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MARIOTTE, Edmé (c. 1620-84). Oeuvres de Mr. Mariotte, de l' Académie Royale des Sciences; Divisées en Deux Tomes. Leiden: chez Pierre Vande Aa, 1717. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to (245 x 185mm). Titles printed in red and black with engraved illustrations, 26 folding engraved plates (some plates lightly browned, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and 5 raised bands (extremities rubbed). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Bibliotheca mechanica pp.217-218; not in Brunet.

[MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)]. Dissertation Physique a l' Occasion du Negre Blanc. Leyden: [no publisher], 1744. 8vo in 4s (171 x 100mm). Half title, woodcut armillary sphere on title (some very light mainly marginal browning). Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands. gilt edges (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION, in fine and original condition. Please see the footnote to the following lot. Not in Brunet; Barbier I, 1062; Bib. Osleriana 3349.

[MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)]. Venus Physique. [No place: no publisher, 1745. 2 parts in one volume [although pagination continuous], 12mo in 6s (137 x 80mm). Typographical ornament at the head of each part (a few leaves quite heavily browned, some variable but mainly marginal spotting and browning throughout). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges (joints splitting, rubbed). Provenance: old ownership signature on front free endpaper; old illegible signature on title of first part; author's name written on rear free endpaper; some old underlining in red. FIRST EDITION of "Maupertuis's remarkable work on embryology and genetics. It is divided into two parts: 'Dissertation sur l' Origine des Hommes et des Animaux' and 'Dissertation sur l' Origine des Noirs'. The first part was originally published a year earlier under the title 'Dissertation Physique à l' Occasion du Negre Blanc' [see the previous lot] and was written after an albino Negro appeared in Paris. A scientist, philosopher, and original thinker, Maupertuis was years ahead of his time in many aspects of biology, particularly embryology and genetics. His arguments against the then-prevailing theory of pre-formation and for epigenesis were so close to the idea of evolution that he is a true forerunner of Darwin and Mendel. His theories and observations are contained in this work, which he may have had published anonymously to avoid repercussions from Church authorities" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Barbier IV, 922; Bib. Osleriana 3350; Garrison & Morton 215.2; Heirs of Hippocrates 536; cf. Waller 6354; not in Brunet.

MAURER, Ernst (dates unknown). Gewerbkunde oder Kenntniss aller Kunste und Gewerbe. Leipzig: J. E. Hinrichs, 1819. 2 volumes, 8vo (175 x 105mm). 18 hand-coloured plates, each with 2 subjects (spotted and browned). Contemporary marbled paper boards (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: later library stamps on rectos and versos of both titles. [?]FIRST EDITION. The plates, which are attractively hand-coloured, illustrate various places of trade and manufacturing. Nothing is known of the author. (2)

MEYER, Theodor (dates unknown) & Heinrich GEISSLER (1814-79). Beobachtungen über das Phänomen der Schichtung im electrischen Licht. Bonn: Selbstverlag. Druck von C. Krüger, 1857. 4to (263 x 210mm). Lithographed plate and 3 hand-coloured plates, 2 of which folding (plate III and lower wrapper detached). Old plain grey wrappers (corners creased). Provenance: "Geissler's Röhren" (old inscription on upper wrapper); some red pencil highlighting in margins. FIRST EDITION. RARE.

MUSSCHENBROEK, Petrus van (1692-1761). Essai de Physique ... Avec une Description de nouvelles sortes de Machines Pneumatiques, at un Recueil d' Expériences par Mr. J. V.M. Traduit du Hollandois Par Mr. Pierre Massuet. Leyden: Chez Samuel Luchtmans, 1739. 2 volumes, 4to (247 x 200mm). Engraved portrait of the author, titles printed in red and black with printer's woodcut ornaments, 34 folding engraved plates, 8-page "Liste de Diverses Machines, de Physique, de Mathematique, d' Anatomie, et de Chirurgie, que se trouvent chez Jean van Musschenbroek, a Leyden" at the end of vol. one (variable spotting, browning and staining throughout, title and dedication leaf of vol. one repaired and remargined at gutter, wormtrack to lower margins of "Table des Matieres" at the end of vol. II). Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and raised bands (quite heavily rubbed and scuffed). First Edition in French. Bierens de Haan 3487; Blake 318; Brunet III, 1966; Graesse IV, 637; Poggendorff II, 247; Wheeler Gift 300. (2)

NOLLET, Jean Antoine (1700-70). Recherches sur les Causes Particulieres des Phénoménes Electriques, et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu' on peut en attendre ... Nouvelle edition. Paris: Chez H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1754. 8vo (163 x 100mm). Half title, 8 folding engraved plates, tables (first plate lightly browned at edge, a few spots). Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red edges (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Andreae Comitis Renard (armorial bookplate). Mottelay p.182: "Nollet's experiments upon the evaporation of fluids by electricity, as well as upon the electrification of capillary tubes full of water and upon the electrification of plants and animals are detailed in his Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénomènes électriques. Nollet is the first one who published the close relationship existing between lightning and the electric spark"; not in Brunet.

