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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    659 659 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, -W. CABEO (Niccolo, S.J.) PHILOSOPHIA MAGNETICA, in qua MAGNETIS NATURA penitus explicatur, et omnium que hoc Lapide cernuntur, Cause Propriz afferuntur. Nova etiam Praxis construitur ; que PROPRIAM Pott ELEVATIONEM, cum suo MERIDIANO, ubique demonstrat .. - de Electicis, et aliis Attractionibus, et eorum Causis ; with engraved title,and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, folio, old vellum (binding, trtles, and a few ll. wormed), RARE, £1. 12s 6d Colonic, 1629 The first important work on electricity that appeared after Gilbert's de Magnete (q. v. post), and, although re-stating many facts contained in that work, including a number of original investigations. CADELL (William Archibald, F.R.s.) On the LINEs that divide each SEMIDIURNAL ARC into Six EQuaL PARTS, 2 plates, and diagrams, 4to. (pp. 21), sewn, 7s 6d Edin., 1816 * ¢Thomas Allan, Esq. (F-R.S., mineralogist} from the Author.’—IJnser. on flylecf. : CAFFIN (Charles H.) PHOTOGRAPHY as a FINE ART: The Achievements and Possibilities of. Photographic Art, numerous full-page and other illustrations, 4to. cl., 9s (p. 15s nett) 1902 CAGNOLI (Andrea) T RIGONOMETRIE-RECTILIGNE et SPHERIQUE, traduite par N. M. CHOMPRE, 9e Ed., considérablement augmentée ; with numerous plates and tables, 4to. hf. calf, 7s 64 1808 ANOTHER Copy, calf, 8s CAILLARD (Emma Marie) ELECTRICITY, the Science of the XIX. Century, illustrated, post Svo. cl., 3s (p. 7s 6d) 1891 GAJORI (Florian) HisToRY of MATHEMATICS, diagrams, 8vo. cl., 93 6d (p.14s nett) New York, 1894 One of the most valuable smaller histories of mathematics, jneluding a bibliography of 101 works on the history of mathematics, and a copious index. CALIGNY (Marquis Anatole de) RecuercHEs théoriques et éxperimentales sur les OSCILLATIONS de Eau et les MACHINES HyYDRAULIQUES } Colonnes liquides oscillantes ; 8 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, with inscr. to Prof. Williamson, 8s (p. F. 16.) 18 CALLET (Francois) TABLES PORTATIVES de LOGARITHMES des Nombres de 1 & 108,000 et des Sinus et Tangentes ; with plate, roy. 8vo. hf. calf; or, calf, 3s Didot, 1829 or °43 ‘One of the most complete and practically useful collections of logarithms published, and peculiar in giving a centisimally divided canon.’—J. IV. L. Glaisher, FR CAMBRIDGE MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL, Vols. I and II (out of 4), original edition, with folding plates, 2 vols. 8vo. Af. calf (VERY SCARCE), £1. 10s Cambridge, 1839-41 Gontaining important contributions by the original editors, Ropert LESLIE ExLLis and DUNCAN FARQUHARSON GREGORY, and some of the earliest publications of ARTHUR CAYLEY, F.B S., while still an undergraduate. George Boole, F.R.8., James Booth, J. J. Sylvester, M. Terquem, and W. Walton were also among its contributors. PROBLEMS: a COLLECTION of the PRINTED QUESTIONS for the B.A. DEGREE at the General Examinations, 1801-20, 8vo. boards, 38 Cambridge, 1821 CAMERARIUS [LIEBHARD] (Joachim) OPUSCULA aliquot elegantissima : nempe, Erratum, sive b7e9 Traloparog $ AKoutA, hoe est, de VENTIS; PHENOMENA, SIDERUM et STELLARUM HisToriA; PROGNOSTICA ; PLANET ac Menses duplices; DISTICHA ; with diagrams, 12mo. sewn, £1. 1s Basilew, 1536 VERY RARE, being unnoticed in the list of the author's works in Poggendorff, the Biographie Génjrale, ete. It is probably the first work of the author, well known as the friend of Melanchthon, as the co-framer of the Augsburg Confession, and for the extent and variety of his knowledge. ; CAMUS (Charles Etienne Louis; F.R.s.) Cours de MATHEMATIQUE, 4° [LA MEILLEURE] ED. ; with plates, 4 vols. 8vo. old mottled calf gilt (fine copy), with bookplate of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, F.R.8., 8s 6d 1768 CAMUS ([Francois Joseph] de, Gentilhomme Lorrain) TRAITE des FORCES MOUVANTES ; 8 folding plates, 8vo. old calf (joints cracked) ; rare, 12s 6d <earlhes ANOTHER Copy, old mottled calf gilt (fine copy), with bookplate of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 17s 62 Describing 23 machines of the author's own invention. ‘ Son principal ouvrage. L’auteur y donne beaucoup d’indica- tions sur les moyens de perfectionner les cabestans, ainsi que sur une meilleure trempe des métaux ; et il tire de ses théories plusieurs consequences utiles pour la construction des mousquets’, ete. cte.—Biogr. Gen. CANEPARIO (Pedro Maria) De ATRAMENTIS eujuscunque Generis : Opus sane novum, hactenus } nemine promulgatum, sm. 4to. (pp. 568), old vellum (browned and some wormholes) ; RARE, 15s Londini, 1660 Really a compendium of the chemical and pharmaceutical knowledge to the time of publication. About 200 pp. are devoted to a description of the ‘ oleum vitrioli’ (? sulphurie acid). Unknown to Poggendorff. CANTOR (Moritz) VORLESUNGEN aber die GESCHICHTE der MATHEMATIK. I, BAND: Von den Altesten Zeiten bis 1200 n. Chr. ; with plate and 107 illustrations, roy. Syo. sewn, 10s (p. M. 20.) . Leipzig, 1880 CAPEL (A. D.) Tres in ALGEBRA, with new Methods for the Resolution of Quadratic and other Expressions into Factors, post 8vo. Af. bound, 2s (p. 4s 6d) 1887 CAPRA (Alessandro, Architetto, Cremonese) es Nuova ARCHITETTURA FAMIGLIARE, divisa in V Libri corrispondenti a’ V Ordini, cio’ Toscano, Dorico, Ionico, Corintio, e Composito ; with very NuMerOUs CUTLOUS woodcuts (many full-page), depicting a great variety of Machinery, etc., 4to. FINE copy in old vellum (RARE), 17s 6d Bologna, 1678 Unknown to Poggendorft and Gresse. ‘[] inventa plusieurs machines utiles, et se fit connaitre par divers ouvrages sur Varehitecture civile et militaire ’.—Biogr. Gén. The above work not only deals with Architecture, but also with Machinery and Hydraulic Engineering (profusely illustrated), Surveying, etc. CAPRA (Baldassare) Usus et FABRICA CIRCINI cujusdem PROPORTIONIS, per quem omnia fere tum EUCLIDIS, tum Mathematicorum omnium Problemata facili negotio resolvuntur ; with numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn, 5s Bononie, 1655 An attempt to usurp Galileo’s invention of the Circle of Proportion, which caused the latter's caustic answer (q. ¥. post). CAPRON (J. Rand, F.R.A.S.) PHOTOGRAPHED SPECTRA: 136 autotype plates of Metallic, Gaseous, and other Spectra, and extra plate of the Solar Spectrum (showing bright lines) compared with the Air Spectrum, with Intro, Descriptions, and Index, 8yo. cl. (out of print), 15s (p. £1, 10s) 1877
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