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Click here to subscribePolar.- Franklin (Captain John) Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827, first edition, 5 folding maps only (of 6), 31 engraved plates, lacks map 5, minor repairs to 2 maps without loss, ownership signature on title, inscriptions on preliminaries, 20th century half morocco, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps, 4to, 1828.
---. Hall (Captain Charles Francis) Life with the Esquimaux, 2 vol. in 1, folding map, illustrations, 1864 ~ Peary (Robert E.) The North Pole, plates, 1910 ~ Wild (Frank) Shackleton's Last Voyage, colour frontispiece, maps, plates, 1923, first mentioned modern morocco-backed buckram, rest modern binder's cloth; and 8 others, Polar, v.s. (11).
---. Nansen (Fridtjof) The First Crossing of Greenland, 2 vol., maps, 3 folding, illustrations, folding maps marginally defective and linen-mounted, occasional slight soiling, 1890; "Farthest North", 2 vol., 2 folding colour maps, plates, 8 colour, 1897, first English editions, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplates and stamps, 8vo (4).
---. Smith (Charles) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, first edition, folding map, 5 folding plates, 3 double-page and folding, small hole in border of map, short tear in map and 1 plate without loss, bookplate of Frederick Cobbe Pitman, contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, head of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Dublin, Printed by A.Reilly for the Author, 1746.
---. Smith (Charles) The Antient and Present State of the County of Kerry, first edition, folding map, 5 folding plates, short tear in map and 1 plate without loss, neat early ownership signature on title, contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled with red morocco label, contained in a cloth foldover box, bookplate removed, morocco label, 8vo, Dublin, Printed for the Author, 1756.
---. [West (William, bookseller)] Tavern Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses,... By One of the Old School, first edition, folding frontispiece, browned, shaved at foot, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, [1825] ~ Taylor (Joseph) Antiquitates Curiosae: the Etymology of many Remarkable Old Sayings, Proverbs, and Singular Customs, title in red & black with vignette, uncut in recent calf, 1819, 8vo (2).
Muilman (Peter) A New and Complete History of Essex, 6 vol., first edition, additional engraved title to vol.1 and 2 only, 51 engraved plates only (of 54) and 2 folding maps (of 3), a few tears, some marginal browning and staining, vol.4 with slight worming mostly to lower margin but touching some text, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, 8vo, Chelmsford, 1770-72.
Allen (Zachariah) Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature ... , signed presentation copy from the author to Edward Carrington inscribed on front free endpaper, advertisement leaf at beginning and end, illustrations, New York, 1852; Sketches of the State of the Useful Arts, and of Society, Scenery ... in Great-Britain, France and Holland. Or, the Practical Tourist, 2 vol., foxed, bookplate of Arnold Green on front paste-downs, Hartford and Providence, 1835, first editions, original cloth, the first a little worn at head and foot of spine, the second rubbed with spines worn and faded, joints split, 8vo (3).
Allen (Zachariah) Defence of the Rhode Island System of Treatment of the Indians, and of Civil and Religious Liberty, an Address, presentation label tipped in at title, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, 1876 ~ Perry (Amos) Memorial of Zachariah Allen 1795-1882, portrait, facsimiles of letters from Ojibway indians at end, Cambridge, 1883, first editions, original cloth, very slightly rubbed, 8vo (2).
Allen (Zachariah) Solar Light and Heat: The Source and the Supply. Gravitation: with explanations of planetary and molecular forces, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Samuel Powell inscribed on front free endpaper, illustrations, ex-Franklin Institute library copy with ink stamp on title and others leaves, original cloth, gilt, rubbed, library label on spine, another lacking, 8vo, New York, 1879.
Aristotle. Problematon [graece], 116 ff., Alexander Aphrodisaeus. Iatrikon Aphorematon kai Physikon Problematon [graece], 42 ff., Aristotle. Mechanika [graece], 12 ff., first edition, part only of the collected Aldine edition, printed in Greek throughout, occasional spotting, bookplate of John Alfred Spranger, Trinity College, Cambridge, contemporary brown calf over pasteboards, covers elaborately decorated in blind, 2 rolls, one including putti (one playing a lute), vases and foliage, the other including birds, animals and foliage, surround a central panel made up of 6 more rolls, worn, rebacked, corners with some repairs, folio, [BMC V 556-7; Goff A 959; GW 2334], [Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1 June, 1497].*** Part of vol. 4 of the great Aldine Aristotle, the editio princeps of 'the first major Greek prose text to be reintroduced in the original to the western world by the intervention of the printing press'. [PMM 38].
