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MUSSCHENBROEK, Johann van (1660-1707). Beschreibung der doppelten und einfachen Luftpumpe nebst einer Sammlung von verschie

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Lot 477

MUSSCHENBROEK, Johann van (1660-1707). Beschreibung der doppelten und einfachen Luftpumpe nebst einer Sammlung von verschiedenen nuzlichen und lehrreichen Versuchen, welche man mit der Luftpumpe machen kan[sic]. Augsburg: Eberhard Klett, 1765. 8vo (170 x 102mm). Woodcut headpiece and ornament, typographical ornament at end of text, 6 folding engraved plates of scientific instruments (small marginal repair to title, some light browning). Modern marbled wrappers over boards. First German edition. Poggendorff II, 247.

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PETTUS, John (1613-90). Fodinae Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wa

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Lot 402

PETTUS, John (1613-90). Fodinae Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis Explaining some difficult Words relating to Mines, &c. London: Printed by H. L. and R. B. for Thomas Basset, 1670. Small folio (292 x 190mm). Engraved portrait of the author in the second state signed "W. Sherwin sculpsit", initials, headpieces, engraved illustrations of the "The Arms of the Society of the Mines Royal" and "The Arms of the Society for the Mineral and Battery Works", the first with an explanatory note pasted beneath [as usual], 2 engraved plates titled "Comsumlock Hill" and "The Roman Works", each with letterpress "key" on versos, "Corrigenda" leaf at end (a few very short marginal tears without loss, some light mainly marginal staining and spotting, [?]printer's ink stain at upper margin of M1, not affecting letters). Contemporary calf (quite heavily rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: old monogram [?]"J.R." on front blanks; J. C. Owen, Wrexham (modern incription in blue pencil at upper margin of title, with a note in the same hand beneath the author's name and some faint underlining to passages of the text). FIRST EDITION of a work that was undertaken at the request of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland. The author was deputy governor of the royal mines in England and Wales, serving both Charles I and II. RARE. Duveen p. 468; Goldsmiths' 1930; Hoover 634; Kress 1270.

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STONHAM, Charles (1858-1916). The Birds of the British Islands. London: E. Grant Williams, 1906-11. 5 volumes, 4to (312 x 24

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Lot 419

STONHAM, Charles (1858-1916). The Birds of the British Islands. London: E. Grant Williams, 1906-11. 5 volumes, 4to (312 x 245mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, 2 folding coloured maps, 2 full-page "Topography of a Bird" illustrations printed in red and black, errata slip in vol. one, 318 lithographed plates by Lilian M. Medland (a few text leaves browned, a few plates bound out of sequence, final plate stained at margin, occasional light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in contemporary burgundy calf, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Presented to Beachborough Park School by Mrs Malcolmson" (inscriptions on front free endpapers of each vol.); month and year [?of original parts] written in pen and pencil in margins of some text leaves. FIRST EDITION. Anker 58; Mullens & Swann p.566; Nissen IVB 898; Wood p.584; Zimmer pp.604-5. (5)

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MANILIUS, Marcus (fl. 1st-Century AD). Astronomicon libri quinque, edited by Joseph Scaliger. [Heidelberg:] In Officina Sanc

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Lot 470

MANILIUS, Marcus (fl. 1st-Century AD). Astronomicon libri quinque, edited by Joseph Scaliger. [Heidelberg:] In Officina Sanctandreana, 1590. 3 parts bound in one volume, 8vo (171 x 115mm). Woodcut printer's devices on the titles to the first two parts, headpieces and initials, woodcut diagrams (lacks blank leaf a8, as often, substantial sections quite heavily browned, occasional lighter spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots occasionally affecting letters). Later cloth-backed paper boards (first signature starting, rubbed and lightly stained). Provenance: old annotation to first title and endpapers; later label removed from rear endpaper. The editio princeps of this didactic Latin poem, written c. 30-40 AD, and the earliest known work on astrology and the first to name systems of astrological Houses, was printed in Nuremberg in 1473, having been re-discovered by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini in c. 1416. It then fell into comparative neglect until A. E. Housman produced a scholarly edition, still considered authoritative, between 1903 and 1930. The second edition to be edited by Joseph Scaliger. Adams M362; Houzeau & Lancaster I, 1037; cf. Kenney 113 & 167 (1655 ed.); Riccardi Manilius 44.

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DUTROCHET, René Joachim Henri (1776-1847). Mémoires pour Servir a l' Histoire Anatomique et Physiologique des Végétaux et de

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Lot 444

DUTROCHET, René Joachim Henri (1776-1847). Mémoires pour Servir a l' Histoire Anatomique et Physiologique des Végétaux et des Animaux. Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillière, 1837. 3 volumes including "Atlas", 8vo, text vols. (208 x 130mm), "Atlas" (222 x 144mm). 30 engraved plates, some folding (variable browning, spotting and staining throughout, sometimes heavy, although the plates generally clean). Later half library buckram. Provenance: institutional stamps and labels on half titles and labels at feet of spines. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's L' Agent Immédiat du Mouvement Vital dévoilé dans sa Nature et dans son Mode d' Action, chez les Végétaux et chez les Animaux (Paris, 1826, 19th-century boards). (4)

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RAOUL-ROCHETTE, Désiré (1789-1854). Monumens inédits d' Antiquité Figurée, Grecque, Étrusque et Romaine ... Première Partie

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Lot 407

RAOUL-ROCHETTE, Désiré (1789-1854). Monumens inédits d' Antiquité Figurée, Grecque, Étrusque et Romaine ... Première Partie, Cycle Héroïque. [All published]. Paris: A L' Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Folio (533 x 355mm). Lithographed printer's armorial device on title, armorial on title, 93 engraved and lithographed plates, some folding, a few printed in red, one hand-coloured, illustrations, 2 hand-coloured (one plate detached, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of what was to have been a monumental work, impressive in scope and scale even in its unfinished state, on Greek mythology in art, treating of Achilles, Odysseus, and Orestes respectively. Brunet IV, 24: "Le prospectus de ce recueil promettait 200 pl. en 12 livrais., mais il n' a paru que le premier vol. en six livrais., avec 80 planches, dont plusieurs doubles ..."; Lipperheide Bc14.

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MOBIUS, August-Ferdinand (1790-1868). Die Elemente der Mechanik des Himmels, auf Neuem Wege ohne Hülfe Höherer Rechnungsarte

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Lot 475

MOBIUS, August-Ferdinand (1790-1868). Die Elemente der Mechanik des Himmels, auf Neuem Wege ohne Hülfe Höherer Rechnungsarten Dargestellt. Leipzig: Weidmann'Sche Buchhandlung, 1843. 8vo (207 x 130mm). 2 folding engraved plates (occasional light mainly marginal spotting, plates spotted). 19th-century black morocco-backed pebbled boards, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the author's greatest contribution to astronomy in which he gives a mathematical treatment of celestial mechanics without the use of higher mathematics.

