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Blue grey paper covered boards, backed with beige paper and with paper label on spine. ffep has the ownership inscription of G (?) Falconer, Edinburgh, 1825. A very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWells’s “Two essays” contains important contributions in the fields of ophthalmology, meteorology, ventilation, and evolution. “In his “Essay upon single vision with two eyes”, originally published in 1792, Wells presents a new theory of binocular vision based on the concept of visible direction and experimental evidence on the duration of impressions on the retina. Wells’s theory of visible direction had a great influence on the science of spectacle making in the early part of the nineteenth century”. (Becker)\u003cbr\u003eThe other contributions found here are also significant. The “Essay on dew”, first published in 1814, was of “major importance in the development of the science of ventilation, particularly in its relation to relative humidity and the influence of the latter on the comfort of the occupants of factories, ships, theatres, etc”. (Garrison-Morton 1604). His paper on a woman with patchy skin, on the other hand, is: “The first statement of the theory of natural selection...an almost complete anticipation of Darwin’s theory...although it was completely ignored until it was resurrected by a correspondent of Darwin in the 1860s”. 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This is quite probably Rudolf Kobert (1854-1918), a pharmacologist and toxicologist who began his career working as an assistant to the physiologist Friedrich Goltz who, like Setschenow and Paschutin carried out experiments on the brains of animals. A nice copy of this important text with an interesting association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title translates as “New experiments on the brain and spinal cord of the frog” and follows the publication in 1863 of \"Physiological studies on the inhibition mechanisms for the reflex activity of the spinal cord in the brains of the frogs”. Sechenov (his name, and that of his student Pashutin, has been rendered into German here) who lived from 1829-1905 was described by Pavlov as the \"father of Russian physiology\". It was while working in Paris that he discovered the notion of “central inhibition” - the repressive effects of thalamic nerve centres on spinal reflexes. 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The contents are in excellent condition (save where noted below) with no significant, marking or foxing. All three volumes are profusely illustrated with charming and fascinating engravings of the subject matter. The plates are fine and the fifteen folding maps in volume I are in excellent condition with many of them outlined in colour. The only major flaw is on page 79 of part IV of Volume II (i.e. the very last page) which has been repaired following a tear to the bottom corner but there is some loss to the text. Ownership inscription of Eleanor Clarke in each volume. It is rare to find The General Preceptor complete with all its parts and plates present and this is a particularly good set although (as explained) there are eccentricities in the pagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume I contains Part I (Geography) and Part II (History and Chronology). Volume II contains Part III (Natural History) which is split into four divisions, each with its own title page: Beasts, Birds, Fish and Insects. The first three divisions are paginated continuously from 1-440. The title page for Insects is then followed by the index for the preceding three sections, and then the text for \"Insects\" is paginated 1-79 but with its index inserted at pp 75\/76. Despite this confusion, the signatures and pagination are complete. Volume III has even more eccentricities but, again, is complete. It contains Part IV (Botany), Part V (The Arts of Drawing and Architecture) and Part VI which is divided into two parts - the Elements and the Senses. There is a section on Astronomy (confusingly also referred to as Part VI but presumably this should read \"VII\" as the pagination and the signatures follow on from Part VI). Part V which is paginated 1-33 has been incorrectly bound after Part VI and so comes right at the end. 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The second part has a separate half-title. Light browning on the last few leaves and occasional foxing but a good copy with the contemporary bookplates of John Bell and Robert Pick, leather booklabel of Robert Honeyman (1979 sale, IV, 1741). Marbled boards, with some scuffing and wear, rebacked in calf, original red gilt label replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Robert Honeyman collection of Scientific Books. 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Some internal cracking at the hinges and the usual warping. An excellent copy of a very rare book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst vernacular edition. The Catalan philosopher and missionary Llull (c.1232–c.1316) is best known for his ‘great art’, a theory of logic which, he believed, united all strands of knowledge under one universal method. This elaborate, mystically inspired universal system of knowledge was intended to convert unbelievers. The present text is a prefiguration, written in 1304, of his grand theory elaborated a year later in the Ars magna. It proposes that there is a ‘ladder of understanding’ of eight entities and twelve questions, representing the hierarchy of Creation through which the intellect can arrive at knowledge of each entity. This process is illustrated and tabulated in the two plates preceding the text; the illustration exemplifies Llull’s use of the figure of the wheel, for which he became famous. 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Annie Meyers, describes her descent from “well balanced Christian woman” to “a haggard and wretched physical and mental wreck”. Her problems began with Birney’s Catarrh Remedy and the book traces her numerous arrests, her progressive physical decline illustrated by photographs and her eventual recovery. “I believe that I am the only living person in the world to-day who ever took 200 grains (over 12 grams) in twenty-four hours and survived”. While Meyers focuses her invective primarily on cold and headache remedies, 99% of which, she claims contain cocaine, it is likely that she would have used other medicines such as asthma and hay fever snuffs, some of which were pure cocaine. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MEYERS, Annie C.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12232439038063,"sku":"3006","price":395.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/71._Meyers.jpg?v=1529685841"},{"product_id":"the-plate-glass-book","title":"The Plate-Glass-Book","description":"London: Printed for the Author; and sold by W.Owen et. al. 1764.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourth Edition, Enlarged. Third edition of the Compleat Appraiser. Tall 12mo in 4s. (198x75mm). pp. xxv, [1], 170, [2], iv, 46, 46a-h, 47-74. Twentieth-century quarter brown morocco with small arts and crafts style decorative motifs on the joints, brown cloth covered boards. Slight rubbing to the joints and mild bumping to the corners. Overall in very good condition. Internally very good, some browning to edges of title page and final leaf. Gathering Gg has been repaired affecting the text but not legibility. Modern endpapers and blank preliminaries stamped \"Birmingham Assay Office Library\". ESTC locates three copies of this edition in UK institutions and four in the US.","brand":"A Glass-House Clerk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37298470518975,"sku":"3454","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3454_6.jpg?v=1604080615"},{"product_id":"lart-de-conserver-sa-santa","title":"L'Art de conserver sa santé","description":"Petit-Bourg Chez Paul de Cauville. 