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    A Text-Book of Surgery for Dental Students.

    MILLS, G. Percival; HUMPHREYS, Humphrey.
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    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.
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    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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  • 106947_2 106947

    Miscellanea Philosophico-Mathematica Societatis Privatae Taurinensis.

    LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis [et al].
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    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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  • 105576_2 105576

    Summa de arithmetica.

    PACIOLI, Luca.
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    The first mathematical encyclopaedia of the Renaissance. Second edition of the first mathematical encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, 'the first grea...

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  • 109401_2 109401

    A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.

    [PEMBERTON, Henry].
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    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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  • Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le Soleil.

    INSTITUT DE FRANCE, Académie des Sciences.
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    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.
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    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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  • 33065_2 33065 Save 56% Save %

    Die Geschichte von der Liebe der schönen Seneschallin Blanche, anders Die lässliche Sünde...

    BALZAC, Honoré de.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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  • 109261_2 109261.jpg

    Usus et Fabrica Circini Cuiusdam Proportionis...

    CAPRA, Baldassarre; GALILEI, Galileo.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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].
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    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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    [Printed engineer's pocket-book for locomotive specifications,

    [RAILWAYS]; GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
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    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.
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    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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