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The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane.
London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sold at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne, 1605. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. In two parts. [1], 45, 118 [i.e. 121]ff. A4-L4; M2; Aa4-Ggg4; Hhh2. First edition. Blank leaf present, but two errata leaves absent. C4r with the first state reading 'maniable.' Contemporary vellum, repaired by Bernard Middleton. From the library of C.R. Lowell, with his bookplate and his rubber stamp on each title-page. Also, on first title-page, an ownership inscription: "bibca Williams Scptio, 1813." Pforzheimer 36; Gibson 81; Grolier, Langland to Wither, 12; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Norman 97; STC 1164. Bound with: Sandys, Edwin. A relation of the state of religion . Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1551
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Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de catarrho.
Edinburgi: Apud Balfour et Smellie, Academiae Typographos, 1785. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. [6], 32pp. []3, A4-D4. With the half-title present. Wrappers. ESTC N6341. Presentation copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1635
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Keywords: Medicine, Presentation Copy
Schediasma physicum, quo novum consilium, barometra phosphorescentia, ...
Vitembergae: Apvd Ioannem Lvdov. Meiselivm, 1715. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [iv]ff. []4. Disbound. Highly uncommon; On-line WorldCat identifies five institutions with copies, all in Europe. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2220
USD 1300.00 [Appr.: EURO 1214.5 | £UK 1041.25 | JP¥ 205729]
Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Science
Le monde enchante: ou, Examen des communs sentimens touchant les esprits, leur nature, leur pouvoir, leur administration, & leurs operations. Et touchant les efets que les hommes sont capables de produire par leur communication & leur vertu, ...
A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Rotterdam, libraire sur le Vygendam, 1694, 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Four volumes. I: [lxviii]ff. 387, [v]pp.; II: [xii]ff. 733, [vii]pp.; III: [xviii]ff. 484, [iv]pp.; IV: [xvi]ff. 727, [ix]pp. [last leaf blank]. I: *8, **12-******12, A12-Q12, R4; II: *12, A12-Z12, AA12-FF12; III: *12, **6, A12-U12, X4; IV:*12, **4, A12-Z12, AA12-GG12, HH8. Final leaf of volume one is the errata. Includes indexes. Volumes 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary mottled calf, repaired. All edges gilt. Volune one has metalcut frontispiece portrait of the author and six plates in volume four. From the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, with her bookplate in each volume. This item may not be in the catalogue compiled by Charles James Stewart, "A Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire." Caillet 915; Graesse, Bibliotheca Magica 62; Cornell, Witchcraft 42. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2189
USD 1400.00 [Appr.: EURO 1307.75 | £UK 1121.25 | JP¥ 221555]
Leçons sur les Propriétés Physiologiques et les Altérations Pathologiques des Liquides de l'Organisme.
Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1859. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 2 volumes. I: XVI, 524 pages; II: 480 pages, and 8 pages of ads. First edition. Unopened. In the original wrappers. In a clamshell box. Illustrated with numerous plates. GARRISON-MORTON 1234.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 1796; NORMAN 203; WALLER 963. Fine. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1060
USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 560.5 | £UK 480.5 | JP¥ 94952]
Keywords: Medicine
Leçons sur la Physiologie et la Pathologie du Système Nerveux.
Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1858. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 2 volumes. I: VIII, 520 pages; II: 4, 560 pages. First edition. Unopened. In the original wrappers. In a clamshell box. Illustrated with 65 plates. GARRISON-MORTON 1399; WALLER 957; OSLER 1509. Ths work provides the first description of "Horner's syndrome." Fine. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1061
USD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 1167.75 | £UK 1001.25 | JP¥ 197817]
Keywords: Medicine
Alle de Theosoophsche of Godwijze Werken Van den Godzaligen en Hoogverlichten Jacob Böhme, Anders genaamd, Teutonicus Philosophus.
T'Amsterdam: Voor Fredrik Vorster, Boekverkooper op de Lauw'rier-graft, 1686. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [xxxviii], 461pp. With an additional title-page, engraved, bearing the title, "De Wortel of moeder der philosophia, astrologia, en theologia." No more published. Contemporary vellum. With six engraved plates by Jan Luyken. A very uncommon item. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1485
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On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra, I-III.
København, Hovedkommissionaer: Andr. Fred. Høst & Søn, Kgl. Hof-Boghandel, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1918. 1918, 1922. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Three parts, all published. Rebound in library cloth, retaining original wrappers. Foreedge and lower margin of upper cover and foreedge margin of lower cover reinforced with tape. A very fine copy. Released from an institutional library, with appropriate stamps, none on the book itself. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2125
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Catalogue: Science
The Works of the Honorable Robert Boyle. In five volumes. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author.
