Science

# 15367

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)

A general history of quadrupeds.

/ The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. Newcastle upon Tyne : T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, 1800. Fourth edition. Large octavo, contemporary diced russia (worn, joints repaired), spine rubbed, title with mild foxing, 525 pp, illustrated with numerous wood-engravings and 111 vignettes, internally clean. First published in 1790, Bewick’s General history is noted for its faithful depictions presented …

# 15215

WIILIAMS, Joseph J.

Psychic phenomena of Jamaica

New York : The Dial Press, 1934. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s brown cloth boards in printed dust jacket  (sunned and chipped), pastedown with previous owner’s inscription, top edge stained maroon, fore-edges uncut, pp 309, with bibliography and index; a near fine copy. A comprehensive survey by a Jesuit scholar that contains sections on the persisting influence …

# 15368

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)

History of British birds

The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Vol. I. containing the history and description of land birds. Newcastle : Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Berwick, 1797. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary diced russia (worn, joints repaired), spine rubbed, title with mild foxing, 335 pp, illustrated with numerous wood-engravings, one quire loose. A second volume appeared in 1804.  

# 14623

MACLAURIN, Colin (1698-1746)

A Treatise of Fluxions In Two Books

Edinburgh : T.W. and T. Ruddimans, MDCCXLII [1742]. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, contemporary calf (scuffed and worn, rebacked and recased, preserving the original title labels). Vol. I: previous owner's wet stamps to front paste down and half title, early newspaper clippings to first blank opposite the half title, half title, title page (early ownership …

# 15217

McIVOR-TYNDALL, Alexander J.

[CHEIROGNOMY] Revelations of the hand. A scientific study of the shape and markings of the hand, as an index to character, disease and tendencies, with explanatory illustrations.

New York : G.A. Dahlgren, 1900. First edition. Square octavo, publisher’s illustrated red cloth boards, front free endpaper bearing a presentation inscription by the author, dated March 4 1901, pp 169 (including plates and line illustrations) followed by [15] leaves of full page plates showing the hands of various celebrities of the day; a marginal tear …

# 14636

HEWITT, John

[COMPUTING] Interest compleated : in three parts …

Viz. 1st. 48 tables for simple interest, ye principal, from 1 penny, to 100,000, pounds ye time, for 365 days, 11 months, & 50 years, at 3, 4, 5, & 6 p[er] cent. : 2d. 4 tables, of brokerage, or commission, ye stock, or value of goods sold, from 1 pound, to 100,000, pounds, at …

# 10292

MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887); BECK, A.F.

[SEMITIC LANGUAGES] De formis quiescentibus linguarum semiticarum commentationis pars prior

… Resp. F. Beck …. [= Concerning the passive forms in Semitic languages]. Hauniæ [Copenhagen] : Typis excudit Fabritius de Tengnagel, 1838. Octavo, modern black leather binding, 171 pp, scattered foxing. Text in Latin. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad’s dissertation on comparative Semitic linguistics, presented for the degree of Magistergraden. Monrad lived in New Zealand …

# 14097

LYELL, Sir Charles (1797 - 1875)

A manual of elementary geology:

or, the ancient changes of the Earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments. London : John Murray, 1855. Fifth edition, greatly enlarged, and illustrated with 750 woodcuts. Octavo, publisher's original cloth with ticket of Edmonds & Remnants, with gilt illustrations of a nummulite, ammonite and trilobite to upper board and gilt-lettered spine, pp. …

# 14056

PATERSON, William and ROBERTS, William

Gold standarding tables

showing the weight in standard gold equivalent to the scale weight of gold of a greater or less degree of fineness. Melbourne : Sands & McDougall, 1890. Second edition. Folio, contemporary full roan (rubbed) lettered in gilt to upper board GOLD, marbled endpapers, pp 129, statistical tables; a good copy in a characterful and evocative …

# 12009

PARROTT, Thomas Samuel, Captain (1842-1917)

Views to accompany report on geological survey of country west of Suakin,

by Capt. Parrott, Engineer Officer, Staff, N.S.W. Contingent, to Colonel B. Edwards, R.E.C.B., commanding Royal Engineers, Soudan Expedition, 1885. Oblong folio, original full leather boards (scuffed), the upper board with gilt lettered title, both boards with triple gilt rule, patterned endpapers, pp [1] title page in letterpress on leaf of thick card, [1] folding hand …

# 13929

BARKLY, Henry Sir (1815-1898)

Royal Society of Victoria. President’s inaugural address for 1860.

