Science & Technology

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantz. van. Des aertryks beweging en de zonne stilstant, bewijsende dat dit geensins met de Christelijke religie is strijdende.
Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesbergh [colophon: printed by Tymon Houthaak], 1661. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, showing how the earth revolves around the sun, 29 mathematical and astronomical woodcut illustrations in the text, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 2 woodcut tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device of a turtle on the title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrapppers, stitched on 3 vellum tapes. [8], 151, [5 blank] pp. Full description

NIEUWENTYT, Bernard. Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen aangetoont.
Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1740. Large 4to. With title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, and 28 engraved folding plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 916, [18] pp. Full description

[NOSTRADAMUS, Michel]. Vingt prophéties de Michel de Nostradamus, derniérement trouvées manuscrites dans une célèbre bibliotheque des Pays-Bas. Avec explication et figures.
Liège, [ca. 1789]. 8vo. With 20 engraved emblems at the beginning of each chapter, several by Pieter Balthazar Bouttats. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled edges. VIII, 90, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[OIL]. IMPERIAL MINERAL RESOURCES BUREAU. The mineral industry of the British Empire and foreign countries. War period. Gypsum (1913-1919).
With:
(2) Strontium minerals (1913-1919).
(3) Molybdenum (1913-1919).
(4) Silver (1913-1919).
(5) Graphite (1913-1919).
(6) Petroleum and allied products. (1913-1919).
London, His Majesty's stationery office, 1923. 6 works in 1 volume. Contemporary red cloth, paper title-label on spine. IV, 31, [1 blank]; 12; 87, [1 blank]; 218; 57, [1 blank]; 296 pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - ORDINANCE]. OLDENBARNEVELT, Johan van. [Ordinance forbidding the planting of trees around windmills in the Land van Arkel (in the southwestern corner of the province of Holland) and requiring the removal of existing trees].
The Hague, 14 December 1598. Manuscript document in Dutch in brown ink on the skin side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (36 x 48 cm, folded to 14 x 19 cm). Full description

[OLIVÁN, Alejandro]. Informe a la junta de gobierno del Real Consulado sobre el ensayo del nuevo tren de elaborar azucar, sentado en el ingenio de San Jose, por la comison encargada de presenciarlo, seguido de un oficio de D. Alejandro Olivan, referente al propio abgeto: impreso por acuerdo de la misma Junta de Gobierno.
Havana, Imprenta Fraternal, 1831. Small 4to. With a woodcut Havana coat-of-arms (crowned shield with 3 towers and a key) on the title-page, with attributes of agriculture and commerce. Disbound. [1], [1 blank], 36 pp. Full description

OORT, Jan Hendrik. The stars of high velocity. Proefschrift ter verkrijging van den graad van doctor in de wis- en natuurkunde aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Groningen...
Groningen, Gebroeders Hoitsema, 1926. Folio. With 12 figures, illustrating star velocity, and 30 tables (only 27 are numbered). Original grey paper wrappers, with the title and name of the author printed on the front wrapper and the spine, in a protective semi-opaque coated paper dust jacket. [8], 75, [1], [1 slip-in leaf with theses] pp. Full description

OOSTER, William Alexandre and Carl von FISCHER-OOSTER. Protozoe Helvetica. Mittheilungen aus dem Berner Museum der Naturgeschichte über merkwürdige Thier- und Pflanzenreste der schweizerischen Vorwelt.
Basel and Geneva, H. Georg (colophon: printed in Bern, Haller'sche Buchdruckerei), 1869-1871. 2 volumes in 5 separate parts. 4to. With lithographed map and 32 lithographed plates (numbered 1-13 and 1-19), including 13 double-page. All parts in original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [6], 14; [4], 16-39, [5]; [4], II, 27, [1 blank]; [4], 29-88; [4], 89-159, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - PHARMACY]. Reglement vervattende een ordre, waar na een ieder zig in het verkoopen van rottekruit ten platten lande in deesen geheelen furstendom en graafschap zal moeten gedraagen.
Arnhem, widow of Hendrik van Goor, 1772. 4to. With a woodcut coat-of-arms on title-page. Bound as sewn. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PADOVANI, Giovanni. Opera nuova ... tradotta di Latino in volgare, laqual dichiara luso del maraviglio so istrumento astronomico da lui intitulato horoscopio. ...
Verona, Paolo Ravagnano, 1560. 4to. With Ravagnanos woodcut emblematic device on the title-page (a hand emerging from a cloud and holding a stalk with three lilies, the whole in an oval in a rectangular scrollwork cartouche, with the motto, "candidio animus"), a folding plate (oblong long folio: 15.5 x 41.5 cm) containing 2 woodcuts (12.5 x 22 cm & 12 cm diameter with the 4.5 cm gnomen making it 14 x 13 cm) designed to be cut up to make the authors "horoscopio" in the form of a volvelle and the sundial-lunar dial, 3 decorated woodcut initials (pictorial), planetary and zodiac signs, and numerous tables of numerical data. 19th-century(?) boards, covered with block-printed decorated paper (black on white). [46], [2 blank] pp. Full description