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Doctor Who magazine, Radio Times 10 year anniversary edition, dated 1973. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

A GEM-SET AND DIAMOND 'NOVELTY' CLIP BROOCH 'LION ÉBOURIFFÉ', BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, CIRCA 1962 In the form of a lion, the eyes set with circular-cut emeralds, the muzzle with brilliant-cut diamonds and the nose applied with black enamel, mounted in 18K gold and platinum, signed Van Cleef & Arpels, numbered, maker's mark for 'Pery & Fils', French assay marks, length 4.6cm Van Cleef & Arpels were the first to recognise the importance of the establishment of a 'Boutique' department to present a unique and modern collection of affordable jewellery. These pieces were part of a limited edition series, produced to the highest quality in new and innovative designs. In comparison to the haute joaillerie, the popularity of specific pieces, led them to being made available for more than one season. Coinciding with the launch of the boutique in 1954 was the revival in the interest and appetite for charms. In comparison to previous designs, Van Cleef & Arpels created larger charms in gold and gemstones. While they had always been a part of the House's repertoire, the production increased greatly throughout the 50s and 60s with a proliferation of new designs coming out annually. The inspiration for these charms is vast and incredibly diverse, ranging from motifs of thatched cottages, sailing ships, and telephones to the infamous monuments such as the Eiffel Tower or the Vendome column. Amongst the favourites with the Houses' clientele was the 'Zodiac' charm first produced in 1958. Equally admired were the numerous animal figurines. The collectible nature of charms made these small creatures the perfect choice for the House to create different series. Iconic pieces emerged such as the Chat Malicieux lauched in 1954 and followed later by the Lion Ebouriffe (startled lion). Ref: Sylvie Raulet, Van Cleef & Arpels, New York 1987, pages 142-143 Princess Grace Kelly was also very fond of La Boutique and collected many of the designs, including the famous 'Lion Ebouriffé' clip brooch. This playful collection which was created to offer more accessible, more casual, young-at-heart jewels to a new democratic clientele, found immense success amongst the French Riviera royalty and international figures such as Jacky Kennedy Onassis ... For an illustration of Grace Kelly's similar lion clip clip brooch, a gift from Aristote Onassis: ref: Evelyne Possémé, Van Cleef & Arpels, L'art de la Haute Joaillerie, Paris 2012, page 195 A similar 'Lion Ebouriffé' clip was on view during the Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition at the Musée de la Mode et du Costume, Palais Galliera in Paris, in 1992. No. 192 in the catalogue, page 150

A STRIKING CORAL, PEARL AND GOLD SAUTOIR NECKLACE, BY CARTIER, CIRCA 1965-70 The hippie chic necklace composed of a series of large tubular and spherical links with beading and filigree details, accented with baroque pearls, the frontispiece highlighted with two marquise-shaped coral plaques suspending a large carved coral fish within gold lace and with polished gold eyes, mounted in 18K gold, signed Cartier Paris, numbered, maker's mark for 'Cartier Societé Anonyme', French assay mark, necklace length 57.5cm, pendant length (starting from the spherical link): 13cm, fish length: 7.5cm Accompanied by its written invoice from Cartier Munich, located on Briennerstraße 12, München, dated June 16th 1975 For similar examples of coral necklaces by Cartier from the early 1970s: ref: Francois Chaille, La Collection Cartier Joaillerie, Volume 2, éditions Flammarion, pages 578-583 (Cartier in Munich has since relocated on Maximilianstraße 20) Since the 1970s, bold jewels were all on trend. Sautoirs became oversized, chunky and even more colourful. This Cartier necklace has clearly been inspired by the hippie chic fashion trend of the late 1960s that carried over to the early 1970s. However, while raw coral, polished but left in its natural, branch-like form was a hot accessory for hippies, jewellers, such as Cartier, carved orangy-red pieces out of coral setting them with yellow gold and diamonds. Cartier's love of coral, combined with their popular animalier themes, is beautifully demonstrated in this fish coral and gold sautoir. While there was a proliferation of different styles and shapes in jewellery since the 1960s, which seemed to defy a single trend, it is undeniable that the work of goldsmiths was the most prevalent aesthetic. In this period, jewellers working with gold made a concerted effort to keep the techniques of past ages alive through the creation of specialised handmade pieces, often in limited edition series. They combined the highly skilled and refined techniques with modern and innovative tastes. Following the second world war, with the reconstruction of many aspects of society, as well as the advancements in technology and mass production, it ensured the success, in particular of the gold jewellery designs. This coincided with the development of women's liberty and equality in the 1960s and 1970s. No longer solely dependent upon their husbands or family for monetary protection, they expressed their new found freedom in many ways, including through their individual style and accessories. Women's fashion of the 1970s, incorporated function and style, favouring more masculine interpretations of shape and cut. There was freedom of choice, and for the first time there was a generation of women who purchased expensive jewels for themselves, rather than receiving them as gifts. The jewellery designs needed to reflect this social development with goldsmiths embracing inventiveness and innovation in their creative process. The materials used had to be adapted to meet with these new aesthetic demands. The pieces made in gold were highly decorated, some returning to the ancient technique of filigree as well as embracing the emerging bohemian clothing trend of the 1970s with widespread production of longer chains and pendants. They could be worn in many different ways, no longer limited to only the neck and wrists, but also around the waist or ankles. They were multifaceted in their design and purpose, moving away from the traditional and often more limited interpretations of how jewellery should be worn and enjoyed by the owner.

ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento. Florence: Giuseppe Cocchini, 1666. Folio (345 x 240mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved alchemical device of the Academy, engraved portrait of Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany by Lotaringus after Francois Spierre dated 1659, 4-pages of the dedication from the 1667 second issue inserted, 75 full-page engraved illustrations by Modiana after [?]Stefano della Bella, engraved head- and tail-pieces, large woodcut historiated initials (some browning to the dedication leaves and elsewhere, small wormholes, marginal wormtracks restored throughout, c.20 leaves faintly waterstained at fore-edge). Old vellum (some light staining). FIRST EDITION, first issue, of the only publication of the world's earliest scientific society. Although short-lived, the Accademia del Cimento was highly active in the ten years of its existence from 1657 to 1667 and was hugely influential through its experiments and discoveries. The work contains a description of the first true thermometer, the first hygrometer and an improved barometer, and also gives the results of experiments on air pressure, sound velocity, radiant heat, phosphorescence and the expansion of water on freezing. The Academy was so exclusive that it consisted of only ten members. Dibner 82; Krivatsy 25; Norman 486: "a very beautiful and expensively produced work"; Riccardi I, 407.

ALDINI, Giovanni (1762-1730). Essai Théorique et Expérimental sur le Galvanisme, avec une Série d' Expériences faites en Présence des Commissaires de l' Institut National de France, et en Divers Ampithéatres Anatomique de Londres. Paris: De L' Imprimerie de Fournier Fils, 1804. 4to (298 x 225mm). Half title, 10 folding engraved plates (variable spotting, staining and browning throughout, many darker spots affecting letters). Attractively-bound in later green morocco-backed marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in gilt and blind, new endpapers. FIRST EDITION of this highly influential work on galvanism which presented, for the first time, a series of experiments which applied the principles of Volta and Galvani. The fine, if somewhat macabre, plates illustrate the experiments which involved heads and bodies of animals and humans, and which seem to bring them back to life. It is not beyond the realms of speculation that Mary Shelley may have been influenced both by Aldini's experiments, and those of his uncle's, Luigi Galvani, to write Frankenstein in 1818. cf. Fulton & Stanton, A Bibliography of Galvani's Writings on Animal Electricity 27; cf. PMM 240 (reference to Aldini's continuation of Galvani's work); Wheeler Gift 660.

ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond d' (1717-83). Traité de l' Equilibre et du Movement des Fluides. Pour Servir de Suite au Traité de Dynamique. Paris: chez David, l'aîné, 1744. 4to (218 x 163mm). Engraved printer's device on title, head-pieces and initials, 10 folding engraved plates (some very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, green silk marker, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, a few small light stains). Provenance: old inscription on final blank; Le Paige (bookplate dated 1918); Philippe Bragard (bookplate dated 1986). FIRST EDITION of an important work on fluid mechanics. Bibliotheca Mechanica pp. 7-8; Brunet II, 3 (citing only an edition of 1770, under "D' Alembert"); Honeyman 7; Norman 33; Rouse & Ince, pp. 101-106.

AMPERE, André-Marie (1775-1836). [In: Mémoires de l' Académie des Sciences de l' Institut de France. Année 1823 [but not printed until 1827] Tome VI.] Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l' expérience, dans lequel se trouvent réunis les Mémoires que M. Ampère a communiqués à l' Académie Royale des Sciences, dans les séances des 4 et 26 décembre 1820, 10 juin 1822, 22 décembre 1823, 12 septembre et 21 novembre 1825. (Pages [175]-[388].) Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, Père et Fils, Libraires, 1827. 4to (276 x 220mm). Half title, 2 folding engraved plates illustrating Ampère's paper bound at the end. Original blue printed wrappers. A FINE FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of "Ampère's greatest work" (DSB) in which he describes the laws of action of electrical currents (electrodynamism) and provides a theory from which these could be mathematically deduced. Grolier 3a; Honeyman 135; Norman 50.

ANTOINE, A. (1776-1836). Les Histoires Merveilleuses, ou les Petits Peureux Corrigés; Ouvrage destiné a Prémunir les Enfans contre toute Idée d' Apparitions, de Revenans, de Fantomes; et a leur Inspirer le Courage nécessaire dans les Evénemens qui Paraissent Surnaturels. Paris: "a la Librairie d' Education de Pierre Blanchard," 1813. 12mo (131 x 80mm). Engraved frontispiece captioned "Mr. le Curé va faire entrer le revenant" (some very light marginal staining). Contemporary calf gilt (upper cover detached, lower joints split, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Louise" (old child's signature on front free endpaper); old pen and pencil inscriptions on rear endpaper. FIRST EDITION of this charming work for the benefit of children who are afraid of ghosts, which begins with a reference to John Locke, and ends with Albert and Victor, the children in the story, rejecting "l'ignorance et la crédulité" so that they may change (in the closing words of the book) "... leur surnom de petits peureux en celui de petits intrépides." RARE. Not in Brunet.

[APPIER-HANZELET, Jan (1596-1647), but traditionally attributed to Jean LEURECHON (1591-1670)]. Recreations Mathématiques Composées de Plusieurs Problèmes Plaisans & Facetieux d' Arithmetique, Geometrie, Astrologie, Optique, Perspective, Mechanique, Chymie, & d' autres Rares & Curieux Secrets. Rouen: Charles Osmont, 1634. 3 parts in one volume, 8vo (162 x 95mm). Woodcut illustrations and diagrams (small hole at inner margin of title, not affecting letters, some faint waterstaining to the lower outer corner). Early 20th-century crushed morocco, the spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. Provenance: Kenney Collection (label); attributed author's name in pencil on front pastedown. First published in 1624 (only 3 extant copies of this edition are known), this is one of the earliest editions of the first book to posit the idea of recreational mathematics. "This work is pivotal in the history of science and mathematics. It brings together two sixteenth-century traditions, mercantile arithmetic and natural magic, and creates two new ones: recreational mathematics and popular science ... The book was influential on early seventeenth-century natural philosophers such as Descartes, Mersenne and Leibniz" (A. Heeffer, Récréations Mathématiques (1624): A Study on its Authorship, Sources and Influence (Ghent, 2006)). cf. Brunet IV, 35: "Petit volume peu commun ..." (citing a 1629 edition, attributing the work to Leurechon, listed under "Recreation ..."; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing E18; T. H. Hall, Old Conjuring Books, pp.83-119.

BACON, Francis (1561-1626), "Lord Verulam." Novum organum scientarium. Editio secunda. Amsterdam: Sumptibus Joannis Ravelstein, 1660. 12mo (127 x 70mm). Engraved title with illustration of a galleon passing between the Pillars of Hercules, woodcut initials (fore-edge of engraved title shaved, some light marginal staining). 19th-century polished calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, green silk marker, red edges. Provenance: Marie-Rose Corbusier (modern (1963) bookplate). The second Amsterdam edition. Maggs Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology and Natural Sciences, Cat. 520 (1929): 327 (citing first edition of 1620): "... the most valuable of all Bacon's works, and by him the most highly valued;" cf. PMM 119 (note). With the same author's De augmentis scientiarum lib. IX (Amsterdam, 1662, old vellum). (2)

BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain (1736-93). Traité de l' Astronomie Indienne et Orientale, Ouvrage qui peut servir se suite à l' Histoire de l' Astronomie ancienne. Paris: Chez Debure, 1787. 4to (265 x 200mm). Half title, woodcut ornament on title, headpieces and ornaments, tables (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary calf-backed speckled paper boards, spine gilt with black morocco lettering-piece (upper fore-corners of covers quite heavily rubbed, extremities more rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Brunet I, 234 (including in the same reference two other complementary works by Bailly, Histoire de l' Astronomie Ancienne (1781) and Histoire de l' Astronomie Moderne (1785), which are sometimes considered as constituting a trilogy, although each work is complete in its own right): "Ouvrage estimé ... L' astronomie indienne est rare"; Houzeau & Lancaster 482; Lalande pp.601 & 732; Quérard I, 158-59.

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de (1698-1761). Architecture Hydraulique, ou l' Art de Conduire, d' Elever et de Menager les Eaux pour les Différens Besoins de la Vie. Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737-53. 2 volumes bound in 4, 4to (287 x 208mm). Engraved fronsipieces in vols. I and IV, titles in vols. II-IV printed in red and black, engraved vignettes and illustrations, tables, 218 folding engraved plates only (of 219, lacking plate II in vol.III ["Plan des Villes, Citadelle, Port et Fort de Dunkerque avant la demolition"], occasional light spotting, staining and browning, browning rather more pronounced in the second vol., a few darker spots occasionally touching letters). Contemporary cat's-paw calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands, red edges (skilfully rebacked preserving old spines, extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: De Bouchart (old signatures on titles). FIRST EDITION. Brunet I, 279: "Bonne édition d' un ouvrage estimé"; Poggendorff I, 138; Sander 106. (4)

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de (1698-1761). Nouveau Cours de Mathématique, a l' usage de l' Artillerie et du Genie ... Nouvelle Edition, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. Paris: Chez Nyon, 1757. 4to (255 x 190mm). Woodcut ornament on title, typograpgraphical ornament above the "Préface", engraved illustration, 34 folding engraved plates (variable mainly light spotting, staining and browning throughout, but last 3 plates quite heavily stained and frayed with slight loss to plate 32). Contemporary calf (worn, joints split but cords holding). Provenance: old signature scribbled out on title. This treatise on applied mathematics, and especially on its application to artillery, was first published in 1725. Poggendorf I, 138; not in Brunet.

