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		Transport [002165] Morgan, Bryan. The Railway-Lover's Companion. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. Second Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Good. plain illustrations in the text, blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket, price excised neatly from inner flap, top edge discoloured and lightly frayed. A collection of writings on railways and trains. £10.00



		Science [003821] Abercrombie, John. Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth [with] The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings. Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1830. First Editions. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Calf. Presentation Copy. Inscribed By Author. Very Good / N/A. 'Philosphy of the Moral Feelings' London: Murray, 1834, second edition, 2 books, both inscribed by the author, uniformly bound in contemporary calf, spines lettered and tooled in gilt, extremities rubbed and scuffed. Both books are inscribed by Abercrombie to Dr Adam Hunter who performed an autopsy on Abercrombie and published a memoir on the remarkable size of his brain that was only slightly smaller in size than that of Cuvier. £450.00



		[002758] Duméril, A[ndre] M[arie] Constant. Elemens Des Sciences Naturelles. Paris: Chez Deterville, 1825. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Calf-backed Boards. Very Good / N/A. 2 volumes, 33 engraved plates, tables and plans, a few minor marks, contemporary ownership signatures to f.f.e.p. of both volumes dated 1876, engraved armorial bookplates, to front paste-downs, rebound in calf-backed marbled boards by Bell Golding of Cambridge, spines tooled in blind and gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, vellum corners, retaining original marbled endleaves, Volume one contains minerology and botany, Volume Two, Zoology, the 33 engraved plates show over 700 finely engraved objects after Desève, relating to Natural Science, including minerals, botanical subjects, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals. This work is dedicated to Cuvier, who was a close friend of the author, it was first published under the title 'Traité élémentaire d'Histoire Naturelle' and after two successive editions, in 1804 and 1807, the author updated the third edition changing its title to 'Elemens des sciences naturelles'. Duméril (1774-1860) edited the first two volumes of Cuvier's Lecons d'anatomie. Duméril was chosen by Lacépède as his substitute in the chair of zoology specializing in reptiles and fish at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. A clean copy of this work, complete in two volumes on Natural Science in a very handsome binding. £300.00



		[005266] Edridge-Green, F. W.. The Hunterian Lectures on Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 1st and 3rd, 1911. London: Kegan Paul, French, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1911. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Cloth. Ex-Library. Inscribed By Author. Very Good / No Jacket. INSCRIBED BY Prof. Edridge-Green to the f.f.e.p., ex-library with stamp and withdrawn stamps to the front paste-down, figures, tables, 1-page advertisement, brown cloth (in mylar), lettered in gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, library shelfmark to spine, annotations in pencil. An inscribed copy of this pioneering work on vision and colour blindness. £150.00 [002666] Herschel, Sir John Frederick William. Collection of Offprints of papers By John Herschel. , 1811. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Wrappers. Ex-Library. Signed. Very Good / N/A. A SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF SOME 34 OFFPRINTS BY JOHN HERSCHEL RANGING FROM 1811-1874, INCLUDING ONE SCARCE PRIVATELY PRINTED PAPER ON LONGITUDE SIGNED BY HERSCHEL AND PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY SMYTH, THE ADMIRAL, SCIENTIFIC WRITER AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, THE SET WAS FORMERLY IN THE JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN CHICAGO. [Herschel, John] "Analytical Formulae for the Tangent, Cotangent, & c. In a Letter from a Correspondent." [From the Philosophical Transactions [1811]. Offprint: pp. 133-136 only, anonymously published from, 'a lover of modern analysis'], 8vo; "XXII. Consideration of Various Points of Analysis." [Offprint: pp. 439-468. Read May 19, 1814. Pub. Jan 14, 1814]; "On the Developement of Exponential Functions; together with several new theorems relating to finite differences." [From the Philosophical Transactions. London: printed by W. Bulmer, 1816]; "IV. On the action of crystallized bodies on homogeneous light, and on the causes of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which many develope on exposure to a polarised ray" [From the Philosophical Transactions. Offprint: pp. 45-100 with engraved plate. Read December 23, 1819. Published, 1820]; "XVIII. On the alterations of compound lenses and object-glasses." [From the Philosophical TransactionsI. Offprint: pp. 221-268, engraved plate. Read March 22, 1821]; and James South. "Observations of the