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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 4174.75 | £UK 3591 | JP¥ 699915]
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 1948.25 | £UK 1675.75 | JP¥ 326627]
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
USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 556.75 | £UK 479 | JP¥ 93322]
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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Mechanics, or the doctrine of motion. The projection of the sphere. The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force.
London: Printed for J. Nourse, in the Strand; bookseller in ordinary to His Majesty, 1769. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. iv, 148pp. A6-Z6, Aa6-Mm6, Nn2. Second edition. First edition of the Abridgement. Modern calf over marbled boards. With 9 folded leaves of plates. ESTC T77183. Bound with: Emerson, William, The projection of the sphere, orthographic, stereographic, and gnomonical . and, Emerson, William, The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force . Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1064
USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 556.75 | £UK 479 | JP¥ 93322]
The projection of the sphere, orthographic, stereographic, and gnomonical: Both demonstrating the principles, and explaining the practice of these three several sorts of projection.
London: printed for J. Nourse, 1769. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. iv, 57, [i]pp. A8-D8 (D8 blank). The second edition, corrected and improved. Modern calf over marbled boards. With 12 folded leaves of plates. ESTC T77184. Bound with: Emerson, William, Mechanics; or, the Doctrine of Motion, and, Emerson, William, The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force . Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1920
USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 556.75 | £UK 479 | JP¥ 93322]
Silva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in his Majesty's dominions.: As it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the xvth of October, MDCLXII. upon occasion of certain quaeries propounded to that illustrious assembly, ...
London: Printed for Robert Scott in Little-Britain; Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Church-yard; George Sawbridge in Little-Britain; and Benj. Tooke in Fleetstreet, 1706. 0. Hardcover. London: Printed for Robert Scott in LittleBritain; Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Church-yard; George Sawbridge in Little-Britain; and Benj. Tooke in Fleetstreet, 1706. Folio. [28], 344, 337-384, [4], 275, [5]pp. []4, *4-****4, B4-Z4, Aa4Zz4, Aaa4, Bbb2-Ggg2, Aaaa4-Zzzz4, Aaaaa4-Mmmmm4, Nnnnn2. Title-page in red-andblack. Fourth edition. There are two variants: 1) "author" on the title-page is spelt correctly and there is a comma after "Evelyn;" 2) "author" is spelt correctly and there is no comma after "Evelyn." This copy has the comma after Evelyn. Priority between the two states has not been established. In two parts. The second part contains 'Terra', 'Pomona', 'Acetaria' and 'Kalendarium Hortense;' all have separate dated title-pages, but continuous pagination and register, and are of the 3rd, 4th, 2nd and 10th editions respectively. Contemporary calf, quite worn. Rebacked unsympathetically. Illustrated. With the bookplate of R. H. Alexander Bennet. Henrey 135; Goldsmiths' 4287; ESTC T107635. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1318
USD 990.00 [Appr.: EURO 918.5 | £UK 790 | JP¥ 153981]
Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions: as it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon occasion of certain quaeries propounded to that illustrious assembly, ...
York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley. T. Cadell, et. al. 1786, 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. Two volumes. [lvi], 649, [x]pp. []4, *b4-*d4, a4-c4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Nnnn4, Oooo2. First Hunter edition published just over a century after the first edition. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, retaining original spines. With Evelyn's engraved portrait by Bartolozzi, 40 botanical plates (one folding) by John S. Miller, and a folding explanatory table. Keynes 47; Pritzel 2766; Nissen, BBI 615. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1963
USD 1000.00 [Appr.: EURO 927.75 | £UK 798 | JP¥ 155537]
The connexion of life with respiration: or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals, with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; ...
London: Printed by T. Spilsbury, Snow-hill, for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1788. 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], xvi, 126pp. []1, A9, B8-I8 (- I8 blank). First edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Upper corner of lower cover damaged. With two plates. Ex Sion College and Stationer's Company libraries. First published, 1786, in Latin, as inaugural dissertation at Edinburgh University under title: Dissertatio medica de morte submersorum. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1597
USD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 881.5 | £UK 758.25 | JP¥ 147760]
Keywords: Science
Physices Elementa Mathematica, experimentis confirmata; sive Introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam.
