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Published by Lynd Ward, Cresskill, New Jersey 1975
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Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition / 1st Printing. This 1 1/2 page handwritten letter is on Ward's Cresskill, New Jersey stationary where he and his wife, May McNeer Ward (author of many children's books), resided. The letter discusses sending signed bookplates and press proof of his illustrations from: Li…ttle Baptiste, The American Indian Story & Idylls of the King. Signed: "Lynd Ward". Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.
Published by Broome County, NY: Johnny Hart. 1974
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Condition: Good. Typed Letter Signed, 10.5 x 7 inches, Single Sheet, Very Good.
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Seller: SOPHIA RARE BOOKS, Koebenhavn V, , DenmarkSOPHIA RARE BOOKS
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First edition. On the Figure of the Earth: The Lapland and Peru Expeditions. An autograph letter signed by John Machin (c. 1686-1751), Secretary of the Royal Society and Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, four pages on a bifolium, written from Gresham College on 22 June 1738 to the Scottish mathematician James Stirling a…t Leadhills - descended in the Stirling family at Garden House, Stirlingshire, until the dispersal at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, on 23 October 2025 in the sale entitled The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician. The letter belongs to the closing weeks of one of the most consequential empirical episodes in eighteenth-century natural philosophy: the testing, by direct geodetic measurement at high and low latitudes, of Newton's prediction in the Principia that the rotation of the Earth must give it the figure of an oblate ellipsoid of revolution. Machin had served Newton on the 1712 Royal Society commission that adjudicated the calculus priority dispute against Leibniz; he had been appointed to the Gresham chair on Newton's recommendation in 1713; and he occupied the office of Secretary of the Royal Society from 1718 until 1747, the seat from which Newton had directed the Society in the priority decade. Stirling, sixteen years younger, had been elected on Newton's personal nomination on 3 November 1726, four months before Newton's death, and was at the time of the present letter the leading British exponent of Newton's theory of the figure of the Earth. The letter is the documentary inside of the moment at which the Lapland expedition's data first reached London and at which Stirling, alone among British mathematicians, possessed an unpublished demonstration that the figure could only be the rotational ellipsoid Newton had supposed. The full text was first printed by Charles Tweedie in his James Stirling: A Sketch of His Life and Works along with His Scientific Correspondence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922), where it occupies chapter IX and pp. 161-164. John Machin took his Gresham chair in May 1713 with a testimonial from Newton describing him as "studious, sober, and learned in the Latin tongue, and in Mathematics a great Master" (Correspondence of Isaac Newton, ed. Turnbull, vol. V, p. 408). His most famous published result - Machin's formula for ?, ?/4 = 4 arctan(1/5) ? arctan(1/239), with which he had calculated ? to one hundred decimal places in 1706 - appeared in William Jones's Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos in the same year and gave him a quiet but durable reputation among Continental mathematicians. He served on the 1712 Royal Society commission together with Halley, Arbuthnot, Jones, and others, in the proceedings that issued the Commercium Epistolicum for Newton against Leibniz. As Secretary of the Royal Society from 1718, he was the channel through which Newton's mathematical correspondence with British and Continental colleagues passed in the last decade of his life; in 1722 he saw Newton's own revised edition of Arithmetica Universalis through the press, an undertaking for which Conduitt later reported Newton had intended a hundred-guinea fee but never paid it. After Newton's death Machin's mathematical work concentrated on lunar theory; his short tract The Laws of the Moon's Motion according to Gravity was attached to Andrew Motte's 1729 English Principia, and a longer manuscript of the same subject he was at the time of the present letter still hastening to complete. He died at Gresham College on 9 June 1751. James Stirling, by 1738, had been a decade away from the London mathematical scene. After his election to the Royal Society in 1726 and his joint authorship with de Moivre of the asymptotic formula for the factorial that bears his name - published in his Methodus Differentialis of 1730 - Stirling had quitted his teaching post at Watts's Academy and accepted, in 1735, the management of the Scots Mining Company's lead mines at Leadhills in Lanarkshire. The decision answered a Jacobite's difficulty. Signed.
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Seller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, AustraliaDouglas Stewart Fine Books
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Manuscript in brown ink, single sheet, folding to form [4] sides, small octavo; written on 2 sides; headed Paris, le 5 Juin 1845, a note from Admiral Dupetit-Thouars to the publisher Baudry requesting copies of a course in philosophy; signed at the foot 'A. Du Petit Thouars'; address and postal markings to the last side; origina…l folds; complete, clean and legible. 'Mon cher Monsieur Baudry, je vous prie de vous procurez et de m'envoyer le cours de philosophie de Cousin [Victor Cousin, 1792/1867, philospher and head of th École Éclectique). année 1827 et 1828. J'espère que vous ne trouverez pas mauvais que je m'adresseà vous pour cet objet, ma pensée en agissant ainsi se reporte au passé et c'est puisqu'il me semble que vous m'avez dit que vous vous occupiez de librairie, toutefois veuillez croire que c'està bonne intention que je vous fais cette demande. Veuillez me rapporter au souvenir de M. Gide [the publisher, Casimir Gide] .' Dupetit-Thouars' voyage in the Vénus(1836-1839) was critical to the establishment of a French colonial presence in the Pacific, as well as for the promotion and protection of French commercial activities around the globe. His account, Voyage autour du monde, published between 1840 and 1846, ranks as one of the most important nineteenth century works on Pacific voyages. 'Dupetit-Thouars's account of his stay in California, in 1837, is one of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period. In 1838, the Vénus made a run for Easter Island, further investigated the coast of South America, then sailed for the Galápagos and Marquesas Islands, Tahiti and New Zealand. At Tahiti the expedition forced Queen Pomaré to write a letter to the King of France apologising for mistreatment of French priests, to pay an indemnity, and to salute the French flag. He had also made a treaty with Kamehameha III of Hawaii. After visits to Sydney and Mauritius, the ship sailed home, arriving after a voyage of thirty months?' (Hill).
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Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Condition: Very Good. Small octavo, one page, on the mourning stationery of his home on the Isle of Wight, Farringford House (Tennyson had lost one of his younger sons in action, and would lose another before the end of the war). Folded twice for posting; a few tiny marks; in excellent condition. The letter is brief enough to qu…ote in full: 'Dear Lady Glenconner, I am deeply distressed not only for myself but also for all of you. Of course one cannot but be very sorry for both of them. I have spoken to L. fully, and he takes a really serious view now, I hope; and has promised not to see her during the war. L. ought to protect her against herself. I cannot write more, for I feel the thing too acutely. It was kind in you to write to me. Ever yours, Tennyson'. Lionel and Clarissa married in March 1918; she was still only 21 years old at the time. They had three children before their divorce in 1928. Each was to remarry (and redivorce) again. Hallam Tennyson (1852-1928), eldest son of the poet laureate Alfred (later 1st Baron), 'had initially sought the governorship of South Australia, but hesitated when it was offered to him in January 1899: Tennyson was influenced by speculation that after Federation the post might be subordinated to that of the governor-general, or even abolished. He arrived in Adelaide in April and proved popular: the press and the people saw him as hardworking, competent, dignified and frugal. Appointed acting governor-general on 4 July 1902 after Lord Hopetoun's unexpected resignation, Tennyson was confirmed in this position in January 1903, at his own request for one year only' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Signed by Author(s).
