Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

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$1148 EDINBURGH ROYAL SOCIETY’S TrAnNsaActTions, Vol. XXX, parts 2-4, XXXII-XXXVI, XXXVII, pts. 1-2, and XXXIX, pts. 2-4, with numerous plates and other illustrations, 23 parts 4to. sewn, as issued, £3. 3s (p. £30. 12s) Eidin., 1881-1900 1149 EDSER (Edwin) MEASUREMENT and WEIGHING, 36 dlustrations, post 8vo. cl., 1s 6d 1899 1150 erie (Joseph) DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS for BEGINNERS, diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 2s 6d (p. 4s 6d) 1893 1151 EDWARDS Jun. (Frederick) On the VENTILATION of DWELLING- HOUSES, and the UTILIzA- TLON of WASTE HEAT from OPEN FIRE PLACES, plates (some folding), roy. 8vo. cl. (scarce), 6s 1868 According to the preface the first attempt to use the heat escaping by the chimney. 1152 EDWIN (R. A., &.N.) TRAVERSE TABLE; with Simple and Brief METHOD of CORRECTING CoMPASS COURSES, roy. 8vo. cl., (cover slightly stained), 3s Portsmouth, 1871 1153 EHRMANN (Friedrich Ludwig) VERSUCH einer SCHMELZKUNST mit BEYHULFE der FEUERLUFT; with copperplate, sm. 8vo. nice copy in original boards, with bookplate of Prof. Ff. L. Schurer (Strassburg, fl. 1789) ; scarce, 10s 6d Strassburg, 1786 First Epition. It contains numerous interesting and original experiments, 7.a. describing an apparatus inveuted by the author for using oxyhydrogen gas in his smelting operations. The work was considered important enough to be translated by order of the French.Academy. 1154 Essar d’un ArT de Fusion a PAipE de |’Air du FEU ou AIR VITAL, traduit par M. DE FONTALLARD; suivi des MEMOIRES de MR. LAVOISIER sur le méme Sujet; with 3 plates, 8vo. old calf gilt, 10s Strasbourg, 1787 Lavoisier’s contributions (pp. 113) comprise: ‘De l’action du feu animé par Vair vital sur les substances minérales les plus réfractaires’, ‘Sur l’effet que produit sur les pierres précieuses un degré de feu trés-violent’, and ‘Sur un moyen d’augmenter considérablement l’action du feu et de la chaleur dans les opérations chimiques’. 1155 EIFFE (John Sweetman) AccouNT of IMPROVEMENTS in CHRONOMETERS, with ROBERT MOLYNEUX’S SPECIFICATIONS for the same [with Preface by Sir J. B. Airy], 5 plates by Basire, 4to. cl., 6s 1842 The improvements, for which the author received a reward from the Admiralty, have reference to the compensation balance. e 1156 EISENSCHMIDT (Johann Caspar) DIATRIBE de FIGURA TELLURIS ELLIPTICO-SPHEROIDE, ubi una exhibetur eius magnitudo per singulas dimensiones, consensu omnium Observationum comprobata, editio princeps; with 3 copperplates, sm. 4to. sewn, uncut (RARE), £1. 1s Argentorati, 1691 This work, through the author’s contention of the carth being elongated towards the poles, caused the long discussion on the figure of the earth which was only ended in 1786, by the result of Maupertuis and Bouguer’s meridian-measurement, 1157 lauren (M.) HANDBOOK of MODERN EXPLOSIVES, 105 dllustrations, cr. 8vo. cl., 4s . 10s 6d) 1890 1158 ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION, by JAMEs DREDGE (Editor), CONRAD COOKE, M. F. O’REILLY, S. P. THOMPSON, F.R.S., and H. VIVAREZ, with ABSTRACTS of [PATENT] SPECIFICATIONS relating to Electric Lighting (1837-72), compiled by W. Luoyp Wiss, Vol. I (all pub.), with 833 woodcuts, thick 4to. cl., 10s (p. £1. 10s) [1882] Still valuable for the list of patents taken out. The proposed 2nd vol., containing the applications of the electric light, cost of production, photometry, secondary batteries, accessories, motive power, etc., was never published. 1159 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (The): a WEEKLY JOURNAL of Electrical Engineering, with which is incorporated ‘ Electric Light’, Vols. IX-XV (New Series, Vols. III-[X), with plates and numerous other illustrations, 7 vois. folio, hf. calf (last v. sewn), £1. 5s 1889-92 1160 REVIEW (The); originally the TELEGRAPHIC JOURNAL and ELECTRICAL REVIEW, from 1882 to 1893 (Vols. 10-33), edustrated, 24 vols. folio, the first 20 vv. hf. calf gilt, and the rest sewn, £8. 8s ¢ 1882-93 1161 ELECTRICIAN (The), and EvzctRicAL ENGINEER: a Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, Vols. III-XIV, copiously illustrated, 12 vols. 4to. hf. calf (last 2 vols. sewn), £1. 10s New York, 1884-92 1162 ELECTRICIEN (L’): RevuE GENERALE d’ELECTRICITE: Secrétaire de la Rédaction E. HOSsPITALIER, Tomes 1 46; with plates, and numerous woodcuts, 6 vols. roy. 8vo. in 5, hf. calf gilt, lds 1881-3 1163 ELECTRICIEN S, ConGRES INTERNATIONAL des, Paris, 1889; COMPTES RENDUS des TRAVAUX, publiés par les soins de J. JOUBERT; with woodcuts, roy. 8vo. hf. calf, 4s 1890 1164 ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY (AmERICAN), TRANSACTIONS of the; Vols. I-V, with por- traits, plates,and numerous other allustrations, 5 vols. 8vo. cl., £1. 18s (p. £3. 15s nett) Philadelphia, 1902-4 1165 ELLIOT (James) COMPLETE PRACTICAL TREATISE on the NATURE and USE of LOGARITHMS, and on PLANE TRIGONOMETRY, 5th Ed., with Key, 3rd Ed., 2 vols. 8vo. cd., 4s [1872-55] 1166 ELLIS (Alexander John, F.R.S.; philologist) ALGEBRA IDENTIFIED with GEOMETRY, plate, 8vo. sewn (scarce), 5s 1874 Maintaining that algebra is a purely geometrical calculus, not an arithmetical one. : - How to TEACH PROPORTION without Reference to Commensurability, with Notes on Collateral Subjects, 8vo. sewn, 2s 1877 1168 ELLIS (Robert Leslie; Baconian) MATHEMATICAL and other WRITINGS; edited by WILLIAM WALTON, with Memoir by HARVEY GoopwIN [Bishop of Carlisle], steel portrait by Radclyffe, and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 7s 6d (p. 16s) 1863 1169 [EMERSON (William)| The ARITHMETIC of INFINITES, and the Differential Method ; illus- trated by Examples, numerous plates, 8vo. old calf, 5s 1767 1170 — The METHOD of INCREMENTS, wherein the Principles are demonstrated ; and the Practice thereof shewn in the Solution of Problems, 4to. sewn (rare), 10s 6d 1763 Chiefly based on Taylor’s ‘Methodus Incrementorum’, and Stirling’s ‘Differential Method’, and valuable as an early eatise on the calculus of finite differences, 1167$

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