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Previous|1|Next Lot #19 Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Operum Moralium et Civilium Tomus... ab ipso honoratissimo auctore, praeterquam in paucis, Latinitate donatus AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFirst collected edition of Bacon's Latin worksPublisherExcusum typis Edwardi Griffini ... apud Richardum WhitakerumDate Published1638 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #31 De la Mesure du Temps, ou Supplement au Traite des Horloges Marines, et a l'Essai sur l'Horologie [bound with] Eclaircissemens sur l'Invention, la Theorie, la Construction, et les Epreubes des Nouvelles Machines Proposees en France, pour la Determination des Longitudes en Mer par la Mesure du Temps. AuthorBerthoud, FerdinandHeadlineTwo rare works on watchmakingPublisherJ.G. Merigot, & Didot Fils / J.B.G. MusierDate Published1787 / 1773 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #33 J.F. Encke's Astronomische Abhandlungen zusammengestellt aus den Jahrgängen 1830 bis 1862 des Berliner Astronomischen Jarbuches... AuthorBessel, Olbers & Bremicker.HeadlineEncke's astronomical observations 1830-1863PublisherFerd. Dümmler;s Verlags-BuchhandlungDate Published1866 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #69 A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, As it is an Effect of Nature: But is Mistaken by Many for either Divine Inspiration, or Diabolical Possession AuthorCasaubon, MericHeadlineA Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, 1655PublisherPrinted by R. D. and are to be sold by Tho. JohnsonDate Published1655 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #98 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadline2nd American Edition of Darwin's On the Origin of SpeciesPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1864 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #102 Astro-Theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens. AuthorDerham, WilliamHeadlineDerham's Astro-Theology 1715PublisherPrinted for W. InnysDate Published1715 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #105 Essai sur les comètes en général et particulièrement sur celles qui peuvent approcher de l'orbite de la terre AuthorDionis de Séjour, Achille PierreHeadlineEssay on comets by Dionis de Séjour, 1775PublisherChez ValadeDate Published1775 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #123 Des Maladies Mentales considérées sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-légal AuthorEsquirol, Jean Etienne DominiqueHeadlineOne of the first modern texts on psychiatryPublisherJ.B. BailliereDate Published1838 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #125 Sur les inégalités du mouvement de Saturne & de Jupiter: Piece qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie royale des sciences en M. DCC. XLVIII... Selon la fondation faite par feu M. Rouillé de Meslay, ancien conseiller au parlement AuthorEuler, LeonhardHeadlineEuler on motion of Jupiter and Saturne, 1749PublisherChez Gabr. Martin, J.B. Coignard, & H.L. GuerinDate Published1749 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #134 Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers... AuthorForbes, James DavidHeadlineForbes' important work on glaciers 1st editionPublisherAdams and Charles BlackDate Published1859 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #198 De la Résolution des Équations Numériques de Tous les Degées AuthorLagrange, Joseph LouisHeadlineLagrange calculates degrees, 1798PublisherChez DupratDate PublishedAn VI [1798] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #199 Méchanique Analitique; par M. de La Grange, de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris AuthorLagrange, Joseph LouisHeadlineLagrange's foundation work on analytical mechanics, 1788PublisherChez la veuve Desaint, libraireDate Published1788 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #203 Oeuvres de Laplace - Traité de Mécanique Céleste AuthorLaplace, Pierre SimonHeadlineComplete Mecanique Celestial in Laplace's OeuvrePublisherImprimerie RoyaleDate Published1843-4 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #206 Classes Plantarum seu Systemata Plantarum AuthorLinnaeus, CarlHeadlineReview of plant systems, 1747PublisherApud Io. Gottl. BierwirthDate Published1747 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #217 Lot of nine medical books Heading(Medical)HeadlineLot of nine 18th-19th c. medical volumesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #219 Institutiones ad vsum & examen eorum, quiluxatoriam exercentartem. In Quibus Explicantur Variae Differentaecum Articulationum tum Moderum, quibus solent articuli deprauari...In quibus Denique Agitur De Ossium fractura & curatione. AuthorMercado, Luis de.HeadlineDirections for the official examination of the bone-setters 1625PublisherTypis Hartm. PaltheniiDate Published1625 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #234 Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorGregory, DavidHeadlineGregory's Astronomy with Newton's Lunar Theory, 1702PublisherTheatro SheldonianoDate Published1702 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #235 Exposition des Découvertes Philosophiques de M. Le Chevalier Newton. Traduit de l'Anglais par M. Lavirotte Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorMaclaurin, ColinHeadlineFirst French Edition of MacLaurin's NewtonPublisherChez Durand & Chez PissotDate Published1749 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #244 Abhandlung über die leichteste und bequemste Methode die Bahn eines Cometen aus einigen Beobachtungen zu