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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 101747608XISBN 13: 9781017476088
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Año de publicación: 2022
Librería: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014739942ISBN 13: 9781014739940
Librería: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Reino Unido
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Año de publicación: 2023
Librería: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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Año de publicación: 2022
Librería: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Año de publicación: 2022
Librería: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Publicado por Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010
ISBN 10: 1170550312ISBN 13: 9781170550311
Librería: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Año de publicación: 2022
Librería: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Año de publicación: 2023
Librería: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condición: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1770 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 455.
Publicado por HardPress Publishing, 2021
ISBN 10: 0461846799ISBN 13: 9780461846799
Librería: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Reino Unido
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Publicado por Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018
ISBN 10: 1379729149ISBN 13: 9781379729143
Librería: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017471487ISBN 13: 9781017471489
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Año de publicación: 2023
Librería: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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Año de publicación: 2022
Librería: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1772 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 728 Language: Dutch Volume 1-2 Pages: 728 Volume 1-2.
Publicado por Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1332047130ISBN 13: 9781332047130
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 442 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.90 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Publicado por Chez J. Schreuder à Amsterdam , Académie Royale des Sciences, 1770
Librería: Librairie Philoscience, Malicorne sur Sarthe, Francia
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5 planches dépliantes hors-texte 1ere édition, édition originale, 1770 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, plein veau d'époque à 5 faux-nerfs, pièce de titre et de tomaison, caissons ornés In-8 1 vol. - 350 pages Contents, Chapitres : Paginé 659 à 1008 - 1. Duc de Chaulnes : Mémoire de quelques moyens de perfectionner les instruments d'astronomie (pages 559 à 685, 26 pages) - 2. Duc de Chaulnes et Cassini : Détermination de la distance d'Acturus au bord inférieur du Soleil, au solstice d'été (pages 685 à 690) - 3. M. Le Monnier : Comparaison des hauteurs solsticiales aux environs du Tropique du Capricorne, observées en 1762 et 1764, avec celles qui ont été vues à l'obélisque du gnomon de Saint Sulpice en 1743 et 1744 (pages 690 à 694) - 4. M. Jeaurat : Observation de l'opposition de Jupiter avec le Soleil le 4 janvier 1764, et corrections qu'il convient d'en faire aux tables de M. Cassini (pages 694 à 699) - 5. Chevalier d'Arcy : Mémoire sur la durée de la sensation de la vue (pages 700 à 718, 18 pages) - 6. M. Tillet : Mémoires sur deux machines propres à donner le rapport avec les différentes mesures à grains ou celles des liquides, ont avec le boisseau ou la pinte de Paris (pages 719 à 729, 10 pages et 2 planches) - 7. M. Le Monnier : Mémoire sur l'utilité des éclipses de Soleil qui ont été observées totales et annulaires (pages 729 à 735, 4 pages et 1 planche) - 8. M. de La Lande, Lalande : Mémoire sur les conditions nécessaires pour que l'on puisse observer les immersions et les émersions du second satellite de Jupiter (736 à 751, 15 pages, 1 planche) - 9. M. Courtanvaux : Observation de l'éclipse de Soleil du 16 août 1765 observée à Colombes (pages 752 à 758) - 10. M. Petit : Observation sur un anévrisme qui a produit des