1888.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12mo. (170x95mm). pp. [2], XII, 13-103, [3]. Reprint of the Edition de la Haye of 1743. Twentieth century quarter brown morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some shelfwear and rubbing to joints. Upper cover has the remains of an auction label reading Lot 386. Internally very good. Overall a nice copy. This sweet little book is a short version of the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum written in the 12th or 13th century and generally attributed to John of Milan. This abridged version consists of 125 epigrams in Latin verse about everyday health and medical matters such as how to wash your hands and what to do if you drink too much wine at supper. Beneath the Latin is the French translation, also in verse. 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Early 17th century full legal calf, blind ruled to covers. Raised bands to spine, author's name in manuscript on second compartment. Foot of the spine has some worm holes and wear with loss. Some rubbing and scuffing to covers. Internally excellent. Slight waterstaining and worm holes to the head of the gutters and worming to the lower right corner of last forty leaves. Tear to corner of leaf 3C4 with no loss of text, and a clean tear to leaf 3G4 covering the last ten lines of text but there is no loss of text. Contemporary ink annotations to initial blank and head of title page. Ownership inscription (scored through but clearly legible) to head of title page: \"Daniel Dun, prec (i.e. price) xi.6\". An excellent copy with an important provenance of the work which surveyed and defined the English common law for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by F.W Maitland as “the crown and flower of English jurisprudence”, De Legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (“On the Laws and Customs of England”) by Henry of Bratton (whence Bracton) represents, remarkably, given its great length and the detail and density of the text, only part of the originally conceived work designed to explain and analyse (with all authorities fully cited and, in some instances, entire cases transcribed) the whole of the common law. Despite this, Bracton (the work is often referred to simply by the name of lawyer and priest generally accepted as the final editor and reviser of the manuscript) is about ten times longer than the only previous English legal treatise by de Glanville (see previous item). Bracton, although enormously important in the development of an English precedent-based approach to the resolution of legal disputes, draws also “on Roman law for some of the more abstract organizing principles of the treatise”. This use of continental civil law by Bracton neatly encapsulates the essential difference between English and Roman law, the latter operating in the empyrean of a priori jurisprudential theory, the former grounded solidly in the everyday, making its decisions by reference only to what has gone before. One hesitates to mention it but this difference in legal thinking identified in the thirteenth century resonates in the biggest question facing England and its relationship with the rest of Europe in the twenty first century. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BRACTON, Henry de","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37584715841727,"sku":"3273","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3273_2.jpg?v=1606244503"},{"product_id":"the-whole-duty-of-woman-by-a-lady","title":"The Whole Duty of Woman. By a lady.","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row. 1753.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo, 170x105mm. pp. xiv, [2], 88. Quarter calf, original paper covered boards, rubbing and wear to edges and corners with much of the paper covering worn. Rebacked, red morocco label, lettered in gilt. Foxing and browning and some ink marks, small tear to corner of E4 with no loss of text. Front pastedown has the ownership inscription of \"Mrs Anne Cave, Barking Alley, 1761\" and, opposite, on the recto of the front endpaper is inscribed \"Elisbeath (sic) Castell, I.D\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Kenrick was a literary chancer. In 1751, Robert Dodsley had published, with great success, The Oeconomy of Human Life, a collection of short essays on correct moral and social behaviour, purportedly written by a Chinese philosopher. Kenrick, spotting an appetite for moral guidance, wrote his own work, following Dodsley’s model of brief pieces with single word titles such as “Modesty”, “Reputation”, “Frugality” and “Education”. The title of Kenrick’s book is taken from a seventeenth-century work and he published The whole duty anonymously, pretending that it had been written by a woman. The central idea, that correct behaviour in a woman is more likely to arise when encouraged by another woman, allows Kenrick to hide behind a feminine mask while, all the time, praising the sort of characteristics that men expect women to display. This results in his treading a very fine line between irony and offensiveness. Consider the essay on “Curiosity”: “Seek not to know what is improper for thee; for happier is she who but knoweth a little, than she who is acquainted with too much”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Whole Duty of Woman was a great success, running to five editions during Kenrick’s life and remaining popular through the nineteenth century. However, it is hard to imagine a writer less appropriate than Kenrick to offer moral guidance. He has been described as “the black sheep of Grub Street” and he does seem to have been an entertainingly ghastly man. He published his New Dictionary of the English Language, heavily plagiarising Samuel Johnson’s. He libelled Oliver Goldsmith, he spread rumours about David Garrick’s homosexuality, he spent time in debtors’ prison, and he picked fights with almost everyone he came into contact with: “he was rarely without a public enemy” (ODNB). Indeed, Kenrick so thrived on disagreement that, if no-one rose to his provocations, he would, pseudonymously, write an intemperate response to his own argument in order to generate a controversy. 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In 1799, Bolton left Great Britain for his wife’s family estates in the St Vincent, West Indies which had been damaged by a slave insurrection in, coincidentally, 1795. It seems almost certain that Bolton, as he left England for the Caribbean, gave this copy to Ernest Augustus who then had it bound and his bookplate pasted in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOLTON, G[eorge]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37881970655423,"sku":"3191","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20201109_115953_resized.jpg?v=1609260370"},{"product_id":"the-industry-of-the-united-states-in-machinery-manufactures-and-useful-and-ornamental-arts","title":"The Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures, and Useful and Ornamental Arts.","description":"London and New York: George Routledge \u0026amp; Co.. 1854.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 159x95mm. pp. xx, 172. 