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Études sur la Bière, ses Maladies, causes qui les provoquent procédé pour la rendre inaltérable, avec une Théorie nouvelle de la Fermentation
by PASTEUR, Louis
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- 1876
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Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (229 x 148 mm). viii, 387 [1] pp. including half-title, 12 engraved plates protected by tissue paper, 85 illustrations in text. Contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered and gilt-tooled in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers (exceptionally well preserved binding). Text… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lezioni Accademiche ... Lettore delle Mattematiche nello Studio di Firenze e Accademico della Crusca, edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri
by TORRICELLI, Evangelista
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- 1715
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Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (250 x 180 mm). xlix [1], 96, [2] pp. Half title, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, engraved portrait of the author after Pietro Anichini, imprimatur leaf bound at the end, woodcut initials and ornaments,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Opera omnia : figuris elegantissimis in æs incisis illustrata
by MALPIGHI, Marcello
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- 1686
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London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1686. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one. Folio (364 x 227 mm). Main titles of both volumes printed in red and black, vol. I with engraved allegorical frontispiece; in total 116 full-size engraved plates plus 7 smaller engraved plates; appendix De Ovo Incubato, De Bombyce, Pulli in Ovo… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung
by HUMBOLDT, Alexander von
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- 1845
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Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, Krais & Hoffmann, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Volume 1 to 5. Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, 1845-1862. 8vo (210 x 129 mm). Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, [1851]. Oblong folio (283 x 337… Read more about this item Item Price
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Experimenta circa effectum conflictus elecrici in acum magneticam. In: Journal für Chemie und Physik (Schweigger's Journal), vol. 29, pp. 275-281
by OERSTED, Hans Christian
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- 1820
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Nürnberg: In der Schrag'schen Buchhandlung, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (199 x 118 mm). Entire volume: viii, 1-50, [4], 55-96, [4]; 101-204; 245-256, [4]; 261-384, [4]; 389-520, [4] pp., folding table facing p. 50 and 2 folding engraved plates; pp. 205-44 are skipped (pagination error). Contemporary sprinkled half calf over marbled boards, spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Recherches sur le mouvements d'Uranus. In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Vol. XXII, no. 22, June 1846, pp. 907-918
by LE VERRIER, Urbain Jean Joseph
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- 1846
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Paris: Bachelier, 1846. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Recherches sur le mouvements d'Uranus. In: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Vol. XXII, no. 22, June 1846, pp. 907-918. Paris: Bachelier, 1846. Two volumes. 4to (283 x 226 mm). Entire volumes 22 (Jan. -… Read more about this item Item Price
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Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata, quorum haec prima pars de restitutione motuum solis & lunae, stellarumque inerrantium tractat, et praeterea de admiranda noua stella anno 1572 exorta luculenter agit. Excudi primum coepta Uraniburgi Daniae, ast Pragae Bohemiae absoluta. Edited by Johann Kepler
by BRAHE, Tycho
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- 1610
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Frankfurt am Main: Gottfried Tampach, 1610. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (231 x 171 mm). [8], 112, 01-20, 022-028 [1], 112 (i.e. 113)-822, [12] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams, woodcut initials and tailpieces, general index at end. Signatures: )(4… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Inquiry concerning the Source of the Heat which is excited by Friction. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 88, Part I, for the year 1798, pp. 80-102, 1 folding engraved plate
by THOMPSON, Benjamin [COUNT RUMFORD]
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- 1798
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London: Peter Elmsly, 1798. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (292 x 235 mm). Entire volume (part I) offered: vi, 199 [1], 26 pp., 7 folding engraved plates and folding table. All pages uncut. Original blue wrappers, spine hand-lettered in ink (paper dust-soiled and spotted, paper… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradley Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and F.R.S. to Dr. Edmond Halley Astronom. Reg. &c. Giving an Account of a New Discovered Motion of the Fix'd Stars. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1727-28, vol. 35, no. 406, pp. 637-661
by BRADLEY, James
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- 1729
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London: W. Innys, 1729. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (215 x 168 mm). Entire volume offered: [6], 293-661 [1] pp., including general title, drop titles for individual numbers, content leaves outside pagination, and 14 engraved folding plates. Contemporary panelled calf (spine rebacked, extremities worn, corners heavily scuffed.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Untersuchungen über das Sonnenspectrum und die Spectren der chemischen Elemente. [Erster Teil] - Zweiter Teil
by KIRCHHOFF, Gustav Robert
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- 1862