Atwood (George) A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies ... , first edition, errata leaf, 8 folding engraved plates, some foxing, ex-library copy with ink stamps of Royal Astronomical Society and Spitalfields Mathematical Society on title, modern half calf, spine gilt, 8vo, Cambridge, 1784.
Babcock & Wilcox. Patent Stationary Steam Engine, Built at Hope Iron Works, Providence, R.I., promotional sheet with engraved illustrations (lithographic transfer) of the first successful water-tube boiler, sheet 270 x 445mm., decorative border, 1870 ~ King Iron Bridge & Mnf'g Co., Cleveland, Ohio, promotional sheet, 270 x 325mm., with details and testimonials recto and a chromolithograph of 5 types of bridge verso, old folds, c.1876 ~ Hubbard's Patent Rotary Pump and Engine, promotional broadside, sheet 370 x 250mm., with directions for use, testimonials and an illustration, discolouration along right margin, Boston, 1848 ~ Ullman (Louis) "Hygro-Barometer!" or Natural "Weather Indicator", advertising poster, 470 x 310mm., with testimonials, New Haven, c.1865 ~ Smith's Illustrated Astronomy, advertising poster, 470 x 290mm., large white-on-black wood-engraved illustration of eclipses, old folds, slight offsetting, New York, c.1860; and a notice of available land and factory sites in New York, c.1870s (6).
Barlow (Peter) A New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary ... , first edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, diagrams in text, lightly spotted, modern boards, uncut, a little rubbed, splits to joints, 8vo, 1814. *** Including a detailed description of Boulton and Watt's steam engine.
Barlow (Peter) Experiments on the Transverse Strength and Other Properties of Malleable Iron, with reference to its uses for railway bars; and a Report ... addressed to the Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, title soiled, modern half calf, 1835; Second Report ... , illustrations, contemporary cloth, a little rubbed, rebacked in calf, new endpapers, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], 1835, first editions, the first Arthur Elton's copy with his bookplate on verso of title, the second with library stamp on last few leaves, [Skempton 64 & 65], 8vo (2).
Barlow (Peter) Second Report addressed to the Directors and Proprietors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company ... , presentation copy from the author to E.Hodgkinson inscribed at head of upper wrapper, half-title, illustrations, original upper printed wrapper (soiled), lower wrapper renewed, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, 1835 ~ Lecount (Lt. Peter) An Examination of Professor Barlow's Reports on Iron Rails, folding lithographed frontispiece (detached) and 1 other plate, errata tipped in at end, modern boards, a little rubbed, London and Birmingham, [1836], first editions, [Skempton 65 & 837], 8vo (2). *** The second item criticizes Barlow's calculations in his two reports.
Belidor (Bernard Forest de) Dictionnaire Portatif de l'Ingenieur, first edition, a3 partly loose, flyleaf loose, early ownership inscription 'Maurper ch'ne' on title and free endpaper, bookplate, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, small crack in hinge, 8vo, Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1755.
Bernoulli (Daniel) Recherches sur la Maniere la plus avantageuse de suppleer a l'action du Vent sur les grands Vaisseaux ... fondees sur une nouvelle Theorie de l'economie des forces & des effets, first separate edition, engraved plate, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, [Not in NUC], 4to, [Paris], 1753.
Bigelow (Jacob) Elements of Technology, taken chiefly from a course of lectures delivered at Cambridge ... , first edition, 22 engraved or woodcut plates, some folding, illustrations, plate 1 lightly offset on title, some foxing, signature of Joseph Hale Abbott on front free endpaper, upper hinge broken, original cloth, uncut, rather worn and faded, splits to joints, 8vo, Boston, 1829.