BERTHOUD, Ferdinand (1727-1807). Essai sur l' Horlogerie; dans lequel on Traite de cet Art Relativement a l' Usage Civil, a l' Astronomie et a la Navigation. Paris: J. Cl. Jombert, Musier [and] Ch. J. Panckoucke, 1763. 3 volumes including plate volume, 4to (258 x 195mm). 38 engraved plates (some marginal staining to a few leaves in vol. II and to the margins of a few plates). Contemporary tree calf, flat spines decorated in gilt, dark green morocco lettering-pieces (rebacked preserving old spines). Provenance: G. [?]Cuffier (old signature dated 1865 on front free endpapers of all 3 vols.). FIRST EDITION. Brunet I, 365: "Ouvrage le plus estimé que l' on ait sur cet art" (citing the second edition of 1786); Tardy 51. (3)

BIOT, Jean-Baptist (1774-1862). Traité Elémentaire d' Astronomie Physique. Paris: Chez Bernard, 1805. 2 volumes, 8vo (190 x 120mm). Half titles, 16 folding engraved plates, tables (occasional very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Attractively-bound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. (2)

BOLTZMANN, Ludwig (1844-1906). Vorlesungen über Gastheorie. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth [added to imprint of the first part:] (Arthur Meiner), 1896-98. 2 parts bound in one volume, 8vo (212 x 140mm). Half titles, wood-engraved devices on titles, diagrams, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (single spot to title). Contemporary half roan, spine gilt (spine and extremities rubbed). Provenance: old library stamp on title. FIRST EDITION of Boltzmann's "masterpiece of theoretical physics ... This work can rightly be considered the peak of development achieved in the modern kinetic theory of gases" (Stanitz). Stanitz, Sources of Science & Technology, 79.

BORELLI, Giovanni (1608-79). De motu animalium ... Editio nova Neapolitana, a plurimis mendis repurgata, ac dissertationibus physico-mechanicis de motu musculorum, et de effervescentia, et fermentatione, clarrisimi viri. Naples: Typis Felicis Mosca, 1734. 4to (231 x 178mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with large woodcut device, 19 folding engraved plates (plate XVIII misbound, variable spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots, a few leaves more heavily browned). Contemporary vellum with title in old manuscript on spine (lightly stained). Provenance: old inscription in Latin at foot of title. "Borelli's treatise presented the application of mechanics to the motion of the limbs of animals based largely on Galileo's mechanics. He began with the center of motion, the muscle, and then applied its forces to the linkage of bones with the same exactness as forces applied to levers. This analysis evolved into a system describing an animal's entire mobility covering the motions of walking, running, jumping, weight-lifting, bird flight, fish motion and insect creeping. He held that nerve stimulation was related to the contraction and swelling of a muscle and that some chemical process was associated with it. He also believed that the heartbeat was a simple muscular contraction and that the circulatory system was hydraulic in principle" (Dibner). Dibner 190; Heirs of Hippocrates 496; Horblit 13; Garrison & Morton 762; Krivatsy 1578; Nissen ZBI 465; Norman 270; Poggendorff I, 240; Wellcome I, 204 (most references citing the first edition of Rome, 1680-81).

BOSSE, Abraham (1604-76, artist & engraver) & Girard DESARGUES (1591-1661). La Maniere Universelle de Mr Desargues, Lyonnais, pour Poser l' Essieu, & placer les heures & autres choses aux Cadrans au Soleil. Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1643. 8vo (172 x 110mm). Additional engraved allegorical title, first page of dedication engraved, further engraved title and 66 engraved plates by Abraham Bosse on rectos and versos of leaves (a few leaves and plates quite heavily stained mainly at margins, some light spotting and staining). Modern old-style polished calf gilt. FIRST EDITION of this important work on sundials. Berlin Kat. 4716; Brunet I, 1127; Cicognara 817; Fowler 56; Lalande p.216.

BRIOT, Charles Auguste (1817-82). Théorie des Fonctions Abéliennes. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. 4to (270 x 215mm). Half title, diagrams (variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary tan morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with black and red morocco lettering-pieces (quite heavily rubbed). Provenance: Lycée de Toulouse (gilt stamp with garland on upper cover). FIRST EDITION. "Briot's studies on heat, light, and electricity were based on the hypothesis of the existence in the ether of imponderable molecules acting upon each other, as well as upon the ponderable molecules of matter. Particularly in his study of the crystalline medium, he linked his findings to Pasteur's experimental work on the dissymmetry of crystals. These studies, which were conducted from a mathematical point of view, led to the simplification of methods for integral calculus and the advance of the theories of elliptic and Abelian functions. To honor him for this work, the Göttingen Academy named him acorresponding member" (DSB).

BULLET, Pierre (1639-1716). L' Architecture Pratique, qui comprend le Detail du Toisé, & du Devis des Ourvrages de Massonnerie, Charpenterie, Menuiserie, Serrurerie, Plomberie, Vitrerie, Ardoise, Tuille, Pavé de Grais & Impression. Avec une Explication de la Coutume sur la Titre des Servitudes & Rapports qui regardent les Bâtiments. Ouvrage tres necessaire aux Architectes, aux Experts, & à tous ceux qui veulent bâtir. Paris: chez Jean-Baptiste Delespine, 1732. 8vo (198 x 122mm). Engraved frontispiece, headpieces and initials, diagrams, 12 engraved plates (variable mostly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots, marginal stain to last few leaves of table). Contemporary calf (rather crudely rebacked in old-style calf, corners repaired, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: illegible old signature on title; pencil scribbles on p.19; some very sparse old annotation. Second edition of a work that was first published in 1691. Berlin Kat. 2542 (citing only the 1762 edition); not in Brunet.

