. ... 1653 Hevelius (J.) Epistolae IV. De observatione deliquii solis anno 1649 habita. De eclipsi solis anno 1652 observata. De motu lunae libratoris. De utriusque luminaris defectu anni 1654, dissertatio de nativa Saturni facie. . . . Addita est, tam eclipse ossolaris anni 1656 observatio, quam diametri solis apparentis accurata dimensio. Mercurius in sole visus Gedani 1661. . . Cui annexa est, Venus in sole pariter visa, anno.1639. . . Liverpoliae, a J. Horroxio . . accedit historiola, novae illius, ac mirae stellae in collo Ceti nec non . . . delineatio paraselenarum, et pareliorum, 22 plates, folio, calf, 1654-62. £4 15S 1661. . . . Cui annexa est, Venus in sole pariter visa, anno 1639. . . . Liverpoliae, a J. Horroxio . . . accedit . . . .. historiola, novae illius, ac mirae stellae in collo Ceti . . . nec non . . . delineatio paraselenarum et pareliorum, 10 plates, folio, half calf, 1622. £2 45 annus climactericus, sive rerum uranicarum observationum annus quadragesimus nonus; exhibens diversas occultationes, tam planetarum, quam fixarum .. nec non plurimas altitudines meridianas solis, ac distantias planetarum, fixarumque cum amicorum nonnullorum epistolis 1654 1655 1656 Mercurius in sole visus Gedani ... £17 10S et continuatione historiae novae stellae in collo Ceti, engraving on title and 7 plates, folio, halj vellum, 1685. £3 IOS prodromus astronomiae, exhibens fundamenta .. nec non novas tabulas solares. Quibus additus est catalogus stellarum fixarum. Accessit . . . tabula motus lunae libratorii. Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive uranographia, totum coelum stellatum... exhibens, 2 frontispieces, portrait and 56 plates, folio, calf, 1690. 1657 Hooke (R.) An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations, plate. A description of helioscopes, and some other instruments, 4 plates. Lampas; or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps and waterpoises, together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries, 2 plates. Lectures and collections. Cometa. Microscopium, 5 plates. Lectures de potentia restitutiva, or of spring, explaining the power of springing bodies. To which are added some collections, 3 plates. Animadversions on the first part of the machina coelestis of J. Hevelius. Together with an explication of some instruments made by R. Hooke, 3 plates. Philosophical collections, 7 numbers, 8 plates and engravings, 4to, calf, 1674-1682. £22 A complete collection of the tracts published by the arch inventor' supplemented by the Philosophical Collections (1671-82) issued by him to fill the gap caused by the discontinuance of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. It is hardly necessary to emphasize the extreme rarity of these publications. Published by W. Derham, 4 plates, 1658 1659 Horrebowii (P.) operum mathematico physicorum tomi 3, 13 plates (should be 16) 3 vols, 4to, 1740-41. 1660 Hues (R.) Tractatus de globis, coelesti et terrestri eorumque usu. excusus, nunc opera, I. Pontani, engravings, 40, vellum, 1617. 1661 Hugenii (C.) systema Saturnium, sive de causis mirandorum Saturni phaenomenon et comite ejus planeta novo, plate and engravings, 4to, vellum, 1659. 1662 horologium oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae, diagrams, folio, calf, 1673. £3 10S 1663 1664 коσμodewρos, sive de terris coelestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturae, 6 plates, 2nd edition, 4to, calf, 1699. IOS 6d 1665 1666 Traité de la lumière. Où sont expliquées les causes de ce qui lui arrive dans la reflexion, et dans la refraction. Et particulièrement dans l'étrange refraction du cristal d'Islande. Avec un discours de la cause de la pesanteur, engravings, 4to, calf, 1690. £4 Nouveau traité de la pluralité des mondes. Traduit en Francois, 5 plates, 12mo, 1718. 