effets singuliers (pages 758 à 773) - 11. M. Maraldi : Mémoire sur la variation de l'inclinaison de l'orbite du second satellite de Jupiter (pages 773 à 785) - 12. M. Bailly : Mémoire sur la cause de l'inclinaison de l'orbite du second satellite de Jupiter (pages 785 à 793) - 13. M. de la Condamine : Suite de l'histoire de l'inoculation de la petite vérole, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1765, 3eme mémoire (pages 793 à 836, 43 pages) - 14. M. Bézout : Mémoire sur la résolution générale des équations à tous les degrés (pages 836 à 864, 28 pages) - 15. M. Euler : Précis d'une théorie générale de la dioptrique (pages 865 à 894, 29 pages, 1 planche) - 16. M. du Hamel : Observations botanico-météorologiques faites au chateau de Denainvilliers, proche Pithiviers en Gatinois (pages 894 à 943, 49 pages) - 16. M. de La Lande : Mémoire sur le changement de l'inclinaison du troisième satellite de Jupiter (pages 943 à 952) - 17. M. Cassini de Thury : Observation de l'éclipse de Soleil du 16 août 1765, faite à l'Observatoire Royal (page 953) - 18. Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche : Observations de l'éclipse de Soleil (page 954) - 19. M. Pingré : Occultation de deux étoiles de la Queue du Capricorne par la Lune le 1er août 1765 (pages 955 à 957) - 20. M. Adanson : Remarques sur les blés appelés blés de miracle et découverte d'un orge de miracle (pages 957 à 967) - 21. M. de Lamure : Recherches sur les causes de la pulsation des artères (pages 957 à 1008, 51 pages) bon exemplaire, le dos est un peu frotté à la coiffe supérieure et sur le haut des mors sans gravité, reliure d'époque sinon en très bon état, intérieur frais et propre, papier un peu jauni, petite tache sombre au coin supérieur droit de la première page et des deux suivants, sans gravité, quelques rousseurs discretes, bien complet des 5 planches hors-texte et des deux tableaux dépliants 320.
Publicado por T. Jefferys, London, 1770
Librería: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Oversized Hardcover. Condición: Good. 4to. Lacking folding map. Heavy rubbing and fading to boards. Edgewear to boards with bumping to forecorners. Scraping to forecorners. Abrasions to front board. Rubbing and fading to leather spine binding. Abrasions to rear board by start of spine binding. Rippling to text block. 'Airforce university' Stamp to top edge of text block. Toning and foxing to leaves. Faint red parks to f.f.e.p. Previous owner's sticker to top of f.p.d. 'Property of U.S. Airforce' stamp to top of verse side of title page, as well as to the bottom of Preface page. Previous owner's penciled inscriptions throughout. Cracking and overopening to front hinge. Stains to front and rear hinge at spine ends from leather dressing. Offsetting from plates throughout. Perforation to 2nd plate between pgs. 104 and 105. Damping to leaves. Tear to bottom of last leaf. Cracking to rear hinge. Staining to last leaves at upper hinge from leather dressing. Good.
Publicado por Durand & Pissot, Paris, 1754
Librería: Eric Zink Livres anciens, PARIS, Francia
Miembro de asociación: ILAB
Original o primera edición
Couverture rigide. Condición: Très bon. Edition originale. Plein veau de l'époque, dos lisses ornés et dorés. Reliures dépareillées. Deux volumes in-8 (250x164 mm), xii-lxxxviii-328 pages et 5 planches dépliantes (3 tableaux, 1 planche et 1 carte) / viii-200 pages. Coiffe de tête du volume I accidentée. Mors fragile au volume I. Première édition en français (malgré la mention de seconde édition) des tables astronomiques de Halley après l'originale en latin de 1749. Le premier volume supervisé par Chappe d'Auteroche présente les tables du Soleil et de la Lune avec des additions par Le Monnier. Le second volume supervisé par Jérôme De Lalande présente les tables des planètes et des comètes, et est précédé d'une traduction de la théorie des comètes par Halley. Au texte de Halley, Lalande présente pour la première fois son récit du retour de la comète de 1682 en 1759. Le travail de Lalande est en effet publié peu après le retour de la comète de 1682 (dite dorénavant "comète de Halley") dont le savant anglais avait prévu, d'après les équations newtoniennes, le passage dans le ciel terrien à la fin de l'année 1758 ou au début de l'année 1759. ce qui fut en effet le cas Cette preuve expérimentale des théories de Newton fut d'une importance capitale dans l'histoire des sciences. References : Houzeau-Lancaster [12796 : "Le traducteur, (Chappe d'Auteroche), a ajouté un exposé des méthodes pour trouver la longitude en mer et des observations sur la lune faites en 1736 et 1737. Le deuxième volume a été publié par de Lalande qui y a insérer les tables des satellites de Jupiter de Wargentin et une histoire de la comète de Halley"], Norman [981 for the first 1st ed. (tabulae astronomicae. 