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Internally in fine condition. Diagrams throughout. Marbled endpapers. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, the front pastedown has the bookplate from the South Library and embossed stamps with Macclesfield Coat of Arms to title and dedication. ESTC locates 11 copies in the UK and 10 in the US. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Gray (d1769) was a mathematician who taught at Marischal College (later Aberdeen University) where he was also Rector towards the end of his life. Accordingly, his Treatise on Gunnery is a highly technical affair, complex but also rather beautiful in the way of serious mathematics. 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Contents: An Historical Eulogium on the Author by the Abbé Olivet; \u003cem\u003eLife of Huet from Bayle; Huet's Life from the New and General Biographical Dictionary 1761; A Tour to Stockholm translated from the Latin of M. Huet by J. Duncombe; Anecdotes from the Latin of M. Huet. \u003c\/em\u003eThe Historical Eulogium and the Huetiana themselves are translations from the French published in 1722 as Huetiana ou Pensees Diverses de M. Huet, Evesque d'Avranches. The other preliminary material is taken from other sources so this is not merely a translation of an earlier book. It is a unique work and the only complete translation of the Huetiana in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn excellent condition in the original marble paper covered boards, spine bound in grey paper with title \"Huetiana\" in manuscript. Some minor tears to paper at the spine and to upper and lower covers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translator of the \u003cem\u003eHuetiana\u003c\/em\u003e is not named but we have identified him as John Duncombe, a priest and scholar who, as is clear from the introduction, also translated \u003cem\u003eA Tour of Stockholm. \u003c\/em\u003eDuncombe was a contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Gentleman's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and some of his translations of the\u003cem\u003e Huetiana\u003c\/em\u003e appeared there and are exactly the same as those in this manuscript. As the manuscript contains translations from the\u003cem\u003e Huetiana\u003c\/em\u003e which did not make it into the\u003cem\u003e The Gentleman's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, it must have been done by someone with access to Duncombe's work after his death. Our firm view is that this is his widow Susanna Duncombe, née Highmore. 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Susanna and John married in 1761 and moved to Canterbury where they lived in the Cathedral Close, Susanna illustrating her husband's own writings including a translation of Horace. After John's death in 1786, she lived a life of quiet retirement with her daughter and several cats. Susanna died in 1812 and this manuscript produced in a beautifully artistic hand dates from the early years of her widowhood. Despite her skills as a poet, Susanna published little and it seems that her intellectual accomplishments found fuller expression through conversation and correspondence. An aptitude for the finely honed aperçu made her well suited to working on this manuscript translation of the short essays, table-talk and \"ana\" of Huet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was a priest and scholar with an international reputation. He was part of the court of Queen Christina of Sweden where he made important discoveries in the Royal Library. His intellectual range was vast, stretching from biblical and classical scholarship to anatomy and natural history, mathematics and astronomy and the theory and practice of translation. His library of books and manuscripts was left to the Jesuits and then bought by the French Royal Collection. Huet's wide-ranging mind is brilliantly displayed in the \u003cem\u003eHuetiana\u003c\/em\u003e which brings together short essays on Gardens, the Origins of the name of the Alps, Cicero, the Fidelity of a Dog, the Dread of Thunder, geometry and the Decay of Learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSold with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHUET, M. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHUETIANA\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eou Pensées Diverses de M.Huet, Evesque D’Avranches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParis:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eChez Jacques Estienne\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e1722\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition. 12mo. 160x93mm. pp. xxiv, 436, [16]. Contemporary speckled calf, spine lavishly decorated in gilt, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert J Hayhurst. Slight loss to head and foot of spine and light cracking to head and foot of joint with upper cover. Internally very good and overall a nice copy of the first edition of the Huetiana edited by Abbé d’Olivet, a member of the Académie Française. It is from this edition that the manuscript translation has been taken.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand with: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConstable's Miscellany. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConstable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, \u0026amp; the Arts. Vol. X. Table Talk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eTable-Talk; or Selections from the Ana. Containing extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian and German. with Bibliographical Notices.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdinburgh:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePrinted for Constable \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e1827\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12mo in 6s. 142x85mm. pp. x, [2], 15-326. Green half calf, decorated in blind to spine, contrasting labels, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. In very good condition throughout. A collection of pieces brought together under the title of “Ana” which is described in the preface as a “conspicuous and interesting portion of French literature”. Ana are a “blending of moral apothegms, of critical remarks, of serious and comic anecdotes, of scientific or literary information”. The examples brought together in this volume are taken from French, English, German and Italian authors. Among the French writers is a small selection of pieces from Huet in a different translation from that of the manuscript included in this collection of books.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUET, M.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985760231615,"sku":"3652","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/Huet_1.jpg?v=1664902858"},{"product_id":"a-treatise-on-madness","title":"A Treatise on Madness","description":"London: Printed for J.Whiston and B.White. 1758.