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Spectacles are good, but not always ... View picture(s) 1 ADAMS, George. Verhandeling over het zien, verklaarende kortlijk den aart van het zien, en het zamenstel van het oog; ten dienste van menschen, wier oogen zwak of ongesteld zijn; stellende hen in staat om een juist denkbeeld van de waare gesteldheid van hun gezicht te maaken, geevende de behoedmiddelen daar voor op, beneevens zekere regelen, om te weeten of men eenen bril noodig hebbe, en hoe dien als dan te kiezen, zonder dat hij het gezicht benadeele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met aanmerkingen verrijkt door H. Aeneae. Amsterdam, H. Gartman, W. Vermandel, & J.W. Smit, 1792. 8vo. Original boards. Large folding engraved plate with 8 images concerning optics such as cross-sections of the human eye, camera obscura, glasses etc. (8), 174, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Microscopy  Ophtalmology  Optics  Scientific Instruments  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) 2 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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Convolute of very rare, early French works on (filtering) fountains and water sanitation, with handcoloured plates View picture(s) 3 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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Classic of surveying & instrument-making View picture(s) 4 FABRI, Ottavio. L'uso della squadra mobile, con la quale per teorica, e pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità; ... accresciuta in questa terza edizione di parecchie istruzioni, ..., ec. da Giovanni Vettori. Trento, Stamparia Vescovile Paroniana [= Giambattista Parone, printer to the Diocese of Trent], 1753. 4to. Richly gold-tooled contemporary tanned sheepskin, silk ties, gilt edges. With engraved architectural title-page and letterpress title-page (each with the arms of the diocese), 1 unnumbered folding and 3 numbered illustration plates, 25 engraved illustrations in the text (mostly 8.5 x 10.5 cm but 4 nearly full-page; irregularly numbered I-XXIV), engraved arms of the dedicatee, 1 engraved pictorial initial letter, 8 woodcut head- and tailpieces (plus 3 repeats), 9 woodcut decorated initial letters (plus 16 repeats). XII, 9-144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Science  Scientific Instruments  Surveying  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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Microscopic research in ca. 1850 View picture(s) 6 HARTING, Pieter. Het mikroskoop, deszelfs gebruik, geschiedenis en tegenwoordige toestand. Een handboek voor natuur- en geneeskundigen. Eerste - vierde deel.- IDEM. De nieuwste verbeteringen van het miskroskoop en zijn gebruik, sedert 1850. Utrecht & Tiel, Van Paddenburg & Comp., Gebr. Campagne & H. C. A. Campagne, 1848-1858. 5 parts in 4 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary red morocco presentation bindings, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt and blind-stamped fillet borders on sides and gilt dedication "Het Antwerpsch Kruidkundig Genootschap aen zynen Achtbaren Bestuurder J.J. de Beucker. Oogstmaend 1864" on front covers, richly gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges. With 5 folding tables, and 24 folding lithographed plates with numerous illustrations, both technical ones of miscroscopes themselves, and illustrations of objects as seen through the microscope, animate as well as inanimate, for use of physicians, natural scientists and chemists, including one plate with microscopic illustrations of plants coloured by hand. X, (2), 415, (1); IX, (3), 356; XVII, (3), 542; VII, (1), 325, (30); VIII, 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Microscopy  Science  Scientific Instruments  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. With title with woodcut ornament, two engraved headpieces, folding engraved 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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Rare work on microscopy by the famous naturalist Ledermüller View picture(s) 8 LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius. Versuch, bey angehender Frühlingszeit, Vergrößerungs Werckzeuge zum nützlich und angenehmen Zeitvertreib anzuwenden. Essai d'employer les instruments microscopiques. Nuremberg, A.L. Wirsing, 1764. Folio. Contemporary boards. With engraved hand-coloured title-page and 12 full-page hand-coloured engraved plates. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  Microscopy  Natural History  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare Tahitian imprint concerning astronomy View picture(s) 9 MAZIMANN, P. De l'utilité dont serait un cerlcle [sic] a pied parallactique pour l'observation des distances lunaires. Tahiti, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1858. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. 14, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Maritime History  Navigation  Pacific  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Phipps's expedition to the North Pole View picture(s) 10 PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to (29 x 22 cm). Contemporary marbled calf. With 16 large engraved double-page and folding plates and maps, and many tables in the text. VIII, 253 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Northern Passage  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On constructing fountains, buildings and bridges View picture(s) 11 SCALETTA, Carlo Cesare. Scuola mecanico-speculativo-pratica. In cui si esamina la proporzione, che ha la potenza alla resistenza del corpo grave; per l'uso civile, e militare utile e necessaria ad ogni matematico, ingegnerio, architetto, machinista, e bombardiere. Edizione prima Veneta. Venice, Antonio Mora, 1745. Folio. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed. Title in red & black, engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates with many mechanical and perspectival figures. (16), 204 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engravings  Mathematics  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On lenses and spectacles by an 18th-century optician View picture(s) 12 THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves, pour toutes sortes de vues. Marques auxquelles on peut connoître si les vues longues ordinaires ont besoin de conserves ou lunettes, des verres convexes qui leur conviennent, & des verres concaves qui sont propres aux vues courtes. Methode pour se conserver la vue; avec une dissertation sur ce que les personnes âgées la recouvrent quelque-fois dans un âge avancé. Par M. Mitouflet, dit Thomin, Marchand Miroitier-Lunettier. Paris, Claude Lamesle, 1746. 12mo. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf. With woodcut initials, head- and endpieces. 130, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Medicine  Medicine & Anatomy & Physiology  Optics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Last edition of a 16th-century manual on sundials View picture(s) 13 VIMERCATO, Giovanni Battista. Dialogo de gli Horologi Solari ... Nel quale con ragioni specolative, e pratiche facilmente s'insegna il modo di fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi. Novamente ristampo con le sue figure ... & con un agiunta di un horologio da servirsene al lume della luna. Padua, [after the Venice edition by Giolito, 1585], 1672. 4to. 18th-century stiff plain wrappers. With a large woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 3 large folding woodcut plates, more than 30 woodcuts in the text, nearly all full-page, and numerous woodcut decorations. [27], [1 blank], 79, [1 blank], 89-331 [= 131], [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Horology  Science  Scientific Instruments  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the explanation and extensive demonstration of a proportional pair of compasses View picture(s) 14 WARIUS, Pieter. Nieuwe Verklaring over de Proportionaal Passer, Waar in aangewesen word, hoe dezelve is te teekenen, en hoe Tafeltjes daar toe dienende konnen worden berekend, vervolgens der zelver veelvuldig en nuttig gebruyk, zoo in de Tel- als Meetkonst; namentlyk: in de Telkonst, om uyt een gegeven getal de Quadraat en Cubic-wortel te trekken, de Regel van Driën uyt te werken, enz. In de Meetkonst, om Driehoeken, zoo Regt- als Scheef-hoekige t'ontbinden; Zonnewyzers te teekenen, Fortressen t'ontwerpen; veele en verscheyde Voorstellen, aangaande Linien, Hoeken, geschikte en ongeschikte Vlakken, Ronden, geschikte Lichaamen, Metaalen Kogelen, enz. op te lossen. Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1708. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, red mottled edges. With large folding engraved plate illustrating the newly invented proportional pair of compasses, including its scales, and numerous geometrical figures and diagrams illustrationg the application of the proportional pair of compasses on 12 folding engraved plates. (4), 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the history of meteorology View picture(s) 15 [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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