1. Ludlam, William.

The Rudiments of Mathematics: Designed for the Use of Students at the Universities. Containing an Introduction to Algebra, Remarks on the First Six Books of Euclid, the Elements of Plane Trigonometry.

The Fifth Edition, corrected and enlarged by M. Fryer. London, Printed for W. Baynes, 1809. Octavo. V, (1), 352 pages plus three folded plates. Original Hardcover / Full contemporary leather with gilt lettering on original, red spinelabel. Upper hinge with small defect. Binding rubbed but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

2. [Anonymous]

La Logique ou l’Art de Raisonner. [Les trois principales operations de notre esprit / Des idees / Des jugemens et des propositions / Du raisonement / Du syllogisme / De diverses sortes de Sophismes / Sophismes d’amour-propre, d’interet, de passion, ou suggeres par l’imagination / Methode pratique pour former sa conscience par le moyen d’une Logique chretienne / Ou explication des regles qu’on a donnees dans la premiere / Combien la Logique est utile et necessaire / De la carte et distinction des idees, et de leur obscurite et confusion / etc. etc.]

Gand [Ghent], Imprimerie de J. Poelman, [ca. 1780]. 16.5 x 10 cm. 72 pages. Relié demi-cuir. [Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar – Lower spine slightly damaged]. État d’usage. Couverture, tranches de couverture et coins frottées. Intérieur en bon état malgré quelques traces de rousseurs. Titre sur le dos décoré en doré. Ce livre est lié à une seconde publication.

3. Payne, John.

Volume I (of III) of the “Universal Geography” [Including Asia, Africa and Voyages of English Navigators] – formed into a new and entire system; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their subdivisions of Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics: the extent, boundaries, and remarkable appearances of each country; cities, towns, and curiosities of Nature and Art. Also giving a general account of the fossil and vegetable productions of the Earth, and of every species of animal: The History of Man, in all Climates, Regions and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments and Religions: The State of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures and Knowledge. Sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People to which is added, A Short View of Astronomy, as connected with Geography; of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; and of the Universe in General. With a set of Maps, drawn from the best Materials, every one of which is very neatly coloured; and a great Variety of Copper-Plates; descriptive of the most remarkable curiosities in the world. With an Appendix in two Parts, containing I. The History of the Voyages round the World, and toward the North and South Pole, which have been made since the year 1764 by English Navigators and II. A Digested and Geographical Account of the most considerable Islands and Countries which have been either discovered or explored during those Voyages, collected from every writer upon those subjects. Part I on the Appendix includes: 1. The First Voyage round the world, performed by Commodore Byron, in the Dolphin, accompanied by the Tamar Sloop / 2. Captain Wallis’s Voyage round the World, being the Second performed in the Dolphin / 3. Continuation of Captain Carteret’s Voyage round the World in the Swallow / 4. Lieutenant Cook’s Voyage round the World, in the Endeavour Bark (First Voyage, Second Voyage and Third Voyage including a stunning engraving of Cook, together with Portraits of inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands, Mangea and Ulietea) / The Appendix Part II contain a Geographical Account and Description of the Islands which have been lately discovered or visited in the South-Sea, proceeding from East to West (Easter Island / The Society Islands / The FRiendly Islands / The New Hebrides, Mallicolo and New Caledonia / New Zealand / New Holland / The Sandwich Islands //

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Zachariah Jackson (Great Ship-Street), 1792. Quarto. XV, 894 pages with a list of subscribers and eight fantastic full-page copper engravings (NO MAPS in this Volume) / Frontispiece (The beautiful Frontispiece-plate is cleanly detached and now comes with this beautifully restored book framed): Plates included are: 1. Frontispiece: Vegetable Productions constituting important Articles of Commerce: Nutmeg Tree / Bohea Tea Plant or Thea Bohea / The Cotton Shrub / The Nutmeg enclosed in the Mace and Nutmeg Kernel / Flower of Tea / The Cotton Shrub – This plate is hand-coloured ! / 2. The Artificial Sphere (Globe) with the Solar System and Divisions of the Earth / 3. [Kamtschatka] – A Kamtscadale Travelling in Winter / An inside View of a Winter-Hut of the Kamtschadales / 4. Animals in the Southern Parts of Africa (The Rhinoceros Bicornis / The Buffalo / The Hippopotamus, called by the Hottentots the Seacow) / 5. The Country contiguous to the Cape of Good Hope – Hottentots and their Huts &c. &c. / 6. Portrait – Collection on one plate of Captain James Cook – Killed on the Island of Owhyhee – 14th of February 1779 (From a painting by Dance in the possession of Sir Joshua Banks) – other portraits on that page include A woman and a man of the Sandwich Islands / A Man of the Magea – Omai or Omia , a Native of Ulietea / 7. Portrait – Collection on one plate of: Poulaho – King of the Friendly Islands / A Man of van Diemen’s Land / A Woman from van Diemen’s Land / A Woman of Prince William’s Sound / A Man of Prince William’s Sound / 8. Portrait-Collection on one plate of: A woman of Otaheite Island (Tahiti) bringing a present / A Woman of Otaheite (Tahiti) dancing / An Otahetian (Tahiti) in the Dress of his Country / A New Zealand Warrior completely armed (Maori) // Hardcover / Professionally restored original 18th-century leather with original gilt ornament and new labels on spine. Binding rubbed but after the masterful restoration in very good condition. Some of the plates slightly loose but not detached. Very few minor wormhole damage to the last 250 pages. Rare with the plates ! From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, with his original bookplate to the pastedown. One of the early accounts of english Navigation and Discovery.

4. Sikes, [Bartholomew].

Sikes’ Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits, with directions for the use of the Hydrometer. Established Throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirituous Liquors. To which is added, Tables of Specific Gravity adapted for the use of the Hydrometer.

