Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts - L08403

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Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts

08 July 2008 • London

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Sale Number: L08403

1. Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000... Second edition. London: for B. Fellowes, 1831

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

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2. A photographic atlas of selected regions of the Milky Way... edited by Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1927

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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3. A naval expositor: shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, and fitting a ship for sea. London: E. Owen, and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, 1750, 4to (260 x 205mm.), engraved title-page, panel with engraved illustration and text in border of each page, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, marginal worming, text block splitting, upper cover becoming detached

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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4. The boat-swaines art: or the complete boat-swain. London: W[illiam] Godbid for William Fisher and Eliz[abeth] Hurlock, 1677, ("A plain and easie rule to rigge any ship" has a separate title-page dated 1676 and is here bound first), [Wing B3562 and B3566], small marginal tears, light spotting

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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5. The sceptical chymist: or chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagirists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, to be the true principles of things. To which in this edition are subjoun'd divers experiments and notes about the producibleness of chymical principles. Oxford: Henry Hall for Ric[hard] Davis, 1660

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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6. Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities: among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum. London: E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1676

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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7. Instrumentarium chirurgicum militare Austriacum. Vienna: Schmidt, 1782

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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8. Architectura navalis mercatoria. Stockholm, 1768

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP

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9. Livre d'arithmetique en sa perfection mise en pratique selon l'usage des financiers, gens de pratique, banquiers et marchands. Fait par Barthelemi le 21 avril 1808. [France, 1808]

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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10. Minus cognitarum rariorumque nostro coelo orientium stirpium ekfrasiV... Item de aquatilibus aliisque nonnullis animalibus (Minus cognitarum stirpium pars altera). Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1616

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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11. Architectura navalis, das ist: von dem Schiff-Gebäw, auff dem[m] Meer und Seekusten zugebrauchen. Ulm: Jonas Saur, 1629

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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12. Architectura recreationis, das ist: von allerhand nutzlich und erfrewlichen civilischen Gebawen. Augsburg: Johann Schultz, 1640, title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (bound before other plates), 35 engraved double-page or folding plates, woodcut initials and head-pieces, extra plate of "la piazza di Siena" cut out and mounted with plate 20, lacking engraved portrait, lacking final blank, plate 20 cut out and mounted, some slight worming, tears, creasing and staining to plates: particularly at folds

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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