STURM, Johann Christoph (1635-1703). Collegium experimentale, sive curiosum in quo primaria seculi inventa & experimenta physico-mathematica, Speciatum Campanae urinatoria, camerae obscurae, tubi Torricelliani, seu baroscopii, antliae pneumaticae, thermometrorum, hygroscopiorum, telescopiorum, microscopiorum & phenomena & effecta. Nuremberg: Sumptibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, & Johannis Andraeae Endteri Haeredum, 1676. 4 parts bound in one volume, 4to (200 x 160mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations and diagrams, some full-page (2 substantial sections misbound, variable but mainly light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate with motto "In promptu"; modern label of E. N. da C. Andrade on front free endpaper; contemporary note in Latin about the misbinding problem in this copy ("Culpa [?]Bibliopegi ...") before the third part. FIRST EDITION of this fascinating compendium of experiment and invention and including, on p. 64 of the first part, a full-page engraving of a flying machine and, on p. 4 of the third, a diving bell. Grasse VI, 517; not in Brunet.
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SUE, Pierre (1739-1816). Histoire du Galvanisme; et Analyse des Différens ouvrages publiés sur cette découverte, depuis son origine jusqu' à ce jour. Paris: Chez Bernard, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo (193 x 122mm). Half titles, folding engraved plate of an electrical experiment [inserted from another work] at the end of vol. II, 16-pages of publisher's advertisements (dated January 1804) at the end of vol. one, errata leaf at the end of vol. II, the following leaf, unusually, with "spare" printed paper spine labels for each vol. printed side by side (title page to the first vol. spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Attractively-bound in contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces and with classical urns and ceiling rose ornaments stamped in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Doctor P. A. Créhange (modern bookplate). FIRST EDITION. (2)
SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637-80). Histoire Générale des Insectes. Ou l' on expose clairement la manière lente & presqu' insensible de l' accroissement de leurs mebres & où l' on découvre évidemment l' Erreur où l' on tombe d' ordinaire au sujet de leur prétendué transformation. Utrecht: Chez Jean Ribbius, 1685. 4to (193 x 147mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpieces and initials, folding letterpress table, 13 engraved plates, one of which folding, 7 of which double-page (some mainly marginal light browning, occasional very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots, without the instructions to the binder leaf at the end recorded in some copies). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers (neatly rebacked preserving old spine, extremities rubbed, some light staining). Provenance: later faint "ex-libris" stamp on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, but [?]second state with Ribbius imprint. Brunet IV, 369; Dibner 191; Krivatsy 11602; Nissen ZBI 4054; Norman 2037.
SWITZER, Stephen (1682-1745). An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical. Wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting Water, for the watering Nobelmens and Gentlemens Seats, Buildings, Gardens, &c. are carefully (and in a Manner not yet publish'd in any Language) laid down. London: Printed for T. Astley (and others), 1729. 2 volumes, 4to (246 x 200mm). Engraved frontispiece, historiated initials and headpieces, tables, and 61 engraved plates, all but one folding (plates 8 and 9 bound out of sequence, 2 plates torn without loss, one text leaf torn without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked with later old-style spines, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: E. C. Oakes (modern bookplate). Berlin Kat. 3614; Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 309. FIRST EDITION. (2)
![TARTAGLIA, Nicolò (1506-57). La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo Libra. [Colophon:] Venice: Appresso Camillo Castel](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/a362e6d4-7799-4be3-b2a8-ac2b00f3a254/468x382.jpg)
TARTAGLIA, Nicolò (1506-57). La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo Libra. [Colophon:] Venice: Appresso Camillo Castelli, 1583. 4to (207 x 150mm). Title with full-page allegorical woodcut illustration, woodcut diagrams, one full-page (minor repair to title and first 2 leaves with very slight loss, some browning to the third part, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt. First published in 1537, this is the first printed treatise on ballistics. "Tartaglia's 'The New Science' stands at the threshold of a new age in the history of mechanics ... [The author] deals with ballistics, surveying, engineering and fortification. He sought - but did not find - a mathematical theory defining the flight of projectiles. In some respects his views were anti-Aristotelian, e.g. he thought that the path of a projectile is at all points curved towards the ground, owing to its weight. He learned from gunners that the longest range was obtained at 45 degree elevation" (PMM). Cockle 658 (note); PMM 66; Riccardi I, 497; not in Brunet.
