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Bekker, Balthasar.
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.
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Book number: 2189
USD 1400.00 [Appr.: EURO 1299.25 | £UK 1118 | JP¥ 218071]

 
Böhme, Jakob.
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.
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Book number: 1485
USD 3500.00 [Appr.: EURO 3247.75 | £UK 2794.75 | JP¥ 545179]

 
Carre, Louis.
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.
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Book number: 353
USD 4200.00 [Appr.: EURO 3897.25 | £UK 3353.5 | JP¥ 654214]
Keywords: Seventeenth Century Books Integral Calculus

 
Ray, John.
Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I The primitive chaos, and creation of the world. II. The general deluge, its causes and effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and future conflagration:.
London: Printed for Sam. Smith, at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1693. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [24], 162, [8], 163-406, [2]pp. A4, [a]8, B8-M8 (M1 + *4)8, N8-Cc8, Dd4. Second edition. Title-page enclosed within double line border. With a final advertisement leaf. Contemporary calf, repaired. With four plates. Keynes 82; Wing R409; ESTC R14140. Good.
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Book number: 791
USD 1900.00 [Appr.: EURO 1763.25 | £UK 1517.25 | JP¥ 295954]

 
Viète, François.
Opera Mathematica, in unum volume congesta, ac recognita, operâ atque studio Francisci à Schooten....
Lvgdvni Batavorvm: Bonaventuræ & Abrahami Elzeviriorum, 1646. 0. Hardcover. Folio, [xii], 554pp. Title-page and table of contents in red-and-black. Elzevier device on title-page. Calf, rebacked reattaching original spine. Text edges sprinkled red. With head and tail pieces, ornamental initials, and numerous woodcut diagrams. Text divided into 16 parts: parts 14 and 15 with half-titles, some text, and tables in red-and-black. Part 14 includes three intact volvelles. Ownership signatures on front free endpaper - H. Buckley, on title-page - Adam Anderson. Some neat pencil annotations on several early pages, and ink scribbles on verso of title-page. Very good copy. Very Good.
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Book number: 1788
USD 11500.00 [Appr.: EURO 10671 | £UK 9182.25 | JP¥ 1791301]

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