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Lot 1029
Book 1789 - Britannia a Chorographical description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England: A large book by William Camden - Britannia A chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the Islands adjacent from the earliest Antiquity. This edition believed to printed in 3 volumes, of which this is the first. Measures 46cm x 39cm, comprises 351 pages & extensive index pages, plus numerous plates and maps. Ex library stamps. Exterior quite worn, the interior is surprisingly bright and pleasing.
Lot 1711
LLADRO PORCELAIN MODEL OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP TROPHY, commissioned and produced to celebrate the 1978 FIFA World Cup, the underside with Lladro marks and inscribed 'Sport - Billy Productions 1978', 34cm high Note: Lladro were first commissioned to produce replica of the World Cup Trophy by FIFA in 1974. A special edition was commissioned by FIFA to celebrate the 1978 World Cup, with these presented to FIFA representatives. These bear the 'Sporting Billy' mark to the underside.
Lot 1313
MILNE (A.A.) - THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, with decorations by Ernest Shephard, First Edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd, London 1928, gilt cloth bound, with dust jacket, along with another First Edition copy of The House at Pooh Corner, lacking dust jacket, also including two further books by A.A. Milne comprising When We Were Very Young, 10th edition, 1925, with dust jacket, and The Christopher Robin Story Book, likely First Edition, 1929, lacking dust jacket (4)
Lot 1
Adams (George) A Treatise describing the Construction, and Explaining the use, of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, first edition, 3 engraved plates, light offsetting, contemporary calf, chip to head of spine, new endpapers, [Tomash & Williams A7], 8vo, for the Author, 1766.⁂ With dedication ghost-written by Samuel Johnson.
Lot 102
Galilei (Galileo) Tractatus de Proportionum Instrumento quod merito Compendium universae Geometriae dixeris, [translated by Matthias Bernegger], second Latin edition, woodcut illustration to title, engraved folding plate (short repaired tear to inner margin), woodcut initial, diagrams and head-piece, browning, heavy in places, later calf, sympathetically rebacked, new spine label detached and loosely inserted, rubbing to extremities, [Tomash & Williams G18], 4to, Strassburg, David Hautt, 1635.⁂ Second edition of Bernegger's Latin translation of Galileo's Le Operazioni del compasso geometrico (1606), substantially a reissue of the sheets of the previous edition (Strassburg, 1612), with only the initial quire (title and dedication) reset. The folding engraving is struck from the same plate used for the 1612 first edition.
Lot 103
Galilei (Galileo) Le Operazioni Del Compasso Geometrico, Et Militare, third edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, diagrams, head- and tail-pieces, folding engraved plate, later blue boards, rebacked, new printed labels to upper cover and spine, rubbing to extremities, [Riccardi i, 506; Tomash & Williams G13], 4to, Padua, Paolo Frambotto, 1649.⁂ The third edition of Galileo's first published work with an enlarged version of the plate that first appeared in the second edition of 1640.
Lot 104
Galilei (Galileo) and Baldessare Capra. Usus Et Fabrica Circini Cuiusdam Proportionis, Per Quem Omnia Fere Tum Euclidis, Tum Mathematicorum Omnium Problemata Facili Negotio Resolvuntur, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655 bound with Difesa di Galileo Galilei... Contro alle calunie & imposture di Baldessar Capra, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655, together 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut decorations to titles, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, light marginal dampstaining towards end, contemporary vellum, rebacked, endpapers and pastedowns reusing manuscript documents on paper (dated Florence, 1743), preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams C23 & G6], 4to.⁂ A fragment extracted from the first volume of the 1655-1656 Dozza edition of Galileo's work consisting of Capra's work on the use and construction of proportional compasses and Galileo's resulting attack on Capra.