BURDACH, Karl Friedrich (1776-1847). Eugone. Traité sur l' Impuissance et la Foiblesse de la Faculté Générative, contenant la Méthode la plus sûre de s' en guérir soi-même. Leipzig: chez J. C. Hinrichs, 1804. 8vo (173 x 100mm). 126-pages, half title or sub-title bound after title (lacks all before title and all after final leaf of "Table des Matières" [i.e. blanks], some light spotting, staining and browning). Modern marbled boards, new endpapers. Provenance: old [?]Hungarian library stamp on verso of title. [?]FIRST EDITION. RARE. With 2 other books of related interest, namely J. Morel de Rubempre's Les Secrets de la Génération ... Douzième Edition, ornée de figures ([?]Paris, "chez tous les Libraires", [c. 1835], vol. one [only, of 2], later wrappers) and Samuel La ' Mert's La Préservation Personnelle, Traité Médical sur les Maladies des Organes de la Génération ... Soixante Quinzième Edition ("Londres", 1855, 9 wood-engraved plates, original yellow printed wrappers). (3)

CAMAÑES, Pedro (fl. 17th-century). In duos libros Artis curativae Galeni ad Galuconem commentaria: In quibus omnes fere materiae, quae ad praxin Medicam, & Chirurgicam occure[n]t, dilucidà explanatur, & subtliter explicantur. Valencia: Miguel Sorolla, 1625. 2 parts in one volume (with separate pagination but signature running through), large 8vo (200 x 141mm). Woodcut Cardinal's coat-of-arms of Spinola of Tortosa on title, 2 folding woodcut tables, woodcut initials and tail-pieces (title and first 5 leaves repaired at fore-margin with slight loss, the folding tables lightly stained, the second torn without loss, some spotting and staining). Later ([?]modern) vellum with exposed cords (some light staining). Provenance: modern typed catalogue description pasted onto the front pastedown; old calligraphic initial "B" in pen on the front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of a commentary on Galen by a Catalan physician in which the author expounds his own classification of the nature, causes and cures of fevers. The second part, sometimes absent, deals with ailments relating to growths including cancer. VERY RARE. See A. H. Morejon, Historia Bibliografica de la Medecina Espanola, V, pp. 83-4.

CAVENDISH, Henry (1731-1810). [In: Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London. Vol. LXXIV. For the Year 1784. Part I.]. XIII. Experiments on Air ... Read Jan. 15, 1784 (pages 119-153). London: Sold by Lockyer Davis, and Peter Elmsly, Printers to the Royal Society, 1784. Parts I & II bound in one, 4to (236 x 175mm). 21 folding engraved plates [not illustrating Cavendish's contribution], folding table (variable but mainly light spotting and staining, a few short tears without loss). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco label and 5 raised bands (rubbed and scuffed, joints split). Provenance: "The famous Cavendish paper on the composition of water p.119" (later pencil annotation on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of Cavendish's experimental proof that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen and not a separate element in itself. Dibner 42; Garrison & Morton 925; Norman 420: "Cavendish was the first to prove experimentally that hydrogen ('inflammable air') and oxygen ('dephlogisticated air'), when mixed in the proper proportions and fired, produce their own weight in water;" Partington III, pp. 329-338.

[CHAPPE, Claude (inventor, 1763-1805)]. Il Telegrafo ossia Descrizione della Macchina nuovamente Ritrovata in Parigi per Transmettere in Brevissimo Tempo a Grandi Distanze Qualunqe Notizia. Con Figure Rappresentanti la Medesima in Quiete, ed in Moto. Estratta Dall' Edizione Tedesca di Vienna. [No place: no publisher. n.d. but Italy, c. 1792 or later]. 8vo (179 x 130mm). 15pp. of text, 3 engraved plates at the end, the first captioned "Telegrafo del Louvre in Parigi". [?]Later marbled wrappers, fitting into the pocket of a modern protective "slipcase". In 1792, Claude Chappe, a French inventor, devised a semaphore system that eventually covered the whole of France. His system consisted of a network of towers each supporting a wooden mast with two cross-arms on pivots that an operator could move from below to a series of positions, spelling out text messages in semaphore code. The operator in the next tower read the message through a telescope, then passed it on to the next. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age and was in widespread use until the 1850s when electrical telegraph systems superseded it. cf. Poggendorff I, 419; Wheeler Gift 626 (citing only a German edition printed in Augsburg in 1801). See also Jacques Hillairet's Dictionnaire Historiques des Rues de Paris (Paris, 1963), Introduction, p.43-44.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène (1786-1889). Exposé d' un Moyen de Définir et de Nommer les Couleurs d' après une Méthode Précise et Expérimentale avec l' Application de ce Moyen a la Définition et a la Dénomination des Couleurs d' un Grand Nombre de Corps Naturels et de Produits Artificiels ... Atlas. Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères et Fils, 1861. "Atlas" volume only, 4to (347 x 270mm). Wood-engraved device on title, 14 striking coloured engraved plates (only, of 15, lacking plate 3) printed by René-Henri Digeon, one of which folding, 12 of which mounted, all but one of the plates with printed captions dated 1855 (some mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original [?or contemporary] sunflower yellow marbled boards with label printed "Cercles Chromatiques de M. E. Chevreul" laid down on upper cover (upper and lower sections of spine torn away, rubbed, some staining). Provenance: full fore-names of the author added in later pencil on title. FIRST EDITION of this pioneering treatise on colour theory which was intended for artists as much as scientists and which came to influence the Impressionists and Pointillists. Chevreul's "colour studies made him one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century" (DSB). The copy in the Royal Academy's collection (record number 12/4743), like the present copy, contains only 14 plates and is without the text volume. The plates are remarkable. Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria 204.

CHRISTENSEN, Matthias (dates unknown) & Frederik Vilhelm Theodoir BRICKA (1809-79). Dissertationis de exploratione venefich chemica arsenico facti. Particula prior, reagantia et alia signa continens quam pro licentia summos in arte medica honores postea rite capessendi publico eruditorum examini modeste submittit. "Hauniae" [i.e. Copenhagen]: ex officina Typographica Trieri, 1836. 8vo (190 x 115mm). Diagrams, "Corrigenda" leaf at end (faint stain to lower fore-corner of title, some very light spotting and staining). Later turquoise wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this rare treatise on the medical uses of arsenic.

COCCHI, Antonio Celestina (1685-1747). Corticis Peruviani vindiciae. Dissertatio physico-practica. Rome: Ex Typographia Komarek in via Cursus, 1746. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Headpieces, initials and ornaments (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks which are not called for in the collation], wormtrack reducing to a single wormhole from the title to B4, affecting some letters, occasional light spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary stiff plain wrappers, with old title on paper label, and further inscribed on the upper wrapper. Provenance: old stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION of this rare work on the medicinal properties of Peruvian, or Jesuit's, bark, which was originally discovered by Jesuit missionaries to Peru in the 17th-century. Since it contained quinine, it was long believed to be a natural remedy for malaria.

COTES, Roger (1682-1716). Harmonia mensuram, sive analysis & synthesis per rationum & angulorum mensuras, edited by Robert Smith. Cambridge: [no publisher], 1722. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (244 x 179mm). Half title, folding table, woodcut diagrams (occasional spotting, some leaves browned, short tear in y2). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece (some erosion to head of spine, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of a posthumously published collection of Cotes's mathematical papers. The second part has a title page (without imprint) reading "Aestimatio errorum in mixta mathesi, per variationes partium trianguli, plani et sphaerici" and is separately paginated and signed, although it appears to be an integral part of the whole work. Norman 519.

CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867-1934) & Peter CURIE (1859-1906). [In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l' Académie des Sciences. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to (258 x 212mm)]. "Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende" (vol. 127, no. 3, pages 175-178) [continued, under the same title, with co-author Gustave BEMONT (1857-1937) in no. 26, pages 1215-1217)]. [And:] Eugene DEMARCAY (1852-1903). "Sur le spectre d'une substance radio-active" (no. 26, page 1218). Contemporary black half cloth and marbled paper boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Provenance: Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg (stamp). FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE, OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERIES OF POLONIUM AND RADIUM. Garrison & Morton 2003; Grolier Medicine 84B; Norman 545.