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 210x130mm. pp. vii, [i], 99, [1bl]. Modern speckled calf, borders to upper and lower covers decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Some foxing and browning but overall a very good copy of a scarce and ground-breaking book on madness and mental health. \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Battie (1703-76) was a Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal College of Physicians. His principal medical interest was in what he called \"the mad business\". He worked at Bethlem which at that time was located in Moorfields on the edge of the City of London (it still exists as a psychiatric hospital in South London and is the oldest such institution in the world). Horrified by the conditions and poor treatment at Bethlem (not least the practice of allowing the public to pay to observe the patients), Battie founded, in 1751, St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics under the patronage of the Earl of Cardigan to whom this book is dedicated. St Luke's was built next to Bethlem and was intended as a form of rebuke to the cruelty of the older hospital. The treatment initiated by Battie was more humane (he banned the public from viewing the patients) using modern medical techniques and an early form of therapy. In setting up St Luke's, Battie and his supporters were also seeking to encourage more doctors to practice in this field. Among Battie's patients at St Luke's was the poet Christopher Smart who entered the hospital in 1757. \u003cbr\u003eBattie begins his Treatise with a plea for a greater understanding of madness which he describes as a \"very frequent calamity\". He laments the fact that few doctors take the illness seriously and those that do are reluctant to share their knowledge with the result that advances in the treatment of the mentally ill are few and slow. The subject of madness was hidden away. Battie's book and his work at St Luke's sought, in his words, \"to discover the causes, effects and cures of Madness\". Battie believed that madness took two forms: the \"original\" which had no clear cause and he felt could not be fully cured, and the \"consequential\" caused by trauma or some other external factor. It was on this latter form that Battie concentrates and to which he applies early psychiatric treatments. Indeed, in writing this book, in giving greater attention to the subject of madness and its treatment, and in arguing for psychiatry as a distinct medical discipline, Battie can perhaps be seen as the father of a recognisably modern understanding of mental illness.","brand":"BATTIE, William.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985760952511,"sku":"3708","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3708_2.jpg?v=1664977728"},{"product_id":"manuscript-atlas","title":"Manuscript Atlas","description":"n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn album of hand-drawn maps with handwritten notes in an attractive italic. 230x180mm. Unpaginated, 137 pages of maps (84 maps) and text: pp. 89, 24bl, 48 (including 4 blank pages), 14bl. The maps are beautifully drawn in pen and ink with borders in coloured ink and watercolour. Tan half calf, rebacked and corners repaired, eighteenth-century marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt \"Maps J:R\". Some scuffing and staining to the boards. A repair tear to the first page of text but otherwise in very good condition throughout. The author is unidentified and, possibly, unidentifiable but the main section on England is based on Thomas Badeslade's \u003cem\u003eChorographia Britannia\u003c\/em\u003e of 1741 originally intended as a pocket atlas for George I. The maps are: forty county maps of England, one map of England showing all the counties and one showing the main coastal areas, two maps showing North and South Wales, seventeen European maps (in which Scotland, interestingly, is included) and three maps of places in Asia.\u003cbr\u003eThe first eighty-nine pages are devoted to England. There is a map of each county and, on the facing page, information about the county in varying degrees of detail. In almost all cases the major towns and cities and the number of MPs sent to Parliament are listed but for some counties geographic, architectural and historic features are included. Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire have a list of the University colleges and their date of foundation. The section on Europe shows the regions of the major nations and lists the major rivers, mountains and volcanoes. There is a map showing the whole of Asia much of which is described as Tartary and Asiatic Turkey and Indostan are given separate, more detailed maps. This is a highly attractive book, lovingly created.","brand":"ANONYMOUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985761018047,"sku":"3719","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3719_8.jpg?v=1664906036"},{"product_id":"nature-a-weekly-journal-of-science","title":"NATURE. 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April 25 1953. pp738-740.\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003cem\u003eMolecular configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate\u003c\/em\u003e by Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G.Gosling. Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp740-741. \u003cbr\u003e4. \u003cem\u003eGenetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid\u003c\/em\u003e by J.D.Watson and F.H.C.Crick. Nature, Volume 171, No. 4361. May 30 1953. pp964-967. \u003cbr\u003e5. \u003cem\u003eEvidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate\u003c\/em\u003e by Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G.Gosling. Nature, Volume 172, No. 4369, July 25 1953. pp156-157.\u003cbr\u003e6. \u003cem\u003eHelical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid\u003c\/em\u003e, by M.H.F.Wilkins, W.E.Seeds, A.R.Stokes and H.R.Wilson. Nature, Volume 172, No. 4382, October 24 1953. pp759-762.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether these papers, announcing the discovery of DNA, provide the single most important advance in biology since Darwin's theories. Although Crick and Watson are the best known of the scientists working on the structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) it was a collaborative venture and it is now recognised that the model used by Watson and Crick was based almost completely on the findings of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.","brand":"WATSON, James D, Francis H.C.Crick, Rosalind Franklin, M.H.F. 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Basilius Valentinus was, supposedly, a fifteenth-century alchemist and monk although it seems that no such person ever existed. Instead, he is now thought to have been Johann Thölde, a German salt manufacturer and Kleweta gives us \"Valentinus's\" recipe's for the production of salt. A curious and beautiful artist's book.","brand":"Basilius Valentianus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42083852189887,"sku":"3783","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/3783.Kleweta_2.jpg?v=1668527538"},{"product_id":"experiments-and-observations-on-the-atomic-theory-and-electrical-phenomena","title":"Experiments and Observations on the Atomic Theory and Electrical Phenomena","description":"\u003cp\u003eDublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell. 1814.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. pp. [6], 180. 