Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    291 295 296 300 301 302 303 804 305 306 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. BARTOLI (Cosimo) Del Mopo di MISURARE le DISTANCIE, le SUPERFICIE, i CoRPI, le PIANTE, le PROVINCIE, le PROSPETTIVE, e€ tutte le altre cose terrene, secondo le vere Regole d’ EUCLIDE, ecc., primera edizione ; with woodcut-title, portrait, and numerous woodcuts of geodetic instru- ments, etc., and diagrams, sm. 4to. old white vellum (title and some Ul. stained, otherwise a sound and tall copy) ; 15s Venetia, 1564 BASSET (Alfred Barnard, F.R.S.) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on HyDRODYNAMICS and SOUND, diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 7s 6d) Cumbridge, 1888 BAUME (Antoine) MANUAL of CHEMISTRY—v. BEAUME, post. BAUMHAUER, (Heinrich) Die NEUERE ENTWICKELUNG der KRISTALLOGRAPHIE; with 46 diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 3s (sells M.4.) Braunschweig, 1905 BAVERSTOCK (James) TREATISE on BREWING ; with Notes and Biographical Intro., and Papers on SPECIFIC GRAVITY, including the Hydrostatical Instruments used in the Brewery, and on Malting, by J. H. BAVERSTOCK, F.S,A., with fine portrait by S. Hall (stained), 8vo. boards, uncut (scarce), 10s 6d | 1826 ‘My father was the first person who used the hydrometer in the brewery.’—p. xxvii. [BAXTER (Andrew)] MATHO: or the COSMOTHEORIA PUERILIS, accommodating the first Princi- ples of Philosophy and Astronomy to the Capacity of young Persons, trans., and enlarged by the Author, 2 vols. 8vo. old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 7s 6d 1740 ‘Deducing the principles of natural religion from the phenomena of the material world.’ BAYLE (Francois) INSTITUTIONES Puysic&, cum Indice, etc., Editio altera, recognita, ete. ; with 16 folding copperplates, 3 vols. 4to. contemporary calf gilt, 15s Francofurti, 1703 Containing not only physics, and what at that time was comprised in this term —chemistry, astronomy, and ineteorolegy, but also physiology and pathology. The author was one of the first to apply physics to the study of medicine. BAYMA (Joseph, s.J., Stonyhurst Coll.) The ELEMENTS of MOLECULAR MECHANICS, with 3 folding plates, 8vo. cl. (out of print), 6s 6d 1866 ‘A first endeavour towards ascertaining the laws of molecular action.’—Intro. BAZAINE (Général Pierre Dominique) TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE de CALCUL DIFFERENTIEL ; with 4 plates, 8vo. hf. calf (rare), 7s 6d St. Pétersbourg [1817] BEAUFOY (Col. Mark, F.R.S8.) NAUTICAL and HYDRAULIC EXPERIMENTS, with numerous Scientific Miscellanies [ed. with Intro., ete., by his Son HENRY, F-.R.S.], Vol. I. (all published), with portrait, 2 fine vignettes by George Cooke, 16 copperplates, and woodcuts, thick roy. 4to. hf. calf (SCARCE), 15s 1834 The author was a member of the well-known family of distillers at South Lambeth, and was the first Englishman to ascend Mont Blanc, six days later than Saussure. This was the only volume printed at the author’s private press, out of three proposed to be issued. The work was never published, but presented only to some public institutions and individuals interested in naval architecture. ‘His magnetic observations were superior in accuracy and extent to any earlier work of the kind. They served to determine more precisely the laws of the diurnal variation, as well as to fix the epoch and amount of maximum Westerly declination in England. . . . The data accumulated by Beaufoy enabled Lamont in 1851 to confirm his discovery of a decennial period in the amount of diurnal variation, by placing a maximum in 1817.—D. N. B. BEAUME [recte BAUME] (Antoine) MANUAL of CHEMISTRY, or a brief Account of the Operations of Chemistry, and their Products, trans. [by JouN A1KIN, D.D.], 12mo. nice copy tn contemporary calf, 8s 6d Warrington, 1778 One of the best concise text-books of chemistry based on the phlogiston theory. Dr. Aikin adds a preface and notes on ‘fixed air’. BECCARIA (Giovanni Battista, delle Scuole Pie ; ¥.R.S.) TREATISE on ARTIFICAL ELECTRIC- ITy, giving Solutions of a Number of interesting Electric Phanomena, hitherto unexplained, with Essay on the MiLp and SLOW ELECTRICITY prevailing in the Atmosphere during Serene Weather, trans. from the Italian, with 11 folding plates, roy. 4to. (?) LARGE PAPER ; el. (rare), 12s 6d 1776 The author was the first to disseminate a knowledge of electricity in Italy, and promoied the science by a number of valuable experiments, an important one ‘on charging a glass disc with electricity’ having been contributed to the ‘Philosophical Transactions’. , i : ; BECHER (Johann Joachim) OPUSCULA Cuymica RARIORA, addita nova Preefatione ac Indice locupletissimo a FRID. ROTH-SCHOLTZIO ; with copperplates, 12mo. boards (RARE), £1. 5s Norimberge, 1719 ‘ Becher attempted to revive the old ideas of Basil Valeutine and Paracelsus in another form. In place of mereury, sulphur, and salt, he set up three earths of which all inorganic (‘sub-terrestrial’) bodies should exist, viz. the mercurial, the vitreous, and the combustible. The nature of any material depended upon the proportions in which these three funda: mental earths were contained in it’.—Prof. E. v. Meyer. : hae — PrysicA SUBTERRANEA, Profundam Subterraneorum Genesin e principiis hueusque ignotis ostendens, Ed. novissima, cum Indice locupletissimo ; edidit et Specimen Beccherianum subjunxit G. E. STAHL ; curious emblematic front., 4to. sound copy in old vellum, 15s Lipsie, 1738 An important work in the history of chemistry, in which the author assumed that when substances were burned or metals calcined, the terra pinguis escaped. Starting from this conception Gora ERNST SraHt, the editor of the above, developed the PHLOGISTON THEORY, which did so much to retard the progress of chemistry in the XVIJIth Century. BECK (Richard) TREATISE on the CONSTRUCTION, PRorpER USE, and CAPABILITIES of SMITH, BecK, and BECK’s ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPES, with 29 plates and 76 woodcuts, roy. aye ae 8s 6a , , ) Containing many instruments made from designs and suggestions by JosEPH Jackson LIsTER, ¥F.B.8., the discoverer of the principle of the modern microscope, BECKWITH (Edward Lonsdale) Practicat Notes on WINE, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), 1 2s 6d BECQUEREL (Alexandre Edmond) La Lumrire: ses Causes and ses Effets ; with 8 plates (mostly coloured), and numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. hf. calf gilt. (nice copy) ; state 17s 6d ; z 37-8 The author’s best-known work, containing a number of important original researches.
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