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Edité par Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019
ISBN 10 : 0081019831ISBN 13 : 9780081019832
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 3rd edition. 4600 pages. 19.00x14.00x7.50 inches. In Stock.
Edité par Elizabeth Town: Shepard Kollock, for the Author, 1789., 1789
Vendeur : Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 8vo., (7 6/8 x 5 5/8 inches). With an errata leaf including directions to the binder and the leaf giving "Corrections Respecting France" at the end. 2 large folding engraved maps engraved by Amos Doolittle (some browning and offsetting as usual). Contemporary deerskin (rebacked to style preserving the original red morocco lettering-piece). Provenance: with the bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the front paste-down. "The time, is anticipated when all distinctions between master and slaves shall be abolished; and when the language, manners, customs, political and religious sentiments of the mixed mass of the people who inhabit the United States, shall have become so assimilated, as that all nominal distinctions shall be lost in the general and honourable name of AMERICANS" (page 68) First edition. The two maps show: ". the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia Comprehending the Spanish Provinces of East and West Florida, Exhibiting the boundaries as fixed by the late Treaty of Peace between the United States and the Spanish dominions." (after Joseph Purcell); and ".the Northern and Middle States Comprehending the Western Territory and the British Dominions in North America." Morse was both a clergyman and one of America's most influential cartographers. His "Geography Made Easy (1784) was the first published textbook on American geography in America. Morse used a questionnaire to gain the knowledge he used to compile this second work, his "American Geography". He circulated it to "such Gentlemen as are able and likely to furnish answers", reprinted it in weekly newspapers, received numerous replies as a result. He quoted from Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" (1784) and from maps by Lewis Evans, Thomas Pownall, and others. "He queried "men of Science" for information on natural history and other specialties. He obtained statistics on population from magazines and newspapers. In his published book he did not clearly identify his many sources, and he often quoted works directly. He would not use foreign publications, with the comment that "Europeans have . . . too often suffered fancy to supply the place of facts." (Elizabeth Noble Shor for ADNB). Howes M840; Evans 21978; Sabin 50924; Wheat and Brun 149 and 491. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
Edité par W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1843
Vendeur : Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. [A complete set of Jardine's encyclopedic and profusely illustrated work on zoology. Sections include: ornithology, mammalia, ichthyology and entomology.] Mixed set. Collated. 40 volume set. Bound in 1/2 green morocco over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spines and covers. Shelf wear, with rubbing, minor edge wear. Spines slightly sunned. Marbled end sheets. Profusely illustrated with 1,616 illustrations. The vast majority being hand colored plates. Sections include: Birds, 14 vols, Mammals 13 vols, Insects 7 vols, and Fish 6 vols. Refs: Nissen ZBI 4708; Wood p 405; Zimmer p 326; Nissen IVB 471. "Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth, was a Scottish naturalist, was elected fellow of numerous societies, including the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Linnaean Society of London, and the Society of Antiquaries. After studying medicine at Edinburgh University, Jardine's interests turned to botany, geology, ornithology, and other branches of the natural sciences. Jardine coined the term "ichnology," and was the first to author a book on the subject. His private natural history museum and library were reputed to be the finest in Britain at the time. Jardine greatest achievement may have been making natural history available to all facets of Victorian society through The Naturalist's Library. Issued and published by his brother in law, the Edinburgh printer and engraver, William Home Lizars, the series proved popular and accessible. It also counted John Ray, Thomas Bewick, Prideaux John Selby, and many other giant among its contributors." - Sotheby's sale, N11124-1012, 2022.
Edité par Bennett, 1830
Vendeur : Barry Lawrence Ruderman, La Jolla, CA, Etats-Unis
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No Binding. Etat : VG+. Bennett / 1830 / West Point From Phillipstown. To Colonel S. Thayer Superintendant of the W.S. Military Academy, West Point, This Print is Respectfully Inscribed By His Obedient Servant W.J. Bennett (New York City Long Island, 52737) Fine Early View of West Point by William James Bennett -- Dedicated To General Sylvanus Thayer Dramatic view of the Hudson and West Point: focusing 'on the beauty of the Hudson River and the mountains that border it on either side . a celebration of nature, highlighting the ever-changing drama staged by mountains, water, and sky' (Deak). This view is dedicated by Bennett to Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (1785 -1872) also known as "the Father of West Point," an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States. Sayer was appointed Superintendent by President James Monroe in 1817, following the resignation of Captain Alden Partridge. Colonel Thayer's time at West Point ended with his resignation in 1833, after a disagreement with President Andrew Jackson. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1834. Under Thayer's leadership, the Academy became the nation's first college of engineering. While at West Point Thayer established numerous traditions and policies which are still in use at West Point. These include the values of honor and responsibility, strict mental and physical discipline, the demerit system, summer encampment, high academic standards and the requirement that cadets maintain outstanding military bearing and appearance at all times. William James Bennett (c. 1787-1844) was an English born artist, who received his training at the Royal Academy. He moved to the United States in 1826, and where he became a well accomplished maker of views of American cities, including the Hudson Valley Region, Niagara Falls, New York, Charleston, and Buffalo. With the arrival of William Bennett and several other migr artists such as William Guy Wall, and John Hill, the quality of aquatint engraving in America was elevated to a level equaling, or perhaps even surpassing, that of European printmakers. This print was published at the beginning of an important period in the history of American topographical-view making. As noted by Deak: Bennett created four prints after paintings by George Cooke (1793-1849) in his series of views of American cities . American-born George Cooke was a prolific painter of portraits, views, and historical subjects. He painted this scene of West Point in 1832 after he had left New York . for . the Catskill mountains' (Deak, William James Bennett p.78). 'Cooke benefited from the remarkable craftsmanship of . Bennett, who endowed the rendering with a radiant quality' (Deak Picturing America p.277). Map.
Edité par Sumptibus Jacob Cardon, 1631
Vendeur : Chaco 4ever Books, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay
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Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Muy bien. 1ª Edición. In-8º. (8)ff, 572, (2), 44, (1) pp. Title-page in red & black, printed fleur-de-lis on frontispice, woodcut head and tailpieces and decorative initial letters. Bound in full contemporary vellum, red title-label on spine, blue edges, occasional light foxing but in very good condition. NIREMBERG was the son of a Tyrolean father and of a Bavarian mother, who belonged to the retinue of María de Austria, daughter of Carlos V. They settled permanently in Spain where Juan Eusebio always lived. They knew Juan Caramuel, with whom Juan Eusebio would close a great friendship. He began studying at the University of Alcalá de Henares, but in 1614 he entered as a novice at Villagarcía de Arosa, despite the opposition of his father, who managed to get him out of there. However, he persisted in his idea and got his father to let him continue. He studied Greek and Hebrew at the College of Huete, and arts and theology at the University of Alcalá with his friend Juan Caramuel between 1618 and 1623. In 1623 he was ordained priest and professed as a Jesuit in 1633. He spent some time in Toledo, but was called to Madrid to teach humanities and natural sciences at the Imperial College of Madrid of the Society of Jesus for six years. Later he was in charge of teaching biblical exegesis and theology for a three-year period. During his time as professor of natural sciences published some scientific works such as Curiosa Philosophy and natural issues (Printing of the Kingdom, Madrid, 1630) and Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae (Antwerp, 1634) written with amenity, but without original contributions. He had the good sense to prefer, although the root of his thought in matters of physics is Aristotelian, the corpuscular explanation of atomism to that of the substantial forms of the Stagirite, in what coincided with his friend Juan Caramuel and in what the novatores of the XVIII century would follow him later. His scientific works are completed with the new mystery of the magnet stone and new description of the terrestrial globe (Madrid, 1643). The philosophical thought of Nieremberg is extremely eclectic: he mixes Scholasticism with Averroist, Kabbalistic, Platonic and Stoic elements and that is why he suffers from the lack of organicity of the eclectic school, although always subjected to Catholic dogma. Soon he was oriented towards theology, asceticism and hagiography, which form the bulk of his written work, abundant in itself (73 printed titles and 11 manuscripts). Provenance : Ex-Libris Jacobo Frers La Paz Bolivia.
