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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    431 445 446 447 448 449 452 . 43 454 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., anv 37, PICCADILLY, WwW 23 BLANCOURT (Handiequer de) The ArT of GLAss, shewing how to make all Sorts of Glass, Crystal and Enamel; the Making of Pearls, Precious Stones, China and Looking-Glasses ; with thé Method of Painting on Glass and Enameling, etc. ete.; containing many SECRETS and CURIOSITIES NEVER BEFORE DISCOVERED, now first trans. into English, with Appendix, containing Exact Instructions for making GLASS-EYES of all Colours, copperplates, 8vo. old panelled calf (RARE), £2. 2s 1699 An early and valuable treatise on the subject, especially for the recipes for colouring glass, The secret of making glass eyes was here first made public. BLAND (Miles, p.D., F.R.S.) ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEMS, producing Simple and Quadratic Equations, with their Solutions, 8th Ed., with Appendix, containing Problems on the Nature and Solution of Equations of Higher Dimensions, 8vo. boards, 3s 6d 1841 NintH [LAST] EDITION [with additional Chapter on the Solution of Indeterminate Equations and Problems]: Kry to the Work—2 vols. 8vo. boards, 8s 6d (p. 19s 6d) 1849-36 ———— GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS arranged and solved, with Appendix containing the Elements of Plane Trigonometry, 3rd Ed., diagrams, boards ; or, hf. calf, 3s Cambridge, 1827 ——— Fourrtu [LAST] EpITION, diagrams, 8vo. boards, 4s 6d (p. 10s 6d) 1842 -——— PROBLEMS in the DIFFERENT BRANCHES of PHILosopHy [Trigonometrical, Physical, and Astronomical], 8vo. cl., 4s : BLANKEN (H. van) EssAI sur la RESOLUTION des EQUATIONS, 4to. (pp. 16), sewn, 2s Zwolle, 1839 BLOCK (Eugen) HILFSTAFELN zur BERECHNUNG der POLARIS-AZIMUTE, zuniichst mit Riicksicht auf die Zeitbestimmung im Verticale des Polarsterns, large 4to. cl., 2s 6d St. Petersburg, 1878 BLOUNT (Bertram) PRACTICAL ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY, 2nd Ed., revised to date, 69 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 10s 6d (sells 15s nett) 1906 BLOXAM (Charles Loudon) CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC and ORGANIC, with Experiments, and a Comparison of Equivalent and Molecular Formule, 278 woodcuts, thick 8yvo. cl., 2s 6d 1867 FirTH EDITION, with 292 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 18s) 1883 —_——— NINTH [LAST] EDITION, rewritten and revised by JoHN MILLAR THOMSON, F.R.S., and ARTHUR G. BLOXAM, 284 woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl., 13s 6d (p. 18s nett) 1903 — LABORATORY TEACHING, or Progressive Exercises in Practical Chemistry, 5th Ed., post S8vo. el., 2s (p. 5s 6d) 1886 BOCKLER (Georg Andreas) THEATRUM MACHINARUM NoyuM, exhibens Aquarias, Alatas, Jumentarias, Manuarias; Pedibus, ac Ponderibus Versatiles, Plures, et diversas Molas; ex Germania in Latinum translatum opera HENRICI SCHMITZ; with engraved title and 153 large plates, folio, old parchment (wanting plate 133) ; RARE, £1. 1s Colonie Agr., 1662 A very curious work indispensable to the historian of engineering, illustrating every variety of Mills, Waterworks, Pumps, ete., from the earliest time to the period of its publication. BODE (Johaun Elert) SAMMLUNG ASTRONOMISCHER ABHANDLUNGEN, BEOBACHTUNGEN, und . NACHRICHTEN (Supplement-Band I-III zu dessen astronomischen Jahrbiichern) ; with 3 copper- plates, 3 vols. 8vo. in 1, boards, 6s 6d Berlin, 1793-7 Bode was the discoverer of the law called after him, on the arithmetical relation subsisting between the distances of the planets from the sun. BOERHAAVE (Herman) ELEMENTA CHEMI, Editio altera, Leydenensi multo correctior et accuratior, cui etiam accessére ejusdem OPUSCULA OMNIA que hactentis in lucem prodierunt; ea quidem pritis sparsim edita, nunc verd in unum collecta atque digesta ; with 17 copperplates, 2 vols. 4to. sound copy in old calf gilt, 15s Parisiis, 1733 ANOTHER Copy, old calf, newly and neatly rebacked, 17s 6d Best Epirron, with copious indexes, ‘Orationes Academice VIII’, and some other works on Pharmacology. ‘Intended to contain all the important work done in chemistry, which long remained by far the best guide to the study of the science. . . He studied the processes involved in calcination, and to him is due the valuable experimental contradiction of the view putforth by Boyle and others.’—Prof. E. v. Meyer. —, LIFE and WRITINGS of, with Appendix [by WILLIAM BURTON, M.D.], with portrait (fine impression), sm. 8vo. old calf gilt, with Lord Boston’s bookplate, 5s 1743 — SECOND EDITION, with portrait, 8vo. old calf (joints weak), with the Karl of Harrowby’s bookplate, 5s 1746 Still the fullest biography of the great physician and chemist. The appendix contains some of his less known works, and a bibliography. BOHN (C.) Uber LINSENZUSAMMENSTELLUNGEN und ihren Ersatz durch eine Linse von vernachliissigbarer Dicke, 8vo., sewn, 1s 6d Leipzig, 1880 BOHNE (Johann; Stadtphysicus zu Leipzig) DISSERTATIONES CHYMICO-PHYSICé, Chymice Finem, INSTRUMENTA et OPERATIONES frequentiores explicantes, ‘cum Indice; accessit Tractatus de Aeris in Sublunaria Influxu, sm. 4t0. sewn (rare), 12s 6d Lipsic, 1685 A collection of 15 academical theses, chiefly on subjects connected with physical Chemistry, and interesting as showing the state of the science at the time. BOHUN (Ralph; New Coll. Oxon.) DISCOURSE concerning the ORIGINE and PROPERTIES otf WIND, with an Historical Account of Hurricanes, and other Tempestuous Winds, with 3 engravings on copper, 12mo. contemporary calf (name and inser. on title, but large sound copy), VERY Oxford, 1671 A very rare work, not noticed by Lowndes, and the earliest English treatise on the subject. The author argues chiefly on the Aristotelian basis, but adds some startling arguments of his own. BOIS (H. du) The MAGNETIC CrrcUIT in THEORY and PRACTICE, trans. by EDMUND ATKINSON, 94 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 12s nett) 1896 BOIS-AYME (— du) et — BIGEON: Mémoire sur les DEVELOPPEES des COURBES PLANES; with plate, 4to. (pp. 50), sewn, 2s 6d 1829
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