TIMOFEEFF-RESSOVSKY, Nikolay Vladimirovich (1900-81), Karl Günter ZIMMER (1911-88) & Max Ludwig Henning DELBRUCK (1906-81). Uber die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1935. 4to (245 x 170mm). Offprint from "Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", pages [189]-245, diagrams (some light spotting at lower margin of the first leaf). Original green printed wrappers with circular woodcut device on upper wrapper (some very light staining), contained in modern green buckram protective wallet with pocket. FIRST SEPARATELY-PUBLISHED EDITION of "a paper of fundamental importance in molecular biology" (Garrison & Morton). PRESENTATION COPY, the upper wrapper indistinctly inscribed by Timofeeff-Ressovsky. "'Ueber die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur'" (often referred to as "the green paper" after the color of its wrappers, or the "Dreimanner" paper after the number of its authors) is divided into four sections. The first, by Timofeeff-Ressovsky, describes the mutagenic effects of x-rays and gamma rays on Drosophila melanogaster; the second part, by Zimmer, analyzes Timofeeff-Ressovsky's results theoretically. The third and most remarkable section, by Delbruck, puts forth a model of genetic mutation based on atomic physics that "shows the maturity, judgment and breadth of knowledge of someone who had been in the field for years . . . its carefully worded predictions have stood the test of time" (Perutz, Physics and the Riddle of Life, p. 557). Garrison & Morton 254; Norman 326.
TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-47). Lezioni Accademiche ... Lettore delle Mattematiche nello Studio di Firenze e Accademico della Crusca, edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri. Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 4to (267 x 193mm). Half title, engraved illustration on title, engraved portrait of the author, head-pieces, initials and ornaments, 3 woodcut illustrations (half title spotted, a few inconspicuous holes in title and portrait, stain to lower margin of v, long tear in c7 without loss, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary plain wrappers (backstrip rather worn, some light staining and creasing). Provenance: old illegible stamp on title; preface inscribed in an old hand, "Di Tommaso Bonaventuri." FIRST EDITION of this posthumously-published collection of 12 lectures delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino and the Academy of Drawing. Torricelli was a student of Galileo, and succeeded him as Professor of Mathematics at Florence. "From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force of impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations. For example, the assertion that 'forces and impetus' (what we call energy) lie in bodies was interpreted by Maxwell in the last paragraph of A Treatise on Electricty and Magnetism (1873) as meaning that the propagation of energy is a mediate and not remote action. In the lecture on wind Torricelli ... advanced the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence of density, between two regions of the earth" (DSB). Dibner 149; Honeyman 2993; Norman 2088; Riccardi I, 544.
VAN ZYL, Johannes (dates unknown). Theatrum machinarum universale; of Groot Algemeen Moolen-Boek, Behelzende de Beschryving en Afbeeldingen vanallerhande soorten van Moolens, der zelver Opstallen, en Gronden. Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk, 1761. Large folio (548 x 335mm). Half title, engraved dedicatory poem with allegorical illustration, title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, 63 double-page plates of windmills and their mechanisms engraved by Jan Schenk, one of which folding [the folding plate numbered XXXVII & XXXVIII], the plates numbered I - LVI, I - VI and I-II, the last 2 plates not called for in the list (a few heavy spots, some very light staining, but otherwise plates generally very crisp and clean). Contemporary half calf and speckled boards, spine gilt with black morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). Bierens de Haan 5482l; Brunet IV, 568 (citing an edition printed in Amsterdam in 1734).
A Doulton Lambeth stoneware oil lamp (converted to electricity), dated 1881, decorated by Florence Barlow with two quatrelobed panels of a bird in branches inside beaded frames, the body incised with foliate decoration, brass mounts, impressed and incised marks to base, 33cm high, excluding top light fitting.
