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‎On the application of the principle of the galvanic multiplier to electromagnetic apparatus, and also to the development of great magnetic power in soft Iron, with a small galvanic element.‎

‎New Haven, Hezekiah Howe and A.H. Maltby, 1831. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear along edgaes and top of spine. In: ""The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman"", Vol. XIX. Engraved frontispiece. VIII,404 pp., 4 engraved plates (1 handcoloured, brownspotted). Henry's paper: pp. 400-408, one textillustr.‎

‎First edition of Henry's importent paper in which he described the function and construction of the Albany-Magnet, probably the most powerfull magnet ever constructed (at the time).From his ""experiments Henry discovered that if a cell of a single pair of electrodes is to be used with a given magnet, the magnet should be wound with several coils of wire in parallel"" on the other hand, if a battery of many cells is to be used, the magnet winding should form a single long wire. Henry was the first person to understand this idea. It later became a fundamental basis for much of electrical technology, and, in particular, made Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph feasible.Applying this principle (together with the valuable but less easily described practical skill in magnet-making he had acquired in the course of his experiments), Henry, with the assistance of a colleague, Philip Ten Eyck, went on to build a 21-pound ""experimental magnet on a large scale."" With a modest battery, this ""Albany magnet"" supported 750 pounds, making it, Henry claimed, ""probably, therefore, the most powerful magnet ever constructed."" Quickly he wrote a paper describing these experiments and his magnet-winding principle, and sent it off to Benjamin Silliman, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Yale College and editor of the American Journal of Science, a widely read and influential publication. Silliman readily accepted what he called Henry's ""highly important & interesting paper"" and published it in the issue of January, 1831 (the paper offered)."" (Roger Sherman).‎

‎Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth - the Remedy. Author's Edition. - [""UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST REMARKABLE AND IMPORTANT BOOK OF THE PRESENT CENTURY""]‎

‎San Francisco, Wm M.Hinton & Co, 1879. 8vo. In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and a bit of blindstamping to boeards. A bit of light spotting to front board, spine faded, and capitals worn. Hinges internally a bit weak, and a professional closed tear to cloth at spine, barely noticeable. All in all an excellent copy in this fragile original binding. Internally very nice and clean. With the bookplate of Grove L. Johnson to inside of front board. (4), 512 pp.‎

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‎The exceedingly scarce first edition, printed in merely 200 copies (namely the ""Author's edition), of one of the most influential books ever published. Henry George's masterpiece of social reform, ""Progress and Poverty"", founded the ideology known as ""Georgism"", from which the worldwide social reform movement arose. The work initiated the Progressive Era and had a larger impact and ""a wider distribution than almost all other books on political economy put together"", as John Dewey put it (John Dewey's Foreword to Geiger's ""The Philosophy of Henry George"" (1933)). ""The present century has been marked by a prodigious increase in wealth-producing power. The utilization of steam and electricity, the introduction of improved processes and labor-saving machinery, the greater subdivision and grander scale of production, the wonderful facilitation of exchanges, have multiplied enormously the effectiveness of labor.At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that labor-saving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer"" that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past"", is how Henry George introduces his grandiose work of social reform. But though people naturally expected labor-saving inventions to improve working- and living conditions for all, quite the opposite was the case. As towns and cities grew - and grow - and new technologies continually improve methods of production and exchange, so misery, poverty and crime continued - and continues - to increase. Henry George magnificently pointed out the association of progress with poverty and how that precisely came to be the cause of our social and political difficulties. He pointed out, how this problem, if unsolved, would mean the downfall of civilization. And he provided the remedy - ""Deduction and induction have brought us to the same truth: Unequal ownership of land causes unequal distribution of wealth. And because unequal ownership of land is inseparable from the recognition of individual property in land, it necessarily follows that there is only one remedy for the unjust distribution of wealth: we must make land common property."" More precisely, Henry George proposed a single tax on land values.Henry George's revolutionary first book, ""Progress and Poverty"" sold millions of copies and became a world-wide bestseller. In sales, it exceeded all other books except the Bible during the 1890s. The first edition, however, was only printed in 200 copies, designated ""Author's Edition"" and is very scarce - not least in the original binding.""During the 1890s George, author of the 1879 bestseller Progress and Poverty, was the third most famous American, after Mark Twain and Thomas Edison. In 1896 he outpolled Teddy Roosevelt and was nearly elected mayor of New York.""""When Progress and Poverty first came out in 1879, it started a worldwide reform movement that in the US manifested in the fiercely anti-corporate Populist Movement in the 1880s and later the Progressive Movement (1900-1920). Many important anti-corporate reforms came out of this period, including the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), a constitutional amendment allowing Americans to elect the Senate by popular vote (prior to 1913 the Senate was appointed by state legislators), and the country's first state-owned bank, The Bank of North Dakota (1919)."" (Stuart Jeanne Bramhall: Karl Marx vs Henry George, 2013).And the work continued to exercise its enormous influence throughout the Western world. According to a survey among British parliamentarians in 1906, the work was more popular than Walter Scott, John Stuart Mill, and William Shakespeare, and there is almost no end to the line of famous thinkers, who describe ""Progress and Poverty"" as life-changing, including George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, and Leo Tolstoy, who like Winston Churchill, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell and many others claimed that it was impossible to refute Henry George on the land question. Philip Wicksteed characterized the book as ""by far the most important work in its social consequences that our generation or century [1882] has seen"", Alfred Russel Wallace hailed it as ""undoubtedly the most remarkable and important book of the present century,"" and placed it above Darwin's ""Origin of Species"", Albert Einstein concluded ""Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation"", etc., etc. PROVENANCE: Grove Lawrence Johnson (1841 -1926) was an American attorney and politician from California. In addition to serving in both houses of the state legislature, Johnson also served as a United States Representative.‎

