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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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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)
Ioannes Bernoullius, Phil.etc Med. D. Academ. Scient. Petropolit. et Parisiensis ut et Scoietatum regiarum Londinensis atqs Berolin. Item que instituti Scientiarum Bonoiensis, membrum Profess. Math. Publ. et p.t. Rector Academiae Basileensis. Nat. A.S.R. MDCLXVII.d.27.Lul.st.v
Huber pinxit. I.Iac. Haid sc. et excud. Aug. Videlic.
[n.d. c.1750.]
A very rare mezzotint. 310 x 190mm. 12¼ x 7½". Cut, creasing.
Johann Bernoulliu (1667-1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
W: 265.
[Ref: 15773] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Huber pinxit. I.Iac. Haid sc. et excud. Aug. Videlic.
[n.d. c.1750.]
A very rare mezzotint. 310 x 190mm. 12¼ x 7½". Cut, creasing.
Johann Bernoulliu (1667-1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
W: 265.
[Ref: 15773] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Jedidiah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r the 22.d 1781 by B. Killingbeck, N.º 14 Dover Street Piccadilly.
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Laid down on album sheet at sides.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. First published 1773.
CS 7, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64704] £380.00
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r the 22.d 1781 by B. Killingbeck, N.º 14 Dover Street Piccadilly.
Fine mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"), with very large margins. Laid down on album sheet at sides.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. First published 1773.
CS 7, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64704] £380.00
![Behold rare Cocker's Life-resembling Shade: [...].](jpegs/54125.jpg)
Behold rare Cocker's Life-resembling Shade: [...].
R. Gaywood. fec[?].
[n.d. 1657]
Rare etching. 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6"). Vertical creasing affecting the title area. Small perforation near lower left corner. ,Foxing.
A decorated portrait of Edward Cocker (1631-1676) and frontispiece to 'Arts glory; or the pen mans treasury'. Edward Cocker was an English engraver as well as a notable teacher of arithmetic, on which he also wrote several books.
[Ref: 54125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
R. Gaywood. fec[?].
[n.d. 1657]
Rare etching. 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6"). Vertical creasing affecting the title area. Small perforation near lower left corner. ,Foxing.
A decorated portrait of Edward Cocker (1631-1676) and frontispiece to 'Arts glory; or the pen mans treasury'. Edward Cocker was an English engraver as well as a notable teacher of arithmetic, on which he also wrote several books.
[Ref: 54125] £160.00 (£192.00 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)
Leonard Euler.
Thornthwaite scup.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A bust portrait, in profile to the left, of pioneering Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler (1707 - 1783), considered to be the pre-eminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived.
[Ref: 37282] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Thornthwaite scup.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A bust portrait, in profile to the left, of pioneering Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler (1707 - 1783), considered to be the pre-eminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived.
[Ref: 37282] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Halley.
From an original Picture ascribed to Dahl, in the possession of the Royal Society. Engraved by W.T. Fry.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple on steel. Sheet 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate.
Edmond Halley as an old man, said to be after Swedish painter Michael Dahl (1659-1743)
[Ref: 53175] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
From an original Picture ascribed to Dahl, in the possession of the Royal Society. Engraved by W.T. Fry.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple on steel. Sheet 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate.
Edmond Halley as an old man, said to be after Swedish painter Michael Dahl (1659-1743)
[Ref: 53175] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Cook & Barton. Manufacturers of Mathematical Instruments.
J. Smith sc.
[n.d., c.1830.
Engraved trade card. Sheet 100 x 160mm (4 x 6¼"). Some staining and surface abrasion.
A trade card of a company operating from Moland Street, Birmingham. A central vignette of a woman using a pair of compasses, by a window with a view of a ship, is surrounded by a list of goods, including sundials, measuring tapes, candle shades and dog collars.
[Ref: 60783] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. Smith sc.
[n.d., c.1830.
Engraved trade card. Sheet 100 x 160mm (4 x 6¼"). Some staining and surface abrasion.
