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ALMANACH FÖR SKOTT-ÅRET EFTER FRÄLSARENS CHRISTI FÖDELSE, 1816.
Till Stockholms Horizont, Belägen wid 59 grad. 20 1/2 min. Polhöd. Efter hans Kongl. Maj:ts nådigste stadgande utgifwen af dess Wetenskaps-Academie. Stockholm, Tryckt hos Johan Pehr Lindh,
Bibliography: Klemming & Eneström Sveriges kalendariska literatur Vol II, p. 15.
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Grand Jeu de la Puce “PARIS-NEW-YORK”
[n.p.], n.p. but France, and [n.d. but
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ROBINSON DE L'AIR
Illustrations de G. Dutriac. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, Éditeur... Droits de traduction et de reproduction réservés pour tous les pays, y compris la Suède et la Norvège. [n.d. but 1907
Bibliography: See https://www.danrit.fr.
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BESCHREIBUNG DES FÜNFTEN NERVENPAARES
und seiner verbindungen mit anderen Nerven, vorzüglich mit dem Gangliensysteme. Mit Kupfertafeln.- Meissen: bei Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche, 1817. [together with]: NACHTRAG ZU DER BESCHREIBUNG DES FÜNFTEN HIRNNERVEN und seiner Verbindungen mit andern Nerven, vorzüglich mit dem Gangliensysteme. Mit Kupfertafeln. Meissen: bei Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche,
Bibliography: OCLC locates copies at Yale, Harvard, Duke, the National Library of Medicine, Wisconsin, the College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine and West Virginia.
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FENOMENI DELLA VISIONE
Lettera indiritta ad un celebre Prof. di Fisica in questa città descrizione di pratici esperimenti comprovanti la forza attraente e respingente elettro-magnetica entro l’occhio, causa dei diversi fenomeni: il non incrocicchiamento de’raggi, e la nessuna dipintura degli oggetti sulla retina nè diritti nè capovolti Memoria proposta agli scienziati di tutte le colte nazioni da Luigi Brenta... Milano, coi tipi di Omobono Manini. 1838. [bound with:] Accademiche Dimostrazioni TEORICO-PRATICHE DI FISICA, di ottica, di elettricità e di elettro-magnetismo... Milano, Tipografia Manini.
Bibliography: I. Washington (Becker collection),Paris and Geneva only; II. at Turin and Paris only.
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MINER'S LIFE - ILLUSTRATED
The Honest Miner’s Songs. [Entered According to Act of Congress] by Barber & Baker, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of California. Published by Barber & Baker, corner of Third and J Street, Sacramento. [n.d. but
Bibliography: Baird, Annotated Bibliography of California fiction, 165; not located on OCLC, but examples found at the Bancroft and the Huntington.
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ART DE LA CORRESPONDANCE COMMERCIALE,
ou modèles de lettres pour toutes sortes d’opérations mercantiles, A l’usage des personnes qui se destinent au commerce. A Bordeaux, Chez P. Beaume, Imprimeur-Libraire, Allées de Tourny, no. 6. [with parallel Spanish title] Arte de la correspondencia comercial, o modelos de cartas para toda especie de operaciones mercantiles, para el uso de los que se destinan al comercio. Burdeos, En la Imprenta de D. Pedro Beaume...
Bibliography: See Goldsmiths'-Kress numbers 19069.2 for the 1805 English edition; Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 20978.1; all editions appear scarce, with the present title located at the New York Public Library, the University of London and the BnF.
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CARTAS FISICO-QUIMICAS
Escritas en Italian por el Señor Compagnoni y traducidas al castellano por Don Josef Antonio Sabater y Anglada. Tomo primero - [segundo]. Barcelona, En la Oficina de Pablo Nadal. Con Licencia.
Bibliography: Blake, 96; Cole 291 (first edition); Duveen 142 (this edition); Wellcome II, 379; Neville I, p. 287; OCLC: 17597388 locates copies at Chicago, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, with a small number of European locations.