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SICHEL, Jules (1802-68). Iconographie Ophthalmologique ou Description, avec Figures Coloriés, des Maladies de l' Organe de l

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Lot 498

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)

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LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930). Pansies. [Colophon:] London: P. R. Stephensen, June 1929. 8vo (226 x 145mm). Self-portrait fro

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Lot 390

LAWRENCE, D. H. (1885-1930). Pansies. [Colophon:] London: P. R. Stephensen, June 1929. 8vo (226 x 145mm). Self-portrait frontispiece printed in bistre, title printed in brown and blue, second title printed in red. Original stiff white wrappers printed in red and black (some light spotting and staining), slipcase (some minor wear). NUMBER 227 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The printed limitation states: "This limited edition is printed complete, following the original manuscript, according to my wish." This edition contains 14 previously unpublished poems which were not included in the first edition printed by Secker five months before. Fabes p.24; Roberts A47c. With J. B. Priestley's The Town Major of Miraucourt (London, 1930, original vellum gilt (heavily stained), ONE OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR [this copy unnumbered]). (2)

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AUENBRUGGER, Leopold (1722-1809) & Jean-Nicolas CORVISART (1755-1821, translator & editor). Nouvelle Méthode pour Re

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Lot 428

AUENBRUGGER, Leopold (1722-1809) & Jean-Nicolas CORVISART (1755-1821, translator & editor). Nouvelle Méthode pour Reconnaitre les Maladies Internes de la Poitrine par la Percussion de cette Cavité ... Ouvrage traduit du Latin et Commenté par J. N. Corvisart. Paris: De l' Imprimerie de Migneret, 1808. 8vo (195 x 122mm). Half title, errata leaf (extensive wormtrack running from the half title to p. 10, occasionally affecting letters, stain to upper and lower margins of half title and, to a lesser extent, to title, variable spotting, staining and browning, many darker spots). Attractively bound in contemporary tree calf, spine elaborately gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed, a few strips worn). FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANSLATION. First published in Vienna in 1761, Auenbrugger's original work was based on his experiments with thoracic percussion as a technique of respiratory assessment. It ran only to 95-pages, and passed quickly into relative obscurity until the present greatly-expanded 440-page translation by Corvisart, Napoleon's personal physician, appeared almost fifty years later. Garrison & Morton 2672: "[Corvisart] really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. His translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion resulted in the universal adoption of that procedure"; Heirs of Hippocrates 955; Waller 526; Norman 83.

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COOK, John (dates unknown). Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field. Addressed

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Lot 356

COOK, John (dates unknown). Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field. Addressed to a Young Sportswoman, about to Undertake a Hunting Establishment. London: Printed for the Author, by William Nicol, 1826. 8vo (210 x 140mm). Lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates (fore-edge of title chipped not affecting letters, title and plates lightly browned, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND in later red crushed morocco gilt [indistinctly stamped by binder], spine elaborately gilt in compartments, gilt edges (some damage to upper 2 raised bands, joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance: Edward Motley Weld (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Grimshaw The Horse 1309: "... some claimed, the greatest book on hunting ever written ..."; Podeschi pp.134-135; Schwerdt I, pp. 119-120: "... a scarce and highly valued work."

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872-1958). Symphony in E Minor [6th Symphony] ... Full Score. London: Oxford University Press, [n.

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Lot 422

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872-1958). Symphony in E Minor [6th Symphony] ... Full Score. London: Oxford University Press, [n.d. but c. 1948]. 4to (263 x 190mm). (Some light spotting and staining.) Original cloth-backed wrappers printed in red. PRESENTATION COPY, the title page inscribed, "R. Vaughan Williams for a friend of Jean's." 'Jean' was the vendor's first wife.

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RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1794-1867). Grundiss der Chemie. Munich: Georg Franz, 1846-47. 2 volumes, 8vo (214 x 136mm). 247

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Lot 493

RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1794-1867). Grundiss der Chemie. Munich: Georg Franz, 1846-47. 2 volumes, 8vo (214 x 136mm). 247 vari-coloured square or rectangular samples of chemical compounds laid down in the text within rule borders, diagrams, errata leaves at the end of each vol. (variable spotting and staining throughout). 19th-century black half roan, spines gilt, red edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: "Zur Verbreitung Nuetzlicher Kentnesse" (old stamps on titles). FIRST EDITION. Neville II, p.407: "An important treatise on the preparation, properties, and uses of inorganic pigments and dyes, by the co-discoverer of aniline dyes made from compounds isolated from coal tar"; Partington IV, pp.183-84; Poggendorff II, 721-22. (2)

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VERNON, John (dates unknown). The Compleat Comptinghouse: or, The Young Lad taken from the Writing-School, and fully instruc

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Lot 423

VERNON, John (dates unknown). The Compleat Comptinghouse: or, The Young Lad taken from the Writing-School, and fully instructed, by way of Dialogue, in all the Mysteries of a Merchant, from his first understanding of plain Arithmetic, to the highest Pitch of Trade: Whereby the Master is saved much labour, and the Lad is led by the Hand to all his Work and Business; which to Youth is accounted troublesome, but will here seem pleasant. A Work very necessary for all that are concerned in keeping Accompts of what Quality Soever. The Second Edition, Corrected and Amended. London: Printed by J. Richardson for Benj, Billingsley, 1683. 12mo (152 x 95mm). Tables (lacks L6-L7 [i.e. pages 227-230], section of text detached, large piece torn away from blank margin of E2, variable spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed). Provenance: "William Griffiths, his Book. bo.t by Oxtion [sic, i.e. Auction] 1718" (inscription on front free endpaper); copious old annotation to front free endpaper; signature of another member of the Griffith family dated 1753 on verso of front free endpaper; later number in pencil on title. After the Table, the author places a curious, and possibly self-interested, Advertisement: "That rare Invention of Cake-Ink, so convenient for Carriage, as well by Land and Sea, already experienced by many Thousands in England, and Forreign[sic] Parts, to be the blackest, fluentist, and strongest Ink yet invented: and the more desirable, because he that hath the least bit of it in his Pocket, is possest of the best Ink: Is to be had at Mrs. Vernon's Coffee-House ..." Goldsmith's-Kress 2245; Wing V249; Woolf, A Short History of Accountants and Accountancy ... Bibliography (1912), p.214 (not citing this edition).

