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MILITARY MATHEMATICS. TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. La nova scientia. Venice: Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550. 4to (209 x 155 mm). Wood...

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GALILEO'S EARLIEST WORK. GALILEI, GALILEO. 1564-1642. Le operazioni del compasso geometrico et militare. Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1649. 8vo. (225...

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CAVALIERI ON CONICS, HYPERBOLAS, AND PARABOLAS. CAVALIERI, BONAVENTURA. 1598-1647. Lo specchio ustorio overo Trattato dele settioni coniche.... Bo...

PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA. FL. 300-350. Mathematicae Collectiones. Bologna: Heirs of Evangelista Dozza, 1660. Folio (303 x 199 mm). Engraved arms on t...

ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY. MAGALOTTI, LORENZO. 1637-1712. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento. Florence: Giuseppe Cocc...

DE L'HÔPITAL, GUILLAUME. 1661-1704. Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1696. 4to (2...

BERNOULLI'S FOUNDATIONAL WORK ON PROBABILITY. BERNOULLI, JACOB. 1654-1705. Ars conjectandi. Basel: Thurneisen brothers, 1713. 4to (200 x 160 mm)....

BERNOULLI, JOHANN. 1667-1748. Opera omnia. Lausanne and Geneva: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1742. 4 volumes. 4to (250 x 188 mm). 91 folding engrave...

BERNOULLI FAMILY. A group of works by Jean and Daniel Bernoulli. 1. BERNOULLI, DANIEL. 1700-1782. Piece qui a remporte le prix de l'Academie Royal...

NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA PIRATED. NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1723. 2 part...

EULER'S MECHANICS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita.... Saint Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1736. ...

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF ONE OF EULER'S GREATEST WORKS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas. Lausanne and Geneva: M...

EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin: Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751. 3 volumes bound in 1. 4to (210 x 1...

EULER'S SEMINAL INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, ...

EULER ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Institutiones calculi differentialis cum eius usu in analysi finitorum ac doctrina ser...

POISSON, SIMEON-DENIS. 1781-1840. Theorie mathematique de la chaleur. Paris: Bachelier, 1835/1837. 2 volumes bound in 1. 4to (250 x 197 mm). 1 fo...

BOSSUT, CHARLES. 1730-1814. A group of Bossut's works, bound as a set. 1. Traite theorique et experimentale d'hydrodynamique. Paris: Laran, An IV...

EARLY WORKS ON MATHEMATICS. A group of early published mathematical texts. 1. PORTA, GIAMBATTISTA DELLA. 1538-1615. Elementorum curvilineorum lib...

MATHEMATICS. A group of 18th and 19th century books on mathematics. 1. REYNEAU, R.P. Analyse demontree, ou le methode de resoudre les problemes. ...

MATHEMATICS. A group of later mathematics books through the 20th century. 1. HAMILTON, HUGH. A Geometrical Treatise of the Conic Sections. London:...

THE FIRST PRINTED WORK ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E. Politica. Oeconomica. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not before April 10, 14...

AGRICULTURE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY. CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS. 95-46 BCE., And MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO. 116-27 BCE. Libri de re rustica. WITH: COLUMELL...

THE BEGINNING OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHICS. GRAUNT, JOHN. 1620-1674. Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index and mad...

THE FIRST USE OF STATISTICS. PETTY, WILLIAM. 1623-1687. Political Arithmetick, or a Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands, People, Bu...

A LANDMARK IN ECONOMIC HISTORY. PETTY, WILLIAM. 1623-1687. The Political Anatomy of Ireland... To which is added Verbum sapienti.... London: D. Br...

PETTY, WILLIAM. 1623-1687. Political Survey of Ireland. Dublin: D. Browne, 1719. 8vo (192 x 118 mm). Advertising leaf at end. Contemporary calf, ...