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine (1700-70). L' Art des Expériences, ou Avis aux Amateurs de la Physiques, sur le Choix, la Construction et l' Usage des Instruments. Paris: Chez P. E. G. Durand, 1770. 3 volumes, large 12mo (170 x 100mm). 56 folding engraved plates (pages 56/56 misbound in the first vol., a few plates neatly rehinged). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces and raised bands, red edges (a few small patches of wear to boards, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: old inscription on verso of each title, faintly visible on rectos. FIRST EDITION. Duveen 433; Wheeler Gift 430. (3)

PAPIN, Denis (1647-1713). Nouvelle Maniere pour Lever l' Eau par la Force du Feu. Cassel: Jacob Estienne, 1707. Small 8vo (161 x 88mm). Woodcut headpieces and initial, folding engraved plate (text browned throughout but plate clean). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands. Provenance: "Ex Bibliotheca Caroli Koppi, e Scholis Piis Historiae Universalis Professoris Academici" (old label on front pastedown); old illegible signature above label and at foot of title; old library stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION of this work by an author best known for his invention of 'Papin's Digester', a forerunner of the pressure cooker and steam engine. Brunet III, 627.

[PASSEMENT, Claude Simon (1702-60)]. Construction d' un Telescope par Reflexion, de Mr. Newton, Ayant seize pouces de longueur, & faisant l' effet d' une Lunette de huit pieds. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, 1741. Small 8vo (158 x 105mm). Title printed in red and black, headpieces, initials and ornaments, tables, large folding engraved plate (lacks all before title [?half title or blank], text browned throughout, some lighter spotting and staining to plate). Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript on spine (some wear to foot of spine, lightly stained). Provenance: old ownership inscription on front pastedown and old manuscript shelf numbers on rear pastedown. [?]Second edition of a work that was first published in 1738. Babson 157; Barbier I, 736; not in Brunet; Honeyman 2419; Lalande p. 407; Poggendorff II, 372; Wallis 224.85.

PENTHER, Johann Friedrich (1693-1749). Praxis Geometriae, worrinnen nicht nur alle bey dem Feld-Messen vorkommende Fälle, mit Stäben, dem Astrolabio, der Boussole, und der Mensul. Augsburg & Leipzig: Jenisc und Stageschen Buchhandlung, [c. 1788]. Folio (356 x 220mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 39 engraved plates, 2 of which folding (some staining at gutter, occasional light staining, browning and spotting). Old paper boards (heavily stained, rubbed and creased). Ninth edition of this perennially popular German work on surveying which was first published in 1732 with just 25 plates. Poggendorff II, 399-400.

PERRAULT, Claude (1613-88). Recueil de Plusieurs Machines, de Nouvelle Invention. Ouvrage Posthume. Paris: Chez Jean Baptise Coignard, 1700. 4to (238 x 180mm). Large woodcut printer's device on title, engraved illustrations at head of dedication and on A1, initials, woodcut diagram, 11 folding engraved plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (some wear to foot of joints, extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: old library stamp on verso of title; old manuscript library shelf numbers on front pastedown; some old annotation referring the text to plate numbers. FIRST EDITION. Plate IX depicts the Abaque Rhabdologique (the author's own name for it), a calculating device which can be considered a forerunner of modern calculating and computing devices. Other machines described in this work include a mechanism for anchor cables, for raising a bridge, for rotating a telescope, and a water clock. Cicognara 948; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing P46.

PETISCO, Giuseppe Michele (1724-1800). Compendio della Vita del Ven. Servo di Dio il Fratello Antonio Alonso Bermejo .... Scritta in Ispagnuolo dal Sig. Abbate Don Giuseppe Michele Petisco, e Tradotta in Ataliano da un Divoto del Venerabile. Venice: Presso Sebastiano Valle, 1792. 8vo (200 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece full-length portrait of the author with a walking stick, typographical ornament on title, engraved plate with printed caption "Il Ven. Fratello Antonio Alonso Bermejo ancor giovine trionfa della natural repugnanza, e lambe le piaghe più schiffose" (last leaf of "Tavola" torn without loss, title lightly browned, occasional light spotting and staining, darker waterstain to a few leaves at the front). Contemporary decorated wrappers (backstrip a little frayed). FIRST EDITION of this puzzling work: the plate shows the author apparently licking the sores on a man's leg. Palau 224145: "First and only edition of this work since the Catalonian original has never been published."

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23-79 AD). Naturalis historie libri xxxvii. [Colophon:] Venice: "Impressum Venetiis summa diligentia per Melchior Sessam, & Petru Serenae, Socios, Anno reconciliare natiuitatis," 24 March 1525 [Colophon to index dated April 24 1525]. 2 parts including index by J. Camertes, with the index bound first, folio (294 x 210mm). Titles printed in red and black with historiated woodcut borders, woodcut printer's devices, woodcut initials, 38 woodcut illustrations including maps of Europe and Africa, index printed in triple column (severe V-shaped stain from folio CCVIII to the penultimate leaf, intermittent heavy staining at lower gutters, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, oviii torn at margin). Modern buckram, later endpapers. Provenance: old annotation to first [index] title and at a few margins. Adams P1559; Graesse V, 339; Mortimer 388; Sander 5764; Wellcome I, 5117; this edition not in Brunet.