Lot 108
Gemma Frisius. De Astrolabo Catholico, first edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and full-page coat of arms, 2 folding tables, occasional light foxing, fore-edge closely shaved, occasionally touching printed side-notes, contemporary vellum, modern printed spine label detached and loosely inserted, lacking ties, [Tomash & Williams G37], 8vo, Antwerp, J. Steelsius [& J. Grapheus], 1556.⁂ De Astrolabo Catholico was unfinished at Gemma Frisius' death in 1555 and was completed by his son Cornelius (1535-1578) and published in the following year. Gemma had founded a workshop which produced globes and mathematical instruments and was noted for his skills as an instrument-maker by Tycho Brahe, among others. In the present work he describes the construction and use of an astrolabe of his own devising and includes sections on eclipses and their observation, sundials and horoscopes.Provenance: "ad usus Gasparii servantii" (old ink inscription on title).
Lot 11
Apianus (Petrus) Instrumentum primi mobilis, first edition, title in red and black with large woodcut vignette, full-page woodcut coat-of-arms on a2, woodcut diagrams and initials, lacking final blank leaf, qq3 with short tear slightly affecting text, occasional soiling and marginal staining, modern morocco-backed cloth, [Tomash & Williams A84, J1; VD16 A3087, J8], folio (316 x 206mm.), Nuremberg, Johannes Petreius, 1534.⁂ Important work on spherical trigonometry, which also includes the earliest printing of Geber's De Astronomia, a reworking of Ptolemy's Almagest. "In this volume Apian published a table of sines that, for the first time, was based on a circle with a radius of a power of ten, in this case one hundred thousand. The values of the functions were thus decimal and were easily adapted to any situation in which the defining circle was a decimal power" (Tomash & Williams)
Lot 112
Globes.- Dunn (Samuel) The Description and Use of the Universal Planispheres, or Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in Plano, second edition, occasional ink notes in a contemporary hand, spotting, contemporary boards, chipping to spine and corners, Printed and published for the author & W. Owen, 1759 § Ferguson (James) Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics: With the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses, first edition, 23 engraved plates, occasional spotting, ink name to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, extremities rubbed, A. Millar, 1760, [Tomash & Williams D72 & F39], 8vo (2)
Lot 113
Globes.- Harris (John) The Description and Uses of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes; and of Collins's Pocket Quadrant, first edition, engraved plate with duplicate from another copy supplied as frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements, 20th century calf, E. Midwinter for D. Midwinter and T. Leigh, 1703 § Harris (Joseph) The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery. To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system, second edition, 7 folding engraved plates (1 torn at margin and fold), contemporary calf, splitting to head of joints, preserved in custom drop-back box, Thomas Wright and Richard Cushee, 1732, [Tomash & Williams H20 & H23], 8vo (2)
Lot 114
Globes.- Hatton (Edward) A mathematical manual or delightful associate containing a description of the celestial globe . . . terrestrial globe, ... all kinds of maps etc., first edition, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, advertisement f., bookplates, contemporary panelled calf, spine rubbed, corners a little bumped, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams H77], 8vo, S. Illidge, 1728.⁂ Provenance: John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750-1842, MP and subject of the satirical Rolliad); John Leigh Smeathman Hatton (1865-1933, mathematician and Principal of East London College) (bookplates).
Lot 117
Globes.- Moxon (Joseph) A Tutor To Astronomie And Geographie: Or An Easie And Speedy Way To Know The Use Of Both The Globes, Celestial And Terrestrial, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, woodcut initials and head-pieces, woodcut and engraved diagrams and illustrations, occasional light spotting or browning, later vellum, spine repaired, a little soiled, preserved in custom drop-backed box, [Tomash & Williams M140; Wing M3021], small 4to, Joseph Moxon, 1659.⁂ With the following issue points: A variant of the title page without "of" before spherical triangles; Numbers "2 ... 6." are enclosed within braces on title page; the words "astronomical ... triangles" are gathered by a left brace; With added engraved title (A1v); Caption title on 2C4v: "Ancient stories of the several stars ... collected from Dr. Hood"Provenance: Charles E. Riviere and Henry Branch (ink inscriptions).
