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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis.
SALMON, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Early medical self-help handbook with recipe for mummy. The first edition of this translation by William Salmon (1644-1713) of the Pharmacopoeia Lo...
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Die Traumdeutung.
FREUD, Sigmund.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00| /'the foundation of psychoanalysis' - one of only 600 copies. The first edition of Sigmund Freud's most important contribution to the field of psych...
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A Text-Book of Surgery for Dental Students.
MILLS, G. Percival; HUMPHREYS, Humphrey.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /The first edition of Mills and Humphreys' introductory guide to dental surgery, in a beautiful tree calf prize binding by Bickers & Son for th...
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Dental Surgery and Pathology.
COLYER, J.F.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /A beautifully bound copy of this illustrated work on dental surgery and pathology by J.F. Colyer, in a tree calf prize binding by Bickers & So...
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Miscellanea Philosophico-Mathematica Societatis Privatae Taurinensis.
LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis [et al].Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /The 5 complete volumes of the Miscellanea Taurinensis, all first editions, containing some major texts by Lagrange, Euler, Cigna, Giovanni Battist...
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Summa de arithmetica.
PACIOLI, Luca.Original price £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00| /The first mathematical encyclopaedia of the Renaissance. Second edition of the first mathematical encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, 'the first grea...
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De Magnete,
GILBERT, William.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /The first great scientific book printed in England. First edition of the first great scientific book printed in England.William Gilbert, personal p...
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A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
[PEMBERTON, Henry].Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /Royal Society president Sir Hans Sloane's copy. A handsome copy of this classic introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) natural philosophy, ...
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /First published use of the term 'evolution'. In this work Darwin discussed the natural selection of mankind and his descent from a lower order. It ...
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Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le Soleil.
INSTITUT DE FRANCE, Académie des Sciences.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Scarce first edition of one of the first publications on astronomical photography. A fine, fresh example of extensive observations made for the 18...
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Les Transformateurs d'Energie.
BARRES, Fernand; BREMAUD, Eugene; SCHOELLER, Adolphe.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £375.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Am incredible, detailed and carefully crafted manual published at the dawn of the 'motoring' age. 4to; publishers sample, 2 volumes bound in one, ...
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The Gasoline Motor.
HELDT, P.M.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /It is a highly detailed, technically precise 'bible', both in text and illustration, of the motor car.This is an exceptionally rare set, both as a...
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The Descent of Man,
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Leonard Harrison Matthews' F.R.S. copy. The first edition of Darwin's second work of genius, containing his earliest published use of the term 'evo...
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[Set of Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Mathematical Treatises]:
AVOGADRO, Amadeo; BELLANI, Angelo [et al]; CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis; LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie; MONGE, Gaspard; PRONY, Gaspard de.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, containi...
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Usus et Fabrica Circini Cuiusdam Proportionis...
CAPRA, Baldassarre; GALILEI, Galileo.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /From the Erwin Tomash collection. Two works extracted from the first volume of the 1655-1656 Dozza edition of Galileo's Opere, comprising Capra's (...
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Journal of Researches
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, incl...
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The First Principles of Chemistry.
NICHOLSON, William.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Early chemistry textbook. The third edition of William Nicholson's (1753-1815) popular student textbook, offering a fascinating insight into the be...
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Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres [with] Supplément a l'essai sur la Théorie des Nombres.
LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Second edition of this important work by Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833), first printed in 1797-98, complete with the first supplement published...
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Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard.
[MONTMORT, Pierre Rémond de].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Pierre Rémond de Montmort (1678-1719) was a French mathematician who is considered a pioneer of probability theory. He is best known for Essay d'a...
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Memoirs of Science and the Arts.
[SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES].Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /First edition. The first edition of the Memoirs of Science and the Arts, an edited collection of scientific discoveries and experiments of general ...
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Essays on physiognomy
LAVATER, Johann Caspar.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /John Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), a Swiss poet, writer and philosopher, 'was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists', a cl...
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[Printed engineer's pocket-book for locomotive specifications,
[RAILWAYS]; GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Original drawings of 19th century locomotives. A standard printed locomotive engineer's pocket book, in which columns are left blank for the user t...
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Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland;
[LAENNEC, R.-T.-H.]; CLARK, James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Early account in English of the stethoscope. Inscribed at foot of title: 'To Hyett Esq / with author's compliments'.Pages 153-59 contain an account...
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Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.
ROUY, Charles.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /With royal provenance . an interesting and rare work on astronomy - dedicated to Louis XVIII. Charles Rouy's 'mechanism of uranography' presents a ...
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