Klubbat för:

28000 SEK

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35 000-40 000 SEK

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GALLON, J. G. (7). Machines et inventions approuvées par l´Academie Royale des Sciences, depuis son établissement jusqu´à present (1666-1754), avec leur description... I-VII. Paris (chez Gabriel Martin and others) 1735-1777.

4:o (about 243x198 mm.). Titles printed in red and black (dampstained in vol. I), 499 engraved folding plates (all, plates in vol. I mostly dampstained in lower or outer margin, about 10 harder, otherwise some minor dampstaining, about 30 plates with discolouring from printing, plate 33-56 with text with small hole throughout in upper and lower part, mostly in the margins, about 20 plates worn or with small damages in outer margin, some offsetting from plates to text, a few leaves of text with marginal mendings, text in vol. I dampstained as plates, otherwise som minor dampstaining or spotting).
Contemporary brown half calf, worn, marbled boards, faded worn spines in six compartments, some damages at head and foot. Inside of upper boards with signature of Carl Rinman 1785. 7 volumes.

First edition of an invaluable publication illustrating the inventions of all the machines and instruments approved by the Academy of Sciences in Paris from its establishment in 1666 to 1754. This record of inventive achievements is significant as the first to describe and illustrate the technological development of science in the period. Many of the inventions included in this collection were to revolutionize our way of living. Communication, entertainment, agriculture, hydraulics, clocks, navigation, military, optics, acoustics, motorized machinery, and the calculator, all founded on the scientific knowledge and concepts of these early contributors. The great inventions made by Perrault, Huygens, Cassini, Pascal (the first published illustration of his calculating machine), Lepine, Clairaut, Gauger, Le Maire, De La Hire, Morland, Nolet, are but a few of the discoveries described.

Auktionsnummer:

6177

Date:

2019-06-14