D' AUBUISSON DE VOISINS, Jean-François (1769-1841). Traité de Géognosie, ou Exposé des Connaissances Actuelles sur la Constution Physique et Minérale du Globe Terrestre. Strasbourg & Paris: F. G. Levrault (Strasbourg) & "Et rue des Fossés M. le Prince" (Paris), 1819. 2 volumes, 8vo (204 x 128mm). Half titles, "signature" [but ?stamp] of the editor on verso of both half titles, 2 folding engraved plates, one hand-coloured, tables (some very light mainly marginal spotting, some leaves very lightly browned). Attractively-bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this important pioneering work of French geology. (2)

DE MAS, Sinibaldo (1809-68). L' Idéographie. Mémoire sur le Possibilité et la Facilité de Former une Ecriture Générale au Moyen de laquelle tous les Peuples puissent s' entendre Mutuellement sans que les uns Conaissent la Langue des Autres. Paris: B. Duprat, 1863. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (221 x 147mm). Errata slip laid down on verso of front free endpaper, engraved tables including one folding. Original printed wrappers, yellow wrappers to the second part ("Vocabulaire") bound in (upper wrapper frayed at lower edge, lightly browned). PRESENTATION COPY, the title indistinctly inscribed by the author, with a further inscription [?by the author] below the errata slip. The author was a pioneer of universal languages and here proposes an ideographic system based upon musical notation which conveyed ideas themselves, rather than words, thus rendering the language universally comprehensible. The work was apparently first printed in 1844 although only records for the present edition seem to be cited. See Ehlick (and others), A Bibliography on Writing and Written Language (New York, 1996), 1247.

DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus (1683-1744). Cours de Physique Expérimentale ... Traduit de l' Anglois par le R. P. Pezenas. Paris: Chez Jacques Rollin ... et Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751. 2 volumes, 4to (252 x 200mm). Half titles, 78 folding engraved plates (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands (extremities rubbed, corners a little worn). FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Quérard 2; not in Brunet. (2)

DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Tractatus de homine, et de formation foetus. Quorum prior notis perpetuis Ludovici de la Forge, M.D., illustratur. Amsterdam: Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1686. 4to (200 x 150mm). Title printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device on title, initials and ornaments, woodcut illustrations and diagrams (variable spotting, staining and browning throughout, a few darker spots affecting letters, some sections more heavily browned). Contemporary vellum, spine with tan morocco gilt lettering-piece (lightly stained, corners rubbed). Provenance: old signature erased from front free endpaper. The first (Latin) edition was published, posthumously, in 1662. Norman 627.

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Äther und Relativitatstheorie rede Gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 an der Reichs=Univerität zu Leiden. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1920. 8vo (208 x 140mm). 15-pages. Original printed boards with armorial device on upper board, advertisements on lower board ([?]rebacked with brown linen). Provenance: Seminaire Mathématique de Neuchâtel (stamps on front free endpaper, title, first text leaf, p. 11 and on final text leaf); old pencil annotation regarding value on upper board. FIRST EDITION of this lecture which was given by Einstein on the occasion of his inauguration as Professor in Theoretical Physics at Leyden University. Weil Einstein 111

FABRI, Honoré (1608-88). Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, marini aestus nova causa proponitur, necnon aquarum & mercurii supra libellam elevatio examinatur. Lyon: Sumptibus Christophori Fourmy, 1665. 4to (219 x 170mm). Engraved device on title, head-pieces and initials, woodcut diagrams (severe worming slowly improving to about H1, affecting letters, some mainly marginal staining, most leaves quite heavily browned). Contemporary limp vellum with title in old manuscript on spine, remnants of ties. Provenance: old inscriptions on title. FIRST EDITION of this 'dialogue' on Galileo and Copernicus by a Jesuit scientist. Carli-Favaro, Bibliografia Galileiana 1568-1895 294; Goldsmith F44.

FIRST SOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Théorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta. Rapports et Discussions de la Réunion tenue à Bruxelles, du 30 Octobre au 3 Novembre 1911 sous les Auspices de M. E. Solvay. Publiés par MM. P. Langevin et M. de Broglie. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912. Large 8vo (254 x 168mm). Half title, illustrations and diagrams (some very light marginal browning). Original printed grey/blue wrappers with woodcut ornament, unopened (backstrip and edges of covers lightly browned, backstrip creased). Provenance: illegible name stamped faintly on title; "Majoration 20%" stamped on front free endpaper. THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the printed report of the proceedings of the first Solvay Conference which proved to be a turning-pointing in modern physics. In this first conference, Einstein came to early prominence as the second youngest participant at the age of 32. Also included among the 18 leading scientists present were the director, Ernest Solvay, Hendrik Lorentz, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie and Henri Poincaré.

FOUCAULT, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-68). [In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l' Académie des Sciences ... Tome Trentième. Janvier - Juin 1850]. Méthode générale pour mesurer la vitesse de la lumière dans l' air et les milieux transparents. Vitesses relatives de la lumière dans l' air at dans l' eau. Projet d' expérience sur la vitesse de propagation du calorique rayonnant; par M. L. Foucault. (Comissaires, MM. Arago, Pouillet, Babinet, Regnault.) (pages 551-560). Paris: Bachelier, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1850. 4to (285 x 230mm). Half title (half title and title rather browned, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few leaves browned). Contemporary yellow marbled paper boards, printed label on spine, largely unopened, uncut (upper joints split, stain to top edge of upper cover, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Univ. Andegav. (faded stamp on general title and a few to text leaves, but not affecting Foucault's paper); Bibl. Dom. S. I. Eegenhoven (stamp and number on verso of title). FIRST EDITION OF FOUCAULT'S PAPER ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT (at 298,000 km/s) which established that light travels more slowly in water than air. In partnership with Hippolyte Fizeau, he used an instrument - now known as the Fizeau-Foucault apparatus - to prove beyond doubt that the 'corpuscular theory' of light, which had been proposed by Descartes as early as 1637, and then taken up by Newton, was not correct.

FOUCAULT, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-68). [In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l' Académie des Sciences ... Tome Trente-Deuxième. Janvier - Juin 1851]. Demonstration physique du mouvement de rotation de la terre au moyen du pendule; par M. L. Foucault. (Commissaires, MM. Arago, Pouillet, Binet.) (pages 135-138). Paris: Bachelier, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1851. 4to (282 x 230mm). (Half title and general title stained, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary yellow marbled paper boards, printed label on spine, largely unopened, uncut (upper joints split, stain to upper cover, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Univ. Andegav. (faded stamp on general title and a few to text leaves, but not affecting Foucault's paper); Bibl. Dom. S. I. Eegenhoven (stamp on verso of title). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH. "Although the rotation of the earth had been accepted since Copernicus, it was Foucault who first demonstrated it by experiment. His early experiments were private, but Louis Napoleon (later Napoleon III) became so interested that he arranged for them to be repeated publicly. This was a splendid affair which took place in the Pantheon in 1851 before a fashionable audience. A heavy metal ball was suspended from the dome on a wire 220 feet long; beneath the ball was a table 12 feet in diameter covered with sand on which the ball could leave a mark. This is known as 'Foucault's pendulum'. It soon became apparent that the plane in which the pendulum was swinging moved in a clockwise direction and in about thirty-two hours the plane of vibration had completed a full circuit. Mathematical calculations made it possible to apply the results of this experiment to the rotation of the earth. The audience in the Pantheon was greatly impressed; some ladies fainted with excitement, while other spectators maintained they could feel the earth move beneath them" (PMM). Barchas 738; PMM 330: (citing the later offprint with title "Sur Divers Signes Sensibles du Mouvement Diurne de la Terre"); Dibner 17 (also citing the later offprint only).