Edité par P. Bourgoin, 1750
Vendeur : Armadillo Books, Chapel Hill, NC, Etats-Unis
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No Binding. Etat : Fine. 1 map outline 31 x 44 cm., sheet 37 x 52 cm. Publisher description: "A Paris Chez Bourgoin Graveur Rue de la Harpe vis a vis le Passage des Jacobins a côte du Caffé de Condé." Map collector Leon Kashnor noted that the map, quote, "shows a good coast of the North-West, locating the Russian discoveries of 1744." Depicts rudimentary Mer de l'Ouest. Sea of Korea referred to on map as "M. de Coree." Decorated title cartouche with ribbon border. Fallen warrior and signs of battle below map, armillary sphere. Prime meridian: Ferro. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Hand-colored cartouche, vignettes includes an armillary sphere. Small closed tear near center top. Only four copies listed on WorldCat (University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Huntington Library, & the University of Bern in Switzerland).
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Company N.D., Boston
Vendeur : Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. First Edition; Eleventh Printing. All volumes Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. The Fellowship of the Ring 14th printing.
Edité par The Hague: Detune, 1779, 1779
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
First collected edition of Pascal's works, containing much significant material published here for the first time. Pascal is the towering figure among the European mathematicians of the mid 17th century. His achievements range from his celebrated calculating machine - the first to be produced commercially - to projective geometry, the calculus of probabilities and indivisibles and to the study of infinitesimal problems. This edition was prepared by an important French disseminator of science and major contributor to scientific education, Charles Bossut (1730-1814). His textbooks of engineering and physics were in use in France and - in translations - in other European countries up to the Empire. He also wrote the Discours sur la vie & les ouvrages de Pascal, which takes up pages 3 to 119 of volume I of this edition. The first three volumes are devoted to Pascal's literary and philosophical writings, the final two volumes to his scientific texts. For a detailed bibliographical analysis, see René Taton's article in DSB. Among the scientific works appearing here for the first time are the famous Pascal-Noël correspondence on the vacuum, the letter to Le Pailleur refuting Noël, the preface to the treatise on the vacuum (the only surviving fragment of his intended major treatise on the vacuum), and his correspondence with Fermat and de Ribeyre. Also included are all of the Pascal texts relating to his invention of the calculating machine, with two finely engraved plates depicting the mechanism (Pascal's letter to Queen Christina, Royal patents, etc., which are virtually unobtainable in the originals). Maire, pp. 117 19; see DSB X, 330 42. 5 volumes, octavo (198 x 127 mm). Contemporary blue paper boards, manuscript titles to spines, light yellow edges. Titles printed in red and black, with engraved portrait frontispiece and 14 folding engraved plates, woodcut vignettes, woodcut tailpieces in the text. Light rubbing, but bindings fresh with all joints and hinges intact; bound without the 'Avis' leaf at the end of vol. V, some light browning, marginal paper-flaw to one preliminary leaf in vol. II. A very nice set.
Edité par London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931, 1931
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First edition, first impression, of the posthumous collection of essays by the Wittgenstein-influenced philosopher Frank Ramsey (1904-1930), here the copy of the American philosopher Rush Rhees (1905-1999), one of the literary executors of Wittgenstein's estate, with his handwritten and typed notes loosely inserted and his extensive marginalia; a significant association volume between two close friends of Wittgenstein. Ramsey published a review of Wittgenstein's Tractatus in the journal Mind while still an undergraduate, a review which is printed on pages 270-286 of the present volume. It remains to this day one of the most reliable expositions of the work. With C. K. Ogden, Ramsey translated the Tractatus for the parallel English German edition published in 1922. Ramsey's work was thereafter infused with Wittgenstein's thought, and he became Wittgenstein's closest friend upon the latter's return to Cambridge in 1929. In 1930 Ramsey died suddenly, aged only 26, and the present book, a collection of his philosophical and logical papers and articles, was posthumously prepared by R. B. Braithwaite, with the assistance of Wittgenstein (cited on p. xiv). Wittgenstein's friend and pupil, Rhees was appointed by him, together with two others, as executor of his estate and overseer of the publication of his vast amount of unpublished work, his "Nachlass", totalling some twenty thousand pages. From these unpublished papers, Rhees prepared with Elizabeth Anscombe the Philosophical Investigations in 1953, and Wittgenstein's own works on mathematical philosophy, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, in 1956. Rhees himself also authored a number of philosophical works. The present volume is annotated throughout by Rhees in pencil and ink (chiefly in marginal notes), with a typescript and a manuscript copy of the article "Foundations of Mathematics" from the Encyclopedia Britannica loosely inserted (dated 1987), alongside 3 pages of typescript notes on Ramsey's writings on Wittgenstein, and 3 pages of manuscript notes in ink. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered gilt. Somewhat rolled and shaken, hinges a little split, still all holding, some toning and foxing; a good copy.
Edité par London [& Totowa, NJ]: Hutchinson [& Rowman and Littlefield], 1982-3, 1982
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First UK edition of vol. I, first US of II and III, each volume a presentation copy to the British physicist Michael Redhead, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper of each, "To Michael Redhead from Karl Popper", and dated respectively "14-3-83", "13-8-82", and "12-8-82". Redhead (1929-2020) was a colleague of Popper's at the London School of Economics. Redhead was greatly influenced by Popper's work, a testament to Popper's influence both within the philosophy of science, and on the methods of practising scientists. Redhead published an article, "Popper and Quantum Theory", in 1995. Presentation sets to the same recipient are very scarce in commerce, due to the gap between publication, and a history of inscribed sets being broken up. Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery is one of the major works on determinism and indeterminism, Popper's three-part postscript to his first published book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935 in German, 1959 English). Although the culmination of Popper's work in the philosophy of physics, the Postscript took almost three decades to be published. Originally intended as appendices to a later edition of The Logic of Scientific Discovery, the three works grew into a fully fledged work which actually exceeded in length The Logic of Scientific Discovery. In 1956-7 the Postscript was all set to be published and already existed in the form of galley proofs, but because of his deteriorating eyesight Popper was never able to proof-read the galleys and the whole project remained on hold for 25 years. 3 works, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets (vol. II in UK edition jacket). Minor ink sidelining in a few instances by recipient. Jackets lightly toned with minor edgewear and a few peripheral closed tears, prices intact; a very good set.
Edité par Burdeos: Imprenta de Lawalle Jóven y Sobrino, 1819, 1819
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First edition of the posthumously published work in which Caldas describes his principal scientific achievement, the discovery of a method for measuring altitude by the boiling point of pure water. Caldas (1768-1816), a self-taught scientist - and a lawyer and military engineer - from Popayán, New Granada, independently discovered the hypsometric principle and in 1801 constructed the first hypsometric thermometer. Later that same year he met Alexander von Humboldt, who had heard of Caldas and was impressed by the quality of his work given his extreme academic isolation. "Humboldt trained Caldas in many scientific methods and introduced him to new instruments; when the group travelled to Chile Humboldt began to teach him botany, which would continue to be his focus for many years" (NHM). Caldas went on to become director of the Astronomical Observatory of Santa Fe and to establish El Semanario, the first weekly geographical periodical in the Viceroyalty. During the Spanish American Reconquista he was executed by firing squad aged 48 for his involvement in the fight for New Granada's (modern-day Colombia's) independence. See Natural History Museum's biography of Caldas, JSTOR Global Plants database. Quarto (230 x 185 mm). Contemporary dark brown sheep, smooth spine backed with lighter brown sheep, new endpapers. Folding engraved plate of thermometer facing p. 20, tables to text. Without the half-title. Extremities lightly worn, a few scuffs to boards, front endpapers a little tight causing some stiffness in hinge, three discreet paper repairs to gutter of title page, the contents generally crisp and clean with just a few neat pencilled marginal notes and a few instances of faint foxing. A very good copy.
