Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112

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

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$714 717 730 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 37 CASSINI (Jean Dominique, Comte de), HISTOIRE de la Vik et des TRAVAUX SCIENTIFIQUES et LITTERAIRES de, par J. F. S. DEVIC, 8vo. sewn (scarce), Gs Clermont, 1851 The above was the fourth of this celebrated family of astronomers, and finished the topographical survey of France, begun by his father. [CASTEL (Louis Bertrand, s.J.)] MATHEMATIQUE UNIVERSELLE, abregée a l’usage et a la portée de tout le monde ; folding tables, 4to. nice copy in old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 7s 6d 1728 TRAITE de PHYSIQUE sur la PESANTEUR UNIVERSELLE des Corps, 2 vols. 16mo. old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 10s 1724 ‘Sa doctrine de la pesanteur était, selon lui, la-clef du systéme de l’univers. Tout dépendait de deux principes, de la gravité des corps qui les faisait tendre sans cesse au repos, et de l’action des esprits qui rétablissait sans cesse les motve- ments.’ —Biog. Univ. CASTRONE (Benedicto Maria del, 0.p.) HoROGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS, seu Sciatericorum omnium Planorum sola Triangulorum Analysi breviter exposita; with numerous plates, 4to. old calf ( fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 12s 6d Panormi, 1728 ie ee a who was unknown to Poggendorff, was one of the first to construct sun-dials by the trigonometricai method. CATALAN (Eugéne Charles) ELEMENTS de GEOMETRIE, 2¢ Ed., augmentée; with 17 folding plates, 8vo. hf. calf gilt (out of print), 5s 1866 ——— MANUEL des CANDIDATs & l’Ecole Polytechnique ; with 306 diagrams, 2 vols. feap. 8vo. hf. calf, 4s (p. F. 9. sewn) 1857-8 To Catalan is due the introduction of ‘ circulants ’ into algebra. — TRAITES (voir en bas), in 1 vol. 4to. sewn, 6s 6d 1840-7 ConTenv :—Sur la Transformation des Variables dans les Intégrales Multiples (40): Problemes de Calcul Integral, 2 parts, °41: Mémoire sur les Surfaces Gauches 4 Plan Directeur, with plute, 43: Attraction d’un Ellipsoide Homogene sur un point extérieur ou interieur, 41: Note sur la Théorie des Solutions Singulieres, 47: etc. ete. CATALDI (Pietro Antonio) TRATTATO de’ NUMERI PERFETTI, sm. 4to. sewn (RARE), £1.18 _ Bologna, 1603 ‘Ce qu’il y a de plus curieux dans cet ouvrage, c’est une table des diviseurs des nombres jusqu’a 1000.’—Libri. There was no copy of this work in Prof. de Morgan’s collection, who does not refer to it in his ‘ Arithmetical Books.’ ; — TRATTATO de Mopo brevissimo di TROVARE la RADICE QUADRA delle NUMERI; with diagrams, 4to. boards (VERY RARE), £1. 15s ibidem, 1613 First Epition of the work containing the author’s invention of continued fractions. ‘The rule for the square root is exhibited in the modern form, and Cataldi shews liimself a most intrepid calculator. But the greatest novelty of the book is the introduction of continued fractions, then, it seems, for the first time presented to the world. Here Cataldi reduces the square roots of even numbers to continued fractions of the form a+ mi |. —Prof. de Morgan. na ss CATCHPOOL (Edmund) Trext-Book of Sounp, 3rd Ed., 73 illustrations, post 8vo. cl., 2s 1900 CAUCHY (Augustin Louis) Exercices d’ ANALYSE et de PLYSIQUE MATHEMATIQUE, 4 vols, 4to. hf. calf (SCARCE), £3. 10s 1840-7 ——— EXERCICEs de MATHEMATIQUES, Années Ie—Ve (Cahiers 1 & 51; le tout paru), 5 vols. 4to. in 2, Af. wirte parchment gilt (fine copy), £2. 7s 6d 1826-30 This important publication first contains his theorem on the pressure of fluids (Vol, I, p. 23), and ‘Sur la résultante et les projections de plusieurs forces appliquées a un seul point.’ (Vol. 1, p. 29). ——., et l Abbé Francois Napoléon Marie MOIGNO: LEcons de CALCUL DIFFERENTIEL et de CALCULINTEGRAL, Tomes I et II, 1° Partie [tout paru]; with 2 plates, 2 thick vols. 8vo. sewn, uncut (scarce), 17s 6d 1840-4 ——— ———: Lrcons de MECANIQUE ANALYTIQUE: STATIQUE; with 2 plates, 8vo. hf. calf, 5s 6d (p. I’. 10. sewn) 1868 —-—: STUDNICKA (F. J.) AUGUSTIN CAUCHY als formaler BEGRUNDER der DETERMINANTEN- THEORIE, 4to. sewn, 2s Prag, 1876 CAUS (Isaac de) NEw and RARE INVENTIONS of WATER- WORKS, shewing the Easiest Waies to RAIsE WATER HIGHER THEN THE SPRING, by which Invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed, many hard Labours performed, and Varieties of Motions and Sounds produced; translated by JOHN LEAK, with engraved title and 26 plates, besides woodcuts, folio, boards (title, 2 Ul: and 1 plate mended, and small corner torn off 3 plates, otherwise a4 LARGE AND CLEAN COPY), with Shadwell Court Library bookplate, £5. 10s J. Moxen, 1659 THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL ENGLISH EDITION, unknown to Lowndes and Watt. The machines described are chiefly based on the hydraulic theorems published by SALoMoN DE Caus, the author’s father (q. v. infra). They include engines ‘toraise water by means of falling water ’ (a favourite perpetwum mobile), ‘to counterfeit the voice of small birds by means of water and air’, ‘an Engin which shall niove of itself’ (worked by the expansion of wir, heated by the sun, and therefore a prototype of the steam engine), ‘to represent divers birds which shall sing diversly when an owl turns towards them,’ ‘to make organs to sound alwaies when the sun shall be south’, and many other ingenious contrivances. Pp. 1-16 comprise an explanation of hydraulic principles, illustrated by woodcuts. 1t would be unkind to perpetual motioners to dwell on this work on Water-works being translated by a Leak! ‘ CAUS (Salomon de) Les Rarsons des Forces MOUVANTES, avec diverses MACHINES, tant utilles que plaisantes, aus quelles sont adioints plusieurs desseigns de GROTES et FONTAINES ; with 2 engraved titles, and very numerous full-page and other engravings on copper, besides wood- cuts, illustrating a great variety of curious Machinery, large folio, old calf, newly rebacked ( first engraved title soiled) ; excessively rare, £7. 7s Francfort, Jan Norton, 1615 First Epirion of this celebrated work. ‘In the first part occur his enunciations of the theorems of the expansion and condensation of steam, and of the elevation of water by the application of heat, which have gained for him in some quarters the honour of being the first inventor of the steam engine... Itis almost certain that Hdward Somerset, 2nd Marquis of Worcester [q. 7. post], to whom this honour has also been ascribed, and later engineers, knew and developed the principles enunciated by de Caus.’—D. N. B. : ‘ Cet ouvrage était depuis longtemps presque entivrement oublié lorsque M. Araco I’a remis en honneuren revendiquant pour son auteur le mérite de l’invention d’une veritable machine 4 vapeur propre a opérer les épuisements: or, pour constater avec certitude les droits de Salomon de Caus i cette précieuse découyerte, il est important de produire la premiére édition du livre quiles lui donne. Cette édition de 1615 est peu commune en France’,—Lrunet.$

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