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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dans cette lettre à un banquier, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet explique les principes des assurances basées sur la probabilité de survie des individus. Il propose également des méthodes pour calculer les primes d'assurance en fonction de l'âge et de la santé des assurés, ainsi que des statistiques…sur la durée de vie moyenne.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fascinating text is a detailed survey of meteorological conditions observed in the midwestern United States during the mid-19th century. Written by the French-born scientist Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, the book provides insight into a wide range of natural phenomena, from cloud formations to chang…es in temperature and wind patterns.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dans cette lettre à un banquier, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet explique les principes des assurances basées sur la probabilité de survie des individus. Il propose également des méthodes pour calculer les primes d'assurance en fonction de l'âge et de la santé des assurés, ainsi que des statistiques sur la…durée de vie moyenne.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Weitere BilderMémoire sur la mesure d'un arc du parallèle moyen entre le Pôle et l'Équateur ; par M. Brousseaud, colonel au Corps Royal des ingénieurs-géographes-militaires, et M. Nicollet, astronome-adjoint au Bureau des longitudes
Jean-Baptiste-Mathurin BROUSSEAUD - Joseph-François NICOLLET
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In den Warenkorbcouverture souple. Imprimerie de Huzard-Courcier | Paris 1826 | 16 x 24 cm | Broché | Édition originale, ornée d'une carte hors-texte dépliante en fin de volume (cf Quérard I 529.) Exemplaire présenté sous sa couverture verte et muette de l'époque, non rogné, quelques piqûres sur la carte. "Tableau des stations géodésiques et as…tronomiques choisies pour déterminer la mesure de l'arc du parallèle terrestre compris entre les tours de Cordouan et de Fiume, et qui doit s'étendre jusqu'à Orsowa en Transilvanie". Envoi autographe signé de Joseph-François Nicollet, en tête la page de titre, à un monsieur Pouillet. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition, illustrated with a folding map bound at the end (cf. Quérard I 529).Copy preserved in its original plain green wrappers,uncut, some foxing to the map."Tableau des stations géodésiques et astronomiques choisies pour déterminer la mesure de l'arc du parallèle terrestre compris entre les tours de Cordouan et de Fiume, et qui doit s'étendre jusqu'à Orsowa en Transilvanie".Inscribed and signed by Joseph-François Nicollet on the title-page, addressed to a Monsieur Pouillet. * in-8 de 46 pp., br. .
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. First. EX LIBRIS JOHN HENRY ALEXANDER, CHIEF CARTOGRAPHER OF MARYLAND -- EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH FRÉMONT'S OREGON AND CALIFORNIA MAP. First edition, Senate issue; 26th Congress, 2d Session, document 237. Octavo (8 11/16" x 5 3/4", 222mm x 146mm). [Full collation available.] With two large folding engrave…d maps (of one; with Preuss's lithographed "Map of Oregon and Upper California From the Surveys of John Charles Frémont And other Authorities" published for the Senate in 1848 by E. Weber and Co. in Baltimore; with hand-color in outline.) Bound in slightly later maroon cloth. On the spine, author and title gilt to black sheep with double gilt fillets top-and-bottom. Hinges split, with some fraying to the head and tail. Spine sunned. Rubbed, with a little wear at the corners. Foxed, generally mildly. With the ink ownership signature of "I. H. Alexander" along with (his?) monogram red ink-stamp and manuscript shelf-mark ("44.x.20.c") to the title-page. Ink manuscript titling of the Preuss map verso in an old hand (Alexander's?). Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (or Jean-Nicolas; 1786-1843) was a French-born mathematician and astronomer who, before his emigration to the Unites States in 1832, was professor of astronomy at the Paris Observatory and professor of mathematics at the Collège Louis-le-Grand. Nicollet set off first up the Mississippi on a commercial endeavor, which resulted in the correction of Zebulon Pike's map of the river, which had been the primary source of knowledge of its course since 1810. As a result, Nicollet was employed by the Corps of Topographical Engineers to revise official maps of the trans-Mississippi West. Although poor health prevented him from expanding his survey through the Missouri River, and he died a few months before the publication of the present work, his map -- drawn by the great William Helmsley Emory -- supplemented with a scientific analysis of his surveying models and even a précis of natural history in the areas he traversed -- is one of the great achievements of American cartography. For his contributions, Nicollet is buried in the Congressional Cemetery. The House issue of the report was accompanied by a smaller map, and so the Senate