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34 p.; 16 cm. Signatures: A-B8 C2(-C2). 8vo. Wing B3963A. Modern brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine reading: "Robt. Boyle. Notes of Mechanical Origine 1675." Front free endpaper inscribed: Miles Warner, October 1943. In Near Fine Condition. An attractive copy. Robert Boyle was one of the most important 17th-century English scientists, playing a pivotal role in the development of the modern experimental method. The publication offered here was the seventh of eleven works published in 1675 about his experiments in studying various physical properties. (These eleven works, although published with individual title pages and pagination, are also found bound together under the title: Experiments, Notes, &c, about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Divers Particular Qualities.) The individual works are very scarce. Experimental Notes of the Mechanical Origine or Production of Fixtness
Boyle, Robert
London, Eng.: Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis Bookseller in Oxford, 1675. 34 p.; 16 cm. Signatures: A-B8 C2(-C2). 8vo. Wing B3963A. Modern brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine reading: "Robt. Boyle. Notes.. more
Price: $835.00
Title continued: "Waar by komt het medetreden in de Groote Alliantie van de Koningen van Portugaal en Pruyssen, mitsgaders den Hertog van Savoyen." 56 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-G4 (4to). Disbound, but solid. Woodcut title vignette of a vase with flowers and initial letter. Knuttel, 14961. A report on victories of the Allied nations in the Netherlands against France and Spain in 1703. An extremely scarce pamphlet from the War of the Spanish Succession. Disbound; otherwise in Very Good+ Condition: slightly soiled and creased. De Continueerende Zegenpralingen der Geallieerde Wapenen in de Nederlanden, Behaalt op die van
Utrecht: Willem van Poolsum, 1703. Title continued: "Waar by komt het medetreden in de Groote Alliantie van de Koningen van Portugaal en Pruyssen, mitsgaders den.. more
Price: $425.00
"Sixieme Edition, Réimprimée sur la quatrième, pour servir d'abrégé de la cinquième." xxxvi, 412 p.: 19 folded plates; 17 cm. Contemporary full mottled calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled in other spine compartments. Gilt rules on board edges. All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Former owner? inscribed on title page: Cailletiere. P. 412 contains publisher's advertisement for other works by the author. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed with slight loss at ends of spine; lower corners are bumped; fore-edge of plate 15 creased and chipped without impacting image; light foxing on a few pages; otherwise clean and crisp. Elemens de Fortification, Contenant les principes & la description raisonnée des différens ouvrages qu'on emploie à la Fortification des places; les systêmes des principaux Ingénieurs, la Fortification irréguliere, &c.
Le Blond, Guillaume
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1766. "Sixieme Edition, Réimprimée sur la quatrième, pour servir d'abrégé de la cinquième." xxxvi, 412 p.: 19 folded plates; 17 cm... more
Price: $475.00
T.p. cont'd: "Cum eiusdem Authoris Cynosura morum Evangelica, acceßit in hac editione magnus Exemplorum numerus, opera R. D. Bern. Dörhoff ... Monasterii Westphaliae, ex officina Typographica Michaelis Dallii." [16], 392, [20], 320, [104] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: *4 **4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Ddd4 Eee2 )(4 a-z4 aa-zz4 aaa-ggg4. Full vellum; handwritten spine title "Tympy Theatrum historici" and call number. Printer's device on t.p.; head and tail-pieces. Circular stamp on top page edges, title page, and back free endpaper verso: Ex Bibl. Paulina Monast (the former Benedictine monastery of Paulinzella?). Inscription on front free endpaper: "Karl Schaub 1.8.31 Hagen (Westf.)." Inscriptions by former owners on title page. Back free endpaper bears long undated inscription in German script headed "Ex manuscripto D. Cornelii Gertman." The first part of the Theatrum historicum is a new edition of Admirandum Vindictae Divinae Theatrum. Preceded by the "Epistola P. Petri Fabri quam scripsit de curatione haereticorum ad Iacobum Lainez" (4 p.). The author's Dormi Secure Concionatorum seu Cynosura Morum Evangelica and his Cynosura Clericorum: 87 pages and 9 pages respectively at end. In Very Good- Condition: vellum is soiled; back joint separating; foxing; scattered soiling and faint dampstaining; other than the inscriptions noted above, the pages are clean and tight. Theatrum Historicum, continens Vindictas Divinas, et Praemia Christianarum virtutum, Ex gravißimis Graecis, Latinis, Sacris ac profanis historicis, per Locos Communes iuxta Alphabeti seriem Dispositum