Black (Joseph) Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, edited by John Robison, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait and 3 plates, vol.2 with Y & Z gatherings mispaginated but complete and with Index at end (not present in all copies), some underlinings and annotations in ink, bookplate of George James Alexander on front paste-down, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, 4to, Edinburgh, 1803. *** Including the first appearance of Black's discovery of latent heat.
Bordoni (Antonio) Nota di Stereotomia Sopra i Cunei dei Ponti in Isbieco, original printed pink wrappers with Greek key border, uncut, Milan, 1826; Sull'acqua Uscente da una Bocca Opuscolo, contemporary blue wrappers, uncut, paper label on spine, Pavia, 1846, first editions, each with folding engraved plate at end, foxed, 8vo (2). *** The first concerns the arches of bridges and the second the flow of water through an opening.
Bossut (Charles) A General History of Mathematics, first English edition, title soiled, modern cloth, 1803 ~ Pardies (Ignace Gaston) Short, but yet Plain Elements of Geometry, translated by John Harris, sixth edition, woodcut decorations, illustrations and diagrams, contemporary ink signature on front free endpaper, Kenney copy with small label on front paste-down, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], 1725, 8vo & 12mo (2).
Boulvin (Jules) The Entropy Diagram and its Applications, translated by Bryan Donkin, first English edition, 2 folding plates, title with ink stamp at head and browned, London and New York, 1898 ~ Routh (E.J.) A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle, Cambridge, 1898 ~ Dolbear (A.E.) Modes of Motion, advertisement leaf at beginning, illustrations, Boston, 1897, the last two first editions, original cloth, a little rubbed; and 3 others, physics, 8vo & 4to (6).
Boyle (Hon. Robert) Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some Hidden Qualities of the Air ... , 6 parts in 1 vol., first edition, lacking initial and final blanks but with Advertisement to the Binder leaf and its conjugate blank, Pt.6 (New Experiments) bound first (with its 4 preliminary leaves), Prefaces to Parts 4 (Animadversions) & 5 (Cause of Suction) bound before sub-titles, title slightly defective at inner margin with some loss to rules (repaired), a little soiled and browned, light water-staining to some leaves, final leaf reinforced at upper outer corner, modern calf-backed marbled boards, morocco gilt label, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.; Wing B4054; Fulton 119], 8vo, by W.G, to be sold by M.Pitt, 1674.
Boyle (Hon. Robert) New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, 3 parts in 1, third edition, half-title, 2 engraved plates, 1 folding, library marking erased from foot of half-title, by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, 1682, bound with A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical ... the I Part, first edition, 8 folding engraved plates, Oxford, by Henry Hall ... for Richard Davis, 1669, bound with A Continuation of New Experiments ... the Second Part, first edition, 5 folding engraved plates, by Miles Flesher, for Richard Davis, 1682, together 3 works in 1, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Fulton 15, 16 & 18], 4to *** Plate 5 of the second work depicts the experiment in which Boyle sucked up water to the top of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford with his pump.
Buquoy (Georg Franz August de Longueval) Prodromus zu einer neuen, verbesserten Darstellungsweise der hohern analytischen Dynamik, 2 parts, first edition, diagrams, original green printed wrappers, upper cover detached, backstrip joining the 2 parts together, preserved in modern calf-backed cloth drop-back box, 4to, Prague, 1842 [1844].
Clausius (Rudolf Julius Emmanuel) The Mechanical Theory of Heat, with its applications to the steam-engine and to the physical properties of bodies, edited by T.Archer Hirst, first English edition, presentation copy from the editor to William Rankine inscribed on front free endpaper, advertisement leaf at end, bookplate of William Rankine on front paste-down, original cloth, uncut, slightly rubbed, 8vo, 1867.
Clebsch (Rudolf Friedrich Alfred) Theorie der Elasticitat Fester Korper, half-title, some light foxing, contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, a little rubbed, Leipzig, 1862; De motu ellipsoidis in fluido incompressibili viribus quibuslibet impulsi. Dissertatio inauguralis physico-mathematica ... , foxed, disbound, preserved in modern calf-backed folder, Konigsberg, 1854, first editions, 8vo & 4to (2). *** The first describes a new approach to the theory of elasticity while the second is Clebsch's doctoral thesis written under the supervision of Franz Neumann.