issue has always been the more desirable, even by the members of the House of Representatives. The present example is extra-illustrated with the John Charles Frémont's perhaps equally consequential map, which dates to the end of the Mexican-American War and the cession of 55% of Mexico's territory, yielding the entirety of California, Nevada and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico and part of Colorado and Wyoming. Later states of the map printed one of the first announcements of the discovery of gold in California, leading directly to the Gold Rush of 1849. The juxtaposition of these two maps (Frémont accompanied Nicollet on his second expedition) in the present volume must surely be the work of John Henry Alexander (1812-1867), who at the age of twenty-one was commissioned by the Maryland General Assembly to survey and map the whole of its state for topographical and census purposes. (Arader handled the original manuscript sheets of that survey.) Later in life he was professor of civil engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and of physics at the University of Maryland. He and Nicollet likely knew each other and perhaps even worked together (both being cartographers in the employ of the government working in Baltimore). Graff 3022; Howes N 152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, pp. 265-68 and pl. 165; Sabin 55257; Streeter sale III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180.
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. First. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES. First edition, Senate issue; 26th Congress, 2d Session, document 237. Octavo (9" x 5 11/16", 228mm x 144mm). [Full collation available.] With a large folding engraved map. Bound in contemporary sheep with a blind fillet-and-swag border. On t…he spine, title ("SENATE/DOCUME/2d.S.26th C.") gilt to red sheep with double gilt fillets top-and bottom; "LIB/ H REP." gilt to black sheep below with double gilt fillets top and bottom. Blind diagonal roll to the edges of the boards. Scuffed at the edges, with patches of wear at the upper edges of the boards. Tanned evenly with passages of mild foxing. Soiling around the map. Stub-tear and hinge-split to the map repaired. Opening 102.3 partially unopened (at the fore of the upper edge). Ink-stamp of the U.S. House of Representatives Library to the title-page and to p. 50, both offsetting, as well as to the upper edge of the text-block (with their DISCARD stamp to the rear paste-down). Ink-stamp of the UVA Law Library to the upper edge of the text-block. Bookplate of the "LIBRARY/COMMITTEE ON/ TERRITORIES. NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM COMMITTEE ROOM./ U. S. HOUSE OF REPS." Pasted to the rear board, with adhesive tanning. Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (or Jean-Nicolas; 1786-1843) was a French-born mathematician and astronomer who, before his emigration to the Unites States in 1832, was professor of astronomy at the Paris Observatory and professor of mathematics at the Collège Louis-le-Grand. Nicollet set off first up the Mississippi on a commercial endeavor, which resulted in the correction of Zebulon Pike's map of the river, which had been the primary source of knowledge of its course since 1810. As a result, Nicollet was employed by the Corps of Topographical Engineers to revise official maps of the trans-Mississippi West. Although poor health prevented him from expanding his survey through the Missouri River, and he died a few months before the publication of the present work, his map -- drawn by the great William Helmsley Emory -- supplemented with a scientific analysis of his surveying models and even a précis of natural history in the areas he traverse -- is one of the great achievements of American cartography. For his contribution, Nicollet is buried in the Congressional Cemetery. The House issue of the report was accompanied by a smaller map, and so the Senate issue has always been the more desirable, even by the members of the House of Representatives. The present example was used by the House Committee on Territories, which operated 1825-1946. Originally given jurisdiction over issues related to non-state U.S. territory, it eventually came to oversee the admission of states into the Union as well as determining their boundaries. The large map was doubtless used in the assessment of statehood for Iowa, Wisconsin and Kansas among others. After its deaccession from the House Library, the volume was in the collection of the University of Virginia Law Library. From the collection of Robert Braun (b. 1928). Braun was born in Vienna and came to America in 1939 as a refugee aboard a Kindertransport. With his wife Nancy he became a devoted naturalist, building a bird-sanctuary and publishing the indispensable Concordance to Audubon's Birds of America, which identified the plants appearing in each plate. Purchased at his sale, Bonham's Skinner 12 November 2024, lot 33. Graff 3022; Howes N 152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, pp. 265-68 and pl. 165; Sabin 55257; Streeter sale III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180.
Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River. 28th Congress, 2nd Session. January 11th, 1845.
NICOLLET, Joseph N. (1786-1843, also called Jean N.) - EMORY, William Hemsley (1811-1887).
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 6/8 inches). Fine large engraved folding map of the Hydrological Basin of the Upper Mississippi by Emory after Nicollet (title-page top outer corner renewed). Modern half red calf gilt. "THE EARLIEST ACCURATE MAP OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS" (Ehrenber…g) First edition, House Issue. Nicollet, a French-born scientist and would-be astronomer, arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and soon became intimate with the wealthy Chouteau family, who were preeminent in controlling the fur trade of the Mississippi Valley, with operations extending northward into the Illinois country. They persuaded him to join them in expeditions they were sending into the St. Louis region. "Nicollet embarked on the first of these explorations in 1836, searching for the source of the Mississippi River. In this quest he came into contact with the Chippewa Indians and reported his findings on their language, customs, religious practices, relations with other tribes, and attitudes toward American settlers to U.S. Army officers stationed at Fort Snelling, at the juncture of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, the site of present-day Minneapolis. Nicollet impressed his new American friends in the U.S. Army. As a result of their recommendations Secretary of War Joel Poinsett invited him to Washington, D.C., and gave him various assignments. One of these in 1838 was a commission to conduct a survey of the upper Missouri country, accompanied by Lieutenant John C. Frémont. In the following year he continued the survey by steamboat and also explored the sources of the Red River and the North Dakota country. When he returned to Washington, D.C., in 1840, he prepared some of the first accurate maps of the region northwest of the Mississippi River. In these projects he worked closely with the eminent Swiss émigré Ferdinand Hassler, chief of the U.S. Coast Survey.The significance of Nicollet's life in the United States was as an explorer and mapmaker. A scientist of note, he was one of the illustrious circle of talented, adventurous, and highly skilled men who gathered around Hassler. That group developed the first accurate scientific data about the still-unknown regions of the Mississippi Valley. In his brief career as a pioneer explorer he contributed much to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and to more accurate knowledge of the Native Americans in that area" (Gerald D. Nash for ADNB). Nicollet's celebrated "Map of the Hydrographic Basin of the Upper Mississippi River", reduced by Emory and first published separately in 1842, was "based on some 90,000 instrument readings and 326 distinctly determined astronomical points. With its overall regional concept of a 'hydrographic basin,' Nicollet's map and the accompanying report were years ahead of their time. Had he lived one more decade, Nicollet would undoubtedly have become the official government cartographer of the whole trans-Mississippi West" (Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, 1993, p. 313). Buck 339. Graff 3022. Howes N152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg (Plate 165), pp. 265-68; Sabin 55257; Streeter III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River. 28th Congress, 2nd Session. January 11th, 1845.
NICOLLET, Joseph N. (1786-1843, also called Jean N.) - EMORY, William Hemsley (1811-1887).
