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Sämmtliche Schriften. Stuttgart, Tübingen, J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1819-1826. 15 volumes. 8vo. With folding leaf of music in the first volume and mathematical figures on 5 folding engraved plates in volume 15. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Sämmtliche Schriften. Stuttgart, Tübingen, J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1819-1826. 15 volumes. 8vo. With folding leaf of music in the first volume and mathematical figures on 5 folding engraved plates in volume 15. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
PESTALOZZI, Johann Heinrich. · 1746
€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)
Ca. 400 pp. each vol.First edition of the collected works of the greatest reformer of education since Comenius, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss by birth. His basic principle was that children should be educated, not trained like dogs. So the pupil came first, n...
Al de werken over het onderwijs en de opvoeding. Naar[!] het Hoogduitsch bewerkt, onder opzigt van P.J. Prinsen.Zutphen, W.C. Wansleven, 1826-1831. 8 volumes. With printed music in the first volume, and mathematical figures on 5 folding engraved plates illustrating the morphology in vol. VI. Contemporary sprinkled paper over boards.
Al de werken over het onderwijs en de opvoeding. Naar[!] het Hoogduitsch bewerkt, onder opzigt van P.J. Prinsen.Zutphen, W.C. Wansleven, 1826-1831. 8 volumes. With printed music in the first volume, and mathematical figures on 5 folding engraved plates illustrating the morphology in vol. VI. Contemporary sprinkled paper over boards.
PESTALOZZI, H.
€1,900.00 ($2,094.15 | £1,585.11 | ¥334,408)
Ca. 500 pp. each volume.First Dutch edition of the collected educational works by the great Swiss pedagogue Pestalozzi. The present Dutch translation was made under the supervision of the leading figure in Dutch school reform, P.J. Prinsen, director of the Royal Teacher's Coll...
Bedenkingen over de beoeffening der rechtsgeleerdheid, benevens vier verhandelingen over wysgeerige stoffen.Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé and son (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling, [Utrecht]), 1781. With: (2) PERRENOT, Abraham. Considérations sur l'étude de la jurisprudence, … Nouvelle edition. Berlin, G.J. Decker; Utrecht, Henrikus Spruit, 1776. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards (triple fillets, with floral ornaments in each corner), board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Bound by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum (active in Amsterdam 1812-1854), one of the “major binders” (Storm van Leeuwen) of that period, with his letterpress ticket on paste-down (“A.v. Rossum | hof-boekbinder”).
Bedenkingen over de beoeffening der rechtsgeleerdheid, benevens vier verhandelingen over wysgeerige stoffen.Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé and son (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling, [Utrecht]), 1781. With: (2) PERRENOT, Abraham. Considérations sur l'étude de la jurisprudence, … Nouvelle edition. Berlin, G.J. Decker; Utrecht, Henrikus Spruit, 1776. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards (triple fillets, with floral ornaments in each corner), board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Bound by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum (active in Amsterdam 1812-1854), one of the “major binders” (Storm van Leeuwen) of that period, with his letterpress ticket on paste-down (“A.v. Rossum | hof-boekbinder”).
PERRENOT, Abraham. · 1775
€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)
5, [1], 339, 5; 68 pp.Rare first and only edition of the much expanded Dutch translation of a philosophical treatise for law students, on natural morality as the basis for all law, together with the second edition of the same treatise in the original French. The Monthly review...
Horologie- en uurwerkmakers handboek.Nijmegen, the widow of J.C. Vieweg and son, 1826. 8vo. With 4 letterpress folding tables, and numerous illustrations and figures on 16 folding plates, lithographed by Guillaume Philidor van den Burggraaf, Brussels. Modern quarter sheepskin.
Horologie- en uurwerkmakers handboek.Nijmegen, the widow of J.C. Vieweg and son, 1826. 8vo. With 4 letterpress folding tables, and numerous illustrations and figures on 16 folding plates, lithographed by Guillaume Philidor van den Burggraaf, Brussels. Modern quarter sheepskin.