POLINIERE, Pierre (1671-1734). Experiences de Physique ... Seconde edition, revûë & beaucoup augmentée. Paris: chez Jean de Laulne & Claude Jombert, 1718. 12mo (161 x 98mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut head-piece and initial, 16 folding engraved plates at the end (fore-edges of some plates cropped with very slight loss and soiling, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, many darker spots). Contemporary calf (spine worn and tatty with a few wormholes, upper joints split, heavily rubbed). Provenance: old manuscript key to plate stubs; remnants of library label to front pastedown. The work contains descriptions of experiments involving magnetism, electricity, galvanism, light, the spectrum, hydrostatics and the properties of air. For this second, and three subsequent editions, the author abandoned the old theory of colour which had been advocated in the first of edition of 1709 and adopted Newton's recent findings in opticks. Gartrell, Electricity, Magnetism and Animal Magnetism: A Checklist of Printed Sources 432; Wheeler Gift 248.

PORTA, Giambattista della ([?]1535-1615). Physiognomoniae coelestis libri sex, in quibus non solum, quomodo quis facile ex humani vultus [e]xtima inspectione ex conjectura praesagire futura possit. [Strasbourg:] Impensis Lazari Zetzneri Bibliopolae, 1606. 8vo (154 x 100mm). Woodcut device on title (title browned and laid down, some rubbing to title with loss or partial loss of a few letters towards the gutter, some mainly marginal spotting and browning). Modern vellum, new endpapers. Provenance: traces of old signature on title. [?]Second or third edition of a work which links astrology, physiognomy and predicting the future. It was purportedly first published in Naples in 1601, although there is scanty evidence for such an edition existing and the Bibliotheque Nationale gives 1603 as the date of the first printing. Dorbon 3725 (citing edition of 1603): "Le plus rare des ouvrages de Porta"; Osler 3723; Thorndike VI, p. 162 (citing the edition of 1603 as the first).

PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733-1804). [In: Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenuious in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. LXII.] XIX. Observations on different Kinds of Air ... Read March 5, 12, 19, 26, 1772 (pages 147-264). London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holbourn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1772. 4to 220 x 165mm). 14 engraved plates, all but one folding [one illustrating Priestley's contribution], tables (2 plates torn without loss, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Belfast Society (stamped in gilt on upper cover). FIRST EDITION of the author's most important work on gas theory, published in the Philosophical Transactions two years before its first appearance in book form under the title Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air in 1774; see the following lot). Dibner 40; Honeyman 2535; PMM 217: "The paper here cited, for which the Royal Society awarded Priestley the Copley medal, announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide, and the use of the latter in measuring the purity of air, which led through the work of Cavendish, Fontana and others to exact eudiometry. Priestley also observed that plants consume carbon dioxide and give out oxygen, thereby purifying air which has been vitiated by combustion, respiration or putrefaction, and that this action takes place only under daylight. This proved of the greatest value for the subsequent work on respiration by Ingenhousz and Senebier."

PRONY, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de (1755-1839). Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique. Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, 1790-96. 2 volumes, 4to (291 x 217mm). Half title in vol. one, wood-engraved printer's devices on titles, tables, 54 engraved plates, all but one folding (2 plates numbered as 16 [XVI], plate 42 mis-numbered as 47, occasional light spotting, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, spines gilt, green edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Bibliotheca Alsatica. R.v.W." (bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 846; Poggendorff II, 534. (2)

PRONY, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de (1755-1839). Neue Architektura Hydraulika. Frankfurt: Undreaischen Buchhandlung, 1795-1801. 2 volumes, 4to (251 x 200mm). 54 folding engraved plates (some text leaves lightly browned, a few spots, short tear without loss to one plate). Contemporary half calf, spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands (covers rather worn, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. cf. Brunet III, 846 (citing first edition of Paris, 1790-96; see previous lot for a part-set). (2)

RONALDS, Francis (1788-1873). Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph, and of Some Other Electrical Apparatus. London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1823. 8vo (227 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, all but one engraved by Lowry after Francis Ronalds, errata leaf at the end (title and a few text leaves lightly browned, some light spotting and staining). [?]Later grey boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION. The author, commenting on the experiments with electrical transmissions which are described in the book, states: "The result seemed to be, that that most extraordinary fluid or agency, electricity, may actually be employed for a more practically useful purpose than the gratification of the philosopher's inquisitive research, the schoolboy's idle amusement, or the physician's tool; that it may be compelled to travel as many hundred miles beneath our feet as the subterranean ghost which nightly haunts our metropolis, our provincial towns, and even our high roads; and that in such an enlightened country and obscure climate as this its travels would be productive of, at the least, as much public and private benefit. Why has no serious trial yet been made of the qualifications of so diligent a courier? And if he should be proved competent to the task, why should not our kings hold council at Brighton with their ministers in London? Why should not our government govern at Portsmouth almost as promptly as in Downing Street? Why should our defaulters escape by default of our foggy climate? And since our piteous inamorati are not all Alphei, why should they add to the torments, of absence those dilatory tormentors, pens, ink, paper and posts? Let us have electrical conversazione offices, communicating with each other all over the kingdom, if we can ..." (pp.2-3).

RONDELET, Guillaume (1507-66). De ponderibus, sive de iusta quantitate & proportione medicamentorum, Liber, Nunc denuò diligentissimè auctus, & recognitus ab eodem authore. Editio secunda. Lyon: Apud Bartholomaeum Molinaeum, 1563. 8vo (158 x 110mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut headpieces, initials and ornaments (title and Gii repaired at margin without loss, expanding wormtrack at gutter of kvi to end, variable staining and browning throughout). Contemporary vellum, title in early manuscript on spine. Provenance: old Islamic, Greek and Latin annotation to front pastedown; old illegible signature written over manuscript musical stave on front free endpaper. The first edition of this work on medicinal dosage was printed in Antwerp in 1561.

