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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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Three ground-breaking scientific works on air by Robert Boyle, in the rare Latin translations published in the Netherlands View picture(s) 2 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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19th century scientifical instruments View picture(s) 3 BRUTEL DE LA RIVIÈRE, Carel Johan Emerentius. Atlas voor de Meet- en Natuurkunde, Omvattende ruim 700 afbeeldingen, met een korte verklaring. Leyden, A.W. Sijthoff, ca. 1870. 2 vols., text and atlas. Oblong folio. Contemporary cloth. With numerous geometrical and technical illustrations on 15 steel-engraved plates, several depicted in white and black, and one plate coloured in atlas vol. 84, (2) pp.; (15) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Physics  Science  Surveying  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ocean waves, flooding & hydraulic engineering, well-illustrated View picture(s) 4 EMY, Amand Rose. Ueber die Bewegung der Wellen und über den Bau am Meere und im Meere. ... Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von C. Wiesenfeld, ... Mit 10 Kupfertafeln [sic]. Vienna, Ludwig Förster's artistischer Anstalt (on reverse of title-page: printed by J.P. Sollinger), 1839. 8vo. 19-century blue cloth, red spine label. With 10 folding lithographic plates (23 x 39 to 54 cm) with 75 figures showing diagrams of wave forms and motions, and plans and cross-sections of coasts, man-made barriers, buildings, hydraulic devices, etc. Set in fraktur types. [2], XIV, 242, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Engineering  Hydraulics  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The largest, best argumented and most philosophical summary of Newtonian science View picture(s) 5 GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob 's. Elemens de physique, demontrez mathematiquement et confirmez par les experiences; ou introduction à la philosophie Newtonienne: ouvrage traduit du Latin par Elie de Joncourt. Leyden, Jean Arn. Langerak, Jean et Herman Verbeek, 1746. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt with red title-labels, blue marbles edges. With numerous figures, diagrams and illustrations of experiments in physics on 127 folding engraved plates. (2), LXXIII, (1 blank), 534; (14), 460, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Perspective  Philosophy  Physics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare catalogue for the magician View picture(s) 6 GUETLE, Johann Conrad. Kunstkabinet verschiedener mathematischer und physikalischer Instrumente und anderer Kunstsachen, die theils zur Erleichterung der Lehre in den Wissenschaften, theils zu nüzlichen Unterhaltungen und zum Vergnügen gehören. Nürnberg, Bauer und Mannischen Buchhandlung, 1792. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter calf, red painted edges. 7 folding plates. 31; 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catalogues  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With unrecorded map depicting the southern hemisphere including Australia View picture(s) 7 HARTSOEKER, Nicolaas. Conjectures physiques. Amsterdam, Henri Desbordes, 1706. 4to. Contemp. full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. Title with woodcut ornament, two engr. headpieces, double folding engr. map of the Southern hemisphere, woodcut illustrations in text. 371, (1), blank pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Geography  Optics  Physics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Influential treatise on physics View picture(s) 8 HAÜY, Abbé René Just. Traité élémentaire de physique. Trosième édition, revue et considéralement augmentée. Paris, Widow Courcier, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers with printed title labels to spines. With 19 folding etched plates by Adam. (2), lxij, 510, (2); (4), 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Humboldt's invention of a gas mask for miners View picture(s) 9 HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. Ueber die unterirdischen Gasarten und die Mittel ihren Nachtheil zu vermindern. Ein Beytrag zur Physik der praktische Bergbaukunde. Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg, 1799. 8vo. Modern half leather. With 3 folding engraved plates. VIII, 384 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare issue with the 7 corrected leaves of Lavoisier's first major separately published work View picture(s) 10 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Opuscules physiques et chymiques. Paris, Laurent François Prault for Durand neveu (Pierre Etienne Germain), François Ambroise Didot le jeune, & Jacques Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in one. First volume (= all published). 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With several fine woodcut borders, head- and end-pieces, some tables in the text, and 23 figures on three folding plates by and after Pierre-Claude de la Gardette (1745-1792). (2), ii (corrected dedication), xxx, (2), 436 pp. (6 extra lvs between pp. 434 and 435). Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Chemistry  French  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise by the favourite astronomer of King Louis XV on a wide range of subjects View picture(s) 11 LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles. Mémoires concernant diverses questions d'astronomie et de physique. Lûs et communiqués à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, &c. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1781. 4to. Modern half brown mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-and tailpieces and one engraved folding plate with 3 illustrations of eclipses, signed Y. le Gouaz. VIII, XXIV, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  France  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the influences of the stars, comets, perpetuel motion machine, and new inventions View picture(s) 12 LE ROYER, Jacques. (Oeuvres). Le bastion universel - L'art des arts et des sciences ou des nouvelles inventions - Le moevement perpetuel hydraulique - La véritable cause des cometes - Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere partie des influences des cieux, & des astres. ... Deuxie'me partie des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres. Avranches, Nicolas Motays, 1677. 8vo. Contemporary full brown mottled calf, sprinkled edges. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials and many woodcut borders, 5 half page and 10 smaller woodcut diagrams in the text, depicting arrangements for chemical experiments, diagrams, astrological symbols, spheres, etc. (6), 3-112, 109- 364 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Chemistry  Engineering  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare first edition of the intriguing occult and miscellaneous works of a physician from Zierikzee, Zeeland View picture(s) 13 LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura duobus libris explicata, quae studioso avidoque lectori non tam usui sunt futura, quam oblectamento. Antwerp, Willem Simon, 1559. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary calf with two triple fillet borders on both sides with flower ornament in the centre and four gilt corner pieces, gilt stamp on raised spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut coat of arms on title of the second part, woodcut initials in text. (16), 192 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Natural History  Occult  Physics  Religion  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The secret miracles of nature revealed View picture(s) 14 LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata. Antwerp, G. Simon (printed by Christopher Plantin), 1567. 8vo. 17th century calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title label, central oval gilt supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet on both covers, gilt board edges. Woodcut printer's device on title and oval woodcut portrait of Lemnius on verso 5th leaf. (16), 473, (22, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Medicine  Natural History  Occult  Physics  Religion  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'The man who introduced experimental physics into France' View picture(s) 15 MARIOTTE, Edme. Ouvres de Mr. Mariotte, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences; divisees en deux tomes, comprenant tous les traitez de cet auteur, tant ceux qui avoient déja paru séparément, que ceux qui n'avoient pas encore été publiez; imprimées sur les exemplaires les plus exacts & les plus complets; revuës & corrigées de nouveau. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1717. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf with spine in compartments blind tooled. Both title-pages in red and black with engraving, 26 folding plates and some small engravings in text. (12), 701, (35) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Accepted by Franklin as proof for his theories View picture(s) 16 MARUM, Martinus van. Beschreibung einer ungemein großen Elektrisier-Maschine und der damit im Teylerschen Museum zu Haarlem agestelten Versuche. Aus dem Holländisch übersetzt. Leipzig, Schwickert, 1786-1798. 3 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards. 27 engraved plates (18 folding and 9 beautifully handcoloured). VIII, 42, 4; VIII, 72; VIII, 84 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Haarlem  Netherlands  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Best edition of the very popular forerunner of modern books on mathematical recreations View picture(s) 17 OZANAM, Jacques. Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problemes d'arithmetique, de géometrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnique, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges elementaires. Nouvelle édition, rev., corr. & augm. Paris, Jacques Rollin, 1750 (vol. 2: 1749). 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels lettered in gold, blue marbled edges. With 32, 55, 30, and 17 full-page engraved plates illustrating the various mathematical treatises. Many woodcut diagrams and printed tables in the text. Vol. 1: (16), 460, (20); 2: (4), 462, (14); 3: (2), 482, (12); 4: (8), 446, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Four interesting work by a famous scientist and clergyman View picture(s) 18 PARDIES, Ignace Gaston. Oeuvres de mathematiques. Contenant les elemens de geometrie, discours du mouvement local, la statique et deux machines propres à faire les cadrans.- IDEM. Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le mouvement de la lumière.- IDEM. La statique ou la science des forces mouvantes.- IDEM. Deux machines propres à faire les quadrans avec très-grande facilité. The Hague, Adriaan Moetjens, 1691. 4 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red marbled edges. Many woodcuts of geometrical figures in text, 9 engraved plates of which 5 folding. (12), 163, (5); 294, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Geometry  Jesuits  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fundamental work for the spread of Carthesian ideas View picture(s) 19 REGIUS, Henricus. Philosophia naturalis; in qua tota rerum universitas, per clara & facilia principia, explanatur. Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1661. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Title printed in red and black with Elzevier's printer's device; full-page portrait of Henricus Regius by T. Matham after H. Bloemaert; ca. 200 woodcuts of which 7 full-page, of diagrams, illustrations of physical experiments and instruments, anatomical and astronomic plates; 10 full-page engravings of magnetic experiments and 2 maps: a full-page celestial map and a double-page world map. (44), 523, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Philosophy  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important encyclopedic work on magic & experimental science by a pupil of Athanasius Kirchner View picture(s) 20 SCHOTT, Kaspar. Magia universalis naturae et artis, sive recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum sientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem activorum cum passivis, admirandorum effectuum spectacula, abditarumque inventionum miracula ad varios humanae vitae usus erunntur, opus quadripartitum. Continet pars I. Optica. II. Acoustica. III. Mathematica. IV. Physica. Bamberg, Iohannes Arnoldusi Cholinus (vol. II), for Joh. Martin Schönwetter (vols. I, III and IV), 1674 (vol. II)-1677 (vol. I, III, IV). 4 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. With 4 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, and 25 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, 32 full-page engraved plates, of which 9 folding, in the second volume, 21 full-page engraved plates in the third volume, and 13 full-page engraved plates, of which 2 on 1 folding plate, in the fourth volume. (19), 538, (7); (12), 432, (8); (11), 732, (6); (16), 670, (9) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics  Medicine  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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