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An excellent copy of a rare book, ESTC recording only six copies. \u003cbr\u003eThe Accomplished Housekeeper is an abridged version of Francis Collingwood's The Universal Cook and City and Country Housekeeper, itself a rare book, first published in 1792 with a second edition in 1797. Their purpose, as stated in the preface, was to issue a version that was cheaper, shorter and easier to use. \"The Editors have had frequent occasions to deviate from the printed directions found in books of this kind, sometimes by altering, but more frequently by reducing the number of ingredients, and thereby rendering them more simple and less expensive, though equally salutary to the constitution and grateful to the palate\". The Accomplished Housekeeper is, nevertheless, full of detail with a huge range of receipts, a \"Catalogue of Various Articles in Season in the different Months of the Year\" and instructions on how to carve including the somewhat alarming observation that \"it is not the custom at present to send a pig up to table whole\".","brand":"WILLIAMS, T. and the principal cooks at the London and Crown and Anchor Taverns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332730785983,"sku":"3821","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3821.Williams_1.jpg?v=1682596598"},{"product_id":"flora-bedfordiensis","title":"Flora Bedfordiensis","description":"Bedford: Printed and Sold by W.Smith. 1798.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo in 4s. 223x130mm. pp. xii, 351, [9]. Six contemporary hand-coloured engravings. Green buckram, maroon morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some marking and rubbing and a split to the cloth (c45mm) at joint with lower board. Some slight foxing in places but otherwise very good internally with the charming plates in particularly good condition. It is rare to find these coloured. One of the front preliminary leaves has two pages of neat manuscript notes listing plants from Abbot's book that are found in the \"best natural pastures\". Title page has ownership inscription of a \"Mrs Jones\". Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of F. Kuhlicke who was senior modern languages master at Bedford Modern School and an authority on Bedfordshire history. \u003cbr\u003eFlora Bedfordiensis has been described as a \"model of a county flora\", listing 1325 flowering plants and providing descriptions and details of where they grow. It is an early example of the genre; only two local floras predate it. 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Abbot dedicated the work to Queen Charlotte (\"Patroness of the Hortus Kewensis\") who was an accomplished plantswoman and he went on to write, in his preface, of \"the excellence...attained in this branch of science by so many of the female sex\".","brand":"ABBOT, Charles, M.A. F.L.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731048127,"sku":"3846","price":495.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3846.Abbot_6.jpg?v=1682594897"},{"product_id":"a-school-dictionary-english-and-marathi","title":"A School Dictionary, English and Marathi","description":"Bombay: Government Central Book Depot. 1870.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThird edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo. 190x115mm. pp. viii, 488. Full sheep, red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. In excellent condition. Internally very good. Front free endpaper has ownership inscription I.S.White. Marathi is the language spoken in the state of Maharashtra of which Bombay\/Mumbai is the capital. An attractive book, published for the Educational Department.","brand":"TALEKAR, Shrikrishna Raghunath Shastri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731539647,"sku":"3892","price":375.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3892.Marathi_3.jpg?v=1682528785"},{"product_id":"a-discourse-of-fish-and-fish-ponds","title":"A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds","description":"London: Printed for E. Curll. 1713.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 176x110mm. pp. [8], 79, [1]. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with four raised bands, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. In excellent condition. Internally very good with some browning and foxing, slightly heavier to title page. Attractively decorated with a variety of head and tailpieces and wood engraved initials. 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The Antiquities records his own surveys of the stone monuments of Cornwall, with plates after his own drawings, and relates them to the ancient religion of the druids, thus presenting the megaliths as temples of the earliest British religion.","brand":"BORLASE, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42332731834559,"sku":"3908","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3908_5.jpg?v=1682605060"},{"product_id":"the-herball-two","title":"The Herball","description":"London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers. 1636.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThird edition. Folio. 340x225mm. pp. [40], 30, 29-30, 29-402, 373-1630, [48]. [72]. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Engraved title page by John Payne. Bound by C. Kalthoeber (label on verso of front free endpaper) in \"russia extra\" with a border of continuous \"drawer-handle\" design in blind. Inside this is a gilt double fillet enclosing a further, smaller \"drawer-handle\" design. At the corners of the outer border are the Beckford and Hamilton crests, this book having been in the collection of William Beckford who used two crests, a heron's head with a fish in its beak (the Beckford crest) and an oak tree with a saw which was the Hamilton crest, his younger daughter having married the Duke of Hamilton. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine decorated in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt to the second compartment. Turn-ins decorated with a Greek key pattern in gilt. All edges gilt. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery. On the verso of the front free endpaper is a manuscript note in Rosebery's hand which reads \"R. Beckford Sale. Lot 115\" and the Sotheby's catalogue entry from the Beckford sale is pasted onto the front pastedown. This copy was sold in the \"Second Portion\" of the Beckford Library on 11th December 1882. Joints and corners strengthened and repaired. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and some marks to lower cover but otherwise a very good copy. Internally near fine save for an old stain on G2. John Gerard first published his Herball in 1597 and although it was a success, it was regarded as not entirely accurate. After Gerard's death in 1612, Thomas Johnson set about revising the work. 1633 saw the first appearance of his \"enlarged and amended\" edition which included Plantin's much improved woodcuts. This is a particularly nice copy, bound by one of the great German emigre binders and with a superb provenance.","brand":"GERARDE, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42365130277055,"sku":"3925","price":6750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3925Herball_8.jpg?v=1685021170"},{"product_id":"a-naval-expositor","title":"A Naval Expositor","description":"London: Printed by E. 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Some foxing but otherwise in very good condition. \u003cbr\u003eJoseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Fry were brother and sister, scions of the great Gurney banking family. Elizabeth was already a noted campaigner for prison reform when she joined Joseph on a tour of prisons in Scotland and the North of England. This book is their report. It was presented to Parliament where it made an impact on Robert Peel who, as Home Secretary between 1822 and 1827, introduced the Gaols Act which led to payment for prison officers, education for prisoners, putting female warders in charge of female prisoners and the prohibition of the use of irons and manacles.","brand":"GURNEY, Joseph John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264368831,"sku":"3961","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3961.Gurney_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1690306224"},{"product_id":"summary-and-free-reflections-in-which-the-great-outline-only-and-principal-features-of-the-following-subjects-are-impartially-traced-and-candidly-examined","title":"Summary and free reflections, in which the great outline only, and principal features, of the following subjects are impartially traced, and candidly examined","description":"Chelmsford: Clachar, Frost, and Gray. 1783 [but 1788].