[LE GUERCHOIS, Madeleine d’Aguesseau, Madame.]

Avis d’une mere a son fils.

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1743.

A popular work of maternal advice first...

£2250

LE SAGE, Alain René.

The History of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed...

London, printed for G.G. and J. Robinson,...

First complete translation of Le Sage’s...

£1250

LUCIAN of Samosata.

Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

£3750

LUDOLPH of Saxony.

Vita Christi.

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...

£45000

MACDONALD, Alexander.

‘Instructions and regulations for the...

[England, 1827.]

Scarce manuscript of an unpublished work...

£1500

MILLER, Henry.

Tropic of Cancer.

London, John Calder, 1963.

First UK editions of Miller’s autobiographical...

£1500

MÜNSTER, Sebastian.

[Melechet ha-Dikduk]. מלאכת...

[Basel,] Johann Froben, 1524.

First edition of Sebastian Münster’s...

£6500

ARCHIMEDES.

Τα μεχρι νυν σωζομενα,...

Basel, Johannes Herwagen, [(colophon):...

Editio princeps of the works of...

£45000

BOSE, Johann Andreas.

Io. Andr. Bosii introductio generalis...

Jenae, Johann Bielke, 1676.

First edition of a pioneering work of statistics...

£1500

BOYLE, Robert.

Certain physiological Essays and other...

London, Henry Herringman, 1669.

Second edition in English, enlarged. ‘The...

£1500

BOYLE, Robert.

Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...

I. Second edition, very scarce. The first...

£1750

BOYLE, Robert.

A Disquisition about the final Causes of...

London, H. C. for John Taylor, 1688.

First edition, second issue, with Boyle’s...

£750

DALLMEYER, Thomas.

Telephotography: An elementary Treatise...

London, William Heinemann, 1899.

First edition of the authoritative treatise...

£200

DEPARCIEUX, Antoine.

Essai sur les probabilités de la durée...

Paris, chez les frères Guerin, 1746.

A large, crisp, and illustrious copy of...

£3000

FINÉ, Oronce.

Opere di Orontio Fineo … divise in cinque...

Venice, Francesco Franceschi, 1587.

First edition in Italian of the works of...

£2750

GIOIA, Melchiorre.

Indole, estensione, vantaggi della statistica....

Risposta alle obbiezioni fatte alle Tavole...

First and only edition of this rare work...

£1250

L’HÔPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine, marquis de.

Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence...

Paris, François Montalant, 1715.

Second edition (first 1696) of l’Hôpital’s...

£2750

HUMBLOT, F.

Journal de voyage ...

France, June–September 1866.

A handsome manuscript on mining engineering,...

£3500

LUNESCHLOS, Joannes de.

Thesaurus mathematum reseratus per algebram...

Padua, Giulio Crivellari, 1646.

An uncommon mathematical text, written...

£8500

MEITNER, Lise, and Otto R. FRISCH.

On the Products of the Fission of Uranium...

Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1939.

First edition of this highly important...

£850