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On the laws of the reflexion and refraction of light at the common surface of two non-crystallized media. [AND] Supplement to a memoir on the reflexion and refraction of light. [AND] On the propagation of light in crystallized media.

Green, G. · 1842

€1,500.00 ($1,653.30 | £1,251.41 | ¥263,927)

Cambridge, The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1842. Three papers in one. 4to (26.6 x 20.8 cm). 52 pp. [1-24; 113-120; 121-140]. Later polished half calf over marbled boards. Author's name on spine. = Written by the British baker, and mathematical physicist, George Green (179...

Ob osnovnykh zadachakh matematicheskoy teorii postroyeniya geograficheskikh kart. [On the main tasks of the mathematical theory of the construction of geographical maps].

Grave, D. A. · 1896

€950.00 ($1,047.09 | £792.56 | ¥167,153)

St. Petersburg, Akademyi Nauk, 1896. 4to (28.0 x 19.5 cm). 199 pp.; seven folded plates with illustrations numbered I-XI, 1-5. Original printed wrappers. = Written by the Russian mathematician Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave (1863-1939). "[He] was educated at the University of St ...

List of the Geological Society of London. 1870-1899.

[Geological Society of London] · 1870

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, The Geological Society of London, 1870-1989. 30 yearly volumes in three. 8vo (21.2 x 14.0 cm). ca. 2400 pp. Uniform pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers. Speckled edges. = An uninterrupted run of the members ("fellows") list...

Album général des cryptogames. Avec la collaboration de M[ademois]elle Fernande Coupin. Fungi (Champignons). Tome I - II.

Coupin, H. [E. V.] · 1911

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, E. Orlhac, [1911]. 4to (27.5 x 18.6 cm). 158 plates with explanatory text leaves, title pages and indexes. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = Rare atlas dealing with fungi. The complete work ...

Ptitsy Pskovskoy gubernii [The birds of the Gouvernment of Pskov (Pskov Oblast)].

Zarudny, N. [A.] · 1910

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

St.-Pétersbourg, l'Académie Inpériale des Sciences de St.-Péterbourg, 1910. Large 4to (33.3 x 24.7 cm). Title page, 182 pp. Published without wrappers. = A seldom-seen annotated list of the birds obeserved in what is now Pskov Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, bordering the...

Quelques developpements d'analyse combinatoire.

Meyer, A. · 1838

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Bruxelles, Balleroy, 1838. Large 4to (31.0 x 24.0 cm). 67 pp.; folding table. Original printed wrappers. = A rarely seen work on by the Luxembourgian mathematician and poet, Antoine Meyer, also known as Antun or Tun Meyer (1801-1857). In the present work, Meyer proposed to rep...

Bird plates. Barn or yellow owl.

Meyer, H. L. · 1835

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, the author, ca. 1835. Folio (37.5 x 27.6 cm). Well preserved hand-painted engraving of a bird in its natural surroundings. = Dutch-born British ornithologist Henri Leonhard Meyer (1797-1865), author and illustrator of one of the best books on British Birds: Illustrati...

Description de l'Egypte. Histoire naturelle. Oiseaux. Planche 12. [Eagle]

Savigny, J. C. [Bouquet, J.] · 1826

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Paris, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1826. Elephant folio (70 x 54 cm). A fine, detailed engraving. Verso blank. = An exceptionally fine, life-sized illustration of a North African Eagle, Aquila heliaca, l'Aigle de Thèbes. Described the French naturalist Marie Jules César Lelorgne de S...

Description de l'Egypte. Histoire naturelle. Oiseaux. Planche 3. [Falcon and owl]

Savigny, J. C. [Barraband, J.] · 1826

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Paris, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1826. Elephant folio (ca. 71 x 53 cm). A fine, detailed engraving. Verso blank. = An exceptionally fine, life-sized illustration of a falcon (Milvus aetolius, le milan étolien) and an owl (Bubo ascalaphus, le hibou d'Égypte) from North Africa. Descr...