Tympius, Matthaeus
Munster [Ger.]: Michael Dalius, 1625. T.p. cont'd: "Cum eiusdem Authoris Cynosura morum Evangelica, acceßit in hac editione magnus Exemplorum numerus, opera R. D. Bern. Dörhoff.. more
Price: $375.00
Title continued: "Monarchia usq; ad Invictiss. D.D. Ferdinandum II. Roman. Imper. & annum Christi M.DC.XXIX. una cum eorum effigiebus & Symbolis ex probatissimis Historicis, aureis etiam, argenteis, & aeneis numismatibus delineatis. Accesserunt Historia et Series Belli Bohemico-Germanici, sive Commentarii de statu Reip. sub Imperio Invictiss. D. Ferdinandi II. Imper. Roman. Genealogia Seren. Ducum, Archiducum, Regum & Imperatorum, ex Illust. Familia Austriaca prognatorum." [2], 514, [8], 18, [2], 123, [1], p.: 1 folded leaf of a plate, 620 in-text medallion portraits from coins; 33 cm. Signatures: ):(2(+1) A-2U6 2X4 a4 b6 A-O4 P6 (folio). Contemporary full calf with seven spine compartments between raised bands. Double blind-ruled border on each board. All page edges red. Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of W.S. Appleton. William S. Appleton (d. 1903) served as the secretary of the Boston Numismatic Society and "was regarded as one of the most learned of American numismatists" (NYT, May 19, 1907). His collection of American coins was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society; his English and Canadian coins were sold at auction 1n 1907. Another former owner's name written at head of title page, with another name written over it. Also at head of title page: Collegii Paris: Soctis. Jesu [Collegii Parisiensis Societatis Jesu]. Genealogia et Series Serenissimorum & Potentissimorum Austriae has separate title page. Main title is within extensively engraved border; Genealogia title page has woodcut title vignette. Woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed and apparently has old leather preservative or other treatment, primarily on spine and edges; front joint starting to separate, but stitching solid; folded plate has old repair of tear along one horizontal fold, without loss of image; upper corner of pp. 71-72 lacking without loss of text or illustration; pp. 145-46 lacking; old dampstain at foot of title page, not touching engraving; scattered foxing, soiling, and browning. Very scarce. Vitae Imperatorum Caesarumque Rom. Orient. et Occid. Uxorum & Liberorum eorundem, Item Tyran. qui Romanum Imper. occupare diversis temporibus conati sunt, à Caio Iulio Caesare, primo Roman.
Strada, Octavius de, à Rosberg, the Elder
Frankfurt am Main: Eberhard Kiefer [Eberhard Kieser], 1629. Title continued: "Monarchia usq; ad Invictiss. D.D. Ferdinandum II. Roman. Imper. & annum Christi M.DC.XXIX. una cum eorum effigiebus &.. more
Price: $1,250.00
"publié le 15 Mai 1702." 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Plain wrappers (later). Woodcut title vignette and initial letter. Knuttel, 14762. The French translation of the official declaration of war against France and Spain by the Netherlands on May 15, 1702 (Manifest, Houdende de Redenen Waerom de . . . Staten Generael . . . Genoodtsaeckt Zijn Tegens de Koningen va Vranckryck en Spaigne den Oorlogh te Declareren). A very scarce pamphlet relating to the War of the Spanish Succession. In Very Good+ Condition: lightly creased and soiled. Manifeste Contenant les Raisons qui Obligent les Haut et Puissancs Seigneurs les Etats Généraux des Provinces Unies des Païs-Bas, de Declarer la Guerre a la France et à l'Espagne
La Haye, France: Paul Scheltus, 1702. "publié le 15 Mai 1702." 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Plain wrappers (later). Woodcut title vignette and initial.. more
Price: $450.00
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