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Click here for larger image ANDRIEU, E. Traité De Dentisterie Opératoire... Paris: Octave Doin. 1889 [F15852]
8vo. (25 x 16 cm). pp.xv+655. Contemporary quarter morocco with marbled boards and endpapers, spine with raised bands and tan label with gilt lettering. Speckled edges. 409 illustration in the text. Trivial foxing to affecting only a few pages. A very good copy. £100

BENTSCHNEIDER, Georgiuds Rudolphus. Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica de Ruminatione Humana...die XVIIII. Aprilids MDCCLXXIV. Goettingae: Litteris Barmeieri. 1774 [F39706]
Sm. 4to. (21 x 17 cm.). pp.[iv]+24. Gold taped spine, otherwise unbound. £25

BOERHAAVE, Hermanni. De Usu ratiocinii Mechanici in Medicina Oratio habita in auditorio magno XXIV. Septembris cum tertii suae Stionis anni labores auspicaretur Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Johannem Verbessel. 1703 [F39704]
Sm. 4to. (19 x 15 cm.). pp.[iv]+44.
[with] ARNOLDUS, Andreas: Sacra Mathesis...1676. pp.[vi]+18.
Disbound. £25

DETHARDING, Georgius. Disquisitio Physica Vermium in Norvegia... praeses Georgius Detharding...respondente Alberto Augusto Roggenkamp Havniae [Copenhagen]: ex Typogr. regiae Majestatis... 1742 [F39696]
Sm.4to. 20.5 x 16 cm. pp.[ii]+38.Disbound. 3 full page engraved plates, each with accompanying descriptive leaf. £100

(FIREWORKS). DIDEROT, Denis & d’ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond. Artificier. Contenant Sept Plaches. [from] Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Paris, Neufchastel & Amsterdam: 1751-1780 [F33868]
Complete section from the Encyclopaedia on fireworks. pp.[ii]+7 copper engraved plates illustrating the process of making fireworks with examples of the different kinds. The text provides a description of each plate. Bound in 19th Century blue printed paper. A clean set with a strong impression. £250

HELLENIUS, Carl Niclas & LEVIN, Gustaf. Fortekning pa Finska Medicinal-Vaxter Med Philosphiska Facultetens Bifall vid Kongl. Acad. I Abo...23 Junii 1775. Abo [Turku]: Johan Christoph. Frenckell. 1773 [F39702]
Sm. 4to. (24 x 20 cm.). Title and pp.22. Original sheets uncut and unbound. £25

MAURY, M, F. Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers 1855 [F36302]
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (25 x 16 cm). pp.xxiv+274. Original green cloth, gilt vignette to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Contemporary inscription to f.f.e.p. With 4 plates to text and 7 folding plates at rear. Pastedowns darkened by binder’s glue as usual. Corners slightly bumped, very light soiling to head of spine. A very good copy. £300
The first extensive and comprenhensive book on oceanography to be published with many important new contributions to the charting of winds and ocean currents.

PAULLI, Jacobus Henricus. Anatome Anatomiae Bilsinae, imprimis circa Vasa Meseraica uti & Labyrinthum in Ductu Rorifero occupato, excellentissimor. & celeberrimorum D.D. Professorum in Regia Hafniensi Academia disquisitioni a. MDCLXIII. D. XXIII. Maji publice proposita a Jacobi Henrico Paulli, rerspondente Christophoro Frisio Erfurtense. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: Literis Henrici Godiani. 1663 [F39695]
Sm. 4to. (19.5 x 15.5 cm). pp.[iv]+52. Later drab paper wrappers. 3 full page engraved plates. £250
[Krivatsy 8675].

SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a Life of the Author, An Introductory Discourse, Notes, and Supplemental Dissertations by J.R. McCulloch. Fourth edition, corrected and improved. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1855 [F39916]
8vo. (22 x 15 cm). pp.[vi]+lxvi+685. Double column. Contemporary black morocco, spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. 2 engraved portrait frontispieces. Ownership inscription excised from front free endpaper and printed ownership stamp of John F. Roberts to half title. A handsome copy. £200



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