A trade card of a company operating from Moland Street, Birmingham. A central vignette of a woman using a pair of compasses, by a window with a view of a ship, is surrounded by a list of goods, including sundials, measuring tapes, candle shades and dog collars.
[Ref: 60783] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
John Kersey Borne at Bodicot Neere Banbury in the County of Oxford. A.O D.NI 1616. Vox audita perit Litera scripta manet.
Soest pinx. Faithhorne Sculp.
1672.
Engraving. Sheet size: 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
Portrait of English mathematician and textbook writer, John Kersey the elder (1616 - 1690?) half length in an oval, wearing bands and a gown. Inscribed below is a banner with the inscription 'Vox audita perit. / Litera scripta manet.', and four books, two open and displaying mathematical equations and symbols. A frontispiece to Kersey's 'Elements of that Mathematical Art Commonly Called Algebra' (London: William Godbid for Thomas Passinger and Benjamin Hurlock, 1673).
Fagan. p.43. III of III.
[Ref: 33837] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Soest pinx. Faithhorne Sculp.
1672.
Engraving. Sheet size: 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed to image. Glued to album sheet at corners.
Portrait of English mathematician and textbook writer, John Kersey the elder (1616 - 1690?) half length in an oval, wearing bands and a gown. Inscribed below is a banner with the inscription 'Vox audita perit. / Litera scripta manet.', and four books, two open and displaying mathematical equations and symbols. A frontispiece to Kersey's 'Elements of that Mathematical Art Commonly Called Algebra' (London: William Godbid for Thomas Passinger and Benjamin Hurlock, 1673).
Fagan. p.43. III of III.
[Ref: 33837] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Lionardo Da Vinci Pittore
From 'Academie des Science et des Arts', Amsterdam 1682.
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 135 (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Head and shoulders portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) facing sharply left. Da Vinci was an Italian pioneer during the Renaissance and is regarded as one of the greatest polymaths.
[Ref: 53789] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
From 'Academie des Science et des Arts', Amsterdam 1682.
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 135 (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
Head and shoulders portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) facing sharply left. Da Vinci was an Italian pioneer during the Renaissance and is regarded as one of the greatest polymaths.
[Ref: 53789] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Vera Effigies Gulielmi Leybourn, Philom. anno Aetatis 30.
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Leybourn (1626 - 1716), English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller.
Wellcome 1760-2.
[Ref: 64156] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Leybourn (1626 - 1716), English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller.
Wellcome 1760-2.
[Ref: 64156] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Mathematician. Done from an Original Picture, painted by Rembrandt. By James Mc. Ardell.]](jpegs/48872.jpg)
[The Mathematician. Done from an Original Picture, painted by Rembrandt. By James Mc. Ardell.]
[Sold by E. Fisher, at the Golden head in Leicester Square, and Ryland & Bryer, at the King's Arms in Cornhill, London.]
Rare mezzotint. 440 x 370mm (17¼ x 14½"). Narrow margins on three sides, inscription area trimmed off; horizontal printer's crease through centre of image.
A teacher leaning on the table holding a pair of compasses, demonstrates a problem to the student who leans on his chin. In front is a globe.
Goodwin: 213.
[Ref: 48872] £480.00
[Sold by E. Fisher, at the Golden head in Leicester Square, and Ryland & Bryer, at the King's Arms in Cornhill, London.]
Rare mezzotint. 440 x 370mm (17¼ x 14½"). Narrow margins on three sides, inscription area trimmed off; horizontal printer's crease through centre of image.
A teacher leaning on the table holding a pair of compasses, demonstrates a problem to the student who leans on his chin. In front is a globe.
Goodwin: 213.
[Ref: 48872] £480.00
Les Mathématiques. S.3.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Mathematics, with instruments including a celestial globe.
[Ref: 59099] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Mathematics, with instruments including a celestial globe.
[Ref: 59099] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Joseph Moxon Born at Wakefield August 8. Anno 1627.