‎Mémoire sur l'Aimentation. (Lu á l'Academie des Sciences le 31 Juillet 1826). (+) Addition au Mémoire de M. Savary sur l'Aimentation.‎

‎Paris, Chez Crochard, 1827. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Series 2, Tome 34. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Scattered brownspots.Savary'spaper: pp. 5-57 and pp. 220-221.‎

‎First printing of Savary's importent paper, the phenomena investigated here helped Joseph Henry to discover sel-induction, and it was Savary who was the first to describe in this paper his hypothesis of the oscillatory nature of the discharge of a Leyden jar connected to an inductor. In his Mémoire, he documented the experiments which helped lead to his conclusion of the oscillatory discharge of the Leyden jar, which Joseph Henry expanded upon fifteen years later in America while working on his experiments in induction.""Savary inferred that a charged Leyden jar would discharge in a damped oscillatory manner. This inference was based on observations of magnetization of short thin steel needles. Here needles were placed at varying distances near (and perpendicular) to a 2-meter-long wire loop used to discharge the Leyden jar. Magnetization of the needles would reverse direction (up to three times) as a function of distance from the wire in the loop. (Needles were placed close to the wire starting from a fraction of a mm to about 1 cm away.) Joseph Henry was stimulated by Savary's observation. Henry repeated Savary's work starting in 1835 and then extended it to magnetizing steel needles in a secondary circuit. Henry published his findings in 1842. Henry placed a steel needle in a spiral in a secondary circuit and removed the secondary circuit to a distance of 30 feet. The magnetizing of a steel needle at this distance is evidence of high frequency transmission and detection. We are working to determine the general range of frequencies of oscillation in Henry's study, but it appears to be near 6 MHz. At 6 MHz the wavelength of the radiation is 50 meters (150 feet), so Henry's observation of magnetization at a distance of 30 feet corresponds to the near field. This remote magnetization is evidence of high-frequency induction rather than radio transmission as is sometimes suggested."" (Princeton.edu)The volume contains other notable papers by Gay-Lussac, Mosander, Boussingault et al. and CLAUDE NAVIER'S importent paper ""Sur le Mouvement d'un fluide élastique qui s'écoule hors d'un réservoir ou gazomètre"", pp. 400-407.‎

‎Facts in reference to the Spark, &c from along conductor uniting the poles of a Galvanic Battery.‎