Edité par Naples: Stamperia francese, 1824, 1824
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First edition, presentation copy, inscribed in Fuoco's hand on the initial blank in vol. I "Messieurs les Directeurs du Bulletin Universel des Sciences et de l'industrie, de la part de l'auteur". The journal Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie favourably reviewed the work (the first volume noted in Tome Trioiseme, 1825, p. 366, the second volume more lengthily reviewed, Tome Huitième, 1826, pp. 65-70). Fuoco (1774-1841) "possessed above any of his contemporaries a keen spirit, apt to study, suited to economic investigation; but never enjoyed the comfort of seeing his works valued in their true light. Fuoco treated all the most important theories of economic science. He was was the first in Italy to acknowledge the importance of Ricardo's theory of rent, - which he fully supports, particularly fixing attention on the rent derived through situation. He also discussed coinage and bank questions, especially in one of those works (La magia del credito svelata) which he sold under the burden of want to Giuseppe de Welz of Como, who published it under his own name. Fuoco had written this work to support the financial policy of the minister Medici. In this work he proved, with great brilliancy, that credit multiplies capital" (Palgrave). The work is "concerned with the practical problem of directing and promoting the development of a backward economy, with great stress on the protection of industry and on the creation of credit" (Porta, p. 65). Fuoco is "the first author to have gone systematically into the literature of mathematical economics available then and to have presented a systematic defence of the application of mathematical methods in economic analysis" (Theocaris). The sheets were re-issued under the title Principii fondamentali di economia pubblica e di finanze in 1840 (see Kress Italian 1055). Einaudi 1562; Goldsmiths' 24168; Kress Italian 865 (lacking the half-titles); Mattioli 935; Palgrave II, p.169. Pier Luigi Porta, "A Note on Italian Economics in the Early Nineteenth Century", in History of Economic Ideas, vol. I, no. 1, 1993. Reghinos D. Theocaris, Early Developments in Mathematical Economics (1983). 2 volumes, quarto. Uncut, recased in quarter vellum and grey boards, preserving original wrappers. With 4 folding tables, and engraved plate. Printed paper slip, discussing the work, mounted to the inner front wrapper. Mostly unopened, some repairs to wrappers, occasional light foxing, vol. I with tear to fore-margin of p. 379 repaired, short wormtracks to the gutter of pp. 241 52 and the second folding table, just touching text. A very good copy.
Edité par Amsterdam: Michiel de Groot, 1677-76, 1677
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Rare early editions of Bartjens's classic work on arithmetic, here combining both separately published parts, the first part originally published in 1604, the second in 1636. Bartjens here promotes double-entry bookkeeping, helping to make the practice standard in the Netherlands. He applies counting to specific systems of weights and currencies and offers many exercises dealing with questions of trade such as compound interest, but provides no algebra or geometry, a reflection of the mercantile class at which the book was aimed. Bartjens's work was many times reprinted and was the most popular textbook for almost 200 years in Holland, often reissued and progressively updated. Survival in such good condition is unusual. Listed in K. Hoogendoorn, Bibliography of the Exact Sciences in the Low Countries from Ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700), 2018, p. 65 (05) and p. 64 (2.2); these editions not in EHB, Herwood, or ICAEW. 2 parts in 1 volume, octavo (146 x 87 mm). Contemporary stiff vellum. Woodcut title page to the first part incorporating portrait of author, half-page engraving of author to the second part. 20th-century bookplate of H. J. Soeten, single page of contemporary manuscript calculations at rear and a few contemporary annotations to text. Small paper flaw to the letterpress title page of the first part, causing loss of one letter of the imprint, lightly toned throughout, a little light damp staining towards front and rear, a few contemporary annotations in ink; a very good copy in a sturdy binding.
Edité par Edinburgh: Printed for A. Millar & T. Cadell, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1767, 1767
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First edition of Ferguson's masterpiece, a key text of the Scottish Enlightenment and a pioneering precursor of modern sociology. Ferguson's Essay developed "a detailed, colourful, non-deterministic historical account of the way nations advance morally and materially towards the state of commerce, refinement, and liberty associated with eighteenth-century Britain" (ODNB). His work consequently examined the development of human society, from barbarism to civilised refinement, and the consequences of that development - both beneficial and detrimental. Ferguson followed Montesquieu by emphasising the great variety of factors, climactic, geographic, cultural and moral, that informed the rise and fall of polities in Europe and beyond. Equally, he had much to say on the issues of contemporary society: tackling the thorny question of how to balance wealth and virtue - a key concern of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ferguson's answer was to challenge the tendency of wealthy commercial men to withdraw from politics, and thus from virtuous activities, by inculcating a greater civic consciousness among such individuals. Among his contemporaries, Ferguson's Essay made a particularly significant impact on the embryonic efforts to develop a discipline of social sciences at the University of Gottigen: "They were impressed by his comparative attitude to societies ancient and modern, and by his attack on Rousseau's concept of the state of nature. Ferguson's approach inspired a comparative ethnography that went beyond the traditional dichotomy between 'primitive' and 'civilized', and tried to map the varieties of social mores without grading them on a strict ladder of historical progress" (ibid.). Ferguson's discussions "of politics, economics, history, aesthetics, literature and ethnology were the synthesis of the thought of his time" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy III, p. 187). ESTC T76205; Goldsmiths' 10264; Higgs 3973; Kress 6432. Quarto (263 x 206 mm). Recent calf, spine with raised bands and red morocco label, compartments ruled and ornamented in gilt, double gilt fillet to covers, original outer blanks preserved. Several light scuffmarks to covers, light browning to endpapers, moderate toning to outer leaves, moderate foxing to contents, marginal tear and small chip to sig. 2A3, neatly repaired, a few small ink marks, including one to final page obscuring one letter: a very good copy.
Edité par London: Macmillan and Co., 1869, 1869
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First edition of the author's account of his collecting expedition from 1854 to 1862, during which he first conceived the principle of natural selection; with the ownership signature of Charles Bunbury, Charles Lyell's brother in law and a skilled botanist, on the half-title of volume II, dated the year of publication. Bunbury read Wallace carefully, speaking of him in his autobiography, and discussed species mutability with Darwin. Arriving in Malaya on 20 April 1854, Wallace spent eight years visiting every important island in the archipelago, many of which more than once. "His efforts, drawing on perhaps 70 separate expeditions (requiring some 14,000 miles of island-to-island sailing in native crafts), reaped the astonishing harvest of 126,500 natural history specimens, including more than 200 new species of birds and well over 1000 new insects" (ODNB). The work also recounts "his efforts to capture specimens of the bird of paradise, his pursuit of the orang-utan, his activities in New Guinea (where he was one of the first Europeans to set up a residence), his various dealings with the region's many native peoples, and numerous vignettes conveying the joys and vicissitudes of the field naturalist's work" (ibid.). It was a huge success upon publication, drawing praise for its artistic format, literary style, and scientific merits. While recovering from illness in Halmahera in 1858, Wallace theorized that natural selection was the driving force of evolution, leading to his groundbreaking treatise published in 1870. "It was during the period from 1854 to 1862 that Wallace fully came into his own as a zoogeographer. The Malay archipelago provided the ideal geographical setting for species distribution studies, not only as an end in themselves, but as evidence critical to elucidation of the evolutionary process" (ibid.). Like Wallace, Bunbury (1809-1886) travelled extensively; he collected specimens in South America and South Africa and accompanied Lyell on an expedition to Madeira in 1853. An astute follower of contemporary biological and botanical advancements, Bunbury's autobiography includes letters to Lyell in which he notes his agreement with Wallace's zoogeographical theories: "Is any instance known of any of the monkey kind being able to swim I never remember to have read of such. What Wallace and Bates observed about the range of various species of monkeys being limited by the great South-American rivers, appears most natural. I should have been surprised if it had been otherwise" (Lyell, vol. II, p. 230). Bunbury also met with Darwin on several occasions and recounted that, on 20 June 1856, he "had an interesting talk with him about species, and the various questions connected with their origin, distribution, and diffusion. I was very glad to find that there was some prospect of his publishing his views on the subject" (ibid., vol. II, p. 98). Freeman A1013; Howgego II W10; Norman 2176; Troelstra, pp. 446-8. Florence Clemens, "Conrad's Malaysia", in Robert D. Hamner, ed., Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives, 1990; Katherine Murray Lyell, ed., The Life of Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury, Bart, 1906. 2 volumes, octavo (186 x 125). Contemporary green half morocco, spines divided by 5 raised bands into 6 compartments framed in gilt, second and third lettered in gilt and dated at foot, blue and green marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, green silk bookmarker to vol. II. Wood-engraved frontispieces, 6 engraved plates, 2 folding maps, one of which a route map tinted blue and the other of the archipelago, numerous illustrations and maps in text. Engraved bookplates of the Royal Societies Club Library dated 4 March 1899 on front pastedowns. Joints and extremities expertly recoloured, spines browned, a handful of pencil annotations to contents, a few gatherings of appendix to vol. II unopened: a very good copy.
