PARVILLE, HENRI DE

L'électricité et ses Applications. Exposition de Paris [1881]

1883. Hardcover. Book, 2nd edn, Masson, Paris, 1883. 8vo, viii, 543p. Many text engravings. Inscr, bkplt, minor light foxing , nr fine copy in original pictorial green cloth gilt, red edges. Comprehensive text including telephones. A nice copy. Near Fine.

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Katalog: History of Science

Sonstige Stichworte: Electricity Telephony

PEMBERTON, HENRY F.R.S.

A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.

1728, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, London, printed by S. Palmer, 1728. 4to, [50p], 407p. 12 engraved plates & fine engraved ornaments. 23 x 29cm, good margins. Some neat pencil annotation. Original full-calf boards, attractively rebacked with red gilt label. Bkplt of John Grenfell, inscr to Sidney Grenfell. Nice copy of famous text. The author knew Newton and edited the 3rd edn of Newton's 'Principia'. With the comment p [ix] 'as he sat alone in the garden, he fell into a speculation on the power of gravity'. Very Good.

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PEPPER, J H

Cyclopaedic Science Simplified.

1869. Hardcover. Book, Rev edn, London, Warne & Co [Dalziel Bros], n.d. [1869]. 8vo, colour frontis, xvi, 686p, 2p cat, adverts on endpapers. 600 engravings in the text. Inner hinges strengthened. VG in the original very attractive decorative gilt binding, all edges gilt. A nice copy. Very Good.

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PEPPER, J H

Pneumatics Embracing the Air Pump and the Diving bell [ and Acoustics ]

1865, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Warne & Co, London, n.d. [ca 1865]. Sq 8vo, 98p, 2p cat. Engravings in the text. Sunday School bookplate & small stamp on endpaper, inner hinge strengthened, VG in original decorative cloth gilt. Pp 1-40 on pneumatics & p 41-98 on acoustics. Scarce - only one copy on COPAC. Very Good.

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PLUCHE, ABBÉ TRANS J B DE FREVAL

The History of the Heavens.

1741. Hardcover. Book, 2 vols, 2nd edn, for J Osborn etc, London, 1741. 8vo, xii, 288p, 8p index; ii, 312p, 8p index, 92 p 'Revisal of the History of the Heavens'. Engraved plates. Hinges cracking but firm, one strengthened, VG in full contemporary calf, old manuscript vellum labels, bookplate of St Benedict's Abbey Library, Fort Augustus, Scotland. Philosophy and Egyptology including a discussion of Newton's Philosophy vol 2, p 189-224. Very Good.

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PROUT, WILLIAM F.R.S.

Chemistry, Meteorology and the Function of Digestion considered with reference to Natural Theology.

1834, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, William Pickering,1834. 8vo, xxiv, [iv], 564p, 1p table. Folding coloured map. Bridgewater Treatise VIII. Slight wear, VG in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards & endpapers. Spine in compartments with two red labels. DNB: Prout was one of the pioneers of physiological chemistry, & discovered hydrochloric acid in the stomach. The view that atomic weights of elements are multiples of that of hydrogen is known as 'Prout's Law'. Very Good.

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QUINCY, JOHN M. D.

Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea or A Compleat English Dispensatory in Four Parts.

1722. Hardcover. Book, Fourth edn, much enlarged, London, for E Bell, W Taylor & J Osborn, 1722. 8vo, xvi, 674p, 60p index. Inscr, title page in good facsimile, slight darkening to edges else VG. Original panelled calf dec boards, neatly rebacked at some time (binder's ticket Riley, Dunn & Wilson) with raised bands and gilt title. A very comprehensive work, Part I is general chemistry. DNB - 'Quincy practised medicine as an apothecary and physician in London d.1722'. A nice copy of a scarce text. Very Good.

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RHIND, W G

The Six Days of Creation a Series of Familiar Letters from a father to his children describing the Natural History of each Day's Mercies

1860. Hardcover. Book, 4th edn, Broom, London, 1860. Sq 8vo, xx, 339p. Geographical Clock frontispiece with volvelle, 6 engraved plates. Inscr, inner hinge strengthened, slight browning in original green blind-stamped cloth, bright gilt spine, overall a VG copy. Lots of natural history, with some theology 'with particular reference to the illustration of Scriptural Truth'. Scarce in original attractive binding. Very Good.

