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Auction No 372, Category: Science & Mathematics

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

William Nicholson "A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts", London, 1802 & 1803,

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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William Nicholson A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, London, 1802 & 1803, Volumes 2 and 6 only, complete with engravings; original boards, backstrips badly worn; uncut and partly unopened; good clean texts. (2)

Swenson and Trapozzano "Complete Dentures", Henry Kimpton, 1940, quarto, original cloth, gilt, VG;

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
UNSOLD
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Swenson and Trapozzano Complete Dentures, Henry Kimpton, 1940, quarto, original cloth, gilt, VG; original owner’s signature front endpaper and along top edge of text block; fine internally with 100s of photo-plates; 736pp. Also a related pamphlet. (2)

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

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £120
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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: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
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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. 

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

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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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.  

Benjamin Robins "New Principles of Gunnery: containing The Determination of the Force of Gun-Powder

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £54
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Benjamin Robins New Principles of Gunnery: containing The Determination of the Force of Gun-Powder , and An Investigation of the Difference in the Resisting Power of the Air to Swift and Slow Motions. J. Nourse, London, 1742, 1st Edition; octavo, disbound, remains of leather backstrip; lvii,95pp. Folding Plate. Rear endpaper heavily creased o/w fine.