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Previous|1|Next Lot #10 Chimie photographique, contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par les manipulations photographiques. -Les procédés de photographie sur plaque, sur papier sec ou humide, sur verres au collodion et à l'albumine. -La manière de préparer soi-même, d'employer tous les réactifs et d'utiliser les résidus. -Les recettes les plus nouvelles et les derniers perfectionnements. -La gravure et la lithophotographie. AuthorBarreswil, [Charles Louis] et [Alphonse] DavanneHeadlineDefinitive volume on photographic chemistry 1854PublisherMallet-BachelierDate Published[1854] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #23 Four early papers on optics by David Brewster in "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCXV AuthorBrewster, DavidHeadlineFour papers on Optics by David BrewsterPublisherW. BulmerDate Published1815 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #24 Logarithmicall arithmetike. Or Tables of logarithms... [bound with] Arithmetica Logarithmica, sive Logarithmorum chiliades centrum... AuthorBriggs, HenryHeadlineBriggs & Vlacq on logarithms, 1631 & 1628Date Published1631 & 1628 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #37 Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred WallaceHeadlineFirst statement of Darwin's Origin of SpeciesPublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #38 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man, handsomely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #53 Sitzungsberichte der Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften - containing official announcement of Albert Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy of Science Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlineEinstein resigns from Prussian Academy, 1933PublisherVerlag der Akademie der WissenschaftenDate Published1933 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #85 The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant, and other Instruments. With a Canon of Artificial Sines and Tangents to a Radius of 10.00000 parts, and the Logarithms from Unite to 10000: The Uses whereof are illustrated in the Practice of Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Dialling, and Fortification. And some Questions in Navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, Teacher of Mathematicks in Ratcliff, near London... AuthorGunter, EdmundHeadlineThe works of Edmund Gunter 1673PublisherA. C[lark] for Francis EglesfieldDate Published1673 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #88 The Complete Measurer: or, the whole art of measuring. In two parts. The first part teaching decimal arithmetick, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: And also the Multiplication of Feet and Inches, commonly called Cross Multiplication. The second part teaching to measure all sorts of superficies and solids, by Decimals; by Cross-Multiplication, and by Scale and Compasses... AuthorHawney, WilliamHeadlineHawney's Complete Measurer 1763PublisherPrinted for J. Knapton, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1763 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #112 Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in Nine Books AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineLeybourn's textbook of arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, astronomyPublisherThomas Bassett, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham and John CurchillDate Published1690 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #113 Pleasure with profit: consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical... AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineMathematic & scientific recreations, 1694PublisherPrinted for Richard Baldwin, and John DuntonDate Published1694 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #134 A Treatise of Gauging: Or, the Modern Practical Gauger Containing Besides All the Principal Rules Usually Given on the Subject, a Great Variety of New and Interesting Improvements...Illustrated with Necessary Examples AuthorMoss, ThomasHeadlineA Treatise of Gauging 1779PublisherPrinted for G. RobinsonDate Published1779 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #135 Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume Heading(Napier, John)AuthorKnott, Cargill GilstonHeadlineTribute to mathematician John NapierPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1915 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #136 An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier Heading(Napier, John)AuthorStewart, David & Walter MintoHeadlineStewart & Minton's Life of John Napier father of logarithmsPublisherR. Morison and Son, et alDate Published1787 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #137 De Arte Logistica AuthorNapier, JohnHeadlineThe father of the LogarithmPublisherImpressum EdinburgiDate Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #138 Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms AuthorNapier, MarkHeadlineMemoirs of the inventor of LogarithmsPublisherWilliam Blackwood and Thomas CadellDate Published1834 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #147 Äther und relativitäts-theorie: rede gehalten am 5. mai 1920 an der Reichs-universität zu Leiden Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein lecture on RelativityPublisherJulius SpringerDate Published1930 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #148 Thermodynamische Begründung des photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's photochemical equivalence lawPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1912 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #149 Ein vermeintlicher Widerspruch des magneto-optischen Faraday-effectes Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineMax Planck examines the Faraday EffectPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #150 Three papers by Max Planck, in Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 1 Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineSeminal papers in Planck's Quantum TheoryPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #151 Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen Heading(Physics)AuthorSchrodinger, ErwinHeadlineColor theory by Erwin SchrodingerPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1920 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #199 Trigonometria Artificialis: sive magnus canon triangulorum logarithmicus, Ad Radium 100 000,00000, & ad dena Scrupula Secunda. AuthorVlacq, AdriaanHeadlineThe first table of logarithmic trigonometric functions.PublisherPetrus RammaseniusDate Published1633 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next