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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: BRAND, John, Rev.). Bibliotheca Brandiana. A Catalogue of the unique, scarce, rare, curious, and numerous Collection of Works on the Antiquity, Topography, and decayed Intelligence of Great Britain and Ireland, from the first invention of Printing down to the present time; Early Poetry, Classics, Belles Letters, and Miscellanies...from the Presses of Caxton, Winken de Worde, Pinson, and all the early and modern Printers; likewise the...Collection of Manuscripts
(AUCTION CATALOGUE: HARLEY, Edward, Earl of Oxford). A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian, Flemish and French Books of Prints of the Rt. Hon. Edward Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Deceas’d. Consisting of the Eminent Works of Raphael, M. Angelo...Titian…Rubin, Rembrant...Le Clerc…Being all Bound up in Morocco, Gilt and Letter’d in a most elegant Manner…As also his Lordship’s Most Curious and Valuable Collection of Antient Missals, Decretals, Breviaries, with great Choice of the finest Editions of the Classicks &c. all printed on Vellum
(AUCTION CATALOGUE: MÉNARS, Jean Jacques Charron, Marquis de). Bibliotheca Menarsiana, ou, Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de feu Messire Jean Jaques Charron, Chevalier Marquis de Menars…Augmentée & Embellie D’un grand nombre de Manuscrits, dont les uns sont considerables par leur Antiquité & Conservation, les autres par la delicatesse des Miniatures; Et outre cela enrichie De ce qu’il y a de recherché en Theologie, de curieux en Jurisprudence & en Philosophie, d’interessant & de beau en Histoire & en belles Lettres, & de ce qu’il y a de rares Editions parmi les Orateurs & Poetes. Le tout tres bien conditioné & quelques uns en grand Papier;
(AUCTION CATALOGUES: MEAD, Richard, M.D.). A Catalogue of the Genuine, Entire and Curious Collection of Prints and Drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead; consisting of The Works of the most Eminent Masters; and particularly of a matchless Collection, containing 95 Drawings of Exotics, Insects, Fruit and Flowers in Water Colours, on Vellum, by Merian, in 2 vol. as also of another curious Collection, containing 205, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour’d from Nature, and finished to the greatest Perfection.
[LONDON, William]. A Catalogue of the most vendible Books in England, Orderly and Alphabetically Digested; Under the Heads of Divinity, History, Physick, and Chyrurgery, Law, Arithmetick, Geometry, Astrologie, Dialling, Measuring Land and Timber, Gageing, Navigation, Architecture, Horsmanship, Faulconry, Merchandize, Limning, Military Discipline, Heraldry, Fortification and Fire-works, Husbandry, Gardening, Romances, Poems, Playes, &c. With Hebrew, Greek, and Latin books, for Schools and Scholars. The like Work never yet performed by any.
[NORDEN, John]. The Surveiors Dialogue, Very profitable for all men to peruse, but especially for all Gentlemen, or any other Farmar, or Husbandman, that shall either have occasion, or be willing to buy or sell lands: As in the ready and perfect Surveying of them, with the manner and Methode of keeping a Court of Survey with many excellent rules, and familiar Tables to that purpose. As also, the true and right use of the Manuring of grounds
A VERY PROPER TREATISE, wherein is breefely set foorth the art of Limming, which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of leters, Vinets, Flowers, Armes, and Imagerye, and the maner how to make sundry syses or groundes to lay Silver or Gold upon, and how silver or Golde shall be layed or limmed upon the syse, and the waye to temper Gold and Silver and other mettals and diverse kindes of colours to write or to limme withall uppon Velym, Parchment or Paper, and how to lay them uppon the worke which thou intendest to make, and how to vernish it when thou hast done, with divers other thinges verye meete and necessary to be knowne to all such Gentlemen, and other persons as doe delight in Limming, painting or in tricking of Armes in their colours, and therefore a woorke very meete to be adjoyning to the bookes of Armes.
AGRICOLA, Georg. De Re Metallica Libri XII. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adjunctis Latinis, Germanicisque appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem de Animantibus Subterraneis Liber, ab Autore recognitus: cum Indicibus diversis…
BAGLIVI, Giorgio. De Fibra Motrice, et Morbosa; nec non, de Experimentis, ac Morbis Salivae, Bilis, & Sanguinis. Ubi obiter de Respiratione, & Somno. De Statice aeris, & liquidorum per observationes Barometricas, & Hydrostaticas ad usum respirationis explicata. De Circulatione Sanguinis in testudine, ejusdemque Cordis Anatome. Epistola ad Alexandrum Pascoli.
BEMISS, Elijah. The Dyer’s Companion. In Two Parts. Part First, containing a General Plan of Dying Wool and Woollen, Cotton and Linen Cloths, Yarn and Thread. Also, Directions for Milling and Finishing, Stamping and Bleaching Cloths. Part Second, contains Many useful Receipts on Dying, Staining, Painting, &c.
BONNET, Auguste. Manuel monétaire et d’orfévrerie, ou, Nouveau Traité des Monnaies et des Calculs relatifs aux différentes Valeurs des Espèces, Vaisselles et Matières d’Or et d‘Argent de France et étrangères, selon l’ancien et le nouveau Systême; Ouvrage utile aux Fonctionnaires de Monnaies, du Trésor public et des Bureaux de Garantie, aux Changeurs, Orfévres, Banquiers, et généralement à toutes les Personnes qui font le Commerce des Métaux précieux et qui les travaillent.
