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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    881 CORNWALL: its MINES and MINERS: a Popular Introduction to Metallic Mines, by the Author of ‘Our Coal and our Coal-Pits’ (J. R. L.), woodcuts, post 8vo. el., 3s 6d 1855 ‘In this volume copper and tin are chiefly treated of.’—Preface. 4 §82 COTTA (Bernhard v.) TREATISE on ORE DEpoOsiTs, trans. from the 2nd German Ed., by FREDERICK PRIME, JR., revised by the Author, numerous illustrations, Svo. cl., 6s 6d (p. 18s) New York, 1870 883 COTTERILL (James Henry, F.R.s.), and John Henry SLADE: LESSONS in APPLIED MECHANICS, 377 illustrations, teap. 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 5s 6d) 1891 884 COULOMB (Charles Augustin de, de /’ Institut) M#MOIRES [publiés, avec Introduction, par les soins de A. POTIER]; with plates and diagrams, roy. 8vo. sewn, 7s 6d (p. F. 12. nett) 1884 A reprint of all the author’s papers on electricity and magnetism, and the resistance of fiuids ; including the important memoir ‘Construction et usage d’une balance électrique’, first propounding ‘Coulomb’s Law’. It forms Vol. I of ‘ Collection des mémoires relatifs 4 la physique, publiés par la Societé francaise de Physique.’ 885 COURNOT (Antoine Augustin) ExposITION de la THEORIE des CHANCES et des PROBABILITES ; with plate, 8vo. hf. morocco (scarce), 12s 6d ; 1843 ANOTHER Copy (wanting plate); also: Lacroix (S. F.) TRAITE KLEMENTAIREdu CALCUL des PROBABILITES, 4¢ (derniére) Hid.; with plates; and: ON PROBABILITY (pp. 64) [by Sir JOHN WILLIAM LUBBOCK, F.R.S., and JOHN ELLIOT DRINKWATER]—83 Vols. 8vo. in 1, Af. roan, 12s 6d 18438—’64—[’30] ‘CGournot’s treatment of insurance and the theory of life-tables is classical.’—Prof. Cajori. The work is often quoted in Todhunter’s ‘ History of the Theory of Probability ’. RECHERCHES sur les PRINCIPES MATHEMATIQUES de la THEORIE des RICHESSES, premiére édition; with plates, post 8vo. hf. morocco gilt (searce) 12s 1838 888 COURTONNE (Jean) TraIré de la PERSPECTIVE PRATIQUE, avec Remarques sur PARCHITEC- TURE; with numerous folding plates, folio, old calf gilt (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 88 1725 ‘Un excellent traité.’—Biogr. Géi. $89 [COWPER (Hon. Spencer, Dean of Durham)| TREATISE on the PARALLACTIC ANGLE, with Appendix, containing a complete set of SOLAR and LUNAR TABLES, entitled TABULA DUNEL- 886 887 MENSES, diagrams, 4to. sewn, 7s 6d 1766 -The authorship was unknown to Dean Cowper's biographer in D. N. B. s90 ———- ANOTHER Copy: Harrington (Thomas) SCIENCE IMPROVED, or the THEORY of the UNIVERSE, plates (with moveable slips), and maps—2 vols. 4to. in 1, old calf, 12s 6d 1766-74 891 CRAIGE (John) METHODUS FIGURARUM LINEIS RECTIS et CURVIS comprehensarum QUADRA- TURAS DETERMINANDI; plate: TRACTATUS MATHEMATICUS de FIGURARUM CURVILINEARUM QUADRATURIS et Locis Geometricis ; plate—2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, boards, 15s Londini, 1685-93 These two tracts are of importance as having been the first to make Leibniz’s differential calculus known in England. 892 CRAMER (Gabriel) INTRODUCTION 4 |’ ANALYSE des LIGNES COURBES ALGEBRIQUES ; with 33 folding plates, thick 4to. sound copy in contemporary mottled calf gilt (VERY RARE), £3.38 Genéve, 1750 ‘Containing the earliest demonstration that a curve of the uth degree is in general determined if } m (+8) points on it be given.’—W. W. R. Ball. 893 CRANZ (Carl) CoMPENDIUM der THEORETISCHEN AUSSEREN BALLISTIK; with 110 dlustrations, roy. 8vo. sewn, 13s 6d (p. M. 20.) Leipzig, 1896 The best modern text-book on the subject. 894 CRAWFORD (Adair, M.D., F.R.S.) EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on ANIMAL HEAT, and the INFLAMMATION of COMBUSTIBLE BODIES: an Attempt to Resolve these Phenomena into a General Law of Nature, 2nd Ed., with very large Additions, 4 copperplates, 8vo. nice copy in contemporary tree-calf gilt, 10s 6d 1788 This work contains his theory of heat, and the first attempt to ascertain the specific heat of gases. 895 CRESSWELL (Daniel, D.p.) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on the Geometrical and Algebraical In- vestigation of MAXIMA and MINIMA, with Propositions deducible from Euclid, enlarged Ed., diagrams, 8vo. calf (back damaged), 3s Cambridge, 1817 896 CRISP (Capt. John, Madras Army) On the METHODS of DETERMINING TERRESTRIAL LONGI- TUDES by the Moon’s RIGHT ASCENSION, as deduced from her Altitudes and Culminations, 4to el. (searce), 10s 6d Madras, 1827 897 CROCKER (Abraham) The ELEMENTS of LAND SURVEYING, with plans (1 coloured), and wood- cuts, 12mo. old sheep, 3s 6d ‘ ; 1806 898 CROLL (Oswald) BASILICA CilyMICA, continens philosophicam propria laborum experientia con firmatam Descriptionem et Usum Remediorum Chymicorum selectissimorum. Additus est TRAC- TATUS Novus de SIGNATURIS RERUM INTERNIS; with engraved title containing 6 portraits of Alchemists (including ‘Rog. Bacchon, Anglus’) and woodcut, 4to. old parchment (some ll. badly browned), 12s 6d Francofurti {1608} First Edition of this important work, which brought a large number of chamical preparations into medieal use, and went through 18 editions within the first 50 years of its publication. : PHILOSOPHY REFORMED and IMPROVED in Four Profound Tractates ; the I. discovering the Great and Deep Mysteries of Nature by Osw: Cro.uius, the other ITI. discovering the Wonderfull Mysteries of the Creation by Paracelsus, both made English by H. PINNELL, 2 vols. 12mo. in 1, sheep (as good as new); rare, 15s - 1657 The first is a translation of Croll’s ‘ Basilica Chymica’, introducing a large number of new medical preparations, many of which are still in use. ‘Having a good knowledge of chemistry, Croll brought into use many of the medicaments of Paracelsus, together with other new preparations; among the latter, be was the first to recommend the use of sulphate of potash (Kg SO4) and of volatile salt of amber (succinic acid).’— Prof. I. v. Meyer. 900 CULLEY (Robert Spelman) HANDBOOK of PRACTICAL TELEGRAPHY, first edition, plates and 899 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s 1863 ~ 901 SEVENTH EDITION, revised and enlarged, 18 plates, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (out of print), 6s (p. 16s) 1878
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