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall 8vo. 153x95mm. pp. xvii [i], 115 [1]; Part X, \u003cem\u003eAn endeavour to prove that reason is alone sufficient to the firm establishment of religion [1785]\u003c\/em\u003e: 31 [1]; \u003cem\u003eAn Appendix to the Tenth Part:\u003c\/em\u003e 64;\u003cem\u003e A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit..., 1787,\u003c\/em\u003e vi, 82; \u003cem\u003eA Postscript to the Physical Enquiry..., 1787\u003c\/em\u003e; 6, [4], 7-34; Part XI and XII: [141] -178; \u003cem\u003eA Free Enquiry into the Enormous Increase of Attornies...\u003c\/em\u003e, 1785 iv, 68. 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So, classical languages, literature and history should disappear in favour of modern languages, mathematics, law and constitutional history. Thus a new class of aspiring bourgeois capitalists would be created and then entrenched given that the poor were to be excluded from this education. Priestley's set of syllabuses for history and law make fascinating reading and it is easy to see the appeal of his approach although it might be said to tend (avant la lettre) to the Gradgrindian. 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Red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Upper cover a little scuffed and edges rubbed. Front pastedown has presentation bookplate of RUSI with disposal stamp. Slightly foxed but overall a very good copy of an important book which resulted in the election of Knowles to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. Knowles's work is a detailed study of the use and preservation of timber in ships. As he says in the preface, \"the state and condition of the navy is a subject that cannot be too deeply studied, or too carefully attended to in this country; for whatever may be our political situation or connexion with the several Powers on the Continent of Europe, England should always recollect, that shops are her surest defence, for 'her rampart is the sea'\". Knowles's day job was a surveyor in the Navy Office and it must have paid well as he was also a discerning collector of art owning works by Titian, Rembrandt, van Dyck and Gainsborough as well as many paintings by his friend Henry Fuseli about whom Knowles wrote a three volume memoir.","brand":"KNOWLES, John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264762047,"sku":"3986","price":375.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3986.Knowles_2.jpg?v=1690305348"},{"product_id":"lectures-on-the-wave-theory-of-light","title":"Lectures on the Wave-Theory of Light.","description":"Dublin: Andrew Milliken. 1841.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresentation copy from author to the Earl of Rosse. First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. i-iv, 5-89 [1]; 83 [1]. Two folding engraved plates. Original green cloth, paper label to spine. Staining to covers, spine faded, corners bumped. Internally very good. A nice copy of an important book creating an interesting link between two leading Irish scientists of the nineteenth century. The first part is a reprint of the six lectures given by Lloyd on unpolarized light in 1836 while the second part (on polarized light) appears for the first time. Rare in commerce. \u003cbr\u003eHumphrey Lloyd (1800-1881) was the professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and was one of the leading proponents of the wave-theory of light - the idea that light is formed from vibrating waves rather than particles which was the Newtonian theory. This change was brought about in large part through a revolution in scientific methodology. William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867) was president of the Royal Society, a builder of giant telescopes including the world's largest at his home, Birr Castle in County Offaly. His most significant work was in astronomy. Lloyd and Rosse would have known each other as students at Trinity and must have remained in contact throughout their lives. Both were members of the British Science Association and Rosse became the Chancellor of TCD during Lloyd's period as a senior Fellow. This book is a touching testament to an intellectual bond.","brand":"LLOYD, The Rev. H.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264827583,"sku":"3987","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3987.Lloyd_3.jpg?v=1690305449"},{"product_id":"a-treatise-on-ship-building-and-navigation","title":"A Treatise on Ship-Building and Navigation.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With The Construction and Use of a new invented Shipwright’s Sector, for readily laying down and delineating Ships, whether of similar or dissimilar Forms. Also Tables of the Sun’s Declination, of Meridional Parts, of difference of Latitude and Departure, of Logarithms, and of artificial Sines, Tangents and Secants. By Mungo Murray. Shipwright, in his Majesty’s Yard, Deptford. To which is added by way of appendix, and English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, Mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French Marine. The whole illustrated with eighteen Copper Plates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon: Printed by D.Henry and R.Cave. 1754.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. [4], iv, [4], 3-268, 73 [1]; [4], 70, [4]. Eighteen folding engraved plates including one with a volvelle. Contemporary calf, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Upper cover slightly creased, corners bumped and a little worn. Head of spine rubbed and foot of spine chipped with loss of c1cm. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Thomas Hall. Internally very good with only a little foxing and browning in places. 'The elements of naval architecture: .. By M. Duhamel du Monceau' has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.Loosely inserted is a leaf from a manuscript ship's logbook (370x240mm) dated 11th-14th June describing part of a voyage of the Ship \u003cem\u003ePrince Augustus \u003c\/em\u003e(an East Indiaman) commanded by Francis Gostlin. but overall a very good copy of this exhaustive, detailed and ground-breaking work on ship-building. As Murray says in his preface, \"though the art of Ship-building is of the utmost consequence to the trade and security of this nation...I cannot think of a subject which has been so little treated of in our language\". ESTC records ten copies of this first edition in the UK and eight in the US with a further two elsewhere. \u003cbr\u003eMungo Murray (1705-1770) joined the naval dockyard at Deptford in 1738 where he worked as a shipwright. Sixteen years of experience led to this book but he also, as he explains in the advertisement on the verso of the title page, had a sideline as a teacher of \"the several Branches of Mathematicks treated of in this Book\", offering evening classes every day except Wednesday and Saturday. The hard working Murray also qualified as a teacher, serving on board ships as a tutor in navigation. He wrote a further book on this subject and a short note on an eclipse of the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MURRAY, Mungo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42427264860351,"sku":"3989","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/3989.Murray_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1690304786"},{"product_id":"das-relativita-tsprinzip-eine-sammlung-von-abhandlungen-mit-einem-beitrag-von-h-weyl-und-anmerkungen-von-a-sommerfeld-vorwort-von-otto-blumenthal","title":"Das Relativitätsprinzip. Eine Sammlung von Abhandlungen. Mit einem Beitrag von H. Weyl und Anmerkungen von A. Sommerfeld. Vorwort von Otto Blumenthal.","description":"Leipzig and Berlin: Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner. 1922.