4s The celestial worlds discover'd: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants . of the worlds in the planets, plates, 2nd edition, 8vo, half calf, 1722. 4S 1667 1668 Cosmotheoros; or conjectures concerning the planetary worlds, plates, 18mo, calf, 1757. 2s Oeuvres complètes. Publiées par la Société Hollandaise des Sciences, portraits and plates, vols 1-7, 4to, 1888–97 (pub. 245 fr.) £5 198 1669 La Caille (N. de) The elements of astronomy. To which is annexed a treatise of projection, translated by J. Robertson, 10 plates 8vo, calf, 1750. 1670 5S Astronomiae fundamenta novissimis solis et stellarum observationibus stabilita Lutetiae in collegio Mazarinaeo et in Africa ad Caput Bonae Spei, 4to, vellum, Parisiis, 1757. £20 One of the rarest works of astronomical literature, only a few copies were printed. 1671 La Caille (N. de) Coelum australe stelliferum ; seu observationes ad construendum stellarum australium catalogum institutae, in Africa ad Caput Bonae Spei, plate, 4to, calf, Parisiis, 1763. £12 Gallileo nunc iterum Edited by J. Maraldi with La Caille's life by G. Brotier. 1672 La Galla (J.) De phaenomenis in orbe lunae novi telescopii usu a. suscitatis disputatio. Necnon de luce, et lumine, 4to, vellum, 1612. 1673 La Lande (J. de) Astronomie, plates, 2nd edition, 4 vols, 4to, calf, 1771-81. Rarely found with the fourth volume. 1674 the same, plates, 3rd edition, 3 vols, 4to, half calf, 1792. 12S 1675 Lambert (J.) Photometria sive de mensura et gradibus luminis colorum et umbrae, 8 plates, 8vo, half morocco, 1760. £1 5s 1677 Leadbetter (C.) Astronomy or the true system of the planets demonstrated, 10 plates, 4to, calf, 1727: 1676 Leach (J.) A new enquiry of the earth's motion . . . proving the sun to move, and not the earth, engravings, 8vo, calf, 1731. 6s 6s 1678 Le Monnier (P.) Histoire celeste, avec un discours préliminaire sur le progrès de l'astronomie, 7 plates, 4to, 1741. I2S 1679 Leverae (F.) prodromus universae astronomiae restitutae de anni solaris, et siderei, ac dierum magnitudine, frontispiece, folio, vellum, 1663. 1680 Long (R.) Astronomy in five books (including history of astronomy) plates, 2 vols, 4to, calf, 1742-84. 14S 12S 1681 Maupertuis (P. de) Ouvrages divers. Elements de geographie. Discours sur les differentes figures des corps celestes et lettre sur la comete, 5 plates, 12mo, 1744. 1682 Mercatoris (N.) institutionum astronomicarum libri duo, de motu astrorum 7s cum 8s 6d tabulis Tychonianis . . . engravings, 8vo, calf, 1676. 1683 Mersenne (M.) Cogitata physico mathematica (de mensuris, ponderibus et nummis, hydravlica pnevmatica, ars navigandi, cum tractatu de magnete, harmoniae libri qvatvor, tractatvs mechanicvs, ballistica). Vniversae geometriae mixtaeque mathematicae synopsis, et bini refractionvm demonstratarvm tractatvs. Novarvm observationvm physico mathematicarvm tomvs, engravings, 3 in 2 vols, 4to, calf, 1644-47. 1684 Monforte (A. de) de syderum intervallis et magnitudinibus opusculum. Cui accessit problematum determinatione, engravings, 4to, vellum, 1699. £4 IOS de 9s 1685 Newton (I.) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, plate 4to, vellum, 1687.. £10 IOS Opticks or a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures, 19 plates, 4to, calf £2 IOS A treatise of the system of the world. Translated into English, 2 plates, 8vo, calf, 1728. 