Science & Technology

SMIT, Jacob Levi. Horologie- en uurwerkmakers handboek.
Nijmegen, the widow of J.C. Vieweg and son, 1826. 8vo. With 4 letterpress folding tables, and numerous illustrations and figures on 16 folding plates, lithographed by Guillaume Philidor van den Burggraaf, Brussels. Modern quarter sheepskin. [2], XII, 256 pp. Full description

SOTHEBY, Charles. [Engraved title page:] A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy Portsmouth performed by [in pencil: Charles Sotheby] a student there.
[Portsmouth], "177 " [recté 1795-1798]. 2 volumes. Imperial 4to (37.5 x 27 cm). Manuscript school exercises with a pre-printed engraved title-page with a blank space for the student to add his name, with 4 full-page and 1 larger folding nautical charts (some partly in colour), 7 full-page fortification plans (in black ink with 1 to 3 colours), 4 full-page astronomical diagrams (2 also with yellow), a full-page compass rose, 23 pen and ink wash views in the text (9 x 15 cm to 12.5 x 22 cm, 1 also with blue washes), and numerous other diagrams (including maps in the surveying section) and some illustrations in the text. Near contemporary (ca. 1803) blind- and gold-tooled half calf, blue sprinkled edges. Engraved title page + “229” [= 228]; 230-493, [2 blank] pp., with pp. 229 and 493 blank excepting the page numbers. Full description

SOTHEBY'S. The library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle. Part two: Science A-C; part four: Science D-H; part five: Science I-O; Part six: Science P-Z plus addenda.
With: The library of the Earls of Macclesfield ... Part one: Natural history.
London, Sothebys, 2004-2005. 5 volumes. 4to (27.5 21.5 cm). Original decorated blue cloth. Full description

[SPACE UAE]. [Translation: The caravan. Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The first Arab Muslim astronaut].
Dammam, Aramco and Fiat public relations department, September/October 1985. Ca. 28 x 22 cm. With numerous illustrations and photographs. The magazine is completey written in Arabic. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 48 pp. Full description

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. Opera posthuma, quorum series post praefationem exhibetur.
[Amsterdam, Israel de Paull for Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], 1677.
Comprising:
- Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata.
- Tractatus politicus.
- Tractatus de intellectus emendatione.
- Epistolae doctorum quorundam virorum.
- Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae.
With (bound before ad 1):
(2) IDEM. Tractatus theologico-politicus continens dissertations aliquot, quibus ostenditur libertatem philosophandi non tantum salva pietate, & Reipublicae pace posse concede: sed etiam nisi cum pace Reipublicae, ipsaque pietate tolli non posse ...
Hamburg, Henricus Künrath [= Amsterdam, Israel de Paull for Jan Rieuwertsz sr.], 1670. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (19.8 x 16.2 cm). Ad 1 with several woodcut mathematical figures in the Epistolae, small diagrams in the Ethica and Epistolae, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Ad 2 with woodcut vignette on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the preface. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with Spinoza's initials lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. (Ad 2 bound before ad 1:) [1], [1 blank], [10], 233, [3 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [38], 614, [31], [1 blank], [2], 112, [8] pp. Full description

STEENSTRA, Pybo. Verhandeling over de klootsche driehoeks-meeting. Bevattende alle de regelen, die men nodig heeft, om, op de kortste en gemakkelykste wyze, allerlei soort
Amsterdam, J.W. Yntema & Comp., 1801. 8vo. With numerous woodcut geometrical illustrations in text. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. XVI, 207, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STEVIN, Simon. La castrametation, ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618.
With: (2) STEVIN, Simon. Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses. ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With more than 50 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page or nearly full-page). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [4 of 8], 54, [2 blank]; [4], 61, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STEVIN, Hendrik. Plaetboec. Vervangende de figuren of formen gehorig tottet wiscontich filosofisch bedryf van Hendric Stevin Heer van Alphen van Schrevelsrecht &c. Begrepen in XIV boeken met een aenhang.
[Leiden, Philippe de Croy], 1668. Folio. With 29 double-page engraved plates, a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with a paper (shelfmark?) label at the foot of the spine ("115"). [2] letterpress ll. and 29 double-page engraved plates. Full description

STEVIN, Simon. Kurtzer doch gründlicher Bericht von Calculation der Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium und Secantium. Sampt deroselben gebrauch in Solvierung oder aufsrechnung aller flachen Triangel.
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayern, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary boards. [24], 154, [10]; [182] pp. Full description

STUART, Charles Beebe. The naval and mail steamers of the United States. ... Illustrated with thirty-six[!] fine engravings. Second edition.
New York, Charles B. Norton; London, Sampson Low, son & Co. (back of title-page: printed by Baker, Godwin & Co., New York), 1853. Large 4to (34 x 27 cm). With chromolithographed frontispiece to the first and tinted lithographed frontispiece to the second part, steel-engraved author's portrait and 32 plates (somewhat irregularly numbered 1-31), including 6 double-page engraved plates and 4 tinted lithographs all printed by Sarony & Major, New York. Publisher's richly gold- and blind-blocked textured cloth. 216; [4], 22, [2 blank]; 4; 21, [1] pp. Full description