Edité par London: Printed for the Author's Children: and Sold by A. Millar, and J. Nourse; G. Hamilton and J Balfour, and A. Kincaid, Edinburgh; J. Barry, Glasgow; J. Smith, Dublin, 1748, 1748
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First edition, large paper copy, of "one of the most outstanding popular introductions to Newtonian science of the eighteenth-century" (Cohen, p. 209), this copy from the library of the Plummer family of Middlestead and Sunderland Hall, likely once owned by Maclaurin's university colleague, the physician Andrew Plummer (1697-1756). This work originated in the attempts of John Conduitt - the husband of Newton's favourite niece, Catherine Barton - to preserve Newton's papers and assemble a record of his life. Conduitt requested assistance from Maclaurin (1698-1746), which inspired the latter to compile his own account of the great scientist's discoveries. Maclaurin owed much to Newton; it was on Newton's recommendation that Maclaurin was appointed to his post at the University of Edinburgh, where Newton was so impressed by Maclaurin's aptitude that he offered to pay the young professor's salary from his own purse. Maclaurin was for many years the world's youngest professor, appointed at the age of 19. The present work is "the leading authoritative statement of mainstream Newtonianism" (ODNB). This copy is slightly larger than the large-paper copies described by Babson (286 mm in height) and from the Macclesfield library (285 mm), against the standard height of c.247 mm. Provenance: with the armorial bookplate of the Plummer family of Middlestead and the library label of their seat, Sunderland Hall, on the front pastedown. Andrew Plummer was a physician and professor of chemistry who established the Medical School at the University of Edinburgh. He and Maclaurin were contemporaries at the university, Maclaurin having been appointed professor in 1725 and Plummer in 1726. In 2008 this copy sold as part of the library of distinguished science collector Richard Green, a physician and amateur astronomer whose collection "illuminated six revolutionary centuries of scientific, mathematical, and philosophical thought, from the looking outward to the study inward" (Christie's sale catalogue, p. 9). Babson 85; Gray 112. I. Bernard Cohen, Franklin and Newton, 1956. Quarto (288 x 225 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, spine with five raised bands divided into six compartments with gilt rules, second compartment with red morocco label, others with central star motif in gilt, board edges rolled in blind, red sprinkled edges. With 6 engraved folding plates. With half-title. Extremities rubbed and worn in places, corners neatly restored, loss to head of spine, joints cracked but holding, light stripping to calf, front free endpaper sometime removed, occasional faint foxing and finger marks to contents: a very good copy.
Edité par Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1843-47, 1843
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First collected edition of the works of Laplace, luxuriously produced on the initiative of Laplace's widow and funded by the French government to honour their great scientist. The first five volumes comprise the Traité de Mécanique Céleste, a foundation of modern theoretical astronomy. Volume six contains the Exposition du Système du Monde, a successful popularization of current astronomical understanding. The final volume combines the Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités with Théorie analytique des Probabilités, Laplace's groundbreaking contribution to probability theory. Seven volumes, large quarto (271 x 212 mm). Contemporary French red half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, brown speckled edges. Lithographic folding plate in volume IV. Unidentified manuscript leaf on astronomy tipped in at the beginning of volume one. Light rubbing to spines and a tips, front cover of vol. I a little scratched, contents clean. An excellent set.
Hard Cover. Etat : Good. SIVE DE Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus LUCIS, LIBRI TRES. Authore Isaaco Newton, Equite Aurio. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke. S. T. P. Editio Secunda, auctior. LONDINI. Impensis Gul. & Joh. Innys Regiae Societatis Typographorum ad Insignia Principis in Areâ Occidentali D. Pauli. MDCCIXI [1719]. In 4º (de 19,5x12 cm) com ix, 415 págs. Encadernação da época inteira de pele com ferros a ouro na lombada e ferros a ouro rolados com motivos florais nas esquadrias das pastas e nos super-libris. Corte das folhas marmoreado. Acondicionado em estojo de pele. Ilustrado com 12 gravuras desdobráveis, abertas em chapa de metal, com todas as figuras geométricas do estudo da reflexão, da refracção e do estudo do arco-íris e das cores. Exemplar com título de posse manuscrito e rasurado no pé da folha de rosto. Segunda edição deste tratado ?um dos grandes livros da história da ciência? Newton produziu muitas explicações para os mais variados problemas. Este livro ?Óptica de Newton? fez pela Luz e pela Óptica o que o seu ?Principia? tinha feito pela Gravidade, ou seja, colocou a Luz numa base científica (diz E. W. Brown). Contém uma acumulação de fenômenos ópticos desde o seu primeiro trabalho (uma pequena memória sobre Transação Filosófica, 1672) até este livro editado 33 anos mais tarde. In 4º (19,5x12 cm). ix, 415 pags. Contemporary full calf binding, gilt at spine and gilt tooled at boards in floral frames. Marbled edges. Packed in case (in the style of a tobacco case) finished in full calf. Illustrated with 12 folding plates containing the graphics from the study of the light reflection and refraction, and the explanation of the rainbow. Copy with ownership title (erased) at bottom of title page. 2nd Latin edition of Newton's 'Optics: or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light. London 1704'. One of the greatest books in the history of science. Newton found out many explanations to many problems. This book ?Newton?s Optics? did for Optics and Light what his ?Principia? did for Gravitation, namely it gave Light a scientific basis (says E.W. Brown). It contains an accumulation of optical phenomena from his first paper (a short memoir in Philosophical Transaction, 1672) to the above book (Optics) 33 years later. Referências/References: Gray 180; Babson 138; Wallis 180; British Lybrary: General Reference Collection 59.g.19 Language: Latim / Latin Location/localizacao: M-11-C-11.
