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Lot 310
Stamp Collection housed in a Strand album containing stamps from the late 1800s to mid-1950s worldwide. There are stamps on nearly every page, not all are post-marked. Good condition. 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.
Lot 314
Postage collection stamp booklets dating back to 1972 , 1983 stamp sheet, 6 stamp booklets 1969, stamp booklet commemorating Sixtieth Birthday Her Majesty the Queen 1986 and various cover and stamps from 1974. Good condition. 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.
Lot 346
Poached Egg testing label. This was produced in definitive stamp format by the Post office for testing the working mechanisms of stamp vending/dispensing machines. Good condition. 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.
Lot 355
Two Baltic Operations covers signed by Lt Katja Malene Skoedt on one and Lt Peter Toften on the other. Both with Deutschland stamp and postmark. Good condition. 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.
Lot 48
Assorted stamp collection in presentation packs. Includes 1980 collectors pack, London 1980 International stamp exhibition first miniature sheet and 3 1840-1990 Britain's second series of miniature sheets. Good condition. 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.
Lot 58
British commonwealth stamp collection in album. 24 pages. Includes Ceylon, India and New Zealand. Good Condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3. 99, EU from £5. 99, Rest of World from £7. 99. Good condition. 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.
Lot 59
World stamp collection in Stanley Gibbons post-box stamp album. Approx 200 stamps. Good Condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3. 99, EU from £5. 99, Rest of World from £7. 99. Good condition. 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.
Lot 193D
A collection of seven 5 ounce silver proof coins and other silver collectibles comprising the Edward VII penny stamp silver ingot; the “Victorian stamp ingot collection” of 6 silver stamp ingots; a silver proof 50 pence 1994 D-Day cased with CoA; an Australia 1 ounce silver proof $5 coin 2002 celebrating the Queen Mother cased with CoA; a 5 ounce silver proof commemorative coin/medallion celebrating the Battle of the Somme cased with CoA; a Gibraltar 5 ounce £10 silver proof coin 2006 celebrating the Queen’s birthday cased with CoA; an Alderney 5 ounce £10 silver proof coin 2003 celebrating Concorde cased with CoA; a Uganda 5 ounce 10,000 shilling silver proof coin 1998 celebrating Princess Diana cased with CoA; a Gibraltar 5 ounce £10 silver proof coin 2004, coloured, celebrating D-Day cased with CoA; a 5 ounce silver proof commemorative coin/medallion 2005 celebrating the Red Arrows cased with CoA; a Guernsey 5 ounce £10 silver proof coin 1997 celebrating the Queen’s Golden Wedding cased with CoA.
Lot 87
Vintage charm bracelet with fifteen charms, including a scooter charm testing as 18 ct, Scottish thistle, articulated fish, aeroplane, George and the Dragon and five others charms all in 9 ct and four gilt metal charms, fancy link bracelet marked for 9 ct gross weight 51.4 grams Gilt metal: Swiss 1944 20 Rappen coin, fob engraved 'Harriette' on stamp, whiskey bottle, Eiffel tower Many charms are articulated and/or have moving parts
Lot 822
BOLTZMANN, Ludwig (1844-1906). Vorlesungen über Gastheorie. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth [added to imprint of the first part:] (Arthur Meiner), 1896-98. 2 parts bound in one volume, 8vo (212 x 140mm). Half titles, wood-engraved devices on titles, diagrams, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (single spot to title). Contemporary half roan, spine gilt (spine and extremities rubbed). Provenance: old library stamp on title. FIRST EDITION of Boltzmann's "masterpiece of theoretical physics ... This work can rightly be considered the peak of development achieved in the modern kinetic theory of gases" (Stanitz). Stanitz, Sources of Science & Technology, 79.