GALTON, Francis (1822-1911). Finger Prints. London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. 8vo (224 x 145mm). Half title, title with reproduction of the author's fingerprints, tables, 16 wood-engraved plates, one of which double-page and printed in colours (plate 2 misbound opposite p. 145). Original maroon pebbled cloth ruled in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut. Provenance: E. Carleton [?]Moore (very small indistinct stamp on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. "Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, and the originator of eugenic studies, was greatly interested by Herschel's letter [on the handprints of Hindu natives] as indicating a possible form of anthropometric classification. On 27 November 1890 he read a paper to the Royal Society, which was printed in its Transactions, on 'The Patterns of Thumb and Finger Marks'. ... In 1892, in his book Finger Prints, Galton gathered together all these earlier studies and recorded other experiments, illustrated from photographs and drawings. The outcome of this was the appointment in 1899 of a Royal Commission which came out in favour of the adoption of the system by the British police forces" (PMM). Garrison & Morton 186; Heirs of Hippocrates 1905; Norman 867; PMM 376.

[GAUGER, Nicolas (1680-1730)]. La Mecanique du Feu, ou l' Art d' en Augmenter les Effets, & d' en Diminuer la Dépense ... Contenant le Traité de Nouvelles Cheminées Qui échauffent plus que les Cheminées ordinaires, & qui ne sont point sujettes à fumer, &c. Par Mr. G***. Paris: Chez Jacques Estienne [and one other], 1713. 8vo (159 x 95mm). Headpieces and ornaments, 12 folding engraved plates, mostly of fireplaces and chimneys (part of imprint obscured, a few spots, edges of last 2 plates frayed and a little soiled). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and 5 raised bands, red edges (some deep wormtracks and holes to upper cover and spine, rubbed). Provenance: old [?]initial "F" on title; small illegible modern stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION of this book of innovative fireplace designs, which, along with its English translation by John Theophilus Desaguilers, heavily influenced Benjamin Franklin's invention in 1741 of his eponymous stove which was based on the same principles of providing more heat with less smoke. Poggendorff I, 852.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf (c.1604-70). Furni novi philosophici, sive descriptio artis destillatoriae novae; Nec non spirituum, oleorum, florum, aliorumque medicamentorum illius beneficio, animalibus & mineralibus ... Amsterdam: Prostant apud Joannem Janssonium, 1651. 6 parts bound in one [and separately paginated], [Bound with the same author's:] De auri tinctura sive auro potabili vero. Amsterdam, 1651. 8vo (157 x 100mm). Typographical ornaments, 3 folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations (one plate torn without loss, some light spotting and browning). Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript on the spine (part torn away from upper cover, some staining). Provenance: old illegible ownership inscription on front free endpaper. References for first work: Brunet II, 416 (citing only a French edition of 1659); Ferguson I, p.323: "This is certainly one of the most remarkable books on chemistry of the seventeenth century"; Krivatsy 4784; Wellcome III, p.125.

GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society. [Second title, bound after the first dedication, reading:] An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. Read before the Royal Society, January 8. and January 15. 1672 ... The Second Edition. London: Printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682. [Imprint of second title reading:] London: Printed by W. Rawlins, 1682. Folio (319 x 202mm). Woodcut head-pieces and initials, sectional titles, 83 engraved plates, of which 5 folding (plate 14 with short tear without loss, [?]paper flaw at margin of plate 45, without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern old-style half calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands. [?]Second edition, but printed in the same year as the first. A printed note before the first title states: "Dr Grew having read several Lectures of the Anatomy of Plants, some whereof have been already printed at divers times, and some are not printed; with several other Lectures of their Colours, Odours, Tasts[sic], and Salts; as also of the Solution of Salts in Water; and of Mixture; all of them to the satisfaction of the said Society: it is therefore Ordered, That He be desired, to cause them to be printed together in one Volume. Chr. [istopher]. Wren. P.R.S." Brunet II, 459; Grolier Science 436: "The birth of microscopic anatomy of plants"; Henrey 162; Hunt 362: "[the author's] chief work which gained him the reputation of being one of the most distinguished scientists of the 17th-century"; Nissen BBI 758; Krivatsy 4988; Norman 946: "[the author] showed that the "cells" first observed by Robert Hooke ... made up the normal structure of the parenchyma, and came very close to recognizing the universal cellular structure of plants"; Pritzel 3557; Wellcome III, p.164.

GROLLIER DE SERVIERE, Gaspard (1676-1745). Receuil d' Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Serviere. Lyon: Chez David Foley, 1719. 4to (242 x 182mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, fine engraved coat-of-arms at head of dedication, initial, headpieces and ornaments, 85 engraved plates, errata leaf (without plates numbered 39, 48 and 76 [as in all copies], which are omitted from the accompanying text, and were not issued, light stain at head of title and first dedication leaf, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, plate II torn at margin). Contemporary cat's paw calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and riased bands (some strips worn on covers, extremities rubbed with some wear to lower fore-corners, front endpapers torn with slight loss). Provenance: de [?]Strada (old signature on front free endpaper); A. Rogier Fils. Horlogerie (later stamps on front free endpaper and on first page of dedication). FIRST EDITION of this remarkable collection of machines and inventions of a bewildering variety. "Ce sont des Ouvrages de Tour, des Horloges extraordinaires, & des modelles de machines inventez & executez par seu mon grand-pere, qui pour la plûpart sont regardez par les conoisseurs, comme des chefs d'oeuvre inimitables" (from the author's epistle, or dedication, to "Son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur le Duc d' Orleans, Petit Fils de France, Regent du Royaume" ). Berlin Kat. 1784; not in Brunet; Honeyman 1560; Poggendorff I, p. 957; Wheeler Gift 369.

HAUY, René Just (1743-1822). Tableau Comparatif des Résultats de la Cristallographie et de l' Analyse Chimique, Relativement a la Classification des Mineraux. Paris: chez Courcier, 1809. 8vo (208 x 130mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates (occasional light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary parchment-backed pink marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed, some staining). Provenance: Zur Bibliothec der Berlin: Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde (bookplate and stamp on verso of title); Bibliothek der Konigl. Landw. Hochschule zu Berlin (old stamp on title). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front pastedown inscribed [in the author's hand], "A la Sociéte des Scrutateurs de la Nature, hommage de l' auteur." The author is regarded as the 'father of modern crystallography', and, during the French Revolution, one of the pioneers of the metric system (see previous lot). "In his Tableau comparatif (1809) Haüy compared the results of the crystallographic and chemical determinations of mineral species. Haüy"s survey of the results of crystallography and chemical analysis in relation to the classification of minerals gave a detailed exposition of the successes and difficulties his method encountered. Haüy emphasized the invariability of the form and the composition of the constituent molecule of a species but was forced to admit that the definite proportions were often blurred by heterogeneous materials accidentally mixed with the compound" (DSB). Honeyman 1628; Ward & Carozzi 1025; Wellcome III, 224.