Vendeur : Livraria Castro e Silva, Lisboa, Portugal
Hard Cover. Etat : Good. BONONIAE. Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem. 1599. In fólio 37x27 cm. Com [xviii], 893, [lv] págs. Encadernação da época, em pergaminho rígido, com título manuscrito na lombada. Restauro recente com atilhos e folhas de guarda novos. Ilustrado com magnífico frontispício com o retrato do autor, portada decorativa, com xilogravuras no texto e com gravuras em extratexto de aves de todos os continentes, ilhas e terras descobertas. Os morcegos eram classificados, na época, na categoria das aves. É apresentado o ciclo de predação com aves devorando outras aves. Gravuras com a anatomia externa e interna dos órgãos das aves. A obra tem como subtítulo a História das Aves, sendo as mesmas apresentadas na sua relação material e simbólica com as diferentes sociedades humanas conhecidas, como por exemplo: a sociedade quinhentista com os seus elementos heráldicos adoptados no continente europeu; na antiguidade, com a representação dos avatares divinos do Egipto; na América com os toucados e vestuário dos ameríndios, entre outros. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) foi um naturalista italiano. Lineu e Buffon consideraram-no o pai da História Natural. Referido na literatura mais antiga como Aldrovandus, o seu nome em italiano é igualmente dado como Aldroandi. Formou-se em medicina e filosofia em 1553 e em lógica e filosofia em 1554 na Universidade de Bolonha. Em 1559 tornou-se professor de filosofia e em 1561 o primeiro professor de ciências naturais em Bolonha. Ao longo da sua vida reuniu um dos mais extraordinários gabinetes de curiosidades. Este teatro de História Natural continha cerca de 7.000 exemplares descritos pelo autor em 1595. Entre 1551 e 1554 organizou várias expedições para construção de um herbário, sendo estas as primeiras expedições botânicas que se conhecem. Possivelmente o seu herbário conteria cerca de 4760 exemplares em 4117 fólios reunidos em 16 volumes, conservados na Universidade de Bolonha. Tinha como colaboradores vários artistas, incluindo Jacopo Ligozzi, Giovanni Neri e Cornelio Schwindt, que faziam as ilustrações dos espécimes. A seu pedido e sob a sua direcção foi criado em Bolonha, em 1568, o Jardim Botânico, agora o Orto Botanico dell?Universita di Bologna. Legou a suas vastas colecções de botânica e zoologia ao Senado de Bolonha. Até 1742 as colecções foram conservadas no Palazzo Pubblico, em seguida, no Palazzo Poggi, tendo sido posteriormente distribuídas entre várias bibliotecas e instituições no decorrer do século XIX. Em 1907, uma parte representativa foi reunida no Palazzo Poggi, em Bolonha. Binding: hard parchment with title written on spine, recently restaured including new endpapers. Presenting some old dampstains. Illustrated with woodcut prints of birds from all the newly discovered continents, islands and lands. At the time bats were included in the birds category. The birds are presented in the cycle of predation devouring other birds. The work displays engravings with the external and internal anatomy of birds. Subtitled History of Birds, the book displays the birds in their material and symbolic relationship with the different known human societies, for example: the 16th century European society, with its heraldic elements; the antiquity, with the representation of the divine avatars in Egypt; in America, with headdresses and feather clothing of the Amerindians; among others. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was an Italian naturalist. Linnaeus and Buffon reckoned him as the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older literature, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi. He got a degree in medicine and philosophy in 1553 and started teaching logic and philosophy in 1554 at the University of Bologna. In 1559 he became professor of philosophy and in 1561 he became the first professor of natural sciences at Bologna. In the course of his life he would assemble one of the most spectacular cabinets of curiosities. This natural history ?theatre? included around 7000 specimens, of which he wrote a description in 1595. Between 1551 and 1554 he organized several expeditions to collect plants for a herbarium, the first botanic expeditions. Eventually his herbarium contained about 4760 dried specimens on 4117 sheets in sixteen volumes, preserved at the University of Bologna. He also worked with several artists, including Jacopo Ligozzi, Giovanni Neri, and Cornelio Schwindt, making illustrations of specimens. At his demand and under his direction a public botanic garden was created in Bologna in 1568, now the Orto Botanico dell?Università di Bologna. His vast collections in botany and zoology he willed to the Senate of Bologna. Until 1742 the collections were conserved in the Palazzo Pubblico, then in the Palaz19th nineteenth century. In 1907 a significant part was reunited at Palazzo Poggi, Bologna. Language: Latim / Latin Location/localizacao: M-8-A-18.
Edité par Wien (Hölder) -1966, 1885
Vendeur : Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Allemagne
Membre d'association : BOEV
M. mehr. Portr. u. Ktn., zahlr. Textabb. u. Taf. Bis Bd. 45 einheitl. Hlwdbde. m. goldgepr. Rtit. Davon einige Mehrfachbde. St. a. od. verso Tit. bzw. auf Vorsatz od. Umschl. Kl. Sign. a. Innendeckel. Einbde. zum Teil stärker bestoßen. Bei Bd. 21 ist d. 1. Lage am Rand leicht eingerissen. Ab Bd. 46 in OBr. Bd. 53 in 2 OBr. Bd. 48, 51 vord. Umschl. lose. Bd. 46 fehlt vord. Umsch. Bd. 31 fehlt Taf. 11. Bd. 22/23 u. 24/25 jeweils auf Rücken als Einzelbde. bezeichnet. = 1.1885/86 - 31.1917. Ab 33.1920 u.d.T.: Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. - EINZELN AUF ANFRAGE. - Enth. u.a.: Kohl, Fr., Ueber neue u. seltene Antilopen d. k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums; Redtenbacher, J., Vergleichende Studien über d. Flügelgeäder d. Insecten; Beck, G., Flora von Südbosnien u. d. angrenzenden Hercegovina (I. Theil); Pergens, Ed., Pliocäne Bryozoën v. Rhodos; Andrussow, N., Eine fossile Acetabularia als gesteinbildender Organismus; Kittl, E., Beiträge zur Kenntniss d. fossilen Säugethiere v. Maragha in Persien. I. Carnivoren (2); Finsch, O., Ethnologische Erfahrungen u. Belegstücke aus d. Südsee. 2. Abtheilung: Neu-Guinea; Marenzeller, E.v., Ueber einige japanische Turbinoliiden; Ferrari, E.v., Die Hemipteren-Gattung Nepa Latr.(3); Rogenhofer, A.F., Afrikanische Schmetterlinge d. k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums; Schletterer, A., Die Hymenopteren-Gruppe d. Evaniiden; Hein, A.R., Malerei u. technische Künste bei d. Dayaks (4); Kohl, Fr., Die Hymenopterengruppe d. Sphecinen; Kriechbaumer, J., Ichneumoniden-Studien. Neue Ichneumoniden d. Wiener Museums. II.