apparent distances and positions of 380 double and triple stars, made in the years 1821-1822 and 1823, and compared with those of other astronomers; together with an account of such changes as appear to have taken place in them since their first discovery. Also a description of a Five-feet Equatorial Instrument employed in the observations." [From the Philosophical Transactions. Pp. [1]-412, and 10 page index and errata leaf, 4 engraved (1 folding) plates, Read January 15, 1824; "VIII. Account of a series of observations, made in the summer of the year 1825, for the purpose of determining the difference of meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris." [Offprint: pp.77-126. ReadJanuary 12, 1826]; "The following paper was read at a meeting of the Board of Longitude, held April 5th, 1827, and ordered to be printed for the private use of their members." SIGNED BY HERSCHEL below the printed title, inscribed to Captain Smyth and marked confidential, with manuscript address of recipient and remnants of seal to final leaf, also in Herschel's hand, pp. 1-7, privately printed, with incision to left of inscription on title; minor loss around seal on final leaf; "III. Micrometrical Measures of 364 Double Stars with a 7-feet Equatorial Achromatic Telescope, taken at Slough in the years 1828, 1829, and 1830." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. V. Offprint: pp. 13-[92]. Read May 13 and June 10, 1831.]; "IX. On the Investigation of the Orbits of revolving Double Stars; being a Supplement to a paper entitled "Micrometrical Measures of 364 Double Stars...", [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. V. Offprint: pp. 171-222. Read January 13, 1832.] Minor loss to corner of p. 222; "Papers. I. Fifth catalogue of double stars observed at Slough in the years 1830 and 1831 with the 20-feet Reflector; containing the places, descriptions, and measured angles of position of 2007 of those objects, of which 1304 have not been found described in any previous colection; the whole reduced to the epoch 1830.0...Communicated to the Royal Astronomical Society, June 7 1832." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VI. Offprint: pp. 1-[82]. Read June, 8, 1832]; "III. Observations of Biela's Comet." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VI. Offprint: pp. 99-[110]. Read November 9, 1832]; "X. Notice of the Elliptic Orbit of Bootis, with a second approximation to the orbit of Virginis. To which is appended, a Notice of the Elliptic Orbit of a Coronae. [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VI. Offprint: pp. 149-[158]. Read June, 14, 1833]; "A List of Test Objects, principally Double Stars, arranged in Classes, for the trial of telescopes in various respects, as to light, distinctness..." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VIII. Offprint: pp. 25-32. Read January 10, 1834]; "Papers. 1. On the the Satellites of Uranus." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VIII. Offprint: pp. 1-24. Read March 14, 1834; "Schreiben von Sir John Herschel Ritter des Bath-Ordens an den Herausgeber. Feldhausen near Wynberg. Cape of Good Hope." [From Astronomische Nachrichten, no. 281. pp. [273]-276. 1835]; "IV. A Second Series of Micrometrical Measures of Double Stars, chiefly performed with the 7-feet Equatorial, at Slough in the years 1831, 2, and 3." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. VIII. Offprint: pp. 37-[60]. Read May 9, 1834]; "VII. Sixth Catalogue of Double Stars, observed at Slough, in the years 1831 and 1832, with the 20-feet Reflector; containing the Places, Descriptions, and Measured Angles of Position of 286 of those objects, of which 105 have not been previously described." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. IX. Offprint: pp. 193-204. Read December 11, 1835]; George Biddell Airy. "An Address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 12, 1836 on presenting the honorary medal to Sir J. F. W. Herschel by George Biddell Airy." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. IX. Offprint: pp. 303-312]; "XIV. Observations of the Comet of Halley, after the Perihelion Passage in 1836; made at Feldhausen, Cape of Good Hope. By Sir J. F. W. Herschel, K.G.H. In a letter to F. Baily, Esq. President of this Society. [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. X. Offprint: pp.325-[336.] Read January 13, 1837]; "Auszug eines Schreibens von Sir John Herschel an den Herrn Geheimenrath Beer und den Herrn Dr. Madler." [Offprint: cols.. 309-312. Altona, 1838, June 7. No. 354]; "Brief des Baronets, Sir John Herschel an den Herausgeber" [Offprint: cols. 185-192, Altona, No. 372, 1839]; "XVII. On the Variability and periodical Nature of the Star Orionis." with "An Address delivered at the Annual General meeting of The Royal Astronomical Society, February 14, 1840, on presenting the honorary medal to M. Jean Plana." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XI. Offprints: pp.269-278 and pp. [331]-[340]. Read January 10, 1840 and February 14, 1840]; "An Address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 12, 1841, on presenting the honorary medal to M. Bessel." [[From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XII. Offprint: pp.441-454]; "IX. On the Advantages to be attained by a revision and re-arrangement of the Constellations, with especial reference to those of the Southern Hemisphere, and on the principles upon which such re-arrangement ought to be conducted." