L12406 - L12406

151. Galilei, Galileo

Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali... con una appendice del centro di gravità d'alcuni solidi. Leiden: Elsevir, 1638

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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152. Descartes, René

Geometria... anno 1637 Gallicè edita; nunc autem cum notis Florimondi de Beaune... in linguam latinam versa, & commentariis illustrata, opera atque studio Francisci à Schooten. Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1649

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP

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153. Harrison, John

The principles of Mr Harrison's time-keeper, with plates of the same. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London: W. Richardson and S. Clark, and sold by John Nourse, and Mess. Mount and Page, 1767, half-title, 10 folding engraved plates, slight soiling to head of half-title, slight offsetting from plates

Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 GBP

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154. Hevelius, Johannes

Selenographia: sive lunae descriptio, atque accurata, tam macularum eius, quam motuum diversorum, aliarumque omnium vicissitudinum, phasiumque, telescopii ope deprehensarum, delineatio... Addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio... Gdansk: A. Hünefeld for the author, 1647, half-title, title-page printed in red and black, additional engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 90 engraved plates (20 double-sided, 3 double-page, 1 with volvelle and red silk thread), woodcut initials, engraved illustrations

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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155. Hevelius, Johannes

Mercurius in sole visus Gedani... M DC LCI, d. III Maii, St. n. cum aliis quisbusdam rerum coelestium observationibus, rarisque phaenomenis. Cui annexa est, Venus in sole pariter visa, anno 1639, d. 24 Nov. St. V. Liverpoliae, a Jeremia Horroxio. Gdansk: Simon Reiniger for the author, 1662

Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 GBP

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156. Hevelius, Johannes

Prodromus cometicus, quo historia, cometae anno 1664 exorti cursum, faciesque diversas capitis ac caudae accurate delineatas complectens; nec non dissertatio, de cometarum omnium motu, generatione, variisque phaenomenis, exhibetur (Descriptio cometae anno aerae Christ. M. DC. LXV. exorti...). Gdansk: Simon Reiniger for the author, 1665 (1666)

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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157. Hevelius, Johannes

Cometographia, totam naturam cometarum... exhibens... Cumprimis vero, cometae anno 1652, 1661, 1664 & 1665 ab ipso auctore... exponuntur, expenduntur, atque rigidissimo calculo subjiciuntur. Gdansk: Simon Reiniger for the author, 1668

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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158. Hevelius, Johannes

Machinae coelestis pars prior; organographiam, sive instrumentorum astronomicorum omnium, quibus auctor hactenus sidera rimatus, ac dimensus est, accuratam delineationem et descriptionem... Gdansk: Simon Reiniger for the author, 1673

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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159. Lubieniecki, Stanislaw

Theatrum cometicum, duabus partibus constans, 1. Quarum prior continet epistolas & communicationes variorum per Europam clarissimorum virorum, cum quibus auctor de hoc argumento contulit... 2. Posterior exhibet historiam universalem omnium cometarum a tempore Diluvii ad Ann. 1665... Leiden: Petrus vander Meersche, 1681

Estimate: 15,000 – 25,000 GBP

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160. Lyell, Sir Charles

Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. London: John Murray, 1830-1833

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP

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161. Practical Mechanics, manuscript in English, 175 pages, plus an additional 6 pages loose, with 24 pen, ink and wash illustrative drawings (8 full page), 4to (196 x 160mm), contemporary stiff vellum covers labelled "Mechanics | 1790", the loose leaves strengthened with clear plastic, damage to head of spine

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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162. [Italy, 1740s]

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED