Sales catalogue 106: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/16
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 106: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    London. The author was engineer of the London Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, founded in 1810. The’book was immediately translated into French, Italian and German. GEOLOGY. 564 Borelli (Joan. Alph.) Historia et Meteoro- logia Incendii Aetnei anni 1669. Reggio, 1670 21s 4to, Old vellum, worn. 6 Il., 162 pp. 1 leaf. With a folding copperplate and some woodcuts. (James) Organic.» Remains of a former World, An examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetable and Animals of the Antedeluvian World, generally termed Fossils. London, 1820 15s Large 4to. Original boards, uncut. Engraved frontispiece and numerous plates (mostly coloured) of fossil remains, ‘‘ The first attempt to give a familiar- and scientific account ...accompanied by figures of fossils, a memorable event in the history of British Palaeontology ”’ (Mantell). 569aParkinson (James) Outlines of Oryc- An uncommon book by the distinguished | scientist on the outbreak of Mt. Etna in 1669. 565 Cuvier (Baron L. Chr. Fr.) Récherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles des Quadrupédes. Paris, Deterville, 1812 £10 10s Large 4to. 4 vols. Full crimson morocco by Ottman Duplanil. ENTIRELY uNCcUT. Illustrated with very many engraved plates, many very large and folding, and a large foiding map-of the geo- logical details of the environs of Paris (coloured by hand). One of the most important works by Cuvier, the founder of the modern science of palaeontology. ‘‘ This work is important in morphological science not only because it contains Many accurate and still highly valued descriptions of ‘‘extinct species,’? but also because in its celebrated introduction on the revolutions on the surface of our globe it takes a comprehensive view of the changing aspects which succeeding ages, divided by great catastrophes, characterized by distinct geological formations and by the fossil remains of extinct organic creations, presented on the surface of our earth’? (Merz). The present copy has very extensive manuscript notes by de Blainville, the well known geologist who gave the science of fossil remains its name ‘ palaeon- tology.’”’ It is most remarkable to find a scientific book of this great importance in such very fine condition as the present one, into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., from 1832 to 1836. London, Henry Colburn, 1839 £5 10s ‘ 8vo. Half calf. With 2 folding maps. First EDITION, 567 Geological Society. Transactions. Lon- don, 1811-1821 £3 3s 4to. Half calf. colour. 568 Murchison (Sir Roderick Impey) The Silurian System founded on geological re- searches in the countries of Salop, Here- 5 vols. Many plates, some in tology. An Introduction to the study of Fossil Organic Remains, especially those found in the British Strata. London, 1822 8s 6d Small 4to. Orig. boards, back a little defective. With 10 engraved plates. démontrée nulle a la surface du _ globe, contre les asertions de MM. le comte de Buffon Bailly, de Mairan, etc. Stockholm and Paris, Didot, 1781 15s 8vo.. Unbound. 11, 6 ll., 124 pp. A critical examination of Buffon’s theory of the earth. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments, trans- lated from the’ French . .. to which are added the construction and uses of such instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented or improved by the English. The second edition, to which is added a supplement. London, 1758 £3 3s Folio. Old calf, rebacked. 7+325 pp. With 30 engraved folding plates. The best account of scientific instruments of the beginning of the 18th century, including descriptions of nautical instruments, compass, spheres, astronomical instruments, surveyiag instruments, Magnets, Microscopes, etc., etc. The present edition has four plates added with the supplement. of the Terrestrial Globe. London, 1683 21s 4to. Old calf, joints weak. The author was a famous Orientalist, and the other works in the volume are chiefly of that nature. There is a tract on the Boy Bishop of Salisbury. Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester and Stafford ; with descriptions of the Coal-Fields and overlying forma- tions. London, John Murray, 1839 £4 4s 2 vols. Large 4to. Original printed paper Wrappers, new backs. With 53 plates (including some coloured). 112 woodcuts and 3 folding maps or the Theory of the Universe . . . London, 1774 21s 4to. Old boards, a little worn. 174 pp. An unusual book illustrated with many attractive engravings with movable parts and 5 plates. It is intended as an introduction to astronomy, meteorology and geography. There is a plate of the Orrery and other scientific instruments. found with very few copies). The First Ep1Irion of this famous work. Under the Silurian system ‘‘ were grouped for the first time a remarkable series of formations, each replete with distinctive organic remains’ older than and very different from those of the other rocks of England.”—Ency. Brit. Many of the types which Murchison had found, were also found in other countries belonging to a definite Geological period, and the word “‘ silurian ’’ came to be used by geologists in every country. CABLE ADDRESS : Neuchatel, S. Fauche, £2 10s 4to. Contemporary mottled calf. 24, 367 pp. Engraving at beginning of text showing a laboratory and 2 engraved plates. First Epition. It contains the author’s important invention of the hair hydrometer superseding that constructed by Deluc and records his investigations on the theory of evaporation and hygrometry. l’ Hygrométrie. 1783
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