A California Private Collection, including Science, Medicine and Travel
Catalogue Information: 437 lots | 132 with images
Date: 2002
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: ACADÉMIE ROYAL DES SCIENCES
N/A Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale [et al], 1721-1788 33 volumes, 4to (10 x 7D in.; 254 x 184 mm). Numerous engraved plates, many folding, woodcut ornament [...more]
Lot 2: ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES
N/A Machines et inventions approuvées par l'Académie Royale des Sciences, depuis son établissement jusqu'à présent; avec leur description. Paris: Gabriel Martin et al., 1735 Volume 4 (of 7) only [...more]
Lot 3: ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (PARIS)
N/A The Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, translated and abridged by John Martyn and Ephraim Chambers. London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1742 5 volumes, 8vo (8B x 5D in.; 206 x 133 mm). 44 engraved [...more]
Lot 4: N/A Historia natural y moral delas Indias, en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y element...
N/A Historia natural y moral delas Indias, en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales ... y guerras de los Indios. Seville: Juan de Leon, 1590 4to (8B x 5I in.; 206 x 140 mm). Woodcut title-page vignette of Jesuit device, w [...more]
Lot 5: N/A Essays on the Microscope. London: Dillon and Keating, 1798 2 volumes, 4to (11 x 9 in.; 279 x 22...
N/A Essays on the Microscope. London: Dillon and Keating, 1798 2 volumes, 4to (11 x 9 in.; 279 x 229 mm). Allegorical frontispiece, 32 engraved double-page plates, several woodcut devices in text volume; marginal short tear to S1, foxing throughout, [...more]
