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![[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M.](jpegs/57110.jpg)
[John Couch Adams] I.C. Adams, A.M. Coll. Divi Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius. Neptunus calculo monstratus, A.D. 1845.
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint on chine collé. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"). Repaired tear in backing sheet.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
[Ref: 57110] £460.00
Painted by Thomas Mogford. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.
London, July 10, 1851, Published for the Proprietor Thomas Mogford, by J. Hogarth No. 5 Haymarket.
Scarce mezzotint on chine collé. 450 x 335mm (17¾ x 13¼"). Repaired tear in backing sheet.
John Couch Adams (1819-92), mathematician and astronomer. famed for predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics, explaining the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
[Ref: 57110] £460.00
Henry Andrews, Astronomer and the celebrated Author of Moore's Almanack. Aged 71 -- 1815. Born at Frieston, near Grantham, February 4th 1744; Died at Royston, in Hertfordshire, January 26th, 1820, aged 76 years.
J. Watson Pinxt. T. Blood Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Very rare stipple with letterpress attachment. Plate 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), very large margins. Some age spots and creasing.
Half portrait of Henry Andrews (1744 –1820) mathematician and astronomer. For 43 years he worked in his spare time as 'Compiler of the tables detailing the movement of the planets' for Old Moore's Almanac aside his day job as Calculator to the Board of Longitude.
W: 72.
[Ref: 56979] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. Watson Pinxt. T. Blood Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1815.]
Very rare stipple with letterpress attachment. Plate 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), very large margins. Some age spots and creasing.
Half portrait of Henry Andrews (1744 –1820) mathematician and astronomer. For 43 years he worked in his spare time as 'Compiler of the tables detailing the movement of the planets' for Old Moore's Almanac aside his day job as Calculator to the Board of Longitude.
W: 72.
[Ref: 56979] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Isaac Barrow D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II. professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and of the Greek Tongue and Mathematics at Cambridge, and Master of Trinity College in that University.
Vandyke pinx.t. Pelit Sculp.t..
Engrav'd for the Royal Magazine. [n.d., c.1770]
Engraving, plate 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"), with large margins. Some surface dirt on left.
Oval portraits of Isaac Barrow (1630 –1677) an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus.
Wellcome: 183-7
[Ref: 57053] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Vandyke pinx.t. Pelit Sculp.t..
Engrav'd for the Royal Magazine. [n.d., c.1770]
Engraving, plate 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"), with large margins. Some surface dirt on left.
Oval portraits of Isaac Barrow (1630 –1677) an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus.
Wellcome: 183-7
[Ref: 57053] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Is. Dalby Late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military College at Farnham.
Drawn by Derby, from the Original by Halls, in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Thomson sculp.
[n.d.,c.1827]
Engraving with stipple, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Isaac Dalby (1744–1824) English mathematician, surveyor and teacher. He was involved in the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, the first high-precision trigonometric survey of Great Britain. In 1799 he was appointed first professor of mathematics in the senior department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which subsequently moved to Farnham in Surrey, and later became the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He held this post for twenty-one years, resigning it in 1820, when old age and infirmity had overtaken him. He was a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 749-1.
[Ref: 57075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Derby, from the Original by Halls, in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Thomson sculp.
[n.d.,c.1827]
Engraving with stipple, sheet 160 x 95mm (6¼ x 3¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Isaac Dalby (1744–1824) English mathematician, surveyor and teacher. He was involved in the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, the first high-precision trigonometric survey of Great Britain. In 1799 he was appointed first professor of mathematics in the senior department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which subsequently moved to Farnham in Surrey, and later became the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He held this post for twenty-one years, resigning it in 1820, when old age and infirmity had overtaken him. He was a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of London.
Wellcome: 749-1.
[Ref: 57075] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes,](jpegs/57209.jpg)
[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes, Dominus De Perron, Natus Hagae Turonum, Anno. M.D.X.CVI, Ultimo Die Martii.
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten's important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes's greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 57209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten's important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes's greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 57209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Multiplication Table on a New & Extended Plan.
[n.d., William Snow? c.1820.]
Rare engraving with hand colour. Circle, 100mm (4") diameter. Trimmed to printed border, as issued?
A disk with multiplications from 2 to 24. The publisher William Snow issued many such educational cards.
[Ref: 57006] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., William Snow? c.1820.]
Rare engraving with hand colour. Circle, 100mm (4") diameter. Trimmed to printed border, as issued?
A disk with multiplications from 2 to 24. The publisher William Snow issued many such educational cards.
[Ref: 57006] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Gulielmus Oughtred Anglus ex Academia Cantabrigienfi An.o Aetat. 73. 1646.
[After Wenceslaus Hollar] [F. S. sculp]
[n.d., c.1657]
Engraving, image 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed losing printmakers' inscription. Glued to backing sheet.
Half length portrait of William Oughtred wearing a skull-cap, collar and gown, and holding book. Crudely made after an etching by Hollar. Frontis to: "Clavis Mathematicae" 1667. William Oughtred (also Owtred, Uhtred, etc 1574 - 1660) was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. He is credited with creating the slide rule in 1622, which allowed for direct multiplication and division, with introducing "x" to signify mulplification, and the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for sine and cosine.
[Ref: 57147] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[After Wenceslaus Hollar] [F. S. sculp]
[n.d., c.1657]
Engraving, image 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed losing printmakers' inscription. Glued to backing sheet.
Half length portrait of William Oughtred wearing a skull-cap, collar and gown, and holding book. Crudely made after an etching by Hollar. Frontis to: "Clavis Mathematicae" 1667. William Oughtred (also Owtred, Uhtred, etc 1574 - 1660) was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. He is credited with creating the slide rule in 1622, which allowed for direct multiplication and division, with introducing "x" to signify mulplification, and the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for sine and cosine.
[Ref: 57147] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Pythagoras. N.25 Magnus Philosophus tanta apud suos Auctoriate ut Auditoribus fuerit satis: Ipse dixit suis.
I.E Nilson, del. Ioh. George Hertel, exud A.V.2.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, plate 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Some creasing.
Pythagoras teaching students in a very ornate decorative allegorical setting.
[Ref: 57104] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
I.E Nilson, del. Ioh. George Hertel, exud A.V.2.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, plate 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Some creasing.
Pythagoras teaching students in a very ornate decorative allegorical setting.
[Ref: 57104] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Nicolaus Sandersonus. A.M. Matheseos Professor Cantabrigiae & R.S.S.
J. Vanderbanck pinx. An.o 1719 pro Martino Folkes. Arm.o Cui Tabulam humillime D. D. G. White.
Mezzotint. 360 x 245mm (14 x 9½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A portrait of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) holding an armillery sphere. Despite being blind, Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge. He is credited by some historians as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.
CS: 41 i of ii.
[Ref: 57215] £590.00
J. Vanderbanck pinx. An.o 1719 pro Martino Folkes. Arm.o Cui Tabulam humillime D. D. G. White.
Mezzotint. 360 x 245mm (14 x 9½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A portrait of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) holding an armillery sphere. Despite being blind, Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge. He is credited by some historians as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.
CS: 41 i of ii.
[Ref: 57215] £590.00