Gammarologia sive Gammarorum Vulgo Canrorum Consideratio Physico-Philologico-Historico-Medico-Chymica...Ad Normam Collegii Naturae Curiosorum by Sachs von Loewenheim Philipp Jakob - 1665

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

1765 Institutions of Geometry Philosophy Psychology Math Illustrated Mathematics
"Institutions of Geometry" is a rare, mid-18th-century philosophical treatise containing notes and commentary on the human mind by Jean Baptiste de la Chapelle. Chapelle, of course, also offers a discourse on mathematical principles designed to aid mathematics educators. Note that this 1765 French text contains numerous folding engravings throughout depicting geometric shapes and geometry problems.
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CHAPELLE, J. Baptiste de la
Institutions de géométrie : enrichies de notes critiques et philosophiques sur la nature et les développemens de l'esprit humain
A Paris : Chez Debure pere ..., 1765.

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Vol. I – xl, 438
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Vol. II – xxxii, 415, [1]
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· Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 12.5cm)
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1798 1ed FLORIDA & LOUISANA Colonies Vesuvius Napoleon Yellow Fever Plague RARE
The Gentleman's Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term 'magazine'. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.
This 1798 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:
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English Naval losses near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Admiral Nelson commands and military decisions
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Yellow Fever epidemic in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from the West Indies
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English control of Cape of Good Hope
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Description of the eruption of Vesuvius and the uncovering of its ruins
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Secession of Florida and Louisiana from Spain to France
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Irish Rebellion of 1798
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Napoleon's campaign to Egypt
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URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]
The Gentleman's Magazine: for 1798, volume LXVIII.
London:… Read More

1636 ATLAS Nicolas Tassin MAPS Beauce France French Geography Chartres Montargis
Nicolas Tassin was a mid-17th-century French cartographer whose maps were some of the most thorough and accurate of the time. This collection of Tassin maps includes his maps and engravings of cities, towns, and villages, in Beauce, France. Notable maps include: Chartres, Estampes, Corbeil-Essonnes, Gallardon, Montargis, and Saint-Mathurin
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TASSIN, Nicolas
Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considérables de France… Province de Beau[L]ce avec la carte generale…

Paris : Tavernier, 1636.

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18 engravings (incl. title page & table)
· Language: French
· Binding: Softcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~7in X 9.75in (18cm x 24.5cm)
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1814 Ferguson Physics ATLAS Inventions Astronomy Isaac Newton Optics Brewster

James Ferguson was a prominent Scottish physicist and astronomer known for his lectures and studies on mechanics, hydraulics, optics, and astronomy. These public lectures on experimental philosophy and physics were repeated throughout various towns in England and eventually transcribed for publishing.
This 1814 printing of the lectures of Ferguson includes impressive, folding engravings depicting mechanical inventions, gears, optics, hydraulics, clocks, and globes.

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FERGUSON, James ; BREWSTER, David [edit.] ; PATTERSON, Robert [edit.]
Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling.
Philadelphia : M. Carey, 1814.

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Torino: F. A. Campana. [Scienze-Prima edizione] (cm.25) ottima piena pergamena originale, titolo manoscritto al dorso, tagli rossi.-- cc. 4 nn., pp. 245 + una p. con l' errata. Fregi e capilettera in xilografia. Edizione originale della massima opera dello scienziato piemontese, maestro di Volta e di Lagrange, la più organica e completa scritta sino a quell' epoca sull' elettricità.Partendo dal concetto di Franklin di un fluido unico positivo e negativo, il Beccaria procede con ricca documentazione, ad esporre in modo razionale ed organico le ipotesi e le teorie di Franklin, elaborazione questa, di cui l' americano nonostante la luminosità dei suoi intuiti, non era stato capace. (D. B. I VII 470). Levissimo alone al margine bianco di qualche carta, ma esemplare molto bello fresco e marginoso. * Poggendorff I 124; * Ronalds Cat. P 40; * Wheeler Gift Cat. 375; * Mottelay p. 206; * Polvani, A. Volta p.51; Eandi G.B. Beccaria, Passim; * Gillispie, Dicition of Scient.… Read More

London: London: printed by M. Flesher, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1684. 1st Edition . Full leather. Near Fine. First edition, quarto; [12], 288, [52], 305-472, [12]pp., complete with imprimatur leaf preceding title-page and separate dated title-page to "An historical account of the College's proceedings against empiricks" on leaf 2P1 recto. In period style 20th century full leather by J.May of London (with only the lightest of wear), blind double fillets to board margins, five raised spine bands with gilt lettered spine label to second compartment, all page edges gilt, small single marginal wormhole to a few rear leaves not affecting text, first and last leaves marginally stained by leather turn-ins, occasional very feint spots and unobtrusive light paper browning, overall a clean copy of these important early accounts of the Royal College of Physicians undertaken, probably at the request of the College, by Charle Goodall, later to become its President. A… Read More

Raccolta unica di 62 pubblicazioni ed estratti di botanica appartenuti al celebre botanico Rodolfo PichiSermolli (Florence 1912-2005). Rodolfo Pichi Sermolli fu un grande botanico specializzato nelle felci Pterodofite. Viaggiò per tutto il mondo in cerca di campioni da utilizzare per il suo erbario: in Africa (Libia, Lagon Tana in Etiopia) Messico, Hawai, Nuova Zelanda, Polinesia ecc… Le più prestigiose istituzioni come il British Museum o il Smithsonian Institution di Washington cercarono di acquistare l'erbario ma lui decise di donarlo all'Università di Firenze. Le pubblicazioni sono per la gran parte studi di botanica, talvolta con descrizione dinuove scoperte di specie e riguardano numerose parti del mondo : Guinea, Mozambico, Canada, North America, Colombia, Quebec, Extremadura in Spain, Africa, Europe etc… Tutti i pezzi riportano ex libris di Sermolli con un numero consecutivo (le pubblicazioni numerate 5350, 5351, 5367, 5369, 5375, 5395 risultano… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1900]. Tall quarto. Original buff wrappers. 6 doubled-sided greyscale plates and 3 single-sided chromolithographic plates at rear accompanying the Sabin paper. 5 plates, of which 2 are folding, accompanying the Clark paper. The title page and early portion of the Clark paper seem to be lacking, perhaps due to a production error. Wrappers just a little rubbed with some short splits and creasing at the edges. The extreme edges of the contents, particularly at the front, are a little toned and creased with some nicks and short splits. Excellent, fresh condition. Offprint of physician and anatomist Florence Sabin's first major work, undertaken when she was an undergraduate and published the following year as the classic textbook An Atlas of the Medulla and Midbrain. WorldCat locates only four copies of this offprint, at King's College London, Brown University, Washington University St Louis, and the University of Sydney. Sabin was born in 1871, and attended Smith College,… Read More

First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 25-348; 4 plates within text block, 8 folding charts depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts, winds and routes, and the gulf stream, and 1 folding table of a pilot's sheet - all in perfect condition barring one small tear(4 cm.) on Plate VIII; original navy blue cloth, corners rubbed and bumped, textblock bright and sound. Considered the first textbook of modern oceanography, this work was among the first to recognize the sea as a separate branch of science. Maury was a distinguished naval officer and a prolific writer on oceanography and naval subjects; he was instrumental in establishing an international system for recording oceanographic data, based on worldwide cooperation of naval vessels and the merchant marine. This work went through many editions; here on offer is the first printing of an enlarged and revised sixth edition - "An Entirely New Edition" - first published and entered on the Congressional Register… Read More