SMIT, Jacob Levi. · 1766
€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)
[2], XII, 256 pp.First edition of a rare Dutch technical handbook on clockmaking, which was considered an important manual for the technical training of clockmakers at the time. It aimed to foster a more intuitive understanding of the concepts instead of explaining rules that ...
Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive. Een compagnie, een regiment, een leger te voet en te peert te logeren, en in verscheyde soorte van bataillons te stellen… By gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons, met een korte wederlegginge der sustenu van H. Ruse over de hedendaeghsche fortificatie.Utrecht, Jan van Waesberge, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page, 13 woodcut folding fortification plans, and numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary vellum.
Korte en klare instructie van regulare en irregulare fortificatie, met hare buyten-wercken. Te gebruycken defensive en offensive. Een compagnie, een regiment, een leger te voet en te peert te logeren, en in verscheyde soorte van bataillons te stellen… By gevoegt 50 lustige questien, met hare solutien.Including: MELDER, Gerard. Appendix aen de instructie vande fortificatie en bataillons, met een korte wederlegginge der sustenu van H. Ruse over de hedendaeghsche fortificatie.Utrecht, Jan van Waesberge, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page, 13 woodcut folding fortification plans, and numerous woodcut illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary vellum.
MELDER, Gerard. · 1654
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[12], 208, [4]; 40 pp.Very rare first edition of a popular, richly illustrated text book on fortification by Gerard Melder, including the Appendix (mentioned on the title-page), containing the author's answer to his Amsterdam colleague Ruse discussing the proper system of fort...
l'Art de conduire et de régler les pendules et les montres: a l'usage de ceux qui n'ont aucune connoissance d'horlogerie. Paris, for the author and Michael Lambert (colophon: printed by H.L. Guerin and L.F. Delatour), 1759. 12mo. With illustrations on 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
l'Art de conduire et de régler les pendules et les montres: a l'usage de ceux qui n'ont aucune connoissance d'horlogerie. Paris, for the author and Michael Lambert (colophon: printed by H.L. Guerin and L.F. Delatour), 1759. 12mo. With illustrations on 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.
BERTHOUD, Ferdinand. · 1725
€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)
XVI, 78, [2] pp.First edition of a basic instruction on clocks and watches for beginners in the profession or trade and for all owners of clocks and watches in general. Ferdinand Berthoud (1725-1807), was a famous Swiss mechanic of clocks, watches, chronometers and the like wh...
Philosophie der tollen en ballen; of het Newtoniaansche zamenstel van wysbegeerte, geschikt naar de vatbaarheid der eerste Jeugd, en gemeenzaam en vermaaklyk gemaakt door voorwerpen, welke aan haar zeer bekend zyn: bestaande in ses lessen, geleezen voor de Lilliputiaansche Maatschappie, door Tom Telescope.Middelburg, Christiaan Bohemer, 1768. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing a little boy, Tom Telescope, standing on a table and explaining matter and motion to a group of other small children with some adults present too, a woodcut showing a pair of telescopes, and 8 fine engraved plates showing the solar system, an air-pump and air-gun, globes and armillary spheres, Vesuvius, etc. Contemporary half calf.
Philosophie der tollen en ballen; of het Newtoniaansche zamenstel van wysbegeerte, geschikt naar de vatbaarheid der eerste Jeugd, en gemeenzaam en vermaaklyk gemaakt door voorwerpen, welke aan haar zeer bekend zyn: bestaande in ses lessen, geleezen voor de Lilliputiaansche Maatschappie, door Tom Telescope.Middelburg, Christiaan Bohemer, 1768. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece showing a little boy, Tom Telescope, standing on a table and explaining matter and motion to a group of other small children with some adults present too, a woodcut showing a pair of telescopes, and 8 fine engraved plates showing the solar system, an air-pump and air-gun, globes and armillary spheres, Vesuvius, etc. Contemporary half calf.
