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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925 926 929 930 931 932 934 935 936 933 CURIE (Pierre; discoverer of Radium) PROPRIETES MAGNETIQUES des CORPS & DIVERSES TeEM- PERATURES (These) ; with woodcuts, roy. 8vo. sewn (out of print), 5s 1895 2 ‘Hominage amical. P. Curte’.—Inser. on title. DAGUERRE (Louis) HISTORIQUE et DESCRIPTION des PROCEDES du DAGUERREOTYPE et du DIORAMA; with 6 plates illustrating the Apparatus, etc. used, 8vo. sewn (VERY SCARCE), £3. 3s 1839 First Epition of perhaps the most important work in the whole range of the history of photography, containing the first acconnt of the invention of the Daguerreotype. ‘The discovery of the Daguerreotype was announced in Jan., 1839, but the details of the process were not made public till August of the same year. It consists of exposing a metal plate covered with iodide of silver for a suitable time in a photographic camera, the plate being afterwards transferred to a dark room, and exposed to the vapour of mercury, which develops the latent image, it being afterwards fixed. Although this process has become almost obsolete, it was really the first which was of any practical value, and experts all agree that no other known process renders some subjects—e. q. the human face—with such fidelity and beauty.’—T. C. Hepworth, : DALE (John Borthwick) LOGARIFHMIC and TRIGONOMETRIC TABLES to Five Places of Decimals, 8vo. el., ls 6d 1905 DALEMBERT—v. ALEMBERT, ante. D{[ALENCE (—)] TRAITE de l’AIMAN, divisé en 2 parties: les Expériences et les Raisons que Von en peut rendre; with fine front. and numerous copperplates, 12mo. contemporary calf gilt (RARE), £1. ls Amsterdam, 1687 ene a number of interesting experiments on the Magnet, and summing up all the knowledge then known on the subject. [———] TRAITTEZ des BAROMETRES, THERMOMETRES, et NOTIOMETRES, ou HYGROMETRES, premiere édition; with front. by Schoonebeek, and numerous copperplates, 12mo. contemporary calf gilt (wanting | plate); RARE, £1. ls ibidem, 1688 The earliest account dealing exclusively with the subject, and especially valuable as the first work laying down rules for the graduation of the thermometer. Both the above works were unknown to Poggendorff. DALTON (John, F.R.S.) METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS and Essays, first edition, with diagrams, 8vo. FRESH COPY in boards, uncut, £3. 13s 6d T., Ostell [1793] The author’s first published work, and EXCESSIVELY RARE in the above edition. ‘They contained, as the author remarked 40 years later, the germs of most of the ideas afterwards expanded by him into discoveries. A prominent section comprised the result of six years’ auroral observations. He had detected independ- ently the magnetic relations of the phenomenon, and concluded thence auroral light to be of purely electric origin, and auroral arches and streamers to be composed of au elastic fluid of a ferruginous nature existing above our atmosphere. This hypothesis was further developed by Biot in 1820. From simultaneous observations at Kendal and Keswick Dalton derived from the aurora of 15 Feb. 1793 a height of 150 miles. . . The essay in the same volume was remarkable for the then novel assertion that aqueous vapour exists in the air as an independent elastic flnid, not chemically combined, but mechanically mixed with the other atinospherie gases,’-—Miss A. M. Clerke. — SECOND EDITION, with woodcuts, 8vo. boards, uncut (stamp on title) ; SCARCE, 15s Manchester, 1834 ANOTHER Copy, Af. calf (nice copy), 17s 6d ‘A second edition was published in 1834, with the addition of some notes collected into an appendix, but with no alteration in the text.’—Kadem. —— NEW SYSTEM of CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY, Parts I and II, and Vol. II Part I (ALL PUB- LISHED), with 8 copperplates, 3 vols. FINE COPIES in hf. calf (EXCESSIVELY SCARCE COMPLETE), £4. 4s ibidem, 1808-10-27 A complete copy of the only edition of this important work, no reprint having ever been issued, ‘In this work he developed those primary laws of heat and chemical combination to which he had been gradually led since 1801, and laid the foundation of chemical notation by representing graphically the supposed collocations of atoms in compound bodies. Extended and revised bodies of atomic weights were added.’—Euademni. PaRrT I ONLY, with 4 copperplates, 8vo. ald hf. calf, £1. 5s ibidem, 1808 This volume, complete in itself, contains the first exposition of the Atomic Theory. ——-: Henry (William Charles, F.R.s.) MEMoIRS of the LIFE and SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES of JOHN DALTON, F.R.S., with bust-portrait, 2 plates, and fs., 8vo. cl., uncut, t. e. g., 88 6d Cavendish Soc., 1854 Together with R. A. Smira’s biography (q. v. infra) the chief authority on Dalton. : Roscoe (Sir Heury Enfield, r.r.s.) JOHN DALTON, and the RisE of MODERN CHEMISTRY, portrait and fs., pan 8vo. cl., 1s 6d by 1895 SMITH (Robert Angts, F.R.S.) MEMOIR of JOHN DALTON, and History of the ATOMIC THEORY up to his Time, with steel portrait, 8vo. cl., with pres. inscr. to ROBERT ALFRED VAUGHAN (author of ‘ Hours with the Mystics’), 10s 6d 1856 Containing a complete list of Dalton’s publications. ¢ DAMBOURNEY (Louis Auguste) Recuem de PRocEpEs et d’EXPERIENCES sur les TEIN- TURES SOLIDES que nos Végétaux indigenes communiquent aux Laines et aux Lainages, 4to. (2) LARGE PAPER ; old calf gilt (binding slightly damayed) ; RARE, £1. 5s 1786 - First Eprrion, printed by order of the French Government, with alphabetical List or CoLours (pp. 39) at end. ‘Dambourney réussit 4 naturaliser la garance dans la Normandie et a tirer un vert primitif trés-solide des baies de la bourdaine ou bourgéne (rhamnus frangula). Ilreconnut ensuite la possibilité d’extraire du vouéde ou pastel (isatis tinctoria) un bleu comparable a Vindigo, et imagina que par le moyen du feu on pourrait porter la fermentation a sa perfection.’— Biog. Gén. DAMMER (Otto) HANDBI'CH der ANORGANISCHEN CHEMIE—v. HANDBUCH, post. post 8vo. el., 3s 6d 1857 or 1863 , and George Jarvis BRUSH: SysTEm of MINERALOGY, comprising the most RECENT DISCOVERIES, 5th Ed., rewritten, with ever 600 <dllustrations, thick roy. 8vo. ci., a ie . £).716s 'P This has been considered the best text-book of mineralogy extant. ——,, —-—, and Edward SALISBURY: TextT-Book of MINERALOGY, with extended Treatise on CRYSTALLOGRAPHY and PHysICAL MINERALOGY, 4th Ed., coloured front., and over 800 woodcuts, large 8vo. hf. roan, with numerous valuable MS. notes and additions, 6s 6d New York, 1882

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