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Refreshing new insights and ideas View picture(s) 1 ABAT, Bonaventure. Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathematiques. Amsterdam, for Jean Mossy, Marseille, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. XXXII, 564, 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to use a microscope View picture(s) 2 ADAMS, George. Essays on the Microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar  habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, of the hydrae and vorticellae: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula: with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope. Second edition, with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher, F.L.S. London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 2 vols. Large 4to. 20th-century blue half calf. With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates. XVII, (7), 724, 14, 2 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Entomology  Microscopy  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A mathematical perception on cartwheels View picture(s) 3 AENEAE, Henricus. Wiskundige beschouwing van een hellend water-scheprad, nieuwlings door den heer A.G. Eckhardt in 's Haage uitgevonden. Waar in de voordelen van dit rad boven het gewoone scheprad wiskundig betoogd, en teffens de nadeelen, waar aan het onderheeevig zoude kunnen zijn, in overweeging genomen worden, en de middelen aangetoond hoe dezelve weg te neemen of te verhelpen zijn. Amsterdam, Gerrit Warnars, 1774. 8vo. With 7 engraved folding plates showing parts of a cartwheel. XVI, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Hydraulics  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Arguments against the generally accepted opinions about sciences and arts View picture(s) 4 AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Heinrich Cornelis. Van de onzeekerheyd ende ydelheyd der weetenschappen en konsten. Leerende met goedt en vast bewijs redeneeren tegen 't gemeen gevoelen in menigderleye zaken. Uit Latijn in Hollantsch overgezet; Door I. Oudaen, 1650. Haarlem, Thomas Fonteyn, for Jacob Aertsz. Colom, 1651. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved frontispiece, and author's portrait by R. à Persyn after C. Saftleven. [24], 610 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Courtesy Books  Education  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Portuguese work on cosmography and comets View picture(s) 5 AHLERS, Francisco Henrique. Instrucção sobre os corpos celestes, principalmente sobre os cometas. Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1758. 4to. Contemporary calf. With 3 folding engraved plates by M. le Bouteux, etched headpiece and initial. [18], 86, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on fire-fighting. The invention of the fire-fighter helmet View picture(s) 6 ALDINI, Giovanni Le Chevalier. Art de se préserver de l'action de la flamme, appliqué aux pompiers et à la conservation des personnes exposées au feu; avec une série d'expériences faites en Italie, à Genève et à Paris. Paris, Madame Huzard (née Vallat la Chapelle), 1830. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red title label, lettered in gold, marbled edges. With a lithographed author's portrait and 4 lithographed folding plates by De Langlumé, after Lemoine Benoit, with the equipment and actions of firemen. [VII], [1], 142, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fire Fighting  Italy  Medicine  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century View picture(s) 7 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera. Bologna, 1599-1667. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With engraved title to each volume, engraved full page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Botany  Collections  Encyclopædic Works  Fishing  Italy  Natural History  Science  Shells  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Convolute of very rare, early French works on (filtering) fountains and water sanitation, with handcoloured plates View picture(s) 8 AMY, [Joseph]. Nouvelles fontaines filtrantes. Approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sçiences en plusiers rencontres, dont quelques-unes sont présentées dans ce livre, pour la santé des armées du Roi. Sur mer & sur terre, & du public, le tout accompagné de figures expliquées par lettres indicatives. Paris, A. Boudet, 1752. Two parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with gilt compartments. 6 folding woodcut plates, 1 other woodcut plate and 7 (almost) full-page woodcut illustrations in the text. VIII, 72, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  France  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Metals  Militaria  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous sundial with the form of a poplar leaf, with beautiful woodcuts View picture(s) 9 APIANUS, Petrus. Folium populi. instrumentum hoc a Petro Apiano iam rfcens [sic] inventum, et in figuram folii populi rfdactum [sic] per radios solis toto orbe horas cõmunes ostendit, ex quibus horæ ab ortu & occasu solis, deinde etiam horæ judeorum, ... In disem newen Instrument, das die Form unnd Gestalt hat eines Blats, werden durch den Sonnen scheyn, in der gantzen Welt gefunden die gemaine Stunden des Tages, und auß der Selbigen, vermittels dises Blats magst du die Stunden vom Auff und Nidergang der Sonnen, des geleichen die Judenstund ... leichtlich erkhennen. [colophon:] Ingolstadt, [Petrus Apianus], 22 October 1533. Folio (30 x 20.5 cm). Modern boards with the original fly-leaves preserved. With the text in Latin and German, title-page in red and black with a large and finely executed woodcut by Hans Brosamer showing a diagram of the instrument flanked by a European and an Ottoman astronomer, each holding an astronomical instrument; a nearly full-page woodcut of the coat of arms of the dedicatee, J.G. of Loubenberg; a large woodcut diagram printed twice (in the Latin and in the German text); and 7 decorative initial letters. Without the folding plate included in a very small number of copies. [22] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Geography  Horology  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Written for the benefit of mankind View picture(s) 10 BACON, Francis. Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici; sive interiora rerum. Accedunt faber fortunae colores boni et mali, &c. Leyden, Franciscus Hackius, 1644. 2 works in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with two clasps, red edges. Engraved title. (2), 5-416, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Philosophy  Politics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Enlarged with 15 chapters by the Dutch scientist, Martinus Houttuyn View picture(s) 11 BAKER, Henry. Het mikroskoop gemakkelyk gemaakt. Amsterdam, heirs F. Houttuyn, 1778. 