NEWBURY, John. · 1761
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[12], 134, [1], [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition, with engravings printed from the plates of the second English edition, of the famous English children's book on natural science: The Newtonian system of philosophy adapted to the capacity of young gentlemen and ladies, first pu...
De coloribus libellus, à Simone Portio Neapolitano latinate donatus, & cometariis illustratus: una cum euisdem praefatione, qua coloris naturam declarat.Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548. 4to. With 2 large woodcut historiated initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript spine-title, with 4 fragments of a Latin manuscript in an upright humanistic hand on vellum used as spine lining.
De coloribus libellus, à Simone Portio Neapolitano latinate donatus, & cometariis illustratus: una cum euisdem praefatione, qua coloris naturam declarat.Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548. 4to. With 2 large woodcut historiated initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript spine-title, with 4 fragments of a Latin manuscript in an upright humanistic hand on vellum used as spine lining.
[THEOPHRASTUS? (pseudo ARISTOTLE)] and Simone PORZIO. · 1497
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
197, [3] pp.First edition of one of the earliest printed books about colour, translated from the Greek into Latin and with commentary by the Neapolitan physician and philosopher Simone Porzio (1497-1554). Usually attributed to Aristotle, it is now thought to be the work of the...
Relacion del viage, que por orden de su magestad, y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias ... Including: ECHELEVAR, D. Manuel de, J.M. y J. Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas, y navegaciones ...Cadiz, Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, Impressor de la Real Marina, [1766?-1769]. 4to. With a folding map of the Strait of Magellan drawn and engraved by D.M. de Rueda, dated 1769. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment by the Cadiz printing office's own bindery.
Relacion del viage, que por orden de su magestad, y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias ... Including: ECHELEVAR, D. Manuel de, J.M. y J. Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas, y navegaciones ...Cadiz, Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, Impressor de la Real Marina, [1766?-1769]. 4to. With a folding map of the Strait of Magellan drawn and engraved by D.M. de Rueda, dated 1769. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment by the Cadiz printing office's own bindery.
NODAL, Bartholome Garcia de & Gonzalo. · 1574
€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)
[18], [2 blank], "162" [= 164], [2], [2 blank]; 41, [2], [1 blank] pp.Second edition of an account of the voyage to the Strait of Magellan and Strait of Le Maire (which they named Strait of San Vicente) and the first extensive exploration of the latter and its surroundings, by...
Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.
FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. · 1741
€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)
VIII, [4], 340, [4] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a geological study of the St. Pietersberg near Maastricht, the Netherlands by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), a French geologist and assistant of Buffon at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Whe...
[Engraved title:] Solitudo sive vitae patrum eremicolarum ...[Paris], Thomas de Leu, 1606. Small oblong folio (19 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page, and 29 engraved prints. Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?) bound by Bernard David (or his son Salvador David) in Paris.
[Engraved title:] Solitudo sive vitae patrum eremicolarum ...[Paris], Thomas de Leu, 1606. Small oblong folio (19 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page, and 29 engraved prints. Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?) bound by Bernard David (or his son Salvador David) in Paris.
LEU, Thomas de (or de LEEUW) [drawn by Marten de VOS]. · 1560
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[1], 29 engraved ll.Finely engraved title page and prints depicting the lives of hermits living in the desert as described by Hieronymus in his famous Vitae patrum. The engraved title page and prints were printed and published by Thomas de Leu or de Leeuw (1560-1612), a Flemis...
't Nieuw groot Hoorns lied-boekje, bestaande in veel stigtige en vermakelyke bruylofts liedekens.Hoorn, Reinier Beukelman, [between 1713 and 1735]. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, and several leaves with musical annotation. Contemporary gold-tooled morocco, sewn on 2 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a panel design on both boards with a lozenge-shaped ornament in the centre surrounded by fillet and ornamental borders, two silver clasps, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, gilt brocade end papers.