Lot 828
BRIOT, Charles Auguste (1817-82). Théorie des Fonctions Abéliennes. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. 4to (270 x 215mm). Half title, diagrams (variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary tan morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with black and red morocco lettering-pieces (quite heavily rubbed). Provenance: Lycée de Toulouse (gilt stamp with garland on upper cover). FIRST EDITION. "Briot's studies on heat, light, and electricity were based on the hypothesis of the existence in the ether of imponderable molecules acting upon each other, as well as upon the ponderable molecules of matter. Particularly in his study of the crystalline medium, he linked his findings to Pasteur's experimental work on the dissymmetry of crystals. These studies, which were conducted from a mathematical point of view, led to the simplification of methods for integral calculus and the advance of the theories of elliptic and Abelian functions. To honor him for this work, the Göttingen Academy named him acorresponding member" (DSB).
Lot 831
BURDACH, Karl Friedrich (1776-1847). Eugone. Traité sur l' Impuissance et la Foiblesse de la Faculté Générative, contenant la Méthode la plus sûre de s' en guérir soi-même. Leipzig: chez J. C. Hinrichs, 1804. 8vo (173 x 100mm). 126-pages, half title or sub-title bound after title (lacks all before title and all after final leaf of "Table des Matières" [i.e. blanks], some light spotting, staining and browning). Modern marbled boards, new endpapers. Provenance: old [?]Hungarian library stamp on verso of title. [?]FIRST EDITION. RARE. With 2 other books of related interest, namely J. Morel de Rubempre's Les Secrets de la Génération ... Douzième Edition, ornée de figures ([?]Paris, "chez tous les Libraires", [c. 1835], vol. one [only, of 2], later wrappers) and Samuel La ' Mert's La Préservation Personnelle, Traité Médical sur les Maladies des Organes de la Génération ... Soixante Quinzième Edition ("Londres", 1855, 9 wood-engraved plates, original yellow printed wrappers). (3)
Lot 833
CARRON DU VILLARDS, Charles Joseph Frédéric (1801-60). Recherches Médico-Chirurgicales sur l' Operation de la Cataracte ... Deuxième Edition, considérablement augmentée. Paris: Pourchet, 1837. 8vo (211 x 130mm). Half title, lithographed portrait of the author, folding facsimile letter, double-page "Tableau Synoptique", 2 folding lithographed plates (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary morocco-backed textured boards, spine gilt (rubbed, scuff to head of spine). Provenance: stamp of "Academie Royale de Medecine de Belge" on half title. PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "A l' Académie Royale de Medecine Belge, hommage de l' auteur." As in all legitimate copies, the verso of the title bears the signature [possibly stamped] of the publisher. Garrison & Morton 5835.
Lot 841
COCCHI, Antonio Celestina (1685-1747). Corticis Peruviani vindiciae. Dissertatio physico-practica. Rome: Ex Typographia Komarek in via Cursus, 1746. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Headpieces, initials and ornaments (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks which are not called for in the collation], wormtrack reducing to a single wormhole from the title to B4, affecting some letters, occasional light spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary stiff plain wrappers, with old title on paper label, and further inscribed on the upper wrapper. Provenance: old stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION of this rare work on the medicinal properties of Peruvian, or Jesuit's, bark, which was originally discovered by Jesuit missionaries to Peru in the 17th-century. Since it contained quinine, it was long believed to be a natural remedy for malaria.
Lot 843
CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867-1934) & Peter CURIE (1859-1906). [In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l' Académie des Sciences. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to (258 x 212mm)]. "Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende" (vol. 127, no. 3, pages 175-178) [continued, under the same title, with co-author Gustave BEMONT (1857-1937) in no. 26, pages 1215-1217)]. [And:] Eugene DEMARCAY (1852-1903). "Sur le spectre d'une substance radio-active" (no. 26, page 1218). Contemporary black half cloth and marbled paper boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Provenance: Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg (stamp). FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE, OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERIES OF POLONIUM AND RADIUM. Garrison & Morton 2003; Grolier Medicine 84B; Norman 545.
