Name: Auction: Early 18th-century science notebook Manuscript translation of Jean Le Clerc's 'Physica' & extracts of other scientific texts
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 400 GBP
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The Library of a Victorian Adventurer: Sir James Edward Alexander (1803–1885)

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Presenting our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2026, which will take place on Wednesday 25 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online. &nbsp;The auction will feature a number of private collections including The Library of General Sir James Alexander (1803-1885), containing his archive of sketchbooks documenting his travels in India, New Zealand and Canada, and his personal copies of his published travel accounts (lots 31 to 62). Later in life Alexander was the prime mover in the campaign to bring Cleopatra’s Needle to Britain, and his library is offered by Lyon &amp; Turnbull on behalf of Alexander’s direct descendants.Another single-owner collection will open the sale,&nbsp;Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman, focusing on the European exploration of Egypt, the Sudan and Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in the 19th and early 20th centuries and including key works by Richard F. Burton, James Bruce and others (lots 1 to 30). A first edition of David Roberts’s masterpiece, Egypt and Nubia (1846-9), completes the Egyptian theme.The sale is also strong in private press material, modern first editions, children’s books, and important historical documents, with highlights including a first edition of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, letters signed by the 15th-century monarch Edward IV and the privy council of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, and a collection of rare signed broadsides by the infamous Scottish poet William McGonagall.

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c.1709. 4to (19.5 x 15cm), contemporary calf panel binding, 412 pp., written in one (or more) neat italic hands, the first part (pp. 1-212) consists of an English translation of the Latin text of Jean Le Clerc's ‘Physica, sive de rebus corporeis libri quinque,’ on physics and astronomy, first published in England in 1700, the rest of the volume consists of a translation of parts of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' ‘De proprietatibus rerum’ &nbsp;(dated July 1709), an abridgment of Nehemiah Grew's “Anatomy of plants” and excerpts taken from ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,’ and works by contemporary scientists and authors such as Boyle, Huygens, Newton and Wilkins, front board and one leaf detached, binding scuffed

Manuscript translation of Jean Le Clerc's 'Physica' & extracts of other scientific texts

Early 18th-century science notebook

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Early 18th-century science notebook

Manuscript translation of Jean Le Clerc's 'Physica' & extracts of other scientific texts

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