- Nova genera et species Pimplidarum; Pfeiffer, R., Wallbauten in d. Umgebung v. Gaya in Mähren (5); Rzehak, A., Die Foraminiferenfauna d. alttertiären Ablagerungen v. Bruderndorf in Niederösterreich; Steindacher, Fr., Ueber neue u. seltene Lacertiden aus d. herpetologischen Sammlungen d. k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums; Handlirsch, A., Hummelstudien; Kittl, E., Die Gastropoden d. Schichten v. St. Cassian d. südalpinen Trias (6); Compositae Hildebrandtianae et Humblotianae in Madagascaria et insulas Comoras collectae; Siebenrock, Fr., Ueber Wirbelassimilation bei d. Sauriern; Stizenberger, E., Die Alectorienarten u. ihre geographische Verbreitung (7); Finsch, O., Ethnologische Erfahrungen u. Belegstücke aus d. Südsee. III. Abt. : Mikronesien. I. Gilberts-Inseln; Rzehak, E.C.F., Charakterlose Vogeleier. Eine oologische Studie; Linck, G., Ueber d. Krystallgefüge d. Meteoreisens (8); Rebel, H. u. A. Rogenhofer, Zur Lepidopterenfauna d. Canaren; Rzehak, E., Zur Charakteristik d. Eier d. Steppenadlers; Klatt, F.W., Neue Compositen aus d. Wiener Herbarium (9); Hein, W., Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte d. Ornamentes bei d. Dajaks; Scherfel, A.W., Der älteste botanische Schriftsteller Zipsens u. sein Herbar; Kohl, Fr., Zur Monographie d. natürlichen Gattung Sphex Linné (10); Krasser, Fr., Bemerkung zur Systematik d. Buchen; Ganglbauer, L., Sammelreisen nach Südungarn u. Siebenbürgen. Coleopterologische Ergebnisse derselben. Tl. 1; Steindachner, Fr., Ueber zwei neue Chirostoma-Arten aus Chile (11); Handlirsch, A. Monographie d. Phymatiden; Zahlbruckner, A., Stromatopogon, eine neue Flechtengattung; Konow, Fr.W., Systematische u. kritische Bearbeitung d. Blattwespen-Tribus Lydini; Adensamer, Th., Revision d. Pinnotheriden in d. Sammlung d. k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien (12); Berwerth, F., Neue Nephritfunde in Steiermark; Loitesberger, K., Verzeichniss d. gelegentlich einer Reise im Jahre 1897 in d. rumänischen Karpathen gesammelten Kryptogamen; Brauns, H., Zur Kenntnis d. südafrikanischen Hymenopteren; Siebenrock, Fr., Ueber d. Bau u. d. Entwicklung d. Zungenbein-Apparates d. Schildkröten (13); Kittl, E., Die Gastropoden d. Esinokalke, nebst einer Revision d. Gastropoden d. Marmolatakalke; Friese, H., Monographie d. Bienengattungen Exomalopsis, Ptilothrix, melitoma u. Tetrapedia; Kohl, Fr., Zur Kenntnis neuer gestachelter Hymenopteren (14); Penther, A., Zur Kenntniss d. Arachnidenfauna Südafrikas (Scorpiones); Braun, M., Trematoden d. Chiroptera; Koechlin, R., Ueber Glauberit vom Dürnberge bei Hallein; Friese, H., Monographie d. Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.); Zahlbruckner, A., Plantae Pentherianae. Aufzählung der von Dr. A. Penther u. in seinem Auftrage von P. Krook in Südafrika gesammelten Pflanzen (15); Mayr, G., Südafrikanische Formiciden, gesammelt von Dr. Hans Brauns; Buysson, R. du, Sur quelques Chrysidides du Musée de Vienne; Burgerstein, A., Mikroskopische Untersuchung prähistorischer Hölzer d. k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien; Melichar, L., Monographie d. Acanaloniiden u. Flatiden (16); Melichar, L., Monographie d. Acanaloniiden u. Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung); Hackel, E., Neue Gräser aus Mexico; Lorenz-Liburnau, L.v., Zur Ornis Neuseelands (17); Absolon, K., Untersuchungen über Apterygoten, auf Grund d. Sammlungen d. Wiener Hofmuseums; Handlirsch, A., Zur Morphologie d. Hinterleibes d. Odonaten; Rebel, H., Studien über d. Lepidopterenfauna d. Balkanländer. I. Teil. Bulgarien u. Ostrumelien; Zahlbruckner, A., Plantae Pentherianae. Aufzählung der v. Dr. A. Penther u. in seinem Auftrage v. P. Krook in Südafrika gesammelten Pflanzen (18); Zahlbruckner, A., Verzeichnis d. gelegentlich einer Reise im Jahre 1897 v. Prof. K. Loitesberger in d. rumänischen Karpathen gesammelten Lichenen; Heymons, R., Die Hinterleibsanhänge d. Libellen u. ihrer Larven; Ritter, G., Beitrag zur Flora d. östlichen Albanien; Hussak, E., Mineralogische Notizen aus Brasilien. (Über einen neuen Chondritfall, nahe Uberaba in Minas-Geraes, über Nephrit v. Baytinga in Bahia u. über Hamlinit aus diamantführenden Sanden v. Diamantina, Minas-Geraes.) (19); Ulmer, G., Neue u. wenig bekannte außereuropäische Trichopteren, hauptsächlich aus d. Wiener Museum; Ergebnisse einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise zum Erdschias-Dagh (Kleinasien). Ausgeführt v. Dr. Arnold Penther u. Dr. Emerich Zederbauer. II. Botanischer Teil (20); Toldt, K. jun., Über d. Haar- u. Stac.
Edité par Giovanni Francesco Mairesse, 1722
Vendeur : Libreria Antonio Pettini, ROMA, RM, Italie
Livre
Rilegato. Etat : buono. In-4°; pp. (40), 350, (18), occhietto, un bel ritratto leggermente rifilato della Barbapiccola a piena pagina inciso su rame ("F. de Grado sculp. Neap.") e numerosi legni nel testo. Legatura in piena pergamena recente con unghiatura, titolo al dorso. Leggere fioriture. Eleonora Barbapiccola (1700-ca 1740) fu uno straordinario esempio di donna coltivata e illuminata; arcade con il nome di Mirista, frequentò la casa di Giovan Battista Vico e meritò il rispetto dei circoli colti napoletani proprio per questa traduzione dell'opera di Cartesio. Nella lunga lettera ai lettori l'autrice dichiara di inserirsi nella tradizione di pensiero di Vico e ripercorre la storia delle donne erudite che hanno lasciato importanti contributi nel campo delle scienze e delle lettere. Barbapiccola al di là di offrire alle stampe una traduzione, scrive un vero e proprio manifesto del diritto delle donne all'istruzione, Cartesio viene presentato come il creatore di una filosofia che celebrava l'intelletto delle donne. L'opera testimonia inoltre della passione che Cartesio suscitava tra i napoletani, malgrado o forse proprio perché la sua opera fu messa all'Indice. Barbapiccola lavorò principalmente sull'edizione francese. "Presumibilmente pubblicato a Torino da Giovan Francesco Mairesse, fu con ogni probabilità uno dei tanti libri pubblicati a Napoli sotto falso imprimatur tra la fine del Seicento e il Settecento. Il fatto che un artista napoletano, F. De Grado, abbia inciso il ritratto di Barbapiccola per la traduzione, rende ancora più probabile che sia stato scritto e pubblicato lì? potrebbe aver fatto parte della circolazione semiclandestina di libri nella capitale del Regno di Napoli" (Maria Gaetana Agnesi et alia, The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth, 2005, pp. 37 e ss.). DBI ad vocem; B. Croce, bibliografia vichiana, pp. 190-91.In-4°; pp. (40), 350, (18), half-title, a beautiful slightly trimmed full-page portrait of Barbapiccola copper engraved ("F. de Grado sculp. Neap.") and numerous woodcuts in the text. Slightly foxed. Recent full vellum binding with squares, title at the spine. Eleonora Barbapiccola (1700-ca 1740) was an extraordinary example of a cultivated and enlightened woman; member of the Arcadia with the name of Mirista, attended the house of Giovan Battista Vico and deserved the respect of Neapolitan cultured circles, precisely for this translation of Descartes' work. In the long letter to readers, the author declares that she fits into Vico's tradition of thought and traces the history of learned women who have left important contributions in the fields of science and literature. Beyond offering a translation to print, Barbapiccola writes a veritable manifesto of women's right to education, Descartes is presented as the creator of a philosophy that celebrated women's intellect. The work also testifies to the passion that Descartes aroused among the Neapolitans, despite or perhaps precisely because his work was placed on the Index. Barbapiccola worked mainly on the French edition. "Presumably published in Turin by Giovan Francesco Mairesse, it was in all probability one of the many books published in Naples under false imprimatur between the end of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The fact that a Neapolitan artist, F. De Grado, engraved Barbapiccola's portrait for translation makes it even more probable that it was written and published there? it may have been part of the semi-clandestine circulation of books in the capital of the Kingdom of Naples" (Maria Gaetana Agnesi et alia, The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth, 2005, pp. 37 et seq.). DBI ad vocem; B. Croce, Vico bibliography, pp. 190-91.
