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Dictionnaire raisonne de physique .... - BOUND WITH - Observations sur les nouvelles decouvertes Aerostatique ... les Ballons by Brisson, M J - AERONAUTICS

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Title
Dictionnaire raisonne de physique .... - BOUND WITH - Observations sur les nouvelles decouvertes Aerostatique ... les Ballons
Author
Brisson, M J - AERONAUTICS
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A very good copy; some chafing to the jts.; minor edge soiling; small paper flaw in the blank margin of one title.
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Paris: Desray, 1790. First Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A very good copy; some chafing to the jts.; minor edge soiling; small paper flaw in the blank margin of one title.. 4to. There are 90 copper eng. plates of all kinds of instruments and devices. A variant made up from the sheets of the first edition with a cancel title and variant imprint. No doubt the result of unbound sheets being sold around the French trade in the late 18th century. Bound at the end of volume two is the 1784 report of the Montgolfier bros. balloon ascent that achieved an altitude of 6000 feet. This is a separately issued account bearing the imprint of Boucher, Lamy, Paris, 1784. It is 34 pp. (no illus.). Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723-1806) a zoologist and natural philosopher was the author of Le R gne Animal (1756) and Ornithologie (1760). He was assistant to R. A. F. R amur (1683-1757) and after the latter's death was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at Navarre and later at Paris. A highly regarded teacher, his Dictionnaire was designed to be a course of study in the natural sciences. The topics are wide ranging. Horology is covered in several articles including two on automata. He quotes most of the rare 1738 text describing the mechanism of the Fluteur Automate of Jacques de Vaucanson. There are articles on contemporary efforts to solve the longitude problem and an introduction to astronomy. Most of the commonly used scientific instruments are also described. Brisson's most important contribution to the scientific literature was his Poids specifiques des Corps (1787) which provided specific gravity data on a variety of materials. The Dictionnaire includes an abbreviated table of his measurements under the heading pesanteurs specifiques. He describes the standard method to compare equal volumes of solid and pure water to derive their relative densities. He was aware that the same relationship held between various liquids and by extension gases. The practical application of the latter was the aerostat or hot air balloon. See Wolf; Roller & Goodman.
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Hypothesis Soni Perraultiana, 2 parts by Bose, George Mathias

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Hypothesis Soni Perraultiana, 2 parts
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Bose, George Mathias
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good; some overall toning and dustiness.
Description
Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1734 & 1735. First Edition. Disbound. Very good; some overall toning and dustiness.. 4to, I - [8], [1] - 54, [2 - errata] pp.; II - [8], [1] - 49, [1 - errata] pp. A lecturer in mathematics and physics he is best known for his early work on electricity. The subject offered here is his inquiry into sound and acoustics and critique of Perrault. There is an interesting section on the elasticity of air and a commentary on Mersenne. It is rare to find both parts of this work. DSB II, 324-325; DSB X, 521-522.
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard by BUKOWSKI, Charles

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Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
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BUKOWSKI, Charles
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A fine copy with nearly imperceptible toning along wrapper edges
Description
Chicago: The Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. A fine copy with nearly imperceptible toning along wrapper edges. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 23 pages, with an extra copy of the sheet containing pages 5/6 and 19/20 laid in. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a sketch by Betsy Milam, photo portrait of Bukowski on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of this early collection of Bukowski verse. Includes Buk's "foreward" and thirteen poems he felt had been "overlooked (or looked-over and shunned" by those people who, for reasons unknown to society, publish collections of poesy." Krumhansi 16.
Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam

Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam by BINGAMAN, H.W.

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Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam
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BINGAMAN, H.W.
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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Near Fine
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New York: Vantage Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in well-rubbed and price-clipped, very good dustwrapper. Scarce vanity press collection of poetry and prose by a retired fighter pilot who flew 105 missions over North Vietnam.

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