Lot 124
Harris (Joseph) The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery, first edition, 7 folding engraved plates, dampstaining to first few ff. and final plate, title with woodcut decoration, ,woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, contemporary panelled calf, spine ends a little chipped, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams H22], 8vo, for Thomas Wright and Richard Cushee, 1731.⁂ An expansion of Harris's 1703 work, including a lengthy description of the orrery. Provenance: Edward S. Gowers (modern stamp and signature).
Lot 134
Henrion (Denis) L'usage du mecometre, qui est un instrument geometrique, avec lequel on peut tres-facilement mesurer toutes sortes de longueurs & distances visibles, second edition, 2 engraved folding plates, the first torn and repaired, woodcut diagrams, browning to text, last 2 ff. repaired at head, touching headline, contemporary calf, spine gilt, [Tomash & Williams H118], 8vo, Paris, Jean d'Houry, 1677.⁂ The mécomètre was a combined sighting and calculating instrument.
Lot 138
Holtzapffel (Charles) A new system of scales of equal parts, applicable to various purposes of engineering, architecture and general science, first edition, folding plate, original cloth, a little faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1838 § Oliver (Henry Kemble) An elementary treatise on the construction and use of the mathematical instruments usually put into portable cases, 6 folding engraved plates, errata, foxing and browning, contemporary cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover, spine chipped at head, preserved in custom drop-back box, Boston, Perkins & Marvin, 1830 § Chase (Stuart) Men and machines, illustrated by W.T. Murch, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, New York, Macmillan, 1929, [Tomash & Williams H151, O30 & C69]; and 13 others, practical mathematics and industry, 8vo & folio (16)
![Horology.- D[erham] (W[illiam]) The Artificial Clock-maker. A Treatise of Watch, & Clock-work, 2 parts in 1 vol., second](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/61a4a151-6f7d-45c1-ab46-ab5900fbf121/4ddcafef-dbf2-4c59-a237-ab5a01167aae/468x382.jpg)
Lot 140
Horology.- D[erham] (W[illiam]) The Artificial Clock-maker. A Treatise of Watch, & Clock-work, 2 parts in 1 vol., second edition, 2 folding engraved plates, folding leaf of printed music, 2 folding tables, bookplate and ink notes to pastedown and endpapers, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, 1 corner worn, [Bromley, The Clockmaker's Library 257; Tomash & Williams D44; Wing D1100], James Knapton, 1700.⁂ Second edition of Derham's first book, a treatise explaining how clocks are made and calibrated so as to keep accurate time, with a brief history of time-keeping devices. Newly printed in the "Supplement" are "Mr. Flamsteed's equation tables", further commentary on the Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer's geared jovilade (from details given to the author by Flamsteed), instructions on "A nice way to correct pendulum watches" and "To make a telescope to keep a watch by the fixed stars". The book appeared in German in 1708 and in French in 1731. Library of Calwich [stet] Hall, Staffordshire, seat of the Viscounts Granville (sale by Thos. Winstanley & Son, 1844) Provenance: Earls Granville, Calwich Hall, Staffordshire ("Calwick Library" bookplate, Calwich sale by Thos. Winstanley & Son, 1844); William Godfrey (ink inscription).
Lot 141
Horology.- Ferguson (James) Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to construct different Clocks, Orreries and Sun-Dials on Plain and Easy Principals, first edition, 9 folding engraved plates (1 torn and repaired), occasional light finger-soiling, ink names to pastedowns, contemporary sheep, joints cracked but holding firm, [Baillie p.294; Bromley, The Clockmaker's Library 319; Tomash & Williams Add14], 8vo, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773⁂ Provenance: Samuel Whitworth; James Whitworth ?Luftey (ink inscriptions)
Lot 143
Horology.- Pennington (Robert) The Description of a Sector... Of great use to all clock and watch makers, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, title and A4 folding at foot, both with notes in a contemporary hand, modern stiff wrappers, [Baillie p.308; Tomash & Williams P35; not in Bromley, The Clockmaker's Library], 8vo, Richardson & Urquhart, 1780.⁂ Rare, ESTC lists 4 copies only. The note to foot of the title reads: "The author of this Pamphlet resided at Camberwell and was the ingenious mechanist who constructed Mr Mudge's time-piece & made Drawings for Mr M's description of it."
