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311 Corneille (Pierre). Theatre de P. Corneille, avec des Commentaires, et Autres Morceaux Interessans, nouvelle edition, augmentee, 8 volumes, Geneva, 1774, engraved frontispiece to volume 1 by Watelet and 33 (of 34) plates by H. Gravelot, decorative borders to text, attractive mottled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with red morocco title label, repaired to joints of volume 1 at head & with some darkening of leather to boards at upper inner corners, 4to (8)
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312 Cotes (Roger). Harmonia Mensurarum, sive Analysis & Sythensis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica, edidit et auxit Robertus Smith, 1st edition, Cambridge, 1722, [20], 249, [1]; [2], 125, [1] pp., half-title present, folding engraved table, numerous mathematical illustrations to text, old library stamps of Trinity College Lending Library, Dublin to title verso (now largely washed out), new endpapers, modern antique-style half calf, spine lettered in gilt, 4to Babson (Supplement) 29; ESTC T100930; Norman 519; Wallis 246. Roger Cotes (1682-1716) published only one scientific paper in his lifetime, and the present work is thus the major record of his mathematical achievements. He worked with Isaac Newton on the preparation of the second edition of Newton’s Principia Mathematica (published in 1713). Harmonia Mensurarum is, according to Augustus de Morgan ‘the earliest work in which decisiveness progress was made in the application of logarithms and of the properties of the circle of the calculus of fluents’, and includes the first version of the Newton-Cotes formulas, the first introduction of Euler’s formula, and the ‘Cotes’ theorum’ of trigonometry. Cotes died from a fever in 1716 at the age of just 33. (1) £500 - £800
313 Curtius Rufus (Quintus). De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni Macedonus regis Historia, Lyon: Seb. Gryphium, 1548, printer’s woodcut device to title (with small area of repaired worming to blank fore-edge margin), some underscoring and marginal notes (some notes cropped), dust-soiling and few marks, 19th century half vellum, 16mo in 8s, together with Menestrier (Claude Francois ), Philosophia Imaginum id est Sylloge Symbolorum amplissima, qua Plurima Regum, Principum, Nobilium, Foeminarum illustrium, Eruditorum..., Amsterdam & Gedansk: Janssonio Waesbergios, 1695, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, numerous engraved illustrations, some toning and occasional dampstains & spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked and some wear at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Curtius Rufus (Quintus), Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. variorum, Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, &c. Editio accuratissima, Amsterdam: Elzevir Press, 1673, engraved title, one folding engraved map, one plate (detached), contemporary calf, torn & worn at head & foot of spine, 8vo
310 Cooper (Thomas). Certaine Sermons wherein is contained the Defence of the Gospell nowe preached against such Cauils and false accusations as are objected ... by the friends ... of the Church of Rome..., London: Ralphe Newbery, 1580, decorative woodcut title with cropped early inscription to upper and lower margins (small single worm hole at centre), black letter text, occasional underscoring and annotations, bound with Hull (John), Lectures upon the Lamentations of Jeremiah. First preached and now published by John Hull B. or D. for the benefit of Gods Church, London: Printed by Barnard Alsop, and are to be sold by Thomas Jones, 1621, printing to final leaf a little faint, some toning and occasional dampstains, contemporary panelled sheep, insect damage to spine and boards, worn, 4to (1)
£200 - £300
The first title is a translation into Latin from the original French of both volumes of “La philosophie des images”. (3) £250 - £350
314 D’Afflitto (Matteo). Decisionum Sacri Regii Neapolitani Consilii..., 1616, Frankfurt, black & white engraved title page, worming to front endpapers to pp.20, some water damage to front endpapers & throughout, water damage & loss to rear endpapers, original full vellum, boards rubbed & marked, folio, together with Alberti (Joannes), Hesychii Lexicon cum notis doctorum virorum integris,..., 2 volumes, 1746, Holland, black & white engraved portrait of the author to t2, later inscriptions & ex-library stamps to the front endpapers, some toning & light marks throughout, uniform original embossed full vellum, boards & spines marked, folio, and Sponde (Henry), Annalium Eminmi Cardinalis Caes. Baronii Continvatio,..., 3 volumes, 1641, Paris, 3 black & white engraved title pages, engraved portrait of the author to volume 1 aiij, some spotting, toning, light marks and repairs, uniform contemporary half vellum, boards & spines rubbed with minor loss, folio, plus 14 further volumes of 17th & 18th annales ecclesiastici, all in contemporary leather & vellum, 4 volumes with loss to spines, folio
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