Marshall Rare Books
Science & Navigation
Books and charts used to navigate
Sphaera Mundi compendium foeliceter inchoat. with Regiomontanus Disputationes and Puerbach Theoricae novae planetarum.
The first illustrated edition of the most influential pre-copernican text on astronomy
The Description and Use of the Universal Planispheres; or, Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in Plano. Being Compleat Substitutes for A Large Pair of Globes.
Complete with the five rare celestial and terrestrial maps, uncut and bound in contemporary boards,
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Astronomical and geographical essays: containing I. A full and comprehensive view […], of the general principles of Astronomy. II. The use of the celestial and terrestrial globes […]. III.
Prodromus Astronomiae, exhibens fundamenta, quae tam ad novum plane & correctiorem stellarum fixarum catalogum construendum.
Vaticinia seu praedictiones illustrium virorum.
The most famous treatise on papal prophecies and divinations
A French Polished Specimens Cabinet with Brass Handle Engraved ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE No.3
Alfred russel wallace specimens cabinet
Painted Wood Pillar Dial
Finely decorated cylinder dial
Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley … during the years 1846-50, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the LouisiadeArchipelago, etc.
Important Voyages of Naturalist, and Darwin’s Associate, T. H. Huxley
Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten
First edition of this encyclopaedia of curiosities pertaining to America, the East and West Indies and China, with imaginative depictions of plants…
A Booke Named Tectonicon, Brieflie Shewing the Exact Measuring, and Speedie Reckoning All Manner of Land, Squares, Timber, Stone, Steeples, Pillers, Globes, &c.
A rare edition of an important practical work on mensuration by Leonard Digges, an expert mathematician whose chief interest was in the application…
Nuove Inventioni di Camillo Agrippa Milanese.
An extremely scarce work on navigation.
Certain Errors in Navigation, Detected and Corrected by Edw:Wright with many additions that were not in the former editions.
This edition is important: “What made this edition…into a navigation manual suitable for all seamen was the inclusion [for the first time] of a…
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Primus[–Tertius] tractatus
First editions of three astronomical treatises, including two extremely rare star charts
Complete set of six untitled celestial charts
A superb, highly decorative group of celestial charts
Hidden gem
Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin
One of the rarest of cameron's portraits
An Exceptional Illustrated Manuscript Log – “His Book Made at Jersey”
Privateer’s illustrated navigational manuscript and log book
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The Description and Use of a Portable Instrument, Vlugarly [sic] known by the Name of GUNTERS QUADRANT… to which is added the Use of Nepiars Bones in Multiplication, Division, and Extraction of Roots
Two scarce works by eminent mathematician William Leybourn (1626-1716).
The Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures
On the Extensive Atmosphere of Mars. In a Letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K.G., President of the Royal Society.
An argument for the lack of atmosphere on mars using first hand evidence.
The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke.
This encyclopaedia of ancient knowledge about the natural world had already had a great indirect influence in England, as elsewhere in Europe, but…
Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien door Ionnes de Laet. Tweede druck.
A splendid set
Justification of Mr Murdoch M’Kenzie’s Nautical Survey of the Orkney Islands and Hebrides, in Answer to the Accusations of Doctor Anderson
Murdoch Mackenzie is one of the great names in cartography, whose charts of Orkney waters in the 18th century are still used today.
A Vindication of the Conduct of Captain Christopher Middleton, in a Late Voyage on Board His Majesty’s Ship the Furnace, For Discovering a North-West Passage to the Western American Ocean.
Very Rare First Edition of the first published work in the long series of attacks and counters between the merchant Dobbs and Captain Middleton. Only…
A New Survey of the West-Indies: Being A Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the Main Land of America
A Classic Account of 17th Century Mexico and the West Indies