Science & Technology

LINNAEUS, Carl and Martinus HOUTTUYN. Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschrijving der dieren, planten en mineraalen; volgens het samenstel van den heer Linnaeus.
Amsterdam, Frans Houttuyn (volumes 1-8); heirs of Frans Houttuyn (volumes 9-35); Jacobus van der Burgh and son (volumes 36-37), 1761-1785. 37 volumes. 8vo. With 296 hand-coloured engraved plates (all folding, except 5 full-page plates in the first volume). Further with a woodcut vignette on each title page, woodcut decorated initials, and head- and tailpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary uniform gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with 2 red morocco labels lettered in gold on the spines. 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.
With: (2a) [LISTINGH, Nicolaas]. 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) [LISTINGH, Nicolaas]. Na brief.
Amsterdam, August 25, 1704. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 10 large folding engraved plates on dykes and dyke construction. 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

MAIGNAN, Emmanuel. Perspectiva horaria, sive de horographia gnomonica tum theoretica, tum practica libri quator ...
Rome, Philippus Rubeus, 1648. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 45 engraved plates (2 folding, 43 full page), a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved headpiece with portrait to the dedication, a folding table, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in the text. Contemporary Southern European limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [28], 705, [1] pp. Full description

MAILLARD, Olivier. Opus quadragesimale ... in civitate Nan[n]eten[si] fuit per eu[m]dem publice declamatum ac nuper Parisius impressum.
Paris, [André Bocard for Jean Petit], (colophon: 1 february 1506; note to the reader: 1507). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Petit's printer's device on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text, the work is printed in two columns.18th-century gold-tooled marbled calf. 102, [22] ll. Full description

MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.
Including: [MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco, with the title, author, and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, contemporary marbled end papers. [1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp. Full description

MANBY, George William. Papers relating to Captain Manby's plan for affording relief in cases of shipwreck: viz. Copies of instructuions, given by His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpose of carrying into effect the plan of Captain Manby, for affording relief in cases of shipwreck.
[London, House of Commons, 1816]. Folio. With several woodcuts and wood engravings of the inventions in text. Sewn. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - ASTRONOMY]. Plain astronomy. Manuscript volume of notes on practical astronomy and mathematics.
[England?, ca. 1777/1781?]. 4to. Manuscript volume of notes on practical astronomy and mathematics in English, written in ink on Dutch paper with a Maid of Dordrecht watermark without countermark. The leaves are numbered from the front, 101 and 26 leaves of text and diagrams, 39 blank leaves in the middle, last 26 leaves in reverse order, illustrated with several astronomical and mathematical diagrams, including one of a solar system. Late 18th-century half calf, marbled sides. 101, 26, [39 blank], 26 ll. Full description