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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    1171 [EMERSON (William)] SHORT COMMENT on SIR I. NEWTON’s PRINCIPIA; containing Notes on some Difficult Places, 5 plates, 8vo. old hf. calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.RS., 2s 6d 1770 1172 ——— TRACTS: containing Mechanics, the Projection of the Sphere, and the Laws of Centripetal and Centrifugal Force; new Ed., with Lirz, by W. Bows, pr., plates, 8vo. old calf (joints cracked), 4s 1793 The author began life as a poor boy, and walked all the way from Durhamto London. ‘Herefused to become a member of the Royal Society because, as he said, ‘it was a d——d hard thing that a man should burn so many farthing candles as he had done, and then have to pay so much a year for the honour of F.R.S. after his name’.’—D. N. B. 1173 EMTAGE (W. T. A.) INTRODUCTION to the MATHEMATICAL THEORY of ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM, diagrams, er. 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 7s 6d) 1891 1174 LIGHT, 232 woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1896 1175 ENCKE (Johann Franz) GESAMMELTE MATHEMATISCHE und ASTRONOMISCHE ABHANDLUNGEN, 3 vols. 8vo. sewn, 10s (p. M. 20.) Berlin, 1888-9 InHALT :—I. Allgemeines betreffend Rechnungsmethoden: II. Methode der kleinsten Quadrate; Fehlertheoretische Untersuchungen: II{f{. Astronomische und optische Abhandlungen. 1176 ——— Die ENTFERNUNG der SONNE von der ERDE, aus dem Venusdurchgange von 1761 herge- leitet: Der VENUSDURCHGANG von 1769—2 vols. post 8vo. in 1, new Af.-cl., 10s 6d Gotha, 1822-4 The author’s first published works, and important as giving the first approximately correct solar parallax (5”.571). The second work forms a continuation of the first. 1177 Uber den AUSNAHMEFALL einer DOPPELTEN BAHNBESTIMMUNG aus denselben drei geocentrischen Ortern, 4to. (pp. 27), sewn, 2s 6d Berlin, 1850 1178 ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 8th Ed. Vol. I: the DissErRTATIONS, thick 4to. cl., 7s 6d 1853 “ This volume, complete in itself, was not published in the following editions, and contains dissertations on the history of science and philosophy by DuGaLp STEWART, Sir JAMES MacKINTosH, ABP. WHATELY, JOHN PLAYFAIR, F.R.S., SIR JOHN LESLIE, and J. D. FORBES, F.R.S. 1179 ——— METROPOLITANA, or UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY of KNOWLEDGE, on an Original Plan, edited by EDWARD SMEDLEY and HuGH JAMES and HENRY JOHN ROsk, prr., with Index Volume, 600 fine plates, 29 thick vols. 4to. calf gilt ( fine set), £3. 3s (p.-£58. in cl.) 1829-45 Among the eminent writers of this cyclopedia, originally proposed byS. T. CoLERIDGE, and still valued for the excellent original contributions (especially on the exact sciences) which it contains, are Coleridge himself, Sir G. B. Airy, Thomas Arnold (including his History of Rome), Charles Babbage, F.R.s., Peter Barlow, F.R.s., Bp. Blomfield, Sir R. H. Bonny- castle, T. L. Donaldson, Bp. Hampden, Sir John Herschel, T. H. Horne, Henry Kater, F.r.s., Dionysius Lardner, Prof, de Morgan, Card. Newman, Dean Peacock, F.R.s., Charles Richardson (including the whole of his English Dictionary), ». M. Roget, F.R.S , Bp. Stanley, Serjeant Talfourd, Abp. Whately (including his Logic, Rhetoric, etc.), and Dr. Whewell. 1180 - ——: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY: comprising Plane Astronomy, by PETER BARLOW, F.R.S.; Nautical Astronomy, by HENRY KATER, F.R.S. ; Physical Astronomy, by SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL ; and on the Figure of the Earth, and on Tides and Waves, by Sir G. B. AIRY, 22 plates and maps, 4to. cl., 5s 6d 1848 | 1181 - EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, by PETER BARLOW, FRANCIS LUNN, pr., P. M. ROGET, M.D., and GEORGE HARVEY, 40 plates, thick 4to. hf russia (binding rubbed), 7s 6d 1848 1182 MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY : Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Pneumatics, and Optics, by PETER BARLOW, F.R.S. ; and Sound and Light, by Sir J. F. W. HERSCHEL, 78 plates, thick 4to. cl., 6s 6d 1848 1183. ———— PURE MATHEMATICS, by PETER BARLOW, DEAN PEACOCK, DIONYSIUS LARDNER, pr., Sir G. B. Arpy, H. P. HAMILTON, pr., A. Levy, T. G. HALL, pr., AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN, and HENRY MOSELEY, 17 plates, thick 4to. cl., 8s 6d 1848 1184 PRACTICAL ENGINEERING, and Allied Trades, ed. by JosEPH G. HORNER, Vols. I-I1V (A—Fil), with 64 plates, and numerous other ulustrations, 4 vols. 4to. cl., 7. €., 17s 6d [1905-6] ENCYCLOPEDIE—». DipEror, ante. 1185 ENFIELD (William) INsTiTuTES of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, Theoretical and Experimental, with 11 folding plates, 4to. contemporary tree-calf extra (FINE Cory), 8s 6d 1785 1186 ENGINEER (The), and MACHINIST’s ASSISTANT: Plans, Sections, and Elevations of Station- ary, Marine, and Locomotive Engines, Water Wheels, Spinning Machines, Tools, etc. ete., with Descriptions and Practical Essays, 136 steel plates, and numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. folio, Af. brown morocco, 10s 6d 1863 1187 ENGINEERING, an Illustrated Weekly Journal, edited by ZeERAH CoLBURN, W. H. Maw, and the late JAMES DREDGE, COMPLETE from its beginning in 1866 to 1893, with MANY HUNDREDS OF WOODCUTS (many of large size), 56 vols. roy. 4to. vv. 1-52 hf.-bound, and vv. 53-6 sewn as issued, £25. . 1866-93 This paper, which immediately it was started obtained, and has held to the present time, the foremost place among professional papers, gives the fullest information on the theory and the best illustration of the practice of Engineering at home and abroad. Articles by all the foremcst Engineers on the Iron and Steel Manufactures, Railways, Agricultural Machinery, Materials of Construction, Iron Shipbuilding, Gas, Water, and Sewage-works, Telegraphs, Electric Lighting, etc., etc., are treated at length in this valuable journal. The RARLY VOLUMES are NOW VERY SCARCE, and it is also difficult to make up many of the later ones, as most of the numbers are out of print. 1188 ENGLEFIELD (Sir Henry Charles, F.R.s.) On the DETERMINATION of the ORBITS of COMETS, according to Boscovich and Laplace, with new and complete Tables, and Examples of the Caleulation by both Methods, 4to., boards, uncut, 6s , 1793 1189 ENGLISH (Douglas) PHoToGRAPHY for NATURALISTS, illustrated, roy. 8vo. buckram, 2s 6d 1901 A COMPLETE SET TO 1596: . 1190 ENGLISH MECHANIC (The), and WorLD of SCIENCE, COMPLETE from the beginning in 1865 to August, 1896, copiously illustrated, 63 vols. 4to. 52 vv. cl., 2 vv. Af. bound, and the rest sewn, £12. 12s 1865-96 Particularly strong in astronomy and microscopy. 1191 ERDMANN (Hugo) LEHRBUCH der ANORGANISCHEN CHEMIE; with 4 coloured plates and 276 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 6s 6d (p. M. 18. Braunschweig, 1893
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