COMPLETE COPY OF GENTLEMAN'S RECREATIONS. BLOME, RICHARD. 1635-1705. Engraver. The Gentleman's Recreations. London: R. Bonwicke [and others], 1710...

ROYAL SOCIETY. HALLEY, EDMOND, editor. Miscellanea Curiosa, Containing a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature.... London: Jame...

TWO IMPORTANT WORKS ON NATURAL LAW. 1. BURLAMAQUI, JEAN-JACQUES. 1694-1748. Principes du droit naturel. Geneva: Barillot & fils, 1747. 4to (246 ...

A REVOLUTION IN GRAPHICS AND INFORMATION. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copp...

RARE FOLLOW UP TO PLAYFAIR'S COMMERCIAL ATLAS. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. Lineal Arithmetic; applied to shew the Progress of the Commerce and R...

PLAYFAIR'S STATISTICAL BREVIARY. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. The Statistical Breviary: shewing the resources of every state and kingdom .... Lon...

FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF PLAYFAIR'S BREVIARY. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. DONNANT, D.F., trans. Elemens de statistique, ou l'on demontre, d'apree...

PLAYFAIR'S AMERICA. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM, trans. 1759-1823. DONNANT, Statistical Account of the United States of America. London: for Greenland and ...

PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-183. A fair and candid address to the nobility and baronets of the United Kingdom. London: W. Lewis, 1809. 8vo (225 x 145...

PLAYFAIR AND HIS SECURITY BANK. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. Two Autograph Letters Signed: 1. Signed ('W. Playfair') to Wadeson, Hardy, and Barl...

VITICULTURE. BIBLIOGRAPHER'S COPY. SPEECHLY, WILLIAM. 1735-1819. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine. York: G. Nicol, 1790. 4to (273 x 214 mm)...

SMITH, ADAM. 1723-1790. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795. 4to (270 x 217 mm). 20th-century quarter morocco...

THE FOUNDATIONAL TEXT OF THE COMPUTER AGE. BOOLE, GEORGE. 1815-1864. The Mathematical Analysis of Logic. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay & Macmillan...

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FOUR RARE WORKS ON KABBALAH. RICIUS, PAULUS. 1480-1541. De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac t...

THE KABBALAH REVEALED. GIKATILLA, JOSEPH BEN ABRAHAM. 1248-1305. RICIUS, PAULUS, translator. Portae Lucis. Augsburg: Johannes Miller, 1516. 4to (...

SPINOZA, BARUCH. 1632-1677. Tractatus theologico-politicus continens dissertationes aliquot.... Hamburg: Henricus Kunrath, 1672. 4to (203 x 150 m...

RARE GEORGE N. GORDON MANUSCRIPT. GORDON, GEORGE NICOL. 1822-1861. Autograph manuscript signed on the lower cover ('George Gordon/West River'), le...

SHAKER MANUSCRIPT TRANSMISSIONS. 19th-Century Shaker manuscript of inspired writings, containing transmissions from Isaac Newton, George Washingto...

A GRAND CELEBRATION OF THE KABBALAH. FUCHS, ERNST, illustrator. 1930-2015. Sefer Yetsira. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1978. Elephant folio (760...

THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY OF ANSON. ANSON, GEORGE. 1697-1762. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: Joh...

JEFFERYS WEST INDIES, COMPLETE. JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The West-India Atlas: or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies. London: Robert Sayer and...

LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. LA PEROUSE, JEAN FRANCOIS GALAUP DE. 1741-1788. Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde.... Paris: L'Imprimerie d...

CHINA IN THE 18TH CENTURY. STAUNTON, GEORGE. 1737-1801. An Authentic Account of An Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ...

BARROW, JOHN. 1764-1848. Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 2 volumes. 4to (266 x 206 mm). Half...

MOST COMPLETE EDITION OF HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES. HAKLUYT, RICHARD. 1552-1616. Hakluyt's Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries of the...

FINE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF. FORBES, JAMES. 1749-1819. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written during...

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