Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112

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$-_ |< 1268 EWBANK (Thomas) DESCRIPTIVE and HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of HYDRAULIC and other MACHINES for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern, with Observations on the Mechanic Arts, and the Development of the STEAM ENGINE, 16th [last] Ed., enlarged, engraved title, and 290 woodcuts, Containing much interesting historical information. 1269 EWING (James Alfred, F.R.S.) MAGNETIC INDUCTION in IRON and other METALS, 159 dlus- 1270 FABRE (Jean Antoine) EssAI sur la Maniere la plus avantageuse de construire les MACHINES HYDRAULIQUES, et en particulier les MOULINS A BLED; with 6 folding plates, large 4to. contemporary calf gilt, 7s 6d ay 1783 1271 FABRI (Ottavio) L’Uso della SQUADRA MOBILE, con la quale per Teorica et per Pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondita, s’impara 4 perticare livellare, et piglare in disegno, ecc.; with engraved title, folding plate on copper representing the. ‘movable quadrant’, and numerous engravings in text, sm. 4to. fine copy in old vellum (rare), 15s Venetia, 1598 Unknown to Poggendorff and Gresse. ‘ Bella e rara edizione.’—Riccardi. - ; 1272 FAGNANO (Giulio Carlo, Marchese de’ Toschi) PRODUZIONI MATEMATICHE; with folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. sewn, wholly uncut (VERY RARE), £4. 4s Pesaro, 1750 ‘ He may be said to have been the first writer who directed attention to the theory of elliptic functions . . . He also pointed out the remarkable analogy existing between the integrals which represent the arc of a circle and the arc of a lemiscate. Finally he proved the formula 7 = 27 log {(1—i)/(1 + 7%) where? } stands for \/—1.’—W. W. R. Ball. 1273 FAHIE (J. J.) History of WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY (1838-99), including Bare-Wire Proposals for Subaqueous Telegraphs, portraits and ulustrations, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1899 1274 FAIRBAIRN (Sir William, F.r.s.) The RISE and PRoGREsS of MANUFACTURES and Com- MERCE, and of CIVIL and MECHANICAL ENGINEERING in LANCASHIRE and CHESHIRE, with fine steel portrait on India paper, 5 plates, woodcuts and diagrams, 4to. cl. extra, g. é., 12s 6d [privately printed, Manchester, 1869] ‘To A. H. Novelli, Esqre with the author’s very kind regards.’-—Inser. on flyleaf. 1275 —_—- TREATISE on IRON SHIP BUILDING; its History and Progress, with 4 plates, and 127 Including an enquiry into the then and prospective state of the Navy, with experimental results on the resisting powers of armour plates and shot at high velocities. 1276 — TREATISE on MILLS and MILLWORK, 2nd Ed., with folding plates, and numerous wood- cuts, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 6s 1864-5 1277 FAIRFAX (George) NAVIGATION EPITOMIz’D : or Particulars most useful and usually taught in Navigation, briefly represented and humbly tender’d to the Governours of CHRIST’S-HOSPITAL, broadsheet of 2 pp.: DiscuRSUS HISTIODROMICUS [a short TREATISE on NAVIGATION in English verse], Manuscript on 12 pp., with 2 diagrams, 4to. sewn, 17s 6d [ca. 1690] 1278 FALCONER (William, author of ‘ The Shipwreck’) UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY of the MARINE: or the Technical Terms and Phrases employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship, with Original Designs of Shiping [ste], Translation of French Sea Terms, etc. etc., 2nd Ed., with fine copperplates, minutely illustrating the various parts of a ship, and its building, 4to. contemporary calf gilt, 15s 1771 ‘A grand national work, comprehending everything relating to the Marine of this country : a performance which dis- plays great industry, sagacity, and precision, and is indispensable to everyone concerned in maritime affairs.’—Gent, Mag. 1279 FALE (Thomas; Corpus Christi Coll., Cantab.) HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA: the ART of DIALLING: teaching an Easie and Perfect Way to make all Kindes of Dials upon any plain plat howsoever placed, with the drawing of the Twelve Signes, and Howres unequall in them all, with the making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the Day and Night is knowne, with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. black letter; sewn (FINE UNCUT COPY), £2. 2s FF’. Kingstone, 1652 1280 ANOTHER Copy, Af. bound (binding broken, and some ll. neatly mended and a few worm- holed), £1. 7s 6d ANOTHER Copy (wanting title), 16s 6d ‘The table of sines which it contains is probably the earliest specimen of a trigonometrical table printed in England,’— D.N. B. 1282 FARADAY (Michael, F.r.s.) The CHEMICAL HISTORY of a CANDLE [including a Lecture on PLATINUM], ed. by StR WILLIAM CROOKES, F.R.S., 38 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl. (out of print), 3s 6d [1874] 1281 1283 -— CHEMICAL MANIPULATION ; being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods of performing Experiments of Demonstration or of Research, with Accuracy and Success, first: edition, with woodcuts, 8vo. hf. calf neat (scarce), 12s 6d 1827 1284 SECOND EDITION [enlarged], with woodcuts, 8vo. boards, uncut (some ll. foxed) ; scarce, 10s 6d 1830 1285 THIRD [LAST] EDITION, revised, with woodcuts, 8vo. original el., uncut, 17s 6d 1842 ‘Hven now a very valuable book of reference. —Prof. Tait. ’ MANIPULATIONS CHIMIQUES; traduit par MAISEAU, et revu pour la Partie technique par A. Bussy; with woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. original hf. roan gilt, 9s 6d 1827 Published in the same year as the English original, and interesting as showing the early appreciation of the great seientist’s work. : ; ' ’ EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES in ELECTRICITY, from the Philosophical Transactions, with 2 plates, 4to. sewn, with author’s inscr., 15s 1832 ‘Thos. Allan, Esq., etc. etc. ete. [F.R.s., mineralogist] from the Au(thor].’-—Inser. on title, Consisting of Experimental Researches in Electricity, read before the Royal Society, Nov. 24, 1831, and of the Bakerian Lecture, 1832, ‘Terrestrial Magneto-electric Induction, and Force and Direction of Magneto-electric Induction generally’, and containing the first and most important of all his discoveries—that of induced electricity. E 1287$

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