Vendeur : Antiquariaat Schierenberg, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
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London, E. Curll, J. Pemberton and W. Taylor, 1715. 8vo (18.6 x 11.5 cm). 228 pp. [xvi, 111, 1-72, 65-93]; three large, multifolded plates. Contemporary full calf, elaborately blind-tooled boards. Edges speckled red. = The very rare first English edition of a work on optics and optometry earlier published in Latin only (1695). William Browne (1692-1774) ".was born in County Durham, and was educated in Durham and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After graduating ., he worked as a doctor in King's Lynn, Norfolk, for more than thirty years before moving to Bloomsbury, London, in 1749. He was President of the College of Physicians in 1765 and 1766, having been a Fellow of the college since 1726; he resigned during his five-year term of office because of a dispute. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739, and was knighted in 1748."(Wikipedia). The "Dr. Gregory" in the title is the Scottish telescope builder James Gregory [1637 (or 1638, see Marquis) -1675), who in 1663 published a work titled "Optica promota sue Abdita radiorum reflexorum & refractorum". Pagination in the addenda has the numbers 65-72 used twice, but the text is continuous. Skilfully repairs to binding and a few leaf edges; some pages with weaker paper. Plates with a few, tiny spots, otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. Debus, World Who's Who in Science, p. 701; DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria, 262. Not in Cat. BM(NH).
Edité par Chez, Braisson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1762
Vendeur : Librería Miguel Miranda, Lope de Vega n.º XIX, Madrid, M, Espagne
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ARTIFICIER (7 pl.). = TOMO II (1ª Partie) / Balancier (5 pl.), Faiseur de bas au mètier & Faiseur de metier à bas (19 pl.), Batteur d'or (3 pl.), Blanchissage des toiles (2 pl.), Blason ou art heraldique (29 pl.), Boisselier (2 pl.), Bonnetier de la Foule (2 pl.), Boucher (2 pl.), Bouchonnier (1 pl.), Boulanger (1 pl.), Bourrelier & bourrelier-batier (7 pl.), Boursier (3 pl.), Boutonnier (6 pl.), Boyaudier (1 pl.), Brasserie (5 pl.), Brodeur (2 pl.), Fonderie en carácteres (8 pl.), Carácteres et alfabets de langues mortes et vivantes (25 pl.), Carácteres ou écriture françoise (16 pl.), Cardier (1 pl.), Cartier (6 pl.), Cartonnier et gaufreur en carton (2 pl.), Ceinturier (2 Pl.), Chainetier (3 pl.), Chamoiseur & mègissier (5 pl.), Chandelier (2 pl.), Chapelier (3 pl.), Charpente (70 pl.). = TOMO II (2ª Partie) / Charron (8 pl.), Chasses (23 pl.), Chauderonniers grossier, Planeur et Faiseur d'instrumens de Musique (4 pl.), Chimie (25 pl.), Chirurgie (39 pl.), Choregraphie (2 pl.), Blanchissage de cires (3 pl.), Cirier (4 pl.), Fabrique de la cire à cacheter (2 ), Ciseleur & Damasquineur (2 pl.), Cloutier grossier (2 pl.), Cloutier d'épingle (2 pl.), Coffretier-Malletier-Bahutier (3 pl.), Confiseur (5 pl.), Corderie (6 pl.), Cordonnier et Cordonnier-Botier (2 pl.), Corroyeur (2 pl.), Coutelier (2 pl.), Découpeur et Gaufreur d'étoffes (3 pl.), Dentelle et façon du point (3 pl.), Dessein (39 pl.), Diamantaire (3 pl.), Distillateur d'eau-de-vie (1 pl.), Doreurs sur meteaux, cuir et bois (4 pl.), Draperie (13). SE VENDEN SUELTOS, cada uno al precio indicado. EL INTERIOR EN PERFECTO ESTADO, TANTO PARA EL TEXTO COMO PARA LAS LAMINAS GRABADAS. Los lomos de piel tienen algunos roces pero en general en muy buen estado, las tapas o planos han sido restaurados de pequeñas faltas en sus esquinas, así como el papel de aguas que cubre las tapas, que ha sido restaurado de diversas rozaduras. Pero la encuadernación es original de la época. SOLO OFRECEMOS ESTOS 3 PRIMEROS VOLUMENES DE "RECUEIL DES PLANCHES, SUR LES SCIENCES, LES ARTS. (que completos constan de 11 volúmenes + los 17 volúmenes de "La Enciclopédie", a la que seguían). La estructura de la Encyclopedie, tanto en su diagramación, formato y, por supuesto, contenido ideológico, dio respuesta al complejo entramado de variables que supuso ese proceso disparador de nuevas ideas, inteviniendo intelectuales como Voltaire, Buffon, Montesquieu, D'Alembert, Quesnay, Turgot, d'Holbach, Rousseau, de Jacourt y por supuesto Diderot; proceso también rompedor de los secretos tecnológicos del cerrado universo de las corporaciones gremiales del modo feudal de producción. En este sentido la obra presenta dos núcleos entrelazados: el Diccionario y las Planchas. Sin embargo hay que reconocer que la potente originalidad está concentrada en "Recueil des Planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication", en que se despliega, a través de descripciones gráficas y de textos aclaratorios, una impresionante cascada de datos sobre la situación, fundamentos y perspectivas de las técnicas, oficios y talleres. EN DEFINITIVA, OFRECEMOS LOS 3 PRIMEROS VOLUMENES DE "RECUEIL DES PLANCHES." SIN DUDA LA MAS GRANDE Y AMBICIOSA PRODUCCIÓN EDITORIAL DE LA FRANCIA DE LA ILUSTRACION. EN CONJUNTO LOS 3 VOLUMENES REUNEN UNA CANTIDAD DE 703 IMPRESIONANTES PLANCHAS GRABADAS AL COBRE POR LOS MEJORES ARTISTAS DEL MOMENTO, ALGUNAS A DOBLE PAGINA. TODAS ELLAS CONSERVADAS PERFECTAMENTE. "Todavía no se ha hecho, ni durante mucho tiempo se hará, una colección tan considerable y tan hermosa de máquinas" (Diderot). Livre en français FILOSOFÍA E HISTORIA DE LA CULTURA.
Edité par Appresso i Giunti Florence, 1552
Vendeur : Konstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS., ENSCHEDE, Pays-Bas
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. FIORENTINO, Francesco Ghaligai. Pratica d'arithmetica di francesco ghaligai fiorentino. Nuovamente rivista, & con somma diligenza ristampata. In Firenze : Appresso i Giunti. MDLII 1552. Contemporary vellum. 8vo. (20 x 15 cm). Margin of the title page restored. Some outer restored with Japanese vellum. With Giunta lily and snake device on title-page and verso of last leaf. Ownership inscription of Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo, (1510-1574) a mathematician and an architect. Last leaf on verso completely annotated (probably in his hand). No auction records Francesco Ghaligai proposes a new notation for powers of the unknown. but the other notations never caught on with other authors. However, it is believed that it may have had a significant influence on the study of mathematics. This opinion is based on the fact that his book is much simpler than other books such as Pacioli's Suma, and therefore could have been used more easily as an introduction to mathematical study. Ghaligai's work is divided into thirteen books, the first nine of which are wholly arithmetical. The last four are devoted to algebra, including Regula dell' Arcibra, which, like other works of the time, includes long explanations of methods for the extraction of roots and operations with binomial surds classified as they are found in Euclid's Elements. Book ten contains a theoretical treatment of the solution of equations, where we find the equation with one variable in the six forms given by the Arab writer Al-Khwarizmi in his ninth-century algebra. Book XIII, the last and most intriguing section of the text, contains forty-seven problems that cannot be attributed to any other author. Two men found a purse. Said the first to the second, "Give me the purse and the cube root of your money, and I shall have as much as you." Said the second to the first, "Give me the purse and the square root of your money, and I shall have seven times as much as you." The question is, how much was in the purse, and how much had each man at first. But there are more abstract ones as well, Find five numbers in continued proportion such that the sum of the second and fourth shall be 10, and the sum of the products of each number by each of the others shall be 620. It seems improbable that Ghaligai wrote primarily for merchants, as has been sometimes assumed. He seems rather to have been a teacher introducing mercantile problems for the sake of interest. It is interesting from many points of view, and considered as a means by which the works of Fibonacci, Pacioli and many others were made accessible to students of the time.