1691 Recueil de plusieurs traitez de mathematique de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. (Resolution des quatre principaux problemes d'architecture par Blondel. Traité des triangles, rectangles en nombres par Frenicle. Traité du nivellement, lettres touchant la veue, traité de la percussion par Mariotte. Mesure de la terre par Picard), 12 plates, folio, red morocco, (1673-77) 1676. 1692 4S £2 25 £3 3S the same, frontispiece, emblematic plate and 12 plates, folio, calf, 1676. Belonged to C. Huygens and has his autograph. The emblematic plate, not found in other copies, may have been added in honour of the owner's invention as it includes a pendulum clock. 1693 Recueil d'observations faites en plusieurs voyages pour perfectionner l'astronomie et la geographie. Avec divers traitez astronomiques. Par Messieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 2 maps and engravings, folio, calf, 1679-93. £6 Includes with other important contributions by G. Cassini that on the distribution of the zodiacal light in space, also J. Richer's pendulum observations at Cayenne and J. Picard's visit to Tycho Brahe's observatory at Uraniborg with an interesting map and engravings. 1694 Riccioli (J.) Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens observationibus aliorum et propriis novisque theorematibus, problematibus, ac tabulis promotam, vol 1 in 2 parts (all pub.) frontispieces, plates and engravings, folio, calf, 1651. £3 15S Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae libri duodecim, engravings, folio, calf, Bononiae, 1661. 1698 1696 Riccioli (J.) Astronomiae reformatae tomi duo, quorum prior observationes, posterior praecepta pro usu tabularum continet, 2 plates (selenographia F. Grimaldi) and engravings, 2 vols in 1, folio, vellum, 1665. £2 1697 [Scheiner (C.)] Tres epistolae de maculis solaribus. Scriptae ad Marcum Velserum, engraving, 4to, vellum, Augustae Vindelicorum, 1612. £2 2s De maculis solarib. et stellis circa Jouem errantibus, accuratior disquisitio ad Marcum Velserum . . . perscripta, plate and engravings, 4to, vellum, Augustae Vindelicorum, 1612. £2 Sol elliptic. Hoc est nouum et perpetuum solis contrahi soliti phaenomenon, quod nouiter inuentum, engravings, 4to, vellum, Avgvstae Vindelicorum, 1615. £1 17s 6d Refractiones coelestes, sive solis elliptici phaenomenon illustratum, engravings, 4to, calf, 1617. £1 15S Rosa Ursina sive sol ex admirando facularum et macularum suarum phaenomeno varius, frontispiece, portrait of the Duke of Bracciano, plates of the helioscope and sunspots, folio, half calf, 1626–29. £4 1699 1700 1701 1702 Schwenter (D.) Deliciae physico mathematicae, oder Mathematische und Philosophische Erquickstunden, engraved title and engravings, 4to, 1636. 1703 £1 15S the same, portrait, engraved title and engravings, 4to, 1636. 1704 Sitius (F.) Dianoia astronomica, optica, physica, qua syderei nuncij rumor de quatuor planetis a Galilaeo . . . conspectis vanus redditur, 4to, 1611. 1705 Snellius (W.) Eratosthenes Batavus. De terrae ambitus vera quantitate, engravings, 4to, vellum, 1617. £1 15S 1706 Souciet (E.) Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, geographiques, chronologiques et physiques tirées des anciens livres chinois ou faites nouvellement aux Indes et a la Chine par les pères de la compagnie de Jesus. II plates, 3 in 2 vols, 4to, calf, 1729-32 £3 Includes A. Gaubit, histoire et traité de l'astronomie chinoise. 1707 Streete (T.) Astronomia Carolina, a new theorie of the coelestial motions. With exact and most easie tables, engravings, 4to, half calf, 1661. 1708 the same, 2nd edition, 4to, calf, 1710. 1709 Tacquet (A.) Opera mathematica, frontispiece, portrait of Cardinal J. Rospigliosi and plates, 3 parts in I vol, folio, calf, 1669. 1710 Torricellii (E.) opera geometrica. ... 