‎Philadelphia, Fraklin Institute, 1835. 8vo. Later full green cloth. Tome-and titlelabels in leather with gilt lettering on spine. In: ""Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania... Edited by Thomas P. Jones"", Vol. XV. New series. Engraved frontisp. (2),446 pp., 2 folded engraved plates and 2 folded engraved maps. (Entire volume offered). Henry's announcement: pp. 169-70. A stamp to verso of frontispiece (Library of Congress duplicate stamp).‎

‎First printing of this importent paper, the first to describe in detail how the phenomena of Self-Induction was discovered. Henry discovered the induction phenomena - how an electric current in one coil may set up a current in the other through the development of the magnetic field - independently of Faraday, but Faraday was first to publish on electromagnetic induction. Henry's experiments with induction led him to his importent discovery of SELF-INDUCTION, which is the phenomenon in which a change in electric current in a coil produces an induced emf in the coil itself. This phenomenon was also discovered inependently by Faraday, but this time Henry had published first. The basic unit of inductance was to be called ""the Henry"". Relevant to the controversy between Faraday and Henry is the following statement by A D Bache, Secretary of the American Philosophical Society introducing an abstract of Henry in J Franklyn Inst. 1835 pp. 169-70 (H. Norman 1053 and the paper offerd): ""A memoir on this subject has been since submitted to the Society, containing an extension of the subject, the primary fact in relation to which was observed by Professor Henry as early as 1832, and announced by him in the American Journal of Science. Mr. Faraday having recently entered upon a similar train of observations, the immediate publication of the accompanying is important, that the prior claims of our fellow countryman may not be overlooked.""(Spark Museum).Magee ""Source Book in Physics"", p. 515. ‎

‎Experiments on the Quantity of Gases absorbed by Water, at different Temperatures, and under different Pressures. Read December 23, 1802. (and) Appendix to Mr. William henry's Paper, on the Quality of Gases absorbed by Water, at different Temperature...‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1803 - Part I. Pp.29-42 and 1 engraved plate and Appendix: pp. 274-276. With titlepage to the volume Part I. A paperflaw in margin of the first leaf, neathly repaired, no loss. The plate with a few small brownspots. Verso of titlepage with a small stamp, otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined.‎

‎First appearance of this highly importent paper in which Henry announced his discovery of the law, which later was termed ""Henry's Law"". The law states that when a gas is absorbed in a liquid the weight of the gas dissolved is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas over the liquid. This discovery contributed directly to the atomic theory of Dalton.(Parkinson: Breakthroughs: 1803 C) ""Dalton's own experiments on the solution of gases and the stimulus afforded by Henry's work have been seen as crucial in the development of the atomic theory.""(DSB VI p. 285).A paper by Humphrey Davy: ""An Accont of some Experiemnts and Observations on the constituent Parts of certain astringent Vegetables"" and on their Operating in Tanning. Read February 24, 1803"", comes with. In the same volume Pp. 233-273.‎

‎Experiments on the Quantity of Gases absorbed by Water, at different Temperatures, and under different Pressures. Read December 23, 1802. (and) Appendix to Mr. William henry's Paper, on the Quality of Gases absorbed by Water, at different Temperature...‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1803 - Part I. Pp.29-42 and 1 engraved plate and Appendix: pp. 274-276. With titlepage to the volume Part I. Some browning to lower part of titlepage. Light foxing to the plate.‎

‎First appearance of this highly importent paper in which Henry announced his discovery of the law, which later was termed ""Henry's Law"". The law states that when a gas is absorbed in a liquid the weight of the gas dissolved is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas over the liquid. This discovery contributed directly to the atomic theory of Dalton.(Parkinson: Breakthroughs: 1803 C) ""Dalton's own experiments on the solution of gases and the stimulus afforded by Henry's work have been seen as crucial in the development of the atomic theory.""(DSB VI p. 285).A paper by Humphrey Davy: ""An Accont of some Experiemnts and Observations on the constituent Parts of certain astringent Vegetables"" and on their Operating in Tanning. Read February 24, 1803"", comes with. In the same volume Pp. 233-273.‎

‎On the Influence of a Spiral Conductor in increasing the Intensity of Electricity from a Galvanic Arrangement of a Single Pair, &c.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837). No wrappers. Extracted fron ""Scientific Memoirs, selected from The Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies. Edited by Richard Taylor."", Vol. I. Pp. 540-547.‎

