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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    848 819 852 853 854 858 866 HENRY SOTHERAN & Uov., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. COLLINS (John; F.R.S. ; correspondent of Newton and Leibniz) ARITHMETIC, 1704—v. COCKER, ante. The DESCRIPTION and USEs of a GENERAL QUADRANT, with the HORIZONTAL PROJECTION, upon it inverted, with diagrams, sm. 4to. (pp. 62), sewn, 10s 6d . 1658 Containing at end a ‘Table of the right Ascensions and Declinations of the principal fixed Stars’, and ‘ Mr. Sutton’s Tables of Declination and Right Ascension ’. NAVIGATION by the MARINERS PLAIN SCALE new PLAIN’D: or a TREATISE of GEO- METRICAL and ARITHMETICAL NAVIGATION, with plates and numerous diagrams, and 5 early en- graved COMPASS CARDS INSERTED at end, 3 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, old calf (fine copy), RARE, with bookplate of Philip2nd Earl Stanhope, £2. 2s 1659 ‘It became a class-book with the students of navigation of Christ Church Hospital (?].’—D. N. B. The SECTOR on a QUADRANT ; or a Treatise containing the Description of four several Quadrants . . . each Accomodated for Dyalling ; for the Resolving of all Proportions Instrument- ally, and for the ready finding the Hour and Azimuth Universally in the equal Limbe, with Appen- dix touching REFLECTED DYALLING, from a glass placed at a Reclination, with 4 copperplates, woodcuts, and diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn (a few wormholes), with old auto. on title (RARE), £1. 1s 1659 Pp. 203-75 have a separate title: ‘The Description and Usxs of a Great UNIVERSAL QUADRANT: with a Quarter of Stofiers particular Projection upon it, Inverted,’ 1658. ‘Collins was the register of all the improvements made in the mathematical science ; the magazine to which all the curious had recourse ; and the common repository where every part of useful knowledge was to be found. It was on this account that the learned styled him ‘the English Mersennus’,’ COLSON (Nathaniel) The MARINER’s NEW KALENDAR, containing the Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry, with the Use of the Sea-Quadrant, Fore-Staff, and Nocturnal; Tables, etc. etc., cr. 4to. hf. calf (back damaged), 12s 6d 1749 This copy has the bookplate and auto. of Joan Lex, F.8,A., F.R,S.: (1779-1859), and inscription by the same: ‘This was a popular work in its day.’ New EDITION, revised and adjusted to the New-Stile, by WILLIAM MOUNTAINE, F.R.S., with the Compleat Irish Coaster, with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. old sheep (joints broken, and some ll. water-stained), 8s 6d > Dublin, 1764 COLSON (René) La PLAQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ; Propriétés, le Visible, ’Invisible; with plates, 8vo. cl., 2s 6d ; 1897 COMBEROUSSE (Charles de) GEOMETRIE ANALYTIQUE Plane et dans l’Espace. HLEMENTS de GEOMETRIE DESCRIPTIVE; with Atlas of 53 plates—2 vols. 8vo. sewn, 2s 1862 COMBES (Charles), Ed. PHILLIPS, et Ed. COLLIGNON: Exposk de la SITUATION de la MECANIQUE APPLIQUEE, impl. 8vo. sewn (scarce), 5s 1867 COMBRUNE (Michael) The THEory and PRACTICE of BREWING, first edition, 4to. old hf. calf (author's name cut out of title); rare, 15s 1762 Part of the work comprises, in a revised form, the author’s ‘ Essay on Brewing’, originally published in 1758. The author claims this work-to have been the first ‘to reduce this art to rules and principles.’ It was printed with the leave of the Brewers’ Company of the City of London, and contains a number ef interesting recipes. The last chapter but one contains gingerly hints on the use of oil of vitriol, aqua fortis, salt of steel, copperas, cocculus indicus, and grains of paradise. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, 8vo. cl., or, boards, 6s 6d 1804 COMMANDINO (Federigo) Liser de CENTRO GRAVITATIS SOLIDORUM, editio princeps ; with numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn (large and clean copy), 10s Bononie, 1565 v. ARCHIMEDES, ante. , CAMPAGNON (P. F.) ELEMENTS de GEOMETRIE: ABREGE des ELEMENTS de GEOMETRIE ; with diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. calf gilt, 6s 6d 1868 COMPTES RENDUS de |’ ACADEMIE des SCIENCES—v. INSTITUT DE FRANCE, post. : COMTES (— des) Discours PHILOSOPHIQUES sur les Deux MERVEILLES del’ART et de la NATURE, ou TRAITE de la LIQUEUR de VALCHAEST, et de la Medicine universelle ; de la matiére de lune et de l'autre; du moyen d’operer; et de Ja VOYE qu il faut tenir pour FATRE le SEL de TARTRE VOLATIL, mis en Francois par ROBERT PREUD’HOMME, 2° Ed., corrigée, 16mo. old calf, with old MS. notes (very rare), 15s 1678 CONDORCET (Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de) EssAis d’ANALYSE, T. I*, 6S: Du CALCUL INTEGRAL, 65: Du ProBLimeE des Trots Corps, 67: Sur le SysTEME du MONDE et sur le CALCUL INTEGRAL, ’68—4 vols. 4to. in 1, old calf (FINE CoPy), with auto. and bookplate of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, 18s 6d Didot, 1765-8 His ‘Essai sur le Calcul Intégral’ ‘obtained for him a seat in the Academy. ‘His mathematical treatment of probabilities, and his discussion of differential equations and finite differences, shew an ability which might have put him in the first rank had he concentrated his attention on mathematics.’—W. IV. I. Ball. CONGRES INTERNATIONAL des ELECTRICIENS, Paris, 1881: CompTrEs RENDUS des Travaux ; with diagrams, impl. 8vo. hf. calf, 5s 1882 COOKE (Josiah Parsons, Harvard Univ.) ELEMENTS of CHEMICAL Puysics, 4th [last] Ed.,. with 462 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl. (out of print), 12s 6d (p. £1. 1s) 1886 — LABORATORY PRACTICE: Experiments on the Fundamental Principles of Chemistry, woodcut, post 8vo. cl., 2s 6d (p. 5s) 1892 The NEW CHEMISTRY, woodcuts, post S8vo. cl., 2s 1874 EIGHTH [LAST] EDITION, remodelled and enlarged, post Svo. cl., with inser. ‘ Prof. Alex. W. Williamson with the warm regards of the author,’ 3s 6d New York, 1884 COPPERTHWAITE (William Charles) TUNNEL SHIELDS, and the UsE of COMPRESSED AIR in SUBAQUEOUS WORKS, with portrait of J. H. Greathead and 257 woodcuts, Ato. chPBli is (sells £1. 11s 6d nett) 1905 © Including a List of English Patents relating to Tunnelling with Shield and Compressed Air, 1818-1904, ~ CORACHAN (Juan Bautista) ARITHMETICA DEMONSTRADA theorico-practica para lo MATHEMATICO y MERCANTIL, sm. 4to. old calf gilt (rare), 10s 6d Barcelona, 1719 Unknown to Poggendorff and Prof. de Morgan.
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