15S 6s 18s De solidis sphaeralibus de motu de dimensione parabolae de solido hyperbolico. . de cycloide, et cochlea, engravings, 4to, half cloth, 1644. £I 4S 1711 Wallis(J.) Opera mathematica (Algebra, C. Ptolemaei, Porphyrii, Manuelis Bryennii harmonica, epistolae . . . ) portrait, plates, and engravings, 3 vols, folio, calf, 1693–99. £4 IOS 1712 Ward (S.) Idea trigonometriae demonstratae, item praelectio de cometis et inquisitio in Bullialdi astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta, 4to, 1654. 12S 75 1713 Whiston (W.) A new theory of the earth, from its original, to the consummation of all things. A vindication of the new theory of the earth, 8 plates, 8vo, calf, 1696-98. 17s 6d 1714 the same 6th edition, 8vo, calf, 1755. 1715 Wilkins (J.) A discovery of a new world, or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon, a discourse concerning a new planet, 4th edition, engravings, 8vo, calf, 1684. 9S 5S con. 1716 the same, to which is prefixed the author's life, 8vo, 1802. 1717 Wing (V.) Harmonicon coeleste : or the coelestiall harmony of the visible world: teining an absolute and entire piece of astronomie, engraving, folio, calf, 1651. £1 25 Astronomia Britannica . logistica astronomica trigonometria. trina sphaerica . . . theoria planetarum tabulae novae astronomicae cum observationibus. Tychonis Brahaei, engravings, folio, calf, 1669. the same, with portrait, folio, calf, 1669. 1718 1719 Lavoisier's copy with his autograph and bookplate. doc congruentes £1 12s 6d £2 15s 1720 Wright (T.) Clavis caelestis. Being the explication of a diagram entituled a synopsis of the universe, or the visible world epitomized, 4to, half calf, 1742. £I An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe, founded upon the laws of nature, and solving by mathematical principles the general phaenomena of the visible creation and particularly the via lactea, 32 plates, 4to, calf, 1750. £3 155 1721 Kant in his introduction to his "Theorie des Himmels" acknowledges that the germ of his ideas on the distribution of stars was suggested by the speculations of Wright on the subject. Wright predicted the ultimate resolution of Saturn's rings into congeries of small satellites and his theory of the Milky Way is similar to that of Lacaille, published five years later. 1722 Ximenes (L.) Del vecchio e nuovo gnomone fiorentino libri IV. A'quali premettesi una introduzione istorica sopra la coltura dell 'astronomia in Toscana, 12 plates, 4to, vellum, 1757. £1 4o The Evolution of the Universe. 1723 André (C.) Les planètes et leur origine, 3 plates and 94 engravings, roy8vo, 1909. 1724 Asten (E. v.) Ueber die Existenz eines widerstehenden Mittels im Weltenraume,8vo (P.), 1876. IS 1725 Backhouse (T.) Publications of West Hendon House Observatory, Sunderland, nos 1-3 (The structure of the sidereal universe, 2 parts. Observations of variable stars), plates, 4to, 18911905. 15S 1726 Bredichin (T.) Histoire de l'hypothèse des ondes cosmiques, plates, 2 parts, 8vo (P.), 1883. 2s 1727 Révision des valeurs numériques de la force répulsive, 8vo, (P.), 1885. Sur l'origine des étoiles filantes, plate, 8vo (P.), 1888. 1728 1729 1730 1731 IS IS 6d IS Sur les propriétés importantes des courants météoriques, 2 plates, 8vo (P.), 1890. IS Sur les radiants composés des étoiles filantes, 2 parts, imp8vo (P.), 1900. Sur les grandes valeurs de la force répulsive du soleil, imp8vo, 1904. 1732 Bruni (Jordani) . . . de monade numero et figura liber consequens quinque de minimo magno et mensura. Item de innumerabilibus, immenso, et infigurabili; seu de universo et mundis libri octo, diagrams, 8vo, vellum, Francofurti, 1591. £8 Giordano Bruno was the first The book shared the fate of its author, so that very few copies remain. to teach the immeasurability of the universe and that the fixed stars were a multitude of suns. 1733 Cassini (J.) De la manière de concilier dans l'hypothese des tourbillons les deux règles de Kepler, plate, 4to, (P.), 1736. 