Lot 846
D' AUBUISSON DE VOISINS, Jean-François (1769-1841). Traité de Géognosie, ou Exposé des Connaissances Actuelles sur la Constution Physique et Minérale du Globe Terrestre. Strasbourg & Paris: F. G. Levrault (Strasbourg) & "Et rue des Fossés M. le Prince" (Paris), 1819. 2 volumes, 8vo (204 x 128mm). Half titles, "signature" [but ?stamp] of the editor on verso of both half titles, 2 folding engraved plates, one hand-coloured, tables (some very light mainly marginal spotting, some leaves very lightly browned). Attractively-bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this important pioneering work of French geology. (2)
Lot 860
FOUCAULT, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-68). [In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l' Académie des Sciences ... Tome Trentième. Janvier - Juin 1850]. Méthode générale pour mesurer la vitesse de la lumière dans l' air et les milieux transparents. Vitesses relatives de la lumière dans l' air at dans l' eau. Projet d' expérience sur la vitesse de propagation du calorique rayonnant; par M. L. Foucault. (Comissaires, MM. Arago, Pouillet, Babinet, Regnault.) (pages 551-560). Paris: Bachelier, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1850. 4to (285 x 230mm). Half title (half title and title rather browned, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few leaves browned). Contemporary yellow marbled paper boards, printed label on spine, largely unopened, uncut (upper joints split, stain to top edge of upper cover, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Univ. Andegav. (faded stamp on general title and a few to text leaves, but not affecting Foucault's paper); Bibl. Dom. S. I. Eegenhoven (stamp and number on verso of title). FIRST EDITION OF FOUCAULT'S PAPER ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT (at 298,000 km/s) which established that light travels more slowly in water than air. In partnership with Hippolyte Fizeau, he used an instrument - now known as the Fizeau-Foucault apparatus - to prove beyond doubt that the 'corpuscular theory' of light, which had been proposed by Descartes as early as 1637, and then taken up by Newton, was not correct.
Lot 861
FOUCAULT, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-68). [In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l' Académie des Sciences ... Tome Trente-Deuxième. Janvier - Juin 1851]. Demonstration physique du mouvement de rotation de la terre au moyen du pendule; par M. L. Foucault. (Commissaires, MM. Arago, Pouillet, Binet.) (pages 135-138). Paris: Bachelier, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1851. 4to (282 x 230mm). (Half title and general title stained, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary yellow marbled paper boards, printed label on spine, largely unopened, uncut (upper joints split, stain to upper cover, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Univ. Andegav. (faded stamp on general title and a few to text leaves, but not affecting Foucault's paper); Bibl. Dom. S. I. Eegenhoven (stamp on verso of title). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH. "Although the rotation of the earth had been accepted since Copernicus, it was Foucault who first demonstrated it by experiment. His early experiments were private, but Louis Napoleon (later Napoleon III) became so interested that he arranged for them to be repeated publicly. This was a splendid affair which took place in the Pantheon in 1851 before a fashionable audience. A heavy metal ball was suspended from the dome on a wire 220 feet long; beneath the ball was a table 12 feet in diameter covered with sand on which the ball could leave a mark. This is known as 'Foucault's pendulum'. It soon became apparent that the plane in which the pendulum was swinging moved in a clockwise direction and in about thirty-two hours the plane of vibration had completed a full circuit. Mathematical calculations made it possible to apply the results of this experiment to the rotation of the earth. The audience in the Pantheon was greatly impressed; some ladies fainted with excitement, while other spectators maintained they could feel the earth move beneath them" (PMM). Barchas 738; PMM 330: (citing the later offprint with title "Sur Divers Signes Sensibles du Mouvement Diurne de la Terre"); Dibner 17 (also citing the later offprint only).