Vendeur : Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australie
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watercolour on paper, framed 47 by 54 cm, signed lower right. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR BY PETER TRUSLER from Kloot and McCulloch, Birds of Australian Gardens, Rigby 1980. Peter Trusler (born 1954) completed a science degree in 1974 at Monash University, majoring in zoology, and has worked as a freelance artist since graduating. He was the art director for Simpson and Day 'Field Guide to the Birds of Australia', one of Australia's most successful field guides with over 500,000 copies sold. He has designed stamps for Australia Post, is arguably the finest paleontological reconstruction artist of all time, and recently completed a paleontological PhD at Monash University. The paintings for 'Birds of Australian Gardens' were completed in 1978-1979. In his artist notes (page 11) he says "where possible I prefer to work from life. A number of the paintings are portraits of individual birds and all of the backgrounds and plants have been painted from actual specimens. The paintings for the plates were executed with transparent watercolour and gouache. While they were executed in a period of just over two years, the information needed has involved many more years of observation and study". Birds of Australian Gardens, with an excellent text by well known Bird Observer Club stalwarts Tess Kloot and Ellen McCulloch, was first published in large quarto form by Rigby in 1980. The foreword to the book was written by Graham Pizzey who was a great admirer of Peter Trusler's work. "The starkly realistic style he has elected to use for the illustrations in this book is a new departure for him. To me it is astonishing for its clarity and accuracy". PROVENANCE: The entire collection was purchased by the National Australia Bank in 1980 and dispersed in 2022. "After seeing the first group of fine paintings which illustrate this book, the Bank approached Peter Trusler with a proposal so that the eighty original paintings could be kept together in one collection " (Publisher's note from the collector's issue). RAINBOW LORIKEET Trichoglossus haematodus (pages 52-53). "A Rainbow Lorikeet climbing through the branches of Queensland Box, Tristania conferra".
Vendeur : Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australie
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watercolour on paper, framed 54 by 43 cm, signed lower centre. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR BY PETER TRUSLER from Kloot and McCulloch, Birds of Australian Gardens, Rigby 1980. Peter Trusler (born 1954) completed a science degree in 1974 at Monash University, majoring in zoology, and has worked as a freelance artist since graduating. He was the art director for Simpson and Day 'Field Guide to the Birds of Australia', one of Australia's most successful field guides with over 500,000 copies sold. He has designed stamps for Australia Post, is arguably the finest paleontological reconstruction artist of all time, and recently completed a paleontological PhD at Monash University. The paintings for 'Birds of Australian Gardens' were completed in 1978-1979. In his artist notes (page 11) he says "where possible I prefer to work from life. A number of the paintings are portraits of individual birds and all of the backgrounds and plants have been painted from actual specimens. The paintings for the plates were executed with transparent watercolour and gouache. While they were executed in a period of just over two years, the information needed has involved many more years of observation and study". Birds of Australian Gardens, with an excellent text by well known Bird Observer Club stalwarts Tess Kloot and Ellen McCulloch, was first published in large quarto form by Rigby in 1980. The foreword to the book was written by Graham Pizzey who was a great admirer of Peter Trusler's work. "The starkly realistic style he has elected to use for the illustrations in this book is a new departure for him. To me it is astonishing for its clarity and accuracy". PROVENANCE: The entire collection was purchased by the National Australia Bank in 1980 and dispersed in 2022. "After seeing the first group of fine paintings which illustrate this book, the Bank approached Peter Trusler with a proposal so that the eighty original paintings could be kept together in one collection " (Publisher's note from the collector's issue). MISTLETOEBIRD Dicaeum hirundinaceum (pages 154-155). Mistletoebirds feeding on the berries of Drooping Mistletoe, Ameyema pendula. TOP: female; BOTTOM: Male.
Couverture rigide. Etat : bon. RO30370475: 1953. In-8. Relié. Etat passable, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 1085 pages. Quelques rousseurs. 216 figures en noir et blanc. Nombreux soulignements au crayon. . . . Classification Dewey : 612-Physiologie humaine.
Edité par Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossinet,, 1659
Vendeur : Konstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS., ENSCHEDE, Pays-Bas
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Hardcover. Etat : As New. COLLINS (John). Geometricall Dyalling: Or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale. Wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the hour-lines in all plains, with substile, stile and meridian, in their proper coasts and quantities; being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr Samuel Foster, deceased, late professor of astronomy in Gresham College; also a collection of divers things from the works of Clavius and others. Editio Princeps. Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossinet, 1659, 8vo, [6] 82 pp, engraved frontispiece, 20 engraved plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf. Copies described in auction records speak consistently of 19 plates, whereas our has 20. One of the rarest and best illustrated 17th-century works in English on mathematics, trigonometry and sundials. Collins here describes in detail his new method of trigonometry without the use of a quadrant. Plates by Henry Sutton [ca.1624-1665], who was considered one of "the outstanding makers of mathematical instruments" of the 17th century (Daumas p. 64). He also collaborated with Collins in 1658 for "the sector on a quadrant", and the quality of his engraving earned praise a century later when Edmund Stone stated that Sutton's work produced "the finest divided instruments in the world". John Collins [1625-1683] was a mathematician and a great disseminator of mathematical knowledge who was elected as fellow of the RoyalSociety in1667. He is most known for his extensive correspondence with leading scientists and mathematicians such as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and John Wallis. His correspondence provides details of many of the discoveries and developments made in his time, and shows his activity as an 'intelligencer'.
Edité par [J. C. B. Mohr], [Tübingen], 1905
Edition originale
First edition. In later black buckram, with gilt title on spine. From the "Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik" (1905, vol. 20 and 21). 1-54; 1-110 p. First edition of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic, the founding text of economic sociology and one of the most important texts of general sociology. Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist and political economist, considered as one of the founders of sociology besides Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. He studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin and after earning his law doctorate he started to teach commercial law in Berlin, and economics in Freiburg and Heidelberg, until 1903. Later he became the associate editor of the academic journal of social sciences, the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, where the present work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, was first published in two parts in 1905. The Protestant Ethic is Weber's seminal and most famous essay in which he locates the origins of capitalism in the lifestyle characterized by ascetic Protestantism and opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work. To this day this essay is considered one of the most important texts in sociology and economic history. . Annotated and underlined in pencil. Otherwise in very good condition. From the "Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik" (1905, vol. 20 and 21) First edition. In later black buckram, with gilt title on spine.
Vendeur : ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Pays-Bas
[92], [4 blank] pp.Second copy located of the 1660 edition of a popular and influential practical manual by Andreas Helmreich, on the preparation of black, coloured and metallic writing ink and dyes (the metallic inks especially for writing on wood), the etching of marble and metals (copper, brass, tin, iron and steel, with special reference to etching armour and weapons), gilding and silvering (including the gilding of the edges of books), colouring parchment, paper and feathers, making sealing wax and glue, and other materials used for art and writing, including recipes and minute details of the preparation of the materials. Books of a similar nature with the title Kunstbüchlein appeared already in 1499 and reappeared in a new form by 1535, but Ferguson notes that Helmriech's work owes little or nothing to them, has only two or three recipes similar to those in Boltz's 1547 Illuminirbuch and is largely original. All editions are rare and we have located only one other copy of the present 1660 edition, in the library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.With some minor restorations to the gutter margins of the title-page and with several small stains, and the whole somewhat dog-eared, very slightly browned and with occasional foxing and a marginal chip at the head of the dedication (perhaps removing an owner's name?), but the book is complete including even the 2 final blank leaves, and nearly all the leaves are in good condition. A rare and important work, giving a detailed account of the preparation of inks and of etching, as practiced in the 16th and 17th centuries.l Ferchl, p. 224; KVK & WorldCat (1 copy); cf. Brüning 1331; Ferguson, Some early treatises on technological chemistry (1888), pp. 24-34 .