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HOCKNEY, David (b. 1937. illustrator) & Stephen SPENDER (1909-95). China Diary. [London:] Thames and Hudson, 1982. 4to (

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Lot 380

HOCKNEY, David (b. 1937. illustrator) & Stephen SPENDER (1909-95). China Diary. [London:] Thames and Hudson, 1982. 4to (250 x 190mm). Plates and illustrations, many coloured. Original red cloth with Chinese character stamped in gilt on the upper cover and the spine lettered in gilt, original white slipcase with red printed label. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AT THE FRONT BY THE ARTIST AND AUTHOR. WITH AN ORIGINAL FOLDING COLOURED LITHOGRAPH BY DAVID HOCKNEY, SIGNED AND NUMBERED "310/1,000" IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST. "This folder contains an original five-colour hand-drawn lithograph, specially made for the signed edition of China Diary which is limited to 1,000 numbered copies worldwide. The lithograph, Red Square and the Forbidden City, 1982, by David Hockney, was printed at Petersburg Studios, New York, from one lithographic stone and four aluminium plates, all drawn by the artist, on Somerset satin-finish mould-made rag paper ... The lithograph is folded three times to form four paper panels ..." (from the folder). With 5 other books by, or relating to, David Hockney, including the brochure for Victoria Wood in Cabaret at Salts Mill. Sunday 3rd March 1996 (Bradford, 1996, front cover with a reproduction of a painting by David Hockney, number 352 of 500 copies), David Hockney's That's the way I see it (London, reprinted 2002) and the same author's Secret Knowledge. Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters ... new and expanded edition (London, 2006). (6)

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RUSSELL, William Howard (1820-1907). The Atlantic Telegraph. London: Day & Son Limited, [c. 1866]. Tall 4to (290 x 205mm

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Lot 495

RUSSELL, William Howard (1820-1907). The Atlantic Telegraph. London: Day & Son Limited, [c. 1866]. Tall 4to (290 x 205mm). Colour tinted lithographed title and 24 plates by Robert Dudley, engraved chart, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (occasional mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original elaborate green pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges (partially disbound with text block detached from binding, extremities lightly rubbed, short split at upper joints). FIRST EDITION. Lalande 2166; Sabin 74396; Wheeler Gift 1622.

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MAILLARD, Sebastian de (1746-1822). Methode Nouvelle plus Courte et Plus Simple et en Bien des Cas Plus Exacte, de Traiter l

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Lot 469

MAILLARD, Sebastian de (1746-1822). Methode Nouvelle plus Courte et Plus Simple et en Bien des Cas Plus Exacte, de Traiter la Mechanique. Vienne: chez Jean-Thomas Noble de Trattnern, 1800. 8vo (2901 x 128mm). Woodcut device on title, folding errata leaf, woodcut head-piece, 8 folding engraved plates (some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Later cloth-backed marbled boards (rubbed). Provenance: old stamp on title. FIRST EDITION.

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NERI, Antoni (dates unknown). De arte vitraria. Libri septem. Amsterdam: apud Andream Frisium, 1669. 12mo (127 x 75mm). Addi

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Lot 478

NERI, Antoni (dates unknown). De arte vitraria. Libri septem. Amsterdam: apud Andream Frisium, 1669. 12mo (127 x 75mm). Additional engraved title with an illustration of a glassworks, engraved illustration on title, 6 folding engraved plates (wormtrack at lower inner margin from beginning to C6 not touching letters, lightly browned and spotted). Contemporary vellum with yapp edges (some staining to foot of spine). Provenance: old illegible signatures on title and on errata leaf. The first illustrated edition of the earliest and most famous treatise on glassmaking which was first published in Florence in 1612. cf. Brunet III, 506 (not citing this edition); Duveen 427; Ferguson II, 135; Smith 342.

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BIOT, Jean-Baptist (1774-1862). Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique. Paris: Chez Deterville, 1816. 4 volumes, 8

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Lot 434

BIOT, Jean-Baptist (1774-1862). Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique. Paris: Chez Deterville, 1816. 4 volumes, 8vo (203 x 125mm). Half titles, 22 folding engraved plates (occasional light spotting, a few darker spots, some leaves lightly browned). Attractively-bound in 19th-century green full armorial morocco gilt, the covers stamped "Académie de Paris. Prix du Concours Général" within baroque frame and garland, spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges (section of upper cover and spine of vol. one faded). FIRST EDITION. Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 38-39. (4)

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DANIELL, William (1769-1837). Interesting Selections from Animated Nature, with Illustrative Scenery. London: "Printed for t

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Lot 358

DANIELL, William (1769-1837). Interesting Selections from Animated Nature, with Illustrative Scenery. London: "Printed for the Author ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ... At the Free-School, Gower's Walk, Whitechapel. W. Lovell, Master,", [n.d. but plates dated April 10 or June 1, 1809]. Oblong 4to (271 x 375mm). 50 [uncoloured] aquatint plates "designed, engraved & published" by William Daniell (lacks all before title, some very light spotting and staining). Original boards with printed list of plates laid down on front pastedown (upper board detached, spine worn and detached, stitching broken with some plates and text leaves detached or loose, rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. Freeman 904; Lowndes II, 540: "This work is frequently inserted in the large paper copies of Wood's Zoography"; Nissen ZBI 1040. A separate edition was printed with a different imprint ("for T. Cadell and W. Davies") in 2 volumes and with 120 plates.

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WHITE, E. B. (1899-1985). Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 8vo (204 x 135mm). Half title, illustrations

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Lot 424

WHITE, E. B. (1899-1985). Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 8vo (204 x 135mm). Half title, illustrations by Garth Williams (some light staining towards the front, one illustration partly coloured-in). Original pictorial buckram (lightly stained, lacks dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, later issue, with code-numbers "10-5" and letters "I-U" on verso of title. With 10 other illustrated books including Tennyson's Guinevere and Other Poems (Glasgow, 1912, illustrated by Florence Harrison, original cloth), J. M. Barrie's Quality Street (London, [1913], illustrated by Hugh Thomson, original pictorial buckram), Ernest Shackleton's South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (London, 1919-20, original pictorial cloth, TWO COPIES, one a new impression of December 1919, the other a reprint of March 1920), Johanna Spyri's Heidi (Philadelphia, 1922, illustrated by Jessica Willcox Smith, original cloth) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling (New York, 1947, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, original cloth). (11)

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BINDINGS - Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU (1712-78). The Confessions ... Now for the First Time Completely Translated into English wi

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Lot 322

BINDINGS - Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU (1712-78). The Confessions ... Now for the First Time Completely Translated into English without Expurgation. [Edinburgh:] "Privately Printed", 1905. 2 volumes, large 8vo (229 x 145mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, etched plates. FINELY BOUND in later brown half crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun, spines lettered and decorated in gilt with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut. With 6 other works in 10 vols. including The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola of Caravaggio (Paris, 1906, 2 vols., LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES), Alexander Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires (Paris, 1922, 2 vols., spines faded) and G. F. Young's The Medici (London, 1926, 2 vols.), all FINELY BOUND in calf or morocco. (12)

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TREDGOLD, Thomas (1788-1829). The Steam Engine. Its Invention and an Investigation of its Principles, for Navigation, Manufa

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Lot 509

TREDGOLD, Thomas (1788-1829). The Steam Engine. Its Invention and an Investigation of its Principles, for Navigation, Manufacturers, and Railways ... Enlarged and Edited by W. S. B. Woolhouse. London: John Weale, 1838. 2 volumes, 4to (303 x 240mm). Engraved portrait of the author, 124 engraved plates, many double-page or folding (some spotting and staining). Contemporary cloth-backed boards (rather worn). The second volume has 2 title pages, one stating "Vol. I", the other "Vol. II." The first of these states "In Two Volumes with one hundred and twenty-five engravings ..." The plate numbering is equally eccentric in both volumes, but the total plate count does come to 125 including the engraved portrait. With Daniel Kinnear Clark's Railway Locomotives: Their Progress, Mechanical Construction and Performance; with the Recent Practice in England and America (Glasgow, 1860, 2 vols. bound in one, plates, lacks plate 36, contemporary morocco-backed boards). The lot sold not subject to return. (3)