Lot 863
GALTON, Francis (1822-1911). Finger Prints. London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. 8vo (224 x 145mm). Half title, title with reproduction of the author's fingerprints, tables, 16 wood-engraved plates, one of which double-page and printed in colours (plate 2 misbound opposite p. 145). Original maroon pebbled cloth ruled in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut. Provenance: E. Carleton [?]Moore (very small indistinct stamp on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. "Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, and the originator of eugenic studies, was greatly interested by Herschel's letter [on the handprints of Hindu natives] as indicating a possible form of anthropometric classification. On 27 November 1890 he read a paper to the Royal Society, which was printed in its Transactions, on 'The Patterns of Thumb and Finger Marks'. ... In 1892, in his book Finger Prints, Galton gathered together all these earlier studies and recorded other experiments, illustrated from photographs and drawings. The outcome of this was the appointment in 1899 of a Royal Commission which came out in favour of the adoption of the system by the British police forces" (PMM). Garrison & Morton 186; Heirs of Hippocrates 1905; Norman 867; PMM 376.
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Lot 864
[GAUGER, Nicolas (1680-1730)]. La Mecanique du Feu, ou l' Art d' en Augmenter les Effets, & d' en Diminuer la Dépense ... Contenant le Traité de Nouvelles Cheminées Qui échauffent plus que les Cheminées ordinaires, & qui ne sont point sujettes à fumer, &c. Par Mr. G***. Paris: Chez Jacques Estienne [and one other], 1713. 8vo (159 x 95mm). Headpieces and ornaments, 12 folding engraved plates, mostly of fireplaces and chimneys (part of imprint obscured, a few spots, edges of last 2 plates frayed and a little soiled). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and 5 raised bands, red edges (some deep wormtracks and holes to upper cover and spine, rubbed). Provenance: old [?]initial "F" on title; small illegible modern stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION of this book of innovative fireplace designs, which, along with its English translation by John Theophilus Desaguilers, heavily influenced Benjamin Franklin's invention in 1741 of his eponymous stove which was based on the same principles of providing more heat with less smoke. Poggendorff I, 852.
Lot 877
HAUY, René Just (1743-1822). Tableau Comparatif des Résultats de la Cristallographie et de l' Analyse Chimique, Relativement a la Classification des Mineraux. Paris: chez Courcier, 1809. 8vo (208 x 130mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates (occasional light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary parchment-backed pink marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed, some staining). Provenance: Zur Bibliothec der Berlin: Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde (bookplate and stamp on verso of title); Bibliothek der Konigl. Landw. Hochschule zu Berlin (old stamp on title). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front pastedown inscribed [in the author's hand], "A la Sociéte des Scrutateurs de la Nature, hommage de l' auteur." The author is regarded as the 'father of modern crystallography', and, during the French Revolution, one of the pioneers of the metric system (see previous lot). "In his Tableau comparatif (1809) Haüy compared the results of the crystallographic and chemical determinations of mineral species. Haüy"s survey of the results of crystallography and chemical analysis in relation to the classification of minerals gave a detailed exposition of the successes and difficulties his method encountered. Haüy emphasized the invariability of the form and the composition of the constituent molecule of a species but was forced to admit that the definite proportions were often blurred by heterogeneous materials accidentally mixed with the compound" (DSB). Honeyman 1628; Ward & Carozzi 1025; Wellcome III, 224.
