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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    765 [CHASSELOUP-LAURAT (Le Général Francois, Marquis)] EssAts sur quelques Parties de l’ARTILLERIE et des Fortifications [avec Notice}; with 6 folding plates, 8vo. old tree-calf extra (stamp on title), 5s Milan, 1811 766 (CHATELET (Gabrielle Emilie, Marquise du)} INSTITUTIONS de PHYSIQUE; with plates and vignettes, 8vo. old calf gilt ( fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 6s Londres, 1741 The authoress’s first work, containing an analysis of the philosophy of Leibnitz. She was a prodigy of learning, and translated Newton’s Principia into French ; but is probably better known for her intimacy with Voltaire. on the METHOD of LEAST SQUARES, 4th Ed., revised and corrected, with 15 plates and numerous illustrations, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. el., 15s (p. £1. 11s 6d) 1868 ‘The most complete and exhaustive treatise on the subject which has yet appeared.’—Prof. Simon Newcomb. 768 CHEMICAL REPORTS and MEMOIRS, on Atomic Volume, Isomorphism, Endosmosis, the Simultaneous Contrast of Colours, Latent Heat, Artificial Formation of Alkaloids, ete., ed. by THOMAS GRAHAM, P.R.S., 2 plates and woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 7s 6d Cavendish Soc., 1848 Comprising valuable chemical treatises by Otto, Filhol, Julius Vogel, Chevreul, E. Kopp, and Bunsen. A COMPLETE SET TO 1904: 769 ——— SOCIETY of LONDON, COMPLETE SET of the PUBLICATIONS of the, woodcuts, 102 vols. 8vo., 100 vv. newly and uniformly bound in hf. calf gilt, and 2 vv. cl. and hf. cl. (very scarce), £70. (p. £130. nett unbound) 1841-1904. CoNTENTS :—MEMOIRS, 1841-8, 3 v. (very rare and often wanting) ; JOURNAL, vv. 1-86, 49-1904: CoLLECTIVE INDEXES, 1841- 1902, 4 v.: JuBILEE VOLUME, 91: LipraARY CATALOGUE, ’86. The above important set forms a complete record of Chemistry during its most active and successful period, containing contributions by Sir B. Brodie, T. Grahain, A. W. v. Hofmann, Baron Liebig, Lord Playfair, and other great authorities of the period, besides Notices on important Papers in other Journals, both British and Foreign. ComMpLers sETs such as the above are yery seldom to be met with. ———., JOURNAL of the, from 1871 to 1901 (Vols. 24-80), with numerous plates and woodcuts, 60 vols. 8vo. original cl. (first v. hf. morocco), £15. 15s (p. £62. nett unbound) 1871-1901 A NEWLY BOUND SET: 771 CHEMISCHES CENTRAL-BLATT: Vollstindiges Repertorium fiir alle Zweige der reinen und angewandten Chemie, hersg. v. der Deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. Redaktion Rupotr ARENDT; wth plates (some coloured), and woodcuts, COMPLETE from 1835 to 1901, 67 vols. 8vo. in 80, newly bound in hf. green calf gilt, £57. 10s Leipzig, 1835—Berlin, 1901 An almost complete set of this invaluable periodical, including its forerunners, viz. : Pharmaceutisches Centralblatt, 6-20 ('35-49), 15 v.: Chemisch-pharmaceutisches Centralblatt (50-5), 6 v.: Chemisches Centralblatt, Neue Folge, Band | bis fiinfte Folge, Band 5 (56-1901), 46 v. in 59. 770 772 CHEMISTRY, THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL, and ANALYTICAL, as applied to the Arts and Manufactures, by WRITERS of EMINENCE, with numerous fine steel plates, and a large number of woodcuts, 8 parts impl. 8vo. el. gilt (fresh set), 15s (p. £4. 4s) [1882 | Containing contributions by Prof. Atttield, Sir I. L. Bell, Sir W. Crookes, Sir C. Le Neve Foster, Prof, Frankland, Y E. aes F.R.S., Prof. Lunge, M. M. Pattison Muir, r.x.s., Prof. Odling, C. 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(pp. 56), sewn, 5s é 1868 ‘A mon excellent ami M. Gauthier. E. Convreun.—Inscr. on flyledf. 776 CHEYNE (Charles Hartwell Horne, pr., Westminster School) The EArtTH’s MOTION of ROTATION, including the Theory of PRECESSION and NuTATION, diagrams, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), ds 1867 i ee ae ee method of the variation of elements to the general problem of elements, and the general rotation-formule ELEMENTARY TREATISE on the PLANETARY THEORY, diagrams, post 8vo. cl. (cover stained), 2s 6d (p. 6s 6d) 1882 778 SECOND EDITION, revised, diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 8s (p. 6s 6d) 1870 779 CHEYNE (George, M.D., F.R.S.) FLUXIONUM MerTHODUS INVERSA; sive Quantitatum Fluentium Leges Generaliores, 4to. large copy in old panelled calf, with bookplate of Edward 12th Duke of Norfolk (rare), 15s ° 3 Londini, 1703 In this curious treatise the author applies the integral calculus to medical as well as mechanical science. 780 CHILD (Samuel, brewer) EvERY MAN his OwN BrEWeER: the Art and Mystery of Brewing Porter, Ale, Twopenny and Table-Beer ; calculated, by exposing the DECEPTION in BREWING, to reduce the Expense of a Family, and lessen the destructive Practice of PUBLIC 781 ——— THIRD EDITION, carefully revised [with APPENDIX], Svo. (pp. 22), sewn, 5s nd. , =, =,
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