Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (5 ' Te ey ae Se ee ow ee 4] NATURAL SCIENCES continued. With several woodcuts in the text (plants, animals). Vellum. 8vo. Rouen, 1650. } Lit. 60 — Pritzel 7273. Porta, in botany, was the first ecologist, grouping plants, in his: « Phytognomonica », according to their geographic locale and distri- bution. 297 (Rozier and Tourette). D&moNSTRATIONS ELEMENTAIRES DE BOTA- NIQUE, suivant la méthode de M. de Tournefort et celle du Chev. Linné. With 13 copper-plates. 3 vols. 8vo. Half calf. Lyon, 1787. Lit. 34 — 298 Scheuchzer, J. HERBARIUM DILUVIANUM. 4 leaves, 120 pp., 2 lea- ves. With 14 folding plates, two fine vignettes and the portrait of the author. Folio, Vellum, Leyde, 1723. Lit. 110 — Brunet V, 198. Pritzel 8173. One of the first books on fossils and petrifi- cation. This second edition is greatly enlarged regarding both, text and plates. (part Il wanting). With 75 (instead of 100) finely engr aved folding plates. Folio. Boards. Lear 1764. Lit. 30 — Browned. 300 Zanoni, Jac. RARIORUM STIRPIUM HISTORIA. 20 leaves, 247 pp. With fine engr. front., the author’s portrait, initial letters, culs-de- lampe, and 185 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES. Folio. Half vellum. Bolo- gna, 1742. Lit. 120 — Pritzel, 10459. First. edition. Very fine copy. Nautics. 301 Bouguer, J. TRAITE COMPLET DE LA NAVIGATION contenant les pro- positions et pratiques de geometrie, un traité de la sphere et d’astro- nomie, etc. 5 leaves, 252 pp., 1 leaf. With engraved frontispice and 11 engraved folding plates (all of nautical interest). 4to. Old calf. Paris, 1706. Lit. 60 — This nautical work was of great importance in its time and served as manual of instruction on the Royal Naval Schools. — Margins of several leaves slightly wormed. vements. 20 leaves, 682 pp., 1 leaf. With 12 folding plates refering to naval architecture. 4to. Old calf. Paris, 1746. Lit. 55 — This important work is generally considered to have laid the foundation of the theory of naval architecture. 303 Bouguer, P. La MANOEUVRE DES VAISSEAUX, OU traité de mécha- nique dans lequel on réduit a des solutions trés simples les proble-
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