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Bacon, Francis.
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.
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Book number: 1551
USD 12000.00 [Appr.: EURO 11170 | £UK 9608 | JP¥ 1867789]

 
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
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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 3258 | £UK 2802.5 | JP¥ 544772]

 
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 3909.5 | £UK 3363 | JP¥ 653726]
Keywords: Seventeenth Century Books Integral Calculus

 
Ettmuller, Michael.
Méthode de consulter et de prescrire les formules, de médecine.
A Lyon: Chez Thomas Amaulry, 1698. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xiv], 656, [lxviii]pp. Contemporary sheep. Good.