[Cover title]. Also titled: President's inaugural address for 1860 / delivered by His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly … to the members of the Royal Society of Victoria at the anniversary dinner held on the 10th April, 1860. [Melbourne : The Society, 1860]. Octavo, string bound pamphlet, 17 pp, a fine copy. Includes reference to Burke …

# 13673

[MAILLARDET, Henri, 1745-1830]

A sample poem written by Maillardet’s Draughtsman-Writer automaton, circa 1820

Black ink on watermarked wove paper, sheet 95 x 145 mm (trimmed); recto with foxing at upper left corner and a couple of small toning spots; verso with traces of old adhesive (the sheet was once mounted in an album); overall a well preserved and rare original sample of automatic writing. Around 1800 the Swiss …

# 13610

KENNEDY, Rankin

The Principles of aeroplane construction.

With calculations, formulae, and 51 diagrams. London : J. & A. Churchill, 1911. First edition. Octavo,  original pictorial blue cloth boards (lightly rubbed); pp vii, 137; illustrated; mild foxing to endpapers and preliminaries and edges with a little flecking, but a good copy. Scarce.

# 12518

NEW SOUTH WALES. SURVEYOR-GENERAL.

Surveyors’ pocket-book

: articles and tables supplementing the information contained in the standard books on surveying. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, 1886. Squarre duodecimo, original limp red morocco with gilt lettering to front (a little scuffed, small tear at front top edge and stain at tail of spine), inner covers lightly foxed, 62 pp, illustrated with [8] …

# 10954

The Victorian Almanac for 1880

… and astronomical ephemeris, containing all necessary information, reduced to the meridian and latitude of Melbourne …. Melbourne : Printed and published by Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, [1879]. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (tape repair along spine), 80 pp, with advertisement sections at front and rear (a couple of the final leaves with tape repairs), …

# 10335

New South Wales. Commission to the International Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, London.

The International Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, London, 1890. Catalogue of the exhibits

in the New South Wales Court, collected and displayed under the direction of the New South Wales Government. [London : C. Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1890]. Octavo, original cloth backed papered boards (rubbed, nineteenth century stamps of the Handelskammer, Leipzig), pp 130, internally clean and sound, a good copy. Copies of the primary edition, …

# 10086

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)

A general history of quadrupeds.

/ The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. Newcastle upon Tyne : T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, 1807. Fifth edition. Large octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down, spine with original gilt-lettered red leather label, endpapers replaced, all edges gilt, title with mild foxing, 525 pp, illustrated with 225 wood-engravings …

# 11082

TASMANIA. HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMMISSION.

Hydro-electric power in Tasmania

Hobart, Tas. : Hydro-Electric Commission, 1959. “Issued February, 1959” (cover). Small oblong quarto, original pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with ownership signature in pen), [20] pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, maps (including full-page map on lower wrapper), internally clean and sound; loosely inserted is a folding leaflet on the Trevallyn Power Development, illustrated …

# 9337

MACGILLIVRAY, P.H.

Inaugural address, delivered to the Bendigo School of Mines Science Society, June 20, 1881

Sandhurst, [Vic.] : G. Young, [1881]. Octavo, original printed wrappers, 8 pp, a very good copy. Includes rules and list of office bearers of the Bendigo School of Mines Science Society for 1881/​82. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (State Library of New South Wales; Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; Royal Australasian College of Physicians; State Library …

# 8428

MACKAY, Angus

Elements of Australian agriculture : leading to various departments of agricultural science.

Sydney : John Sands, printer, [1885]. First and only edition. Octavo, original green cloth boards (lightly rubbed), upper board with gilt stamped lettering and map of Australia, spine lettered in gilt, nineteenth century Sydney bookseller J.W.R. Clarke's advertisement and label laid-in on front free-endpaper and title page, 175 pp, illustrated, scattered foxing, binding firm, a …

# 7403

Northern California Space-Craft Convention at the Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, California

Oct. 31st – Nov. 1st – 1964. Programme. Single sheet, folding into 4 pp large octavo, roneo printed, old vertical fold line and pencilled annotations in the margins made by an attendee, otherwise fine.

# 7055

Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. [A.W.A.]

Radio telephone service : the first commercial use of frequency modulated radio telephone

in Australia / installed by A.W.A. for Leo Hemingway & Sons, Brunswick, Victoria. [Cover title]: In constant communication. Brunswick, Vic. : Leo Hemingway &​ Sons [printed at The Hawthorn Press], [May, 1950]. Octavo, printed textured card wrappers, [16] pp, illustrated with b/w plates, a fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (Museum Victoria …

# 5123

TAYLER, J., fl. 1861-1875.

[IMMIGRATION] Mineral map and general statistics of New South Wales, Australia

/ compiled and drawn by J. Tayler. 1876. Also titled: Advantages of New South Wales as a home for the emigrant. Chromolithographed map, single sheet 300 x 390 mm folding to 200 x 130 mm, verso with printed text containing information and statistics on the Colony for prospective immigrants, in original printed mauve covers, rear …