Nouvelle Edition. Paris: Chez les Freres Estienne, 1771. 8 volumes in 9, 8vo (170 x 98mm). Half titles in vols. III & V - IX, 201 engraved plates, most folding (wormhole running through lower margin of vol. IV, not affecting letters, occasional very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: early signature at head of titles ([?]"... de la Sangirie"). Brunet III, 777 (citing an edition of 1732-50). (9)
POLINIERE, Pierre (1671-1734). Experiences de Physique ... Seconde edition, revûë & beaucoup augmentée. Paris: chez Jean de Laulne & Claude Jombert, 1718. 12mo (161 x 98mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut head-piece and initial, 16 folding engraved plates at the end (fore-edges of some plates cropped with very slight loss and soiling, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, many darker spots). Contemporary calf (spine worn and tatty with a few wormholes, upper joints split, heavily rubbed). Provenance: old manuscript key to plate stubs; remnants of library label to front pastedown. The work contains descriptions of experiments involving magnetism, electricity, galvanism, light, the spectrum, hydrostatics and the properties of air. For this second, and three subsequent editions, the author abandoned the old theory of colour which had been advocated in the first of edition of 1709 and adopted Newton's recent findings in opticks. Gartrell, Electricity, Magnetism and Animal Magnetism: A Checklist of Printed Sources 432; Wheeler Gift 248.
PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733-1804). [In: Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenuious in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. LXII.] XIX. Observations on different Kinds of Air ... Read March 5, 12, 19, 26, 1772 (pages 147-264). London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1772. 4to 220 x 165mm). 14 engraved plates, all but one folding [one illustrating Priestley's contribution], tables (2 plates torn without loss, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Belfast Society (stamped in gilt on upper cover). FIRST EDITION of the author's most important work on gas theory, published in the Philosophical Transactions two years before its first appearance in book form under the title Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air in 1774; see the following lot). Dibner 40; Honeyman 2535; PMM 217: "The paper here cited, for which the Royal Society awarded Priestley the Copley medal, announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide, and the use of the latter in measuring the purity of air, which led through the work of Cavendish, Fontana and others to exact eudiometry. Priestley also observed that plants consume carbon dioxide and give out oxygen, thereby purifying air which has been vitiated by combustion, respiration or putrefaction, and that this action takes place only under daylight. This proved of the greatest value for the subsequent work on respiration by Ingenhousz and Senebier."
PRONY, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de (1755-1839). Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique. Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, 1790-96. 2 volumes, 4to (291 x 217mm). Half title in vol. one, wood-engraved printer's devices on titles, tables, 54 engraved plates, all but one folding (2 plates numbered as 16 [XVI], plate 42 mis-numbered as 47, occasional light spotting, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, spines gilt, green edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Bibliotheca Alsatica. R.v.W." (bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 846; Poggendorff II, 534. (2)
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[?]PSEUDO-GEBER. Summa perfectionis Magisterii in sua natura; Ex bibliothecae Vaticanae exemplari undecunq; emendatissimo edita, cum vera genuinaq delineatione vasorum & fornacum. Deniq; libri investiationis Magisterii & testamenti ejusdem Gebri, ac Aurei trium verborum libelli, & acutissimi philosophi, mineralium additione castigatissima. "Gedani" [i.e. probably Gdansk]: Apud Brunonem Laurentium Tancken, 1682. 8vo (149 x 90mm). Woodcut initials and ornaments, 9 engraved plates showing methods of distillation ([?]lacking frontispiece [see footnote], rusthole in H7 affecting letters, lightly browned and stained throughout, a few darker spots). [?]18th-century half vellum and boards with a stylised interlacing foliate design incorporating birds and allegorical figures, spine with title in early manuscript (some light staining and rubbing). Provenance: illegible signature dated 1712 on front pastedown. This work on alchemy and distillation is believed to have been attributed to Geber in the middle-ages. A copy of the same edition included in a sale at Sotheby's in 2014 had a frontispiece (not present in our copy) but only 8 plates. Duveen 240; Ferguson I, p.300; cf. Maggs Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology and Natural Sciences, Cat. 520 (1929): 118 (citing a 1542 edition bound with another alchemical work).