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COUPES ET VUES
pour servir a l’explication des phénomènes géologiques. Avec un texte traduit de l’Anglais par H. De Collegno. Paris, Pitois-Levrautl et Cie, Libraires. Rue de la Harpe, no 81.
Bibliography: Ward & Carozzi, Geology Emerging, 618 (617 first English edition); cf Challinor, The History of British Geology, p. 186; https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1891; OCLC: 9773660.
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DIAGRAMMES CHIMIQUES,
Ou Recueil de 360 Figures (sur 112 planches) Qui expliquent succinctement les expériences par l'indication des agens et des produits a coté de l'appareil, et qui rendent sensible la théorie des phénomènes, en représentant le jeu des attractions par la convergence de lignes. Ouvrage élémentaire auquel on a ajouté, pour les étranges, un essai de nomenclature chimique en six langues; et, pour les commençans, 1 un Vocabulaire contenant l'étymologie et la définition des mots techniques; 2 une Série de Tableaux synoptiques qui représentent la préparation et les parties proportionnelles des produits. A Paris, Chez Les Libraires Carilian-Goeuri... Veuve Desray..., Treuttel et Wurz..., Rey et Gravier... De L'Imprimerie de Didot le jeune...
Bibliography: Bolton I, p. 393; Duveen 161; Caillet 2860; Wellcome II 439; Greenburg, From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story, 2007 p. 483-486;
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BOUND AND NEATLY TRANSCRIBED MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK, ‘COURS DE PHYSIQUE GÉNÉRALE’,
penned in a single hand throughout, and containing the complete course. Paris,
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EPITOME OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
From the Creation to the Peace of 1828, divided into 21 periods. For the Use of Children. Price 1s. [offered together eleven sheets covering periods one to seven and ten to fourteen, periods one and two on one sheet]. [London] Published by J. Wacey, 4, Old Broad Street, Royal Exchange, Compton & Ritchie, Printers, Middle Street, Cloth Fair. [n.d. but ca.
Bibliography: Not located on OCLC or on Literary Hub; We have so far located only one example of the 18th period at the V&A which covers the period from the death of Charles V of German in 1558 to the restoration of the Stuarts in England in 1660; Rarebook Hub records a run of 15 of 20 coming up for auction in 1991, in poor condition.
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SIX LARGE COLOUR DEMONSTRATION WALL-CHARTS
ELECTRIC WASHER & WRINGER. Issued by the Electrical Association for Women, 20, Regent St. London, S.W. 1. Hudson Ltd, Birmingham & London. N.d. but ca. 1940s-1950s. [together with:] ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR. Issued by The Electrical Association for Women, 20 Regent’s Street London, S.W.1. Hudson & Son Ltd., Birmingham and London. Copyright, n.d. but ca. 1940s-1950s. [together with:] ELECTRIC SUCTION CLEANER. Issued by The Electrical Association for Women, 20 Regent’s Street London, S.W.1. n.d. but ca. 1940s-50s. [together with:] ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR MECHANICAL UNIT. Issued by The Electrical Association for Women, 20 Regent’s Street London, S.W.1. Copyright. Hudson & Son Ltd., Birmingham and London. n.d. but ca. 1940s-50s. [together with:] ELECTRIC IRON Issued by The Electrical Association for Women, 20 Regent’s Street London, S.W.1. n.d. but ca. 1940s-50s. [together with:] ELECTRIC COOKER Issued by The Electrical Association for Women, 20 Regent’s Street London, S.W.1. n.d. but ca. 1940s-50s.
Bibliography: For more discussion see Carroll Pursell, ‘Domesticating Modernity: The Electrical Association for Women, 1924-86’ in The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 47-67.
