Lot 649

MISCELLANY - Observations sur la Physique, sur l' Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts, Paris, 1786, vol. XXVIII [only], engraved plates, contemporary calf. With 15 other books. (16)

Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £320
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

MISCELLANY - Observations sur la Physique, sur l' Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal de Physique, Janvier-Juin, 1786. Volume XXVIII [only], 4to (253 x  195mm). Woodcut device on title, headpiece, 12 engraved plates, tables (a few holes in one plate not affecting image, some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary half calf and speckled boards (rubbed, corners worn). With 15 other miscellaneous books including Euclid's Elementorum sex priores libri recogniti opera Christiani Melder (Leiden and Amsterdam, 1673, 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum), Histoire de l' Academie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCIII [only] (Paris, 1705, folding engraved plates, tables, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed), Lucretius's De rerum natura. Libri VI (Padua, 1721, contemporary vellum), Memoire pour M. le Prince Hereditaire de Hesse, Defendeur, contre sa Maj. Le Roi de Pologne, Electeur de Saxe, Demandeur, avec la Reponse a la Replique de sa Majesté le Roi de Pologne (Strasbourg, 1750, folio, 62-pages, old parchment-backed boards), Académie Universelle des Jeux, contenant les Regles de tous les Jeux, avec des Instructions Faciles pour apprendre à les bien jouer, augmentée du Jeu de Whisk (Paris, 1765, first part (only, of 2), folding table, contemporary calf), Etienne Bézout's Cours de Mathématiques, à l' Usage du Corps Royal de l' Artillerie (Paris, 1770, 2 parts in one vol. ([?]only), 6 folding engraved plates at the end, tables, contemporary marbled paper boards), François du Rondeau's Mémoire sur la Question: Quelles sont les Plantes les plus utiles des Pays-Bas, et quel est leur usage dans la Medecine et dans les Arts? (Brussels, 1772, 18-pages, wrappers), Erneuerte Schulordnung für die leteinischen Stadtschulen (Dresden, 1773, contemporary calf), Josef von Quarin's Animadversiones practicæ in diversos morbos (Vienna, 1786, contemporary half calf, rather worn) and Maximilian Stoll's Rationis medendi, in nosocomio practico Vindobonensi (Paris, 1787, 3 parts in one vol. ([?]only), contemporary calf). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (16)

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