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  • Sinclair, George
    Sep. 19, 2024

    Sinclair, George

    Est: £300 - £500

    Sinclair, George Natural Philosophy improved by New Experiments Touching the Mercurial Weather-Glass, the Hygroscope, Eclipsis, Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter. By New Experiments, touching the Pressure of Fluids, the Diving-Bell, and all the Curiosities thereof. Edinburgh: Gideon Schaw, 1683. 4to (18.2 x 13cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered,  pi1 A-B2 2[par.]4 3[par.]2 A-2R4, [2] 8 [12] 319 pp.,  7 engraved numbered plates (1-6 folding), 2P4 blank except for transverse section-title ‘Sinclair on the Hydrostaticks’, retaining the engraved additional title-page and preliminary signatures 2[par.] and 3[par.] from the 1672 edition, bookplate (Walter Seton of Abercorn), 18th/19th century annotations to foot and verso of title-page, folding plates trimmed to platemark along fore edges, plate 7 slightly soiled, 2L2-2M1 with shallow loss to foot of gutter not affecting text [Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes on the Witchcraft Literature of Scotland, 15 n.] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman First edition, second issue, originally published in 1672 under the title Hydrostaticks, uncommon. The work has been described as ‘a gallimaufry of practical and theoretical physics, drawing on [the author's] experiences with the diving bell and barometer’ (ODNB). Notable contents include an account of Otto von Guericke's invention of the vacuum pump ('A Curious Experiment made lately in Germany, for shewing the wonderful force of the Air', pp. 230-3), and an extensive description of the 'Devil of Glenluce' poltergeist incident (pp. 238-47), anticipating Sinclair's 1685 work Satan's Invisible World Discover'd.

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • Grasses.- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, third edition, 1825.
    Oct. 03, 2019

    Grasses.- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, third edition, 1825.

    Est: £100 - £150

    Grasses.- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, third edition, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, one or two trimmed, occasional spotting, small circle cut out of pp.197-198 (not affecting text), contemporary drab boards, rubbed, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1825.

    Forum Auctions - UK
  • George S Sinclair (19th/20th Century) View of a
    Jul. 03, 2014

    George S Sinclair (19th/20th Century) View of a

    Est: £40 - £60

    George S Sinclair (19th/20th Century) View of a cottage, signed, watercolour, 17cm x 26cm, together with J M Wood (19th/20th Century) boats in the river, signed and dated 1908, watercolour, 24cm x 33cm

    Mallams
  • George S Sinclair (19th/20th Century) View of a
    Jun. 05, 2014

    George S Sinclair (19th/20th Century) View of a

    Est: £40 - £60

    George S Sinclair (19th/20th Century) View of a cottage, signed, watercolour, 17cm x 26cm, together with J M Wood (19th/20th Century) boats in the river, signed and dated 1908, watercolour, 24cm x 33cm

    Mallams
  • SINCLAIR, GEORGE.
    Oct. 29, 2009

    SINCLAIR, GEORGE.

    Est: £1,500 - £2,000

    HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS: OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE PRODUCE AND NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF DIFFERENT GRASSES, AND OTHER PLANTS, USED AS THE FOOD OF THE MORE VALUABLE DOMESTIC ANIMALS: INSTITUTED BY JOHN DUKE OF BEDFORD. .LONDON..: B. MCMILLAN, 1816. First edition, folio (478 x 295mm.), dedication, errata slip, 35 samples of seeds mounted on 14 leaves, 123 dried plant specimens mounted on blank numbered sheets (see references), some with contemporary hand-colouring, each with two printed caption-slips pasted in, one with the Latin binomial, the second with the English name, contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, without the plan found in some copies, about 7 individual seeds absent (as often), binding rubbed, upper hinge cracking

    Sotheby's
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