‎Henry's milestone paper announcing his discovery of electrical self-induction. ""Henry independently discovered electro-magnetic induction and in this paper announced his discovery of electric self-induction, one of the prime properies of an electro-magnetic circuit. Henry was an eminent experimenter but was casual in publishing his findings with resulting lack of recognition of his contributions.""(Bern Dibner).Dibner ""Heralds of Sciece"", No.63.It was also printed the same year in ""Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 5"". The paper was later printed in ""Philosophical Magazine"", 1840.""The direction of Henry’s thought became somewhat apparent in his 1835 paper (refers to the papers reading before the American Phil. Soc., febr. 6th, 1835) on the action of a spiral conductor in increasing the intensity of galvanic currents. The paper started out as an affirmation of Henry’s priority in the discovery of self-induction. He then combined induction proper (using Faraday’s findings and his own) with selfinduction to show how these produce a pattern of repulsions yielding an increased effect in spirals. He specifically linked these “magneto-electrical” results to the principles of static induction developed by Cavendish and Poisson. This explanation was then applied to Savary’s report of changes of polarity when magnetic needles were placed at varying distances from a wire in which a current was being transmitted (""Mémoire sur l’aimantation,"" in Annales de chimie et de physique, 34 [1827],. That is, currents appeared periodically in the air surrounding a current-bearing straight wire as a result of the actions of induction and self-induction."" (DSB).Wheeler Gift: 2724-2725a.‎

‎Cabbages and Kings. - [COINING THE TERM ""BANANA REPUBLIC""]‎

‎New York, McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. Original pictorial full cloth in red, green and black, depiCting kings and a cabbage head on the front board. Binding with minor wear to extremities. With a red cloth dust-jacket with gilt green title-label (original?). Dust-jacket with a bit of wear to capitals and corners and its title-label with very minor loss, far from affecting lettering. With the large book-plate of Darryl Zanuck (laid in loose).‎

‎First edition, first issue (""Mc Clure/ Philips/ & co"" to bottom of spine) - with an excellent provenance - of this classic work, which coined the term ""banana republic"", a term that came to greatly influence our view of Latin America and which is now used in everyday vocabulary throughout the Western world. ""Violent, poor and politically wobbly, Honduras meets most people's definition of banana republic... Its murder rate is the highest in the world"" its economy in a pickle. Its problems are not new: the turbulent country has the dubious honour of being the place that first inspired the description ""banana republic"" more than a century ago... It was coined in a 1904 book of fiction by O. Henry, an American writer. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter) was on the run from Texan authorities, who had charged him with embezzlement. He fled first to New Orleans and then to Honduras where, staying in a cheap hotel, he wrote ""Cabbages and Kings"", a collection of short stories. One, ""The Admiral"", was set in the fictional land of Anchuria, a ""small, maritime banana republic"". It is clear that the steamy, dysfunctional Latin republic he described is based on Honduras, his jungle hideaway. Henry eventually returned to the United States, where he spent time in prison before publishing his short stories and then hitting the bottle, leading to an early death. (T.W. in The Economist, Nov. 2013). O. Henry's phrase is appropriate in all senses of the expression. First, of course, it conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But more importantly, it refers to the influence of the American fruit companies of the period, which came to exercise an enormous influence over the countries in the region. In the early twentieth century, the United Fruit Company, a multinational American corporation, was instrumental to the creation of the banana republic as an economic and political phenomenon of geopolitics. Together with other American corporations - with occasional political, diplomatic, and military support from the U.S. government - the corporations created the political, economic, and social circumstances that established a banana-republic culture for the colonial exploitation of Central American countries such as Honduras and Guatemala. Thus, as the meaning of ""banana republic"" generally describes a politically unstable country in Latin America, dependent on the exportation of a limited-resource product, like bananas, it could also be defined as ""a country in which foreign enterprises push the government around"" (The Economist). The term ""babana republic"" is not only used as part of a general vocabulary, it is also used specifically in political science and in economic science. _________________________Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive"" he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors. ""Darryl F. Zanuck was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable men ever to become a Hollywood mogul. "" (IMDb)‎