't Nieuw groot Hoorns lied-boekje, bestaande in veel stigtige en vermakelyke bruylofts liedekens.Hoorn, Reinier Beukelman, [between 1713 and 1735]. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, and several leaves with musical annotation. Contemporary gold-tooled morocco, sewn on 2 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a panel design on both boards with a lozenge-shaped ornament in the centre surrounded by fillet and ornamental borders, two silver clasps, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, gilt brocade end papers.
[SONGBOOK]. · 1403
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
311, [9] pp.Unrecorded issue of one of the most popular Dutch songbooks of the 18th century, containing songs for weddings, funerals, and other events where people traditionally sang together. Multiple editions of the work were published in the 17th- and 18th centuries, but th...
Huishoudelyk woordboek, vervattende vele middelen om zyn goed te vermeerderen en zyne gezondheid te behouden, met verscheiden wisse en beproefde middelen voor een groot getal van ziekten, en schoone geheimen om tot een hoogen en gelukkigen ouderdom te geraken, een menigte van manieren om lammeren, schapen, koejen, paarden, muil-ezels, hoenderen, duiven, honigbyen, zywurmen te kweken, voeden, genezen, en winst te doen met die dieren;...In't Nederduits vertaald, in orde geschikt, en vermeerderd met nuttige artikelen, door de heeren Jan Lodewuk Schuer, A.H. Westerhof, en zeker liefhebber. Leyden, S. Luchtmans; Amsterdam, H. Uytwerf, 1743. 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Punt (1711-1779) and 80 engraved folding plates by F. de Bakker. Half calf.
Huishoudelyk woordboek, vervattende vele middelen om zyn goed te vermeerderen en zyne gezondheid te behouden, met verscheiden wisse en beproefde middelen voor een groot getal van ziekten, en schoone geheimen om tot een hoogen en gelukkigen ouderdom te geraken, een menigte van manieren om lammeren, schapen, koejen, paarden, muil-ezels, hoenderen, duiven, honigbyen, zywurmen te kweken, voeden, genezen, en winst te doen met die dieren;...In't Nederduits vertaald, in orde geschikt, en vermeerderd met nuttige artikelen, door de heeren Jan Lodewuk Schuer, A.H. Westerhof, en zeker liefhebber. Leyden, S. Luchtmans; Amsterdam, H. Uytwerf, 1743. 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Punt (1711-1779) and 80 engraved folding plates by F. de Bakker. Half calf.
CHOMEL, Noël. · 1496
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[8], 616; [2], 617-1496, [4] pp.The first Dutch edition of the most popular domestic encyclopaedia of agriculture and house-keeping of the 18th century, written by Noël Chomel (1632-1712), a French agronomist entrusted with the domestic management of the possessions of the abb...
Opera. Hoc est tractatus de aure humana editione … et dissertationes anatomicae, ... Omnia recensuit, & auctoris vitam addidit Joannes Baptista Morgagnus.Leiden, Johannes Hasebroek, 1742. With title-page printed in red and black and 13 folding engraved plates.With: (2) DUVERNEY, Guichard Joseph. Tractatus de organo auditus, continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium.Nürnberg, printed by Johann Zieger for Johann Michael Spörlin, 1684. With 16 folding engraved plates, unsigned, but attributed to Sebastien le Clerc (1637-1714). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary vellum.
Opera. Hoc est tractatus de aure humana editione … et dissertationes anatomicae, ... Omnia recensuit, & auctoris vitam addidit Joannes Baptista Morgagnus.Leiden, Johannes Hasebroek, 1742. With title-page printed in red and black and 13 folding engraved plates.With: (2) DUVERNEY, Guichard Joseph. Tractatus de organo auditus, continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium.Nürnberg, printed by Johann Zieger for Johann Michael Spörlin, 1684. With 16 folding engraved plates, unsigned, but attributed to Sebastien le Clerc (1637-1714). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary vellum.
