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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1753 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 455 Volume 1 Curious remarks and observations in physics, anatomy, chirurgery, chemistry, botany, and medicine / extracted from the history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris . [and translated] by Dr. Peter Templeman.
Published by Manchester ; Printed by Harrison and Crosfield, 1824
Seller: Roger J Treglown, ABA., MILNTHORPE, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Second edition. 8vo. ( 225mm. ) Pp. [5] vi - xx,[1] 2 - 244, [4] publishers adverts. Unopened.Title page and verso of the last leaf of the publishers adverts browned, otherwise a very clean copy. Publishers original drab paper backed boards, corners bumped, sometime new cloth backstrip retaining the original printed paper label. Dalton, John ( 1766 - 1844 ) , English meteorologist and chemical theorist, born in Cumbria. In the first edition ( 1793 ) of this important book, Dalton in the Preface alluded to a person who had given him much advice and time in his study of the physical and mechanical sciences, in this edition he reveals his mentor as a Mr Gough of Kendal and goes on to reveal that it was he who ' first set the example of keeping a meteorological journal at Kendal. For more details of Dalton see the Dictionary of Scientific Biography and Odnb.
Published by London ;-, 1759
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 'The most approved Practice of the best English Farmers, in the Old Method of Husbandry.' Most Attractive Quarto in contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Spine gilt in compartments / raised bands. Complete with six stunning copper-plates (mostly folding) of several new and useful Instruments & a folding Plan. Marbled endpapers. xxiv + (492)pps. + index (7)pps. + advert leaf. Excellent example !.
Published by De L'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1731
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Full calf. Condition: Very Good. 1731 Paris, First Edition. Size 16mo, 253 pages. Contemporary binding of full brown calf with five raised bands to the spine with title in second compartment and gilt vignettes in the remaining compartments. Page edges waxed red, marbled end-papers. Condition very good, rubbing to corners and edges of covers, the hinges and the raised bands on the spine, leather chipped at head and tail of spine, 1 inch crack to hinge at lower part of rear cover hinge. Internally the condition is very clean, slight toning to pages, no spotting, text still clear, no writing or inscriptions. Printed in Paris by the Royal Printers in 1731. First Edition. Size 6.5" x 3.75", 253 pages. Pocket sized edition so it could be stowed away to enable the soldiers to load and fire their bombs faster. Contemporary full brown calf binding. Five raised bands to the spine with gilt titles on red morocco label in the second and gilt floral decoration in the remaining compartments. Page edges speckled red, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Condition very good, cover and spine edges rubbed, head of spine chipped, leather cracked slightly at hinges, the binding is tight and sound. Complete with no loose or missing pages, the pages are very clean and the texts very sharp throughout with no foxing. Extracted from Le Bombardier François, Ou Nouvelle Méthode De Jetter Les Bombes Avec Précision. Bernard Forest de Belidor, (1697-1761). Belidor, Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Artillery School at La Ferté and, later, Director of the Arsenal. Identifies himself on the title page as a Member of the Royal Academies of Science in England and Germany, and a Correspondent of the French Academy. This book contains numerous firing tables for mortars. It gives details of how far various weights of mortar will travel when fired at different angles and distances. An invaluable aid to soldiers in the field. The book was made as a pocket size edition so it could be stowed away to enable the soldiers to load and fire their bombs faster. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.
Neuchatel, L'Imprimerie de la Société Typographique), 1771-83. 4to. Bound in 19 contemp. uniform full mottled calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spine-ends on nearly all volumes strenghtened. Stamp on title-pages. Each volume around 650 pp. With 508 fine engraved plates. Second edition and the first 4to-edition was published in 19 volumes plus an additional volume by Jean Elie Bertrand (where vol. 20 is an additional volume published much later (1799) - not present here - dealing with the art of printing). This importent collection of books on crafts was published by between 1761 and 1788. The full series comprises 113 parts (cahiers) in 27 folio volumes along with three supplements, and "provide detailed accounts of a wide range of handcraft and manufacturing processes carried out in France at that time. The volumes are well-illustrated, with precise engravings by Jean Elie Bertrand (1737-1779) a noted typographer from Neuchâtel, where the printing was done. Many of them provide the background for shorter articles in Diderot's Encyclopedia, which was appearing at much the same time. The project had its origin in request from Colbert in 1675 to the Academy Royal des Sciences for detailed accounts of various mechanic arts to be prepared and for new machines to be reported upon. This led to the formation of the Bignon Commission under Abbé Bignon. René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) became editor soon after he joined the Academy. He inherited number of drawings (the earliest prepared in 1693) and an illustrated manuscript on printing, type and book binding, which had been prepared in 1704. It was left to Réaumur's successor Duhamel du Monceau to bring about the publication of the series, probably as the result of the competition from the Encyclopedia." (Wikipedia).Brunet II,618 ff. - Graesse II, 367.
Published by Published A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale First Edition | 1781. 1779 - 1781., 1779
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Recently rebound matching first edition hard back binding in full mahogany leather, raised bands with red morocco title labels, gilt centre tooling to the remaining panels, gilt lines, handmade Griffen Mill end papers. 4to. 10¼'' x 8''. Volume I. [xvi] (title, dedication, foreword, table of chapters and articles)., 707 pp, xiii (table of contents), (additions, faults to correct)., 13 folded engraved plates (including 4 maps). Volume II. [xvi] (title, foreword, table)., 844 pp, xvi, [4] (mistakes to be corrected, notice to the binder)., 14 folded engraved plates (including 8 maps). 27 folding plates in total. Original edition of this important scientific relationship due to the French astronomer Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste The Gentil of the Galaisière (1725-1792). The latter embarked on the order of the Academy of Sciences for India to observe the passage of Venus on the disk of the Sun. He left Brest on March 26, 1760 aboard the Berryer, a vessel of fifty guns of the East India Company, and arrived on July 10 at the Ile-de-France (Mauritius), hoping to find another ship that would sail for India. Unable to reach Pondicherry because of the conflict with the English, he made some observations in Mauritius and decided to wait for the next passage of Venus eight years later. Thus his scientific journey will last in the end eleven and a half years. He then makes the most of his long stay and travels through India and the Indian Ocean from Madagascar to Manila, collecting specimens of natural sciences, geographical positions or ethnological evidence to study the tides, monsoons, natural history, astronomy and Indian religion. His work contains many valuable information on Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and the Philippines, details on the mornings of the Indians on the Coromandel coast, on the astronomy of the Brahms, astronomical observations made in Pondicherry, remarks on navigation through the Strait of Malacca. He managed to reach Pondicherry where the governor had him build an observatory to which Le Gentil will devote himself more than a year. The rich iconography of the book consists of 27 engraved plates and maps dedicated to the collected information and its astronomical observations. Minimal age tanning to the closed text block edges and a Very Good clean and sound condition set. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).