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# 42877

RÜMKER, Charles (1788-1862)

[ASTRONOMY] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXIX. Part III. Containing astronomical observations made at the Observatory at Parramatta ; by Charles Rumker, Esq.

London : Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1829. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), period-style modern binding of half black calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. v, [1 Contents], 152; astronomical tables throughout; a fine copy, with discreet stamps of the Dublin Library Society to a couple of …

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# 43546

SHIBA, Kōkan [司馬江漢] (c.1738-1818)

Oranda tensetsu [和蘭天説] = Dutch astronomy explained

Tōto [i.e. Tokyo] : Shunharō, Kansei heishin [1796]. Octavo (267 x 180 mm), original Japanese fukurotoji binding of patterned blue paper, stitch bound, printed title label (rubbed); 38 folded leaves, illustrated with woodcuts of astronomical diagrams; a fine example. The Copernican Revolution comes to Japan: the first publication of the heliocentric model of the universe …

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# 43448

POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)

De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …

Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …

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# 13453

BAER, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876)

Types principaux des différentes races humaines dans les cinq parties du monde,

modelés sous la direction du Pr. Baer de St. Petersbourg. St. Petersburg : s.n., [1862]. Portfolio, 500 x 330 mm, original embossed boards with title to front, original silk ties, inner front board with early collection inscription of the Königliche Präparanden-Anstalt (Royal Preparatory Institute), Herborn; containing [12] albumen print photographs, [7] in format 225 x …

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# 44313

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.

(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co.; 1890. Seventh edition. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. Octavo, lettered cloth, patterned endpapers (contemporary owner’s name to endpaper), pp. xx; 381; [blank], [2 – advertisements], …

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# 44312

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

Cole’s Library of Notable Books. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.

(From the Corrected and Enlarged Edition of 1845). With a Biographical Introduction. Melbourne; E. W. Cole, Book Arcade; [c. 1890?]. First Australian edition (?). Octavo original black cloth (silverfished), edges stained red, yellow endpapers, pp. pp. xx, 381; [blank]; 16 plates, text vignettes, maps, internally clean, a very good copy. An account of the five …

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# 44811

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828)

A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.

Newcastle upon Tyne : printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle : sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and C. Dilly, London, 1790. First edition. Large octavo, contemporary full speckled calf, edges very lightly rubbed, flat panelled spine ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered …

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# 44066

DUKE, J. S.

[MELBOURNE] Manuscript notebooks (mostly devoted to literature and astronomy) compiled by J. S. Duke, of Elwood and Elsternwick, 1918-1927.

Melbourne : J. S. Duke, 1918-27 [unpublished]. Two small quarto-size notebooks, each 235 x 185 mm, original linen and black oilskin bindings, owner’s name and address to pastedown of one ‘J. S. Duke, Elwood’ with printed label beneath ‘456 New Street, Elsternwick’; in total both notebooks comprise approx. 250 pages filled with neat manuscript entries, …

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# 43974

POULTON, Edward Bagnall

The colours of animals their meaning and use. Especially in the case of insects.

London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1890. Second edition. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …

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# 43975

POULTON, Edward Bagnall

Man and the Glacial Period

London : Megan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co., 1898. Second edition. Octavo, in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize lettered below, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt …

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# 40455

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The origin of species (1880)

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London : John Murray, 1880. Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-second thousand). Octavo, full calf prize binding by Bickers and Son, for the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, with their emblem in gilt to the front board, …

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# 41958

DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Third edition)

London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. Octavo, original green cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of spine, small damp mark to upper panel, small 10 mm mark recoloured to spine), binding variant B (no preference), without full …

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# 41975

DARWIN, Horace (1851-1928)

[DARWIN] Horace Darwin to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : autograph letter signed, expressing his thanks to Hooker, as his “father’s best friend”, for congratulating him on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Cambridge, 5 May 1903.

2 pp. manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of an octavo-size bifolium of notepaper, 180 x 115 mm, with Horace Darwin’s letterhead ‘The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge’; dated 5 May 1903, the letter is addressed ‘Dear Sir Joseph’ (i.e. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker) and is signed in full at the foot of …

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# 41900

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)

The origin of species (c. 1900)

by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Reprinted from the Sixth London Edition, with all Additions and Corrections. New York; Hurst and Company, Publishers; N.D. [c. 1900]. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered brown cloth (light corner wear, lightly bruised at head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers; …

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# 43092

MICHAUT-DELACROIX, V.

[CALCULATING DEVICE]. Cercle calculateur mobile.

… par V. Michaut Delacroix de Châtillon (Côte d’Or). Paris : Lith. de Paul Dupont et Cie., 1840. Printed card, 275 mm in diameter, wooden handle 290 mm in length, mounted in the centre to rotate; one side calculates rates of interest for wages, calculated at 6% from one day to 360 days; the other …

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# 43093

CLAUDEL, Philippe

Cadran Calculateur Claudel.

Remiremont : Mougin, 1887. Narrow octavo (240 x 120 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red percaline over boards with metal corners and clasp, containing the calculator itself, printed on folding thick board 230 x 230 mm, with wooden ruler still attached by the original screw; preceded by a [4]-page summary and with a printed sheet of formulae …

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