‎Sur l'induction électro-dybanique. (Extrait par M. Abria). Premier- (Second) Mémoire. (No III et No IV).‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1844. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome 3. 512 pp. a. 7 folded engraved plates. Small stamp to verso of plates. (The entire volume offered). Henry's papers: pp. 394-436 a. 1 folded engraved plate (showing Henry's experimental apparatus). Internally clean.‎

‎First French version of these pioneering papers on electro-magnetic induction in which Henry carried out his program of determining the relationship of static and dynamic electricity.‎

‎Ueber elektro-dynamische Induction.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1842). Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsband 1, Stück 2. Pp. 193-384 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Henry's paper: pp. 282-312.‎

‎First German version of Henry's description of his discovery of self-induction. He missed the credit for the discovery of induction to Faraday, but he had done the key experiment ahead of Faraday, but Faraday was the first to publish. But he is credited for the discovery of self-induction (1832) and Faraday discovered it independently two years later (1834).""In Henry's paper, however, he explained thet the electric current in a coil can induce another current not only in another coil but in itself. The actual current observed in the coil is, then, the combination of the original current and the induced current. This is called self induction.""(Isac Asimov).The issue contains further notable papers Michael Faraday's ""Vierzehnte Reihe von Experimental-Untersuchungen über Elektricität"", 2o-22. (Nos 1667-1748). Pp. 249-281. First German version. In this paper FARADAYamplifies his theory of electrostatic induction by making further use of the analogy with the induction of magnetism. Whittaker describes the paper as having ""THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATION OF ELECTROSTATICS"", as modified in order to take into account the effect of the specific inductive capacity.""(Whittaker I, pp.187-89).‎

‎Sjov i Danmark eller som man ser det- Illustrationer og Vignetter af Henry Heerup. Satirisk Sangværk.‎

‎København, Helios, 1945. Lex8vo. Orig. papbd. med overtræk af Salto-Papir og originale bogtrykte papirsetiketter på ryg og forperm. Med 12 originale farvelitograferede plancher af Henry Heerup. På fribladets for-og bagside er indklæbet linieret papir med tilskrifter i blæk af Jens August Schade. Forsiden: ""Hilsen til min/Kære Julius/fra din/Jens August Schade/ Med Tak for alt."" - På bagsiden: ""Samtidig med/ Eksemplaret /får Du/ al den Champagne/ Du kan drikke/ i en Nat./ Jens August Schade.""‎

‎Danske Gejstlige Sigiller fra Middelalderen/ Sceaux de L'Église Danoise du Moyen Age. (Henry Petersen). Tegnede og Lithographerede af Th. Bergh. (+) Danske Adelige Sigiller fra Det XIII og XIV Aarhundrede. (Henry Petersen). Afbildningerne tegnede af E...‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1886, 1897, 1905, 1917. Folio. Et hldrbd. i flammet kalv, rygforgyldning og forgyldt skindtitel. XIV,114 pp. samt 60 litograferede plancher (1039 afbildn.), (4),67 pp. samt 51 plancher i zinkætsning (1160 afbildn.), XXVIII,140 pp. samt 140 plancher i forotypi (talrige afbildn.), XVII,20 pp. samt 21 plancher (mange afbildn.) i fototypi. Dwe sidste plancher lidt løse. Indvendig ren og velbevaret.‎

‎Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. No. III (and) IV. On Electro-magnetic Induction.‎

‎London, Richard and John E.Taylor, 1840-41. 8vo. 2 contemp. hmorocco. Tears to spines. Frontcovers on both volumes loose. Stamp to foot of titlepages. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Conducted by David Brewster et al."". Vol. XVI a. vol. XVIII. VIII,607,(1) pp. a. 5 plates. + VIII,616 pp., 2 plates. (Entire volumes offered). Henry's papers: pp. 200-210, 254-265, 551-562, textillustr. (in vol. XVI) a. pp. 482-514, textillustr. (in vol. XVIII).‎

