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rif. 51370A Londres W. Richardson 1780. TITLE CONTINUED: III. Des Nouveaux Barometres Portables et de ceux a grande Echelle &c. IV. Un Essai sur le Feu Elementaire & sur la Chaleur des Corps avec la Description des Nouveaux Thermometres. V. Sur les Collections d'Instrumens d'Astronomie de Geodesie de Physique &c ordonnees par la Cour d'Espagne. VI. Sur le Nouveau Remede de Mr. Mudge pour la Toux. 1780 text in French 4to approximately 260 x 205 mm 10¼ x 8 inches 3 folding engraved plates as required with the first unnumbered and the others numbered V and VI as in all copies 1 illustration in the text pages: 2 218 5 22-86 5 88-164 i.e.166 7166-192 5194-258 some errors of pagination but the text follows on collated and guaranteed complete separate dated title pages for each tract some of which had been issued separately pagination with breaks and register continuous at the end are bound 2 mathematical articles in English by Francis Maseres taken from Philosophical Transactions of 1778 and 1780. Bound in modern quarter calf over marbled sides raised bands with blind rules and gilt lettered morocco label new endpapers. Tiny pale red library stamp on title page repeated 8 times within plus a larger black ink stamp of the Inner Temple Library on the lower margin of last page of the English section at the rear not affecting text title page very slightly chipped at upper and fore-edge pale age-browning to margins of a few pages 4 pages heavily browned and fore-edges a little brittle occasional slight foxing mostly to margins small light brown stain to 1 upper margin small closed tear to another repaired neatly small chip to fore-edge of 2 folding plates loss to margin only small closed tears to a few pages due to being brittle but not affecting text. A good tight copy of a scarce work. A reissue with its own collective title page of Part 2 of the two-part collection with the same title and the imprint: A Paris & Londres 1775-80. Part I contained information on the construction and use of sextant and octants and was not reissued. Usually known by the French version of his name J. H. de Magellan 1723-1790 descended from the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese scientist whose work focused primarily on scientific instruments. He is credited with introducing English scientific instruments and the work of Joseph Priestley to the scientific community in France. After travels throughout Europe he settled in England in 1764 to pursue his scientific studies. He was elected a member of the Royal Society 1774 and was also a member of the Imperial Academy of Science in St. Petersburg and of the Royal Academy of Madrid. As an instrument maker and designer supplying the governments of Europe he proposed changes and improvements to astronomical and nautical observation instruments such as the quarters of a circle English sextants and octants in the reflection circle in the sextant and in the pendulum clock. As far as meteorological instruments are concerned he put forward improvements in barometers thermometers and presented a meteorographer. As regards physical instruments worthy of mention are his improvements to Atwoods machines and to the precision scale very important for the advances of chemistry. In Traite V in our book he deals with astronomic clocks and watches marine compasses protection against lightning and the theodolite. The final Traite is actually an extract from a letter from Magellan to a doctor friend in Paris describing the construction and use of a new inhaler or respirateur invented by a fellow member of the Royal Society the physician John Mudge and believed to cure infallibly catarrhal coughs. See: Henry Sotheran Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica Volume 2 page 559 No. 11272; Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol IX page 5. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A Londres, W. Richardson, 1780. hardcover
1770rif. PHO-1934Paris, Saillant, Delalain, 1770. 2 volumes in-8 : IV-385pp. et 1f.-334pp.-1f. ; illustré de 18 planches hors texte in fine du tome 2, demi veau moderne, auteur, titre et tomaison au dos, signature aux titres, un cahier plus petit.
1671rif. PHO-1819Paris, Veuve Nicolas de la Coste, 1671 ,1 volume in-4° de 14 ff., 9ff-790pp., Troisième décade en plein basane, ex-libris manuscrit au titre, coiffes arasées, coins usés, frottements et griffures, manque l’index.
1756rif. PHO-2556Paris, Durand, 1756. 2 volumes in-4, veau marbré, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Traces de réparations aux charnières, 1 feuillet (T1 p. 463) et titre T2 réparés en coin, frottements, quelques brunissures et petites rousseurs. Il manque les cartes qui n'ont pas été reliées à l'époque
1732rif. PHO-2447A Paris : chez Nyon, Didot, Quillau, 1732, in-4 ° (25x20cm). Pages [2], XIV, 298, [2], 63, [1] vierges + 37 planches H.T., dont dépliantes, demi basane et coins, dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre et auteur, tranches rouges. Frottements au dos, coiffes abimées avec petits manque, coupes et coins dénudés, réparation à 2 feuillets, petites rousseurs.
