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Green printed wrappers, small 4to, 123 pp, 10 plates, ills. 567 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Archimedes, Opera, 1544; Bartoli, Del Ghiaccio, 1681, Robert Hooke's Copy; Bishop berkeley, Arithmetica, 1707; Branca, Le Machine, 1629; Descartes, Discours de la Méthode, 1637; Fernelius, Monalosphaerium, 1526, bound with four other works; Oronce Finé, Protomathesis, 1532; D. Fontana, Della Trasportatone Dell' Obelisco Vaticano, 1590, perhaps the dedication copy; Francisco Fontana, Novae Coelestium Rerum Observationes, 1646; Gilbert, De Magnete, 1600; Harriot, Artis Analyticae Praxis, 1631; Presentation Copies of Works by Hevelius; Kepler's Harmonices Mundi, 1619, Bound with three other works by Kepler in red morocco for N. C. F. De Peiresc; Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, 1614; Nautonnier, La Mecometrie De Xeymant, 1603-04; Nunez, Opera, 1592, bound for Henry, Prince of Wales; Pascal, Lettres de A. Dettonville, 1659; Recorde. the Castle of Knowledge, 1556; Regiomontanus, De Triangulis, 1544, Thomas Digges's Copy; Snellius, Eratosthenes Batavus, 1617; Verantius, Machinae Novae, C. 1590-1600; Witekind, Conformalo Horologiorum Sciotericorum, 1576, extensively annotated by William Bedwell; and Schoepf, Materia Medica Americana, 1787, the first comprehensive study of American Materia Medica. From the foreword: The collection of mathematical and scientific books from the library at Dumfries House, described in this catalogue, is a remarkable memorial of the scholarly interests of John, Third Earl of Bute, George III's tutor and first Prime Minister. At Luton he had a library of thirty thousand volumes and a cabinet of mathematical instruments and scientific apparatus which was considered the finest in Europe.One of the remarkable features of the collection is the high number of copies of distinguished provenance. These include the magnificent volume containing four of Kepler's works bound in red morocco for Peiresc (lot 286), the collection of works on navigation and astronomy by the Portuguese mathematician and geographer Nunez, bound for Henry, Prince of Wales (lot 395), a book by the Italian Physicist Bartoli on ice and freezing from Robert Hooke's library (lot 44), presentation copies of two books by Hevelius (lot 260), the first edition of Regiomontanus's Classic book on trigonometry presented by Sir Henry Savile to Henry Briggs, the mathematician (lot 442), Brook Taylor's copy of Collins's important book on the Calculus given to him by Newton (lot 134), five books from the library of the Elizabethan Mathematician Thomas Digges (lots 182, 183, 193, 450 and 470), the remarkable copy of a rare work on Horology by Witekind extensively annotated by William Bedwell (d. 1632), the mathematician (lot 559), two books belonging to Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, including his copy of Gregory's important book on the reflecting telescope (lots 146 and 225), and books belonging to Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary of the Royal Society (lot 21), Richard Bentley (lot 40), William Wotton (lot 220), William Molyneux, the distinguished mathematician and physicist (lots 73, 84, 86, 147, 186, 244, 337 and 567), and Sir Edward Hoby, the Elizabethan translater (lot 424). Wrappers torn at spine-ends, chip to top edge of front wrapper, slightly creased, otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-49273
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