A pair of George II style cast silver twin light table candelabrum, by J B Chatterley & Sons, Birmingham 1965, with baluster form knop stems, shell cornered detachable nozzles, the shaped spreading bases with shell corners, by removing the candle branches they can be used as candlesticks, 28cm high, combined weight 2015 gms.
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (c.80-70 - c.15 BCE). De architectura libri decem, edited by Daniele Barbaro. Venice: Franciscus Senensis, 1567. Folio (290 x 191mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, repeated at the end, large architectural woodcut on verso of title and 135 woodcut illustrations, tables and diagrams, one leaf folding (some staining and browning to frist few leaves, some light mainly marginal staining elsewhere). Spanish 18th-century tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (skilfully rebacked preserving old spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Abbey of Sacro Mone, Granada (18th-century inscription on title). FIRST LATIN EDITION of Barbaro's commentary on Vitruvius's work on architecture, a highly influential text on the Classical revival in the European Renaissance. The plates, depicting mechanical apparatus, clocks, antiquities as well as classical buildings including Greek and Roman theatres, are reduced copies of those found in the Marcolini edition, with the exception of the bird's-eye view of Venice (on p.204). Adams V-909; Brunet IV, 671; Cicognara 716; Fowler 409; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 550; Millard Italian 161.
![VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton[sic], donnés par Mr. de Voltaire. Nouvel](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/19160081-e03a-47b8-8322-ac2b00e57322/468x382.jpg)
VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton[sic], donnés par Mr. de Voltaire. Nouvelle Edition. "Londres" [but Paris]: [no publisher, but Laurent-François Prault], [August] 1738. 8vo (189 x 117mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved portrait of Voltaire before the dedication to his mistress, Madame la Marquise du Chastellet, 6 engraved plates, one folding engraved table, 61 engraved illustrations, woodcut diagrams (some very light mainly marginal staining, spotting and browning). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands, red edges. Provenance: 2 old inscriptions on the half title, the first reading, "Le livre appartenir [illegible words] le Commissaire des Guerres"; the second running on from it, stating, "et maintent a M. [?]Arnoule Avocat du Roy, au [?]baage Royal de Sargueminion, admirateur enthousiaste du grain Neuton et du célébre Voltaire. 1779." FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Babson 120; Bengesco 1570; cf. Norman 2165; Poggendorff II, 1233; Wallis 155.
![WATHNER, Joseph. Der Vollständige Kenner der Eisen Waaren. [Graz: J. Fischer, c. 1825]. Oblong 4to (250 x 430mm). Engraved t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c3a81119-4c18-44b7-93c9-ac2500e0b44d/d6a76cfc-2203-4343-bc68-ac2b00e582ec/468x382.jpg)
WATHNER, Joseph. Der Vollständige Kenner der Eisen Waaren. [Graz: J. Fischer, c. 1825]. Oblong 4to (250 x 430mm). Engraved title with an illustration of a foundry in a mountainous landscape and 39 plates (occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary paper-backed marbled boards, red edges (rubbed). A trade catalogue for metal and ironware. RARE.
Battle Of Britain 1940 Silver Plated Pewter Military Pilot Figurine stands approx 11cm high with felt on wood base light polishing scratches to name plaque. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Gerald Coulson First Light 27x21 limited edition print 82/300 signed by Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum and Sqn Ldr Neville Duke together with a matching numbered copy of the bestselling book First Light by Geoffrey Wellum with Certificate of Authenticity, details on certificate. In Gerald Coulsons fine study First Light, Mk Vb Spitfires of 92 Squadron climb out of Biggin Hill at the outset of an early morning patrol on a cold winters morning in February 1941. Leaving the mist behind as the first beams of light streak across the heavens, they will turn to the east and steel themselves to meet the enemy, high in the dawn sky. This print has been stored flat and is in pristine condition. Has original Certificate. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
National Army Museum Group 2 No 8 The Light Infantry 1854 unsigned FDC date stamp 10 July 1971 The Light Infantry Birthday Exhibition of Uniforms Bodmin. Good Condition. All autographed items are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
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