berechnen AuthorOlbers, WilhelmHeadlineOlbers on calculating a comet's orbit, 1797PublisherIm Verlage des Industrie-ComptoirsDate Published1797 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #258 Notice sur la Comète de Halley de son retour en 1835, suivie d'un Éphéméride calculé par M. A. Bouvard Membre de l'Institut et Bureau des Longitudes AuthorPontécoulant, Louis Gustav le Doulcet, comte deHeadlineThe return of Halley's Comet, 1835PublisherBachelierDate Published1835 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #260 La callipédie, traduite du poème latin AuthorQuillet, ClaudeHeadline1st French edition of Quillet's poem on producing beautiful childrenPublisherchez Durand & PissotDate Published1749 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #283 Novissima inventione per dissegnare con grandissima facilità, e prestezza horologi solari, italiani, babilonici, e francesi. Con alcune tavole, nelle quali immediate si vede ogni giorno dell'anno in perpetuo... AuthorScanavacca, BartolomeoHeadlineScarce work on sundials, 1688PublisherNella stamperia del seminario, per Bernardo LucianiDate Published1688 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #320 Traité de Mécanique Céleste AuthorTisserand, François FelixHeadlineTisserand's important Mecanique Celeste, 4 volumes, 1889-96PublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1889-1896 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #339 A Description of the Human Eye, and its Adjacent Parts; Together with their Principal Diseases and the Methods Proposed for Relieving Them AuthorWarner, JosephHeadlineWarner's A Description of the Human EyePublisherLockyer DavisDate Published1775 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #341 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA AuthorWatson, James D.HeadlineJames D. Watson Double Helix signed copyPublisherAtheneumDate Published1968 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #344 Text-Book of Biology AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineH.G. Wells first bookPublisherW.B. Clive & Co.Date Published[1893] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #355 Ferronnerie Ancienne AuthorAllemagne, Henry Rene d'HeadlineOver 400 plates of ancient ironworkPublisherJ. SchemitDate Published1924 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #358 Neurypnology; or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, considered in relation with Animal Magnetism... AuthorBraid, JamesHeadlineEarly work on hypnotismPublisherJohn ChurchillDate Published1843 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #359 Tables Of The Motion Of The Moon AuthorBrown, Ernest W. & Henry B. HedrickHeadlineErnest Brown's tables on lunar motion, 1919PublisherYale University PressDate Published1919 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #360 Two volumes on lunar motion by Ernest W. Brown AuthorBrown, Ernest W.HeadlineTwo on lunar motion by Ernest BrownPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1896 & 1908 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #371 Problems connected with the Tides of a Viscous Spheroid AuthorDarwin, G.H.HeadlineG.H. Darwin on tides of a viscous spheroidDate Published1879 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$25StatusSold Lot #374 Théorie du Mouvement de la Lune AuthorDelaunay, CharlesHeadlineDelaunay's algebraic theory of the moonPublisherMallet-BachelierDate Published1860-1867 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #375 Three papers by Charles Delaunay from the Institute Impérial de France AuthorDelaunay, CharlesHeadlineDelaunay on lunar motion, from Institute Impérial de FranceDate Published1858 & 1859 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #380 Four works on astronomical subjects by J.F. Encke AuthorEncke, Johann FranzHeadlineFour papers by Johann Franz EnckeDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #381 A Treatise of the Asthma Divided Into Four Parts AuthorFloyer, JohnHeadlineJohn Floyer's scarce Treatise on Asthma 1726PublisherPrinted for R. WilkinDate Published1726 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #386 Four papers extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society AuthorHerschel, WilliamHeadlineFour papers by William Hershel from Philosophical TransactionsDate Published1807-1812 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #391 Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der Sternnamen. Ein beytrag zur Geschichte des gestirnten Himmels AuthorIdeler, LudewigHeadlineGerman study of star names and their meaning 1809PublisherBey Johann Friedrich WeilsDate Published1809 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #414 Six works on astronomical subjects by or edited by Simon Newcomb AuthorNewcomb, SimonHeadlineSix astronomical works by Simon NewcombDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #415 Lehrbuch zur Bahnbestimmung der Kometen und Planeten AuthorOppolzer, Theodor R. vonHeadlineTreatise on orbits of comets, 1870-1880PublisherVerlag von Wilhelm EngelmannDate Published1870-1880 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #419 Mémoire sur le calcul des perturbations et le prochain retour a son périhélie de la comète de Halley AuthorPontécoulant, Louis Gustav le Doulcet, comte deHeadlineCalculating the orbit of Halley's Comet, 1835Publisher[Imprimerie Royale]Date Published1835 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #424 Appleton's Scientific Library Heading(Science)HeadlineAppleton's Scientific LibraryPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published[c.1900] View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next