Genevae: Apud Henricum-Albertum Gosse & Soc. Bibliop. & Typograph, 1748. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Two volumes. I: [iv], LXXXII, [ii], 572pp.; II: [ii}, 573-1073, [xliii]pp. I: *4-***********4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Bbbb4, Cccc2; II: []1, Dddd2, Eeee4-Zzzz4, Aaaaa4-Zzzzz4, Aaaaaa4-Zzzzzz4, Aaaaaaa4-Ccccccc4, Ddddddd2. Title-pages in red-and-black. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, repaired. With 127 plates. A very good copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2428
USD 1900.00 [Appr.: EURO 1762.75 | £UK 1516.25 | JP¥ 295520]
Traité des Maladies Vénériennes. Traduit de l'Anglois, par M. Audiberti, Docteur en Médecine...
Paris: chez Méquignon, l'aîné, 1787. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. a8-b8, A8-Z8, Aa8-Dd8. xvi, 17-32, 430, (2) pages. First French edition. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces in the text. First edition dates from 1786. In a contemporary mottled calf binding, hinges cracked. Illustrated with 7 engraved folding plates containing a total of ten figures. Some worming in the plates not affecting images, repaired. BLAKE, p. 226; WELLCOME III, p. 317; WALLER 5002; BLOCKER, p. 202; Le FANU, John Hunter: A List of His Books, p. 13; BLOOMFIELD, A Bibliography of Internal Medicine: Communicable Diseases, pp. 298-300. Not in Pauly. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1058
USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 324.75 | £UK 279.5 | JP¥ 54438]
Keywords: Medicine
An introduction to the true astronomy: or, astronomical lectures, read in the astronomical school of the University of Oxford.
London: printed for Bernard Lintot . 1721. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [8], xv, [1], 396, [12]pp. A4, a8, B8-Z8, AA8, CC4, DD8. First edition. Bookseller's list on verso of leaf a8. Woodcut device on title and wood- or metal cut initials, head and tailpieces. First edition in English. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With 28 engraved plates, I- V, [2 unnumbered plates], VI-XXVI plates. Two lunar maps signed 'I. Senex Sculpt' (bound as throwouts at p. 108) and 26 plates of diagrams printed from 13 copperplates, numbered Plate I-XVII, XIX-XXVI XVI, (bound as foldouts as directed on the plates). Wellcome III, p. 381; ESTC T37367; Wallis, Newton 103.172. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1293
USD 1600.00 [Appr.: EURO 1484.5 | £UK 1276.75 | JP¥ 248859]
Elements of Chemistry, in a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries.
Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, and sold in London by G.G. and J.J. Robinsons, 1790. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. l, 511, [i]pp. With the half-title present. First English edition. Contemporary calf. Frontispiece portrait of Lavoisier, two folding tables, and thirteen plates. ESTC T138882. First English edition of one of the milestone books of chemistry. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2757
USD 4000.00 [Appr.: EURO 3711 | £UK 3192 | JP¥ 622147]
Thirty-eight Plates with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany.
London: Printed for J. White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, 1799. 0. Hardcover. Tall octavo. vi, 72, [ii] pages. Third edition. With final leaf of advertisements. Modern quarter brown calf over brown cloth. With 38 hand-colored engravings of plant structures and parts by Frederick Polydore Nodding. Nissen BBI, 1292; ESTC T081068; Henrey 1032. Ex-library copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1654
USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 232 | £UK 199.5 | JP¥ 38884]
Keywords: Botany Plants Color Plates
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
Dublin: Reprinted by and for John Hyde, et. al. 1728. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [44], 333 [ie. 335], [1]pp. A8, b8, c4, d2, B8-Y8. Title vignette; initials; head and tail pieces. Pp.334-335 misnumbered 332-333. With a list of subscribers. First issued in London in 1728 in quarto (Gray: Newton, 132). Subscribers' list: d2; 'A poem on Sir Isaac Newton' by Richard Glover, b2, recto-b8 verso. Modern half goatskin over marbled boards. With 12 engraved plates, some signed J. Gwinn. Title-page with two neat paper excisions to remove a previous owner's name, repaired. The volume is illustrated with twelve oversized, folding engraved plates. Wallis 132.2; Babson Catalogue 98(London edition); ESTC T124175. On Pemberton, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLIV, 280-81. From the Llanover Library, with its bookplate, the Trustees stamp, the shelf-mark ticket. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1066
USD 1050.00 [Appr.: EURO 974.25 | £UK 838 | JP¥ 163314]