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Paris: Bachelier,. Good with no dust jacket. 1835. First Edition. Paperback. Signed 1st; Physics; French Language; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1835 pages; Original front and rear wraps separated or nearly so, needs rebinding. Collated, and complete. Contents very good, rubber stamp to title, few library pencil notations, inner edge of first text leaf, minor markings at upper left margin of front wrap. 4 folding plates consisting of 73 diagrams (mostly lab equipment) , intact. Last plate foxed, first 3 plates moderately foxed, contents otherwise very good. Half title signed and inscribed by author. Provenance U A Boyden, signature. Physics book dealing with viticulture, air and water pressure. Mathematical theories of Bernoulli and Navier. ; Signed by Author .

Bantam. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1995. ARC. Paperback. 0670864145 . 1.26 x 8.46 x 5.28 Inches; 455 pages .

Paris: .: Durand. Very Good with no dust jacket. , 1783-83-79-71-83-8. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Engraved frontispiece and 116 folding plates. [4], civ, 379, [1]; [4], 488; [4], 512; [4], 535, [1]; vi, [2], 592; iv, 524 pages, including half-title in first volume, not called for in the rest. 6 volumes. 12mo, 164x101 mm. DETAILS: contemporary 1/4 sheep gilt with leather lettering pieces, Volume 4 front hinge reinforced; contents clean apart from dampstain in lower inner corners through most of Volume 4, apparently bound without free endpapers. Paris: Durand, 1783-83-79-71-83-80. NOTES: Expanded syllabus of Nollet's course in experimental physics, originally published in 1743-48. Mixed set: ninth edition of Volumes 1-3; seventh edition of Volumes 3 and 5; sixth edition of Volume 4; and eighth edition of Volume 6. Plates VG with no tears. SOUND AND ATTRACTIVE. .

Paris: Hachette Et Cie. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1881- 1885. Probble 1st. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; DETAILS: 113 plates, including 31 chromolithographs; 2042 text illustrations. [4], xxxii, 872; [4], 668, [12]; [4], 1007, [1]; [4], 772; [4], 1024 pages, including half-titles. 5 volumes. 4to, 266x187 mm, publisher's red morocco-backed cloth elaborately blocked in gold and black, white textured paper endleaves; scattered foxing, generally not affecting plates. COMMENT: This is one of the most striking sets I have ever seen with it's vivid coloration and rich 22kt gold gilding to the text edges. Definitely an eye-catcher. THE AUTHOR: Amédée Guillemin (born July 5, 1826 in Pierre-de-Bresse, France, d. 1893 Pierre-de-Bresse, France) was a French science writer and a journalist. Guillemin started his studies at Beaune college before taking his final degree in Paris. From 1850 to 1860[1] he taught mathematics in a private school while writing articles for the… Read More

London: De L'Imprimere De W. & C. Spilsbury, Snow Hill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1796. Third Edition. Hardcover. Science; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 362, [3] pages; Contemporary calf leather. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilding and a red morocco spine label. Ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. A nice copy. A very few pages with light spotting. A celebrated work, casting doubts on the priority of discoveries, with much on Descartes, Locke, Leibnitz, Buffon, Needham, Newton, Copernicus, the circulation of the blood, surgery, animalcules, sexual system of plants, squaring the circle, etc. Worm holes to lower rt corner of last half of book- not into text. .