Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1007 DEMPSEY (G. Drysdale, c.£.) The PRACTICAL RAILWAY ENGINEER: Examples of the Mechanical and Engineering Operations and Structures combined in the making of a Railway, 50 fine steel plates, 4to. hf. morocco neat, t. e. g. (nice copy), 15s 1847 Very interesting as containing detailed plans and illustrations of Formation, Earthworks, Stations, Carriages, Watering Apparatus, etc. ete. 1008 DENISON (Herbert) TREATISE on PHOTOGRAVURE in Intaglio by the Talbot-Klic Process, front. and woodcuts, 8vo. buckram, 2s 6d [1894] 1009 [DENISON (Joseph)] NEw ANALOGY, for DETERMINING the DISTANCES of the PLANETS from the Sun, and of the Satellites from their Primaries, feap. 8vo. hf. calf, 3s 1842 1010 [ ] New INTRODUCTION to the MATHEMATICS, with Appendix, diagrams, large 8vo. boards, 3s 6d 1840 1011 [ ] New SUPPLEMENT to EvcLip’s ELEMENTS, diagrams, 8vo. hf. calf, 2s 6d 1840 1012 DENMAN (James Lemoine) The VINE and its FRUIT, more especially the PRODUCTION of Wine, 2nd Ed., enlarged, 2 coloured maps, 8vo. cl., g.e. (stamp on title) ; out of print, 4s 6d 1875 1018 DENTON (John Bailey) AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE, folding map, roy. 8vo. cl. (out of print) 1 38 1014 DEPARCIEUX [l’ainé] (Antoine) NouvEAUX TRAITES de TRIGONOMETRIE Rectiligne et Sphérique, démontrés par une Méthode nouvelle et plus facile, avec un TRAITE de GNOMONIQUE ; with 17 fine plates on Dialling, 4to. fine copy in old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 10s 6d . 1741 1015 DIERHAM] (W[illiam, p.p., Canon of Windsor, and Pres. St. John’s Coll., Oxvon.)| The ARTIFICIAL CLOCK-MAKER; a Treatise of Watch and Clock-Work, shewing to the meanest Capacities the Art of Calculating Numbers to all Sorts of Movements; the Way to alter Clock- Work; to make Chimes . . . amd to Calculate and Correct the Motion of Pendulums; also Numbers for divers Movements: with the Antient and Modern History of CLock-WoRK, 4th Ed., with large Emendations, with plates and folding tables, 12mo. new hf. brown calf extra (RARE), £1. 5s 1734 ANOTHER Copy, wanting front., last plate torn, and some headlines shorn; old calf (joints cracked), 9s 6d . . Final edition of one of the most important authorities on the early history of watch- and clock-making. 1017 DESAGULIERS (John Theophilus, Chaplain to the Duke of Chandos, ¥.R.S.) COURSE of Ex- PERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, 78 fine copperplates, 2 vols. 4to. old calf gilt (titles stamped), 10s 1734-44 1018 ANOTHER Copy, old calf (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Eart Stanhope, 12s The author was the son of a Huguenot pastor at La Rochelle, and was brought to England on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes hidinatub. After receiving Holy Orders he became chaplain to ‘the Princely Chandcs’, and vicar of Little Stanmore, Middlesex, where Handel played the organ. ‘He was the inventor of a machine called the planetarium, which served to determine the exact distances of the heavenly bodies according to the systems of Newton and Copernicus. He also erected a ventilator in a room over the House of Commons’ (D. N. B.)—the prolific parent of many successive extractors of public money, if not of bad air. WITH NOTE BY THE DUC DE BROGLIE: 1019 DESCARTES (René) (EuvreEs ComPLitEs, publiées par VICTOR COUSIN, 11 vols. Svo. sewn (v. VI hf. morocco), and ATLAS, containing portrait and 46 plates, oblong 4to. cl.—in all 12 vols. (VERY SCARCE), with auto. note by the Duc de Broglie, Prime Minister to Louis Philippe, £4. 4s 1824-6 The best edition of the complete works, which has entirely superseded that of 1724-9. The last volume contains works which had not hitherto been translated into French, and extracts from his MSS. OPERA PHILOSOPHICA (Principia Philosophie; Dissertatio de Methodo: Dioptrice et Meteora; Tractatus de Passionibus Anime) ; editio LV. ; with fine engraved portrait and front. on copper by C. H., and numerous woodcuts, 4to. fine copy in contemporary calf (joint cracked), £1. 1s Amstelodami, 1664 1016 1020 1021 EDITIO ALTERA}; with portrait by F. v. Schooten (INSERTED), and numerous woodcuts, 4to. old vellum, 15s ibidem, Dan. Elzevier, 1677 1022 Enitio Nova; with numerous woodcuts, 4to. fine copy in old white vellum gilt, a 6d ae 7b., 169 None of the above editions contains ‘ Meditationes de Prima Philosophia’, and ‘ Epistola ad Gisbertum Voetium’ which are mentioned on the list of contents. They seem never to have been published with any of these editions. 1023 with numerous diagrams, 4to. old vellum (some ll. damaged), 8s 6d Lugduni Batav., 1649 1024 ANOTHER Copy, old vellum, with auto. of Thomas Melvill (1726-53), experimental philosopher, on title (sound copy), 15s ath Frrst Latin Epition of this celebrated work, which contains the author’s invention of analytical geometry, and specially valuable for the notes by pz Braune, which rendered the difficult original text easy of comprehension, and wherein the editor first points out that the properties of a curve can be deduced from those of its tangent (‘the inverse method of tangents’). a , ; De Homine, Ficuris et LATINITATE donatus a FLORENTIO SCHUYL; - jinely printed in large type, with numerous anatomical engravings (that of the heart with movable slips), and woodcuts by the translator, cr. 4to. fine copy in old calf, £1. 1s Lugduni Batav., 1662 First Eprrron, the French one not having been published till 1664 5 it contains an excellent preface by the translator, In this treatise Descartes applies the law of refraction (based on the emission theory) to the human eye. ‘C'est la que Vauteur expose sa célébre doctrine sur les esprits animaux.’ —Biogr. Gén. é : , : MEDITATIONES de PRIMA PHILOSOPHIA, in quibus Dei exsistentia, et Anime humane i corpore distinctio, demonstrantur : Petri Gassendi DisquisITio METAPHYSICA; seu Dubitationes et Instantic adversus Renati Cartesii Metaphysicam, et Responsa—2 vols. er. 4to. in I, old hf. binding, 10s 6d Amst., Joh. Blaeu (a la sphere), 1644 Third edition of Descartes’s work, which laid the foundation of his philosophy, and the first edition of Gassend’s attack on it. 1025 1026 — i! ee on
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