VALSALVA, Antonio Maria. · 1666
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
40, [10], 143, [19], 163-203, [1 blank]; [12], 48 pp.Ad 1: Rare third edition of Morgagni's expanded version of Valsalva's important De aure humana. "Valsalva's treatise is not only a worthy companion to Duverney's work but far surpasses it in richness of content and in a rare...
Sermones pulcherrimi sup[er] d[omi]nica[m] or[ati]o[n]em Pater noster & angelicam salutat[i]o[n]em Ave Maria. Unicuiq[ue] ad populu[m] vole[n]ti declamat[i]o[n]es facere acco[m]modati. editi p[er] venera[n]du[m] patre[m] Augustinu[m] de Leonissa ...(Colophon: Cologne, heirs of Heinrich Quentel, 1505). With 3 decorated woodcut initials, many 3-line and 2 larger Lombardic initials. With the first decorated initial hand coloured, and rubricated throughout.With: (2) BONAVENTURA, Saint (pseudo). Sermo[n]es Quattuor novissimorum perutiles et n[e]cc[ess]arii. unu[m]que[m]que in devot[i]o[n]is ardorem dei quam timore[m] i[n]ducentes. a Beato Bonaventura editi.(Colophon : Cologne), [Cornelis de Zierikzee, ca. 1502]. With a small woodcut of Christ at the Last Judgement on the title-page framed by 4 decorative woodcut strip borders, a full-page woodcut of King David meeting Christ at the Last Judgement (repeated at the end), a few 3-line Lombardic initials and spaces left for a few larger manuscript initials (not filled in). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (14.5 x 10.5 cm). Modern blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco.
Sermones pulcherrimi sup[er] d[omi]nica[m] or[ati]o[n]em Pater noster & angelicam salutat[i]o[n]em Ave Maria. Unicuiq[ue] ad populu[m] vole[n]ti declamat[i]o[n]es facere acco[m]modati. editi p[er] venera[n]du[m] patre[m] Augustinu[m] de Leonissa ...(Colophon: Cologne, heirs of Heinrich Quentel, 1505). With 3 decorated woodcut initials, many 3-line and 2 larger Lombardic initials. With the first decorated initial hand coloured, and rubricated throughout.With: (2) BONAVENTURA, Saint (pseudo). Sermo[n]es Quattuor novissimorum perutiles et n[e]cc[ess]arii. unu[m]que[m]que in devot[i]o[n]is ardorem dei quam timore[m] i[n]ducentes. a Beato Bonaventura editi.(Colophon : Cologne), [Cornelis de Zierikzee, ca. 1502]. With a small woodcut of Christ at the Last Judgement on the title-page framed by 4 decorative woodcut strip borders, a full-page woodcut of King David meeting Christ at the Last Judgement (repeated at the end), a few 3-line Lombardic initials and spaces left for a few larger manuscript initials (not filled in). 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (14.5 x 10.5 cm). Modern blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco.
AUGUSTINUS DE LEONISSA. · 1435
€4,850.00 ($5,345.58 | £4,046.19 | ¥853,620)
[92]; [128] ll.Two rare early post-incunabula containing Latin sermons, both printed in Cologne. The first work contains sermons by bishop Augustinus (de Campellis) of Leonissa (d. 1435), from the Augustine order, in two parts, with fifty and twenty-eight sermons respectively....
Essays on the microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, ...The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements, ...London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 1 text volume and 1 plates volume. Large 4to. With an allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia in the text volume and 32 numbered double-page plates (numbered I-XXXII) mounted on guards, printed from 36 copper plates (plates 2, 7, 23 and 24 each from 2 copper plates distinguished as A and B) with hundreds of figures showing microscopes, associated equipment and microscopic views of insects, microbes, shells and tissue samples. Uniform 20th-century dark blue morocco.