![PUERBACH, Georg von (1423-61). Novae theoricae planetarum, edited by Peter Apian. [Colophon:] Venice: per Petrum de Nicolini](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/1868cca2-c18d-4d11-a6a0-ac2b00eee1b1/468x382.jpg)
PUERBACH, Georg von (1423-61). Novae theoricae planetarum, edited by Peter Apian. [Colophon:] Venice: per Petrum de Nicolinis Sabiensis, 1551. Small 8vo (155 x 100mm). Woodcut diagrams, woodcut ornament on verso of final leaf (some light staining and spotting, ink stains in margin of B4). Modern crushed red morocco, spine lettered in gilt with raised bands, new endpapers. Provenance: some old annotation and underlining. This edition is rare and is not recorded in Adams or BL Italian STC.
RONALDS, Francis (1788-1873). Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph, and of Some Other Electrical Apparatus. London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1823. 8vo (227 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, all but one engraved by Lowry after Francis Ronalds, errata leaf at the end (title and a few text leaves lightly browned, some light spotting and staining). [?]Later grey boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION. The author, commenting on the experiments with electrical transmissions which are described in the book, states: "The result seemed to be, that that most extraordinary fluid or agency, electricity, may actually be employed for a more practically useful purpose than the gratification of the philosopher's inquisitive research, the schoolboy's idle amusement, or the physician's tool; that it may be compelled to travel as many hundred miles beneath our feet as the subterranean ghost which nightly haunts our metropolis, our provincial towns, and even our high roads; and that in such an enlightened country and obscure climate as this its travels would be productive of, at the least, as much public and private benefit. Why has no serious trial yet been made of the qualifications of so diligent a courier? And if he should be proved competent to the task, why should not our kings hold council at Brighton with their ministers in London? Why should not our government govern at Portsmouth almost as promptly as in Downing Street? Why should our defaulters escape by default of our foggy climate? And since our piteous inamorati are not all Alphei, why should they add to the torments, of absence those dilatory tormentors, pens, ink, paper and posts? Let us have electrical conversazione offices, communicating with each other all over the kingdom, if we can ..." (pp.2-3).
ROSEL VON ROSENHOF, August Johann (1705-59). Der Monatlich-Herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung. Nuremberg: Fleischmann, 1746-61. 4 volumes, 4to (203 x 163mm). 3 hand-coloured engraved titles and 286 hand-coloured plates [?only, see note], of which 4 folding (vol. one lacks all before coloured title, 2 letterpress titles restored at lower fore-corner, one laid down with slight loss, occasional mainly light spotting and browning). Contemporary speckled calf (vols. I-III rebacked preserving old spines, vol. IV restored at head of spine). Nissen ZBI 3466. Nissen calls for 287 plates but most copies have 286. (4)
SAVERIEN, Alexandre (1720-1805). Dictionnaire Universel de Mathematique et Physique. Paris: Chez Jacques Rollin ... Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1753. 2 volumes, 4to (272 x 208mm). Half titles, woodcut printer's device on titles, printed mostly in double column, 101 folding engraved plates (hole in blank area of first half title, hole in one plate touching engraved frame, occasional light spotting and staining, more pronounced to the plates in vol. II). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with tan morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands (rubbed, with damage to lettering-pieces, some crackling). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplates [without name or motto]; "Tillier" (old signatures on titles); Auguste Boutin, Paris (later stamps on half title of vol. one and title of vol. II). FIRST EDITION. (2)
![[SENAC, Jean-Baptise de (1693-1770)]. L' Anatomie d' Heister avec des Essais de Phsyque[sic], sur l' usage des Parties du Co](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/bee1fa21-bdea-49ef-b7bb-ac2b00efc749/468x382.jpg)
[SENAC, Jean-Baptise de (1693-1770)]. L' Anatomie d' Heister avec des Essais de Phsyque[sic], sur l' usage des Parties du Corps Humain, & sur le Méchanisme de leurs mouvemens ... Seconde edition. Paris: Chez Jacques Vincent, 1735. 8vo (198 x 122mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpiece and initial, 14 folding engraved plates (occasional mainly light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with tan morocco lettering piece and raised bands (rubbed and scuffed). Barbier I, 172; Blake p. 203 (listed under Lorenz Heister); not in Brunet or Waller.
SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan (1730-1810). Description et Usage d' un Cabinet de Physique Expérimentale. Paris: Chez P. Fr. Gueffier, 1775. 2 volumes, 8vo (195 x 122mm). Half titles, woodcut devices on titles, 51 folding engraved plates (a few dark spots to title of vol. one, and elsewhere, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and raised bands (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. The fine plates depict a variety of scientific experiments in domestic rather than laboratory settings. In his preface, the author pays generous tribute to Benjamin Franklin, "... ce génie supérieur ...". Not in Brunet. (2)
SPALLANZANI, Abate (1729-99). Opuscoli di Fisica Animale, e Vegetabile. Modena: Presso la Societa Tipografica, 1776. 2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 142mm). Half title in first vol. only, woodcut printer's device on titles, 6 folding engraved plates (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary Italian half calf, spines gilt with black morocco lettering-pieces (piece torn away from head of spine of vol. II, spines quite heavily rubbed and scuffed, corners rubbed). Provenance: Sergio Colombi (modern label). FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 102; Heirs of Hippocrates 984: "A long controversy with John Tuberville Needham and Comte de Buffon resulted in a series of essays, published in this two-volume work, in which Spallanzani rejected the then-popular theory of spontaneous generation ... Most of the experiments described in the Opuscoli consist of observations Spallanzani made on infusions of vegetable matter heated in closed vessels for various periods of time and set aside to await developments that would later be viewed with the eye or under the microscope ... it clearly foreshadowed subsequent experiments by other investigators which culminated nearly a century later in Pasteur's epic work"; Norman 1981; Waller 11007 (citing French ed. of 1777 only). (2)
STECZKOWSKI, Joannes Cantius (1800-81). De longitudine geographica dissertatio quam adjectis thesibus. Cracow: Typis Universitatis, 1828. 4to (230 x 180mm). Folding table (some very light staining). Later plain blue wrappers. Provenance: old stamp on title; author's surname underlined in red pencil. FIRST EDITION.
STURM, Johann Christoph (1635-1703). Collegium experimentale, sive curiosum in quo primaria seculi inventa & experimenta physico-mathematica, Speciatum Campanae urinatoria, camerae obscurae, tubi Torricelliani, seu baroscopii, antliae pneumaticae, thermometrorum, hygroscopiorum, telescopiorum, microscopiorum & phenomena & effecta. Nuremberg: Sumptibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, & Johannis Andraeae Endteri Haeredum, 1676. 4 parts bound in one volume, 4to (200 x 160mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations and diagrams, some full-page (2 substantial sections misbound, variable but mainly light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate with motto "In promptu"; modern label of E. N. da C. Andrade on front free endpaper; contemporary note in Latin about the misbinding problem in this copy ("Culpa [?]Bibliopegi ...") before the third part. FIRST EDITION of this fascinating compendium of experiment and invention and including, on p. 64 of the first part, a full-page engraving of a flying machine and, on p. 4 of the third, a diving bell. Grasse VI, 517; not in Brunet.
SUE, Pierre (1739-1816). Histoire du Galvanisme; et Analyse des Différens ouvrages publiés sur cette découverte, depuis son origine jusqu' à ce jour. Paris: Chez Bernard, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo (193 x 122mm). Half titles, folding engraved plate of an electrical experiment [inserted from another work] at the end of vol. II, 16-pages of publisher's advertisements (dated January 1804) at the end of vol. one, errata leaf at the end of vol. II, the following leaf, unusually, with "spare" printed paper spine labels for each vol. printed side by side (title page to the first vol. spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Attractively-bound in contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces and with classical urns and ceiling rose ornaments stamped in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Doctor P. A. Créhange (modern bookplate). FIRST EDITION. (2)
SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637-80). Histoire Générale des Insectes. Ou l' on expose clairement la manière lente & presqu' insensible de l' accroissement de leurs mebres & où l' on découvre évidemment l' Erreur où l' on tombe d' ordinaire au sujet de leur prétendué transformation. Utrecht: Chez Jean Ribbius, 1685. 4to (193 x 147mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpieces and initials, folding letterpress table, 13 engraved plates, one of which folding, 7 of which double-page (some mainly marginal light browning, occasional very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots, without the instructions to the binder leaf at the end recorded in some copies). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers (neatly rebacked preserving old spine, extremities rubbed, some light staining). Provenance: later faint "ex-libris" stamp on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, but [?]second state with Ribbius imprint. Brunet IV, 369; Dibner 191; Krivatsy 11602; Nissen ZBI 4054; Norman 2037.
