Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112

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Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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238 241 247 248 253 254 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 13 BAILY (Francis, F.r.s.) The DOCTRINE of LIFE-ANNUITIES and ASSURANCES, new Ed., from the Original, with the MoDERN NOTATION, and enlarged both in the Extent of the Treatise, as well as in the Variety of Tables, including a Table of Deferred Annuities on Single Lives, Carlisle 4%, and several others on the English Life Table, by H. FILIpowsKI, 8vo. new hf. brown calf extra, t. €. g. (SCARCE), £1. 1s 1864 ‘ Baily’s merits as a writer of life-contingencies were undoubtedly very great. The subject was by him first presented in asymmetrical form; a uniform system of notation was introduced; and toa perspicuous and comprehensive view of the labours of his predecessors the results of much original research were added .’—D. N.B. On the New METHOD of DETERMINING the LONGITUDE by the CULMINATION of the Ao and STARS, with List of STARS applicable to the Purpose for 1825, 4to. (pp. 48), ¢l., 6s 6 1824. New TABLES for FACILITATING the COMPUTATION of PRECESSION, ABERRATION and NuTATION of 2,881 PRINCIPAL STARS; with Catalogue of the same reduced to Jan. 1, 1830, computed at the Expense and under the Direction of the ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of LONDON ; with Intro. on their Construction and Application, 4to. Af. bound (SCARCE), £2. 2s ky. E827 ANOTHER Copy, as published with the Astronomical Society’s Memoirs (without General Title), 4to. Af. calf gilt, £1. 17s 6d : The ASTRONOMICAL SociEtTy’s STAR CaTALoGuE, which, according to Sir John Herschel, ‘ put the astronomical world in possession of a power which may be said, without exaggeration, to have changed the face of sidereal astronomy.’ ‘In 1827 the Astronomical Society of Loudon rendered an important service to practical astronomy, by the publication of a general catalogue of stars, founded upon the most celebrated catalogues that have been executed since the middle of the XVIII. century. This catalogue contains the places of 2,881 stars, reduced upon a uniform system to Jan. 1st, 1830. In addition to the mean place of each star, the constants for computing its apparent place, according to Bessel’s method, are also inserted. The introductory explanation is by Francis Baily, to whom was assigned the important task of selecting the most trustworthy values of the uranographical corrections. The calculations were executed under the superintendence of Lieut. Stratford,’—Prof. R. Grant. BAIN (William, Master R.N.) Essay on the VARIATION of the CoMPASS, shewing how far it is influenced by a Change in the Direction of the Ship’s Head, with the Dangers to Navigators for not allowing for this Change of Variation, folding chart, 8vo. boards, uncut, 5s Edin., 1817 BAKER (Sir Benjamin, F.R.S., joint-engineer of the Forth Bridge) On the STRENGTH of BEAMS, CoLuMNs, and ARCHES, 2 plates and woodcuts, post 8vo. cl. (owt of print), 3s 6d 1870 BAKER (Henry, F.R.S.) EMPLOYMENT forthe Microscopy. I. Examination of Salts and Saline Substances. II. Account of various Animalcules never before described, with Description of Microscope used, ete. ete., 17 folding copperplates, 8vo. old calf gilt (joints cracked), with Chippen- dale bookplate of John Wright, 8s 6d 1753 The Microscork made Easy: its Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers, with an Account of what surprizing Discoveries have been already made by it, etc. etc., first edition, with 14 copperplates, 8vo. old calf, 10s 6d 1742 © “In 1744 he was awarded the Copley medal for his microscopical experiments on the crystallisatious and configurations of saline particles. These two books contain the bulk of his more important communications on the subject to the Royal Society.’—D. N. B. The author was the founder of the Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society. BAKER (Ira Osborn, Univ. of Illinois) TREATISE on MASONRY CONSTRUCTION, 3rd Ed., with 6 folding plates, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 8s (p. £1. 58) New York, 1890 BAKER (Richard, Philomath) The DescripTION and UsEs of a most Accurate PLANISPHERE, performing in Astronomy, most Propositions of the Globe . . . . in ASTROLOGY, readily finding the Cusps of the Houses, Circles of Position, ete. as by Argol’s Primum Mobile . . . with their Uses in Arithmetick, Geometry, Dialling, etc., 3 folding plates, 12mo. nice copy in the original sheep (rare), 10s 6d ‘ 1686 Unknown to Lowndes or Allibone. BAKER (Thomas, pr.) The GEOMETRICAL KEY: or the GATE of EQUATIONS UNLOCK’D: a NEW DISCOVERY of the CONSTRUCTION of ALL EQUATIONS, howsoever affected, not exceeding the fourth Degree, and the finding of all their Roots, as well false, as true ; without the use of Mesolabe, Trisection of Angles, etc. etc. [with LATIN TRANSLATION on opposite pp. j, folding plates, sm. 4to hf. calf (RARE), £1. 1s 1684 ‘The leading idea of Baker’s work is the solution of biquadratic equations (and those of a lower degree) by a gometrical construction, a parabola intersecued bya circle. The method is distinguished from that of Descartes by not requiring the equation to be previously deprived of its second term. ‘The general principle is worked outin greatdetail. . . . Some account of the work is given in the Transactions of the Royal Society.’—D. N. B. BAKER (Thomas, ¢.E.) RAILWAY ENGINEERING ; or Field Work preparatory to the Con- peace of Railways, with General Table for the Calculation of Earthworks, diagrams, 8vo. ie s 18:8 BALARD (Antoine Jérome) MémorreE sur une SUBSTANCE PARTICULIGRE contenue dans l’EAU The account of the author's discovery of Bromine, which he isolated from the mother liquor of sea-salt. BALIANIT (Giovanni Battista) De Motu NATURALI GRAVIUM SOLIDORUM 3; with vignette on title and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. hf. bound (VERY LARGH AND FINE COPY) ; ae pont ls enue, 1638 ORIGINAL Eprrion of this curious work, in which the author attempts to ascribe to himself nearly all of Galileo's dis- coveries [v. Poggendorff’s Geschichte der Physik, pp. 292-3], An old auto. note on the last 1|., dated Sept. 22, 1689, states that this was a presentation copy from the author. ans (Sir Robert Stawell, F.R.s.) ELEMENTS of ASTRONOMY, 136 dlustrations, er. 8vo. cl., 3s p- 6s 1880 An admirable elementary treatise, containing much useful bibliographical information. EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS, LIBRARY ED., with 103 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 6s 6d (p. 16s) 1871 Star-LAND: Tales with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens, 92 ¢/ustrations, er. 8vo. cl., 8s (p. 6s) 1889

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