1749) : "This posthumously published astronomical tables include Halley's calculations relating to the so-called ?long inequality' of Jupiter and Saturn, caused by the deacceleration of Saturn and the increasing acceleration of Jupiter. Halley correctly theorized that this phenomenon might be the result of a gravitational attraction between the two planets. The edition also contains the third Latin edition of the Synopsis astronomiae cometicae "]. ________________________________________________________________ ___________________ ______________________________ENGLISH_DESCRIPTION : Modern quarter chagreen, spine in five compartments. Bindings slightly differents. 8vo (250x164 mm), xii-lxxxviii-328 pages and 5 folding plates (3 tables, 1 plate and 1 map) / viii-200 pages. Headcap worn on volume I. Joint fragile on volume I. First edition in French of Halley's astronomical tables after the original in Latin of 1749. The first volume supervised by Chappe d'Auteroche presents the tables of the Sun and the Moon with additions by Le Monnier. The second volume supervised by Jérôme De Lalande presents the tables of planets and comets, and is preceded by a translation of the theory of comets by Halley. More than the Halley's text, Lalande presents for the first time his account of the return of the 1682 comet in 1759. Lalande's work is indeed published shortly after the return of the 1682 comet (henceforth called "Halley's comet") whose the English scientist had predicted, according to the Newtonian equations, the passage in the terrestrial sky at the end of the year 1758 or the beginning of the year 1759. which was indeed the case. This experimental proof of the theories of Newton was a milestone in astronomy. References : Houzeau-Lancaster [12796 : "Le traducteur, (Chappe d'Auteroche), a ajouté un exposé des méthodes pour trouver la longitude en mer et des observations sur la lune faites en 1736 et 1737. Le deuxième volume a été publié par de Lalande qui y a insérer les tables des satellites de Jupiter de Wargentin et une histoire de la comète de Halley"], Norman [981 for the first 1st ed. (tabulae astronomicae. 1749) : "This posthumously published astronomical tables include Halley's calculations relating to the so-called ?long inequality' of Jupiter and Saturn, caused by the deacceleration of Saturn and the increasing ac.
Publicado por T. Jefferys, Geographer to the King, London, 1770
Librería: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First edition in English. xiii, [7], 395 p. 28 cm. Fold-out lightly tinted frontispiece map. 8 of 9 copper plates present (missing Russian sledges). Full leather with marbled paper boards. Respined with beautiful gilt trim. Scuff on front pastedown.Tape marks to a front leaf. Repair to title page and pp. 101-103, slightly affecting text on title and 101. Some foxing to last pages. Title continues: "Made by order of the King of France. By M. L'Abbé Chappe D'Auteroche Of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, in 1761. Containing an Account Of the Manners and Customs of the Russians, the Present State of their Empire; with the Natural History, and Geographical Description of their Country, and Level of the Road from Paris to Tobolsky. Illustrated with Cuts. Translated from the French, with a Preface by the Translator." Chappe was a member of the French Academy of Science and a noted astronomer. He travelled to Siberia to observe the transits of Venus in 1760. However, his text also discusses Chappe's experiences and observations in Russia, many of which he describes unfavorably. His criticism had the honour of an anonymous refutation by a member of the court of Catherine the Great. Cox 1 p. 351. ESTC T70180.