Description de l'Egypte. Histoire naturelle. Oiseaux. Planche 2. [Falcon and eagle]

Savigny, J. C. [Bouquet, J.] · 1826

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Paris, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1826. Elephant folio (ca. 71 x 53 cm). A fine, detailed engraving. Verso blank. = An exceptionally fine, life-sized illustration of a falcon (Elanus caecius) and an eagle (Aquila melanaeetos) from North Africa. Described the French naturalist Marie...

Contributions to the history of certain species of conifers.

Masters, M. T. · 1886

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

London, The Linnean Society of London, 1886. 8vo (22.2 x 14.2 cm). 104 pp.; 32 text illustrations, nine double-sized lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A rare work on conifers by the English botanist Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833-1907). Published as the Society's...

On the plants of Kohima and Muneypore.

Clarke, C. B. · 1889

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

London, The Linnean Society of London, 1889. 8vo (22.2 x 14.2 cm). 107 pp.; 44 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Trained at Cambridge, the botanist Charles Baron Clarke (1832-1906) travelled extensively in Bengal, Assam, Kashmir, Nepal, and Bhutan collecting an...

Newton's scientific and philosophical legacy.

Scheurer, P. B. and G. Debrock (eds.) · 1988

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1988. 8vo (24.3 x 16.5 cm). ix, 382; several text illustrations. Green cloth with gilt title on the spine. In printed dust jacket. = The surprisingly rare original edition. With a preamble and four sections (I. Newton's science; II. Newton's scientific herit...

Développements de géométrie descriptive.

Olivier, T. · 1843

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Carilian-Goeury et V[ict]or Dalmont, 1843. Half-title, title page, viii, 455 pp. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Speckled edges. = First edition. Written by the influential mathematician and educator Théodore Olivier (1793-185...

Gems from the Coral Islands, or incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the South Sea Islanders. Volume I. [AND] Volume II. [Complete].

Gill, W. · 1856

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, Ward and Co., 1856. 8vo (19.8 x 14.2 cm). 595 pp.; two woodcut frontispieces, 29 woodcut plates, including three maps. Original decorated, pictorial blind-stamped and gilt cloth. Light yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. = The sensationalist title should be ignored. The ...

Beiträge zur Physik und Chemie des 20. Jahrhunderts Lise Meitner Otto Hahn Max von Laue zum 80. Geburtstag.

Frisch, O. R. et al. (eds.) · 1959

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1959. Large 8vo (24.0 x 17.2 cm). 285 pp. Red cloth with gilt title on front board and spine. In original printed dustjacket. = A seldom-seen title, here in an unusually good state, including the original dustjacket. Small former owner'...

Revision of Indian blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Meloinae).

Saha, G. N. · 1979

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Calcutta, The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 1979. 8vo (24.4 x 16.1 cm). Title page, 150 pp. ([iv], 146); 118 text illustrations. Printed soft cover. = A well-illustrated monograph. Figures are of taxonomically important parts. Several species are new. Published a...

Comice agricole du canton de Castres (Tarn.).

Combes, A. (ed.) · 1835

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Castres, Vidal Aîné, 1835-1838, 1844. In four volumes. (Small) 8vo (17.0 x 10.6 cm and larger). Original printed wrappers. = A collection of four ephemeral publications on yearly agricultural shows in the town of Castres, in the Tarn département in Southern France between Toul...

The Problemata Physica, attributed to Aristotle: The Arabic version of Hunain Ibn Ishaq and the Hebrew version of Moses Ibn Tibbon.

Filius, L. S. [Aristotle] · 1999

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Leiden, Brill, 1999. Thick 8vo (23.8 x 15.7 cm). B/W frontispiece; lxxxvii, [ii], 903 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title on front board and spine. = A seldom-seen scholarly work, published as 'stand-alone' and as Volume 11 of Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, founded by H...

Aristotle's Meteorology and its reception in the Arab world. With an edition and translation of Ibn Suwar's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn Bajja's Commentary on the Meteorology.

Lettinck, P. [Aristotle] · 1999

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Leiden, Brill, 1999. Thick 8vo (23.8 x 15.7 cm). ix, 505 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title on front board and spine. = A seldom-seen scholarly work, published as 'stand-alone' and as Volume 10 of Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, founded by H. J. Drossaart Lulofs, i.e. a...