Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 20
Top 10: Subject
Top 10: People and organisations
A catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts, written by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq; together with the order or time wherein each of them hath been publish'd respectively. To which is added, a catalogue of the theological books, written by the same author
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1690
Indexed in: Wing(2) B3928A.
Historical memoirs of the life of Dr. Samuel Clarke : Being a supplement to Dr. Sykes's and Bishop Hoadley's accounts. Including certain memoirs of several of Dr. Clarke's Friends
Whiston, William (1667-1752)
1730
Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴. Includes bibliographical references. "A catalogue of the Works of... Samuel Clarke ... ": p. [192-194].
Mechanical essays on the animal oeconomy : Wherein, not only the conduct of nature, in animal secretion, but sensation, and human generation, are distinctly consider'd and anatomically explain'd: As also the particular manner of the operation of a medicine is accounted for, and many other curious and uncommon subjects are treated of... With a catalogue of the authors consulted thro' the whole
Handley, James
1721
Indexed in: Blake p. 197.
The naturall and experimental history of winds, &c
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Gentilis, Robert (1590-1654)
1653
Originally intended to form a part of the author's Instauratio magna, a work which was not completed. Cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue, new ed. With 16-page publisher's list of 140 books at end. R. G. is ...
Astronomy, or, The true system of the planets demonstrated : wherein are shewn by instrument, their anomalies, heliocentrick and geocentrick places both in longitude and latitude... : likewise the places of the heavenly bodies and motion of the earth ... To which is prefix'd, An alphabetical catalogue of as many terms in astronomy as are most useful and necessary to be understood. A work entirely new and in a method hitherto unattempted
Leadbetter, Charles (fl. 1728)
1727
Cuts: Initials, head and tail pieces.
Jeremiæ Horroccii, Liverpoliensis Angli, ex Palatinatu Lancastriæ, Opera posthuma : viz. Astronomia Kepleriana, defensa & promota. Excerpta ex epistolis ad Crabtræum suum. Observationum cœlestium catalogus. Lunæ theoria nova. Accedunt Guilielmi Crabtræi... Observationes cœlestes. In calce adjiciuntur Johannis Flamstedii ... De temporis æquatione diatriba. Numeri ad lunæ theoriam Horroccianam
Horrocks, Jeremiah (1617?-1641); Crabtree, William (1610-1644); Flamsteed, John (1646-1719); Wallis, John (1616-1703)
1673
First edition. Edited by John Wallis. Each of the works included, except the first, has its own title page, dated '1672' (but '1673' in the last 2 works); the title pages of the 'Excerpta ex epist...
A new treatise of natural philosophy, free'd from the intricacies of the schools : adorned with many curious experiments both medicinal and chymical. As also with several observations useful for the health of the body
Midgeley, Robert (1653-1723)
1687
On title-page verso: Licensed, October 28, 1686, Robert Midgley. Attributed to Midgeley by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Numerous errors in pagination. 3-page bookseller's catalogue at end.
Telluris theoria sacra : orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens
Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)
1681
Dedication signed: T. Burnetius. Liber secundus (p. [139]-306) has special t.-p. Catalogus librorum... G. Kettilby: p. [307]. First leaf blank.
An account of some new microscopical discoveries : founded on an examination of the calamary... also observations on the Farina faecundans of plants ... . Dedicated to the Royal Society
Needham, John Turberville (1713-1781)
1745
Edition statement from DNB v. xiv, p. 158. Dedication signed T.N [sic; Turbeville Needham]. The B.M. catalogue lists "another copy with a new titlepage bearing the author's name", also dated 1745 ...
Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity : in one letter to Martin Folkes, Esq., President, and two to the Royal Society
Watson, Sir William (1715-1787); Royal Society (Great Britain)
1746
Second edition?. The B.M. catalogue records an edition of 1745 (the "few copies" referred to in the author's preface to this edition?) and a "second" and "third" (3rd and 4th?) edition of 1746.