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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    1058 DIDION (Général Isidore) TRAITé de BALISTIQUE, 2¢ Ed., augumentée; with 6 folding -plates, 8vo. hf. calf (stamp on title) ; scarce, 6s 6d 1860 1059 DILLAYE (Frédéric) PRINCIPES et PRATIQUE d’ART en PHOTOGRAPHIE: le Paysage: with 66 adlustrations, roy. 8vo. sewn, 2s 6d 1899 1060 DILWORTH (Thomas) MISCELLANEOUS ARITHMETIC: or a full Account of the New. CALENDAR ; with the several Uses of the Logarithms, and of Multiplication and Division by Mony [sic], ete., first edition, with portrait, large 12mo. sound copy in the original sheep (rare), 15s 1766 ‘This work is but little known ’.—Prof. de Morgan, who did not know the above edition, the earliest mentioned being one of 1773. Chapters 6 and 7 treat of Observations on the ‘ Weather, Enigmatical Writing, with the Character of a good Christian, set forth in 20 Paradoxes, with their Solution ; and an Essay concerning the Education of Children’. Pp. 207-25 contain curious Arithmetical Poetry. 1061 DIOGENES LAERTIUS: De VirIs, Decretis et Responsis celebrium PHILOSOPHORUM Libri, nunc primum excusi [Grace]; editio princeps, cr. 4to. old smooth green morocco extra, g.e., with Syston Park bookplate (FINE COPY), with Harrow Leaving Inser. from Henry Drury to Reginald Merivale, £1. 5s Basilee, H. Frobenius, 1533 ‘Containing a great mass of interesting information regarding the private lives and habits of the most eminent philosophers of antiquity ’. 1062 DIOPHANTI Alexandrini ArITHMETICORUM Libri VI, necon de NUMERIS MULTANGULIS, nune primtim Greece et Latiné editi, atque absolutissimis Commentariis illustrati, auct. CLAUDIO GAsP. BACHETO, folio, old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S.,£1.1s Parisiis, 1621 First Epirion, in any language, of the earliest extant treatise on Algebra. EpitT1io Nova, cum Commentariis C. G. BACHETI, et Observationibus P. DE FERMAT ; accessit DOCTRINZ ANALYTIC inventum novum, collectum ex variis eiusdem DE FERMAT Epistolis; with vignettes and diagrams, roy. folio, LARGE PAPER ; old stamped vellum (stamp on title, otherwise a FINE COPY), £2. 2s Tolose, 1670 A RARE AND ESTEEMED EDITION, first containing Pierre de Fermat’s discoveries on the theory of numbers (‘ de maximis et minimis ’)—the first step in the invention of the infinitesimal calculus. 1064 DIRCKS (Henry, C.E. ; inventor of Pepper's Ghost) PERPETUUM MOBILE; or Search for Self- Motive Power, Cents. XVII.-XIX., from various Authentic Sources, in Papers, Essays, Letters, Paragraphs, and numerous Patent Specifications, with Introductory Essay, numerous woodcuts, post 8vo. el. (VERY SCARCE), £1. ls 1861 The only work that has ever been published on this still existing craze, containing inter alia all machines on the supposed perpetual motion principle registered at the Patent Office. v. WORCESTER (Marquess of), post. 1065 DITTMAR (William, F.R.s.) CHEMICAL ARITHMETIC, PartI: Tables, Mathematical, Chemical and Physical, for the Use of Chemists and others, 8vo. el., 3s 6d (p. 6s nett) Glasgow, 1890 1066 DITTON (Humphry) INsTITUTION of FLUXIONS, containing the First Principles, the Operations, with its Uses and Applications, 2nd Ed. by JOHN CLARKE, D.D., 8vo. contemporary calf gilt, 6s 1726 1067 DIVERSES OUVRAGES de MATHEMATIQUE et de PHYSIQUE par Messieurs de l ACADEMIE ROYALE des SCIENCES ; with numerous diagrams, folio, LARGE PAPER; contemporary French mottled calf gilt, with arms in gold on sides (FINE COPY), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., £1. 15s Imprimerie Royale, 1693 Containing valuable pieces by DE FRENICLE, DE RoBERVAL, HuyGens, AUzouT, and MaRIorre. 1068 DIXON (Alfred Cardew) The ELEMENTARY PROPERTIES of the ELLIPTIC FUNCTIONS, diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 3s 1894 1069 DODGSON (Charles Lutwidge, pr. ; author of ‘ Alice in Wonderland’) SYLLABUS of PLANE ALGEBRAICAL GEOMETRY, Part I (all pub.): Points, RigHT LINES, RECTILINEAR FIGURES, PENCILS, and CIRCLES, with diagrams, large 8vo. cl., WITH INSCR. ‘ FROM THE AUTHOR’, 4s Oxford, 1860 1070 DODSON (James, F.R.S.) The ANTI-LOGARITHMIC CANON : a Table of Numbers of 11 Places of Figures, corresponding to all Logarithms under 100,000, with INTRODUCTION on LOGARITHMS, the Improvements, since their Invention, in the Manner of Constructing them, folio, old calf, joints cracked (VERY RARE), £1. 10s apud auctorem, 1742 ‘The only considerable work of this kind published . . . A very great performance.’—Hutton. ‘His most important work . . . This was unique until 1849. The canon had been actually calculated, it is asserted, by Walter Warner and John Pell, about 1630-40..—D.N.B. The author was Master of the Mathematical School of Christ’s Hospital, and, with Edward Rowe Mores, one of the Founders of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, for which he compiled many of its tables. He was also the great-grandfather of AuaustUs DE MorGan. The MATHEMATICAL REpOsIToRY, containing ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS of 500 Questions, mostly selected from Scarce and Valuable Authors, designed to conduct Beginners [Vol. I], sm. 8vo. old calf, 5s 1748 According to W. W. R. Ball, the author originated the theory of annuities as a branch of mathematics. 1072 DOLBEAR (Amos Emerson) MATTER, ETHER, and MOTION: the Factors and Relations of Physical Science, woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 10s 6d) 1892 1073 DOLLOND (George, F.R.S.) ACCOUNT of a CONCAVE ACHROMATIC GLASS LENS, as adapted to the Wired Micrometer when applied to a Telescope, which has the property of increasing the Mag- nifying Power of the Telescope without increasing the Diameter of the Micrometer Wires, 4to. (pp. 7), sewn, 3s 6d 1834. ‘ Describing a skilful application of Barlow’s concave lens to the micrometer, specially designed to meet Dawes’s needs in double-star measurement, and highly approved by him.’—Miss A. M. Clerke. : 1074 DONALDSON (John) The GEOLOGICAL STAIRCASE, numerous coloured illustrations of Ore- 1063 1071 Deposits, etc., post 8vo. cl., 3s 6d ; _ 1855 1075 DONKIN (William Fishburn, F.R.s.) Acoustics; Theoretical, Part I (all pub.), diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl. (back torn), 3s (p. 7s 6d) Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1870 ‘Devoted to an enquiry into the vibrations of strings and rods, and giving evidence on every page of the combined musical and mathematical talents of the author.’—Prof. W. J. Harrison.
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