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First edition of the first work on electricity View picture(s) 1 BECCARIA, Giambatista. Dell' Elettricismo Artificiale, e Naturale Libri Due. Torino, Filippo Antonio Campana, 1753. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title label. With woodcut printer's device on title, various nice decorated initials, and head- and tailpieces. (8), 245, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Meteorology  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Containing exquisite plates with views on the moon and stellar constellations adorned with the zodiacal symbols View picture(s) 2 BRADFORD, Duncan. The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, stars, with descriptions of plantes, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. Boston, American Stationers Co., 1837. Large 4to. Contemp. half green moroco. Engraved frontispiece with Herschel's telescope, engr. title with zodiac, 6 full-page engr. with telescopic views of the moon in different phases and planets, 6 handcoloured folding engr. plates with celestial charts, numerous woodcuts in text of which five full-page. 371 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mechanics  Meteorology  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Over 400 variations of snowflakes View picture(s) 3 ENGELMAN, Jan. Het regt gebruik der natuurbeschouwingen, geschetst in eene verhandeling over de sneeuwfiguuren. Haarlem, Izaak vander Vinne, 1747. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, marbled edges. Title printed in red and black, 29 full-page engraved plates (of which the first unnumbered, the rest numbered  1-28) with over 400 illustrations of snowflakes, 5 folding tables. 178, (1), (2 errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Meteorology  Natural History  Ornaments  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare and early work on astrology, meteorology and weather forecasting View picture(s) 4 FIRMIN DE BEAUVAL (FIRMINUS DE BELLAVALLE). Firmini repertorium de mutatione aeris, tam via astrologica, quam metheorologica, pristino nitori restitutum, per Philippum Iollainum Blereium, cum scholiis eiusdem. Paris, Jacques Kerver I, 1539. Folio (28 x 20 cm). 19th century half linen painted in red and black; spine with label lettered in gold; boards covered with marbled paper. With Kerver's printer's device with two cocks standing on either side of a little tree on a pedestal with his monogram, on the title (Silvestre 52); some nice criblé woodcut initials and many astrological tables in the text. (4), 79 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astrology  Meteorology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first comprehensive treatise on the Northern Lights View picture(s) 5 MAIRAN, Jean Jacques D'ORTOUS de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 4to. Late 19th-century calf, spine ribbed and gilt with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. Woodcut printer's device on title, with 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, woodcut head- & tail pieces, many tables in text. (12), 570, XXII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Meteorology  Paris  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldus edition of the collected works of one of the most important Italian humanists View picture(s) 6 PONTANUS, Joannes Jovianus (Giovanni PONTANO). Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortus Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendeca syllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae vero in tot opere habeantur in Indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.  Venice, Aldus Manutius, (May-August 1505). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern speckled brown calf in 16th-century style, frontcover with Aldus' printer's device stamped in gold, ribbed spine lettered in gilt. Title and final page with Aldus' woodcut printer's device. [242] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Humanism  Italy  Meteorology  Post Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Climatological work focusing on the weather in Denmark and Northern Europe View picture(s) 7 SCHOUW, Joakim Frederik. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Klimatologie. Erstes Heft [all published]. Copenhagen, printed by Jens Sostrup Schultz for the author, 1827. Modern black cloth with gilt title on spine, original printed front wrapper preserved. Folding letterpress table at the end, several letterpress tables in text. (8), 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Denmark  Meteorology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Perspective of the rainbow View picture(s) 8 VOLCKAMMER, Christoph Gottlieb. Thaymantiados Thaumasia, Sive Iridis Admiranda. Sub Rationis accuratius examen revocata, Eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii. Neuremberg, Wolfgang Maur. Endter, 1699. Small 4to. Modern vellum, red mottled edges. With 10 perspectival illustrations of the rainbow after the views of the classical scientists on large folding engraved plate, and 34 perspectival illustrations of the rainbow after the latest knowledge on 3 large folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. 185, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Meteorology  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Meteorological observations as performed in the West View picture(s) 9 YOSHIO, Nanko. Rigaku nyushiki ensei kansho zusetsu (in Japanese characters). Nagoya, Kanshojuku, Bunsei 3 (= 1823). 3 vols. 8vo. Original brown paper wrappers with pasted title label on front cover in traditional binding. With 12 astronomical illustrations, two volvelles, two terrestrial hemispheric maps in text. (116) double leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Japan  Meteorology  Science  Volvelles  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the history of meteorology View picture(s) 10 [ALENCÉ, Joachim d']. Verhandelingen over de barometers, thermometers, en notiometers of hygrometers. Door den heer D. Uit het Fransch vertaalt. The Hague, Jacobus de Jongh, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Title printed in red & black, with engraved allegorical frontispiece by Schoonebeek and 35 full-page engraved plates of thermometers, barometers, hygrometers and scientific experiments probably also by Schoonebeek (only the first plate of the first treatise is signed by him). (12), 138, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Meteorology  Physics  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful Spanish manuscript ship's journal View picture(s) 11 [MARTORELL Y ALSINA, Miguel]. Diario de Navigacion. (On board of the ship San Quince y Santa Julita), 1785-1788. Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum with manuscript title on spine and traces of ties. With a beautiful allegorical watercoloured frontispiece. 93 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [South]  Astronomy & Cosmography  Manuscripts  Maritime History  Meteorology  Navigation  Science  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The spider as weather prophet View picture(s) 12 [SCHMIDT, Joseph]. Die Spinne als die beste Wetterprophetinn welche die bevorstehende Veränderung des Wetters mehrere Tage voraus ankündiget. Munich, Joseph Lindauer, 1800. 8vo. Later marbled boards, red sprinkled edges. With a folding table. 54 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Meteorology  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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