Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

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

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

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783 CHILDREN (John George, F.R.S.; Brit. Mus.) ACCOUNT of EXPERIMENTS with a LARGE VOLTAIC BATTERY, 4to. (pp. 14), sewn, 6s 6d ‘ 1815 ‘To Thos Allan Esqre [F.R.S., mineralogist] from his sincere Friend J. G, CHILDREN.’—Jnscr. on title. On 2 July 18183 Children put in action the largest galvanic battery then constructed, each plate presenting 32 square feet of surface. The remarkable results obtained are recorded in the ‘Phil. Trans.’ for 1815. For these he received in 1828 the Royal Institution medal.’—D. N. B, 784 CHISHOLM (Henry William) On the ScIENCE of WEIGHING and MEASURING, and Standards of Measure and Weight, front. and 45 dlustrations, post 8vo. cl. (scarce), 5s 1877 785 CHLADNI (Ernst Florens Friedrich) Die AKUSTIK ; with engraved portrait, and 7 plates, 4to, boards, uncut, 10s 6d Leipzig, 1802 First Epirion of this most important work, one of the earliest systematic treatises on the subject, and containing the author’s investigations on the longitudinal waves of stringed instruments. ou ENTDECKUNGEN iiber die THEORIE des KLANGES; with 11 copperplates, 4to. original wrapper, UNCUT (RARE), £1. 5s : ibidem, 1787 First Epirion of the author’s first and most important work, in which he laid the foundation of the theory of sound. The plates depict for the first time the acoustic phenomenon so well known as ‘ Chladni’s figures’. ‘The father of modern acousties.’—Prof. Tyndall, who gives a full account of the above work in his ‘Sound’, pp. 135--155. 787 CHOQUET [(Charles) et [Mathias] MAYER [(d’ALMBERT]: TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE d’ALGEBRE, 5¢ [derniére] Ed., augmentée, 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 3s 6d 1849 788 CHRISTMANN (Wilhelm Ludwig) CABBALA ALGEBRAICA, sive Sursolide Aquationis et Altiorum Resolutio Algebraica, 4to. boards, 10s 6d Stuttgardice, 1827 789 CHRYSTAL (George), and William Napier SHAW, F.R.S. : ELECTRICITY, ELECTROMETERS, MAGNETISM, and ELECTROLYSIS (Rep. from ‘Ency. Brit.’), woodcuts, etc., 4to. boards, 3s (p. 5s nett) 1894 790 CHUBB (John) On the ConsTRUCTION of Locks and Keys, 10 illustrations, 8vo. (pp. 36), cl. (name cut off title), scarce, ds [1850] ‘A valuable paper, containing lists of all British patents relating thereto, and all communications to the Society of Arts. For this he was awarded the Telford silver medal’.—D. N. B 791 CIACCHI (Giuseppe) REGOLE GENERALI d’ABBACO, con un breve Trattato di Geometria, e Modi del misurare le superficie de’ terreni, e corpi solidi; with coloured arms on title, and woodcuts, 12mo. old vellum (binding damaged), 12s Firenze, 1675 _ A-yare work, unknown to Poggendorff and Prof. de Morgan. : 792 CIRCLE (The) of the ScrENcES: a Cyclopedia of Experimental, Chemical, Mathematical and Mechanical Philosophy, with Intro. by HENRY LorD BRouUGHAM, fine steel portraits of Faraday, Brewster, and Lord Brougham, plates, and woodcuts, 4to. cl., 3s 6d (p. 8s 6d) n. d. 793 CIVIL ENGINEER (The) and ARCHITECT’S JOURNAL, Vols. I—VIII, with plates and numerous woodcuts, 8 vols. 4to. cl.,15s 1837-45 ENGINEERS, The EpvucATION and STATUS of, in the United Kingdom and in Foreign Countries, 8vo. cl., 3s 1870 ; A COMPLETE SET TO DATE: 795 ——-- —__— (INSTITUTION of), MINUTES of PROCEEDINGS of the; from its beginning in 1837 to 1905, 161 v. Sussecr Inpex to vv. I-CXVIII, 2 v., Names Tnpex to vv. I-LVIII, 1 v.—together 164 vols. 8vo. with an immense number of lurge plates and plans, besides cuts; cl. (VERY SCARCE), £47. 10s 1837-1905 THE EARLY VOLUMES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. ‘This valuable publication contains the history and description of the greatest engineering works of the greater part of the last century, the greatest engineering epoch in the history of the world. There is no other publication of its kind that can bear the least comparison with it. From the time of Telford, Robert Stephenson and Brunel, to that of the eminent men of the present day, scarcely a work has been accomplished but it is fully described and carefully illustrated here.’ A further most interesting feature is the full and intimate biographies of deceased members of the Institution. —— —— , TRANSACTIONS of the, Vol. I (out of 3), with fine portrait of Telford, and 27 lates (one of autographs of EKngineers), 4to. cl., 10s 6d 1836 Containing original contributions by Thomas Telford, Peter W, Barlow, F.R.s., T. Tredgold, Joshua Field, ¥.R.8., Jobn Farey, etc., etc. i : 4 797 CLAIRAUT (Alexis Claude) ELEMENS d’ALGEBRE, 4™¢ édition ; with numerous tables, sm. 8vo. old calf, 7s 6d 1768 798 [— ] RECHERCHES sur les COURBES & DOUBLE COURBURE ; with 5 plates, 4to. old calf gilt (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Larl Stanhope, 18s . 1731 This work, demonstrating that all curves of the third order are projections of one of five parabolas, was written at the age of 18, and procured the author’s admission to the Academy of Sciences. ‘Dans ce livre, il résolvait d’importants problémes roulant sur les tangentes de ces courbes particulieres. Leur rectification et la quadrature des cylindres qui les projettent sur les plans coordonnés y sont traitées par la méthode encore en usage aujourd’hui’.—Boyer. 794 799 ——— THEOoRIE de la FIGURE de la TERRE, tirée des Principes de l’ Hydrostatique ; with numerous diagrams, 8vo. old calf gilt (FINE COPY) ; RARE, with Lord Stanhope’s bookplate, 18s 1745 ‘His fame rests chiefly on his ‘Théorie de la Figure de la Terre’, in which he promulgated the theorem that the variation of gravity on the surface of the earth, regarded as an elliptic spheroid, was altogether independent of the law of density’. He develops in this work the first theory of capillary attraction, and first gives the differential equation, till then unknown, of the equilibrium of fluids, supposing an attractive force, following any law whatever, to exist among the molecules, ‘In the figure of the earth no other person has accomplished as much as Clairaut, and the subject remains at present substantially as he left it, though the form is different,’—Todhwnter. ‘ 00 CLARIDGE (John, shepherd) The SHEPHERD of BANBURY’S RULES to judge of the CHANGES of the WEATIIER, grounded on 40 years’ Experience, with a Rational Account of their Causes, tue Nature of Wind, Rain, Snow, etc. ; corrected Ed., 8vo. Af. roan, 7s 6d 1827 ‘To Joun CAMPBELL [LL.D., 1708-75] has been generally ascribed the recast of ‘The Shepherd of Banbury’s Rules’. Itis somewhat noticeable as an attempt to base on quasi-scientific principles the weather forecasts of the alleged Banbury shepherd.’—D, N, B. See also Notes and Queries, L. Ser., VII, y. 373.

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