Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

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$78 ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond da’; LEncyclopédiste), Charles BOSSUT, s.j., J. J. le F. de LALANDE, le Marquis de CONDORCET, etc.: ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE: MATHEMA- TIQUES; with over 100 copperplates, 4 vols. 4to. old hf. russia, 15s 1784-9 ; » See the complete work under D1ipERoT, post. 79 ALESSIO Piemontese: The First [— FIFTH] PART of the SECRETS of MAISTER ALEXIS of PIEMONT, by him collected out of diuers excellent Authors, and now newly corrected and augmented, by WILLIAM WARD, vignette on titles, 5 parts sm. 4to. in 1 vol., black letter; old hf. calf (wants title to part 2 and last 1. of table), £2. 5s W. Stansby, 1614 A VERY RARE Epition, tnknown to Lowndes and other bibliographers, the edition of 1615 being generally considered the earliest printed by Stansby. Thereis no copy of this edition in Brit. Mus. The book itself contains many curious chemical and medical recipes. No certainty exists as toits authorship, the name given on the title having been assumed to bea pseudonym, while the author’s real name has been asserted to be GIROLAMO RUSCELLI. * Alessio parcourut pendant 57 ans les différentes contrées de l’EHurope, recueillant des recettes précieuses et opérant des cures ¢tonnantes. Son livre ne traite pas seulement des drogues, mais des cosmétiques, des parfums, des savons etc. Il raconte qu’au moyen d’une drogue préparée avec de la rosée du romarin et quelques autres ing: édients, il était parvenu arajeunir de vieilles femmes infirmes.’—Biogr. Gén. : ‘ ; 80 AL-FERGANI (Mohammed-ben-Ketir): MunAmmMepts fil. KETERI Ferganensis, qui vulgo ALFRAGANUS dicitur, ELEMENTA ASTRONOMICA, Arabicé et Latiné, cum Notis ad Res exoticas sive orientales, quiz in iis occurrunt, opera JACOBI GOLII, sound tall copy in old calf (newly rebacked), £1. 5s Amst., 1669 * April ye 10th 1669. Recd. then of Dr. Pocock [the celebrated Orientalist] in full for this booke twelve shillings By me Rob. Scott.’—MS. note on flyleaf. THE BEST EDITION, especially valuable for the editor's notes (pp. 306), and ‘assez rare’ (Brunet). In Chapters 8 and 9 the author gives a list of towns then known to the Arabs, divided into seven different climates. : $1 ALGEBRA applied to GEoMETRY, by X. Y. Z., plate, 8vo. boards, 1s 6d Cambridge, 1843 82 ALHAZENTI Opric# THESAURUS; ejusdem Liber de Crepusculis, et Nubium Ascensionibus ; item Vitellionis Libri X, omnes instauratis figuris illustrati et aucti: adjectis etiam in Alhazenum Commentariis ; with numerous woodcuts, folio, calf, £1. 15s Basile, 1572 ‘Including the earliest scientific account of atmospheric refraction. It also. contains some ingenious geometry, amongst other things, a geometrical solution of the problem to find at what point of a concave mirror a ray from a given point must be incident so as to be reflected to another given point.’—W. W. R. Ball. P 83 ALINGHAM (William, Zeacher of Mathematicks) EPITOME cf GEOMETRY: a Compendious Collection of I., III., V.-VII., XL-XII. Books of Euclid, with their Applications, Euclid’s II. Book and Doctrine of Proportion, mathematically demonstrated ; with Treatise on Measuring Super- ficies, etc. etc., diagrams, sm. 8vo. old calf (damaged), 7s 6d 1700 84 ALINGS (Arnold Willem) DISSERTATIO MATHEMATICA INAUGURALIS de SUPERFICIERUM CURVATURA ; with plates, 4to. sewn, 2s Groninge [1849] 85 ALLEN (Alfred H.) Cuemistry of URINE: a Practical Guide to the Analytical Examination of Diabetic, Albuminous, and Gouty Urine, woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 7s 6d) 1895 86 ——— COMMERCIAL ORGANIC ANALYSIS: a Treatise on the Properties, Proximate Analytical Examination, and Modes of Assayine the various Organic Chemicals and Preparations employed in the Arts, Manufactures, Medicine, etc. ete. etc., woodcuts, 4 vols. 8vo.in 6, cl., £2. 