8vo. Later dark green half cloth, gold-tooled spine. With 28 folding engraved plates and 1 folding table. 36, 496, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Microscopy  Science  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a discussion on Chinese medicine and acapuncture View picture(s) 12 BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad. De medicinae origine et progressu dissertationes. In quibus medicinorum sectae, institutiones, decreta, hypotheses, praeceptiones, &c. Ab initio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora traduntur. Utrecht, Gysbertus Paddenburg and Guilielmus Croon, 1723. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine divided in five compartments, light brown morocco title label, red edges. Title-page printed in red and black, few woodcut illustrations in text. (16), 680 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Medicine  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two masterpieces of Dutch hydraulic engineering View picture(s) 13 BARNARD, John Gross. Report on the North Sea Canal of Holland; and on the improvement of navigation from Rotterdam to the sea; to the chief of engineers, United States army. (Professional papers of the corps of engineers, U.S. army. No. 22). Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872. 4to. Contemporary brown half morocco, reddish-brown cloth sides gold-blocked with the title and the coat of arms of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. With 12 plates numbered as 11 (all but 1 folding and 1 printed in red and black) containing maps, plans, sections, construction drawings of equipment and locks, etc.. Further with a half title, title-page, preface, and list of plates. 77, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  Hydraulics  Maps - 19th Century  Rotterdam  Science  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most illustrious of all celestial atlases View picture(s) 14 BAYER, Johannes. Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa. Ulm, Johannes Görlin, 1639. Folio (31.5 x 41 cm). Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, double blind filet along sides. With engraved architectural title and 51 full-page engraved maps of stellar constellations by Alexander Mair. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astronomy  Atlases  Engravings  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedication copy by the author View picture(s) 15 BEKE, Charles Tilstone. The sources of the Nile: being a general survey of the basin of that river, and of its head-streams; with the history of Nilotic discovery. London, James Madden, 1860. 8vo. Original purple blind stamped decorated cloth with gilt title on spine. With 5 maps and 3 plates (large folding general map by John Dower of the Basin of the Nile, full page map showing how the Atbara, the Nile of the Ethiopians, may be turned into the Red Sea, and a full page plate showing three maps of the Peninsula of Godjam in 1660, 1790 and 1843; folding plate of coastal views of the Nile, plate of Ptolemais Therön, full page plate of the sources of the Nile according to Claudius Ptolemy), some illustrations in text. XV, [4], 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Egypt  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The immediate forerunner of Galileo on the making and use of sundials View picture(s) 16 BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. De gnomonum umbrarumque solarium usu liber. Turin, Heirs of Niccolo Bevilacqua, 1574. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. Large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on title; about one hundred geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text, several full-page, including a full-page perspective instrument invented by the author; charming and interesting woodcut initials in the text. (6), 123, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First great scientific atlas: seminal work of thematic cartography View picture(s) 17 BERGHAUS, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm. Physikalischer Atlas oder Sammlung von Karten, ... Erster[-Zweiter] Band. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1845-1848[-1849]. 2 vols. Folio. Original publisher's purple-gray cloth, gold- and blind-blocked, yellow endpapers with publisher's advertisement and quotes from reviews pasted down on them. With 90 numbered maps, graphs and tables, mostly double-page and nearly all hand-coloured (many in outline) as issued. (4), 8, 134, (2); (iv), (2), 58 [= 135-192], (1), 194-224, (1), 228-233, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases  Cartography  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Studybook of geometry View picture(s) 18 BEYEM VAN AERSSEN, Hippolytus. Eygenschappen der driehoecken met een half en anderhalf rechtenhoeck, waer onder verscheydene voorstellen sijn, die de rechthoeckige ende andere driehoecken betreffen. Met noch een tractaet handelende van vierkantinghe en deelinghe van verscheydene figuyren door circkelboghen besloten. Leeuwarden, Eyvo Taeckes Wielsma, 1671. Contemporary vellum. With a woodcut diagram on title-page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text. [8], 102, [4], 103-117, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The predecessor of Kepler in calculating the cubic capacity of vessels View picture(s) 19 BEYER, Johann Hartmann. Ein Newe und schöne Art der vollkommenen Visierkunst: derengleichen hiebevor niemaln in keiner Spraach gesehen worden. Wie man nemlich vielerley underschiedne Visierstäbe zurichten auch mit denselbigen allerhand regulierten hole Cörpor sie seyen so groß oder kleyn sie immer mögen als mancherley Stärcke, Köhrcästen, Brunnen, Faß, Bütten, Eymer, Gläser, Kugeln u. Visieren und deren Inhalt ganz leichtlich erkündigen soll... Frankfurt am Main, Palthenium for Iona Rose, 1603. 4to. Modern overlapping vellum. Many woodcut diagrams and figures in text, many schedules with numeral information. (12), 68, 191 (1 blank), (38) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Epoch-making work on historicalness of nature View picture(s) 20 BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Zweyte durchgehends verbesserte Ausgabe. Göttingen, J.Chr. Dieterich, 1782. 8vo. Later boards covered with blue paper. With 3 folding engraved tables. (8), 561, (27) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  German  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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