Natural History, Science and Exploration
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(MATHEMATICS) GAUSS, CARL FRIEDRICH
Untersuchungen über Gegenstände der höhern Geodaesie. Gottingen: in de Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1844-1847. Part 1 (of 2). 8vo, marbled boards. First separate editions of this important work which laid the groundwork for and later developed into the GaussKrueger Transverse Mercator Projection. Lacking spine; wear to extremities of wrappers; age darkening to leaves; otherwise text is clean and binding is tight. Property from the University of Chicago $400-600 92
(MATHEMATICS) PALMER, ALBERT
Palmer’s Pocket Scale, with Rules for Its Use In Solving Arithmetical and Geometrical Problems. Rochester: Aaron Palmer, 1845. 8vo, embossed green cloth. With “Palmer’s Pocket Scale” tipped into the rear pastedown. An early version of the first circular slide rule. First printing. Foxing throughout; wear to boards; otherwise sound. $100-200 93*
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A group of three books pertaining to invention and science.
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Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce with the Premiums offered in the Year 1799. Volume 16 only. Published by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. London: W. C. Spilsbury, 1799. First edition. The Universal Magazine of Knowledge & Pleasure July through December 1752. Volume 11 only. Edited by John Hinton. London, 1752. 8vo, contemporary leather boards. Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick Cornwall from 1835 to 1871. Edited by Caroline Fox. London: Smith Elder, 1882. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo, untrimmed, publisher’s green cloth. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200 94
SKINNER, B. F.
The Behavior of Organisms. NY: Appleton, 1938. 8vo, pale green blind-stamped cloth. First edition, second issue. Minor age darkening to edges; some wear to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200 95
VAIL, ALFRED
Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore. Washington: J. & G. Gideon, 1845. 24 pp. 8vo, lacking original wraps. First edition. With 14 wood engraved illustrations. Minor foxing to title page; otherwise fine. $200-400 96
VIRCHOW, RUDOLPH
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Über die krankhaften Geschwülste. Berlin, n.d. 3 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over cloth boards. First edition. Front covers detached to each volume; wear to spines; bottom one inch of volume two spine lacking; otherwise sound. $100-200
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