Lot 5
Science
Collection of works, English and Scottish, mainly 18th century
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Buchan, William. Domestic Medicine; or, the Family Physician. Edinburgh: Balfour, Auld, and Smellie, 1769. First edition, 8vo, xvi 624 pp., contemporary sheep, joints cracked;
Saviard, Barthelémy. Observations in Surgery: being a Collection of One Hundred and Twenty Eight Different Cases. With Particular Remarks on each, for the Improvement of Young Students. Wherein not only the Method of Practice in Difficult Labours, but other Distempers incident of the Female Sex are copiously enlarged on … Written originally in French … [Translated by] J. S. Surgeon. London: J. Hodges, 1740. First edition in English, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, A2-7 near-detached (held by one cord only);
Milnes, James. Sectionum Conicarum Elementa Nova Methodo Demonstrata. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1723. Third edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, engraved vignette to title-page, 21 engraved folding plates;
Love, John. Geodaesia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring of Land made easy … Also, How to lay out New Lands in America, or elsewhere. London: for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and W. Innys, 1731. Fourth edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, lacking rear free endpaper;
Coles, Elisha. An English Dictionary, explaining the Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Philosophy, Law, Navigaiton, Mathematicks, and other Arts and Sciences. London: for Peter Parker, 1696. First edition, 12mo, contemporary sheep, closed tear in S5;
Priestley, Joseph. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. London: for J. Johnson, 1775. Volumes 1-2 only (of 3), second edition of volume 1, first edition of volume 2, 8vo, contemporary calf, volume 1 with 2 engraved folding plates, volume 2 with 2 engraved plates only (apparently of 3), volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached;
Carrick, Andrew. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de asthmate periodico. Edinburgh: Balfour and Smellie, 1787. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt;
Keill, John. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: or, Philosophical Lectures read in the University of Oxford … To which are added, the Demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the Centrifugal Force and Circular Motion. London: for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, and T. Longman, 1726. Second edition, 8vo, xii 306 pp., contemporary panelled calf, woodcuts in text, advertisement leaf to rear;
and 5 others similar (17)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. With various family ownership inscriptions to endpapers and title-pages; manuscript shelfmark labels pasted to feet of a few spines.