HERTTENSTEIN, Johann Heinrich (1676-1741). Cahiers de Mathematique a l' Usage de Messieurs les Officiers de l' Ecole Royal d' Artillerie de Strasbourg. Strasbourg: Chez Jean-Renauld Doulssecker, 1737. [?]First part only (of 2). 4to (238 x 180mm). Woodcut device on title, headpieces and initials, 53 folding engraved plates (lacks all before title, occasional mainly light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Later marbled paper boards. FIRST EDITION. Included in this volume are treatises headed "Arithmetique", "Geometrie", "Trigonometrie", "Mechanique", "Hygronomie", "Fortification," and "Architecture". Not in Brunet.

HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859). Uber die Haupt-Ursachen der Temperatur-Verschiedenheit aud fem Erdkörper ... Gelesen in der öffentlichen Versammlung der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin am 3. Julius 1827. Berlin: Gedruckt in der Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschafteb, 1827. 4to (280 z 230mm). 24-pages. Later plain wrappers, unopened, contained in modern cloth folder. FIRST EDITION of a work by one of the founders of studies in meteorology and climatology. This lecture, in which he describes the main causes of temperature differences over the face of the earth, is one of his most important contributions.

INGENHOUSZ, Jan or John INGEN-HOUSZ (1730-99). Experiments upon Vegetables, Discovering Their great Power of purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night. To which is joined, a New Method of Examining the Accurate Degree of Salubrity of the Atmosphere. London: Printed for P. Elmsly and H. Payne, 1779. 8vo (204 x 128mm). Folding engraved plate, woodcut ornament at end of index (some very light browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary pale speckled boards, gilt spine label (extremities rubbed). Provenance: G. A. Landgren (old signature on front free endpaper); Bibliotheque Hammer, Stockholm (wood-engraved label of a winged charioteer). FIRST EDITION of this pioneering work by the discoverer of photosynthesis. "The discovery of Dr. Priestley, that plants thrive better in foul air than in common and in dephlogisticated air, and that plants have a power of correcting bad air, has thrown a new and important light upon the arrangement of this world. It shews, even to a demonstration, that the vegetable kingdom is subservient to the animal; and, vice versa, that the air, spoiled and rendered noxious to animals by their breathing in it, serves to plants as a kind of nourishment. But in what manner this faculty of the plants is excited remained still unknown ..." (from the Preface). Dibner 29; Garrison & Morton 103; Grolier 55; Henrey 866; Norman 1141; Wellcome III, p. 329.

JOBLOT, Louis (1645-1723). Descriptions et Usages de Plusieurs Nouveaux Microscopes, tant Simples que Composez, avec des Nouvelles Observations faites sur une Multitude Innomerbrable d' Insectes, & d' autres Animaux de Diverses Especes. Paris: Jackques Collombat, 1718. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (249 x 185mm). Woodcut device on title, initials, head- and tail-pieces, first page of text engraved with head-piece, 34 engraved plates (tear to o1 just touching signature letter, some light mainly marginal staining and spotting). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red morocco lettering-piece (worn at extremities, rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the first treatise on Protozoa which had been discovered a few years earlier by Anton van Leeuwenhoek. Cole 1265; Nissen ZBI 2113.

JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (c.1195-c.1256). Sphaera mundi, edited by Pedro Ciruelo (1470-[?]1554). Alcala de Henares: Miguel de Eguia, 1526. Folio (265 x 188mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, armillary sphere within border on verso and repeated at the end, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, historiated and pictorial initials, printed in black letter and double column (title repaired at fore-margin but affecting lower corner of woodcut border, lower corner of first quire repaired, some repaired wormtracks, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Later vellum ruled in gilt with floral cornerpieces, gilt edges. Provenance: old illegible signature on title; some old annotation. FIRST SPANISH EDITION [i.e. printed in Spain, but not in the Spanish language] of one of the most popular scientific works of the 15th- and early 16th-centuries. Only 3 copies are recorded as sold at auction in the last 50 years, and there is no copy of this edition in the British Library. cf. Brunet IV, 160l; Palau 284125; Salva 3812; not in Adams.

KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). Anthropologie in pragmatischer hinsicht abgefasst. Konigbserg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. 8vo (198 x 120mm). (Some light staining to title, a few isolated darker spots.) Contemporary paper boards, spine gilt with tan morocco label (extremities rubbed, corners bumped, piece excised from front free endpaper comprising about an eighth of the leaf). Provenance: old illegible signature on front free endpaper; Landesbibliothek Oldenburg (stamp on verso of title). FIRST EDITION of the author's only work on psychology. Adickes 98; Garrison & Morton 4969; Norman 1201; Roback 53-55; Warda 195; Wellcome II, 378. With the same author's Critique de la Raison Pure ... Traduite de l' Allemand, sur la Septième Edition, par C.-J. Tissot (Paris, 1835-36, 2 vols., contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards, First French edition). (3)

KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-80). Scrutinium pestis physico-medicum publico commodo recusum. Graz: typis Haeredum Widmanstadii, 1740. 8vo (153 x 95mm). 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks which are not called for in the collation] and P5-P8 with the final text page numbered 234 and catchword 'Ap-' not followed up, title frayed with some loss and with modern repair to verso of lower fore-corner, final advertisement leaf frayed and torn with slight loss, variable browning throughout, as often). Contemporary speckled calf (a few holes in the spine, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: old Jesuit inscription on title. Second edition of a work on the bubonic plague which was first published in Leipzig in 1658. The author, a Jesuit scholar and polymath, was the first person to view infected blood through a microscope. In 1740, in response to the Great Plague that was ravaging parts of Eastern Europe, the Jesuit faculty at the University of Graz published the present edition to warn the general public of the risks of infection. References for the first edition: Brunet II, 773; Caillet II, 365; Garrison & Morton 589; Graesse IV, 22.

KRAUSS, Friedrichs von (1724-89). Selbstschreibende Wundermaschinen, auc mer andere Kunst- und Meisterstüche. Vienna: Gedruckt mit Schultisch-Gastheimischen Schriften [privately printed], 1780. 8vo (200 x 128mm). Engraved portrait of the author, 11 folding engraved plates, errata leaf at the end (very light stain to title, a few darker mainly marginal spots). Contemporary half calf and speckled paper baords, spine with printed label and raised bands (extremities rubbed). Provenance: "Privately printed and rare" (later pencil inscription on front pastedown); very faint coat-of-arms stamped in ink on the lower cover. FIRST EDITION. The author was a master watchmaker who is credited with inventing the first writing machine. The design involved an automated "hand" holding a quill pen that was driven by a programmed drum to move in parallel to a person writing out text. Krauss later adapted one of his automata to write specific letters on command using a manual keyboard, thus creating an early precursor of the typewriter. His collection of inventions remains in the Kuntskammer Wien to this day. Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing K53.