[n.d., c.1699]
Very rare engraving, sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾") Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Half length portrait of Joseph Moxon wearing a long wig, gown and bands; in oval frame on pedestal; frontispiece to his 'A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography' (1699 ed.) Joseph Moxon (1627 – 1691), hydrographer to Charles II, was an English printer specialising in mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer. He produced the first English-language dictionary devoted to mathematics, the first detailed instructional manual for printers, and the first English-language how-to books for tradesmen. In November 1678, he became the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
O'Donoghue 1908-25: 2 Wellcome: 2082-2
[Ref: 57153] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1699]
Very rare engraving, sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾") Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Half length portrait of Joseph Moxon wearing a long wig, gown and bands; in oval frame on pedestal; frontispiece to his 'A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography' (1699 ed.) Joseph Moxon (1627 – 1691), hydrographer to Charles II, was an English printer specialising in mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer. He produced the first English-language dictionary devoted to mathematics, the first detailed instructional manual for printers, and the first English-language how-to books for tradesmen. In November 1678, he became the first tradesman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
O'Donoghue 1908-25: 2 Wellcome: 2082-2
[Ref: 57153] £160.00 (£192.00 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)
![[Peter Perkins] The Effegies of Mr Perkins.](jpegs/66357.jpg)
[Peter Perkins] The Effegies of Mr Perkins.
J. Drapentier Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1682]
Engraving, verso in ink "Jonathan Abbey his book 1761" 10; sheet 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed into plate.
A bust portrait in oval of mathematician Peter Perkins (fl. 1600's) , turned to the left, gazing at the viewer with a furrowed brow. He has shoulder-length curly hair and is wearing a cravat, all enclosed in an oval frame atop a pedestal. The frontispiece portrait to Perkins' 'The Seaman's Guide.' Perkins was Mathematical master at Christ's Hospital.
[Ref: 66357] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J. Drapentier Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1682]
Engraving, verso in ink "Jonathan Abbey his book 1761" 10; sheet 120 x 70mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed into plate.
A bust portrait in oval of mathematician Peter Perkins (fl. 1600's) , turned to the left, gazing at the viewer with a furrowed brow. He has shoulder-length curly hair and is wearing a cravat, all enclosed in an oval frame atop a pedestal. The frontispiece portrait to Perkins' 'The Seaman's Guide.' Perkins was Mathematical master at Christ's Hospital.
[Ref: 66357] £260.00 (£312.00 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. Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and was a prolific mathematician. He was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge, and 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. Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and was a prolific mathematician. He was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge, and is credited by some historians as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.
CS: 41 i of ii.
[Ref: 57215] £590.00
Joannes Sturmius
Hh [monogram of Henricus Hondius].
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus (Johannes Storms of Mechelen, 1559-1650), Belgian mathematician, physician and poet. He was appointed to the chair in mathematics at Lily College, Leuven, in 1593.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 53040] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Hh [monogram of Henricus Hondius].
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus (Johannes Storms of Mechelen, 1559-1650), Belgian mathematician, physician and poet. He was appointed to the chair in mathematics at Lily College, Leuven, in 1593.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 53040] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
M.r Dan.l Todd. late Mathematical Master &c. Albemarle House, Hounslow. Ob.t July 26th 1819. Æt 80.
Engraved by T. Palmer from a Miniature in the Possession of I.I. White Esq.
Published by W. Cribb, 34, King Street, Covent Garden [n.d., c.1825.]
Rare coloured stipple and etching on chine collé. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10") very large margins. Slight soiling of margins.
This engraving was exhibited by Palmer in 1821; the BM records that Cribb moved to King Street in 1825,
[Ref: 59366] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by T. Palmer from a Miniature in the Possession of I.I. White Esq.
Published by W. Cribb, 34, King Street, Covent Garden [n.d., c.1825.]
Rare coloured stipple and etching on chine collé. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10") very large margins. Slight soiling of margins.
This engraving was exhibited by Palmer in 1821; the BM records that Cribb moved to King Street in 1825,
[Ref: 59366] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)