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RICHARDSON, C J.

The Englishman's House.

1898. Hardcover. Book, New edn, Chatto & Windus, London, 1898. 8vo, vi, 504p. Coloured frontispiece & text illustrations. Inscr. Near fine in original pictorial cloth gilt. An attractive book in a fine binding. Near Fine.

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RIVARD, M.

Traite de la Sphere.

1757. Hardcover. Book, 3rd edn, revised, Saillant, Paris, 1757. 8vo, 156p bound with 'Traite du Calendrier', 84p. Fldg table and 3 folding plates. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, gilt in compartments. Slight wear else VG, with label and decorative cartouche of Ampleforth Abbey library on endpaper, red edges. Very Good.

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ROBINSON, THO. RECTOR OF OUSBY, CUMBERLAND.

An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an account is given of their several mineral and surface productions, with some directions how to discover minerals by the external and adjacent strata and upper covers, &c. To which is annexed, a vindication of the philosophical and theological paraphrase of the Mosaick system of the creation, &c.

1709, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Freeman, 1709. 8vo, [xvi], 95p, 118p, 2p ads. Contemporary panelled calf, neat old reback, raised bands, gilt title. Slight wear, mainly to corners, VG. Small inscr 'J A Marshall'. Partial bookplate of Smart Lethieullier, English antiquary. Important early geology and mineralogy. Very Good.

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ROSCOE, SIR HENRY E & SCHUSTER, A

Spectrum Analysis

. Hardcover. Book, 4th edn, revised & considerably enlarged, Macmillan, London, 1885. 8vo, xvi, 452p. Plates, some in colour, text engravings. Small unobtrusive label on spine, spine v sl dull else near fine copy in original pictorial cloth gilt, with mounted spectrum on front board. Top edge gilt. An important work on chemical and astronomical spectroscopy. Knight p234 ' Spectrum Analysis became a standard work'. Very Good.

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ROSCOE, SIR HENRY E, F.R.S. AND SCHORLEMMER, C, F.R.S.

A Treatise on Chemistry. 9 vols, complete set.

. Hardcover. Book, 9 vols, 8vo, London, Macmillan & Co, 1888-1892. Vol I 'Non-metallic elements', 779p, portrait frontispiece of Dalton and text engravings. Vol II 'Metals', 2 vols 1887 & 1889. 504p, 536p, text engravings. The first three vols have prize bookplate of W H Houghton, Huddersfield Technical School on endpapers & gilt stamp on front board. Vol III 'Organic Chemistry', 6 vols, most first edition, 1881- 1892. 724p, 755p, 388p, 544p, 523p, 582p. Vol 2 has lighter cloth, 2 vols have a small University stamp & 1 vol has new endpapers. Some slight wear, a VG complete set of the author's works. Knight p 234 - 'The great standard textbook of the late nineteenth century'. Very Good.

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ROWELL, G A.

Electric Meteorology.

1886, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn thus, privately printed for the author, Oxford, 1886. 8vo, ca 225p, fldg diags. Offset browning to p1 else nr fine copy in original dark purple cloth gilt. 2p followed by 18 separately paginated publications including 'Lecture on the Storm in Wiltshire, Dec 30 1859'; 'On the Storm in the Isle of Wight, Sept 28 1876'; 'Electric Meteorology - an endeavour to show the general agency of electricity in the cause of rain & its allied phenomena, 1881'. DNB - George Augustus Rowell 1804 - 1892, meteorologist. COPAC lists copies at Oxford, Imperial, British Library only. An excellent copy of a rare book. Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Weather

SCHEELE, CHARLES-WILLIAM

The Chemical Essays of Charles-William Scheele

. Hardcover. Book, Facsimile reprint of 1786 original, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966. 8vo, xiv, ii, 406p. Nr fine original cloth. Pencil note 'only 250 copies reprinted'. Near Fine.

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Katalog: History of Science

Sonstige Stichworte: Chemistry