Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112

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

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$1050 DIDEROT (Denis), et Jean le Rond d@”ALEMBERT: ENCYCLOPEDIE, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Société de Gens de Lettres ; premiere edition ; with several hundred fine copperplates, 28 vols. roy. folio, contemporary trec-calf extra, emblematically tooled backs (VERY FINE SET), with bookplate of Robert Dundas, Lord Armston, £4. 14s 6d Genéve, 1772 ORIGINAL Epition of this immortal precursor of the Revolution. The numerous plates on science and mechanical engineering it contains are of great historical interest, apart from its disruptive influence on orthodox philosophy and religious belief. 1051 DIEN (Charles) ATLAS CELESTE, rectifié et augmenté de Cartes Nouvelles: Etoiles doubles, multiples, coloriées, nébuleuses, et Groupes Stellaires, Mouvements propres des Etoiles, etc. par CAMILLE FLAMMARION, 3° Ed. ; with 29 plates (some folding) ; with Text, impl. folio, cl., 17s 6d (p. F.45.) Z 1877 1052 DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, TREATISES on, by WILLIAM HALLOWES MILLER, M.D., F.R.S., 8rd Ed., Cambridge, 43: T. G. HALL, pr., 3rd Ed., 2b., 41: JOHN FORBES, D.D., Glasgow, ’37—3 vols. 8vo. in 1, with plates and diagrams ; hf. calf, 6s 6d 1837-43 1058 DIGBY (Sir Kenelm) Of BopiEs, and of MANs Souu. To discover the IMMORTALITY of REASONABLE SOULS. With two Discourses of the POWDER of SYMPATHY and of the VEGETATION of PLANTS, cr. 4to. old calf (sound copy), with Lord Suffield’s bookplate (RARE), £1. 1s 1669 ‘Digby first described his well-known weapon-salve, or powder of sympathy, in the discourse alleged to have been delivered at Montpellier in 1658. Its method of employment stamps it as the merest quackery. The wound was never to be brought into contact with the powder, which was merely powdered vitriol. A bandage was to be taken from the wound immersed in the powder, and kept there until the wound healed. He says that he learned how to make and apply the drug from a Carmelite who had travelled in the East. He first employed it about 1624 to cure James Howell of a wound in his hand, and he adds that James I. and Dr. Mayerne were greatly impressed by its efficacy, and that Bacon registered it in his scientific collections ’.—Sidney Lee. - See HARTMAN (G.), post. 1054 DIGGES (Leonard): An ARITHMETICALL MILITARE TREATISE, named STRATIOTICOS; com- pendiously teaching the SCIENCE of NUBERS, as well in FRACTIONS as INTEGERS, and so much of the RULES and AEQUATIONS ALGEBRAICALL and ARTE of NUMBERS COSSICALL, as are requisite for the PROFESSION of a SOLDIOUR. Together with MODERN MILITARE DISCIPLINE, OFFICES, LAWES and DUETIES in euery wel gouerned CAMPE and ARMIE to be obserued: Long since attépted by LEONARD DiIGcGEs Gentleman, Augmented, digested, and lately finished, by THOMAS DicGsEs, his Sonne. Whereto he hathalso adioyned certaine QUESTIONS of GREAT ORDINAUNCE, first edition, with the Earl of Leicester’s arms on rev. of title, woodcut (twice repeated) of Military Camp, ornamental woodcut-initials, arms (on p. 72), diagrams and folding plan, sm. 4to. partly in black letter ; newly and finely bound in mottled calf gilt, r.e., by W. PRATT (title slightly mended, and colophon and part of device on last leaf missing, otherwise @ LARGE AND FINE COPY); very rare, £8. &s Henrie Bynneman, 1579 The first edition of this work is excessively rare, no copy having happened for sale for many years. A second edition was published in 1590. ‘He (Thomas Digges] became very proficient in mathematical and military matters, having spent many years ‘in reducing the sciences mathematical from demonstrative contemplations to experimental actions’, in which he was aided by his father’s observations, and by conferences with the rarest soldiers of his time.’—D. N. B. In 1582 he was chosen by the Privy Council overseer of the works and fortifications at Dover Harbour. Tycho Brahe praised him highly in a letter to Sir Thomas Sayvelle, dated Dec., 1590. 1055 — A BOoKE named TECTONICON, briefly showing the EXACT MEASURING, and_speedie reckoning of all manner of Land, Squares, Timber, Stone, Steeples, Pillers, Globes, etc. Further, declaring the perfect making and large USE of the CARPENTERS RULER, containing a QUADRANT GEOMETRICALL: comprehending also the RARE VSE of the Squire. And in the end a little Treatise on the composition and appliances of . . . the PROFITABLE STAFFE, etc. etc., with woodcuts, diagrams, and folding table, sm. Ato. black letter ; sewn (wanting 1 folding table, water- stained, and a few headlines shorn) ; RARE, £1. 10s I’, Kyngston, 1625 There is no copy of this edition in the British Museum. Digges is probably rightly credited with having anticipated the discovery of the telescope. 1056 DIGGES (Thomas): [A GEOMETRICAL PRACTISE, called PANTOMETRIA, divided into three Bookes, Longimetra, Planimetra, and Steriometria, containing Rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, Superficies, and Solides . . . framed by LEONARD DIGGES, lately finished by THoMAS DicGEs his sonne. Who hath also thereunto adjoyned a MATHEMATICAL TREATISE of the FIVE REGULARE PLATONICALL BODIES and their METAMORPHOSIS or transformation into five other equilater unifoorme solides Geometricall, of his owne invention, hitherto not mentioned by any Geometricians], first edition, with numerous ingenious woodcuts, diagrams, and arms and printers’ device on last leaf, sm. 4to. partly in black letter; sewn (title missing and first leaf defective ; also small hole burnt through a few ll.) ; VERY RARE, £2. 10s H. Bynneman, 1571 The first edition, dedicated to Sir Nicolas Bacon, is excessively rare. ‘In this book I find the earliest printed mention I ever met with of the theodolite.—Prof. de Morgan. 1057 ——— SECOND EDITION: A GEOMETRICAL PRACTICAL TREATIZE named PANTOMETRIA ... lately reviewed by the AUTHOR himselfe, and AUGMENTED with sundrie Additions, Diffinitions [ste], Problemes and rare Theoremes, to open the passage, and prepare away to the vnderstanding of his Treatize of MARTIALL PYROTECHNIE and great ARTILLERIE, hereafter to be published, wzth numerous woodcuts and diagrams, and shield of arms, pott folio, partly in hlack letter; sound tall copy in hf. roan, with auto. ‘John Hill, 1697’ on p. 195 (VERY RARE), £6. 6s Abell Jeffes, 1591 ‘Thomas Digges ranks among the first mathematicians of the XVI. century. Although he made no great addition to science, yet his writings tended more to its cultivation than perhaps all those of other writers on the saine subjects put ~ together.’—-J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. ve ‘ The 21st chapter of the first book includes a remarkable description of ‘ the marvellous conclusions that may be performed by glasses concave and convex, of circular and parabolic forms. He practised, we are there informed, the ‘ multiplication of beams’ both by refraction and reflexion ; knew that the paraboloidal shape * most perfectly doth unite beams, and most vehemently burneth of all other reflecting glasses’, and had obtained with great success maguifying effects from a coms bination of lenses . . . The assertion that [Leonard] Digges anticipated the invention of the telescope is fully justitied.’— Miss Agnes M. Clerke.$

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