SAINT-FOND, Faujas de (1743-1819). Descriptions des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier. Paris: Cuchet, 1783 [With:] - Premiere Suite de la Description des Expériences Aérostatique de MM. Montgolfier. Tome Second. Paris: Cuchet, 1784. 2 volumes, 8vo (196 x 120mm). Vol I: engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, folding table, with the 4-page supplement; vol. II: engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, errata leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with raised bands and red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Provenance: "L.H." (bookplate with motto "Opima Spolia"). FIRST EDITION, second issue of the first volume; FIRST EDITION of the second volume. A FINE COPY OF THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE. Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier were pioneers in the field of aerostatics and made history in October 1783 when Étienne Montgolfier was the first human to lift off the Earth, making a tethered test-flight from the yard of the Réveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Later on the same day, physicist Pilâtre de Rozier became the second to ascend into the air, to an altitude of 24 m (80 feet), which was the full extent of the tether. On 21 November 1783, the first free flight by humans was made by Pilâtre de Rozier, together with an army officer, the marquis d' Arlandes. The balloon flew from the grounds of the Château de la Muette to the Bois de Boulogne, a distance of about 9 kilometers at a height of 910 m (3,000 feet). The author of the account, Saint-Fond, a notable French geologist, was the Montgolfiers' financier and supporter. Norman 769; PMM 229: "... the first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility." (2)

SAINT-HILAIRE, Isidore Geoffroy (1805-61). Histoire Générale et Particulière des Anomalies de l' Organisation chez l' Homme et les Animaux ... Des Monstruosités, Variétés et Vices de Coonformation, ou Traité de Tératologie. Brussels: Société Encyclographique des Sciences Médicales, 1837. Plate volume only [i.e. lacking the 3 text vols.], small folio (277 x 185mm). Folding table, 20 lithographed plates, one coloured (mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary red morocco-backed textured paper boards, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the plate volume of this pioneering work on abnormalities of physiological development, or 'Teratology', a term coined by the author in the present work. Garrison & Morton 534: "For comprehensive coverage of rare anomalies it is still of value as a reference source"; Waller 3474; Wellcome III, p.106.

SAVERIEN, Alexandre (1720-1805). Dictionnaire Universel de Mathematique et Physique. Paris: Chez Jacques Rollin ... Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1753. 2 volumes, 4to (272 x 208mm). Half titles, woodcut printer's device on titles, printed mostly in double column, 101 folding engraved plates (hole in blank area of first half title, hole in one plate touching engraved frame, occasional light spotting and staining, more pronounced to the plates in vol. II). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with tan morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands (rubbed, with damage to lettering-pieces, some crackling). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplates [without name or motto]; "Tillier" (old signatures on titles); Auguste Boutin, Paris (later stamps on half title of vol. one and title of vol. II). FIRST EDITION. (2)

SICHEL, Jules (1802-68). Iconographie Ophthalmologique ou Description, avec Figures Coloriés, des Maladies de l' Organe de la Vue. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1852-59. 2 volumes ("Texte" & "Atlas"). 4to (302 x 230mm). Half titles, 80 engraved plates, of which c. 70 hand-coloured (a few tissue-guards browned but plates generally clean, some mainly marginal spotting and staining to text). Contemporary plum half roan (spine detached from text vol., extremities rubbed, some dust-soiling). FIRST EDITION. Provenance: Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique (old stamps on titles). Garrison & Morton 5868; Hirsch V-254; Waller 8910. (2)

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan (1730-1810). Description et Usage d' un Cabinet de Physique Expérimentale. Paris: Chez P. Fr. Gueffier, 1775. 2 volumes, 8vo (195 x 122mm). Half titles, woodcut devices on titles, 51 folding engraved plates (a few dark spots to title of vol. one, and elsewhere, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and raised bands (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. The fine plates depict a variety of scientific experiments in domestic rather than laboratory settings. In his preface, the author pays generous tribute to Benjamin Franklin, "... ce génie supérieur ...". Not in Brunet. (2)

SPALLANZANI, Abate (1729-99). Opuscoli di Fisica Animale, e Vegetabile. Modena: Presso la Societa Tipografica, 1776. 2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 142mm). Half title in first vol. only, woodcut printer's device on titles, 6 folding engraved plates (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary Italian half calf, spines gilt with black morocco lettering-pieces (piece torn away from head of spine of vol. II, spines quite heavily rubbed and scuffed, corners rubbed). Provenance: Sergio Colombi (modern label). FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 102; Heirs of Hippocrates 984: "A long controversy with John Tuberville Needham and Comte de Buffon resulted in a series of essays, published in this two-volume work, in which Spallanzani rejected the then-popular theory of spontaneous generation ... Most of the experiments described in the Opuscoli consist of observations Spallanzani made on infusions of vegetable matter heated in closed vessels for various periods of time and set aside to await developments that would later be viewed with the eye or under the microscope ... it clearly foreshadowed subsequent experiments by other investigators which culminated nearly a century later in Pasteur's epic work"; Norman 1981; Waller 11007 (citing French ed. of 1777 only). (2)

STEAM ENGINES, RAILWAYS - William NICHOLSON (1753-1815). Description des Machines a Vapeur, et Détail des principaux changemens qu' elles ont éprouvés depuis l' époque de leur invention ... Traduit de l' Anglais par T. Duverne. Paris: Bachelier, 1826. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title, 8 folding engraved plates (some spotting and staining to text, plates lightly spotted). Original printed wrappers (upper wrapper detached, some short tears and fraying). Provenance: old library shelf label at foot of backstrip. First or early French edition. With Francois Pambour's Théorie de la Machine a Vapeur (Brussels, 1839, tables, folding plate, modern cloth-backed marbled boards). (2)

STECZKOWSKI, Joannes Cantius (1800-81). De longitudine geographica dissertatio quam adjectis thesibus. Cracow: Typis Universitatis, 1828. 4to (230 x 180mm). Folding table (some very light staining). Later plain blue wrappers. Provenance: old stamp on title; author's surname underlined in red pencil. FIRST EDITION.