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 4/8 inches). Fine large engraved folding map, on two sheets joined, of the Hydrological Basin of the Upper Mississippi by Emory after Nicollet. Modern blue cloth gilt. "THE EARLIEST ACCURATE MAP OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS" (Ehrenberg) First edition, House Issue, but wit…h the larger map usually found in the Senate issue. Nicollet, a French-born scientist and would-be astronomer, arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and soon became intimate with the wealthy Chouteau family, who were preeminent in controlling the fur trade of the Mississippi Valley, with operations extending northward into the Illinois country. They persuaded him to join them in expeditions they were sending into the St. Louis region. "Nicollet embarked on the first of these explorations in 1836, searching for the source of the Mississippi River. In this quest he came into contact with the Chippewa Indians and reported his findings on their language, customs, religious practices, relations with other tribes, and attitudes toward American settlers to U.S. Army officers stationed at Fort Snelling, at the juncture of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, the site of present-day Minneapolis. Nicollet impressed his new American friends in the U.S. Army. As a result of their recommendations Secretary of War Joel Poinsett invited him to Washington, D.C., and gave him various assignments. One of these in 1838 was a commission to conduct a survey of the upper Missouri country, accompanied by Lieutenant John C. Frémont. In the following year he continued the survey by steamboat and also explored the sources of the Red River and the North Dakota country. When he returned to Washington, D.C., in 1840, he prepared some of the first accurate maps of the region northwest of the Mississippi River. In these projects he worked closely with the eminent Swiss émigré Ferdinand Hassler, chief of the U.S. Coast Survey.The significance of Nicollet's life in the United States was as an explorer and mapmaker. A scientist of note, he was one of the illustrious circle of talented, adventurous, and highly skilled men who gathered around Hassler. That group developed the first accurate scientific data about the still-unknown regions of the Mississippi Valley. In his brief career as a pioneer explorer he contributed much to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and to more accurate knowledge of the Native Americans in that area" (Gerald D. Nash for ADNB). Nicollet's celebrated "Map of the Hydrographic Basin of the Upper Mississippi River", reduced by Emory and first published separately in 1842, was "based on some 90,000 instrument readings and 326 distinctly determined astronomical points. With its overall regional concept of a 'hydrographic basin,' Nicollet's map and the accompanying report were years ahead of their time. Had he lived one more decade, Nicollet would undoubtedly have become the official government cartographer of the whole trans-Mississippi West" (Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, 1993, p. 313). Buck 339. Graff 3022. Howes N152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg (Plate 165), pp. 265-68; Sabin 55257; Streeter III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
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In den Warenkorb1st Edition. 8vo., (9 x 5 4/8 inches). Fine large engraved folding map of the Hydrological Basin of the Upper Mississippi by Emory after Nicollet (two sheets joined, some minor browning at folds). Modern sheep antique (a little scuffed at the extremities). "THE EARLIEST ACCURATE MAP OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS"… (Ehrenberg) First edition, Senate Issue. Nicollet, a French-born scientist and would-be astronomer, arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and soon became intimate with the wealthy Chouteau family, who were preeminent in controlling the fur trade of the Mississippi Valley, with operations extending northward into the Illinois country. They persuaded him to join them in expeditions they were sending into the St. Louis region. "Nicollet embarked on the first of these explorations in 1836, searching for the source of the Mississippi River. In this quest he came into contact with the Chippewa Indians and reported his findings on their language, customs, religious practices, relations with other tribes, and attitudes toward American settlers to U.S. Army officers stationed at Fort Snelling, at the juncture of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, the site of present-day Minneapolis. Nicollet impressed his new American friends in the U.S. Army. As a result of their recommendations Secretary of War Joel Poinsett invited him to Washington, D.C., and gave him various assignments. One of these in 1838 was a commission to conduct a survey of the upper Missouri country, accompanied by Lieutenant John C. Frémont. In the following year he continued the survey by steamboat and also explored the sources of the Red River and the North Dakota country. When he returned to Washington, D.C., in 1840, he prepared some of the first accurate maps of the region northwest of the Mississippi River. In these projects he worked closely with the eminent Swiss émigré Ferdinand Hassler, chief of the U.S. Coast Survey.The significance of Nicollet's life in the United States was as an explorer and mapmaker. A scientist of note, he was one of the illustrious circle of talented, adventurous, and highly skilled men who gathered around Hassler. That group developed the first accurate scientific data about the still-unknown regions of the Mississippi Valley. In his brief career as a pioneer explorer he contributed much to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and to more accurate knowledge of the Native Americans in that area" (Gerald D. Nash for ADNB). Nicollet's celebrated "Map of the Hydrographic Basin of the Upper Mississippi River", reduced by Emory and first published separately in 1842, was "based on some 90,000 instrument readings and 326 distinctly determined astronomical points. With its overall regional concept of a 'hydrographic basin,' Nicollet's map and the accompanying report were years ahead of their time. Had he lived one more decade, Nicollet would undoubtedly have become the official government cartographer of the whole trans-Mississippi West" (Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire, 1993, p. 313). Buck 339. Graff 3022. Howes N152; Schwartz & Ehrenberg (Plate 165), pp. 265-68; Sabin 55257; Streeter III:1808; Wagner-Camp-Becker 98; Wheat, Transmississippi West II, p. 180. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