3S 1735 Chamberlin (T.) and F. Moulton. The tidal and other problems (Carnegie Institution contributions to cosmogony), maps, roy8vo, 1909. 1734 Celoria (G.) Sopra alcuni scandagli del cielo e sulla distribuzione generale delle stelle nello spazio, 5 plates, 4to, 1877. 3S 1736 Chapel (F.) Aperçu sur le rôle des astéroides inferieurs dans la physique du monde, 8vo, 1883. 7s 6d 2s 6d IS IS IS 1737 Chase (P.) Velocity of primitive undulation, 8vo (P), 1874. Some principles and results of harmonic motion, 8vo (P.), 1885. Velocity of light, and Kirkwood's analogy, 8vo (P.), 1880. 1740 Christiansen (C.) Nogle bemaerkninger angaaende planeternes varmegrad, 8vo (P.), 1885. IS 1741 Clerke (A.) The system of the stars, 6 plates and engravings, 8vo, cloth, 1890 (pub. £1 Is). 10s 6d 1742 the same, 22 plates and engravings, 2nd edition, 8vo, cloth, 1905. Modern cosmogonies, 8vo, cloth, 1905. 1743 A theory of secular changes of the Discussions on climate and cosmology, map, 8vo, cloth, 1885. Stellar evolution and its relations to geological time, 8vo, cloth, 1889. 1746 Darwin (G.) Scientific papers, vols. 1-3. Oceanic tides and lunar disturbance of gravity. Tidal friction and cosmogony, imp8vo, cloth, 1907-10. To be completed in 4 vols. 1746a Descartes (R.) Principia philosophiae, engravings, 4to, 1644. The first edition. Printed at Amsterdam by L. Elzevir. 5s £2 5s £1 12S IS 6d IS 6d 1747 Dolbear (A.) The machinery of the universe, engravings, 8vo, cloth, 1897. 1748 Ekholm (N.) Ueber den Energie-Vorrath, die Temperatur und Strahlung der Weltkoerper, 8vo, (P.), 1890. 1749 Ennis (J.) The origin of the stars, and the causes of their motions and their light, 4th edition, 8vo, cloth, 1874. 35 IS 1750 Physical and mathematical principles of the nebular theory, 8vo (P.), 1877.' 1751 Fabry (L.) Etude sur la probabilité des comètes [hyperboliques et l'origine des comètes, 4tó (P), 1893. 4S 1752 Faye (H.) Sur l'origine du monde. Théories cosmogoniques des anciens et des modernes, 2nd edition, 8vo, 1885. 1753 the same, 4th edition, 8vo, cloth, 1907. 3S 7s 6d 3s 6d 1754 Fourier (J.) Mémoire sur les températures du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires, 4to (P.), 1827. 2S 45 1755 Galloway (T.) On the proper motion of the solar system, 4to (P.), 1847. 1756 Gamaches (E. de) Astronomie physique, ou principes généraux de la nature, comparés aux principes de la philosophie de Newton, plates, 4to, calf, 1740. 1757 Garrod (A.) The nebulae; a fragment of astronomical history, 8vo, 1882. 1758 Haidinger (W.) An attempt to account for the physical condition and the fall of meteorites upon our planet, 8vo (P.), 1862. IS 6d IS Ε 1759 Hale (G.) The study of stellar evolution. An account of some recent methods of astrophysical research, 104 plates, 2nd impression, 8vo, cloth, 1909. 1760 Hall (M.) The sidereal system, 4to (P.), 1877. 1764 ... 16s 6d 2s 6d IS 1761 Harkness (W.) On the magnitude of the solar system, 8vo (P.), 1896. 1762 Haughton (S.) On the original and actual fluidity of the earth and planets, 4to (P.), 1851. IS 6d 1763 Herschel (F.W.) On the proper motion of the sun and solar system; with an account of several changes that have happened among the fixed stars since the time of Flamstead. On the direction and velocity. On the quantity and velocity of the solar motion, 10 plates, 3 parts, 4to (P.), cloth, 1783-1806. £2 5s Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens. Astronomical observations the result of which appears to throw some new light upon the organization of the celestial bodies. Astronomical observations . . . tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent and condition of the milky way, 6 plates, 4 parts, 4to, (P.), cloth, 1784-1817. £I IOS 1765 Hirn (G.) La conservation de l'énergie solaire, 4to (P.), 1883. 