1801rif. PHO-2435A Paris, Chez H. J. Jansen, Imprimeur-Libraire, L’An IX [1801]. In-8° (20,5x14cm), 1f.-LXIV + [IV] + 415pp., chagrin moderne, dos lisse avec titre doré, cartes anciennes aux plats, tête dorée, ex-libris en page de garde. Manque le dernier feuillet, réparation professionnelle à une dizaine de feuillets avec perte de qlqs lettres sur 1 feuillet Neuf planches gravées dont 4 aquarellées et deux cartes dépliantes, manque la carte des Philippines.
1993Signed and inscribed by investment legend Peter Lynch to former Century Bank Co-CEO Jonathan Sloane upon title page. "The best-selling author of One Up on Wall Street shows you how to pick winning stocks and develop a strategy for mutual funds." - title page. "During the thirteen years Lynch managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund it was the top-ranked general equity mutual fund. Time called Lynch the nation's '#1 money manager.'" - dust jacket. 318 pages. Index. Light wear to book. Child's scribbling to upper left quadrant of front free endpaper and a bit on page 39. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A special copy of this investment classic. Book
1777rif. 56912'MILESTONE IN THE EARLY LITERATURE OF GAS ANALYSIS' first edition tall 8vo. 2 title ii editor's 'advertisement' v-viii 471pp frontispiece plate advertisement leaf a cancel . bound after PRIESTLEY Joseph A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. The Third Edition.London: Printed for J. Johnson tall 8vo. 4 half-title & title 5-85 3 advt.pp. 5 plates 4 folding The two items bound together in contemporary calf spine paneled by gilt highlighted raised bands russet morocco title label the first plate in the Priestley cropped by the binder at the fold and thus missing the right-hand half else a nice copy. Very neat contemporary signature on title "Edw. Roche". Magalhaes: ESTC t74551 Dictionary Scientific Biography Vol. 9 p.5-6The leaf following the title page pages i-ii is a cancel: 'Advertisement of the editor relating to the use of the simple glass machines for making mineral waters'. The pagination picks up a p.v and the book is complete thus. Magellan Aveiro Portugal 1722- 1790 took to science while an Augustinian monk in Coimbra but he later left the order and moved to England and later Protestantism. Although he "produced no scientific work of serious consequence . He is known for his a wide circle of scientific acquaintances and for acting as an intermediary in disseminating new information. . He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of several European academies of science. . He wrote more about scientific instruments than about any other subject" D.S.B. This book is the first edition of "an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis. . an account of his researches on gases addressed to his friend Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by 'Mr. Parker' the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece" Neville II p.125. Further editions followed in 1779 and 1783.Priestley: ESTC t35302 Crook Priestly Bibliography S/473 To illustrate this work Priestly used plates nos. 2367 and 8 from his The History and present state of electricity and "it was not thought necessary to change the numbers of them" preface. Printed for W. Parker .. and sold by J. Johnson .. and W. Brown hardcover
rif. 6126Engraved frontis. viii 47 pp. 8vo later wrappers title a little browned uncut. London: Printed for W. Parker. 1777. First edition of "an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis.Magellan 1722-90 was an Augustinian prior who emigrated to England and Protestantism in 1764. Elected F.R.S. 1774 he published this account of his researches on gases addressed to Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by 'Mr. Parker' the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece."-Neville II p. 125. Very nice copy inscribed by Magellan at the head of the title-page: "Comte de Castelbourgh par L'Auteur." The attractive frontispiece depicts 24 figures of apparatus. ❧ D.S.B. IX pp. 5-6. unknown books
rif. 6126Engraved frontis. viii 47 pp. 8vo later wrappers title a little browned uncut. London: Printed for W. Parker… 1777. First edition of “an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis…Magellan 1722-90 was an Augustinian prior who emigrated to England and Protestantism in 1764. Elected F.R.S. 1774 he published this account of his researches on gases addressed to Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by ‘Mr. Parker’ the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece.”–Neville II p. 125. Very nice copy inscribed by Magellan at the head of the title-page: “Comte de Castelbourgh par L’Auteur.” The attractive frontispiece depicts 24 figures of apparatus. ⧠D.S.B. IX pp. 5-6. unknown
1660rif. PHO-1576Nicolas & Jean de la Coste, Veuve Nicolas de la Coste, 1660-1671 ,3 volumes in-4° de 15ff.-776pp.-12ff. ,12 ff.-784 pp.- 14 ff., 9ff-790pp., Première décade en plein vélin , dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre, Seconde décade en plein veau, dos à nerfs orné avec titre ,tranches mouchetées, Troisième décade en demi veau (reliure moderne), coiffes arasées , coins usés , début de fentes , frottements, mouillures au tome 3.