CLARE, Martin. The Motion of Fluids, Natural and Artificial; In particular that of the Air and Water, in a familiar Manner, proposed and proved, by evident and conclusive Experiments with many useful Remarks. Done with such Plainness and Perspicuity, as that they may be understood by the Unlearned. For whose Sake there is added, a Short Explanation of such Uncommon Terms, which in Treating on this Subject could not... be avoided. With plain Draughts of such Experiments and Machines, which, by Description only, might not readily be comprehended.
ERCKER, Lazarus. Aula Subterranea Domina dominantium Subdita subditorum. Das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung, ohne welche weder die Herren regieren, noch die Unterthanen gehorchen können. Oder Gründliche Beschreibung der jenigen Sachen, so in der Tieffe der Erden wachsen, als aller Ertzen der Königlichen und gemeinen Metallen, auch fürnehmster Mineralien, durch welche nächst Gott, alle Künste, Ubungen und Stände der Welt gehandhabet und erhalten werden...
FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Recherches sur la Pouzzolane, sur la Théorie de la Chaux et sur la Cause de la Dureté du Mortier, avec la Composition de différens Cimens en Pouzzolane, & la maniere de les employer, tant pour les Bassins, Aqueducs, Réservoirs, Citernes & autres Ouvrages dans l’eau, que pour les Terrasses, Bétons & autres Constructions en plein air.
GRIMM, Herman Nicolas. Compendium Medico-Chymicum, seu Accurata medendi Methodus, quae excellentissimis Medicamentis, tam Europae, quam Indiae Orientali proficuis, repleta, rariores Observationes, & curiosam optimorum Medicamentorum, in libelli hujus formulis contentorum, praeparationem exhibet, auctior & emendatior.
HENCKEL, Johann Friedrich. Pyritologia, oder Kieshistorie als des vornehmsten Minerals, nach dessen Namen, Arten, Lagerstätten, Ursprung, Eisen, Kupfer, unmetallischer Erde, Schwefel, Arsenic, Silber, Gold, einfachen Theilgen, Vitriol und Schmelznutzung...auch einer Vorrede vom Nutzen des Bergwerks.
LABBÉ, Philippe. Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum Curis secundis auctior. Accedit Bibliotheca Nummaria in duas Partes tributa. I. De Antiquis Numismatibus. II. De Monetis, Ponderibus & Mensuris. Cum Mantissa Antiquarae Supellectilis ex Annulis, Sigillis, Gemmis, Lapidibus, Statuis, Obeliscis, Inscriptionibus, Ritibus, similibusque, Romanæ, præsertim Antiquitatis Monimentis collecta. Editio III. auctior, & meliori ordine disposita. Additus Joann. Seldeni Angli Liber de Nummis.
LEMOINE, Henry. Typographical Antiquities. History, Origin, and Progress, of the Art of Printing, from its First Invention...and from its Introduction into England, by Caxton, to the Present Time;...with Chronological Lists of Eminent Printers in England, Scotland, and Ireland...also a particular...History of the Walpolean Press, established at Strawberry Hill...at the Conclusion is given a Curious Dissertation on the Origin of the Use of Paper.
MAUROLICO, Francesco. Theoremata de Lumine, et Umbra, ad perspectivam, & radiorum incidentiam facientia. Diaphanorum Partes, seu Libri tres: In quorum primo, de perspicuis corporibus: in secundo, de Iride: in tertio, de organi visualis structura, & conspiciliorum formis, agitur. Problemata ad Perspectivam & Iridem pertinentia. His accesserunt Christophori Clavii...notae.
PRYCE, William. Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining: containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, and of Cleansing and Metalizing their Products; shewing each particular Process for Dressing, Assaying, and Smelting of Ores. To which is added, an Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners.
SHORT, Thomas. The Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, particularly those of Scarborough. Wherein, They are carefully examined and compared, their Contents discovered and divided, their Uses shewn and explained, and an Account given of their Discovery and Alterations. Together with the Natural History of the Earths, Minerals and Fossils through which the Chief of them pass.
TREDGOLD, Thomas. Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron, and other Metals; intended for the Assistance of Engineers, Iron Masters, Architects, Millwrights, Founders and Others engaged in the Construction of Machines, Buildings, &c. containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples; founded on a Series of New Experiments.
TURNBULL, William. A Treatise on the Strength, Flexure, and Stiffness of Cast Iron Beams and Columns, shewing their Fitness to resist Transverse Strains, Torsion, Compression, Tension, and Impulsion; with Tables of Constants, to be used for Calculating the Strength, Flexure, and Stiffness of Similar Beams and Columns of Wrought Iron, and several Sorts of Timber...to which is added, by way of Appendix, a Collection of Rules in Words at length, for calculating the most important Practical Cases investigated in the course of the Work...
WERNECK, Ludwig Friedrich Franz, Freiherr von. Vollständiger Forstcalender, worinnen alle einem Förster obliegende Verrichtungen von Monat zu Monat angezeigt werden, nach der angenommenen Ordnung Hrn. Johann Gottlieb Beckmanns, Forstinspectors in Wolkenburg, mit gründlich unterrichtenden Anmerkungen und Belehrungen zu ausführlicher Beschreibung und Taxirung des Forstes, Schätzung des Nutzholzes, Abfuhre des Holzes und Anlegung der Holzwege, nebst genauen und deutlichen Tabellen und Rissen, auch ausführlichern Ausrechnungen, dann einer anatomischen Zergliederung des Baumes, und andern zur Forstwissenschaft unentbehrlichen Stücken vermehrt.