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XIII. Offprint: pp. 201-224. Read June 11. 1841.]; "An Account of the Erection of the Herschel obelisk at the Cape of Good Hope..." engraved plan of the obelisk. [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XV. Offprint: pp. 165-170. Read April 12, 1844.]; "Memoir of Sir Francis Baily, Esq. Late President of the Society." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XV. Offprint: pp. 311-358. Read November 8, 1844.]; "IV. No. I. -On a case of superficial colour presented by a homogeneous liquid internally colourless." with "No. II.-On the Epipolic Dispersion of Light, being a supplement to a paper entitled "On a case of superficial colour presented by a homogeneous liquid internally colourless." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Offprints: pp. 143-[154]. Read February 13, 1845 and April 3, 1845]; "The Twenty-Ninth Annual General Meeting." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XVIII. Offprint: pp. 155-200. February 9, 1849.]; "IV. On the Determination of the most probable Orbit of a Binary Star." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XVIII. Offprint: pp. 47-68. Read April 13, 1849]; "Philosophical Transactions. I. Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars." [from the Philosophical Transactions. Read November 19, 1863, published 1864]; "III. A Synopsis of all Sir William Herschel's Micrometrical Measurements and Estimated Positions and Distances of the Double Stars described by him, together with a Catalogue of those Stars in order of Right Ascension, for the epoch 1880.0, so far as they are capable of identification." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XXXV. Offprint: pp. 21-136. Read 14th December, 1866]; "Papers. I. Seventh Catalogue of Double Stars, observed at Slough, in the years 1823-1828 inclusive, with the 20-feet Reflector; 84 of which have not been previously described." [From the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XXXVIII. Offprint: pp. [1]-16. Read January 14, 1870]; Main, Rev. R. and Rev. C. Pritchard (editors) "A Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars arranged in the order of right ascension by the Late Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart." London: the Society, 1874. [in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XL. 1874-1875], errata slip tipped-in, original green wrappers, darkened, Presentation stamp from The Royal Astronomical Society to the Public free Libraries, Bradford to the f.f.e.p.; FROM THE JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY, CHICAGO, all 4to unless stated and bound in blue paper wrappers, some light spotting and browning, plates with library stamps from The John Crerar Library to versos of plates. The privately printed paper inscribed by John Herschel included with the collection was presented to Captain William Henry Smyth (1788-1865). He was an admiral and scientific writer, who, at an early age went to sea in the merchant service. In July 1811 he joined the Rodney off Toulon, in which he combined the service against the French in Naples with a good deal of unofficial surveying and antiquarian research. On 18 Sept. 1815 he was made commander, and without any appointment to a ship was continued on the coast of Sicily, surveying that coast, the adjacent coasts of Italy, and the opposite shores of Africa during which time he constructed a large number of charts, which are the basis of those still in use today. Some of his results appeared in his elaborate ‘Memoir , of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography of Sicily and its Islands’ (London, 1824, 4to), which was followed in 1828 by a ‘Sketch of Sardinia.’ In 1821 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Astronomical Society. On 15 June 1826 he was elected F.R.S., and in 1830 was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1845-6 he was president of the R.A.S.; in 1849-50, of the R.G.S.; he was vice-president and foreign secretary of the Royal Society; vice-president and director of the Society of Antiquaries; and was honorary or corresponding member of at least three-fourths of the literary and scientific societies of Europe. £2,500.00 [005619] Shoolbred, J. N. . Electric Lighting and Its Practical Application: With Results from Existing Examples. London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 1879. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Cloth. Presentation Copy. Very Good / N/A. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the half-title, ex-library, stamp to title-page, wood engraved frontispiece, 4 folding plates, 32-page of publisher's catalogue at rear, maroon cloth, tooled in blind, lettered in gilt, extremities rubbed. An inscribed copy of this 1879 work on electric lighting and its uses. £75.00

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