1793rif. 2708028Madrid: Ibarra 1793. A very good copy. Quarto two volumes bound together with an engraved portrait of Magellan as frontispiece five fine large folding maps and five folding tables; original period binding of calf-backed marbled boards. The full first edition complete with the separately published Apendice a la Relación Madrid 1793 which appeared ten years after the main work and is not present in all copies. This is the best early description of Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan giving the official account of the two expeditions made by Antonio de Córdoba to "ascertain the advisability of Spaniards continuing to use the Strait in voyages - the results indicated the negative. After these expeditions the Spanish trade routes were exclusively to east coast ports and then overland to the Pacific ports." Hill. As part of this the Relación provides a general history of earlier voyages of discovery to the Strait. The large folding maps fine and detailed are all based on observations made during the Córdoba voyages. Córdoba's exploration of the Strait of Magellan - recognised then as now an area of strategic and navigational significance - is accompanied by Vargas y Ponce's summary of the early explorations of the area mainly from an examination of original manuscripts in the Spanish archives. He discusses various means of navigating the Strait with detailed sailing instructions and describes the climate indigenous peoples and natural history of the region. . Ibarra unknown
1788rif. 89654Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra Hijos y Compañia 1788. Fine. Vargas Ponce and the Córdoba Expedition: The Official Account of the Last Great Spanish Voyage to the Strait of Magellan Viuda de Ibarra Hijos y Compañia Madrid 1788 17.7 x 28.5 cm Relié First edition illustrated with an engraved portrait of Magellan as frontispiece and four folding maps and plans of the Strait of Magellan. Cf. Sabin 16765; Leclerc 1971; Chadenat 552; Palau 352513; Aguilar Piñal VIII 2443. The present copy does not include the separately published appendix issued in 1793 devoted to the supplementary survey carried out by the packet vessels Santa Casilda and Santa Eulalia a supplement only rarely found together with the main work. Modern full brown calf executed in an eighteenth-century style spine with five raised bands gilt in compartments with decorative tools gilt rolls to the spine ends marbled endpapers red edges gilt edge-rolls. An important provenance copy bearing on the title page the ownership signature of Gaston de Rocquemaurel 1804-1878 French naval officer who served as second-in-command to Jules Dumont d'Urville aboard L'Astrolabe during the celebrated scientific expedition to Oceania and the Antarctic seas between 1837 and 1840. This is the official account of the first major Spanish hydrographic expedition devoted to the Strait of Magellan undertaken in 1785-1786 under the command of Captain Antonio de Córdoba y Lasso de la Vega 1740-1811 aboard the frigate Santa María de la Cabeza. Commissioned within the maritime and imperial policy pursued under Charles III and his minister the Count of Floridablanca the expedition sought through systematic hydrographic and astronomical observations to determine whether the Strait offered a safer navigational route to the Pacific than the notoriously hazardous passage around Cape Horn. Although Antonio de Córdoba's name appears prominently on the title page Palau and Aguilar Piñal attribute the editorial composition of the work to José de Vargas Ponce 1760-1821 who is thought to have written the introduction and historical survey of previous explorations of the Strait from Magellan to Bougainville while the derrotero - the practical sailing directions themselves - is attributed to the expedition's lieutenants Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Alejandro Belmonte based on the observations gathered during the voyage. The work was printed by the Viuda de Ibarra Hijos y Compañía successor to the celebrated press of Joaquín Ibarra widely regarded as the finest Spanish printer of the eighteenth century. Following Ibarra's death in 1785 his widow Manuela Contera continued the business with their children preserving the exceptional typographical standards for which the house was renowned. The provenance lends this copy particular historical significance. A graduate of the École Polytechnique Gaston de Rocquemaurel served as Dumont d'Urville's second-in-command aboard L'Astrolabe. Following the same route through the Strait of Magellan before continuing into Antarctic waters the expedition famously discovered Adélie Land in January 1840. Rocquemaurel's signature thus creates a direct link between two of the most important scientific expeditions ever undertaken in the Strait separated by little more than half a century. An attractive copy uniting the foundational work of Spanish hydrography in the Strait of Magellan with the ownership signature of one of the leading French explorers of the southern oceans in the nineteenth century. Â Viuda de Ibarra, Hijos y Compañia hardcover
1602rif. 11790Imprimé à Amstelredam [sic], chez Cornille Claessz sur l'Eau au Livre à Ecrire, l'an 1602. In-folio de [2]-61 pages (A-H4), cartonnage noir à la Bradel, signé Honegger. Restauration mineure à quelques feuillets.