STURM, Johann Christoph (1635-1703). Collegium experimentale, sive curiosum in quo primaria seculi inventa & experimenta physico-mathematica, Speciatum Campanae urinatoria, camerae obscurae, tubi Torricelliani, seu baroscopii, antliae pneumaticae, thermometrorum, hygroscopiorum, telescopiorum, microscopiorum & phenomena & effecta. Nuremberg: Sumptibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, & Johannis Andraeae Endteri Haeredum, 1676. 4 parts bound in one volume, 4to (200 x 160mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations and diagrams, some full-page (2 substantial sections misbound, variable but mainly light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate with motto "In promptu"; modern label of E. N. da C. Andrade on front free endpaper; contemporary note in Latin about the misbinding problem in this copy ("Culpa [?]Bibliopegi ...") before the third part. FIRST EDITION of this fascinating compendium of experiment and invention and including, on p. 64 of the first part, a full-page engraving of a flying machine and, on p. 4 of the third, a diving bell. Grasse VI, 517; not in Brunet.

SUE, Pierre (1739-1816). Histoire du Galvanisme; et Analyse des Différens ouvrages publiés sur cette découverte, depuis son origine jusqu' à ce jour. Paris: Chez Bernard, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo (193 x 122mm). Half titles, folding engraved plate of an electrical experiment [inserted from another work] at the end of vol. II, 16-pages of publisher's advertisements (dated January 1804) at the end of vol. one, errata leaf at the end of vol. II, the following leaf, unusually, with "spare" printed paper spine labels for each vol. printed side by side (title page to the first vol. spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Attractively-bound in contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces and with classical urns and ceiling rose ornaments stamped in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Doctor P. A. Créhange (modern bookplate). FIRST EDITION. (2)

SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637-80). Histoire Générale des Insectes. Ou l' on expose clairement la manière lente & presqu' insensible de l' accroissement de leurs mebres & où l' on découvre évidemment l' Erreur où l' on tombe d' ordinaire au sujet de leur prétendué transformation. Utrecht: Chez Jean Ribbius, 1685. 4to (193 x 147mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpieces and initials, folding letterpress table, 13 engraved plates, one of which folding, 7 of which double-page (some mainly marginal light browning, occasional very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots, without the instructions to the binder leaf at the end recorded in some copies). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers (neatly rebacked preserving old spine, extremities rubbed, some light staining). Provenance: later faint "ex-libris" stamp on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, but [?]second state with Ribbius imprint. Brunet IV, 369; Dibner 191; Krivatsy 11602; Nissen ZBI 4054; Norman 2037.

SWAMMERDAMM, Jan (1637-80). Bibel der Natur, worrinen die Insecten in gewisse Classen vertheilt, forgfaltig beschrieben, zergliedert, in saubern rupferstichen vorgestelt, mit vielen unmerfungen uber die geltenheiten der Natur erlentert, und zum beweis der Allmacht und Beisheit des Schopfers angewendet werden. Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung, 1752. Folio (354 x 232mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, elaborate engraved coat-of-arms at head of dedication, printed in double column, 53 folding engraved plates (some spotting, staining and browning to text, plates more lightly spotted and stained mainly at margins). Contemporary calf gilt with gilt crowned monogram on covers and floral cornerpieces, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and raised bands and repeated floral motifs, gilt edges (rubbed and scuffed, some white paint spotting to upper cover). First German edition. Brunet IV, 369.

SWITZER, Stephen (1682-1745). An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical. Wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting Water, for the watering Nobelmens and Gentlemens Seats, Buildings, Gardens, &c. are carefully (and in a Manner not yet publish'd in any Language) laid down. London: Printed for T. Astley (and others), 1729. 2 volumes, 4to (246 x 200mm). Engraved frontispiece, historiated initials and headpieces, tables, and 61 engraved plates, all but one folding (plates 8 and 9 bound out of sequence, 2 plates torn without loss, one text leaf torn without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked with later old-style spines, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: E. C. Oakes (modern bookplate). Berlin Kat. 3614; Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 309. FIRST EDITION. (2)

TABERNAEMONTANUS, Jacobus Theodorus (1525-90). New Vollkommen Kräuter-Buch. Darinnen Uber 3000 Krauter mit Schönen und Kunstlichen Figuren. Basel: Jacob Werenfels in Verlegung Johann Königs, 1664. Folio (354 x 225mm). Additional elaborate engraved allegorical title, woodcut device on printed title, headpieces and initials, printed in double column, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations (engraved title and a few leaves detached, variable spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary calf, unusual patterned endpapers (very worn, joints split, some damp spots). Provenance: old illegible ownership inscriptions on engraved title; 19th-century manuscript arithmetic on front free endpaper calculating the age of the book from 1841. This work, upon which the author's reputation as the 'father of German botany' rests, was first published in Frankfurt in 1588 and went through many editions in the 17th-century. Brunet IV, 381 (citing a Frankfurt edition of 1613): "Les éditions de Francfort, 1625, et de Bâle, 1664 et 1685, in fol., ont à peu près la même valeur"; Nissen BBI 1931; Pritzel 9093. Sold not subject to return.

