Science & Technology

[TROMMSDORFF, Johann Bartholomäus?]. Leerstelsel der algemeene en artsenijmengkundige proefondervindelijke scheikunde.
Including: [GRAHAM, Thomas?]. De bewerktuigde lighamen: scheikundige beschouwing aangaande de voornaamste bestaandeelen der planten benevens de meest belangrijkste[!] producten welke men door derzelver ontleding bekoomt.
[Amsterdam?], 19 October 1830. 4to. Manuscript in Dutch, written in black ink in a Latin hand on laid paper. Near contemporary half tanned sheepskin. [1], [1 blank], 111, [112-329], [1 blank]; [2 blank], [68]; [2 blank], [41], [5 blank] pp. Full description

URSINUS, Johannes Heinrich and Christophorus ARNOLDUS. De Zoroastre Bactriano, Hermete Trismegisto, Sanchoniathone Phoenicio, eorumque, scriptis, & aliis, contra Mosaicae scripturae antiquitatem ...
Nürnberg, Michael Endter, 1661. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 6 decorated woodcut initials, 7 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and 5 tailpieces (2 built up from typographical ornaments, 3 woodcuts).
Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 240; 71, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VALLÉE, Louis Léger. Traité de la géométrie descriptive.
Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819. 2 volumes (a text and an atlas volume). Large 4to. With a lithographed portrait of Gaspard Monge in the text volume, an engraved title to the atlas volume, and 60 engraved plates (3 double-page, 57 full-page) with illustrations of perspectival projections by Ambroise Tardieu after designs by the author. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter green morocco. XX, 355, [1 blank]; 8 pp. + 60 engraved plates. Full description

VALLEMONT, Pierre le Lorrain de. Eloge de Mr. Le Clerc, chevalier romain, dessinateur, et graveur ordinair du cabinet du roi: avec le catalogue de ses ouvrages; Et des réflexions sur quelques-uns des principaux.
Paris, Nicolas Caillou and Jean Musier, 1715. Small 8vo (ca. 16 x 10 cm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved headpiece, a woodcut headpiece, and two decorated woodcut initials.Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. [8], 223, [4], [5 blank] pp. Full description

VALMONT DE BOMARE, Jacques-Christophe. Mineralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral. ... Avec un dictionnaire nomenclateur et des tables synoptiques.
Paris, Vincent, 1762. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 11 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spines. [2], XIV, [2], 365, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank]; [2, 374, [2], 6 pp. Full description

VENEL, Jean-André. Nouveaux secours pour les corps arrêtés dans l'oesophage; ou description de quatre instrumens plus propres qu'aucun des anciens moyens à retirer ces corps par la bouche.
Lausanne, François Grasset & compagnie, 1769. 12mo (16.5 x 9 cm). With a folding engraved plate by Chovin after designs by the author. Modern boards. 42, [4] pp. Full description

[VENEMA, Pieter] and M. JANSEN. Beginselen van de algebra, uytgewerkt door M. Jansen.
[The Netherlands?], 1765 (29 November 1763-5 July 1765). Folio (ca. 32 x 21 cm). With a calligraphed title page, the text in the rest of the manuscript is neatly written within a reddish brown ruled border, with calligraphed headings. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 311, [50 blank] pp. Full description

VENETUS, Paolo Nicoletti [and Restoro d'AREZZO]. Summa philosophie naturalis ... una cu[m] libro de co[m]positione mundi qui astronomie ianua nuncupari potest ... [at the head of the page:] Primus liber incipit De co[m]positione mu[n]di.
Paris, Jean Lambert (colophon: printed by Thomas Kees, 14 November 1513). Small 4to (28 x 20.5 cm). With 55 woodcut illustrations in the text, including 12 northern and 12 southern pictorial constellations with stars. Flexible wrap-around paperboards (ca. 1750?), sewn on 3 tanned leather supports. [35], [1 blank] pp. Full description

VERGNAUD, Armand Denis. Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.
Paris, Roret, 1825. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Modern gold-tooled beige paper over boards, with a red morocco author and title label on the spine, lettered in gold, brown sprinkled edges. [4], 229, [1] pp. Full description

VERGNAUD, Armand Denis. Manuel de perspective, du dessinateur et du peintre, contenant les élémens de géométrie indispensables au tracé de la perspective, la perspective linéaire et aérienne, et l'étude du dessin et de la peinture spécialement appliquée au paysage.
Paris, Roret (colophon: imprimerie de Crapelet), 1826. 12mo. With 108 figures and illustrations on 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold tooled mottled half calf. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1 blank], 260, 12 pp. Full description