Mathematics
26 items found
Jung, M. B.
De wijnroei- en peilkunde, gemakkelijk en eenvoudig voorgesteld, voornamelijk het werkdadige dezer wetenschap, door vele voorbeelden opgehelderd, ten dienste van ambtenaren bij de in- en uitgaande regten en accijnsen.
Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1842. 8vo (23.1 x 13.8 cm). Half-title, title page, 173 [viii, 164, 3] pp. Original blind wrappers.
Read more[Cartaud de La Vilate, F.]
Pensées critiques sur les mathematiques. Ou l'on propose divers préjugés contre ces sciences, à dessein d'en ébranler la certitude, & de prouver qu'elles ont peu contribué à la perfection des beaux arts.
Paris, Gabriel Valleyre fils, 1733. Small 8vo (16.1 x 9.3 cm). Half-title, title page with engraved vignette; [viii], 377, [iii] pp.; several mathematical figures in the text. Contemporary full speckled calf. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments rich gilt with floral patterns; small red, gilt-bordered morocco label with gilt short title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
Read moreHalley, E. [Newton, I.]
The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James.
London, The Royal Society, 1697. 4to (22.3 x 16.2 cm). [2], 13 pp. (numbered 445-457); two engraved text illustrations. Spine with marbled paper cover.
Read more[Lehmann, J. G.]
Darstellung einer neuen Theorie der Bezeichnung der schiefen Flächen im Grundriss oder der Situationszeichnung der Berge.
Leipzig, Johann Benjamin Georg Fleischer, 1799. 8vo (19.6 x 12.0 cm). xx, 172 pp.; four large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine with morocco label with gilt ornamental lines and title. Edges pale yellow.
Read moreLambert, J. H., D. Bernouilli, and others
Acta Helvetica, Physico-Mathematico-Anatomico-Botanico-Medica, figuris aeneis illustrata & in usus publicos exarata. I-II.
Basel, J. R. Im-Hof, 1751-1755. Two volumes in one. 4to (19.6 x 16.0 cm). Title pages in red and black. 458 pp. [I (1751): vi, 104, 72; II (1755): iv, 272]; 18 [I: 6; II: 12] engraved plates, and one folded table. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with black floral patterns and title. Speckled edges. In a transparent sleeve.
Read more[Leibniz] Grotefend, C. L.
Leibniz-Album aus den Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Hannover.
Hannover, Hahn, 1846. Folio (45.3 x 29.5 cm). [vi], 28 pp. With a nice engraved portrait of Leibniz and one wood-engraving of his house in Hannover. Very nice and highly unusual red velvet binding with elaborate, gilt decorated, embossed decorations and letterings.
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