1766 IS Phénomènes dus a l'action de l'atmosphère sur les étoiles filantes, 8vo, 1883. IS 1767 Hugenii (C.) koσμodewpos, sive de terris coelestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturae, 6 plates, 2nd edition, 4to, calf, 1699. 1768 1769 1718. IOS 6d Nouveau traité de la pluralité des mondes. Traduit en Francois, 5 plates, 12m0, 45 The celestial worlds discover'd: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants the worlds in the planets, plates, 2nd edition, 8vo, half calf, 1722. 1770 Huggins (Sir W.) and Lady Huggins. Publications of Sir William Huggins's Observatory, vol. I. An atlas of representative stellar spectra, from X 4870 to A 3300; together with a discussion of the evolutional order of the stars, and the interpretation of their spectra, preceded by a short history of the observatory and its work, 13 plates of stellar spectra and engravings, folio, cloth, 1899. £1 5S 1771 Jansen (J.) L'âge des étoiles, 4to, 1887. 2S 1772 Johnson (C.) The one great force, the cause of gravitation, planetary motion, 8vo, cloth, 1868. 2s 1773 Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his natural history and theory of the heavens, edited by W. Hastie, portrait, 8vo, 1900. 1774 Kobold (H.) Der Bau des Fixsternsystems mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung der photometrischen Resultate, 3 plates, 8vo, cloth, 1906. 7s 6d 7s 6d 1775 La Combe (E.) Théorie mécanique des soleils (calcul des valeurs métriques des ondes lumineuses pour déterminer les masses des étoiles et les éléments de leurs systémes planétaires), 4to, 1884. 1776 4to, 1885. 1777 Laplace (P.) Exposition du système du monde, 2nd edition, 4to, half calf, 1799. 1778 1779 5S Détermination du poids absolu dù gramme et la densité moyenne de l'éther céleste, IS 4S the same, portrait, 5th (enlarged) edition, 4to, cloth, 1824. 7s 6d 12S The system of the world, translated by J. Pond, 2 vols, 8vo, calf, 1809. 1780 Littrow (K. v.) Bahnnaehen zwischen den periodischen Gestirnen des Sonnensystems, 8vo, 1854. IS 6d 1781 Lockyer (J.) The meteoritic hypothesis, a statement of the results of a spectroscopic inquiry 12S into the origin of cosmical systems, 7 plates, 8vo, cloth, 1890 (pub. 17s). 1782 Lowell (P.) The evolution of worlds, 12 plates and engravings, roy8vo, cloth, 1909. Ios 6d 1783 Manson (M.) The circulation of the atmosphere of planets, plates, 8vo (P.), 1892. 1784 Mooser (J.) Theoretische Kosmogonie des Sonnensystems, 8vo, 1907. 1785 Murdoch (P.) An essay on the connection between the parallaxes of the sun and moon, engraving, 4to, (P.), 1768. IS 4s 6d 2S 1786 Neison (E.) On the condition of the atmospheres of the planets, 8vo (P.), 1875. 1787 Nichol (J.) Thoughts on some important points relating to the system of the world, 14 plates, 8vo, cloth, 1848. IS 2S 1788 Nipher (F.) The law of contraction of gaseous nebulae, 8vo, (P.), 1903. IS 1789 Nys (D.) La nature de l'espace d'après les théories modernes depuis Descartes, 8vo, 1909. 1790 Olbers (W.) On the transparency of space, 8vo (P.), 1826. 5s IS 1791 Parkhurst (H.) Photometric observations of asteroids, 4to, 1886. 25 1792 Phillips (R.) Twelve essays on the proximate causes of the material phenomena of the universe, 4 plates, 8vo, 1821. 1793 Phipson (T.) Meteors, aerolites, and falling stars, engravings, 8vo, cloth, 1867. 5s 2s 6d |