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REIS, Johann Philipp (1834-74). Heber Telephonie durch den galvanischen Strom. [In: Jahres-Bricht des physikalischen Bereins

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Lot 490

REIS, Johann Philipp (1834-74). Heber Telephonie durch den galvanischen Strom. [In: Jahres-Bricht des physikalischen Bereins zu Frankfurt am Main für das Rechnungsjahr 1860-1861]. [Frankfurt: G. Naumann's Druckerei, 1861]. 8vo ((204 x 139mm). 6 folding plates, the last printed in red, blue and black. Cloth-backed original printed wrappers, in modern protective book box with silk ties. Reis's article, announcing, de facto, the theoretical invention of the telephone, starts on p. 57 of the scientific periodical. Darmstaedter 612; Wheeler Gift 1532; cf. PMM 365 (citing Alexander Graham Bell's Researches in Telephony .... 1877): "Telephones were already in existence. Philip Reis perfected the first of them in 1861, but it remained little more than a toy. He failed, in fact, in the primary object, which was to produce intelligible speech at the receiving end. This seems to have been due to his use of an interrupted transmission current which seriously affected the quality of reception."

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CAPRONI VIZZOLA - An extensive archive relating to Italian transport company Caproni, also known as "Società de Agostini e Ca

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Lot 340

CAPRONI VIZZOLA - An extensive archive relating to Italian transport company Caproni, also known as "Società de Agostini e Caproni" and "Società Caproni e Comitti", comprising a collection of c. 30 technical drawings, engineering plans and specifications chiefly for buses ("Autobus interurbano") and motorbikes, mostly pen, ink and pencil on transfer paper, various sizes, with the smaller measuring approx. 400 x 700mm, the larger approximately 600 x 1,300mm., dated 1947-54. Also included in the archive are a large number of photographs of vehicles and other documentation relating to the company. Caproni started life in 1908 as an aircraft manufacturer and produced several heavy bombers during the First World War. Notably, it built the ill-fated Caproni Ca.60 "Transaero", a nine-wing flying boat with eight engines intended to provide a regular 100-passenger transatlantic service. It had its first test flight in 1921 but the project was soon abandoned as being impractical, chiefly because of the number of times the aircraft would have to refuel en route. The company went on, after a series of acquisitions, to build bombers and combat aircraft in the Second World War. However, after the war, it ran into difficulties despite its attempts to expand into other types of vehicle, as represented in these drawings, and it finally collapsed in 1950, although one of the original company's former divisions, "Caproni Vizzola", endured until 1983. (qty)

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PAPA, Giuseppe del (1648-1735). Consulti medici. Venice: Per Sebastiano Coleti, 1734. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to (238 x 170

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Lot 481

PAPA, Giuseppe del (1648-1735). Consulti medici. Venice: Per Sebastiano Coleti, 1734. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to (238 x 170mm). Woodcut vignettes on each title (lacks all before title [i.e., blanks not called for in the collation], variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary vellum with title in old manuscript on spine (head of spine repaired). Provenance: illegible old inscription on first title. The work was first published in 1733. Blake 114; Gamba 2046; Wellcome IV, 292.

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STAUNTON, George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of Ch

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Lot 417

STAUNTON, George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly from the Papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney. London: W. Bulmer and Co.,1797. 2 [text] volumes only [i.e., without the folio volume of plates], 4to (311 x 250mm). 2 engraved portraits, wood-engraved vignettes (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few leaves lightly browned). Contemporary half calf, spines lettered and ruled in gilt (upper section of spine of vol. II detached, but present, joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. Brunet IV, 342: "Relation très intéressante"; Cordier Sinica 2382; Cox I, 344: "A most interesting account of Chinese manners and customs at the close of the eighteenth century"; Lowendahl 697; Lust 545. (2)

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JUSTER, Norton (b. 1929). The Phantom Tollbooth. London: Collins, 1962. 8vo (221 x 150mm). Half title, illustrations by Jule

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Lot 386

JUSTER, Norton (b. 1929). The Phantom Tollbooth. London: Collins, 1962. 8vo (221 x 150mm). Half title, illustrations by Jules Feiffer, some full-page. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket with price of 15s. unclipped, map endpapers printed in blue (some chipping, mainly to head and foot of backstrip). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of this "beguiling contemporary fantasy about a little boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself" (from the turn-in) which was first published in New York in 1961.

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STOLLER, Friedrich Christian (1733-1807). Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen aus der innern und aukern Heilkunst mit Physiologisc

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Lot 502

STOLLER, Friedrich Christian (1733-1807). Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen aus der innern und aukern Heilkunst mit Physiologischen, Anatomischen und Praktischen Unmertungen nebst kupfern. Gotha: Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1777. 8vo (202 x 115mm). 3 folding engraved plates (browned and spotted throughout). Contemporary half calf and speckled boards, red edges (rather worn, some severe erosion to spine). Provenance: old stamp on title; old pencil note on verso of title; old ink library numbers on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. RARE.

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FOURCROY, Antoine François de (1755-1809). Élémens d' Histoire Naturelle et de Chimie. Cinquième Édition. Paris: Chez Cuchet

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Lot 449

FOURCROY, Antoine François de (1755-1809). Élémens d' Histoire Naturelle et de Chimie. Cinquième Édition. Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1793. 5 volumes, 8vo (198 x 117mm). Half titles, 9 folding tables at the end of vol. V, one of which printed on blue paper (stain to title of first vol., first few leaves of vol. II spotted and lightly browned, some light browning and spotting). Attractively bound in contemporary tree calf gilt, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands, remnants of silk ties (rubbed, some wear to head and feet of spines). The fifth, and final, edition of this celebrated text book. Neville I, p.4667; Partington III, p.537. (5)

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ADAMS, John (1735-1826, second President of the United States). A "free frank" signed and inscribed by John Adams, "Mr Arthur

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Lot 301

ADAMS, John (1735-1826, second President of the United States). A "free frank" signed and inscribed by John Adams, "Mr Arthur M Walter, J. Adams, New York," and stamped "Free" and "BOSTON", with a further inscription in a different hand at the top, "A Frank of John Adams, President of the United States of America, about 1799," trimmed to near inscription, dimensions of frank 60 x 100mm, pasted onto an album leaf, with a printed note to the side relating to the salary of the President and others. Pasted onto the leaf beneath the frank is an engraved portrait of George Washington, and two small original drawings by Alexander Anderson; the first, an oval drawing of a skull, headed "Geo. Washington," dimensions 40 x 30mm, with an inscription beside stating, "General Washington, Drawn before his death, the supposed appearance of Washington's Head after death, sketched by Dr Alexander Anderson, Physician and surgeon, New York," with, beneath, a self-portrait of the artist, dimensions 49 x 37mm, inscribed, "Dr Alexander Anderson, his own likeness by himself." On the verso of the leaf are 6 unrelated items including 4 envelopes, one inscribed by King William IV as Duke of Clarence, the overall dimensions of the leaf 380 x 270mm. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), in addition to being a resident physician at Bellevue Hospital, New York, was one of America's earliest engravers. In later life, he set up his own bookshop in the same city specialising in children's books, many of which he engraved himself. Please see the provenance information for the album in the following lot, from which this leaf was extracted.

