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Printed Books and Maps

Session: The Science Library of Rupert and Marie Boas Hall

Oxford
16 Jun 2009, session starting at 10:30 BST

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NEWTON (ISAAC) Portrait of a Gentleman Seated, said to be Sir Isaac Newton
Sold for £28,800 inc. premium
NEWTON (ISAAC) Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton
NEWTON (ISAAC) Philiosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio secunda auctior et emedatior
Sold for £8,640 inc. premium
NEWTON (ISAAC) Philiosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio secunda auctior et emedatior
LUBIENECKI (STANISLAW) Theatrum cometicum, 3 parts in one vol.
Sold for £6,960 inc. premium
LUBIENECKI (STANISLAW) Theatrum cometicum, 3 parts in one vol.
COLLINS (JOHN) and others Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis et aliorum de analysi promota, jussa Societatis Regiae in lucem editum, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE
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COLLINS (JOHN) and others Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis et aliorum de analysi promota, jussa Societatis Regiae in lucem editum, FIRST ...

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ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento. Terza edizione Fiorentina, 2 parts in one vol.
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ACCUM (FREDERICK) A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spirituous Liquors, Tea, Coffee... and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy, and Methods of Detecting Them
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ACCUM (FREDERICK) A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spirituous Liquors, Tea, Coffee... and Other ...
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ADAMS (GEORGE) Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain'd
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ADAMS (GEORGE) Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain'd
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APIANUS (PETRUS) and GEMMA FRISIUS Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis
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APIANUS (PETRUS) and GEMMA FRISIUS Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis
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ATHENAEUS, and others Veterum mathematicorum Athenaei, Apollodori, Philonis, Bitonis, Heronis, et aliorum opera, Graece et Latine pleraque nunc primum edit
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ATWOOD (GEORGE) A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies; with a Description of Original Experiments Relative to the Subject
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AUBREY (JOHN) Miscellanies upon the Following Subjects. 1. Day-Fatality. II. Local-fatality... Omens... Dreams... Apparitions
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BAKER (HENRY) The Microscope Made Easy... Second Edition, with an Additional Plate of the Solar Microscope, and Some Farther Accounts of the Polype
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BAKER (HENRY) The Microscope Made Easy... Second Edition, with an Additional Plate of the Solar Microscope, and Some Farther Accounts of the Polype
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BARROW (ISAAC) The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge
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BARROW (ISAAC) The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge
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BARTOLI (COSIMO) Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superfici, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini
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BARTOLI (COSIMO) Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superfici, i corpi, le piante, le provincie, le prospettive, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che ...
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US$ 940 - 1,300
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