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Auction No 371, Category: Science & Mathematics

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

[George Berkeley] "The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician.

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £800 - £1300
SOLD £760
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[George Berkeley] The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith. S. Fuller and J. Leathly, Dublin, 1734, First Edition; octavo, title page dust-affected; comprises title-page, 86pp of text plus 2-page publisher’s catalogue; first 9pp are ununumbered, page nos.11 to16 entered in manuscript, thereafter with printed pagination.  Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip.                         

                        

[John Arbuthnot] "An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning, in a letter from a gentleman

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £300
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[John Arbuthnot] An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning, in a letter from a gentleman in the city to his friend in Oxford. S. Wilmot, Oxford, 1721, 2nd Edition; octavo, title page and final page dust-affected, scattered foxing elsewhere; old catalogue number entered in ink at foot of title page; 37,[1]pp. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip.

James Smith "A New Treatise of Fluxions: containing: I.The Elements of Fluxions, demonstrated in two easy propositions

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
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James Smith A New Treatise of Fluxions:  containing: I. The Elements of Fluxions, demonstrated in two easy propositions..II. A Treatise of Nascent and Evanescent quantities..III. Sir Isaac Newton’s Demonstrations of the Fluxions enlarged and illustrated. IV. Answers to the Principal objections in the Anylist. London, 1737; octavo, lacks title page; 59pp. A folding plate at front probably does not belong. Good clean text. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip. 

Charles Morton "The Doctrine of the Sphere, Part the First, Containing Spheric Geometry". London, 1758,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £105
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Charles Morton The Doctrine of the Sphere, Part the First, Containing Spheric Geometry. London, 1758, octavo; title-page with preface on reverse, and 34pp of text; folding plate at rear. VG. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip. Scarce 

[John Lawson] "A Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of the Antients, with a Collection of Theorems and Problems

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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[John Lawson] A Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of the Antients, with a Collection of Theorems and Problems, without solutions, for the Exercise of Young Students. Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury, 1774;  octavo; title page dust-affected; xxiv,32pp, plus two folding-plates. VG. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip.

                                                                                    

Edward Waring "A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell....In Answer to his Observations

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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Edward Waring A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell….In Answer to his Observations on the First Chapter of a book called Miscellanea Analytica, and his Defence of those Observations, Cambridge, 1760, 47pp plus plate; bound with [W.S. Powell] A Defence of the Observations on the First Chapter of a Book called Miscellanea Analytica, T. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 38pp; and [John Wilson] A Vindication of the Miscellanea Analytica: in Answer to a late Pamphlet entitled Observations, &c. T. & J. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 22pp plus blank leaf. Octavo. VG. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip.

                                                

Thomas Davies "The Preparation & Mounting of Microscopic Objects", Robert Hardwicke, 1873, 2nd (enlarged) Edn,

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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Thomas Davies The Preparation & Mounting of Microscopic Objects, Robert Hardwicke, 1873, 2nd (enlarged) Edn, 12mo, original gilt cloth, clean text; 214pp. Rear endpaper with corner torn away o/w VG.