Essays on the microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, ...The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements, ...London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 1 text volume and 1 plates volume. Large 4to. With an allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia in the text volume and 32 numbered double-page plates (numbered I-XXXII) mounted on guards, printed from 36 copper plates (plates 2, 7, 23 and 24 each from 2 copper plates distinguished as A and B) with hundreds of figures showing microscopes, associated equipment and microscopic views of insects, microbes, shells and tissue samples. Uniform 20th-century dark blue morocco.
ADAMS, George (Frederick KANMACHER, ed.). · 1750
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XVII, [7], 724, 14, 2 pp.Second edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated account of microscopes and their use by the famous London optician George Adams (1750-1795), mathematical instrument maker to King George III, first published in 1787, but here with both the text ...
Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.Paris, Roret, 1825. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Modern gold-tooled beige paper over boards, with a red morocco author and title label on the spine, lettered in gold, brown sprinkled edges.
Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.Paris, Roret, 1825. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Modern gold-tooled beige paper over boards, with a red morocco author and title label on the spine, lettered in gold, brown sprinkled edges.
VERGNAUD, Armand Denis. · 1791
€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)
[4], 229, [1] pp.Rare first edition of a practical manual on perspective. The work discusses both linear and aerial perspective, as well as the study of design and painting specifically applied to the landscape. The final chapter describes and explains the use of various colou...
Sciography; or, examples of shadows; and rules for their projection: intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen.London, J. Taylor (back of title-page: printed by J. Moyes, London), 1822. Large 8vo. With 18 folding lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf.
Sciography; or, examples of shadows; and rules for their projection: intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen.London, J. Taylor (back of title-page: printed by J. Moyes, London), 1822. Large 8vo. With 18 folding lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf.
GWILT, Joseph. · 1784
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
43, [5], 20 pp.Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863) studied architecture with his father and at the Royal Academy. In his numerous works he shows himself to be an adherent of the classical style. With regard to the present work, Gwilt states in his preface that at first he only wanted to ...
Nieuwe natuurkundige ontdekkingen, aangaande de eigenschappen, werkingen, en oorzaaken der electriciteit, of uitlokkings-kragt.Including:(2) WINCKLER, Johann Heinrich. De eigenschappen der electrische stoffe, en van het electrische Vuur.(3) WAITZ, Jacob Sigismund von. Verhandeling over de electriciteit, en derzelver oorzaken.Amsterdam, H.W. van Welbergen, 1751. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 11 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
Nieuwe natuurkundige ontdekkingen, aangaande de eigenschappen, werkingen, en oorzaaken der electriciteit, of uitlokkings-kragt.Including:(2) WINCKLER, Johann Heinrich. De eigenschappen der electrische stoffe, en van het electrische Vuur.(3) WAITZ, Jacob Sigismund von. Verhandeling over de electriciteit, en derzelver oorzaken.Amsterdam, H.W. van Welbergen, 1751. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 11 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.
WINCKLER, Johann Heinrich. · 1703
€1,900.00 ($2,094.15 | £1,585.11 | ¥334,408)
[16], 119, [1 blank]; [14], 110, [2 blank]; [56], 139, [1] pp.Early work on electricity. Johann Winkler (1703-1770) improved the construction of the electric generator by using a leather cushion pad held against the globe by adjustable springs, rather than the palm of the hand...
Kurtzer doch gründlicher Bericht von Calculation der Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium und Secantium. Sampt deroselben gebrauch in Solvierung oder aufsrechnung aller flachen Triangel.Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayern, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary boards.
Kurtzer doch gründlicher Bericht von Calculation der Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium und Secantium. Sampt deroselben gebrauch in Solvierung oder aufsrechnung aller flachen Triangel.Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayern, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary boards.
STEVIN, Simon. · 1548
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[24], 154, [10]; [182] pp.First German edition of Simon Stevin's (1548-1620) Van den Driehouck-Handel, originally published in the Wisconstige Gedachtenissen (1605-1608), augmented by the translator, Daniel Schwenter, with axioms on spherical angles by the German mathematician...