Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, SEAL,

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Auction Date
June 25, 1956 - June 25, 1956
Page Size: 799 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 Newton (Sir I.) Opuscula mathematica Lausanne and Geneva

1744

GBP - 5.00
202 Newton (Sir I.) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Geneva

1739-42

GBP - 2.50
203 Newton (Sir I.) Two treatises of the quadrature of curves

1745

GBP - 10.00
204 Newton (Sir I.) Principes mathematiques de la philosophic naturelle Paris

1759

GBP - 10.50
205 Newton (Sir I.) Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica Geneva

1760

GBP - 2.00
206 Newton (Sir I.) Opera quae exstant omnia

1779-85

GBP - 19.00
207 Newton (Sir I.) The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended

GBP - 2.50
208 Newton (Sir I.) Institutions Newtoniennes

GBP - 3.00
209 Newton (Sir I.) Arithmetica universalis

GBP - 15.00
210 Newton (John) Astronomia Britannica

1657

GBP - 20.00
211 Nollet (J. A.) Lecons de physique experimentale Paris

1768-71

GBP - 3.00
212 Nollet (J. A.) Ensayo sobre la electricidad de los cuerpos

GBP - 5.00
213 Nollet (J. A.) Essai sur l'electricite des corps Paris

1746

GBP - 4.00
214 Norden (J.) The surveiors dialogue

GBP - 8.00
215 Oughtred (W.) Opuscula mathematica hactenus inedita Oxford

1677

GBP - 14.00
216 Ozanam (F.) La trigonometrie rectiligne et spherique Paris

1741

GBP - 9.00
217 Ozanam (J.) La geometrie pratique Amsterdam

1691

GBP - 1.00
218 Ozanam (F.) Tables des sinus Paris

1831 (6)

GBP - 4.50
219 Ozanam (J.) Recreations mathematiques et physiques Paris

1743 (9)

GBP - 2.50
220 Pancirole (G.) The history of many memorable things lost

1712

GBP - 2.50
221 Pancirole (Guido) The history of many memorable things lost

1715

GBP - 4.00
222 Pappus (Alexandrinus) Mathematicae collectiones a Federico Commandino Bologna

1660

GBP - 4.50
223 Pemberton (H.) A view of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy

1728

GBP - 2.50
224 Pemberton (H.) A view of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy

GBP - 6.00
225 Petau (D.) Opus de doctrina temporum Paris

1627-30

GBP - 1.50
226 Petty (Sir William) Political arithmetic

1690

GBP - 11.00
227 Petty (Sir W.) Political arithmetic

1691

GBP - 2.00
228 Phillippes (H.) A mathematical manual

GBP - 14.00
229 Plinius Secundus (C.) The historie of the world

1634

GBP - 9.00
230 Plinius Secundus (C.) Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII Paris

1654 (5)

GBP - 4.00
231 Pliny, translated by J. Bostock and H. T. Riley The natural history

1855-7

GBP - 6.00
232 Poliniere (P.) Experiences de physique

GBP - 3.50
233 Priestley (J.) The history and present state of electricity

1767

GBP - 14.00
234 Priestley (J.) A familiar introduction to the study of electricity Cambridge

1770

GBP - 6.00
235 Priestley (J.) Experiments and observations on different kinds of air

1774,'75, '77

GBP - 10.00
236 PTOLEMAEUS (C.) ALMAGESTUM Venice

1528

GBP - 14.00
237 Quincy (J.) Medicina statica Edinburgh

1771 (4)

GBP - 2.00
238 Ramus (P.) Arithmeticae libri duo cum commentariis W. Snellii

GBP - 4.50
239 Ray (J.) Observations made in a journey through parts of the Low-Countries

GBP - 8.00
240 Reaumur (R. A. F. de) Art de faire eclorre et d'elever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes Paris

1749

GBP - 14.00
241 Reaumur (R. A. F. de) The art of hatching and bringing up domestic fowls of all kinds at any time of the year

1750

GBP - 24.00
242 Reaumur (R. A. F. de) Pratique de l'art de faire eclorre et d'elever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes Paris

1751

GBP - 7.00
244 Recorde (Robert) The whetstone of witte

1557

GBP - 8.00
245 RECORDE (R.) THE GROUNDE OF ARTES London

1573

GBP - 80.00
246 Record (R.) The ground of arts

1631

GBP - 30.00
247 Regius (H.) Philosophia naturalis Frankfort

1646

GBP - 2.00
248 Rohault (J.) Traite de physique Amsterdam

1672

GBP - 4.00
249 Rohault (J.) Oeuvres posthumes

GBP - 7.00
250 Ross (A.) The philosophicall touch-stone

1645

GBP - 12.00
251 Royal Society (The)