Publicado por London : Printed for T. Jefferys, 1770
Librería: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. [First English printing of Voyage en Siberie, 1761] Quarto. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Gilt ruled with red morocco spine label. Collated: xiii, [7], 395, [1] pages, 9 copper plates (primarily of custom): large folding map of the Empire of Russia and Northern Tartary (hand colored). Refs: Cox I p. 351; ESTC T70180. Armorial book plate of Richmond Allen, "Virtus Auro Pre Ferenda." Allen was a noted captain in the East India Company's army. Jean Chappe was a member of the Academy of Science and noted astronomer. Chappe traveled to Siberia to observe the transits of Venus in 1760. Chappe was engaged in longitudinal measurement. This particular book touched on Chappe's experiences and observations in Russia, many unfavorable. Chappe's criticism has the honor of an anonymous refutation by the court of Catherine the Great. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Publicado por Paris: De Buve L'Aine, 1761
Librería: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Tome 1 in two volumes. Paris: De Buve L'Aine, 1768. Tall Quarto. Early full Moroccan leather, raised bands, gilt decorated spine. Edges gilt. Vol. 1: [11], [xxxii], 347; Vol 2: 347-677 pp. A few pages in part 2 have a damp stain in top margin. Very good internally besides. Engraved frontis, tables, titles, 36 engraved plates. Marbled end pages. French. No atlas or vol 2. See our pictures of this lovely book. Jean Chappe was a member of the Academy of Science and noted astronomer. Chappe traveled to Siberia to observe the transits of Venus in 1760. Chappe was engaged in longitudinal measurement. This particular book touched on Chappe's experiences and observations in Russia, many unfavorable. Chappe's criticism has the honor of an anonymous refutation by the court of Catherine the Great. Gravees en taille douce par Lebas, Tillard, Auguste de Saint-Aubin, etc. Bel exemplaire en plein maroquin bleu gris de l'epoque, dos orne a 5 nerfs, triple filets does en encadrement sur les plats, double filets dores sur les couples, dentelle doree interieure. Cachet armorie sur les contreolats de Philip John Miles. Brunet 1, 1728; Hill 277; Cox I p.352.
Publicado por Paris, chez Debure, 1768., 1768
Librería: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
First Edition. Two text vols in 3 + atlas vol., folio; Text: pp.[4], xxx, [2], 347, [1 (blank)], with 30 engraved plates (4 folding); [5], 348-767, [1 (blank)], with 8 plates; xvi, 627, [5], with 17 plates and 3 maps; Atlas: 1 engraved plate, 30 folding maps and plans; wormtrack to lower blank margins of first few leaves of vol.1, browning to a few quires, a little spotting and toning, a few closed marginal tears (without loss) to maps, fore-edge of map XVI projecting and dusty; a very good copy; Text: bound in contemporary light brown calf, triple gilt fillet border to covers, spines richly gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering- and numbering-pieces, gilt turn-ins and edges, marbled endpapers; a little splitting to joints, some wear to extremities, light marks to covers; Atlas: modern quarter calf, paper sides, spine decorated and lettered in gilt to style, marbled endpapers; boards bowed; old bookseller's description to front pastedown of vol.I.First edition of this beautifully illustrated description of Siberia and Kamchatka, a handsome copy complete with 56 engraved plates and 33 maps and plans. The first two volumes are the work of the French astronomer Jean Chappe d'Auteroche (172269). In 1761 Chappe was ordered by Louis XV, with approval from Catherine II, to undertake an expedition to Siberia to observe the transit of Venus. 'From Paris he reached St Petersburg, then sledged to Tobolsk, where in June 1761 the transit was duly observed. The expedition carried out a large number of scientific measurements en route, and reported on the geography of the region and the customs of its inhabitants' (Howgego C101). His work 'deserves attention for its attractive and accurate engravings, and for its forthright and sometimes provocative descriptions of Russian manners and character' (Hill), which inspired an indignant rebuttal sometimes attributed to Catherine the Great. The third volume contains Chappe's translation of the important description of Kamchatka by the Russian explorer Stepan Krasheninnikov (171355), taken from his Russian original of 1755, which contains much material on Alaska and the northwest coast of America. The delightful plates cover customs (e.g.public baths and marriage ceremonies), costumes, local bird life, punishments, religious idols, geology, and experiments with electricity, as well as depicting views of the landscape. Brunet I, 1798; Hill 277. Language: French.