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourth trade edition. pp. [4], 159, [1 adverts]. Green paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Lettered in black to upper cover and spine. Protected with mylar wrapper. Corners a little bumped and worn, hinges slightly loose with the front free endpaper semi-detached but otherwise in very good condition throughout. A nice copy of this important collection of papers on the special and general theories of relativity.","brand":"LORENTZ, H.A., A Einstin and H. Minkowski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42551904960703,"sku":"4066","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4066.jpg?v=1697566173"},{"product_id":"popular-errours","title":"Popular Errours","description":"London: Printed by W. Wilson for Nicholas Bourne. 1651.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition in English. 8vo. 171x102mm. pp. [xxii, 461 [1bl], [7 index] [i bl], [4 adverts]. Lacking the (often missing) errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece which is also an additional title page and with the printed verse Explication. Contemporary sheep, with some rubbing and scuffing. Flat spine, lettered in gilt. Internally very good but with some browning and foxing. Front pastedown has the Fox Pointe Collection bookplate of Dr and Mrs H.R. Knohl. Front free endpaper has ownership inscription \"John West's Book 1726\" and the title page has, in a somewhat stylised form, the letters \"IW\" written twice, presumably indicating John West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Primrose (1600-1659) was the grandson of James VI of Scotland's principal surgeon. His father was a Calvinist minister in France where James was born and educated. He moved to England to further his medical training in Oxford and then practised as a doctor in Hull for the rest of his life. He wrote extensively on medicine especially on the circulation of blood, where he sought to hold the orthodox, Galenic line agains Harvey's new discoveries. His most popular book was the 1638 \u003cem\u003eDe Vulgi in Medicina Erroribus, \u003c\/em\u003etranslated in 1651 as \u003cem\u003ePopular Errours \u003c\/em\u003eby a young Hull medical colleague Robert Wittie. It is, in the words of ODNB, \"a systematic attack on the non-professional practice of medicine, folk medicine, quackery, and malpractice\". It refutes the, apparently common, idea that gold boiled in broth with cure consumption. But, as Primrose also claimed to have demonstrated that \"tobacco is good and in no wise harmful\", it is hard to know how seriously to take him - unless of course he is right about tobacco. Even if the science is a bit unreliable, this book is interesting for containing two poems (one in Latin and one in English) by fellow Hullian, Andrew Marvell in praise of Wittie's translation of Primrose's forthright and ground-breaking book.","brand":"PRIMROSE, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42886945308863,"sku":"4166","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4166.Primrose_2.jpg?v=1709219727"},{"product_id":"euclides-ab-omni-na-vo-vindicatus","title":"Euclides ab omni nævo vindicatus","description":"\u003cp\u003eMediolani: Ex Typographia Pauli Antonii Montani. 1733.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 227x175mm. pp. [XVI], 142 [2bl], 6 folding plates with 55 diagrams. Contemporary vellum, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt flower motif. Covers a little marked and soiled. Some foxing and browning but otherwise very good internally. An excellent copy of a scarce book of which Worldcat locates only sixteen copies worldwide. We have traced no copies at auction. \u003cbr\u003eGirolamo Saccheri (1667-1733) was a Jesuit priest and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time although the significance of his revolutionary ideas was not fully appreciated until 150 years after his death. As a young man, he taught at a Jesuit college in Milan where he encountered the mathematical work of the Ceva brothers. He spent most of his life teaching philosophy, theology and mathematics at the University of Pavia. \u003cem\u003eEuclides ab omni nævo vindicatus\u003c\/em\u003e is Saccheri's third work on mathematics and the work for which he is best known. As he died in 1733, it is possible that he never saw it published. Although Saccheri is regarded as the father of non-Euclidean geometry, he did not set out to disprove Euclid's parallel postulate but, rather, prove it. Indeed, as the title of the book makes clear, it is an attempt to vindicate Euclid. It was in rejecting a contradiction of Euclid's second postulate (that a terminated line can be produced indefinitely) that Saccheri raised the possibility that straight lines are finite. Although he did not realise it at the time, this idea is now regarded as the basis of elliptic and hyperbolic geometry which refutes Euclid's second and fifth postulates. \u003cbr\u003eAlmost exactly 100 years later Nikolai Lobachevsky and Janos Bolyai, independently of each other, published the foundational texts of non-Euclidean geometry, a term first used by their contemporary Carl Friedrich Gauss. But none of these men knew of Saccheri: as we said, this is a rare book. It was not until another Italian mathematician, Eugenio Beltrami, published a paper in 1889 comparing Saccheri's work on Euclid's parallel postulate to that of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, that he was brought to the attention of the mathematical world. 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Handsomely bound in green quarter morocco, beige cloth with decorated covers, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. With original cloth slipcase. Very slight fading to spine but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally fine with extensive illustrations. A beautiful copy of this important book which takes as its starting point Wasson's encounter in 1955 with Maria Sabina, a Mazatec Shamaness. The series of sessions which followed changed Wasson's life and the article he wrote about the experience for Life magazine in 1957 was arguably the starting point for America's psychedelic revolution. \u003cem\u003eThe Wondrous Mushroom\u003c\/em\u003e appeared at the end of Wasson's life - he died in 1986 - and represents a summation and amplification of themes that had preoccupied him throughout his life in mycolatry. But never had they been presented so beautifully.","brand":"WASSON, R.Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105343832255,"sku":"4138","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4138.Wasson_4.jpg?v=1713260179"},{"product_id":"logik-der-forschung-two","title":"Logik der Forschung","description":"\u003cp\u003eWien: Verlag von Julius Springer. 