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PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733-1804). Expériences et Observations sur Différentes Branches de la Physique, translated by Jacques Gi

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Lot 486

PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733-1804). Expériences et Observations sur Différentes Branches de la Physique, translated by Jacques Gibelin. Paris: Nyon, 1782-83. 3 volumes, 12mo (163 x 95mm). Half titles in vols. I and II, 2 folding engraved plates (one plate lightly stained). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Cf. Norman 1750. (3)

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RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1794-1867). Neueste Phytochemische Entdeckungen zur Begrundung einer wissenschaftlichen Phytoche

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Lot 494

RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1794-1867). Neueste Phytochemische Entdeckungen zur Begrundung einer wissenschaftlichen Phytochemie. Berlin: Gedruckt und Verlegt bei G. Reimer, 1820. 2 volumes bound in one, 8vo (200 x 118mm). 4 folding tables, 4 folding engraved plates at the end. Contemporary marbled boards, spine with red and green morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION.

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RABIQUEAU, Charles (fl. 1753-83). Le Spectacle du Feu Elementaire, ou Cours d' Electricité Expérimentale. Paris: Chez Jomber

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Lot 489

RABIQUEAU, Charles (fl. 1753-83). Le Spectacle du Feu Elementaire, ou Cours d' Electricité Expérimentale. Paris: Chez Jombert (and others), 1753. 8vo (178 x 115mm). "Avis" and errata leaf after title, woodcut ornaments, 10 folding engraved plates (plates unbound and, with the text block, detached from binding). Contemporary boards, title in old manuscript on spine (stained). Provenance: "D. Chauchol Curé d' Issurtille" (old inscription on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Wheeler Gift 381: "Experiments on the nature and effects of the electric discharge in illustration of the author's views."

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HARRIS, Stanley (dates unknown). The Coaching Age. London: Richard Bentley, 1885. Large 8vo (220 x 140mm). Tinted lithograph

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Lot 377

HARRIS, Stanley (dates unknown). The Coaching Age. London: Richard Bentley, 1885. Large 8vo (220 x 140mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece and 15 plates by John Sturgess, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 3 additional plates at the front, one double-page and coloured by hand (some light mainly marginal browning). Later red crushed morocco by Pomey with a coach design inlaid on front cover of five different coloured moroccos (upper cover detached, scuff mark to upper cover, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Rittenhouse 35: "a good general history of the origin, routes, methods and equipment of early British coaching."

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INGENHOUSZ, Jan or John INGEN-HOUSZ (1730-99). Miscellanea physico-medica. Edidit Joannes Andreas Scherer. Vienna: Typis &am

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Lot 385

INGENHOUSZ, Jan or John INGEN-HOUSZ (1730-99). Miscellanea physico-medica. Edidit Joannes Andreas Scherer. Vienna: Typis & Impensis A. A. Patzowsky, 1795. 8vo (205 x 125mm). Folding engraved plate, one-page of errata (title page reinforced at gutter). Contemporary or [?]original boards, spine with red morocco lettering-piece (rubbed and scuffed, more particularly to spine with some loss to lettering-piece). Provenance: illegible stamp at lower fore-corner of title and on verso of title); later pencil inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of "a series of [the author's] open letters to foreign savants, chiefly on questions of pneumatics" (DSB).

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SMEATON, John (1724-92). Recherches Expérimentales sur l' Eau et le Vent, considérés comme Forces Motrices, Applicables aux

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Lot 500

SMEATON, John (1724-92). Recherches Expérimentales sur l' Eau et le Vent, considérés comme Forces Motrices, Applicables aux Moulins et Autres Machines a Mouvement Circulaire, etc.; Suivies d' Expériences sur la Transmission du Mouvement et la Collision des Corps ... Ouvrage traduit de l' anglais, et précédé d' une Introduction; Par M. P. S. Girard. Paris: Chez Courcier, 1810. 4to (259 x 205mm). Half title, tables, 5 folding engraved plates (some very faint mainly marginal staining). Modern textured cloth. Provenance: Ex Libris Bibliotheca Alsatica. R. V. W. (modern label). First French edition of a work on air- and wind-powered machines by the 'father of civil engineering'.

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[FINCH, Heneage, Earl of Nottingham (1620-82, editor)]. An Exact and Impartial Accompt Of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial

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Lot 368

[FINCH, Heneage, Earl of Nottingham (1620-82, editor)]. An Exact and Impartial Accompt Of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (according to Law) of Twenty nine Regicides, the Murtherers Of His Late Sacred Majesty Of Most Glorious Memory ... Together with a Summary of the Dark, and Horrid Decrees of those Caballists, Preparatory to that Hellish Fact. London: Printed for Andrew Crook ... and Edward Powel, 1660. 4to (185 x 140mm). Woodcut head-pieces, woodcut ornament at the end (some minor marginal repairs to title, with loss of one letter, variable browning throughout, but more heavily at margins, occasional spotting, piece torn away from blank margin of [Cc2], Hh[1] torn without loss). Modern old-style half calf and marbled boards, new endpapers. Provenance: old annotation to p. 279; old manuscript remedy written upside-down on final text leaf. FIRST EDITION. STC N1403 (listed under "Nottingham"). With John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books (London, 1792, 8vo, engraved portrait and 10 plates, some detached, contemporary calf, rather worn). (2)

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GÜTLE, Johann Conrad (1747-1827). Beschreibung und Abbildung einer neu eingerichteten sehr wirksamen elektrischen einfachen

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Lot 456

GÜTLE, Johann Conrad (1747-1827). Beschreibung und Abbildung einer neu eingerichteten sehr wirksamen elektrischen einfachen Glasscheibenmaschine zur Hervorbringung beider Elektrizitäten. Nuremberg: Adam Gottlieb Schneider und Weigel, 1811. 8vo (176 x 100mm). Large folding engraved plate (text browned and spotted but plate generally clean). Modern cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION.

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MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) ["Monty"]. A one-page autograph letter written in tur

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Lot 397

MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) ["Monty"]. A one-page autograph letter written in turquoise ink, on pale blue paper headed: 'From: Field Marshall The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... Chateau de Courance, Milly, Seine-et-Oise, France,' dated, "15 May 1951," stating, "Dear Mr Bamfield, I would like to thank you for the efficient and courteous mammer[sic] in which you handle at Odiham my visits to Continental Europe. My duties as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, keep me constantly travelling by air; your kindly consideration makes my journeys less of a burden than they would otherwise be. Thank you, Yrs. sincerely, Montgomery of Alamein, F.M." (240 x 185mm.), framed and glazed. With The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. (London, Collins, 1958, original cloth, dust-jacket (piece torn away from foot of backstrip but retained), FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, in turquoise ink, "Inscribed by Montgomery of Alamein, F.M., March 1961." (2) Condition Report 1. The letter - 31.5cm x 26.5cm overall in a wood frame, some disclouring to the top area of the letter, o/w. reasonable and clean condition; 2. The Memoirs - d/wrapper with clean edge tears lower r.h. and top l.h, the wrapper with loss lower spine, a small piece detached but present, some discolouring to the edges of the dustwrapper inner front and back flaps, light spotting and marks to front and back e/ps. o/w. clean internally.