Lot 144
Hulsius (Levinus) Ocularis et radicalis demonstratio usus quadrantis, first edition, Gothic letter, title with engraved vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 2 folding double-page engraved plates, F1&2 upper corner restored, [Tomash & Williams H185; VD16 H5879], Nuremberg, Christophor Lochner, for the author, 1596 bound with Brentel (Georg) Quadrantis astronomici et geometrici utilitates. Ein Tractat vom astronomischen und geometrischen Quadranten, first edition, Gothic letter, title within elaborated woodcut border, text within woodcut border throughout, woodcut illustrations, a few ff. closely shaved, lacking errata f., [Tomash & Williams B244; VD17 3:000106H], Lauingen, Jacob Winter, 1611, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional browning or light soiling, later red vellum, lacking ties, light soiling to upper cover, small 4to.⁂ The first works details the use of the geometric square in military and civilian tasks, the second discusses astronomical and surveying applications for a quadrant.
![Jacob (Simon) Ein new und wohl gegrundt rechenbuch, auff den linien un[d] ziffern, sampt der welschen practic und allerley vo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/61a4a151-6f7d-45c1-ab46-ab5900fbf121/18400eef-4a5b-4187-aadc-ab5a011592ab/468x382.jpg)
Lot 149
Jacob (Simon) Ein new und wohl gegrundt rechenbuch, auff den linien un[d] ziffern, sampt der welschen practic und allerley vortheilen, neben der extraction radicum, un[d] von den proportionen, mit vilen lustigen fragen und auffgaben [&c.], first edition, Gothic letter, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut printer's device on colophon, occasional browning, title and colophon a little frayed, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with metal clasps, a little rubbed and soiled, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.295; Tomash & Williams J4; VD16 J29], 4to, Frankfurt, Georg Rab for Sigmund Feyerabend and Simon Hüter, 1565.⁂ Simon Jacob was a well-known reckoning master who had published an arithmetic at Frankfurt in 1557. The present edition is a revised and expanded version, published by his brother shortly after his death. Provenance: Reuter (bookplate to title verso).
Lot 151
Jevons (William Stanley) On the mechanical performance of logical inference, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 160, part II, pp. 497-518, largely unopened, the odd tear to margin, 25 lithographed plates (of which 3 related to Jevons), foxing to plates, original printed wrappers, upper cover detached, cracking to spine, some marking and soiling, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Origins of Cyberspace 330; Tomash & Williams J15], 4to, 1870.⁂ The first edition of Jevons' landmark paper presenting his "logical piano" (so called due to its appearance), the first machine capable of solving problems at superhuman speed and a key precursor of the modern computer.
Lot 153
Jevons (William Stanley) The Principles of Science, A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, occasional foxing or marginal browning, vol. 1 upper hinge broken and lacking front free endpaper, vol. 2 upper hinge starting and with portion of front free endpaper torn away, contemporary ink ownership inscriptions, bookplate, original red-brown cloth, spine ends and corners bumped and worn, splitting to joints, rubbed, preserved in custom drop-back boxes, [Tomash & Williams J17], 8vo, 1874.⁂ Rare, especially so in the original cloth. "This is Jevons' major work. It contains all his advances to the development of logic set in the framework of the philosophy of science. He insisted that absolute certainty of observation is impossible for a human, and thus all logical deductions from laboratory experiments must be considered true only within a certain probability. He was an early explorer of the methodology of measurement and associated errors." - Tomash & Williams.
