107 items found

Regarded as Gauss's greatest work

Gauss, C. F.

Dioptrische Untersuchungen.

€1,800.00

A stroke of luck: William Hamilton eye-witnessing a thunderbolt

Hamilton, W.

Account of the effects of a thunder-storm, on the 15th of March 1773, upon the house of Lord Tylney at Naples. In a letter from the Honourable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.

€300.00

A rare thesis on the rattlesnake root

Hellmuth, L. C.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de Radice Senega.

€300.00

A rare plate from of a work generally renowned for its finely executed entomological illustrations

Hoefnagel, G.

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 1.10.

€800.00

An early in-depth study of "monsters", with fine plates

Klinkosch, J. T.

Programma quo anatomicam monstri bicorporei monocephali descriptionem proponit nec non sectiones, et demonstrationes suas anatomicas.

€1,100.00

Fiction and Science: A frog turns into a fish and Leibniz impoves the barometer

Leibniz, G. W. and others

Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. Ephemerides sive Observationum Medico-Physicarum a Celeberrimis viris. Centuria III & IV. Cum, Appendice.

Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Wolfgang Michahelles, 1715. Small, thick 4to (20.3 x 16.4 cm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, title, half title, 738 pp. ([xii], 484, [ii], 232, [viii]); 15 engraved plates (several larger, folded), three portraits. Contemporary full vellum. Title neatly written on the spine in an old (probably contemporary) hand. Edges speckled blue.

€1,200.00

First introduction of the Lerch zeta function, with his dedication

Lerch, M.

Note sur la fonction L(w, x, s).

€750.00

Tormented by demons, but keeping his cool

[Monogramist AA]

S. Anthonius [Saint Anthony] tormented by demons. [After Martin Schongauer].

€4,500.00

An original Witch in a unique master binding

Nerval, G. de and Malfredier

Contes et Facéties.

Paris, Éditions Art et Pensée, 1925. Folio (26.7 x 21.4 cm). 103 pp.; Full-colour frontispiece; title page in gilt and black, numerous full-colour pochoir illustrations. (Near) contemporary full green morocco. Spine with gilt title. Boards with a gilt-bordered, raised lattice with inlaid green and red rhombi. Green silk-covered endpapers. Pastedowns with double gilt linings. Original printed wrappers, including the spine cover, bound in. Contained in matching green, pebbled morocco-covered cardboard sleeve (28.0 x 21.5 x 3.4 cm).

€1,250.00

A rich potpourri of 17th-century science, including a four-winged bird and other "monsters"

Rumphius, E. G. [AND] Portius L. A., and others

Miscellanea Curiosa sive Ephemeridum Medico-Physicarum Hermanicrum Academiae Imperialis Leopoldinae Naturae Curiosorum. Decuriae II. Annus quintus. [AND] Annus sextus.

Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1687-1688. Small, thick 4to (19.7 x 15.6 x 10.0 cm). Half-titles, frontispieces, titles; [xxii], 478 206, [xxiv], [blank]; [xxx]; 572, 245, [xxix] pp.; numerous engraved plates (several larger, folded). Contemporary full vellum. Spine with gilt title. All edges red.

€1,500.00

The birth (and - perhaps - death) of Schrödinger's cat

Schrödinger, E. [R. J. A.]

Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik. IN: Die Naturwissenschaften. Wochenschrift für die fortschritte der reinen und der angewandten Naturwissenschaften. Dreienzwanzigster Jahrgang 1935. [Volume 23].