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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    if HATTON TURNOR’S FINE COPIES: 1310 FAUJAS de ST.-FOND (Barthélemi) DrEscriIpTiIoN et EXPERIENCES de la MACHINE A&ROSTATIQUE de MM. DE MONTGOLFIER, premiére édition; with 9 plates ; with the Suppleé- ment: PREMIERE SUITE de la DESCRIPTION des EXPERIENCES AEROSTATIQUES de MM. DE MONTGOLFIER, et celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu, contenant les VOYAGES A®RIENS de la Muette, des Tuileries, de Lyon, de Milan, etc. etc., PLUSIEURS MEMOIRES sur la | MANIERE de DiriGER les AGROSTATES, ete. etc., différentes maniéres d’obtenir Vair inflammable .. . et Mémoire sur la Gomme élastique, etc. ; with 5 copperplates (3 very fine ones by de Launay, representing the first three Balloon Ascents)—2 vols. 8vo. contemporary tree-calf extra, with Hatton Turnor’s bookplate and auto. (FINE COPIES), £6. 6s 1783-4 The supplementary volume is EXCESSIVELY RARE, and contains a large number of additional technical information. 1311 FAURE (J. de, Gentilhomme Suisse) ANALYSE de la QUADRATURE du CERCLE, au moyen de — la Démonstration directe, la plus simple, la plus évidente, et la plus convaincante, 4to. sewn (last leaf missing), 6s La Haye, 1749 Containing an interesting MS. note by Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, ¥F.R.s., on p. 11. An account of this curious work will be found in Prof. de Morgan’s ‘ Budget of Paradoxes’, pp. 89-90. 1312 FAUST (Edwin Stanton, Univ. Strassburg) Die TIERISCHEN GIFTE, 8vo. sewn, 4s (p. M. 6.) ‘ Braunschweig, 1906 1313 FAYE (Hervé) NoUVELLE ETUDE sur les TEMPETES, CYCLONES, TROMBES ou TORNADOS; with woodcuts and charts, roy. 8vo. sewn, 2s 6d 1897 1314 FENWICK (Thomas) Treatise on SUBTERRANEOUS SURVEYING, and the VARIATION of the MAGNETIC NEEDLE, 2nd Ed., 8 plates (7 folding), large 8vo. boards (SCARCE), 15s 1822 The first systematic treatise on mine surveying. 1315 FERGUSON (James, F.R.S.) The ART of DRAWING in PERSPECTIVE, made easy to those who have no previous Knowledge of the Mathematics, new Ed., 9 plates, 8vo. boards, uncut, 4s Edin., 1803 THE EARLIEST POPULAR ASTRONOMY : ASTRONOMY EXPLAINED upon Sir IsAAC NEWTON’s PRINCIPLES, and MADE EAsy to those who have not studied Mathematics, 2nd Ed., with 13 foldiny plates, 4to. sound copy in old calf (back slightly damaged), 10s 1757 “The manner and method of its expositions were entirely original. Astronomical phenomena were for the first time described in familiar language ’.—D.N. B. 1316 1317 FIFTH EDITION, corrected, with 18 plates, 8vo. old calf gilt, 3s 6d 1772 1318 - TWELFTH EDITION, improved and corrected by ANDREW MACKAY, F.R.S., with 18 plates, 8vo. old hf. calf gilt, 4s 1809 1319 [FOURTEENTH EDITION], with Notes and Supplementary Chapters, by Sir DAVID BREWSTER, F.R.S., 2nd Ed. [enlarged], with 26 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, half calf gilt, with book- plate of Joseph Gwilt, F.S.A., 6s Edin., 1821 1320 ANOTHER Copy, 2 vols. 8vo. Af. calf gilt, 6s 6d 1321 LECTURES on SELECT SUBJECTS in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and Optics, with the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialling, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses, 9th Ed., with 36 plates, thick 8vo. boards, uncut, 5s 1799 NEw EDITION, corrected and enlarged, with Notes and ADDITIONAL VOLUME, containing the most recent Discoveries, 3rd Ed., with 27 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 10s 6d Edin., 1823 ‘In some degree the first elementary writer on natural philosophy.’— Sir D. Brewster. 1323 NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION, adapted to the present state of Science, by C. F. PART: INGTON [with AUTOBIOGRAPHY], portrait, 10 plates, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. boards, or, hf. bound, uncut, 6s 1825 A large portion of the book—one of the standard works of its time—treats of Diatiinc. There are also chapters on ‘Matter and its Properties’, ‘ Mills, Cranes, Wheel-carriages, and the Engine for Driving Piles’. PLAIN MeTuop of DETERMINING the PARALLAX of VENUS, by her Transit over the Sun, and thence, by analogy, the Parallax and Distance of the Sun, etc., with plates, 4to. sewn, 5s 1761 SELECT MECHANICAL EXERCISES: shewing how to construct different CLOCKS, ORRERIES, and SuN-DIALS, on Plain and Easie Principles ; with Miscellaneous Articles, and New Tables, I. for expeditiously computing the Time of any New or Full Moon, etc., II. for graduating and examining the usual Lines on the Sector, Plain Scale, and Gunter; and LIFE, first edition, with 9 folding plates on copper, 8vo. old calf gilt (back slightly damaged), 10s 6d 1773 ‘His scattered papers were collected in 1773 into a volume entitled ‘ Select Mechanical Exercises’ (4th ed. 1823), the partial autobiography prefixed to which is*the chief source of information regarding his early life. —Miss Agnes M. Clerke. 1326 TREATISE on the USE of the GLOBES, republished from the ‘ Lectures’, 12mo. eye 2s a 1327 ———, Lire of, in a brief Autobiographical Account, and further Extended Memoir, with numerous Notes, by EBENEZER HENDERSON, 2nd [last] Ed., with Additions, steel portratt, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 6s Edin., 1870 ‘Ferguson’s ‘ Short Account’ of his earlier years (1710-43), here reprinted with notes and illustrations, is supplemented with an ‘ Extended Memoir,’ giving all available details of his circumstances and inventions to his death. 7—_D. N. B. : ARAGO’S COPY: : 1328 FERMAT (Pierre de) VARIA OPERA MATHEMATICA, accesseruut selectee quedam ejusdemt EPISTOL®, de rebus ad Mathematicas Disciplinas aut Physicam_pertinentibus scripte [cura SAMUELIS DE FERMAT], with plates and diagrams, folio, (2) LARGE PAPER} old hf. morocco (very rare), £3. 3s Tolose, 1679 The excessively rare original edition of this celebrated work of the first inventor of the differential calculus, The Sd ora ana includes letters to and from Pascal, Mersenne, Gassendi, John Wallis, de Frenicle, de Roberval, Sir Kenelm i ete. “The above copy belonged to Dominique FRANGoIS JEAN ARAGO (q. v. ante), and bears on title the inscriptions ‘Fr, Arago’, and ‘From the Library of Fr. Arago, ener ; ——— v. DIOPHANTUS ALEXANDRINUS, ante. 1322 1324 1325
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