Search Results: Authors starting with B from Adam Weinberger Books

1896-7 EXTREMELY EARLY ALBUM OF X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHS[X-RAYS] Barthelemy, Toussaint & Oudin, Paul Oblong 8vo, burgundy leatherette, rubbed with loss to spine. 1896-7. The album contains, containing silver gelatin prints (15), each approximately 5x7 inches or slightly smaller. The extraordinary x-ray photographs feature multiple views of the bones of hands (a few with broken joints an done taken under a cracked glass filter) and other skeletal regions of the human body.The most unusual perhaps is a purse and the sole of a shoe (which foreshadows x-ray airport security) as well as a rat, which is certainly among the earliest examples of animal radiography. (See: https://timeline.com/early-xrays-hidden-world-6bbc3a3fb267)Provenance: Swann Galleries New York, 19 February 2002, FinePhotographs, lot 33Becquerel himself learned of the discovery of radiology on January20, 1896, when two physicians and French pioneers in the new mediumPaul Oudin and Toussaint Barthélemy, submitted an X-ray image of ahand… Read More

Cosimo Bartoli Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere à gli huomini : secondo le vere regole d'Euclide, et de gli altri più lodati scrittorn. Venetia : presso Sebastiano Combi, 1614. 145 p. [2] leaves. 18th century calf. Rubbed. 8vo {21 cm). Complete with the two tables.An important work on surveying, measuring, and drawing on perspective. Profusely illustrated with a great variety of measuring methods for civil and military purposes. This treatise explains how to measure great distances, heights or areas, using geometric methods. The author also addresses the problem of perspective and geometric projection. The fourth book is dedicated to the construction and use of the compass, while in the book V Bartoli deals with Euclidean geometry. Finally, in book VI, the author studies square roots.

NOTE: IF YOU MISSED THE PHYSICAL NY FAIR and want to see our joint catalog (of course a lot sold but still great books there). https://www.adamweinbergerrarebooks.com/images/upload/nyfair.pdfBoccaccio, G. Genealogiae deorum gentilium. Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 7 March 1494, 2 parts in 1 vol. (with continuous foliation). (i.e. Venetiis ductu & expensis Nobilis uiri. D. Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetie[n]sis. M.CCCC.XCIIII. Septimo kalendas Martias finis i[m]positus fuit huic operi. per Bonetum Locatellum.) Folio. 30 x 20 cm. Complete: 162 lvs., 13 woodcut genealogical tables, lovely woodcut ornamental capitals and unusual small initials. 18th century binding, spine very worn with losses on spine, likely later faux wood-grained paper over boards. First blank detaching from text block, some thumbing, non obtrusive lower inner margin water stain running through one third of book, a few minor stains and some pages foxed, but generally very good. Ref: Goff B-753; Hain/ Copinger 3321.… Read More

BRÈS (Jean-Pierre)
Les talents : ou, Les couronnes de la Jeuness
The talents of the youth. Paris, Lefuel, (1827). 8 in-12 booklets of 40 pages, in a publisher's, decorative cardboard box (220 x 162 mm). Cover lined with embossed gold paper; one side restored.
Complete collection of eight volumes each adorned with a beautiful frontispiece depicting the subject treated and finely enhanced in colour. Embroidery, song, dance, drawing, home economics, writing, gymnastic exercises and reading. Rare set.
Gumuchian n ° 921, list booklet. OCLC lists Royal Library Netherlands, V&A, University of California and Lily Library but only with four books (out of 8).

Trattato delle Razze dei Cavalli. Near Fine. 2 engraved folding plates, light browning and spotting throughout, front endpaper detaching, a few leaves chipped, ownership note of Antonio Paolo Scotti, ex libris of Adolphus Trollope and armorial bookplate bearing motto 'bene quodcunque est', pasted on title, cute contemporary patterned paper wrappers, title label to spine, rubbed, Fratelli Reycends (Stamperia Reale), Turin , 1781. Rare treatise on horses mentioning hundreds of breeds, with particular details. Also of veterinarian interest. The author was director of Belluno veterinary school and wrote another work on equine medicine in 1774. Provenance: From the library of Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1891), Travel writer , novelists, brother of Anthony Trollope. I located six copies worldwide (one of them is in the US). A fine copy.