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Three ground-breaking scientific works on air by Robert Boyle, in the rare Latin translations published in the Netherlands View picture(s) 1 BOYLE, Robert. Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de VI aëris elastica & ejusdem effectibus, facta maximam partem in nova machina pneumatica. Editio postrema. Rotterdam, Arnold Leers Jr, 1669. Engraved frontispiece and 1 folding engraved plate. [24], 351, [9] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Chemistry  Great Britain  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous eroticum: "A scandalously indecent book", "of the most pernicious tendency" View picture(s) 2 CLELAND, John. Nouvelle traduction de La fille de joye. Par Mr. Cleland, contenant les mémoires de mlle. Fanny, écirite par elle-même. London (= Berne?), n.publ., 1776. 2 parts in one. 12mo. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. With 4 etched plates (incl. frontispiece), both titles with letterpress ornamental border, both parts with letterpress headpiece at the beginning. 101, (1 blank); 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Erotica  French  Great Britain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All sorts of grass View picture(s) 3 LOWE, Edward Joseph. A Natural History of British Grasses. London, Groombridge and Sons, 1865. 8vo. Contemp. half darkblue morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, top gilt. With 74 colour printed lithographed plates of grasses. VI, 245 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Great Britain  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A victorian adventure depicted in a series of fine watercolours, recording a trip to a manor house View picture(s) 4 MONOGRAMMIST "F.W." or "E.W." (Adventures by coach, on horseback and on foot of two Englishmen). Album containing 12 mounted watercolours and 1 drawing in pen and ink. (No place), 1869. Oblong folio. Contemporary dark brown morocco, marbled endpapers. The 12 mounted watercolours all measuring ca. 10 x 16 cm., all with caption in pen on verso and below the image, the final drawing in pen and ink directly on the album leaf measuring 7 x 8,5 cm. and titled "Back home" below the image. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Drawing & Painting  Drawings  Great Britain  Manuscripts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ray's botanical classification in its definitive form View picture(s) 5 RAY, John (Johannes RAIUS). Methodus plantarum, emendata et aucta. In quâ notae maxime characteristicae exhibentur, quibus stirpium genera tum summa, tum infima cognoscuntur & à se mutuo dignoscuntur ... Accedit methodus graminum, juncorum et cyperorum specialis. Eodem auctore. London/ Amsterdam, Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford/ (J. and G.) Janssonius van Waesberge, 1703. Contemporary sheepskin, gilt, ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Abraham de Blois after a painting by William Faithorne, 2 folding letterpress tables. (36), 202, (26) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Botany  Great Britain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important account of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean View picture(s) 6 WEBSTER, William Henry Bayley. Narrative of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. sloop Chanticleer... London, printed by Samuel Bentley for Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary uniform half calf, gilt and blind-stamped spine, marbled boards, blue speckled edges. With two engraved maps and five aquatint plates. XI, [1], 399, [1]; VIII, 398 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  Brazil  Great Britain  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Dutch plan to make peace with England and to re-establish free trade with the North Americans View picture(s) 7 [CAPELLEN TOT DEN POLL, Joan Derk van der]. Aan het volk van Nederland; of, bewyzen en consideratien over de voordeelen der negotie met de Noord Americaanen. In de Vereenigde Nederlanden, [1782]. 8vo. Unbound, uncut, loose in paper wrappers. With typographical vignette on title. 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, North  Americana  Great Britain  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The only edition of this work to contain the appended essay on coffee and coffee plantations View picture(s) 8 [OLDMIXON, John]. Het Britannische ryk in Amerika, zynde een beschryving van de ontdekking, bevolking, inwoonders, het klimaat, den koophandel, en tegenwoordigen staat van alle de Britannische coloniën, in dat gedeelte der wereldt. Amsterdam, Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein, 1721. 4to. Contemporary full calf with richly gilt and decorated spine with red morocco title-label, marbled edge. Part I: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720, title in red and black, 5 folding engraved maps, engraving in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. Part II: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720 (same as in part I), title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, 2 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. The maps are by J. Keyser after H(erman) Moll. (26), 300 (i.e. 296); (2), 327 (14, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Americana  Economy  Geography  Great Britain  History  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The starting point of Great Britain's sea-borne empire View picture(s) 9 [TREATY OF PARIS]. Tratado definitivo de paz, e uniaõ entre os serenissimos, e potentisimos principes D. Joseph I. Rey fidelissimo de Portugal, e dos Algarves, Jorge III. Rey da Gram Bretanha, de huma parte; Luiz XV. Rey Christianissimo de França, D. Carlos III. Rey catholico de Hespanha, da outra parte: assignado em Pariz a dez de Fevereiro de mil setecentos sessenta e tres: com os plenos poderes, e ratificaçoens dos quatro Monarcas Contratantes; ajuntado-se os actos que se passaraõ no dia 9 de Marco de mesmo anno, em que as ditas ratificaçoens foraõ trocadas na mesma Corte de Pariz. Lisboa, Miguel Rodrigues, 1763. 4to. Brown calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt vignette with the coat of arms of Portugal as well as gilt title on front cover. Vignette with the coat of arms of Portugal on title. 91 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Cartography  France  Great Britain  Militaria  Politics  Portugal  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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