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[GOOS, Pieter (c. 1616-75)]. Pascaerte van Westindien de Vaste Kusten en de Eylanden. [Amsterdam: c. 1666]. Hand-coloured en

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Lot 373

[GOOS, Pieter (c. 1616-75)]. Pascaerte van Westindien de Vaste Kusten en de Eylanden. [Amsterdam: c. 1666]. Hand-coloured engraved sea chart, title cartouche supported by two native figures, inset chart of the north coast of Cuba, two compass roses (trimmed close to engraved frame at lower edge), 440 x 535mm., unframed. A rare chart of the present Gulf of Mexico, extending from Florida and Virginia in the north (both named) to Venezuela in the south. Burden The Mapping of North America 389: "This chart of the West Indies and south-east North America is one of the derivatives of the Hessel Gerritsz c. 1631 … In some ways it follows more than most the original by Gerritsz, as it is the first to include the inset of the north-west coast of Cuba. However, it emulates the van Loon, 1661 in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Doncker, 1659, in its inclination of the south-east coastline. Here, though, Goos has dramatically improved the scale and depiction of the Outer Banks."

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STURM, Johann Christoph (1635-1703). Collegium experimentale, sive curiosum in quo primaria seculi superioris inventa &

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Lot 504

STURM, Johann Christoph (1635-1703). Collegium experimentale, sive curiosum in quo primaria seculi superioris inventa & experimenta physico-mathematico. Nuremberg: Sumptibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, Typis Johannis Ernesti Adelbulneri, 1701. 2 parts bound in one volume including "Addenda", 4to (201 x 162mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations and diagrams, some full-page (minor worming to first few leaves, occasional light spotting and staining, ending rather abruptly at Ii4, p.256). Contemporary speckled calf (rubbed, some staining). Second edition. A 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 second, a diving bell. cf. Graesse VI, 517; not in Brunet. With the same author's Epistola qua de ipsus principio hylarchico seu spiritu naturae. Familiari modernis hydrostaticis aëris gravitatione & elatere (Nuremberg, 1715, 2 parts including appendix [bound with the same author's:] Iridis admiranda sub rationis accuratius examen revocata (Nuremberg, 1699), uniformly-bound with the first book (as if they are two volumes of the same work, as they are sometimes considered - please see the following lot where the works are bound together). Sold not subject to return. (2)

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CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine, Comte de Chanteloup (1756-1832). Chimie Appliquée aux Arts. Paris: De l' Imprimerie de Crapelet, [180

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Lot 441

CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine, Comte de Chanteloup (1756-1832). Chimie Appliquée aux Arts. Paris: De l' Imprimerie de Crapelet, [1807]. 4 volumes, 8vo (198 x 122mm). Half titles, 12 folding engraved plates, tables (large piece torn away from the foot of each title page with resultant loss of part of imprint and year of publication, variable mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf-backed paper boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow edges (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. Duveen p. 130; Partington III, 55: "One of the best treatises on technical chemistry of its time. The preface contains some economic and political considerations which are still true"; not in Brunet. (4)

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[MONTUCLA, Jean Etienne (1725-99)]. Histoire des Recherches sur la Quadrature du Cercle; Ouvrage propre à instruire des déco

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Lot 476

[MONTUCLA, Jean Etienne (1725-99)]. Histoire des Recherches sur la Quadrature du Cercle; Ouvrage propre à instruire des découverres réelles faites sur ce problême célébre, & servir à de préservatif contre de nouveaux efforts pour le réfoudre. Paris: Chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1754. 12mo (166 x 97mm). 8 folding engraved plates (some dark spots, occasionally affecting letters, some leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges (some cracking to covers, extremities rubbed, old repairs to corners). Provenance: "Hoc opus sine Autore permittitur à Dominis Inquisitoribus: Barcinone IS Magistri 1765, Jacobus [?]Bou, Soc. Jesu Fidei censor" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Barbier II, 764; Brunet II, 581: "Cet ouvrage curieux était devenu rare ..."; Poggendorff II, 198.

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SPENGLER, Joseph (1736-76). Optick Catoptrick und Dioptrick in Zween Theilen. Augsburg: In verlag bey Matthaus Rieger und Gu

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Lot 501

SPENGLER, Joseph (1736-76). Optick Catoptrick und Dioptrick in Zween Theilen. Augsburg: In verlag bey Matthaus Rieger und Guehnen, 1775. 8vo (192 x 120mm). Title within woodcut typographical border, 14 folding engraved plates, initials and ornaments, tables (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks], some mainly light spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary speckled boards, old manuscript label on spine (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: early ink annotation to front pastedown and some faint pencil annotation to plates. FIRST EDITION. The author taught mathematics at the Jesuit University at Dillingen and was also a Jesuit priest. De Backer & Sommervogel Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus VII, 1435; Poggendorff II, 970.

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LEMERY, Nicholas (1645-1715). Cours de Chymie contenant la Maniere de Faire les Operations Qui sont en usage dans la Médecin

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Lot 468

LEMERY, Nicholas (1645-1715). Cours de Chymie contenant la Maniere de Faire les Operations Qui sont en usage dans la Médecine, par une Méthode facile ... Nouvelle Edition. Paris: chez Laurent-Charles d' Houry, 1756. 4to (253 x 200mm). Half title, small woodcut device on title, headpieces, initials, ornaments and an illustration of a chemist at work on A[i], 9 folding engraved plates at the end (hole in blank area of first plate, stain to upper fore-corner of first few leaves affecting half title and title, occasional spotting and staining, a few darker spots, a few leaves lightly browned). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and 5 raised bands, red edges (joints creased, rubbed and cracked, with some scratch marks). Duveen pp. 347-49; Ferguson II, 22; Norman 1329; Wellcome III, 486.

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STORCK, Anton von (1731-1803). Supplementum necessarium de cicuta, ubi simul jungitur cucutae imago, aerb excusa. Vienna: Ty

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Lot 503

STORCK, Anton von (1731-1803). Supplementum necessarium de cicuta, ubi simul jungitur cucutae imago, aerb excusa. Vienna: Typis Joannis Thomae Trattner, 1761. 8vo (188 x 115mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpieces and ornaments, folding engraved plate (title and text leaves lightly browned throughout). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with tan morocco lettering-piece and raised bands (worn at head and foot of spine, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: old library label pasted to binding and stamp on title. FIRST EDITION of this work on the medicinal properties of hemlock.