SWITZER, Stephen (1682-1745). An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical. Wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting Water, for the watering Nobelmens and Gentlemens Seats, Buildings, Gardens, &c. are carefully (and in a Manner not yet publish'd in any Language) laid down. London: Printed for T. Astley (and others), 1729. 2 volumes, 4to (246 x 200mm). Engraved frontispiece, historiated initials and headpieces, tables, and 61 engraved plates, all but one folding (plates 8 and 9 bound out of sequence, 2 plates torn without loss, one text leaf torn without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked with later old-style spines, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: E. C. Oakes (modern bookplate). Berlin Kat. 3614; Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 309. FIRST EDITION. (2)
![TARTAGLIA, Nicolò (1506-57). La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo Libra. [Colophon:] Venice: Appresso Camillo Castel](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/a362e6d4-7799-4be3-b2a8-ac2b00f3a254/468x382.jpg)
TARTAGLIA, Nicolò (1506-57). La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo Libra. [Colophon:] Venice: Appresso Camillo Castelli, 1583. 4to (207 x 150mm). Title with full-page allegorical woodcut illustration, woodcut diagrams, one full-page (minor repair to title and first 2 leaves with very slight loss, some browning to the third part, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt. First published in 1537, this is the first printed treatise on ballistics. "Tartaglia's 'The New Science' stands at the threshold of a new age in the history of mechanics ... [The author] deals with ballistics, surveying, engineering and fortification. He sought - but did not find - a mathematical theory defining the flight of projectiles. In some respects his views were anti-Aristotelian, e.g. he thought that the path of a projectile is at all points curved towards the ground, owing to its weight. He learned from gunners that the longest range was obtained at 45 degree elevation" (PMM). Cockle 658 (note); PMM 66; Riccardi I, 497; not in Brunet.
TIMOFEEFF-RESSOVSKY, Nikolay Vladimirovich (1900-81), Karl Günter ZIMMER (1911-88) & Max Ludwig Henning DELBRUCK (1906-81). Uber die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1935. 4to (245 x 170mm). Offprint from "Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", pages [189]-245, diagrams (some light spotting at lower margin of the first leaf). Original green printed wrappers with circular woodcut device on upper wrapper (some very light staining), contained in modern green buckram protective wallet with pocket. FIRST SEPARATELY-PUBLISHED EDITION of "a paper of fundamental importance in molecular biology" (Garrison & Morton). PRESENTATION COPY, the upper wrapper indistinctly inscribed by Timofeeff-Ressovsky. "'Ueber die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur'" (often referred to as "the green paper" after the color of its wrappers, or the "Dreimanner" paper after the number of its authors) is divided into four sections. The first, by Timofeeff-Ressovsky, describes the mutagenic effects of x-rays and gamma rays on Drosophila melanogaster; the second part, by Zimmer, analyzes Timofeeff-Ressovsky's results theoretically. The third and most remarkable section, by Delbruck, puts forth a model of genetic mutation based on atomic physics that "shows the maturity, judgment and breadth of knowledge of someone who had been in the field for years . . . its carefully worded predictions have stood the test of time" (Perutz, Physics and the Riddle of Life, p. 557). Garrison & Morton 254; Norman 326.
TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-47). Lezioni Accademiche ... Lettore delle Mattematiche nello Studio di Firenze e Accademico della Crusca, edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri. Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 4to (267 x 193mm). Half title, engraved illustration on title, engraved portrait of the author, head-pieces, initials and ornaments, 3 woodcut illustrations (half title spotted, a few inconspicuous holes in title and portrait, stain to lower margin of v, long tear in c7 without loss, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary plain wrappers (backstrip rather worn, some light staining and creasing). Provenance: old illegible stamp on title; preface inscribed in an old hand, "Di Tommaso Bonaventuri." FIRST EDITION of this posthumously-published collection of 12 lectures delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino and the Academy of Drawing. Torricelli was a student of Galileo, and succeeded him as Professor of Mathematics at Florence. "From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force of impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations. For example, the assertion that 'forces and impetus' (what we call energy) lie in bodies was interpreted by Maxwell in the last paragraph of A Treatise on Electricty and Magnetism (1873) as meaning that the propagation of energy is a mediate and not remote action. In the lecture on wind Torricelli ... advanced the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence of density, between two regions of the earth" (DSB). Dibner 149; Honeyman 2993; Norman 2088; Riccardi I, 544.