Revised. No place, No publisher, No year (c.1865). 14 cm x 21.8 cm. VIII, 102 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on front board with blind tooling. Good- condition. Soiled boards. Stained. Foxing to textblock edge and throughout interior.

5. Bok, Bart J / Bok, Priscilla, F.

The Milky Way. The Harvard Books on Astronomy.

Second Edition. Philadelphia / Tokyo, The Blakiston Company, 1946. 15 cm x 21.9 cm. VI, 224 pages. Frontispiece. Ninety-three illustrations and two large-scale photographic maps of the Milky Way. Rear pastedown contains two booklets, entitled ‘The Northern Milky Way’ and ‘The Southern Milky Way’, both from “The Milky Way” by Bart J. Bok and Priscilla F.Bok (1941). Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only foxing and discolouration to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Very light stain to upper internal pages. Minor signs of wear to dustjacket. Minor dampstain to rear centre of bookblock. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

6. [Dante Alighieri] / [Thomas Hobbes] / [Sir Isaac Newton] / [Edmund Halley] / [Malkin, Arthur Thomas].

Gallery of Portraits of important philosophers, scientists and men of letters [with Portraits of Carl von Linne / Portrait of Thomas Hobbes / Portrait of Edmund Halley / Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton / Ignatius von Loyola / Cromwell / Sir Humphry Davy etc.].

No Place [London], [Charles Knight & Co.], No Year [1832]. Circa 225 pages. Features thirty black and white portraits, with many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with half-leather and buckram boards. Gilt lettering and blind design on spine with raised bands with gilt ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor foxing throughout. Some tissue guards loose. With marbled edges and marbled both endpapers and pastedowns. Name of previous owner written in blue ink on free front endpaper “Richard Allen”, also featured within in pencil and dated ‘1832’. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

7. Siegel, Carl Ludwig.

Gesammelte Abhandlungen. Band I. Herausgegeben von K. Chandrasekharan und H. Maaß.

Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, Springer-Verlag, 1966. Gr.-8°. 548 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Leinenband ohne Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Namensstempel des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatzblatt. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

8. [Holton, Gerald] Petzold, Joseph / Einstein, Albert / Baege, M.H.

Die Relativitätstheorie der Physik. [Former copy of Harvard College Library with ownership-stamp of Prof. Gerald Holton. Some annotations in pencil by Holton in Joseph Petzoldt’s contribution on the “Theory of Relativity of Physics”. Holton notes for instance: “Embarrassing, no wonder AE [Albert Einstein] refused P invite to join Blackmore + H. [J. T. Blackmore and K. Hentschel]”.

Berlin, Arthur Tetzlaff, 1914. 8°. (4), 230, (2) Seiten. Hardcover / Library Binding. Bibliotheksbindung. Ehemaliges Exemplar der Harvard College Library. Mit dem Besitzvermerk von Prof. Gerald Holton. Die private Bibliotheksbindung mit mehreren Defekten. Vorsatzblatt lose und stark angerändert. Mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Annotationen Holton’s im Beitrag von Joseph Petzoldt: “Die Relativitätstheorie der Physik”. Holton verweist in einem Absatz auf eine Peinlichkeit in Petzoldt’s Aeusserung und merkt dazu an: “Embarrassing, no wonder AE refused P invite to join Blackmore + H. [J. T. Blackmore and K. Hentschel]” / Former copy of Harvard College Library with ownership-stamp of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Gerald Holton. Several annotations in pencil by Holton in Joseph Petzoldt’s contribution on the “Theory of Relativity of Physics”. Holton notes for instance: “Embarrassing, no wonder AE refused P invite to join Blackmore + H. [J. T. Blackmore and K. Hentschel]” [Zeitschrift für positivistische Philosophie. 2. Band.]

9. [Michelson, Albert A. / Darwin, Charles / Maxwell, James Clerk] Macmillan, Alexander.

On the Velocity of Light – Small statement of Albert A. Michelson on the experiments of Young and Forbes. In: NATURE. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, Volume XXIV. May 1881 to October 1881. [The Volume also containing a contribution by Charles Darwin: “On the Work of Worms” / Howard Grubb’s “Great Vienna Telescope” / etc.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1881. 4°. XVI, 624 pages including an original full page potrtrait-engraving of scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Original Hardcover, recently beautifully rebacked with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Pages 559 to 564 with central tear. Few small library stamps (discarded). Also with a contribution by Darwin in the section “Letter to the editor” (Darwin responds to an article “Leaves injured at Night by free radiation”).

10. Derham, William [Philosopher and Scientist] / [John Senex (Cartographer)].

Astro-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens [Including a Chapter on the “Attraction of Gravity”].

Sixth Edition. London, W. Innys, 1731. Octavo. [16], LVI, [8], 246 pages,[10 pages of Index], [with 3 astronomical foldout engravings by english Cartographer and Explorer John Senex / The Engravings show the Ptolemaic Geocentric System with the Earth as centre of the Universe and discuss other models as well by pointing to pages within the text that reflect on the illustrations / Two of the Engravings are showing the Stars and Constellations over Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Asia etc.]. ]. Original Hardcover / bound in contemporary panelled calf. The book has been sympathetically rebacked to style. Besides a spot of hard green adhesive to the front board in very good condition. The armorial 18th century bookplate of one Dr. Blackett appears on the first pastedown [″A coat of arms divided into three portions, with three stars and three scallop shells throughout. At the helm is the head of an eagle, and elaborate mantling, flowers, and leaves surround the crest. Below is the motto ‘Nous Travailler ons dans L’Esperance’”] / The text of this rare and notoriously underrated book is complete and clean with the three foldout engravings of the cosmos to the rear with only a small archival paper restoration to one of the engravings.