Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

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$1076 DOGLIONI (Giovanni Nicolo) L’ANNO dove si ha PERFETTO, et PIENO RAGUAGLIO: intorno alle cosi del Mondo Celeste et Elementare, de’ Tempi, e del Calendario, ecc., SECONDO la NOVA REFORMA GREGORIANA; with numerous woodcuts, and vignette to each month of almanack, sm. 4to. hf. green calf (large and sound copy); RARE, £1. 15s Venetia, 1587 One of the earliest—if not the earliest—almanack according to the Gregorian Calendar, published 5 years after its pro- clamation, and unknown to Poggendorff, etc. 1077 DONNADIEU (A. L.) TRAITE de PHOTOGRAPHIE STEREOSCOPIQUE: Théorie et Pratique ; with 110 woodcuts, and ATLAS of 20 stereoscopic plates, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. sewn (Atlas boards), 4s 6d (p. F.9) 1892 1078 DONOVAN (Michael) TREATISE on CHEMISTRY, 4th Ed., vignette by Finden, and woodcuts, feap. 8vo. hf. calf neat, 2s 6d 1837 1079 DOOLITTLE (Charles Leander) TREATISE on PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY, as applied to Geodesy and Navigation, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, roy. 8vo. cl., 10s 6d (p. 17s nett) New Yor/:,1885 1080 DOPPELMAYER (Johann Gabriel) ATLAS Novus C@&LESTIS, in quo Mundus Spectabilis, et in eodem tam Errantium quam Inerrantium Stellarum Phenomena Notabilia ... secundum NIc. COPERNICI et ex parte TYCHONIS BRAHE Hypothesin . . . e celeberrimorum Astronomorum Observ- ationibus graphice descripta exhibentur ; finely engraved title, and 30 COLOURED FOLDING MAPS ; also 4 folding plates on Mechanics, ADDED, impl. folio, old hf. vellum (VERY RARE), £1. 15s Norimberga, 1742 A splendidly executed work. The supplementary plates were apparently published with a few copies of the Atlas only. 1081 DORIA (Paolo Mattia) OPERE MATEMATICHE, ‘i'omo 1°, nelquale si contengono la Duplicazione del Cubo, Actorum Eruditorum Supplementa, ecc., con Lettera a N.N.; with plates, in | vol. 4to. fine copy in old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope (rare), 7s 6d Venezia, 1722 The author was one of the most prominent opponents of the philosophy of Descartes. 1082 DORSEY (Edward Bates) ENGLISH and AMERICAN RAILROADS COMPARED, with Discussion by W. W. Evans, T. C. CLARKE, and E. P. Nortu, folding plates and tables, 8vo. cl. (out of print), 3s 6d New York, 1887 1083 DOSSIE (Robert): REMARKS on Mr. R. D.’s INSTITUTES of EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY, in a Letter addressed to the Authors of the Review, etc., 8vo. (pp. 18), sewn, 2s 6d 1760 1084 DOUGLAS (Gen. Sir Howard, F.R.S.) ESSAY on the PRINCIPLES and CONSTRUCTION of MILI- TARY BRIDGES and the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations, first edition, with 13 folding plates, 8vo. hf. calf (title stamped), 5s 1816 1085 SECOND EDITION, enlarged, with front. of Trajan’s Bridge at Alcantara and 12 plates, 8vo. law calf, 8s 6d 1832 ‘This work is said to have furnished Telford with the idea of the suspension principle in bridge construction.’—D. N. B. 1086 TREATISE on NAVAL GUNNERY, 2nd Ed., 5 folding plates, 8vo. hf. calf, 3s 6d 1829 1087 FoURTH EDITION [greatly enlarged], plates and numerous woodcuts, thick 8vo. hf. cal) (title stamped), 6s 1855 This edition contains a chapter on the Prussian Needle Gun, ‘Observations in the Black Sea’ [Crimea], accounts of the Lancaster Gun, etc. etc. FIFTH [LAST] EDITION [enlarged and partly re-written], with 5 plates and 86 woodcuts, thick 8vo. calf (title stamped) ; out of print, 10s 6d 1860 ‘One of the earliest works on the subjectand of considerable historical interest. It caused the establishment of the gunnery-ship Excellent and other improvements.’—D. N, B. 1089 DOVE (Heinrich Wilhelm; F.R.S.) DARSTELLUNG der FARBENLEHRE und OPTISCHE STUDIEN ; with portrait and 2 plates, 8vo. hf. calf gilt, with bookplate of Bartholomew [‘ Bat’) Price, pr., 1088 EP deep G8 Berlin, 1853 1090 — OPTISCHE STUDIEN : Fortsetzung der in der ‘ Darstellung der Farbenlehre’ enthaltenen ; with 8 tables, 8vo. sewn, with auto. of Prof. Bartholomew Price, 3s 6d tbidem, 1859 First Editions of these two important works. The latter contains the author’s discovery of the detection of forged bank-notes by the application of the stereoscope. The Law of STORMS considered in connexion with the Ordinary Movements of the Atmo- sphere, 2nd [last] Ed., wholly revised and considerably enlarged, trans. by RoBERT HENRY SCOTT, F.R.S., with diagrams and 6 charts, 8vo. hf. calf (scarce), 10s 6d 1862 One of the classic works on meteorology, containing the author’s investigation into the Jaws of gyration and the rotary movement of storms, named after him. 1092 DOWLING (Charles Hutton, c.E.) SERIES of METRIC TABLES, in which the British Standard 1091 Measures and Weights are compared with the Metric System, 8vo. hf. morocco, 3s 1864 1093 DOWNING (Samuel) ELEMENTS of PRACTICAL HYDRAULICS, 2nd Ed., enlarged, 12 folding maps and plates, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d 1861 1094 THIRD EDITION, Part I. (all published), with 81 woodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. cl. (out of rint), 5s 1875 1095 DRAPER (John William, M.D.) HisToRY of the CONFLICT between RELIGION and SCIENCE, post 8vo. cl., 2s 6d 1887 1096 SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS: EXPERIMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS to a KNOWLEDGE of RADIANT ENERGY, with fine steel portrait, and 100 woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (out of print), 8s 6d (p. 14s) 1878 Containing investigations on the radiations of red-hot bodies, the negative rays of the sun, the diffraction spectrum, tlie decomposition of carbonic acid gas by plants in the prismatic spectrum, on daguerreotype, lunar photography, the chlor- hydrogen photometer, microscopic photography, electro-motive power of heat, etc, etc. etc. 1097 DREW (William Henry, pr.) GEOMETRICAL TREATISE on CONIC SECTIONS, 5th Ed., with Appendix on Harmonic Ratio, Poles and Polars, and Reciprocation diagrams; with Solutions to the Problems—2 vols. post 8vo. cl. (Solutions out of print), 5s _ 1875-68 1098 DRUDE (Paul) THEORY of OPTICs, trans. by C. RinoRG MANN and ROBERT A. MILLIKAN, with over 100 woodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 11s (p. 15s nett) ~ 1902$

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