Science & Technology

LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY, [Placide Auguste]. L'Art de la Teinture des Fils et Etoffes de coton, précédé D'une Théorie nouvelles des veritables causes de la fixité des couleurs de bon Teint, suivi Des Cultures du Pastel, de la Gaude et de la Garance, à l'usage des Cultivateurs et des Manufactures.
Paris, Chez Serviere, An VI - 1798. 12mo. Contemp. boards. XXXIII, 261 pp. Full description

LE ROYER, Jacques. Oeuvres ... [with a note above the title: "Dico opera mea Regi."].
Including: Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere ... Des influences des cieux, & des astres ... Deuxie'me ... Des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres.
Paris, R.J.B. de la Caille (printed [by Nicolas Motays] in Avranches), 1678. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved device on the title page, a full-page engraved astrological sundial, 14 woodcuts in the text, depicting apparatus set up for laboratory experiments, astrological diagrams, etc., woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary tanned sheepskin over boards, designed by the author, the front board of double thickness with a hole bored in its fore-edge to hold a metal rod or gnomon (lacking) that could be inserted in any of several holes on the front and back boards to make the book into a sundial (one hole in the back board also allowed it to be inserted for use with the sundial pasted over the back paste-down when the book is open), gilt edges. The front board, back board and spine have been embossed with three different engraved plates sundials, emblems and extensive lettering. In a modern red morocco box. 14, 111, [1 blank]; [6], 109-364 pp. Full description

LIBAVIUS, Andreas. D.O.M.A. Alchymia ... recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus & experimentis non-nullis ...
Frankfurt am Main, printed by Johannes Saur for Peter Kopf, "1506" [= 1606]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page, ca. 200 woodcut illustrations (3 full-page, the others in the text), a woodcut printer's device on the divisional title pages of parts 2 and 3, numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials. Modern blind-tooled speckled brown calf. [20], "196" [= 176], [12]; [10], 402; 192, [8] pp. Full description

LIBAVIUS, Andreas. Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum alchymiae arcanorum, tomus primus. [vol. 2:] Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum, ..., tomus secundus. [vol. 3:] Appendix necessaria syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum.
Frankfurt, printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann for Peter Kopf, 1613-1615. 3 volumes. Folio. With the letterpress titles of volume 1 and 2 within the same engraved border (signed "G.Keller / 1605"), 1 woodcut plate, 3 double-page letterpress tables and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines. [12], 480, [8]; [12], "453" [= 450], [15]; [12], 279, [13] pp. Full description

LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph and Georg FORSTER. Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur.
Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1780. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of James Cook as frontispiece of part 2, 5 engraved plates (including one coloured by hand), 4 folding engraved plates (including one printed on blue paper and with highlights in silver) and one folding plate with letterpress music. Modern paste-paper boards. [8], 168; [1], [1 blank], 169-334; Full description

LINDBLOM, Ulf and Wissam S. AL-HASHIMI (editors). First Arab seminar on underground storage of oil and gas.
Stockholm, 1981. Large 8vo. With approximately 150 figures, illustrations, photographs, maps, graphs, formulas and tables in the text, and 24 pages of Arabic text including a separate title-page at the end of the work. Original publisher's green cloth. XIX, [5], 261, [3], 22, [2] pp. Full description

[LISTINGH, Nicolaas]. Incitamentum & adiumentum. Dat is Opweckinge ende aanleydinge, tot het uytvinden van bequaame middelen en gronden om de zee-dycken, in Hollandt en West-Vrieslandt, tegens het soo dickwils doorbreecken en geduyrig afspoelen beter, als tot nog toe te beschermen en te bevreyden.
Amsterdam, Paulus Matthijsz., 1702. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 10 large folding engraved plates on dykes and dyke construction.
With: (2a) [IDEM]. Incitamentum & Adiumentum Secundum, dat is een tweede opwecking en aanleiding tot (...) van de oude magteloose Muyder-Zeedyk (...) nu ontdekt en wederlegt door N.L.
Amsterdam, 1705.
(2b) [IDEM]. Na brief.
Amsterdam, August 25, 1704. Contemporary vellum [6], 86; 40, 4 pp. Full description

[LONDON - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS]. Pharmacopoeia collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis. M.DCC.IX. Editio altera.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (colophon: printed by G. Woodfall), 1817. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, title label on spine, marbled sides. XXXVI, 198 pp. Full description

LUCHET, Jean Pierre Louis de (= Marquis de LA ROCHE DU MAINE). Essais sur la minéralogie et la métallurgie.
Maestricht, J.E. Dufour & P. Roux, 1779. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (22.5 x 13.5 cm). Contemporary decorated paper wrappers. [4], XXVII, [1], 232 pp. Full description

LUDERS, Theodoric. Traicté mathematique contenant les principales definitions, problemes et theoremes d'Euclide. l'Arithmetique decimale. . . . La fortification Hollandoise. Francoise. Italienne. Et Espagnolle.
Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. With engraved title-page, engraved table, and 34 numbered engraved plates (11 double-page).
With: (2) LUDERS, Theodoric. Traité d'arithmetique contenant les reigles necessaires aux marchands, banquiers, changeurs, &. financiers: . . .
Paris, [Jean Jombert], 1680. 2 works in 1 volume. Large folio (50×34.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine (rebacked with original backstrip laid down). Full description