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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    330 331 332 333 304 335 336 337 338 339 344 345 346 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. BENEDETTI [Latine BENEDICTUS| (Giovanni Battista) DIVERSARUM SPECULA- TIONUM MATHEMATICARUM et PHYSICARUM LIBER; with woodcuts and numerous diagrams, folio, old calf (blank margin of some Il. water-stained, otherwise a sound and VERY TALL COPY) ; RARE, £2. 2s Taurini, 1585 ‘C’est dans les Spéculations mathématiques qu’il a consigné les plus remarquables de ses travaux... Il a construit et résolu géométriquement la plupart des théoreines de V’arithmetique et del’algebre élémentaire. . . Dans sa Mécanique, il a su expliquer action de plusieurs machines ; ila connu la force centrifuge, et il a dit que, laissés en liberté, les corps s’échappent par la tangente ; l'équilibre du levier recourbé a été bien determiné par lui; et ila reduit le mouvement dun corps 4 celui de son centre de gravité,’—Libri. _ Epitio ALTERA, in quo mira Subtilitate continentur : THEOREMATA ARITHMETICA ; de RATIONIBUS OPERATIONUM PERSPECTIVE ; de MECHANICIS ; Disputat. de quibusdam placitis Aristot.; in V. Euclidis Librum ; Physica et Mathematica Responsa per Epistolas ; with numerous diagrams ; folio, sewn (water-stained) ; RARE, £1. 15s Venetits, 1599 A very rare edition, unknown to Brunet and Poggendorff, of the most important work of the most prominent precursor of Galileo in the domain of mechanics. He first explained that a rotating body on being released flies off in a tangential path, thus belying the old idea of centrifugal force (as embodied in the word), that bodies have a tendency to fly out- wards from the centre round which they are revolving. He also showed remotely that he understood accelerated motion, and that he had some knowledge of momentum and inertia. De Gnomonum UmBRARUMQUE SoLartum Usu Liber; with numerous woodcuts of geometrical figures, folio, old parchment (back of binding wormed, and lower margin water- stained); RARE, £1. 10s Auguste Tuurinorum, 1574 ‘Fort savant, mais peu accessible au commun des lecteurs.’— Montucla. ‘Contenant des recherches intéressantes.’— Libri. BENEDIKT (R.) The CHEMISTRY of COAL Tar CoLourRs, trans. and ed., with Additions, by E. KNECHT, illustrated, post Svo. cl. (out of print), 5s 1886 BENNETT (John, c.£.) The ARCANUM, comprising a concise Theory, of PRACTICAL, KELEMENT- ARY and DEFINITIVE GEOMETRY; exhibiting the various Transmutations of Supertices [sic] and Solids, etc. etc., including SOLUTIONS to the yet UNANSWERED PROBLEMS of the ANCIENTS, with numerous plates, comprising 179 figures, 8vo. cl. (SCARCE), 15s 1838 A very curious—and unquestionably original—attempt at teaching a knowledge of geometry by the use of geometrical figures with only a very short explanatory text. The illustrations comprise ‘Divisions of the Sphere ‘invented’ by the author’, ‘ Napoleon’s Problem to his Staff’, ete. ete. i ORIGINAL GEOMETRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, or the Book of Lines, Squares, Circles, Triangles, Polygons, etc., showing an Easy and Scientific Method for increasing, decreasing, and altering any given Circle, Square, Triangle, Ellipsis, Parallelogram, Polygon, ete. to any other Figure contain- ing the same Area, by plain and simple Methods, laid down agreeably to Mathematical Demon- stration, with 55 plates and numerous diagrams, 4to. cl., 10s 6d 1837 BENSON (Lawrence Sluter) Facts and FIGURES for MATHEMATICIANS; or the Geometrical Problem which Benson’s Geometry alone can solve, diagrams, post 8vo. (pp. 22), sewn, 3s New York (ce. 1868] [_——] MATHEMATICS in a DILEMMA, Complimentary Edition, diagrams, 8vo. (pp. 17), sewn, 3s 6d ebidem, 1879 ‘T shall show that mathematicians have been plundering for 2300 years in their first inception of geometry, and through- out all the deductions and conclusions therefrom.’—Preface. The author was a lifelong foe to a Reductio ad absurdum. BENZENBERG (Johann Friedrich) VERSUCHE iiber das GESETZ des FALLS, tiber den WIDERSTAND der LurT und iiber die UMDREHUNG der Erpr, nebst der Geschichte aller fritheren Versuche von Galilii bis auf Guglielmini ; with vignette and 8 copperplates, 8vo. original boards, uncut (FINE COPY) ; VERY RARE, £Y.. 15s Dortmund, 1804 The most important of the author’s writings, wherein he first proved that every body dropped from a great height fell in an Easterly direction, owing to the earth’s revolution round its axis. His experiments—based on a suggestion made by Sir Isaac Newton, and previously unsuccessfully attempted by Hooke and Guglielmini—were made from the top of the ©Michaelisturm’ of Hamburg, covering a height of 235 feet, and were of great importance as conclusively proving the rotation of the earth. BERGMAN (Torbern Olof, Upsala) DISSERTATION on ELECTIVE ATTRACTIONS, trans. from the Latin by the Translator of Spallanzani’s Dissertations [EDMUND CULLEN, M.D.], with folding plates and tables, 8vo. fine copy in old tree-calf gilt (SCARCE), £1. 5s 17 ____ ANOTHER Copy, old sheep, newly rebacked in hf. calf gut, £1. 2s 6d The author was the first to recognize the influence of warmth on chemical affinity, and in the above work gives tables of chemical affinities which are still recognized as the most correct and most complete. _____ PHYSICAL and CHEMICAL ESSAYS, trans. from the Latin, with Notes and Illustrations, by EpMUND CULLEN, M.D., Dublin, with copperplutes, 2 vols. 8vo. nice copy in old calf gilt (rare), £1. 1s 1788 ____ ANOTHER Copy, boards, uncut, 18s 6d Containing the most important of the author’s chemical works save ‘ Elective Attraction ’, and giving descriptions of how to reduce insoluble minerals by smelting with alkalies, and suggesting improved methods in analytical chemistry. BERGSMA (Cornelis Adriaan) RESPONSIO ad QUAISTIONEM € CHEMIA APPLICATA ab Ordine Disciplinarum Mathematicarum et Physicarum propositam, 4to. (pp. 52), sewn, 3s 6d Groningea, 1821 A NEWLY BOUND SET: BERICHTE der DEUTSCHEN CHEMISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT zu BERLIN; from. 1875 (Jahrgang VIII) to 1904 (Jahrgang XXXVII); with fine portraits and illustrations, 82 ‘vols. Svo. newly bound in hf. calf neat, £27. 10s Berlin, 1875-1904 ~ ANOTHER SET, from 1878 (Jahrgang XI} to 1901 (Jahrgang XXXIV); with portraits and illustrations ; 1878-1892 bound in 31 vols. hf. morocco gilt, cl. sides, and the rest in parts as issued - (A SOUND LIBRARY SET), £17. 17s ib., 1878-1901 «A SERIES from 1896 to 1901 (Jahrgang 29-34), with portraits, 18 vols. 8vo. in parts as issued, £3. 10s (p. M. 240 nett) : ib., 1896-1901
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