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HEITZMANN, Julius (1847-1922, illustrator) & Hermann von ZEISSL (1817-84). Chromolithographische Tafeln Grösstentheils n

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Lot 460

HEITZMANN, Julius (1847-1922, illustrator) & Hermann von ZEISSL (1817-84). Chromolithographische Tafeln Grösstentheils nach Eigenen Original-Zeichnungen ... Als Beilage zu Prof. Dr. H. Zeissl's Lehrbuch der Syphilis und der mit Dieser Verwandten Ortlichen Venerischen Krankheiten. Stuttgart: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1875. Small 4to (237 x 162mm). 29 chromolithographed plates by Julius Heitzmann (some light marginal browning). Original yellow printed wrappers (corners and backstrip a little creased). FIRST EDITION of this graphic work on the effects of syphilis.

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DE VILMORIN, André (1907-87). Essai sur Louise de Vilmorin ... Avant-propos de Jean Cocteau. Bibliographie, portraits, fac-s

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Lot 362

DE VILMORIN, André (1907-87). Essai sur Louise de Vilmorin ... Avant-propos de Jean Cocteau. Bibliographie, portraits, fac-similés. [Vienne:] Poètes d' Aujourd'hui. Editions Pierre Seghers, 1962. Small 4to (157 x 130mm). Half title, half tone illustrations. Contemporary full crushed pink morocco by P. Strubin, spine gilt with raised bands, top edges gilt, original pictorial wrappers bound in (upper wrapper creased). FIRST EDITION, the half title inscribed, "A ma Katy cherie de tout coeur son amie, Louise [i.e. Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, with her characteristic ink floral flourish], Je t' embrace. Je te remercie. A mardi [smaller floral motif]", with a further ink floral motif in pen on the upper wrapper. Loosely-inserted is a signed autograph card from Katy, the recipient of this copy, to the vendor ("Louise was my best friend; there is hardly a day that passes without me thinking of her. Hoping you will love her magic books. Always, Katy"). Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (1902-69), French novelist and poet. With 8 other books including Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (Paris, 1917, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco, limited edition), Alfred de Musset's Poésies (Paris, 1925, attractively bound in red half calf, limited edition), the same author's Lorenzaccio (Paris, [n.d.], illustrated by "Barte", pictorial morocco, limited edition) and Jean Giraudoux's Hélène & Touglas ou les Joies de Paris (Paris, 1925, attractively bound in morocco-backed velvet boards, limited edition). (9)

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BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob (1779-1848). Lehrbuch der Chemie. Dresden & Leipzig: in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1835-41. 10

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Lot 433

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob (1779-1848). Lehrbuch der Chemie. Dresden & Leipzig: in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1835-41. 10 volumes, 8vo (220 x 130mm). 12 folding engraved plates, tables, diagrams. Attractively bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance: F. I. Hinze (red stamps on title). FIRST EDITION. (10)

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GEGENBAUR, Carl (1826-1903). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Schwimmpolypen (Siphonophoren) ... Mit drei lithographirten

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Lot 451

GEGENBAUR, Carl (1826-1903). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Schwimmpolypen (Siphonophoren) ... Mit drei lithographirten Tafeln. Lepizig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1854. Folio (303 x 225mm). 3 folding lithographed plates [as called for] numbered XVI, XVII (bound upside-down) and XVIII (occasional mainly marginal light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Later library buckram (a few ink spots). Provenance: Zoolog. Institut, Leipzig (library label at foot of spine and stamp on title and at a few margins); 1409 Jubilaumsgabe 1909 Leipziger Verleger [followed by a list of publishers] (elaborate etched bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The author was a German anatomist and academic who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offered important evidence supporting the theory of evolution.

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BRIOT, Charles Auguste (1817-82). Théorie des Fonctions Abéliennes. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. 4to (270 x 215mm). Half t

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Lot 437

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 honour him for this work, the Göttingen Academy named him acorresponding member" (DSB).

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BURCHARDT, Augustus (dates unknown). Observationes anatomicae de uteri vaccini fabrica. Dissertatio inauguralis quam consens

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Lot 438

BURCHARDT, Augustus (dates unknown). Observationes anatomicae de uteri vaccini fabrica. Dissertatio inauguralis quam consensu gratiosi medicorum ordinis Basileensis pro summis ibn medicina, chirurgia et arte obstetricia honoribus rite impetrandis. Basel: In Libraria Schweighauseriana Typis Aug. Wielandi, Typogr. Acad., 1854. 4to (251 x 202mm). 2 folding lithographed plates, one of which hand-coloured (variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original printed upper wrapper, the second plate serving as the lower wrapper (lightly spotted and stained). FIRST EDITION.

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MARITIME - H.M.S. VENGEANCE & H.M.S. KING EDWARD VII, SHIP'S LOGS - [Title on spine of the first volume:] "Log of H.M.S.

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Lot 393

MARITIME - H.M.S. VENGEANCE & H.M.S. KING EDWARD VII, SHIP'S LOGS - [Title on spine of the first volume:] "Log of H.M.S. Vengeance. 1906-1908." [& on spine of the second volume:] "Journal of H.M. Ships Vengeance and King Edward VII 1908-1909". [Printed title:] (King's Regulations, Article 291.) Mr. [in manuscript: "C.M.R. Schwerdt, Midshipman, R.N." [printed:] Period: [in manuscript:] "May 15th, 1906 [-July 9th, 1909]." 2 volumes, folio (315 x 202mm). Extensive ship's log printed in red and black. EXCEPTIONALLY FINELY BOUND in brown armorial crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, spines lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands, dentelles, gilt edges. RICHLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. The first volume includes the following original pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours bound in (various sizes, but many full-page): 1) "Fore part of Main Deck ..."; 2) "After part of main deck ..."; 3) double-page chart captioned, "May - July 1906. Chart of Last Period of Manoevres[sic]"; 4) "Belleville boilers"; 5) "... profile showing firearms"; 6) chart of Portland Harbour; 7) ventilation and fan system; 8) "Fore part of Mark IV. R.G.F. Torpedo"; 9) "After part of Mark IV. R.G.F. Torpedo"; 10) "Servomotor"; 11) "Plan of Bantry Bay with Berehaven"; 12) "Sketch of XII inch B.L. gun mark VIII"; 13) "6 inch Mark II steel and wire gun"; 14) "H.M.S. Dreadnought"; 15) "Pontevedra and Vigo Bays"; 16) "Screw propeller"; 17) "Plan of tactical or war manoeuvres ... outside Arosa Bay"; 18) "Controlling ram and recoil cilynder[sic]"; 19) "India rubber disc valve"; 20) "Tactical manoeuvres ... outside Lagos (5 plans)"; 21) "6 inch guns"; 22) "Devonport and Hamoaze"; 23) "Profile ... showing armoured portions"; 24) "Yarmouth Haven"; 25) "Balance chamber R.G.F. Torpedo" (2 drawings); 26) "Plan of lightning conductor H.M.S. Formidable"; 27) "Firth of Forth"; 28) "Cromarty & Inverness Firths"; 29) double-page "Track chart for summer cruise 1907"; 30) "Non return valve"; 31) "Mounting"; 32) "Morning swivel"; 33) "Track chart for November"; 34) "H.M.S. Hero experiments"; 35) 3 watercolours including one of a collision. The second volume includes the following original pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours bound in: 1) pictorial title incorporating H.M.S. Vengeance; 2) "Track chart for January"; 3) "Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour"; 4) "Sketch of Bantry Harbour"; 5) "Chart of Manoeuvres March-April"; 6) "Chart ... 1908"; 7) "Chart of south of Norway and Christiana"; 8) "Track chart ... 1908"; 9) "Track chart ... 1909" (2); 10) "Plan of damaged roller path"; 11) "Roller path of a turret"; 12) "Section of a cable holder"; 13) two electric bells; 14) different types of rigging (2); 15) watercolour of the ship; 16) "Gunlayers targets"; 17) "Christiana harbour"; 18) "Anchorage of blue fleet"; 19) "Rudder"; 20) "Ahead and astern turbine"; 21) "Battle Practice 1908"; 22) "Pulling regatta"; 23) "Diagram showing the effect of six shots from 6" guns"; 24) "Method of towing"; 25) "Coaling arrangements"; 26) "Midship section"; 27) "Attack on the Verne fort 1908"; 28) "New French armoured cruisers 'Diderot' and 'Condoret'"; 29) "Section of warhead"; 30) "Sketch of lower mast head"; 31) "... alongside CI coaling depot"; 32) "Plan of net defence"; 33) "Kingston valve"; 34) "section through gun port"; 35) "Gunlayers-test"; 36) "Picket boat"; 37) "Latest German battleship 'Nassau Class'"; 38) "Ventilation box valve"; 39) autograph booklet titled "Summer manoeuvres 1908", signed by C.M.R. Schwerdt. With a folder containing letters and ephemeral items relating to Schwerdt. (3)

