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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    455 BOIS-REYMOND (Emil du) UNTERSUCHUNGEN iiber THIERISCHE ELEKTRICITAT; with 12 folding plates on copper, 2 vols. large 8vo. in 3, hf. calf gilt, £1. 1s (p. M. 34 sewn.) Berlin, 1848-84 A nice copy of this epoch-making work, containing the result of his investigations into animal electricity, and first waking known the nature and magnitude of the electric forces in the nerves and muscles. 456 ———: On ANIMAL ELECTRICITY: an Abstract of his Discoveries, ed. by H. BENCE JONEs, F.R.S., with 50 woodeuts, 12mo. cl. (out of print), 5s - - ¥ 1802 An abstract of the first 2 vols. of the above work. 457 BOLAS (Thomas) GLASS BLOWING and WoRKING, illustrated, post 8vo. cl., 1s 6d [1898] 458 ———, and George E. BROWN: The LENs: its Choice, Use, and Testing, dlustrated, Svo. cl., 1s 6d 1902 459 —_—, Alex. A. K. TALLENT, and Edgar SENIOR: Hanpsoox of PHOTOGRAPHY in COLOURS, 3 coloured plates, with numerous woodcuts, er. Svo. cl., 3s (p. 5s nett) 1900 460 BOMBELLI (Rafaello) L’ALGEBRA: PARTE MAGGIorRE del’ ARIMETICA [stc], nuovamente posta in Luce ; with diagrams, thick er. 4to. old vellum (VERY RARE), £3. 3s Bologna, 1572 Frrst Epirion of this important work, the first which laid the foundation of a knowledge of imaginary quantities. ‘A systematic exposition of the knowledge then current on the Subject. Ie discusses radicals, real and imaginary.. He also treats the theory of equations, and shows that in the irreducible cases of a cubic equation the roots are all real; and he remarks that the problem to trisect a given angle is the same as that of the solution of a cubic equation... His work is noticeable for his use of symbols which indicate an approach to index notation. Following in the steps of Stifel, he introduced a symbol, 1 for the unknown quantity, 2 for its square, 3 for its cube’, etc. etc. ete.—W. W. R. Ball. 4§1 BONGO [latine BONGUS] (Pietro) NuMERORUM MYSTERIA, ex abditis plurimarum dis- ciplinarum fontibus hausta: Opus Maximarum Rerum Doctrina, et Copia refertum: in quo mirus in primis, idemque perpetuus Arithmetice Pythagoricee cum Divine Paginze Numeris consensus, multiplici ratione probatur, II. editio, recognita, et tertia amplius parte locupletata, 4to. old vellum (some ll. water-stained, otherwise a sound and large copy), £1. 1s Bergomi, 1591 The second edition of this curious mystical work was the last revised by the author, and is very RARE. ‘He worked with great industry and satisfaction on 666, which is the Number of the Beast in Revelation (xiii. 18), the symbol of Antichrist. He reduced the name of the ‘impious’ Martin Luther to a form which nay express the formidable number. Placing a = 1, b = 2, etc., k=10, 1 = 20, etce., he finds after misspelling the name that Martin Lutera constitutes the number required.’—Prof. Cajori. 462 BONNET (Ossian) Lecons DE M&CANIQUE ELEMENTAIRE, Ie Partie (seule parue) ; with 135 diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 3s : 1858 Containing important contributions on variable curvature. ; 463 BONNEY (Thomas George, pr., F.R.S.) The Story of our PLANET, coloured plates and maps, and numerous woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., 5s 6d (p. 10s 6d) [1896] 464 BONSDORFF (Pehr Adolph v.) TENTAMEN MINERALOGICO-CHEMICUM de PARGASITE, 4to. (pp. 20), sewn (name cut off title), 3s 6d d Aboe [1816] 465 BOOLE (George; F.R.s.) INVESTIGATION of the LAws of THOUGHT, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, 8vo. cl., uncut (VERY SCARCE) £1. 15s _ 1854 ‘It is to his ‘ Laws of Thought’ that his most durable fame will attach. It is a work of astonishing originality and power, and one which has only recently come to be properly appreciated ’.—D. N. B. 466 ——— TREATISE on DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, first edition, plate ; with the Supplementary Volume [ed., with Preface, by IsAAc ToDHUNTER, F.R.S.], 2 vols. post 8vo., Af. calf (backs not uniform) ; VERY SCARCE, £1. 2s 6d Cambridge, 1859-65 467 ——— ANOTHER Copy, original cl., uncut, £1. 5s The Supplementary Volume, which has now betome very scarce, has never been incorporated with the following editions of the ‘Treatise,’ and contains all Prof. Boole wrote with a view to enlarge the original work in a later edition. ‘ A standard text-book on Differential Equations, iucluding original matter on integrating factors, singular solutions, and especially on symbolical actions.’—Prof. Cajori. 468 ——— TREATISE on the CALCULUS of FINITE DIFFERENCES, first edition, post 8vo. hf. calf (SCARCE), 15s ibidem, 1860 469 ——_— ANOTHER Copy, cl., uncut, £1. 1s The above copy belonged to Pror. ARTHUR CAYLEY, F.R.s., and has added two original equations in his handwriting on pp. 24 and 27. It also bears the inscr. ‘ From the Author’. — SECOND EDITION, by Sir JoHN FLETCHER MOULTON, L.J., post 8vo. cl. (SCARCE), £1. ls 1872 ‘His treatise on Finite Differences (1860) and his Laws of Thought (1854) are works of high merit.’—Prof. Cajori. 471 BOOTH (James, pr., F.R.S.) The THEORY of ELLIPTIC INTEGRALS, and the Properties of Surfaces of the Second Order, applied to the Investigation of the Motion of a Body round a Fixed Point, diagrams, 8vo. boards (scarce), 10s 6d 1851 This work first contains the author’s invention of tangential co-ordinates, generally known as the ‘ Boothian Co- ordinates.’ 472 BORELLI (Giovanni Alfonso) HisrorrA et METEOROLOGIA Incendii Aetneei anni 1669, accessit RESPONSIO ad CENSURAS HONORATI FABRI contra librum de VI PERCUSSIONIS ; with folding view on copper, and woodcuts, 4to. old calf, 8s 6d Regio Julio, 1670 473 ——— De Motu ANIMALIUM, Ed. novissima; addite sunt Meditationes mathematics de Motu MUSCULORUM ; with front. and 19 copperplates, 2 vols. er. 4to. in 1, old calf (sound copy), 12s Lugd. Bat., 1710 Bust Epirion of the author’s most important work, applying the laws of mechanics to animal motion. 474 ——— De VI PERcUSSIONIS; editio princeps; with 5 plates, sm. 4to. FINE LARGE COPY in old mottled calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope (rare), 12s 6d Bononiee, 1667 The first work on the laws of percussion, which undoubtedly influenced Joun Watxts, who in 1668 published his discovery of the laws governing the percussion of non-clastic bodies, and CHRISTIAAN HuycEns, who deals on the percussion of elastic bodies in his treatise ‘de motu corporui ex percussione ’, published in 1669. 475 BORGNIS (J. A.) THORIE de la MECANIQUE USUELLE ; contenant la théorie des moteurs, des effets utiles des machines, des organes mécaniques intermédiaires, etc., etc.; with 5 folding plates, 4to. hf. calf, 4s 1821 BORGO (Luca di)—v. PACIOLI, post. 470 Sa 4
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