Lot 156
Kepler (Johannes) Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus Astronomicae Scientiae, Temporum longinquitate collapsae Restauratio continetur, first edition, additional engraved title becoming loose, L2/L3 double-page letterpress table with partial hand-colouring, folding manuscript table of logarithms bound in at end, a few margins repaired or remargined, including engraved title at foot and folding margin of k3, with some letters of side-notes supplied in manuscript, some worming, mostly marginal, a few gatherings (including "Sportula", sig. q, issued in 1629) browned, later half calf, rubbed, [Tomash & Williams K27; Houzeau & Lancaster 12754; Norman 1208], folio, Ulm, Jonas Saur, 1627.⁂ "The foundation of all planetary calculations for over a century." (Sparrow, Milestones of Science). Tycho Brahe asked Kepler to complete his Rudolphine tables, shortly before the former's death in 1601 - the resultant work, based on Kepler's discovery of the laws of planetary motion and on his introduction to logarithms, produced far more accurate positions than those in earlier tables. This copy includes the 4-leaf "Sportula genethliacis missa" published in 1629, but does not have Bartsch's appendix or the world map, both issued after 1627.
Lot 157
Kepler (Johannes) and Jacob Bartsch. Tabulae Manuales Logarithmicae Ad Calculum Astronomicum, title within ruled border, woodcut initials and head-pieces, tables, ink stamp to title verso, bookplate removed from front pastedown, contemporary vellum, [Tomash & Williams K28; VD17 12:196196Z ], 8vo, Strasbourg, Johannes Pastorius for Theodor Lerse, 1700.⁂ The second and first obtainable edition of the tables used in calculating Kepler's Rudolpine Tables of 1627. Kepler's son in law, Jacob Bartsch published the first edition after Kepler's death but the run was extremely limited due to financial issues with only one (defective) copy recorded. Provenance: Bibliothek TU (Technische Universität) Dresden (cancelled ink stamp).
Lot 158
Klügel (Georg Simon) Mathematisches Wörterbuch, 7 vol. (including 2 supplement vol.), first edition, Gothic letter, numerous engraved folding plates, ink stamps and inscriptions to titles, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, vol.2 spine repaired at head, a little rubbed, [Tomash & Williams K52], 8vo, Leipzig, Schwickert, 1803-36.⁂ Provenance: "Bucherei der Eisleber Bergschule" (ink stamp).
Lot 159
Lacroix (Sylvestre Francois) Traite du Calcul Differentiel et du Calcul Integral - [vol. III: Traite des Differences et des Series, faisant suite au Traite du Calcul Differentiel et du Calcul Intergral], 3 vol., first edition, vol. 2 & 3 half-titles, 7 folding engraved plates, 2 folding printed tables in vol.2, occasional foxing or browning, ink stamps to titles and half-titles, contemporary half calf, rubbed, preserved in custom drop-back boxes, [Tomash & Williams L10 & L11], 4to, Paris, J.B.M. Duprat, 1797-1800.⁂ "This monumental work constituted a clear picture of mathematical analysis, documented and completely up to date. While Lacroix followed Euler on many points, he incorporated the various advances made since the middle of the eighteenth century. The treatise is a very successful synthesis of the works of Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Monge, Legendre, Poisson, Gauss, and Cauchy..." - DSB.Provenance: Bibliothek des T[echnischen] & A[dministrativen] Militär-Comité; K.K. Artillerie Comité, Vienna (ink stamps).
Lot 16
Astrolabes.- Stoeffler (Johannes) Elucidatio Fabricae ususque Astrolabii... Atque totius spherice doctissimo nuper ingeniose concinnata atque in lucem edita, first edition, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut diagrams, charts and illustrations, some full-page, those on B3v, C4v and D3r with extension slips (D4r with one misbound, lacking slips on A6v), decorative initials and printer's device at end, [**6v] with poem by Philipp Melanchthon and woodcut arms of George Simler, 2ff. following title with neatly repaired tears, ink stamp erased from foot of title, G2 becoming loose, several ff. towards end neatly mounted on stubs, 20th century half vellum, black ink lettering to spine, [Adams S1886; Houzeau & Lancaster 3256; Stillwell Science, 892; Tomash & Williams S197; Wellcome 6099], 4to, Oppenheim, Jacob Köbel, 1513 [colophon dated 1512].⁂ The most comprehensive treatise on the astrolabe of its time. It was handsomely printed at the first press in Oppenheim. "Stoeffler recognized that, in mapping, computation of the distance between two places whose latitude and longitude were known failed to take into account the convergence of the meridians" - Stillwell. The poem by Melanchthon is possibly his first appearance in print. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit (book label).