THETI or TETI, Carlo (1529-89). Discorsi delle Fortificationi, Del Sig. Carlo Tetti[sic]. Ove diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle Fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose à loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. Hora a di nuovo da lui medesimo ricoretti, & ampliati del Secondo libro. Venice: Appresso Bolognino Zaltiero, 1575. 4to (202 x 150mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, head-pieces and initials, 2 folding woodcut plates lettered A & C, only (of 4), woodcut diagrams and illustrations (plates detached). Contemporary vellum with title in old manuscript on spine. Second edition of a work that was first published in Rome in 1569. Cockle 776; Graesse VI, 105; cf. Riccardi II, 517; not in Brunet.

TIMOFEEFF-RESSOVSKY, Nikolay Vladimirovich (1900-81), Karl Günter ZIMMER (1911-88) & Max Ludwig Henning DELBRUCK (1906-81). Uber die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1935. 4to (245 x 170mm). Offprint from "Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", pages [189]-245, diagrams (some light spotting at lower margin of the first leaf). Original green printed wrappers with circular woodcut device on upper wrapper (some very light staining), contained in modern green buckram protective wallet with pocket. FIRST SEPARATELY-PUBLISHED EDITION of "a paper of fundamental importance in molecular biology" (Garrison & Morton). PRESENTATION COPY, the upper wrapper indistinctly inscribed by Timofeeff-Ressovsky. "'Ueber die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur'" (often referred to as "the green paper" after the color of its wrappers, or the "Dreimanner" paper after the number of its authors) is divided into four sections. The first, by Timofeeff-Ressovsky, describes the mutagenic effects of x-rays and gamma rays on Drosophila melanogaster; the second part, by Zimmer, analyzes Timofeeff-Ressovsky's results theoretically. The third and most remarkable section, by Delbruck, puts forth a model of genetic mutation based on atomic physics that "shows the maturity, judgment and breadth of knowledge of someone who had been in the field for years . . . its carefully worded predictions have stood the test of time" (Perutz, Physics and the Riddle of Life, p. 557). Garrison & Morton 254; Norman 326.

TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-47). Lezioni Accademiche ... Lettore delle Mattematiche nello Studio di Firenze e Accademico della Crusca, edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri. Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 4to (267 x 193mm). Half title, engraved illustration on title, engraved portrait of the author, head-pieces, initials and ornaments, 3 woodcut illustrations (half title spotted, a few inconspicuous holes in title and portrait, stain to lower margin of v, long tear in c7 without loss, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary plain wrappers (backstrip rather worn, some light staining and creasing). Provenance: old illegible stamp on title; preface inscribed in an old hand, "Di Tommaso Bonaventuri." FIRST EDITION of this posthumously-published collection of 12 lectures delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino and the Academy of Drawing. Torricelli was a student of Galileo, and succeeded him as Professor of Mathematics at Florence. "From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force of impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations. For example, the assertion that 'forces and impetus' (what we call energy) lie in bodies was interpreted by Maxwell in the last paragraph of A Treatise on Electricty and Magnetism (1873) as meaning that the propagation of energy is a mediate and not remote action. In the lecture on wind Torricelli ... advanced the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence of density, between two regions of the earth" (DSB). Dibner 149; Honeyman 2993; Norman 2088; Riccardi I, 544.

TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710-59). Mémoires, pour Servir à l' Histoire d' un Genre de Polypes d' Eau Douce, à Bras en Forme de Cornes. Leiden: Chez Jean & Herman Verbeek, 1744. 4to (255 x 195mm). Woodcut ornament on title, headpieces, initials and culs-de-lampe, fine engraved illustrations, 13 folding engraved plates, plate 10 with captions printed in red, "Avis au Relieur" leaf at the end (B2 partially detached, variable spotting and staining to text throughout). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (neatly rebacked preserving old spine, lightly rubbed). Provenance: illegible small signature stamp in blue on title. FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 307: "Trembley discovered the hydra and was the first to observe in its asexual reproduction, regeneration, and photosensitivity in an animal without eyes. His experiments were of great importance in the study of regeneration of lost parts. He was the first to make permanent grafts and to witness cell-division"; Nissen ZBI 4163; Norman 2094.

VAIL, Alfred Lewis (1807-59). The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: with the Reports of Congress, and a Description of all Telegraphs Known, employing Electricity or Galvanism. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. 8vo (226 x 152mm). Wood-engraved illustrations (some large heavy spots towards the end at upper margin, lighter spotting and staining elsewhere). Original printed wrappers (spotted and lightly browned, some fraying at lower corners and foot of backstrip). Provenance: Rob Peter (old signature on upper wrapper); inscription at lower margin of p.53. FIRST EDITION.

VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (c.80-70 - c.15 BCE). De architectura libri decem, edited by Daniele Barbaro. Venice: Franciscus Senensis, 1567. Folio (290 x 191mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, repeated at the end, large architectural woodcut on verso of title and 135 woodcut illustrations, tables and diagrams, one leaf folding (some staining and browning to frist few leaves, some light mainly marginal staining elsewhere). Spanish 18th-century tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (skilfully rebacked preserving old spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Abbey of Sacro Mone, Granada (18th-century inscription on title). FIRST LATIN EDITION of Barbaro's commentary on Vitruvius's work on architecture, a highly influential text on the Classical revival in the European Renaissance. The plates, depicting mechanical apparatus, clocks, antiquities as well as classical buildings including Greek and Roman theatres, are reduced copies of those found in the Marcolini edition, with the exception of the bird's-eye view of Venice (on p.204). Adams V-909; Brunet IV, 671; Cicognara 716; Fowler 409; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 550; Millard Italian 161.

VOLTA, Alessandro (1745-1827). L' Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico Vittoriosamente Dimostrata. Pavia: Giovanni Capelli, 1814. 4to (330 x 234mm). Engraved portrait of the author (title and last leaf a little soiled at margins, without the addenda slip tipped to the last page in some copies). Modern marbled paper boards, uncut. Provenance: Bergamo seminary (stamp on title). LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Volta's last memoir on galvanism, "a lengthy review of his reasons for identifying galvanic and common electricity" (DSB). Printed at the end is a bibliography of Volta's publications. Honeyman 3076; Wheeler Gift 726.

VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton[sic], donnés par Mr. de Voltaire. Nouvelle Edition. "Londres" [but Paris]: [no publisher, but Laurent-François Prault], [August] 1738. 8vo (189 x 117mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved portrait of Voltaire before the dedication to his mistress, Madame la Marquise du Chastellet, 6 engraved plates, one folding engraved table, 61 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams (some very light mainly marginal staining, spotting and browning). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands, red edges. Provenance: 2 old inscriptions on the half title, the first reading, "Le livre appartenir [illegible words] le Commissaire des Guerres"; the second running on from it, stating, "et maintent a M. [?]Arnoule Avocat du Roy, au [?]baage Royal de Sargueminion, admirateur enthousiaste du grain Neuton et du célébre Voltaire. 1779." FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Babson 120; Bengesco 1570; cf. Norman 2165; Poggendorff II, 1233; Wallis 155.

WABST, Christian Xavier (dates unknown). De hydrargyro tentamen physico-chemico-medocum. [Pars prima]. "Vindobonae" [i.e. Vienna]: Ex Typographia Trattneriana, 1754. First part [all published], 4to (233 x 182mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of a mining scene, head-pieces initials and ornaments (words "Pars prima" erased from title, with strip of paper pasted over, and with resultant loss of letters on verso and stain to the first text leaf, variable spotting, staining and browning, lower [?]blank section of final text leaf cut away). Contemporary speckled boards (upper cover detached, spine lacking, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: large stamps on title; small stamp on verso of title; old library shelf number label on upper cover. Blake 478; Hoover 852; not in Duveen. FIRST EDITION of the first treatise dedicated to mercury or quicksilver. "This work is divided into two parts, of which we are here presented only with the first; wherein the author has endeavoured to collect every thing that has been hitherto published about mercury or quicksilver, either in the writings of physicians or of naturalists ... Mercury is, according to Mr Wabst, a metallic substance, cold to the touch, fluid yet dry, and not moistening the metals that it touches; shining like silver, heavy, strong, and penetrating; very active and volatile; scarcely enduring fire at any rate, and composed of flat spherical particles ... There are many things extremely curious in this piece of Dr Wabst; and it is with impatience we await the publication of the second part ..." (from a contemporary account in The Critical Review). They are still waiting.

WILKINS, John (1614-72). Mathematical Magick: or, The Wonders that may be performed by Mechanical Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanical Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful (and yet most neglected) part of Mathematics, Not before treated of in this Language. London: Printed for Edw. Gellibrand, 1680. 8vo (165 x 100mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, dedication "To His Highness the Prince Elector Palatine," engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams (some mainly marginal browning and staining throughout, variable lighter spotting and staining, generally lightly browned). Contemporary panelled speckled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece, rubbed and scuffed, inner hinges reinforced). Second edition of a work which was first published in London in 1648. "This work on mechanical contrivances, an exceedingly interesting storehouse of extravaganzas in engineering, is of special interest for containing descriptions of a number of machines (some of them the author's own invention) supposed to produce perpetual motion. 72 pages are devoted to this subject. Chapter XIII deals with attempts by means of magnets ... There are also interesting chapters on aerostation; of the volant automata ... Concerning the art of flying. The several ways whereby this has been, or may be attempted. A resolution of the chief difficulties that seem to oppose the possibility of a flying chariot. Some of the other chapters: Of the contrivance of several motions by rarified air. On wind-guns. On submarine navigation (use of compass in steering a submarine boat), etc." (Maggs). Bibliotheca mechanica, p.354; Honeyman VII, 3120; Lowndes V, 2922; Maggs Catalogue 520: Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology & Natural Sciences (1929) 543; Poggendorff II, 1328; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing W74; Wheeler Gift I, 126; Wing W2200 (most references citing the first edition of 1648).

