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PASTEUR, L[ouis]. Etudes sur la biere, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris. Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition. 8vo. viii, 387, [1], 4pp. With a half-title, 12 engraved plates, 85 illustrations in the text, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's printed orange wrappers. Extremities rubbed and creased, shipping to spine, some loss to upper panel. Offsetting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24385
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FOSTER, Samuel. The art of dialling, By a New, Easie, and most Speedy War. Shewing, How to describe the Hour Lines upon all sorts of Plains; Howsoever, or in what Latitude soever, situated...With a Supplement, Performing all the Instrumental Word of the Quadrant, by Calculation...by William Leybourn. London. Printed by J.R. for Francis Eglesfield, 1675. The Second Edition, . Quarto. [8], 55pp, [1]. With two engraved leaves of diagrams. Twentieth-century gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards. A trifle rubbed to extremities, some browning and marking to plates, title and final leaf, and a little old damp-staining at end. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30136
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CARPENTER, William B. The microscope and its revelations. London. John Churchill, 1857. Second edition. 8vo. 719pp, [1]. With 370 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, marked, and bumped. Hinges exposed, near contemporary ink gift inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 30627
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[RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY]. Heat: its sources, influence, and results. London. The Religious Tract Society, 1841. First edition. 8vo. [4], 196pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further 15 engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Ticket of E. & F. N. Spon of London to FEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, spotting to plates. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29776
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COTES, Roger. Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures... Cambridge. Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn, 1747. Second edition. 8vo. [18], 273 [i.e. 289]pp, [11]. With five engraved folding plates and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked, black morocco lettering-piece. Boards worn and marked. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of agricultural reformer Arthur Young (1741-1820) to FEP, head of title page shaved, scattered spotting. Ink-stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to verso of title page and final page of index. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28328
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COLBURN, Zerah. A memoir of zerah colburn; written by himself. Containing an account of the first discovery of his remarkable powers...with his peculiar methods of calculation. Springfield [Massachusetts]. Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1833. First edition. 12mo. vii, [2], 10-104 [i.e. 204]pp. Without frontispiece. Contemporary speckled sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Housed in recent custom cloth clamshell case. Rubbed, corners bumped. Recent book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28961
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FONTENELLE, Monsieur [Bernard Le Bovier de]. The lives of the French, Italian, and German Philosophers. Late members of the Royal Academy of Science in Paris. Together with abstracts Of some of the Choicest Pieces, communicated by them to that Illustrious Society. To which is added, The preface of the Ingenious Monsieur Fontenelle, Secretary and Author of the History of the said Academy. London. Printed for W. Innys, 1717. First edition. 8vo. [16], xxxv, [1], 123, 122-441, 552, 455- 464pp, [4]. With two terminal advertisement leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled, blind-panelled polished calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, small shelf-label to head of spine. A trifle rubbed, slightly chipped at head, else a fine copy. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate (shelf-mark 45.C.29) and typical armorial blind- stamps to title page and first two leaves of text, ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19580
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[HORSLEY], Samuel, Lord Bishop of Rochester. Elementary treatises on the fundamental principles of practical mathematics. For the use of students. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press, 1801. First edition. 8vo. xvii, [1], 398pp. With a half-title and eleven engraved folding plates. Uncut and largely unopened in contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Sylvester Lord Glenbervie to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24902
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SMYTH, Vice-Admiral W. H.. The cycle of celestial objects continued at the hartwell observatory to 1859. With a notice of recent discoveries, including details from the aedea hartwellianae. London. Printed for Private Circulation by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1860. First edition. Quarto. ix, [1], 480pp. With six engraved plates (one in colour depicting Encke’s comet), and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and sunned, surface loss to spine and joints, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, bookseller's ticket of Edward Baker of Birmingham to FEP, scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'Presented to The Reverend W. Selwyn. ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27473
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MULLER, John. Indian tables for the conversion of indian mun into factory and bazar maunds, madras and bombay commercial weight, troy and avoirdupois weight, and the different maunds in use in the bengal presidency... Calcutta. [s.n.], 1836. First edition. 8vo. xi, 294, 15pp, [1]. With a list of subscribers and a tipped-in errata slip. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked and recornered preserving contemporary spine panel. Boards and spine panel worn and wormed. Leaves browned, one table split into two along fold. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 22527
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URE, Andrew. Dr. Andrew Ure...on Galvanism. London. [Barnes & Scarsbrook], [1890]. 8vo. 33pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Harry Percy Boord to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26417
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[ALLAN, Thomas]. An alphabetical list of the names of minerals, at present most familiar in their english, french, and german languages, with tables of analyses. Edinburgh. Printed at the Caledonian Mercury Press, 1808. First edition. [8], 72pp, with 17 leaves of tables, each folded and mounted on a stub.

[Bound after:] BALD, Robert. A general view of the coal trade of scotland, chiefly that of the river forth and mid-lothian, as connected with the supplying of edinburgh and the north of scotland with fuel; to which is added an inquiry into the condition of these women who carry goals under ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23956
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NAPIER, Mark. [Drop-head title:] On the progress and prospects of science in scotland at the close of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth centuries, as compared with the same at cambridge a century later... [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1856]. 42pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'To the Lord Napier / from his affectionate cousin / the Author'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23492