[CONTINENTAL SCIENCE]. FIGUIER, Louis. Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes. Paris, 1858. 4 volumes, 12o. Illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter morocco. Fifth edition. -- FIGUIER. Les applications nouvelles de la science a l'industrie et aux arts en 1855. Paris, 1857. 12o. Contemporary quarter red morocco. Tenth edition. -- [AMPHRE, Andri-Marie]. Philosophie des deux Ampère. Paris, 1866. 12o. Contemporary morocco (rebacked). -- LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE PHYSIQUE. Collection de mémoires relatifs a la physique, ... Tom I. Mémoires de Coulomb. Paris, 1884. 8o. Contemporary red morocco. -- Another copy. Original printed wrappers. -- OERSTED, Hans Christian. Samlede og efterladte Skrifter. Copenhagen, 1851-1852. 9 volumes in 4, 8o. Plates. Contemporary half morocco. -- RAMBELLI, Gianfrancesco. Intorno invenizioni e scoperte italiane .... Modena, 1844. 8o. Contemporary half calf. -- Another copy. Original cloth. -- CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823). De la corrélation des figures de geométrie. Paris: Crapelet, 1801. 8o. Half-title. 4 folding engraved plates. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. -- GROBERT, Jacques François Louis (b. 1757). Description des pyramids de Ghizé, de la ville du Kaire et de ses environs. Paris: Logerot-Petiet, 1801. 4o. Half-title. 5 engraved plates only, including 3 folding. 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. Bound-in this copy are 14 additional and unrelated plates illustrating the anatomy of the honeybee and the structure of their hives. -- SWEDENBORG, Emanuel (1688-1772). Principia rerum naturalium sive novorum tentaminum phaenomena mundi elementaris philosophice explicandi. Dresden and Leipzig: F. Heckel, 1734. 3 parts in one, 2o. Engraved title vignette and 25 plates. Contemporary boards, spine ink lettered. FIRST EDITION. -- HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1957-1894). Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Aug. Eupel (Sondershausen) for Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. 8o. Line block text diagrams and illustrations. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. (18)

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[CONTINENTAL SCIENCE]. FIGUIER, Louis. Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes. Paris, 1858. 4 volumes, 12o. Illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter morocco. Fifth edition. -- FIGUIER. Les applications nouvelles de la science a l'industrie et aux arts en 1855. Paris, 1857. 12o. Contemporary quarter red morocco. Tenth edition. -- [AMPHRE, Andri-Marie]. Philosophie des deux Ampère. Paris, 1866. 12o. Contemporary morocco (rebacked). -- LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE PHYSIQUE. Collection de mémoires relatifs a la physique, ... Tom I. Mémoires de Coulomb. Paris, 1884. 8o. Contemporary red morocco. -- Another copy. Original printed wrappers. -- OERSTED, Hans Christian. Samlede og efterladte Skrifter. Copenhagen, 1851-1852. 9 volumes in 4, 8o. Plates. Contemporary half morocco. -- RAMBELLI, Gianfrancesco. Intorno invenizioni e scoperte italiane .... Modena, 1844. 8o. Contemporary half calf. -- Another copy. Original cloth. -- CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823). De la corrélation des figures de geométrie. Paris: Crapelet, 1801. 8o. Half-title. 4 folding engraved plates. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. -- GROBERT, Jacques François Louis (b. 1757). Description des pyramids de Ghizé, de la ville du Kaire et de ses environs. Paris: Logerot-Petiet, 1801. 4o. Half-title. 5 engraved plates only, including 3 folding. 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. Bound-in this copy are 14 additional and unrelated plates illustrating the anatomy of the honeybee and the structure of their hives. -- SWEDENBORG, Emanuel (1688-1772). Principia rerum naturalium sive novorum tentaminum phaenomena mundi elementaris philosophice explicandi. Dresden and Leipzig: F. Heckel, 1734. 3 parts in one, 2o. Engraved title vignette and 25 plates. Contemporary boards, spine ink lettered. FIRST EDITION. -- HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1957-1894). Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Aug. Eupel (Sondershausen) for Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. 8o. Line block text diagrams and illustrations. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. (18)

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