Science & Medicine

First US edition, first printing, 8vo, publisher's brown cloth, titles to spine gilt partially on a black ground. With the dust jacket. A very good copy in the little rubbed and slightly faded dust jacket.

2 works in one vol., folio (29.2 x 18.8 cm); [first work:] Roman type, occasional Greek type, woodcut device to title and Gg6v, woodcut historiated initials, diagrams, and tables, some browning (as usual), occasionally heavy, some foxing, very occasional early ink and later pencil marginalia, 19th-century Italian inscription to first blank; collation: []6 a-z4 A-Z4 Aa-Ff4 Gg6; [second work:] woodcut portrait of the author to title, woodcut initials and tables, some foxing and heavy browning, quire Ff shaved with slight loss to fore-edge, restoration to final blank; collation: A-Z4 Aa-Ff4 (Ff4 blank); rebound in period vellum over boards, boards slightly marked and rubbed, new endpapers, red speckled edges, overall a good copy.

12mo (17 x 11 cm); contemporary annotations to endpapers, numerous MS notes in contemporary hand, interleaved throughout, without the final three leaves of ads; contemporary vellum binding, MS title to spine; xii, [2], 136, 83, [1]pp.

Third edition; 8vo (21 x 14 cm); armorial bookplate, half-title, folding plate, appendix with thirteen tables, p.xix incorrectly numbered xxi, p80 marginal notes in a contemporary hand, p.389 misnumbered 386; contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine in compartments with contrasting red morocco lettering-piece; xxi [ie.xix], [3], 564, [4]pp. An excellent copy.

First English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to upper endpaper; 8vo (220 z 145 mm); publisher's boards, dust-jacket, spine sunned, light creasing to head and foot, minimal wear, otherwise very good.

First edition; 4 parts in 2 vols, folio (31 x 20 cm); folding engraved chronological table at beginning of volume one, numerous engravings throughout, many full-page, some double-page and folding, engraved title pages to each part, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, a few marginal repairs to volume one, some damp-staining, leaves toned, occasional foxing, some leaves trimmed; later full brown morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering to spine, all edges red, marbled endpapers, corners slightly rubbed, presented in a modern green cloth slipcase; [2], 206, [6], 788, [10]; [2], 277, 191, [12]pp.

11 vols in all, comprising: I) Fisica de' Corpi Ponderabili: first edition; 4 vols, thick 8vo; 18 folding plates, scattered light foxing, slight toning to leaves; II) Opuscoli Matematici e Fisici: first edition; 2 vols in one, 4to; 2 folding plates, scattered light foxing; III) Mémoire sur la Dispersion de la Lumière: first edition; 4to; numerous tables to text, many full-page, some browning to leaves; IV) Traité des fonctions elliptiques et des intégrales eulériennes: first edition; 3 vols, 4to; 4 folding plates, lacking portrait of Euler in volume 2, some leaves browned, scattered light foxing; V) Géométrie Descriptive: fifth edition; 4to; 28 folding plates, light dampstaining to prelims, scattered light foxing; VI) Mécanique Analytique: first edition; 4to; 4 folding plates, scattered light foxing, light dampstaining to plates; contemporary half vellum (7 vols) and full vellum (4 vols), bound to match, red and green morocco title labels with gilt lettering, gilt tooling to spines, light wear to extremities, overall an attractive set.

Second edition; 2 works in one vol., 4to; one folding engraved plate, 10 mathematical tables, some toning to leaves, scattered light foxing; contemporary half brown straight-grained morocco over marbled boards, green morocco spine label with gilt lettering, spine gilt in compartments, light wear to extremities, yellow edges, a very good copy; xxiii, [1], 480, [36]; 62, [1], [4, ads]pp.

First edition; 4to; woodcut device to title, woodcut headpiece and tailpiece, scattered light spotting, occasional toning to leaves, gatherings I-K heavily browned; contemporary French mottled calf, gilt lettering to spine, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, red edges, marbled endpapers, a very good copy of a scarce work; [2], cxci, [1], 304pp.

Second edition; 4to (26.5 x 19.8); engraved device to title, engraved and woodcut headpieces, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 4 folding plates, some leaves toned, scattered light spotting; contemporary speckled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label to second compartment with gilt lettering, minor worming to spine, light wear to boards and extremities, red speckled edges, overall a very good example; xlii, 414, [2]pp.