2s (p. £4. 17s 6d) 1879-98 ConTENTS :—I. Cyanogen Compounds, Alcohols and their Derivatives, Phenols, Acids, ete., 79: Il. Hydrocarbons, Fixed Oils and Fats, Sugars, Starch and its Isomers, Alkaloids and Organic Bases, etc., °82: III. 1. Acid Derivatives of Phenols, Aromatic Acids, Tannins, Dyes and Colouring Matters, 2nd Ed., ’89: III. 2. Amines and Ammonium Bases, Hydrazines, Basesfrom Tar, Vegetable Alkaloids, 2nd Ed , ’92: III. 3. Non-Basic Vegetable Bitter Principles, Animal Bases and Acids, Cyanogen and its Derivatives, 2nd Ed.,’96: IV. Proteids and Albuminous Principles, Proteoids,2nd Ed., ’98. 87 ALLEN (John Parnell) PRACTICAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION: a Student’s Handbook and Book for Reference, 3rd Ed., revised, over 1000 zllustrations, 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 7s 6d) 1900 88 ALLEN (Richard Hickley) STAR NAMES and their Meanings [with copious Indexes], roy. 8vo. cl., t. e. g., 13s 6d (p. £1. nett) New York, 1899 89 ALLSOP (F. C.) INDUCTION CoILs and Corl MAKING, 2nd Ed., enlarged, 125 illustrations, post 8vo., cl., 1s 6d : 1896 ALMAGEST—+». PToLOM&US, post. 9) ALPHONTII Regis Castelle Ca@Lestium MotuuM TABUL&, necnon STELLARUM FIXARUM LONGITUDINES ac LATITUDINES ; with woodcuts, 4to., gothic letter ; Af. vellum (VERY RARE), £6. 15s [Venetiis,| Hrh. Ratdolt, 1483 First Epition of the ‘ Alfonsine Tables’, an improvement of the Almagest undertaken by command of Alfonso X. (‘ El Sabio ’), King of Leon and Castile (1226-1284), by 50 of the most celebrated astronomers of the time. 91 AMERICAN ANNUAL of PHOTOGRAPHY, and PHorocraPHic TIMES ALMANAC, ed. by WALTER E. WoopburyY, 1896-1900, and 1902, with numerous plates (many coloured), full-page and other illustrations, 6 vols. large 8vo. 2 vols. cl. and the rest sewn, 8s 6d New York, 1896-1902 92 AMPERE (André Marie) DescripTIoN d’un APPAREIL ELECTRO-DYNAMIQUE, 2° éd.; with JSolding plate on copper, comprising 29 figures, post 8vo. (pp. 32), sewn (rare), 8s 6d 1826 This work contains the author's invention of the astatic needle as applied to the galvanometer. 93 —— MEMOIRE sur |’ACTION MUTUELLE d’un. CONDUCTEUR VOLTAIQUE et d’un AIMANT; avec SUPPLEMENT: Lettre & M. le D*. Gherardi; with 3 folding plates, 4to. sewn (rare), 8s6d [1826] 94 ——— MEMOIRE sur la THEORIE MATHEMATIQUE des PHENOMENES ELECTRO-DYNAMIQUES uniquement déduite de lExpérience, avec ses Mémoires & l’Académie royale des Sciences, 1820, 22, 23 et 25, édition originale; with 2 folding plates on copper, 4to. neuly bound in hf. green calf neat (very largeand sound copy); RARE, £1. &s 6d [1826] ORIGINAL EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST IMPORTANT WoRK, Which laid the foundation of electro-dynamics, and prepared the way for Faraday’s discoveries. The author’s name is immortalized in electrical science as the unit for electro-inotive force. 95 —-—— REIMPRESSION ; with 2 folding plates, impl. 8vo. Af. roan, 7s 6d (p. F.15.00 sewn) 1883 96 ANDERSON (J. W.) The Prospector’s HANDBOOK in Search of Metal-bearing and other valuable Minerals, 4th Ed., enlarged, woodcuts, 12mo. cl., 1s 6d (p. 3s 6d) 1889$

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