Davy (Sir Humphry) The Collected Works ... , edited by John Davy, 9 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait, folding facsimile, frontispiece and 36 plates on 29 sheets, some folding, errata slips tipped into vol.4 & 5, some foxing, upper hinge of vol.1 split, bookplate of John Lancaster on front paste-downs, original blind-stamped cloth, spines a little faded, 8vo, 1839-40.*** Vol.1 contains Memoirs of the Life ... by John Davy.
Diesel (Rudolf) Theorie und Konstruktion eines rationellen Warmemotors ... , first edition, 3 folding plates, signature on title, Berlin, 1893; Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor, translated by Bryan Donkin, first English edition, 3 folding plates, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, London and New York, 1894, original cloth, 8vo
Drewry (Charles Stewart) A Memoir on Suspension Bridges, first edition, 7 folding and/or double-page lithographed plates, ex-Franklin Institute Library copy with ink and perforated stamp on title, ink stamps on other leaves, slight water-staining to head of title, lightly browned and spotted, modern half morocco, [Skempton 400], 1832 ~ Whipple (Squire) An Elementary and Practical Treatise on Bridge Building, second edition, frontispiece, 44pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine and recased, new endpapers, New York, 1873 ~ Dempsey (G.Drysdale) Tubular and other Iron Girder Bridges, particularly describing the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, 4pp. advertisements at beginning, wood-engraved illustrations, original limp cloth, paper label on upper cover, faded, 1850 ~ Welch (Charles) History of The Tower Bridge, frontispiece and illustrations, some soiling, ex-library copy with bookplates on front paste-down, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, 1894, all but the first rubbed, [the last two Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.]; and 3 others, bridges, 8vo & 4to (7).
Emerson (William) Mechanics; or the Doctrine of Motion, first edition, 9 folding plates, corners of first 5 ff, and edge of one plate restored, J.Nourse, 1769; The Projection of the Sphere, second edition, 12 folding plates, J.Nourse, 1769; The Laws of Centripetal and Centrifugal Force, 6 folding plates, without advertisment f. at end, [1769], 3 works in 1 vol., stained and marked, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, 8vo.
Euler (Leonhard) Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice, 2 vol., first edition, engraved head-piece and 32 plates, some foxing, vol.1 with light water-staining, ex-Signet Library copy with shelf-number in ink on front free endpapers and label on paste-downs stamped withdrawn, nineteenth century sprinkled calf, gilt, gilt Signet arms on covers, rebacked preserving old gilt spines and recornered, a little rubbed, preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back boxes, 4to, St.Petersburg, 1736. *** Famous work on mechanics by one of the outstanding mathematicians of all time.
Fairbairn (William) An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges ... , first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, 19 engraved or lithographed plates only (of 20, lacking plate 9), some with aquatint, all but 2 folding, illustrations, final 2 ff. of text (Letters from Mr. Ross) duplicated and bound into preface, frontispiece torn (no loss), some spotting, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1849.
Fairbairn (William) The Principles of Mechanism and Machinery of Transmission, second American edition, illustrations, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, browned, leaves brittle and frayed with some marginal tears and defects, title laid down, ex-library copy with stamps, modern half russet morocco, spine gilt, Philadelphia, 1871; Two Lectures on the Construction of Boilers, and on Boiler Explosions ... , illustrations, browned, brittle and chipped at edges, preserved in modern wrappers, cloth portfolio, 1851; Treatise on Iron Ship Building ... , first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 3 folding lithographed plates, illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, foxed, original cloth, rubbed and faded, rebacked, 1865, 8vo (3).
Frontinus (Sextus Julius) The Two Books on the Water Supply of the City of Rome, translated by Clemens Herschel, first English translation, frontispiece, folding maps and graphs, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little damp-stained, Boston, 1899 ~ Hero of Alexandria. The Pneumatics, translated by Bennet Woodcroft, additional decorative title, illustrations, ex-Institution of Naval Architects library copy with bookplate, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed and faded, 1851 ~ Archimedes. The Works, edited by T.L.Heath, half-title, diagrams, ex-library copy with perforated stamp on title, original cloth, Cambridge, 1897; and 7 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (10).
