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ALEMBERT, JEAN LE ROND D’.
Traité de l’Équilibre et du Mouvement
des Fluides . . . Nouvelle Édition.
10 folding engraved plates. xlvi, [2], 476 pages,
including half-title. 4to, 208x160 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, top of spine
chipped; marginal toning on opening leaves, scattered light marginal foxing.
Paris: (Chardon for) Briasson, 1770
[400/600]
Second edition of a treatise on fluid mechanics. Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 7; Norman 33;
Rouse & Ince, pages 100-101 (all citing the 1744 original edition).
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ARATUS.
Syntagma Arateorum: opus poeticae et astronomiae studiosis
utillisimum.
Greek text and Latin versions by Hugo Grotius and Germanicus Caesar,
with notes by Grotius. Folding engraved plate and 44 text illustrations of constellations by
Jacobus de Gheyn. [12], 42, [2]; 36; 94, [2]; 24; 128 pages, including blank F2. 5 parts in one
volume. 4to, 234x154 mm, late 17th-century mottled calf gilt, spine ends worn, front joint
cracked, cords intact, recased, endpapers renewed; intermittent toning or browning, occa-
sional show-through of text on verso of illustrations, dark vertical stripe on 2*2, plate
creased in outer margin, marginal pencil markings in the notes. Armorial bookplate of
Algernon Capell, second Earl of Essex (1670-1710) dated 1701.
[Leiden]: ex officina Plantiniana
apud Christophorus Raphelengius, 1600
[3,000/5,000]
FIRST GROTIUS EDITION
of the Phaenomena of Aratus, a 3rd-century B.C. poem on the con-
stellations, celestial phenomena, and weather signs. Hoffmann I, 222; Houzeau & Lancaster
784; Sarton I, 157; Warner, The Sky Explored, page 93.
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SEE ALSO ILLUSTRATION FACING LOTS
236-238]
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