Lot 890
KANT, Immanuel (1724-1804). Anthropologie in pragmatischer hinsicht abgefasst. Konigbserg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. 8vo (198 x 120mm). (Some light staining to title, a few isolated darker spots.) Contemporary paper boards, spine gilt with tan morocco label (extremities rubbed, corners bumped, piece excised from front free endpaper comprising about an eighth of the leaf). Provenance: old illegible signature on front free endpaper; Landesbibliothek Oldenburg (stamp on verso of title). FIRST EDITION of the author's only work on psychology. Adickes 98; Garrison & Morton 4969; Norman 1201; Roback 53-55; Warda 195; Wellcome II, 378. With the same author's Critique de la Raison Pure ... Traduite de l' Allemand, sur la Septième Edition, par C.-J. Tissot (Paris, 1835-36, 2 vols., contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards, First French edition). (3)
Lot 935
PAPIN, Denis (1647-1713). Nouvelle Maniere pour Lever l' Eau par la Force du Feu. Cassel: Jacob Estienne, 1707. Small 8vo (161 x 88mm). Woodcut headpieces and initial, folding engraved plate (text browned throughout but plate clean). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands. Provenance: "Ex Bibliotheca Caroli Koppi, e Scholis Piis Historiae Universalis Professoris Academici" (old label on front pastedown); old illegible signature above label and at foot of title; old library stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION of this work by an author best known for his invention of 'Papin's Digester', a forerunner of the pressure cooker and steam engine. Brunet III, 627.
Lot 940
PERRAULT, Claude (1613-88). Recueil de Plusieurs Machines, de Nouvelle Invention. Ouvrage Posthume. Paris: Chez Jean Baptise Coignard, 1700. 4to (238 x 180mm). Large woodcut printer's device on title, engraved illustrations at head of dedication and on A1, initials, woodcut diagram, 11 folding engraved plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (some wear to foot of joints, extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: old library stamp on verso of title; old manuscript library shelf numbers on front pastedown; some old annotation referring the text to plate numbers. FIRST EDITION. Plate IX depicts the Abaque Rhabdologique (the author's own name for it), a calculating device which can be considered a forerunner of modern calculating and computing devices. Other machines described in this work include a mechanism for anchor cables, for raising a bridge, for rotating a telescope, and a water clock. Cicognara 948; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing P46.
Lot 976
STECZKOWSKI, Joannes Cantius (1800-81). De longitudine geographica dissertatio quam adjectis thesibus. Cracow: Typis Universitatis, 1828. 4to (230 x 180mm). Folding table (some very light staining). Later plain blue wrappers. Provenance: old stamp on title; author's surname underlined in red pencil. FIRST EDITION.
Lot 984
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.
Lot 993
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.
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Lot 994
TORTEBAT, François ([?]pseud., 1616-90). Nouveau Traité d' Anatomie Accomodée aux Arts de Peinture et de Sculpture ... Exécutée dans le Genre du Crayon par T. Leclere Dessinateur pour la Facilité des Jeunes Elèves et Gravée par Petit. Paris: Chez Jean, [c. 1798]. Folio (477 x 302mm). Engraved architectural title, 10 engraved anatomical plates by Petit after Leclere (title cropped, plate 8 detached and soiled and frayed at upper edge, some mainly marginal staining throughout). Later linen-backed marbled boards (corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, inner hinges broken). Provenance: [illegible word] College (later inscription, or stamp, on title. Some sources, but by no means all, cite Tortebat as a pseudonym for Roger de Piles (1635-1709).
Lot 996
TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710-59). Mémoires, pour Servir à l' Histoire d' un Genre de Polypes d' Eau Douce, à Bras en Forme de Cornes. Leiden: Chez Jean & Herman Verbeek, 1744. 4to (255 x 195mm). Woodcut ornament on title, headpieces, initials and culs-de-lampe, fine engraved illustrations, 13 folding engraved plates, plate 10 with captions printed in red, "Avis au Relieur" leaf at the end (B2 partially detached, variable spotting and staining to text throughout). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (neatly rebacked preserving old spine, lightly rubbed). Provenance: illegible small signature stamp in blue on title. FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 307: "Trembley discovered the hydra and was the first to observe in its asexual reproduction, regeneration, and photosensitivity in an animal without eyes. His experiments were of great importance in the study of regeneration of lost parts. He was the first to make permanent grafts and to witness cell-division"; Nissen ZBI 4163; Norman 2094.
