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Leybourn's Dialling Improv'd. [Leybourn's Dialling Improved]: or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically:.. II. Arithmetically:.. Also, How to describe all necessary Furniture for Sundials... With: Reflective Dialling... To which is now added, Instrumental Dialling: by the Lines of Hours... likewise Mechanick Dialling... Concluding with Tables...
London: printed by H.Parker for A.Bettesworth, 1728.
Third edition. xii, 276pp, with the 12 folding plates, all in good order, a few with minor repairs. [Stub torn away at p80/81 unexplained as plates all present.] Head- and tail-piece decorations. Pages slightly toned but otherwise clean. With an armorial bookplate lifting over an earlier bookplate on the pastedown, and a bookseller's blindstamp to the corner of the front free endpaper ('S.J.Chew, Cheap Book Establishment') next to an early owner's neat pencilled notes. Small marks to endpapers offset from sellotape formerly retaining a jacket. 12mo, 16 x 10 cms, in early worn leather boards with a late 20thC calf spine ruled in blind and titled gilt on a green label. Very nice copy. Very Good.
Price: £400.00
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. To which are added: Newton's System of the World; A Short Comment on, and Defence of, the Principia, by W. Emerson: with The Laws of the Moon's Motion according to Gravity, by John Machin. [Vols II & III only]
London: H.D. Symonds, 1803.
New Edition (stated) - and the First English edn of Book III. Vol II: [ii], 321, (i), [10] index: with 19 numbered fold-out diagrams and 2 folding tables; Vol III: vi, 231, [1] advert: with 10 fold-out diagrams (some numbered). Vol II constitutes Books II and III of the Principia, together with a 7-page appendix of explications furnished by the editor; Vol III contains Newton's System of the World and the pieces by Emerson and Machin. The foldout diagrams are toned, in a few cases heavily, as are the last few pages of Vol III: in other respects text and diagrams are in very good order. In contemporary half calf with marbled boards and endpapers, the spines ruled gilt and titled. Boards rubbed, joints and ends recently refurbished with Japanese tissue. An attractive part-set of the English edition. Very Good+.
Price: £1,450.00
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Half Hours with the Telescope. Being a popular guide to the use of the telescope as a means of amusement and instruction.
London: Robert Hardwicke, n.d. [preface dated 1868].
Presumed first edition. 109pp, with seven guarded plates and many diagrams. Previous owner's faint name on front endpaper and slight foxing to the foldout frontis: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Small octavo, in original textured blue cloth binding decorated in blind with gilt lettering on front and spine. Tiny scuffs at corners and small split at base of upper joint, but all firm. A very bright clean copy. VG+.
Price: £75.00
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Catalogue of Meteorites. With special reference to those represented in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History).
London: British Museum, 1953.
Second, Revised and enlarged edition. 432pp. Faint date stamp to rear pastedown and four page corners have University of Cape Town Library blind stamp. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Front endpaper is a replacement but professionally done and in keeping. Firm, in original navy cloth, front ruled in blind, spine titled in gilt. Library numbers and soiling at lower end of spine. Spine ends scuffed, base compressed. Slight rubbing to joints and corners. VG.
Price: £60.00
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Galileo's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions. A Translation from the Latin, with Historical and Paleographical Commentary.
Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977.
First edition. xiii, 321pp. Library marks to front free endpaper and copyright page, contents otherwise very clean and fresh. Stamp to top edge of text block. In the original brown textured binding, titled in gilt. Slight sunning to spine. Very good firm copy. Very Good.
Price: £42.00
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