LAGRANGE, Joseph Louis (1736-1813). Théorie des Fonctions Analytiques, contenant les Principes du Calcul Difféerentiel, dégagés de toute considération d' Infiniment Petits ou d' Evanouissans, de Limites ou de Fluxions, et Réduits a l' Analyse Algébrique des Quantités Finies. Paris: De l' Imprimerie de la République, "Prairal an V" [ie. 1797]. 4to (251 x 200mm). Half title, head-piece (variable but mainly light and marginal spotting and browning). Contemporary tree calf with the coat-of-arms of Maastricht stamped in gilt on both covers (rebacked preserving old spine, extremities rubbed, small section of lower cover eroded). Provenance: school prize label dated 1820 awarding the book to G. de [?]Crastien. FIRST EDITION, the [?later] issue with 276-pages, in which the author "... intended to show that power series expansions are sufficient to provide differential calculus with a solid foundation. Today mathematicians are partially returning to this conception in treating the formal calculus of series" (DSB). Barchas 1198; Honeyman 1881; Norman 1258; Riccardi I (2), 3; Stanitz 250.

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827). Exposition du Système du Monde. Paris: De l' Imprimerie du Cercle-Social, "L' An IV de la République Française" [i.e. 1796]. 2 volumes, 8vo (201 x 125mm). Half titles, errata leaves at the end of each vol. (strip torn away from lower edge of half title to vol. one without loss of letters, variable mostly light spotting, staining and browning throughout, but more pronounced to errata leaves). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines elaborately gilt with red and black morocco lettering-pieces (inconspicuous old repairs to spines, lightly rubbed). Provenance: unidentified old monogram ([?] "BL") stamped in mauve on half titles. FIRST EDITION of this highly important work which presents the author's explanation of the origin and formation of the solar planetary system, his celebrated "nebular hypothesis", his discoveries pertaining to the rotation of the moon and which first speculates upon, far ahead of its time, the existence of "black holes" and the possible destruction of the earth by a meteor. Brunet III, 46 (citing only the sixth edition of 1835); Houzeau & Lancaster 8940; cf. PMM 252 (note): "... includes in a footnote his famous 'nebular hypothesis.'". (2)

LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. [Nuremberg:] Gedruckt ben Christian de Launoy, 1760-61. Volumes I - II only (of 3), 4to (228 x 190mm). 2 engraved frontispieces including one of the dedicatee in vol. II, woodcut ornaments on titles, elaborate head-pieces and initials, 100 hand-coloured plates engraved by Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt after Martin Froben Ledermüller (a few plates with plate number cropped in the first vol., some supplied in manuscript, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary marbled boards, spines with black and blue morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (some wear to spines with loss to lettering-pieces, extremities rubbed). Provenance: old illegible signatures on front free endpapers; Leopold Epstein (modern stamps on front free endpapers); inconspicuous old stamps on titles. FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beautiful microscopical works issued during the XVIII. century" (Sotheran). The very scarce third part, published c. 1765, is often lacking. Please see the following lot. Blake S. 261; Graesse IV, 139; Hirsch III, pp.645-646; Nissen BBI 1156; Poggendorf I, 1403; Stafleu & Cowan 4288; Wellcome III, p.472; this work not in Brunet (1843). (2)

LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. Nuremberg: Christian de Launoy for Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, 1763 [Bound with:] Drittes Funfzig ... 2te Auglage. Nuremberg: Winterschmidt, 1778 [And:] Abgenöthigte Verteidigung, als ein Anhang. Nuremburg: Launcay heirs, 1765. 3 works in 2 volumes, 4to (264 x 210mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the dedicatee, 2 hand-coloured engravings in the Verteidigung, 2 engraved titles, one hand-coloured, and 150 plates, all but one hand-coloured, the text and plates bound separately, the first work lacking one [?index] leaf at the end and A1 lacking in the second work). Modern half calf, spines gilt, uncut. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, with the second part a second edition, of "one of the most beautiful microscopical works issued during the XVIII. century" (Sotheran). The author is perhaps best known for popularizing the microscope as a tool for both serious scientific research and amateur observation of the natural world. Blake S. 261; Graesse IV, 139; Hirsch III, pp.645-646; Nissen BBI 1156; Poggendorf I, 1403; Stafleu & Cowan 4288; Wellcome III, p.472; this work not in Brunet (1843). (2)

LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Physicalische Beobachtungen derer Saamenthiergens, durch die allerbesten Bergroberungs-Glaser und bequemlichsten Microscope betrachtet. Nuremberg: George Peter Monath, 1756. 4to (191 x 155mm). Woodcut headpiece, initial and ornament, 8 folding engraved plates (text leaves lightly browned, some spotting and staining). Old marbled boards (spine frayed, corners rubbed and bumped). Provenance: Zoolog. Institut Leipzig (label at foot of spine and stamps); "Ex Donat Cl. Rolph" (label on pastedown and old signature on front free endpaper); a few other old signatures. FIRST EDITION of this work on the microscopic observation of spermatazoa. Nissen ZBI 2411; Wellcome III, p.471-2.

MALPIGHI, Marcello (1629-94). Anatome plantarum. Cui subjungitur appendix, iteratas & auctas ejusdem authoris de ovo incubato observationes continens. London: Impensis Johannis Martyn, 1675-79. 2 volumes and appendices bound in one, folio (352 x 228mm). 2 elaborate allegorical engraved frontispieces by R. White, titles printed in red and black with engraved coats-of-arms, initials, 100 engraved plates (first frontispiece and title torn at margin without loss, many plates lightly browned, some mainly marginal spotting and staining to text). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Liechtensteiniaris (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing M-345; Brunet III, 248 (calling for 90 plates only); Dibner 22; Garrison & Morton 536; Henrey 239; Horblit 43a; Nissen BBI 1269; Norman 1430.

MALPHIGHI, Marcelli (1628-94). Opera Omnia, Figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis Illustrata Tomis Duobus Comprehensa. Quorum Catalogum sequens Pagina exhibet. London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1686. Folio (366 x 234mm). 3 parts bound in 2 volumes, folio (369 x 235mm). 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 3 titles printed in red and black, engraved arms of the Royal Society on the first title, engraved portrait, 141 engraved plates, of which 7 of smaller size (2 titles detached from vol. II, variable spotting, staining and browning, some worming and wormtracks mainly to margins but occasionally affecting plates). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and 6 raised bands (rather worn, joints split, heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Repasado Completo" (later pencil inscription on front pastedowns of both vols.). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Although the pagination re-starts with each new section, the signatures mostly run through both volumes in sequence. Plate counts vary for this work; the present copy has complete sequences of plate numbering. "This collection of Malpighi's works contains his famed work on the anatomy of plants, the embryonic development of the chick, the anatomy of the silkworm (the first monograph on an invertebrate), and one of his greatest contributions: the discovery of the existence of capillaries, which completed the chain of the circulation of the blood postulated by Harvey." (Heirs of Hippocrates). "Malpighi was the founder of Histology and the greatest of the microscopists ... He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in the Malpighian bodies ..." (Garrison & Morton). Brunet III, 248; Garrison & Morton 66; Heirs of Hippocrates 574 (citing the 2nd ed.); Krivatsy 7324; Wing M342a, M644, M352. (2)