Lot 2115
A Victorian plated condiment stand, detailed Designed by Dr C. Dresser, of hexagonal openwork form, with three compartments to hold a glass mustard pot, a glass pepperette and a glass salt, with two associated condiment spoons, the base of the stand with five screw down feet (the sixth foot lacking), maker Hukin & Heath, detailed 1867, designed by Dr C. Dresser, with a registration stamp, height 10cm.
Lot 1002
VOLTA, Alessandro (1745-1827). L' Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico Vittoriosamente Dimostrata. Pavia: Giovanni Capelli, 1814. 4to (330 x 234mm). Engraved portrait of the author (title and last leaf a little soiled at margins, without the addenda slip tipped to the last page in some copies). Modern marbled paper boards, uncut. Provenance: Bergamo seminary (stamp on title). LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Volta's last memoir on galvanism, "a lengthy review of his reasons for identifying galvanic and common electricity" (DSB). Printed at the end is a bibliography of Volta's publications. Honeyman 3076; Wheeler Gift 726.
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Lot 1004
WABST, Christian Xavier (dates unknown). De hydrargyro tentamen physico-chemico-medocum. [Pars prima]. "Vindobonae" [i.e. Vienna]: Ex Typographia Trattneriana, 1754. First part [all published], 4to (233 x 182mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of a mining scene, head-pieces initials and ornaments (words "Pars prima" erased from title, with strip of paper pasted over, and with resultant loss of letters on verso and stain to the first text leaf, variable spotting, staining and browning, lower [?]blank section of final text leaf cut away). Contemporary speckled boards (upper cover detached, spine lacking, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: large stamps on title; small stamp on verso of title; old library shelf number label on upper cover. Blake 478; Hoover 852; not in Duveen. FIRST EDITION of the first treatise dedicated to mercury or quicksilver. "This work is divided into two parts, of which we are here presented only with the first; wherein the author has endeavoured to collect every thing that has been hitherto published about mercury or quicksilver, either in the writings of physicians or of naturalists ... Mercury is, according to Mr Wabst, a metallic substance, cold to the touch, fluid yet dry, and not moistening the metals that it touches; shining like silver, heavy, strong, and penetrating; very active and volatile; scarcely enduring fire at any rate, and composed of flat spherical particles ... There are many things extremely curious in this piece of Dr Wabst; and it is with impatience we await the publication of the second part ..." (from a contemporary account in The Critical Review). They are still waiting.
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Lot 1008
[WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of (1601-67)]. A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Such Inventions, As at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former Notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice. London: Printed by J. Grismond, 1663. Lacking the supplement [as often, but supplied in manuscript; see footnote]. 12mo (127 x 75mm). Title and dedication within double-rule border, woodcut typographical head-piece and initial (a few spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked some time ago, both covers detached, extremities rubbed). Provenance: illegible old signature on front pastedown; RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY, OXFORD (old stamp on front pastedown and on verso of title); old pencil partial index on front free endpaper; S. T. [?]Rigaud, 1839 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION of a work in which the author lists and describes 100 of his own inventions, including the hundredth ("A stupendious[sic] Water-work") which he claims, with characteristic modesty, to be "The most stupendious Work in the whole world." Also notable is invention 84: "An Instrument whereby persons ignorant in Arithmetick may perfectly observe Numerations and Subtractions of all Summes and Fractions." (See Tomash & Williams.) Not present in this copy - as often - is the rare 34-page supplement (F1-G6), but, intriguingly, this is supplied in an early manuscript transcription taking the form of 34-page stitched booklet, which opens, "An exact & true Definition of the most Stupendious Water-commanding Engine, invented by the Right Honourable (and deservedly to be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Lord Marquess of Worcester, and by his Lordship himself presented to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, our most gracious Soveraign." Constructed from the barrel of a cannon, it was a prototype design for what would later become the steam engine. The printed supplement was tantamount to the author's claim of a patent for this invention. ESTC R7944; Norman 1976; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing S162; Wing W3532.
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