‎First printing in England of this pioneering paper on electro-magnetic induction in which Henry carried out his program of determining the relationship of static and dynamic electricity.The volumes also contains first printings by CHARLES LYELL ""On the Boulder Formation, or drift and associated Freshwater Deposits composing the Mud-cliffs of Eastern Norfolk"". Pp. 345-380, textillustr. (1840), and JOHN W. DRAPER ""An Account of some Experiments made in the South of Virginia, on the height of the Sun"".Pp. 81-84 and his ""On the Electro-motive Power of Heat. Pp. 451-461.On p. 535 we have the first announcement of the first sucessfull photographic portrait taken. Draper’s first reported portraiture was that of his sister, Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, dressed in white sitting still for a period of 65 seconds.""Professor Draper, of the University of New York, informs us in a note dated March 31st, that he has succeeded during the Winter in procuring portraits by the Daguerreotype, and that they have all the beaty and softness of the most finished mezzotint engraving, and only requirefrom 20 to 45 seconds for execution.""‎

‎Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. On Electro-Dynamic Induction.‎

‎New Haven, Maltby and Noyes, 1840. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. In: The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman"", Vol. 38. VI,(2),416 pp. (Entire volume offered). Henry's paper:pp. 209-243, many textllustrations in woodcut. A few leaves with brownspots.‎

‎This is Henry's importent third ""Contribution"" on the dynamic induction experiments, carrying out his program of determining the relationship of static and dynamic electricity. He independently of Faraday discovered electr-magnetic inductuion in 1831. The paper was first printed in ""Transactions of the American Philosophical Society"", 1839.‎

‎Annotations upon the Five Bookes of Moses, the Booke of the Psalms, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles. 7 parts (with 7 separate title-pages).‎

‎London, John Bellamie, 1627 - 1626. Folio (340 x 235 mm). In contemporary full calf with six raised bands and ruled fillets to boards. With considerable wear to extremities, scratches to boards, hinges split in lower and upper compoartment, corners bumped with loss of leather. Leather on lower part of front boards partly detached. Inner hinges split. General title-page detached and with loss of paper (and one letter) in inner margin. Ex-libris (S. Philip Sydenham) pasted on to verso of front board. Blank with considerable wear and partly detached. Previous owner's name and annotations in contemporary hand to front free end-paper (Thomas Burton, 1637 (thomas Burton, MP for Westmorland). Seven parts with seperate title-pages. Internally nice and clean. (10), 172, 156, 184, 206, (2), 168, (24), (2), 189, (7), 59 pp.‎

‎Rare first collected edition of Ainsworth's bible commentaries. Henry Ainsworth (1571–1622) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar. He led the Ancient Church, a Brownist or English Separatist congregation in Amsterdam alongside Francis Johnson from 1597, and after their split led his own congregation. His translations of and commentaries on the Hebrew scriptures were influential for centuries.‎

‎The Philosophical Works. 5 vols. ‎

‎London, David Mallet, 1754. 8vo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary half calf bindings. Wear to extremities, corner bumped and boards scratched. Spine-ends chipped. Stamp to each title-page (crossed out in vol. 1). Ex-libris (Carl Henrik Koch, Danish professor in philosophy) pasted on to all pasted down front end-paper. With occassional marginal browning, but internally generally nice. ‎

‎First edition of Bolingbroke's posthumously published collected philosophical works. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 – 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology.""Bolingbroke was also much attracted to the study of philosophy, which increasingly absorbed his attention from about 1720. He gave priority to experimental philosophy rather than to metaphysical speculation, and he rejected both Plato's philosophy and the Cartesian approach to deductive reasoning. He became a disciple of the intellectual approach of Locke and Newton, but he paid particular attention to the study of religion and morality. He was very interested in natural law and natural religion, and gradually developed into a deist. Professing a harmless rationalism, he came to believe in a supreme being, but one that was distinct, even remote, from the world. He rejected the notion of particular providence and of a God actively involved in the affairs of men... Although they did not appear until 1754, three years after his death, most of Bolingbroke's philosophical essays were the result of his studies started in France and continued after his return to England in 1725... He strove in particular to erect an ethical and religious system based on reason and natural law"" (ODNB). ‎

‎Lettres sur l'Esprit de Patriotisme, sur l'Idée d'un Roy Patriote, et sur l'Etat des Partis, qui divisoient l'Angleterre, lors de l'Avénement de Georges I. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois.‎

