Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1962
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/52
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    610 611 612 613 614 915 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 Hooke (R.) Lampas: or Descriptions of Some Mechanical Improvements of Lamps & Waterpoises. Together with some other Physical and Mechanical Discoveries, title page +54 pages, sm. 4to, hf. calf, John Martyn, 1677 £25 Wing, H.2616. Keynes 20. Without the 4 plates on 3 sheets. LEcTURES DE POTENTIA RESTITUTIVA: or of Spring Explaining the Power of Springing Bodies. To which are added some Collections, 2 plates, title page +56 pages, sm. 4to, hf. calf, 7. Martyn, 1678 £30 Wing, H.2619. Keynes 21. Lacks the plate at p. 29 Map of the Isle of Mayo. The collections include a Description of Dr. Pappin’s Wind-Fountain and Force Pump. Mr. Young’s Observations concerning natural Fountains. Some other Considerations concerning that Subject. Capitain Sturmy’s remarks of a Subterraneous Cave and Cistern. Mr. G. T. Observations made on the Pike of Teneriff 1674. Some Reflections and Conjectures occasioned thereupon. A Re- lation of a late Eruption in the Isle of Palma. THE DIARY OF ROBERT HOOKE, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., 1672-1680, transcribed from the Original in the Possession of the Corporation of the City of London (Guildhall Library), edited by H. W. Robinson and W. Adams, facsimiles, 1935 £1 15s — Keynes (SIR GEOFFREY) A Bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke, 12 plates and text figures, 4to, 1961 £2 15s Hooper (L.) SILK, ITS PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURE, coloured frontispiece and other illusts., sm. 8vo, c. 1910 1 Hooper (W. Eden) THE Motor Car IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. A Souvenir and an Historical Survey of Mechanical Road Locomotion in England from Early Times to the Present Day, portraits, coloured plates and other illustrations, 4to, original morocco, slightly worn, 1908 £30 Hopkins (R. T.) OLD WATERMILLS AND WINDMILLS, Introduction by A. Beckett, frontispiece and 48 illusts., imp. 8vo, c. 1920 £2 Hopkinson (John) ORIGINAL Papers: Technical Papers, edited with a Memoir by B. Hopkinson, portrait, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1901 £1 1s Hoppe (Dr. E.) GESCHICHTE DER ELEKTRIZITAT, Af. morocco, 1884 £10 Horne (Henry) ESSAYS CONCERNING IRON AND STEEL: The First containing Observations on American Sand-Iron, The Second, Observations on Common Iron-Ore, 217 pages, wrappers, T. Cadell, 1773 £25 The Second Essay contains Observations, founded on Experiments, on Common Iron-Ore, with the Method of reducing it first into Pig or Sow Metal, and then into Bar-Iron; on the Sort of Iron proper to be converted into good Steel, and the Method of refining that Bar-Steel by fusion, so as to render it fit for the more curious Purposes. With an Account of Mr. Reaumur’s Method of softening Cast-Iron and an Appendix discovering a more perfect Method of Charring Pit-Coal, so as to render it a proper Succedaneum for charred Wood-Coal. Hornell (James) WATER TRANSPORT, ORIGINS AND EARLY EVOLUTION, 87 plates and 69 illusts., roy. 8vo, Cambridge, 1946 £6 Horner (John) THE LINEN TRADE OF EUROPE DURING THE SPINNING WHEEL PERIOD, many tllusts., Belfast, 1920 £6 10s Hornsby (Thomas) THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE REV. THOMAS HORNSBY, D.D., made with the Transit Instrument and Quadrant at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the Years 1774 to 1798, reduced by H. Knox-Shaw, J. Jackson and W. H. Robinson, frontispiece, 4to, 1932 £1 5s Hortus Sanitates: AN EARLY ENGLISH VERSION. A Bibliographical Study by Noel Hudson, facsimile reproduction of 164 pages containing nearly 400 woodcuts, Ato, 1955 £6 Hoyle (F.) FRONTIERS OF ASTRONOMY, many illusts., 1955 £1 Hudson (Derek) and K. W. Luckhurst. THE Roya SOcIETY OF ARTS, 1754- 1954, 40 plates, 1954 £1 10s
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