WILLUGHBY, Francis (1635-72). Ornithologiae libri tres ... Totum opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit Joannes Raius. London: Impensis Joannis Martyn, 1676. Folio (361 x 230mm). Imprimatur leaf, title printed in red and black with the Arms of the Royal Society, 77 engraved plates by Emma Willughby, 2 folding letterpress tables (variable spotting and browning throughout, more heavy in the margins of 2 plates, short marginal tear in H4). [?]Later vellum (corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Wing W2879; Anker 532; Nissen IVB 991; Zimmer II, 677: "The cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology, being the first book on the classification of birds without respect to geographical boundaries."

[WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of (1601-67)]. A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Such Inventions, As at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former Notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice. London: Printed by J. Grismond, 1663. Lacking the supplement [as often, but supplied in manuscript; see footnote]. 12mo (127 x 75mm). Title and dedication within double-rule border, woodcut typographical head-piece and initial (a few spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked some time ago, both covers detached, extremities rubbed). Provenance: illegible old signature on front pastedown; RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY, OXFORD (old stamp on front pastedown and on verso of title); old pencil partial index on front free endpaper; S. T. [?]Rigaud, 1839 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION of a work in which the author lists and describes 100 of his own inventions, including the hundredth ("A stupendious[sic] Water-work") which he claims, with characteristic modesty, to be "The most stupendious Work in the whole world." Also notable is invention 84: "An Instrument whereby persons ignorant in Arithmetick may perfectly observe Numerations and Subtractions of all Summes and Fractions." (See Tomash & Williams.) Not present in this copy - as often - is the rare 34-page supplement (F1-G6), but, intriguingly, this is supplied in an early manuscript transcription taking the form of 34-page stitched booklet, which opens, "An exact & true Definition of the most Stupendious Water-commanding Engine, invented by the Right Honourable (and deservedly to be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Lord Marquess of Worcester, and by his Lordship himself presented to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, our most gracious Soveraign." Constructed from the barrel of a cannon, it was a prototype design for what would later become the steam engine. The printed supplement was tantamount to the author's claim of a patent for this invention. ESTC R7944; Norman 1976; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing S162; Wing W3532.

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Robert Taylor 36x26 The Abbeville Boys 712/1250 limited edition print published 1999 signed by Luftwaffe Ace Adolf Galland with Certificate of Authenticity. A much sought after Robert Taylor limited edition published in recognition of the famous fighter wing JG-26, commanded by the Luftwaffe's outstanding fighter leader Adolf Galland. General Adolf Galland is a unique figure in the history of aviation. That he was one of the outstanding fighter Aces of World War Two is just part of the story. His natural talent as a fighter leader and tactician quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of General, and at the tender age of 30 he was elevated to the German High command, assuming the awesome responsibility for all day and night fighters. He will be remembered for his crusade on behalf of his fellow fighter pilots against the inept decisions and policies of his superiors. He is one of the few to have stood up to both Hitler and Goring and survived. If ever a fighter commander led from front, Adolf Galland did. He flew throughout the war, achieving over 100 air victories all on the Western Front against the top Aces of the RAF and USAAF, and when the end came he was still flying and fighting, leading a wing of Me-262 jets. Perhaps the most memorable period of the war for Adolf Galland came after he took command of III/JG-26 Fighter Wing in June 1940. In true fashion he scored two aerial victories on his first day and in no time transformed JG-26 Schlageter into an elite formation that became known to the RAF fighter pilots as the Abbeville Boys. Robert Taylor has recreated a scene from those heady days in 1941, when the Abbeville Boys were at the height of their reputation, doing daily combat with the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the RAF. Adolf Galland leads his pilots in a typical loose formation take-off, the Messerschmitt BF-109'F fighters roaring across the runway for yet another clash with the foe. The Abbeville Boys are on the warpath !. Signed by the artist : Robert Taylor and Luftwaffe Legend General Adolf Galland Knights Cross Oakleaves Swords and Diamonds. This print has been stored flat and is in pristine condition. Has original Military Gallery Certificate. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.

Gerald Coulson First Light 27x21 limited edition print 82/300 signed by Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum and Sqn Ldr Neville Duke together with a matching numbered copy of the bestselling book First Light by Geoffrey Wellum with Certificate of Authenticity, details on certificate. In Gerald Coulsons fine study First Light, Mk Vb Spitfires of 92 Squadron climb out of Biggin Hill at the outset of an early morning patrol on a cold winters morning in February 1941. Leaving the mist behind as the first beams of light streak across the heavens, they will turn to the east and steel themselves to meet the enemy, high in the dawn sky. This print has been stored flat and is in pristine condition. Has original Certificate. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.

IAN FLEMING 'ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE', 'You Only Live Twice', 'The Man with the Golden Gun', 1st editions in dust jackets together with 'The Spy Who Loved me' 5th impression 1963 in dust jacket and nine great pan paperback 'Bond' titles (13) (Condition: Which of the Great Pans in this lot are paperback first edition? - 'Goldfinger' is only one and ripped on spine) (What are the impressions of all the others, are they all cape? - the other three are by Cape and all 1st impressions 1st editions) (Are the paperback books first printings? - only 'Goldfinger')

A selection of general pictures, of aviation interest and similar including first edition print by Robert Taylor 'Lancaster' signed by group captain Leonard Cheshire.

"The Allies' Fairy book" Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First edition 1916

"Men At Arms" Book by Evelyn Waugh. First Edition.

"Livia" Book by author and poet, Lawrence Durrel. First Edition signed by author.