VAN ZYL, Johannes (dates unknown). Theatrum machinarum universale; of Groot Algemeen Moolen-Boek, Behelzende de Beschryving en Afbeeldingen vanallerhande soorten van Moolens, der zelver Opstallen, en Gronden. Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk, 1761. Large folio (548 x 335mm). Half title, engraved dedicatory poem with allegorical illustration, title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, 63 double-page plates of windmills and their mechanisms engraved by Jan Schenk, one of which folding [the folding plate numbered XXXVII & XXXVIII], the plates numbered I - LVI, I - VI and I-II, the last 2 plates not called for in the list (a few heavy spots, some very light staining, but otherwise plates generally very crisp and clean). Contemporary half calf and speckled boards, spine gilt with black morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). Bierens de Haan 5482l; Brunet IV, 568 (citing an edition printed in Amsterdam in 1734).
A Doulton Lambeth stoneware oil lamp (converted to electricity), dated 1881, decorated by Florence Barlow with two quatrelobed panels of a bird in branches inside beaded frames, the body incised with foliate decoration, brass mounts, impressed and incised marks to base, 33cm high, excluding top light fitting.
A pair of George II style cast silver twin light table candelabrum, by J B Chatterley & Sons, Birmingham 1965, with baluster form knop stems, shell cornered detachable nozzles, the shaped spreading bases with shell corners, by removing the candle branches they can be used as candlesticks, 28cm high, combined weight 2015 gms.
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (c.80-70 - c.15 BCE). De architectura libri decem, edited by Daniele Barbaro. Venice: Franciscus Senensis, 1567. Folio (290 x 191mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, repeated at the end, large architectural woodcut on verso of title and 135 woodcut illustrations, tables and diagrams, one leaf folding (some staining and browning to frist few leaves, some light mainly marginal staining elsewhere). Spanish 18th-century tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (skilfully rebacked preserving old spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Abbey of Sacro Mone, Granada (18th-century inscription on title). FIRST LATIN EDITION of Barbaro's commentary on Vitruvius's work on architecture, a highly influential text on the Classical revival in the European Renaissance. The plates, depicting mechanical apparatus, clocks, antiquities as well as classical buildings including Greek and Roman theatres, are reduced copies of those found in the Marcolini edition, with the exception of the bird's-eye view of Venice (on p.204). Adams V-909; Brunet IV, 671; Cicognara 716; Fowler 409; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 550; Millard Italian 161.
![VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton[sic], donnés par Mr. de Voltaire. Nouvel](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/19160081-e03a-47b8-8322-ac2b00e57322/468x382.jpg)
VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton[sic], donnés par Mr. de Voltaire. Nouvelle Edition. "Londres" [but Paris]: [no publisher, but Laurent-François Prault], [August] 1738. 8vo (189 x 117mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved portrait of Voltaire before the dedication to his mistress, Madame la Marquise du Chastellet, 6 engraved plates, one folding engraved table, 61 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams (some very light mainly marginal staining, spotting and browning). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands, red edges. Provenance: 2 old inscriptions on the half title, the first reading, "Le livre appartenir [illegible words] le Commissaire des Guerres"; the second running on from it, stating, "et maintent a M. [?]Arnoule Avocat du Roy, au [?]baage Royal de Sargueminion, admirateur enthousiaste du grain Neuton et du célébre Voltaire. 1779." FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Babson 120; Bengesco 1570; cf. Norman 2165; Poggendorff II, 1233; Wallis 155.
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WATHNER, Joseph. Der Vollständige Kenner der Eisen Waaren. [Graz: J. Fischer, c. 1825]. Oblong 4to (250 x 430mm). Engraved title with an illustration of a foundry in a mountainous landscape and 39 plates (occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary paper-backed marbled boards, red edges (rubbed). A trade catalogue for metal and ironware. RARE.
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