GBP - 6.00
252 Rumford (Sir B. Thompson, Count) Essays

GBP - 3.50
253 Rydberg (J. R.) Recherches sur la constitution des spectres d'emission des elements chimiques Stockholm

1890

GBP - 6.00
254 Salmon (W.) Seplasium The compleat English physician London

1707

GBP - 9.00
255 Saussure (H. B. de) Essais sur l'hygrometrie Neuchatel

1783

GBP - 2.50
256 Serao (F.) Istoria dell' incendio del Vesuvio Parma

1694(4)

GBP - 4.00
257 Schott (Gaspar) Magiae universalis naturae et artis pars III Bamberg, Wurzburg

1672, 1659

GBP - 1.00
258 Simson (R.) Sectionum conicarum libri V Edinburgh

1735

GBP - 1.00
259 Singer (C.) Studies in the history and method of science Oxford

1921

GBP - 2.00
260 Smith (Robert) A compleat system of opticks Cambridge

1738

GBP - 2.50
261 Sorbiere (S. de) A voyage to England

GBP - 5.00
262 Sprat (T.) The history of the Royal Society

GBP - 17.00
263 STEVIN (S.) HYPOMNEMATA MATHEMATICA Leyden

1605-08

GBP - 65.00
264 Stevin (S.) Castrametatio Rotterdam

1617

GBP - 11.00
265 STIFEL (MICHAEL) DEUTSCHE ARITHMETICA Nuremberg

1545

GBP - 26.00
266 Stirling (James) Methodus differentialis

1730

GBP - 8.50
267 Strabo La prima [e seconda] parte della geografia di Strabone ...

GBP - 12.00
268 Stukeley (W.) Family memoirs

GBP - 5.00
269 Swan (J.) Calamus mensuans

GBP - 7.00
270 TARTAGLIA (NICOLO) QUESITI et inventioni diverse Venice

1546

GBP - 26.00
271 Taylor (Brook) Methodus incrementorum directa et in versat

1715

GBP - 10.00
272 Theophrastus History of stones

GBP - 10.00
273 TRENCHANT (JAN) L'ARITHMETIQUE Lyon

1566

GBP - 115.00
274 VANDER HOECKE (GIEL) IN ARITHMETICA Antwerp

9 Feb. 1514

GBP - 45.00
275 Vega (G.) Thesaurus logarithmorum completus Leipzig

1794

GBP - 8.00
276 Vitruvius (M. Pollio) I dieci libri d'architettura Venice

1556

GBP - 11.00
277 Voltaire (F. M. A. de) Elemens de la philosophic de Neuton Amsterdam

1738

GBP - 9.00
278 Ward (John) The young mathematician's guide

1707

GBP - 7.50
279 Ward (J.) The lives of the Professors of Gresham College

1740

GBP - 7.50
280 Whiston (W.) A new theory of the Earth

GBP - 7.00
281 Wilkins (John, Bishop of Chester) Mathematicall magick

1648

GBP - 11.00
282 Wilkins (J.) Mathematical magick

1680

GBP - 5.50
283 Wilkins (J.) An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language

1668

GBP - 7.00
284 Wilkins (J.) Mathematical and philosophical works

1709

GBP - 7.50
285 Willich (Judocus) Arithmeticae libri tres Strassburg

1540

GBP - 10.00
286 Wingate (E.) the construction and use of the logarithmeticall tables

1635-48

GBP - 8.00
287 Wingate (E.) Arithmetic

GBP - 7.00
288 Wolf (A.) A history of science New York

1929

GBP - 5.50
289 Wood (Anthony a) Athenae Oxoniensis

1721

GBP - 2.50
290 Worcester (Edward Somerset, Marquis of) A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions

1746

GBP - 3.50
291 Worcester (Edward Somerset, Marquis of) A century of inventions

1825

GBP - 5.00
292 Wren (Christopher) Parentalia

1750

GBP - 11.00
293 Young (Thomas) A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts London

1807

GBP - 28.00
294 Young (T.) A course of lectures on natural philosophy

GBP - 6.50
295 BRATHWAITE (RICHARD) The Schollers Medley

1614

GBP - 58.00
296 CHAPMAN (GEORGE) MAY-DAY

1611

GBP - 48.00
297 Congreve (William) The Double-Dealer

1694

GBP - 2.00
298 Congreve (William) Love for Love

1695

GBP - 13.00
299 DEKKER (THOMAS) IF IT BE NOT GOOD

1612

GBP - 145.00
300 Farquhar (George) The Inconstant

1702

GBP - 7.00
301 Farquhar (George) The Recruiting Officer

1706

GBP - 55.00
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