Lot 160
Lambert (Johann Heinrich) Zusätze zu den Logarithmischen und Trigonometrischen Tabellen, first edition, woodcut title decoration and head-pieces, small manuscript slip pasted in, occasional foxing, modern boards, [Tomash & Williams L20; VD18 12463442], Berlin, Haude and Spener, 1770 § Grüneberg (Christian) Pandora Mathematicarum Tabularum, occasional browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, lacking ties, [Tomash & Williams G94; VD17 39:115087Q], Frankfurt am Main, Christoph Zeitler, 1684; and another, similar by Schulze, [Tomash & William S65], 8vo (3)⁂ A good group of German logarithmic and trigonometric tables.
Lot 163
Leibniz (Gottfried Wilhelm) Essais de Theodicee, oder Betrachtung der Guetigkeit Gottes..., first German edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, folding engraved plate of author's calculator, lacking the engraved portrait of Leibniz and the list of his works, light browning, contemporary vellum, [Tomash & Williams L67; VD18 11190809], 8vo, Amsterdam, Cornelius Boudestein, 1720.⁂ As well as containing a German translation of Essais de Theodecee sur la bonte de Dieu, la liberte de l'homme et l'origine de mal, first published in Amsterdam in 1710, this work includes a short assertion of Leibniz's priority over Newton in the invention of calculus, a brief description of the binary system and an account in Latin of the Leibniz calculator.
Lot 164
Leybourn (William) The Art of Dialling, Performed Geometrically... Arithmetically... Instrumentally, first edition, engraved portrait, folding plate and 1 illustration, woodcut head-piece and diagrams, ink erasure on title, first gathering soiled, contemporary calf, spine and corners neatly and sympathetically repaired, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams L89; Wing L1900], 4to, S. A. and B. G., 1669.⁂ This issue has "dialling," in line 2 of title, and the imprint date 1669; another issue has "dialling:" and is undated.Provenance: John Harwood, 1701 and Chaloner Greville (ink inscriptions); Greville Mairis Livett (bookplate).
Lot 165
Leybourn (William) Panorganon: Or, An Universal Instrument, Performing All Such Conclusions Geometrical And Astronomical As Are Usually Wrought By The Globes, Spheres, Sectors, Quadrants, [&C.], first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 folding plates, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, marginal browning and occasional chipping, occasional light marking or soiling, modern panelled calf, [Tomash & Williams L104; Wing L1928], small 4to, William Birch, 1672.⁂ The Panorganon describes a quadrant which Leybourn had himself designed, though he acknowledged that he owed much to the manuscript notes of Samuel Foster, professor at Gresham College.Provenance: John Gardiner, William Green and Doubleday Auborn (early ink inscriptions).
Lot 168
NO RESERVE Logarithms and tables.- Jacobi (Carl Gustav Jacob) Canon arithmeticus sive tabulae quibus exhibentur pro singulis numeris primis, first edition, later wrappers, uncut and unopened, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams J6], 4to, Berlin, Typis Academicis, 1839.⁂ First edition of Jacobi's work on primitive roots.
Lot 169
Logic.- De Morgan (Augustus) Formal logic: or, the calculus of inference, necessary and probable, first edition, occasional foxing, ink ownership and gift inscriptions to endpapers and title, original cloth, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, corners a little worn, Taylor and Walton, 1847; On the symbols of logic, the theory of the syllogism, and in particular of the cupola, and the application of the theory of probabilities to some questions of evidence, offprint from Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 9, part 1., title with printed 'From the Author' notice to head, creasing, modern marbled boards, morocco label to upper cover, Cambridge, Pitt Press by John W. Parker, 1850, [Tomash & Williams D35 & D37]; and another by the same, 8vo (3)⁂ "[The first mentioned] is the work in which DeMorgan took the first steps to codify logic into an algebraic system. He was not entirely successful, and it was George Boole who devised the first really workable system a few years later. In his research, DeMorgan had consulted the Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton on the history of logic, and Hamilton later accused him of plagiarizing his idea of a qualified predicate. His reply to this charge was printed in one of his regular Athenaeum magazine columns and in his book A budget of paradoxes. An account of this public dispute is given in the appendix to this work. It was this controversy that brought George Boole into the field and eventually resulted in the creation of Boolean algebra." - Tomash & Williams.
Lot 17
Atom bomb.- Atomic Energy. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, first English edition, original printed stapled wrappers (spotted and browned), [PMM, p.253 no. 422e], 8vo, 1945.⁂ First English edition of the official account of the development of the atomic bombs.
Lot 170
NO RESERVE Logic.- Whately (Richard) Elements of logic, first edition, pencil notes at front, bookplates of Edwin Wilkins Field and John Sparrow to pastedown, modern half morocco, 1826 § Couturat (Louis) The algebra of logic, first edition in English, original cloth, ink stain to lower cover, Open Court, 1914, [Tomash & Williams W39 & C191]; and 3 others, similar, 8vo (5)
Lot 171
Longomontanus (Christian Sørensen) Astronomia Danica... cum appendice de asscititiis coeli phaenomenis, nempe stellis novis et cometis, first edition, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, diagrams and illustrations, some worming at beginning and end, occasional light spotting or staining, bookplate to pastedown, worming to covers, [Tomash & Williams L129] Amsterdam, Willem Jansz Blaeu, 1622.⁂ "Longomontanus proved to be the ideal assistant to Brahe and took over much of his work after he died. Although Brahe had made careful and complete observations, it remained for Longomontanus to present them in this treatise as an integrated system. This work, although based on the erroneous Tychonic theory, was very well accepted and was reprinted in 1640 and 1663. "It is of particular significance that the work contains numerous tables calculated by the method of prosthaphaeresis (here called prosthaphaereseon). Prosthaphaeresis, (from the Greek words for addition and subtraction) is one of the standard computational shortcuts in use before the invention of logarithms" - Tomash & Williams.Provenance: "P. H." (initials on bookplate).
Lot 172
Mackay (Andrew) The Complete Navigator, first edition, the dedication copy with an ink inscription "from the author" to Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence to endpaper, 7 engraved plates, tables and diagrams, 3pp. advertisements, lacking half-title, light offsetting, occasional light foxing or browning, modern morocco-backed boards, [Tomash & Williams M9], 8vo, 1804.
Lot 175
Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de) De Astronomica Specula Domestica et Organico Apparatu Astronomico libri duo, first edition, engraved frontispiece (slightly water-stained), title in red and black with engraved vignette of a plan of Vienna, 4 plates printed recto and verso, one with tear just encroaching on plate-mark, 44 folding plates, illustrations, some light offsetting, later green half morocco over marbled boards, modern cloth drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams M37; Riccardi ii, 119], folio, Vienna, Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, 1745.⁂ Lavishly produced work describing the astronomical instruments in Marinoni's private observatory. "One of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed" (Kenney). Includes the so-called culminatorium, Marinoni's wall quadrant, the quadrans ampliatus and the micrometer. Marinoni (1676-1755) studied in Vienna and became imperial mathematician and teacher in astronomy to the Empress Maria Theresa, to whom this work is dedicated.Provenance: Marchese Bourbon di Monte, di Petrella (armorial bookplate lettered "Ex Libris Petrellianis").
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Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de) De re ichnographica, first edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black with engraved vignette depicting a plan of Vienna, 3 double-page engraved maps, 2 double-page plates, engraved illustrations, many full-page, errata leaf, staining towards end, small ink stamps to title and plate versos, one on title partially erased causing small hole, contemporary sheep, spine gilt, extremities worn, modern cloth drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams M38; Riccardi ii, 119], 4to, Vienna, Leopold Johann Kaliwoda, 1751.⁂ Marinoni was Imperial Mathematician and Director of the Academy for Geometry and Military Science in Vienna. Handsomely produced work on architectural surveying.
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