Science & Technology

THOMIN, Marc Mitouflet. Traité d'optique mechanique, dans lequel on donne les règles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes sortes de lunettes d'approche, microscopes simples & composés, & autres ouvrages qui dépendent de l'art. Avec une instruction sur l'usage des lunettes ou conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes.
Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Antoine Boudet, 1749. 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 4 folding engraved plates showing perspectival and optical diagrams and illustrations of perspectival and optical instruments, incl. a camera obscura. Further with woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern half marbled calf. XII, 372, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

THOMSON, Alexander. Dissertationes medicae. I. De motu, quo renituntur canals, in fluida corporis animalis. II. De aquarum mineralium examine, & origine. III. De martis, & aquarum mineralium. IV. De mercurii. V. De opii. VI. De morbis animi. Introductio exhibet ideam progressus medicinae, hodiernum ejus statum, & quemobrem, à detecto sanguinis circuitu, ars hactenus fere inexculta subsistat.
Leiden, Frederik Haring, 1705. 8vo. With a woodcut title vignette and woodcut initials. Contemporary calf, title in gold on spine. 155 pp. Full description

TORELLI, Guiseppe. De nihilo geometrico, libri II.
Verona, Augostino Carattoni, 1758. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page (with a globe, book and instruments), and many fine-line diagrams in text.
With:
(2) SALADINI, Girolamo. Elementa geometriae infinitesimorum. Libri tres.
Bologna, Tommaso d'Aquino, 1760. Title-page with an engraved vignette of a putto with drafting instruments and an armillary sphere, and with numerous diagrams on 9 folding engraved plates.
(3) CARNOT, Lazare. Oeuvres mathématiques.
Basel, J. Decker, 1797. With a stipple-engraved (and aquatint) frontispiece portrait of Carnot by Jean Jacques de Mechel, and 6 diagrams on a folding engraved plate. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 117, [3 blank]; XIV, [2], 139, [2], [1 blank]; XVI, 208 pp. Full description

TOWNSON, Robert. Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793.
London, G. G. & J. Robinson, 1797 4to. With a folding hand-coloured engraved map, 16 engraved plates (some folding), and a folding engraved table. Modern half calf with gold on red spine label, marbled sides. xviii, [1], 506 pp. Full description

TRITHEMIUS, Johannes and Gabriel de COLLANGE (translator). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.
Including:
(2) TRITHEMIUS, Johannes and Gabriel de COLLANGE (translator). Clavicule, et interpretation sur le contenués cinq livres de Polygraphie, & universelle escriture Cabalistique.
(3) COLLANGE, Gabriel de. Tables et figures planispheriques, extensives & dilatatives des recte & averse, servants à l'universelle intelligence de toutes escritures tant methathesiques, transpositives, mythologiques, numerales, anomales, que orchemales.
Paris, Benoît Prévost for Jacques Kerver, 1561. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Printed in red and black, the main title and the titles of parts 2 and 3 set within a woodcut decorated border, 3 woodcut portraits of the translator, 13 large volvelles in part 3, numerous woodcut headpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, gold-tooled board edges, red edges. [18], 300 ll. Full description

[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

VALLÉE, Louis Léger. Théorie de l'oeil. Première partie. Nota. Cette première partie compose un volume à part; la seconde partie paraîtra sous une autre forme.
Paris, J. B. Ballière, 1844-1846. Large 8vo. With 94 illustrations of perspective and the working of light in the eye on 6 large folding plates, engraved by Marlier after designs by the author. Modern half red morocco. LXXV, [1 blank], 456 pp. 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