15
Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature du Cercle. par Montucla.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 5, as above.
[MONTUCLA,
Jean Etienne.]
Histoire des Recherches sur la Quadrature du Cercle . . . Avec une Addition concernant les Problêmes de la Duplication du
Cube & de la Trisection de l’Angle.
A
Paris: chez
Ch. Ant. Jombert,
m. dcc. liv
. Avec approbation & privilege du Roi. [1754.]
YA2458
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
First Edition. 12mo. 178 leaves including a leaf of errata and 2 leaves at the end for a list of
Livres de mathematique qui se trouvent chez le même libraire, 8 folded engraved plates, numbered.
Barbier II, 764.
Quérard VI, 274.
Entered without price in the undated manuscript catalogue.
For Montucla’s
Histoire des Mathématiques
, with notes, see no. 3694 above.
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16
De Brahm’s Levelling balance & Zonical tables.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 16, as above.
DE BRAHM,
William Gerard.
The Levelling Balance and Counter-Balance; or, the Method of Observing, by the Weight and Height of Mercury, on any Place
of Terra-firma on the Terrestrial Globe, the exact Weight and Altitude of the Atmosphere below and above the Place of Observation;
thereby to ascertain how much the Horizon of the Sea is lower than the Place whereon the Observation is made.
London: printed for the author, by
T. Spilsbury,
mdcclxxiv
. [1774.]
QC895 .D28
Folio, 19 leaves of text, engraved title-page by Ashby with a map of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the continents of South America, part of North America, Africa and Europe, engraved
plate with De Luc’s scales for the South and North barometers, 9 engraved plates of Tables for the barometer.
Not in Sabin.
Not in the De Renne Catalogue.
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With this is bound:
DE BRAHM,
William Gerard.
De Brahm’s Zonical Tables, for the twenty-five Northern and Southern Climates . . .
London: Printed by
T. Spilsbury,
mdcclxxxiv
. [1774.]
Folio, 36 leaves, including the title, 1 preliminary leaf and 34 leaves of Tables, printed on both sides, numbered I-LXVII,
Mr. Israel Lyons’ advertisement on the last page.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Lowndes.
The copy in the Library of Congress has been rebound in buckram and has the two books bound in one volume; it may have been
Jefferson’s though it has no marks of provenance. From the entry in Jefferson’s manuscript and the Library of Congress 1815 catalogue, it is to be assumed that his copy was so bound.
William Gerard De Brahm, 1717-c. 1799, a Dutch Protestant, emigrated to Georgia in 1751. He returned to England in 1770 for a period of four years
during which time this book was written and published. For another work by him, see no. 1605.
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