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THÉORIE POUR APPRENDRE A TIRER LA CANNE
en 25 leçons. Ornée de soixante-quatorze figures, par Leboucher, de Rouen, Professeur de Canne, Bâton, Adresse et Boxe. Prix: 5 francs. A Paris, Chez L’Auteur, rue de la Michodière, No. 20, Percepied, Libraire... Amable Rigaud... et tous les Marchands de Nouveautés.
Bibliography: We have so far located only one copy, at the BnF, which has been digitised and whilst noting only 37 plates, does collate as here, including the portrait.
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TABLETTES HISTORIQUES ET CRONOLOGIQUES [sic] DES GUERRES DE FRANCE.
Contenant les Batailles, les Combats et les Sièges les plus considérables de cette Monarchie, avec les Paix, les Traitez, les Ligues et les autres evenemens qui y ont eu du rapport. Presentées a mon seigneur le Duc de Bourgogne... A Paris, Chez Jean Mariette, rue St. Jacques aux Colonnes d’Hercule. Avec privilege du Roy.
Bibliography: OCLC locates a copy of the 1703 edition at Princeton with a digitised copy from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli found online (showing the final explanatory paste down leaf with folding head-line not found here), with copies of this 1704 at the BL and BnF (two copies), with a further copy at the Municipal Library of Besançon also bound in red morocco and bearing the armorial stamp of Le Rochefoucauld.
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ANMÄRKNINGAR WID ITALIENSKA BYGGNADS SÄTTET,
til förekommande af eldswådor. [colophon:] Stockholm, Tryckt uti Kongl, Tryckeriet.
Bibliography: Josephson, Stadbyggnadskonst i Stockholm intill år 1800, p. 270; OCLC locates copies at the Getty, Yale, Columbia, the Royal Swedish Library, the Royal Danish Library.
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HISTOIRE DES GIRONDINS,
ou les Hommes Illustres de la Révolution Française. Lion Editeur. [Paris, Chez les Libraires det Mds de Nouveautés, n.d. but ca.
Bibliography: See http://www.jeuxanciensdecollection.com/2017/06/jeux-lion-a-puis-lion-fils.html
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LE CORPS DE L’HOMME
Traitée complet d’anatomie et la physiologie humaines. Illustré de plus de 400 figures dessinées d’après nature et suivi d’un précis des systèmes de Lavater et de Gall. Tome I - [Tome 4]. Paris, Au Bureau de L’auteur, Chez Mansut fils, 1835 - 1836 - 1837 - 1841. [offered together with:] LE CORPS DE L’HOMME Traitée complet d’anatomie et la physiologie humaines. contenant près de 200 planches dessinées d’après nature et lithographiées, et suivi d’un précis des systèmes de Lavater et de Gall. Tome I - [Tome 4]. Paris, Chez l’auteur, Rue Saint-Victor, 9 et Chez Mansut Fils, Libraire... Billet, Libraire-Éditeur.
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BOUND 18TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ‘TRAITÉ DE LA GÉOMÉTRIE PRATIQUE
et pratique du compas’. n.p., and n.d. but ca.
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PRACTICAL SCIENCE OF LIVING THINGS,
Book I. Life Stories of Everyday Animals and Plants. Illustrations by F. I. Noble, The Gregg Publishing Company Ltd. Gregg House, Russell Square, London, W.C.1 [1940]. [offered together with:] Practical Science of Living Things. Book II. The Structure of Animals and Plants. Illustrations by F. I. Noble. The Gregg Publishing Company Ltd. Gregg House, Russell Square, London, W.C.1. [n.d. but ca. 1938?.] [offered together with:] Practical Science of Living Things. Book III. The Functions of Animals and Plants. Illustrations by F. I. Noble. The Gregg Publishing Company Ltd. Gregg House, Russell Square, London, W.C.1. [1951]. [offered together with:] Practical Science of Living Things. Book IV. Biology and Mankind. Illustrations by F. I. Noble. The Gregg Publishing Company Ltd. Gregg House, Russell Square, London, W.C.1. [n.d. but ca. 1938?].
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