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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    568 569 980 581 582 583 585 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W BRANNT (William J.) PracricAL TREATISE on ANIMAL and VEGETABLE FATS and OILS, with the Manufacture of Artificial Butter, Lubricants, Mineral Oils, etc., 2nd [last] Ed., with 302 woodcuts, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. cl., £1. 1s (p. £2. 12s 6d) : 1896 BRAUNGART (Richard) Der Hopren aller hopfenbauenden Linder der Erde als BRAUMA- TERIAL nach seinen geschichtlichen, botanischen, chemischen, brautechnischen, physiologisch- medizinischen und landwirtschaftlich-technischen Beziehungen, wie nach seiner Konservierung und Packung; with numerous illustrations, roy. 4to. cl. extra, 16s (pM 25.) Miinchen, 1901 The most important and extensive work on the hop in any language, especially as used in brewing, BRAVAIS (Auguste) MrmorreE sur les HALOS, et les Phénomenes optiques qui les accompag-. nent; with 4 folding plates, 4to. cl. (SCARCE), 15s 1847 Containing the author's important investigations on the aurora borealis. BREES (S. C., 6.8.) RAILWAY PRACTICE: Working Plans and Practical Details of Construction in the Public Works of the most celebrated Engineers, with Jine lithographic front., and 77 plates (many folding), 4to. cl. (back damaged), uncut, 10s 6d 1837 Interesting as an early treatise on Railway Engineering, giving constructive details of the London and Birmingham (built by Robert Stephenson), Great Western (built by I. K. Brunel), Greenwich, Midland Counties, North Union, Leeds and Selby, and Grand Junction Railways. BRENNECKE (—) Mémoire relatif } la THforIE des NomBres. Lor RECIPROQUE, 4to, (pp. 13), sewn, 1s 6d F 1840 BRESSON (C.) TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE de MECANIQUE appliquée aux Sciences physiques et aux Arts ; with 18 plates, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, hf. calf (out of print), 7s 6d | 1842 BREWSTER (Sir David, ¥.R.s.) TREATISE on the KALEIDOSCOPE, with 7 plates, post 8vo. old calf (SCARCE), 10s 6d Fdin., 1819 The first printed account of the kaleidoscope, the author’s own invention, It was duly patented by him, but owing to ‘some defect in its registration, it was quickly pirated, and he never realised anything by it.’—D. N. B. + TREATISE on NEW PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS for various purposes in the Arts and Sciences, with Experiments on Light and Colours, 12 plates, 8vo. hf. calf (1 p. mended), 5s 7b., 1813 ——— TREATISE ON OPTIcs, first edition, with vignette by finden, and 176 woodcuts, feap. 8vo. cl., uncut, 5s 1831 —— NEw EDITION, with vignette and 176 woodcuts, feap. 8vo. hy. calf neat ; or, cl., 3s 6@ 1835 ‘A volume in which every phenomenon connected with catoptrics or dioptrics known up to the time of publication was described with remarkable clearness and precision.’—D. N. B, ’ -— MEmotirs on OprTicAL SuBJECTs, contributed to various Learned Societies, with plates (some coloured), 11 tracts 4to. sewn, with AUTHOR’S INSCRIPTIONS to Thomas Allen, F.R.S., and George Buist, LL.D. (A SCARCE COLLECTION), £1. 15s V. p., 1822-45 ConTENTS :—On the Distribution of Colouring Matter, ’22: Thermometrical Observations at Leith Fort, 1824-5, *26: On a Remarkable Property of the Diamond, ’41: On the Phenomena of Thin Plates of Solid and Fluid Substances exposed to Polarized Light, *41: The Optical Phenomena, Nature, and Locality, of Musee Volitantes, 43: On the Law of Visible Position in Single and Binocular Vision [containing an account of the author's invention, the stereoscope fitted with lenses, which superseded Wheatstone’s mirror stereoscope), °43: On Compensations of Polarised Light, with Description of a Polarimeter, °43: On the Knowledge of Distance given by Binocular Vision, ’44; On the Conversion of Relief by Inverted Vision, ’44: On the Modification of the Doubly Refracting and Physical Structure of Topaz, ’45 : On the Existence of Crystals with different Primitive Forms and Physical Properties in the Cavities of Minerals, 745. ‘The most lasting monument to his fame will certainly be his beautiful investigations into the phenomena of polarized light; and he divided with Wheatstone the merit of introducing the stereoscope, the lent cular instrument belonging especially to Brewster.’—D. PN oy . ves aa ] The DiAMonn»: its History, Properties, and Origin (from Edin. Journal of Science), Svo. calf, 6s 6d [1852] _ _ ToS. Garrard Esq. with Sir D, Brewster’s Compts.’—Inser. on flyleaf. 4 BRIDGE (Bewick, B.D., F.R.s.) COMPENDIOUS TREATISE on the ELEMENTS of PLANE TRIGONO- METRY, 3rd Ed., diagrams, 8vo. interleaved ; hf. calf, 2s 1899 SIX LECTURES on the ELEMENTS of PLANE I'RIGONOMETRY, diagrams, 8vo. boards, 2s 6d Broxbourn, 1810 ——— TREATISE on the ELEMENTS of ALGEBRA, 9th Ed., 8vo. boards, 2s 1838 BRIDGES (William, Schoolmaster in Rotterdam) Essay to FACILITATE VULGAR FRACTIONS; after a New Method, and to make Arithmetical Operations very concise, 12mo. old sheep, rebacked (nice copy); rare, 10s 6d 1718 Unknown to Lowndes and Allibone. BRIDGEWATER TREATISES, on the PowER, Wispom and Goopness of Gop, as MANI- FESTED in the CREATION, with a large number of plates, woodcuts, etc., 12 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt, es US Pickering, 1833-7 CoNTENTS :—CHALMERS on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitulion of Man, 2 -v.: Kipp on the Adaptation of Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Roarr’s Animal and Vegetable Physiology, 2 v.: BUuCKLAND’s Geolugy and Mineralogy, 2 v.: Krrpy’s History, Habits and Instincts of Animals, 2 v.: Prout’s Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Functions of Digestion : Bru on the Hand : WHEWELL’s Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology. BRIGGS (Henry, Savilian Prof., Oxon.): ARITHMETIQUE LOGARITMETIQUE de tous les Nombres jusques’a 100,000. Ces Nombres premiérement sont inventez par JEAN NEPER, Baron Je Marchiston [sic]; mais HENRY Briaas, Prof. en l’Univer. d’Oxford, les a changé selon l’intention du dit NEPER. La Description est trad. du Latin en Francois, la premiére Table augumentée, et la seconde composée par ADRIAEN VLACQ; with diagrams, folio, sound copy tn old hf. calf (RARE), £2. 17s 6d Goude, 1628 Containing the logarithms of 30,000 natural numbers to 14 places and the index. ‘The idea of tables of logarithms having 10 for their base, as well as the actual calculation of the first tables of this kind, is due to Briggs.’--D. N.B. ‘The almost immediate adoption throughout Europe of logarithms for astronomical and other calculations was mainly the work of Briggs, who undertook the tedious work of calculating and preparing tables of logarithms.’—W. W. R. Ball. ‘It is plain that Briggs was the inventor of the present scale of logarithms, in which 1 is the logarithm of the ratio 10 to 1, and 2 that of 100 to 1 ete., and that the share which Napier had in them was only advising Briggs to begin at the lowest number 1, and to make the logarithms to increase with the natural numbers, instead of decreasing.’—Hutton,
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