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LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick (1915-2011). The Violins of Saint Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles. London: John Murray, 1953. 8vo (216

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Lot 391

LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick (1915-2011). The Violins of Saint Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles. London: John Murray, 1953. 8vo (216 x 138mm). Half title, wood-engraved illustrations (some very light mainly marginal spotting). Original green cloth, map endpapers, dust-jacket with price unclipped (head and foot of backstrip a little frayed). FIRST EDITION of the author's only novel. With E. H. Shepard's Drawn from Memory (London, 1957, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (2)

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MAYGRIER, Jacques-Philippe (1771-1834). Nouvelles Démonstrations d' Accouchemens, Avec des planches en taille-douce, accompa

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Lot 474

MAYGRIER, Jacques-Philippe (1771-1834). Nouvelles Démonstrations d' Accouchemens, Avec des planches en taille-douce, accompagnées d' un texte raisonné, propre à en faciliter l' explication. Paris: Béchet, 1822 [-26]. Folio (408 x 265mm). 80 stipple-engraved plates by Forestier and Couché fils after Antoine Chazel, one folding and numbered as 2 (XXVII and XVIII) (lacks the portrait of the author [which is often absent and not mentioned in Brunet], occasional mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary green morocco-backed paper boards (rubbed and scuffed, corners rather worn). FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 331 (citing the second edition of 1840); Heirs of Hippocrates 1261; Waller 6375; Wellcome IV, 91.

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PLATH, Sylvia (1932-63). The Colossus. [Title on dust-jacket:] The Colossus and other poems. London: Heinemann, 1960. 8vo (

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Lot 404

PLATH, Sylvia (1932-63). The Colossus. [Title on dust-jacket:] The Colossus and other poems. London: Heinemann, 1960. 8vo (215 x 135mm). Half title (half title lightly spotted, a few very faint spots and stains). Original green buckram, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket (very faint white stain to lower fore-corner of the upper cover, dust-jacket very faintly spotted, price clipped). RARE FIRST EDITION of the author's first published collection of poetry and the only one published in her lifetime. She committed suicide three years later. "Sylvia Plath is a young American poetess whose work has already appeared widely in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. The Colossus is her first published volume. Technical assurance, acute awareness of the natural world, a rich yet precise vocabulary, and the unforced marrying of impulse and craftsmanship are the outstanding features of this collection. Its appearance should cause considerable interest" (publisher's note from the front turn-in). "The Colossus established [Plath's] credentials: it contained a handful of beautiful poems, but more important was the sheer ability of the work, the precision and concentration with which she handled language, the unemphatic range of vocabulary, her ear for subtle rhythms, and her assurance in handling and subduing rhymes and half-rhymes. Obviously, she had now developed the craft to cope with anything that arrived" (A. Alvarez, The Savage God. A Study of Suicide (1971), p. 11). Tabor A2a. [Plath's poem "A Winter Ship" had been privately-printed in Edinburgh by the Tragara Press in July 1960 in pamphlet form in an edition of approximately 60 copies, for distribution amongst her friends. In his bibliography of the poet, Stephen Tabor assigns it precedence over The Colossus and lists it as A1.]

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BINDINGS - Charles DICKENS (1812-70). A Tale of Two Cities. London: Macmillan, 1913. 8vo (183 x 122mm). Half title, wood-eng

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Lot 314

BINDINGS - Charles DICKENS (1812-70). A Tale of Two Cities. London: Macmillan, 1913. 8vo (183 x 122mm). Half title, wood-engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Attractively bound in contemporary burgundy prize calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments. With 35 other literary works, a few incomplete, including a very worn copy of Charles Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (London, 1837, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM), all bound in calf or morocco gilt. The lot sold not subject to return. (36)

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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with Charter-Ho

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Lot 300

ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. London: Printed for and Published by R. Ackermann, 1816. 4to (336 x 275mm). Text by W. Combe and W. H. Pyne, 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Westall, Mckenzie, Pugin and others (plates lightly offset onto text, some very light spotting, but plates generally very clean). Contemporary panelled calf gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Richard William Penn Earl Howe (armorial bookplate); catalogue description laid down on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, with issue-point plates in the following states: "Winchester College, from the Meadow" dated Jan. 1, 1815; "Westminster School-Room" with bareheaded Masters; and "Charter-House, from the Play-Ground" depicting a cricket match. Abbey Scenery 438; Hardie p. 311; Prideaux pp. 126 & 332; Tooley 3.

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JOULE, James Prescott (1818-89). [In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCL. Part I.

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Lot 465

JOULE, James Prescott (1818-89). [In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCL. Part I.] III. On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat ... Received June 6, - Read June 21, 1849 (pages 61-82). London: Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1850. 4to (300 x 230mm). Tables. Original printed wrappers (upper wrapper and title detached, light stain to upper wrapper, some fraying and creasing to backstrip, corners a little eroded). Provenance: later stamps on title and occasionally internally. FIRST EDITION OF JOULE'S HIGHLY IMPORTANT PAPER. "Joule began work about 1845 on a fourth method for determining the mechanical value of heat. His latest efforts received a polite but unremarkable reception at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. This time the experiments involved a paddle wheel placed in a can filled with water. Weights attached over pulleys working in opposite directions communicated motion to the paddle wheel. Joule argued that 'the force spent in revolving the paddle wheel produced a certain increment in the temperature of the water'..." (DNB). In honour of the scientist, the name "joule" was given to the derived unit of energy equal to the energy transferred to an object when a force of one newton acts on that object in the direction of the force's motion through a distance of one metre. In the same volume is Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity (No. VII, pages 171-188).

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