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L'Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico
VOLTA, Alessandro.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Large paper copy in the original wrappers. Large paper copy of the first edition of Volta's last memoir on galvanism, 'a lengthy review of his reas...
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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 £3,750.00Pierre 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 £1,650.00First 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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A Description and Draught of a New-Invented Machine
HULLS, Jonathan.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00The first steamboat patentee. The first edition of Jonathan Hulls' (d.1758) pamphlet advertising his pioneering work on steamboats. An unsophistica...
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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 £850.00Original 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 £2,500.00Early 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 £4,500.00With 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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The Modern Motor Car.
[BECK, Maurice, ill.] [FLAP BOOK] Shell.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Stylish chromolithographic flap book on car engineering. A striking, Art Deco flap book on motor cars, published as marketing for Shell's engine oi...
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An Essay About the Origine & Virtues of Gems,
BOYLE, Robert.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00First edition. The 'beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure' (Fulton).Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a natural philosopher...
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A descriptive catalogue of minerals,
MAWE, John.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00Interleaved copy with annotations. Scarce work by the Derbyshire mineralogist and gem merchant.Second edition. 8vo., xiv, 94, [vi, errata and index...
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £1,850.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...
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Fusokoku daiissan-Yosan Hiroku [On Silk-Production]
KAMIGAKI, Morikuni; Chuwa Nishimura.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Rare Japanese Treatise on Silk Manufacturing. Illustrated treatise on the rearing of silkworms and the manufacturing of silk. The work traces the h...
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £1,850.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...
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Dialling, Plain, Concave, Convex [&c.]
LEYBOURN, William.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The making and decoration of dials. William Leybourn (1627-1716) was a well-respected mathematician, surveyor, and private tutor. First published i...
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Feuilles d'analyse appliquée a la Géométrie...
MONGE, Gaspard.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00The father of 3d movies. Descriptive geometry is the science of presenting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional plane. Gaspard Monge inv...
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Moderne Technik.
[FLAP BOOK] BLUCHER, H.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00Delving into machines. An attractive flap book on modern technology. 'How better to explain the workings of a locomotive, a steam engine, an automo...
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