Fuss (Nicolaus) Versuch einer Theorie des Widerstandes zwey- und vierradriger Fuhrwerke, auf Fahrwegen jeder Art, first edition, engraved plate at end, small hole in title (no loss), browned, plate a little damp-stained, old paste-paper boards, paper labels on upper cover and spine, a little worn, 4to, Copenhagen, 1798. *** Proposing mathematical formulae for the resistance of wheeled vehicles on roads.
Girard (Pierre Simon) Traite Analytique de la Resistance des Solides, et des Solides d'Egale Resistance ... , first edition, half-title, errata leaf, 9 folding engraved plates at end, a few ink annotations in contemporary hand, one or two ink stains, lightly spotted, nineteenth century marbled boards, a little rubbed, rebacked in morocco, spine gilt, 4to, Paris, An VI [1798]. *** The first book published on the strength of materials, as well as the first practical treatise on elasticity.
Halley (Edmond) Correspondence and Papers ... , edited by Eugene Fairfield MacPike, first edition, Oxford, 1932 ~ [Conder (F.R.)] Personal Recollections of English Engineers, and of the introduction of the railway system into the United Kingdom, 1868 ~ Smiles (Samuel) The Autobiography, edited by Thomas Mackay, some spotting, New York, 1905, half-titles, the first and second with portraits, original cloth, slightly rubbed, the last with faded spine, [the last two not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], 8vo (5).
Harvey (William) The Anatomical Exercises ... concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood, 3 parts in 1, first English edition, minor foxing and soiling, contemporary mottled sheep, extremities worn, joints cracking, preserved in modern morocco-backed boards drop-back box, [Wing H1084; Wellcome III, p.219], 8vo, for Richard Lowndes ... and Math. Gilliflower, 1673.
Haupt (Herman) General Theory of Bridge Construction ... , 16 plates on 14 sheets, 4pp. advertisements at end, ?lacking half-title or frontispiece, New York, 1862; Street Railway Motors ... , half-title, 32pp. catalogue at end, Philadelphia & London, 1893; Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, edited by Frank Abial Flower, Limited Autograph Edition, one of 900 copies signed by the author, In Memoriam leaf tipped in after title, plates, n.p., privately printed, 1901, all ex-Franklin Institute Library copies with perforated stamp on titles and labels, original cloth, the last t.e.g., others uncut, the first rubbed and faded, 8vo (3).
Herschel (Clemens) Continuous, Revolving Drawbridges: the Principles of their Construction, first edition, 10 folding heliotype plates, diagrams, foxing, original cloth, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], Boston, 1875 ~ Barlow (Peter) A Treatise on the Strength of Timber, Cast and Malleable Iron, edited by I.F.Heather, 16 folding plates, all foxed, original cloth, 1851 ~ Beardslee (Lester Anthony) Experiments on the Strength of Wrought-Iron and of Chain-Cables, frontispiece, perforated and ink stamps of Franklin Institute, original cloth, spine ends chipped, New York, 1879, 8vo (3).
Hosack (David) Memoir of De Witt Clinton, portrait, inscribed 'For the Royal Society of Edinburgh from the author', little spotting, original cloth backed-boards, worn and marked, New York, 1829 ~ Weekly Register (The), vol III., plate, browned, contemporary tree-calf, rubbed, rebacked, Baltimore, 1812-1813 ~ Colden (Cadwallader D.) The Life of Robert Fulton, portrait, some foxing & staining, cutting from catalogue tipped-in to verso of title, modern cloth-backed boards, old paper covers laid-down, New York, 1817 ~ Rogers (William Barton) Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, 2 vol., plates, original cloth, Boston & New York, 1896, and 3 others, biographies, v.s. (8). *** The Addenda to the second item, 16pp., is devoted to Oliver Evans, inventor of the first American steam engine, with a plate of the Columbian Steam Engine.
Hutton (Charles) A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, 2 vol., first edition, 37 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams in text, slight stain to upper margin of first plate of vol.1, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, corners, joints and head and feet of spines repaired, new vol. no. labels, 4to, 1796-95. *** The first extensive English mathematical dictionary with biographical detail, including balloons, anemometers, diving bells, fire engines, electrical machines, microscopes, steam engines and canals.
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