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Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1862. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Offprints from: Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861-1862. Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler, 1862-1863. 4to (305 x 238 mm). [4], 43 [1]; [3] 4-16 pp., 5 lithographed plates (3 for part I and 2 for part II; 4 folding). Pages of part II… Read more about this item Item Price
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Theorie analytique de la chaleur
by FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph
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- 1822
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Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1822. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (254 x 200 mm). [4], xxii, 639 [1] pp., including half title and two engraved plates at end. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (spine very little rubbed, head of spine chipped), endpapers and cut edges marbled. Internally crisp and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes
by REAUMUR, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de
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- 1734
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Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1734. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1734-1742. 6 volumes. 4to (252 x 193 mm). I. [6], 654 pp, 50 plates; II: [4] xlvi [2], 514 pp., 40 plates; III: [4] xl, 532 pp., 47 plates; IV: xxxiv [2], 636 (i.e., 634) pp., 44 plates; V:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux
by LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de
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- 1801
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Paris: chez l'auteur et Deterville, 1801. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (198 x 122 mm). viii, 432 pp., including half-title, 8 letterpress tables (6 folding). Contemporary calf, plain spine with gilt-lettered morocco label and gilt decoration, boards with double fillet border, gilt-ruled board edges, red sprinkled edges,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Grundzüge der Wissenschaftlichen Botanik nebst einer methodologischen Einleitung. . . Two volumes in one
by SCHLEIDEN, Matthias Jacob
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- 1842
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Leipzig: E A. Brockhaus for Wilhelm Engelmann, 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1842-1843. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). [i-xi] xii-xxvi, [1] 2-289 [3]; [i-v] vi-xvii, [1] 2-564 pp., including half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol. I, pp. 225-240 misbound after p.272 in vol. I, errata on pp. [559]-564 in vol. II. Contemporary half… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essais sur l'Hygromètrie
by SAUSSURE, Horace Benedict de
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- 1783
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Neuchatel: Samuel Fauche pere et fils, 1783. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (220 x 148 mm). xii, 524 (i.e. 506) pp., 2 folding engraved plates and 11 tables (8 folding, 4 within pagination), some mispaginations (pp. 129-130, 155, 164-172 omitted). Signatures: a4 A-2H8 2I5. Contemporary… Read more about this item Item Price
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Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären
by GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von
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- 1790
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Gotha: Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1790. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). [6], 86, [2] pp. including final blank. Bound in fine 20th century green morocco by G. Dubois d'Enghien, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated and with gilt lettering in first compartment, boards… Read more about this item Item Price
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Études sur la Bière, ses Maladies, causes qui les provoquent procédé pour la rendre inaltérable, avec une Théorie nouvelle de la Fermentation
by PASTEUR, Louis
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Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (240 x 156 mm). viii, 387 [1], 4 pp. including half-title, 12 engraved plates, illustrations in text, 4-pages advertisement bound at end. Book block uncut and unopened except for two gatherings. Original publisher's orange printed wrappers (somewhat… Read more about this item Item Price
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Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe
by HUTTON, James
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- 1788
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Edinburgh: J. Dickson, 1788. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 1 (1788), pp. 210-304 [2], including 2 engraved plates and extra leaf of plate explanation bound after. Edinburgh: J. Dickson, 1788. 4to (265 x 210 mm). Entire volume: xii, 100,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
by DARWIN, Charles
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- 1871
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London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition, First Printings. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, First Printings. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (189 x 129 mm). viii, 423 [1], 16; viii, [2], 475 [1], 16 pp., including half-titles, publisher's catalogue dated January 1871 at end of each volume, and several woodcut illustrations in text. Untrimmed and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Philosophia Botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis
by LINNAEUS, Carl
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- 1751
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Stockholm: Godofr. Kiesewetter, 1751. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (201 x 121 mm). [6], 362 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by I. M. Bernigeroth, 9 engraved plates, and 2 woodcuts in text. Contemporary half calf with gilt lettering piece to spine (boards and extremities rubbed). Internally little browned throughout, endpapers, title… Read more about this item Item Price
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