Science & Technology / Astronomy & Mathematics

MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.
Including: [MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco, with the title, author, and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine, red edges, contemporary marbled end papers. [1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - ASTRONOMY]. Plain astronomy. Manuscript volume of notes on practical astronomy and mathematics.
[England?, ca. 1777/1781?]. 4to. Manuscript volume of notes on practical astronomy and mathematics in English, written in ink on Dutch paper with a Maid of Dordrecht watermark without countermark. The leaves are numbered from the front, 101 and 26 leaves of text and diagrams, 39 blank leaves in the middle, last 26 leaves in reverse order, illustrated with several astronomical and mathematical diagrams, including one of a solar system. Late 18th-century half calf, marbled sides. 101, 26, [39 blank], 26 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - MEDIEVAL TIMEKEEPING]. Calculus temporum ecclesiasticus.
[Possibly England, ca. 1360]. Small 4to (15.5 x 22.5 cm). Latin manuscript on paper. Brown ink in an early bastarda hand, the final three leaves in a slightly later (still quite contemporary) hand. 19th-century paper wrappers, with the manuscript title on the front wrapper. 30 ll. Full description

MAROLOIS, Samuel. Mathematicum opus absolutissimum: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturae & perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, & figuras perfectissimas. Studio atque opera Alberti Girardi, ... Recognitum ac multis notis illustratum.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1638 [altered in manuscript to 1658]. 7 parts (paginated as 6) in 2 volumes. Folio. The general title printed letterpress on a slip of paper pasted over the 1638 engraved title-page of the French edition, 7 letterpress part-titles, each with the same Janssonius woodcut device, with all together 271 double-page engraved plates, partly by Henricus Hondius. Further with several woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 5 double thongs, in a panel design made with a large roll and triple fillets, new endpapers.
With:
(2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria theoretica ac practica: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633. With 47 double-page engraved plates, numbered 1-42 and 1-5.
(3) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis, pars prima: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1644.
(4) MAROLOIS, Samuel.. Fortificationis, sive artis muniendi, pars secunda.
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1644. With 40 double-page engraved plates.
(5) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Architectura: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius,1633. With 30 double-page engraved plates by Henricus Hondius after the designs by Vredeman de Vries, one dated 1601.
(6) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Opticae, sive perspectivae, pars prima: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius 1633. With 80 double-page engraved plates, some by Henricus Hondius, incl. 6 views of buildings in Rome (nos. 54-59) in roundels, after the drawings by Petrus Stephanus.
(7) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica.
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1633.
(8) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectivae pars II: ...
Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1632. With 49, 24 (+ 1) numbered double-page engraved plates depicting geometrical and mathematical figures on perspective. [4], 51, [1 blank]; 39, [1 blank]; 40; [20]; [2], 50; [2], 24 pp. Full description

MAUROLICO, Francesco. Cosmographia. In tres dialogos distincta: in quibus de forma, situ, numeroque tam coelorum quam elementorum, aliisque rebus ad astronomica rudimenta spectantibus satis disseritur.
Paris, Gulielmus Cavellat, 1558. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration of a chicken on the title-page, and many woodcut cosmographic figures throughout the text. Contemporary vellum. [8], 168 ll. Full description

MAZZOTTA, Benedetto. De triplici philosophia naturali, astrologica, et minerali. In quibus differit cohaerenter de elementis, & variis mixtorum proprietatibus. ... Opus theol. philos. medicis, chymicis, & astrologis jucundum, ac simul utile.
Bologna, Giovanni Bapttista Ferroni, 1653. 4to. With an engraved heraldic and allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved by Bartolomeo Coriolano with the arms of the dedicatee Hipolyto Cattaneo, a full-page engraving (with 7 figures) on an integral leaf, and 2 engraved illustrations and 2 woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary boards covered with a vellum leaf from a 16th-century(?) plain-chant manuscript antiphonary. Frontispiece plus [10], [2 blank], 148, “252” [= 272] pp. Full description

METIUS, Adriaan Adriaansz. Adriani Metii Alcmar. D.M. & professoris mathematici. Astrolabium, hoc est astrolabii utriusque accurata descriptio, eorundem fabricam, usumque in astronomia et geographia multiplicem complectens, ...
Franeker, Ulderick Balck [for Hendrick Laurensz, Amsterdam], 1626. 8vo. With many woodcut geometrical and astronomical illustrations and figures in the text, a woodcut title vignette and woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with remnants of ties. [16], 391, [1] pp. Full description

MOGGE, Jacob. Algemeene manier tot de practijck-oeffeningh der sonne-wysers; ...
Middelburg, Willem Goeree, 1675 (colophon: Middelburg, printed by Thomas Berry for Zacharias Roman, 1666).
With:
(2) LANSBERGE, Johan Philip and Jacob MOGGE. Beschrijvingh der vlacke sonne-wysers ... Nieuwelijx oversien ende met noodige byvoeging verrijckt.
Middelburg, Willem Goeree, 1675.
2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (28.5 x 18.5 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black, about 150 woodcut diagrams in the text, including a wide variety of sundials, a woodcut headpiece with the Zeeland coat of arms (plus 2 repeats), and woodcut decorated initials. Early sheepskin parchment over paperboards. [1], [1 blank], [2], 108, [3], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 54, [2] pp. Full description

MONGE, Gaspard. Géométrie descriptive. Cinquième édition; augmentée d'une théorie des ombres et de la perspective, extraite des papiers de l'auteur, par M. Brisson.
Paris, Bachelier (Successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1827. 4to. With 53 illustrations on perspective projections of geometrical bodies, in all positions in space and connections with each other, on 28 folding engraved plates by Stevigny after designs by the author. Contemporary half beige morocco. XX, 188 pp. Full description

MYDORGE, Claude. Examen du livre des recreations mathematiques et de ses problemes en geometrie, mechanique, optique, & catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées, & restablies plusieurs experiences physique y proposées.
Including:
- La seconde partie des recreations mathematiques. Composee de plusieurs problèmes plaisans & facetieux en faict d'arithmetique, géometrie, astrologie, optique, perspective, mechanique, & chymie, & autres rares secrets non encre veus, ny mis en lumiere.
- La troisieme partie des recreations mathematiques. Composée de faire toutes sortes de fuzées, tant simples que doubles, avec leur composition, le tout representé par figures.
Rouen, Charles Osmont, 1643. 8vo. With numerous woodcut illustrations illustrating the problems. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine. [1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank], [7], [1 blank], 280, 63, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [2], 67-106, [43], [1 blank] pp. Full description