‎London, 1750. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full sprinkled calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges coloured in red. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Corners bumped and head and foot of spine slightly chipped. Internally very fine and clean, a nice copy. (4), VII, (1), 255 pp.‎

‎First French translation of Bolingbroke’s “Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism”, originally published the year before in 1749. The letters reflect his ideas on patriotism, the role of the monarch, and the state of political parties during his time. Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was a prominent English statesman and philosopher. He was known for his involvement in British politics during the early 18th century, serving as Secretary of State and later as a key figure in the Tory party. Bolingbroke was a skilled orator and writer, contributing significantly to political discourse through his speeches and writings. He is particularly remembered for his role in the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. Despite his political successes, Bolingbroke's career was marked by controversy and exile due to his shifting allegiances and opposition to the Hanoverian succession. He spent several years in exile in France before being pardoned and allowed to return to England, where he continued to be involved in political and philosophical debates until his death.‎

‎A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Pateræ, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi &c. From various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 (!) Plates. With historical Essays.‎

‎(London), Henry G. Bohn, (1814). Small 4to. Orig. full green cloth, blindstamped. Some tears to hinges. Uncut. XII,14 pp. Engraved title and 151 fine engraved plates (of various sizes) of which 10 are handcoloured (all).‎

‎Sjov i Danmark eller som man ser det - Illustrationer og Vignetter: Henry Heerup. Satirisk Sangværk.‎

‎København, Helios, 1945. Lex8vo. Orig. papbd. med bogtrykt titeletiketter på ryg og forperm. Overtrækspapir af Salto. Kapitæler en smule stødte. Med 12 originale farvelitografier af Heerup.‎

‎Sur la production des images photographiques instantanées.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier, 1851). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 33, No 22. Pp. (589-) 632 (entire issue offered). Talbot's paper: pp. 623-627.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Talbot describes how he worked out the method of instant photography. He patented it in 1852 and 1858. ""The beginning of high speed photography might be considered to be William Henry Fox Talbot's experiment in 1851. He attached a page of the London Times newspaper to a wheel, which was rotated in front of his wet plate camera in a darkened room. As the wheel rotated, Talbot exposed a few square inches of the newspaper page for about 1/2000th of a second, using spark illumination from Leyden jars. This experiment resulted in a readable image."" ‎

‎A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs derived entirely from the Monuments. Translated from the German by Henry Danby Seymour. Compiled and edited by Philip Smith. 2 vols.‎

‎London, John Murray, 1879. 2 recent solid full cloth. Gilt lettering on backs. Some pages with a faint small stamp in upper margin. XXXVII,486XV,364,(1) pp., 2 coloured frontispieces, 4 folded tables, 2 large folded lithographed maps in colour (maps and plates with small stamp on verso).‎

‎First English edition.‎

‎A Pilgrimage to the Monastery of La Trappe.‎

‎Havant, Henry Skelton, 1815. Small 8vo. Fine cont. full cloth. Gilt back. (2),85,(1) pp. Fine and clean, broad margins.‎

‎Classification and Uses of Finger Prints (Third Edition) Twentieth Thausend.‎

‎London, Darling & Son, 1905. Orig. full cloth. Spine ends a bit frayed. Faint stamp on title. VI,127 pp., 5 folded plates and 8 plates with illustr. of finger-prints.‎

‎The work was first issued in London 1900. In 1901 Henry's system of fingerprint identification of human was officially adapted in England. (Garrison & Morton No 189). - See also Printing and The Mind of Man No. 376.‎

‎Natural Law in the Spiritual World.‎

‎London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. 8vo. Orig. full cloth w. gilt lettering. Some browning to leaves. (2),XXIV,414,(6) pp.‎

‎The major work by Henry Drummond (1851-97), both a lecturer on natural science and an evangelical writer and protagonist, wherein he develops the argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from the physical world to the spiritual.‎

‎Italian ceramic art. The Maiolica Pavement Tiles of the Fifteenth Century with Illustrations by Henry Wallis.‎

‎London, Quaritch, 1902. Small 4to. Orig. full cloth, gilt. Uncut printed on fine paper. XXVI,87 pp. incl. 86 beautiful toned lithographed plates. No. 221 of 250 copies, printed on O.W. paper by Taylor and Francis.‎