London: printed for A. Millar, opposite Catharine-Street, in the Strand, 1744. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Five volumes. I: 5ff. 152, 584pp.; II: 2ff. 566pp.; III: 2ff. 652pp.; IV: 2ff. 556pp.; V: 2ff. 736pp. 43ff. Titles printed in red-and-black with an engraved vignette. Contemporary calf. With an engraved frontispiece portrait by B. Baron after Kerseboom and fifteen plates. Fulton 240; Sotheran I, 519; DSB, II, 377-82; Roberts & Trent, p.52; ESTC T4460. First collected edition, and the only one in folio, edited by Boyle's biographer, Thomas Birch. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 777
USD 4500.00 [Appr.: EURO 4203.5 | £UK 3603.75 | JP¥ 712139]
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1785. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Eighteen volumes. I: [vi], xxxvi, 352pp.; II: [vi], 351pp.; III: [viii], 417pp.; IV: [viii], 405pp.; V: xxiii, 456pp.; VI: [xii], 246, clxxvii, [i]pp.; VII: xii, 430pp.; VIII: 418, xlvipp.; xv, IX: xii, 472pp.; X: xiv, 316, xlvipp.; XI: xx, 495pp.; XII: xii, 482, [i]pp.; XIII: xix, 446pp.; XIV: xii, 360, lxxiipp.; XV: xvi, 439pp.; XVI: viii, 326, cliipp.; XVII: viii, 484pp.; XVIII: iv, 135, [i], xlvi, 486pp. I: []3, a122, b6, A12-O12, P8; II: []3, A12-O12, P8; III: []4, A12-R12, S6 (- S6 blank); IV: []4, A12-R12 (- R12 blank); V: *12 (- *1 and *2, blank and half-title), A12-T12; VI: *6, A12-L12, a12-f12, g8; VII: a6, A12-S12 (- S12 blank); VIII: a8, A12-T12, V4; IX: []2, a4, A12-T12, V8; X: a8 (a8 blank), A12-P12, Q2 (Q2 blank); XI: *10, A12-U12, X8; XII: *6, A12-U12, X2; XIII: []4, a6, A12-S12, T8 (T8 blank); XIV: a6, A12-R12, S10; XV: a8, A12-S12, T4; XVI: []2, a2, A12-V12 (V12 blank); XVII: []4, A12-V12, X2; XVIII: []2, A12-Z12, Aa12-Dd12, Ee10. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. All edges marbled. Margin of last page of volume 13 missing a small piece, without affecting any text. With 264 plates. The plates are after De Sève and depict the birds in their natural surroundings including nice architectural design. Anker 75; Ronsil 413; Nissen IVB, 160. A very good set. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1941
USD 2100.00 [Appr.: EURO 1961.75 | £UK 1681.75 | JP¥ 332332]
Méthode pour la mesure des surfaces, la dimension des solides, leurs centres de pésanteur, de pércussion et d'oscillation par l'application du calcul intégral.
Paris: Chez Jean Boudot, libraire de l'Académie Royal des Sciences, 1700. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. viff. 116pp. a4, e2, A4-O4, P2. First edition. Contemporary calf, repaired. With perspectival projections of geometrical solid bodies on four folding engraved plates. The plates with explanatory figures can be folded out in such a way that they can be studied while solving the problems given in text. Poggendorff I, 383-384; Sotheran I, 704; not in Honeyman Collection. First edition of the first complete work on integral calculus. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 353
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Keywords: Seventeenth Century Books Integral Calculus
Alice in Virusland.
Madison, Wisconsin: American Society of Bacteriologists. 1938. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. Offprint from the 'Journal of Bacteriology.' Good.
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USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.5 | £UK 32.25 | JP¥ 6330]
Catalogue: Science
Keywords: Satire Parody Alice Lewis Carroll
Instruction des Pilotes.
Au Havre de Grace: Chez P.J.D.G. Faure, Imprimeur de la Marine & de la Ville, 1761. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. I: [viii], 174, [iii]pp.; II: [vi], 190, [xvi]pp. Limp vellum, repaired. Illustrated with diagrams in the text. Some staining in the text. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2306
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On the extravagant use of fuel in cooking operations, with a short account of Benjamin Count of Rumford, and his economical systems, and numerous practical suggestions adapted for domestic use.
London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1869. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. ix, 47pp. Cloth, spine missing. However, a large part of it is saved between the front pastedown and free endpaper. Illustrated with plates. Good.
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The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force: Shewing, the motion of bodies in circular orbits, and in the conic sections, and other curves. And explaining the perturbating force of a third body.
N.p.: n.p. [1769]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii], ii, 81, [iii]pp. A2, B8-E8, F10. First edition. Modern calf over marbled boards. With 6 folded leaves of plates. ESTC T77185. Bound with: Emerson, William, The projection of the sphere, orthographic, stereographic, and gnomonical . and, Emerson, William, Mechanics; or, the Doctrine of Motion. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1921
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