1935 [1934].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo, 218x143mm. pp. vi, 248, [2]. In the original wrappers, small tear to foot of spine and to joint with lower cover and a crease to the bottom right corner of the upper cover and the first six leaves but otherwise in very good condition throughout. Popper's \u003cem\u003eLogik der Forschung\u003c\/em\u003e (translated in 1959 as \u003cem\u003eThe Logic of Scientific Discovery\u003c\/em\u003e) was published in 1934 (although given a 1935 imprint) and is regarded as one of the twentieth-century's most important contributions to scientific and philosophical method. Popper's argument (broadly and briefly) is that science should proceed on the basis of what is not known (\"the falsification principle\") rather than what is known - a deductive, not inductive process. This brief note is not (thankfully) the place for a discursive essay on the nature of Popperian applied methodology. For that you will need to read the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"POPPER, Karl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43278843347135,"sku":"4158","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/P1015693HEADSHOT.jpg?v=1715096534"},{"product_id":"the-practical-norfolk-farmer","title":"The Practical Norfolk Farmer","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorwich: Printed and sold by Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson. 1808.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. [12], 117, [1bl], [7, 1bl], 4pp advertisements of books on farming tipped in. Original blue-grey boards, backed with white paper, original orange label to spine. Spine cracked and worn with loss of c45mm to lower part of spine and loss to label. Corners bumped and some soiling to the boards. Internally very good but with some foxing. Overall an excellent uncut copy in the original boards. A rare book, Worldcat locates eight copies worldwide and only one appears in the auction records. Dedicated to the great Norfolk agricultural innovator, Thomas Coke, this is a month by month guide (starting in September) to all one needed to know about managing a farm at the beginning of the nineteenth century. According to our author, where his book differs from other written about \"the Norfolk System of Husbandry\" is in its being written \"from \u003cem\u003ereal practice\u003c\/em\u003e\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANONYMOUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43581792288959,"sku":"4262","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4262.PracticalFarmer_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1722355218"},{"product_id":"de-mensura-temporum-antiquorum-praecipue-graecorum-exercitatio","title":"De Mensura Temporum antiquorum \u0026 praecipue Graecorum exercitatio","description":"\u003cp\u003eColoniæ Agrippinæ [Cologne] Apud Ioducum Kalcovium [Jost Kalkhoven]. 1645.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 188x122mm. pp. [8], 239 [1bl]. Attractively bound in eighteenth century mottled calf, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with a floral motif, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Edges of boards, tooled in gilt, all edges red. Internally there is some browning and foxing but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Macclesfield Library. Allatius (1586-1669) was a Greek scientist, theologian and keeper of the Vatican Library. This is the attractive Macclesfield copy of Allatius's important work on time, its divisions and historical dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLATIUS, Leo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53474988753273,"sku":"4328","price":475.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4328.Allatius_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1727875133"},{"product_id":"compendium-elementorium-matheseos-universae","title":"Compendium Elementorium matheseos universae;","description":"\u003cp\u003eLausanne \u0026amp; Geneva Marci-Michaelis Bousquet. 1742.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo volumes. First edition. 8vo. 167x100mm. pp. xxx, 466; [2], 1-432, 443-499, [2, 1bl]. Title page of volume one printed in black and red. Collates complete despite the pagination. 44 folding plates with an extensive array of diagrams. Eighteenth century calf with double fillet borders to the covers. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, morocco labels lettered in gilt. All edges red. Some slight rubbing and fading to spines. A few marginal tears not affecting the text and some browning but otherwise a very good set indeed with the plates in particularly good condition. With the Macclesfield Library bookplate and embossed stamps. \u003cbr\u003eChristian Wolff (1679-1754) was one of the great scientists and philosophers of the German enlightenment. He wrote on a vast range of subjects including economics and mathematics (which he applied, somewhat eccentrically to the study of theology). He was also a successful public administrator and was keen to stress the practical application of his more theoretical studies to everyday life and the management of the state. \u003cem\u003eCompendium Elementorium\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary encyclopaedic \"summa\", aimed at young students, taking in geometry, astronomy, geography, military and civil architecture, mechanics, optics, perspective and pyrotechnics all illustrated with fascinating little engravings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WOLFF, Christian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53474988818809,"sku":"4330","price":575.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4330.Wolff_1__inPixio.jpg?v=1727875028"},{"product_id":"public-baths-and-wash-houses","title":"Public Baths and Wash-Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Batsford. 1906.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. xii, 281pp, frontispiece and illustrations and plans throughout text with an old label to the front pastedown. Original red cloth with blind-stamped bands and gilt titles to upper board. gilt bands and titles to spine (An old water stain to the top of the upper board and some light shelfwear). Original dust-jacket (wear to edges with some small closed tears to bottom edge and a shallow missing section to the very top quarter-inch of the rear). In very good condition. With chapters on Turkish, Russian and other special bathing operations this is a comprehensive technical guide to the golden age of public hygiene in Britain. 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Contemporary tree calf, rebacked to style, original metal clasps, marbled endpapers. Contemporary book label of George Croker Fox, a shipping agent and merchant from Falmouth whose father (of the same name) founded the family firm of G.C.Fox. The firm also had mining interests in Cornwall and so this book which combined the family's business in mining and trading by sea would have been of special interest. JISC Library Hub locates nine copies. \u003cbr\u003eThe purpose of this little book was to encourage trade in tin between the mines of Cornwall and customers in the middle- and far- East. The letters pay tribute to the quality of Cornish tin and are addressed to traders and officials who were in a position to open up lines of trade. There is also an account of tin shipped by the East India Company to China. 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