Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    389 BEZOUT (Etienne, de U’ Institut) Cours de MATHEMATIQUES A usage du Corps de 1’Artillerie ; nouvelle Ed., augmentée de l’Exposition abrégée du nouveau Systéme des Poids et Mesures, d’apres le Métre définitif, par NIcoLAS ANTOINE GUILLARD ; with plates, 4 vols. 8vo. Af. morocco neat, 8s 6d 1800 ‘Ila joui longtemps d’une grande popularité en France, 4 cause de son Cours de Mathématiques, dans lequel plusieurs eénérations apprirent les éléments de la science.’—Boyer. , First PRINCIPLES of the DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, taken chiefly from the Mathematics of, and translated, with 2 plates, 8vo. hf. bound (broken), 7s 6d Cambridge, N.E. [Mass.], 1824 This copy belonged to Jonn WALKER, B.D. 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NOUVELLES TABLES @INTEGRALES D4FINIES, thick 4to. Af. cl. (out of print), lds headpa£1.,55 nett) Leide, 1867 399 BIERING (Christian Henrik) HisrorIA PROBLEMATIS CuUBI DUPLICANDI: Specimen historico-mathematicum ; with diagrams, 4to. (pp. 64), scwn (scarce), 5s Haunie, 1844 400 BIESE (Alfred Conrad) Ein NEVER TYPUS OPTISCHER INSTRUMENTE ; with 13 figures, 4to. (pp. 29), sewn, 1s 6d Berlin, 1894 40] ——_—— THEORIE der FERNROHRE mit continuierlich variabler Vergriésserung ; with 10 figures, 4to. (pp. 29), sewn, 1s 6d abidem, 1895 402 BILLET (Félix) TRAITE d’OPTIQUE PHYSIQUE; with 14 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf ; or, calf, 6s 6d (p. F. 15. sewn) 1858-9 403 ANOTHER Copy, Af. calf gilt (nice copy), 7s 6d» 404 BILLINGS (John Shaw, mp.) The PrincipLes of VENTILATION and HEATING, and their Practical Application, 2nd Ed., with 72 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 15s) [1884] 405 BILLINGS (William R.) Some DETAILS of WATER-WORKS CONSTRUCTION, 2nd Ed., woodcuts, large 8vo. cl., 3s New York, 1889 406 BION (Nicolas) The CoNSTRUCTION and PRINCIPAL USES of MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, trans. from the French; with the Construction and Uses of such Instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented and improved by the English, by EDMUND STONE, F.R.S., ee folding plates on copper, folio, large and sound copy im contemporary panelled ne) 10s 6 5 7 407 Seconp EpIrion, with SUPPLEMENT, containing further Account of some of the most useful Mathematical Instruments as are now improved, with 30 copperplates, folio, old calf (back damaged), 10s 6d 1758 408 BIOT (Jean Baptiste, de l’ Institut) ESSAI de GEOMETRIE ANALYTIQUE, appliquée aux Courbes et aux Surfaces du Second Ordre, 5° Ed.; with plates, 8vo. Af. bound, 3s 1813 F - © Ouvrage trés-estimé ’.—Biogr. 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