Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1329 FERRARIS (Galileo) Le PRorpRIETA CARDINALI degli STRUMENTI DIOTTRICI: Esposizione elementare della Teoria di Gauss e delle sue Applicazioni; with 66 diagrams, 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 3s 6d Torino, 1877 1330 FERRERS (Norman Macleod, D.D., F.R.S.) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on SPHERICAL HARMONICS, and allied Subjects, post 8vo. cl. uncut (fresh copy) ; SCARCE, 17s 6d 1877 1331 ELEMENTARY TREATISE on TRILINEAR CO-ORDINATES, the Method of Reciprocal Polars, and the Theory of Projections, 24 diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6s 6d) 1861 1332 FICK (Adolf) Die MEDIZINISCHE PHYSIK ; with 211 woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 3s6d Braunschweig, 1858 Important for containing the author’s investigations on Diffusion of Liquids, resulting in the discovery of the law named after him. 1333 FIGUIER (Louis) L’ALCHIMIE et les ALCHIMISTES: Essai historique et critique sur la Philosophie Hermétique, 2° Ed., augmentée, post 8vo. sewn, 2s 1856 1334 FINDLAY (Sir George, General Manager, L.N.W.R.) The WORKING and MANAGEMENT of an ENGLISH RAILWAY, 2nd Ed., enlarged, plates and woodcuts, post 8vo., cl., 3s (p. 7s 6d) 1889 ‘A valuable practical treatise ’.—D. N. B. 1335 FINE (Oronce; Jatine ORONTIUS FIN&US) de MUNDI SPHERA, sive COSMOGRAPHIA, Libri V, denud castigati, et marginalibus (ut vocant) annotationibus recéns illustrati: quibus tum prima Astronomie pars, tum GEOGRAPHI&, ac HYDROGRAPHLE RUDIMENTA pertractantur ; with num- erous woodcuts (including several MAPS) and diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn (large copy), 15s Lutetie, 1555 Containing chapters on Dialling, Geodesy, and the Mariner’s Compass. ‘On dit de lui avee beaucoup de raison qu'il était le restaurateur des mathématiques en France.’—Biogr. Gén. 1336 FINITE DIFFERENCES (CaLcuLus of), The ELEMENTS of the, treated on the METHOD of SEPARATION of SYMBOLS, 8vo. A/. cl., 3s 6d Cambridge, 1849 1337 FINLEY (John P.) Tornapo STuDIES for 1884, numerous charts, 4to. sewn, 2s 6d Washington, 1885 1338 FIRE PREVENTION COMMITTEE (BritTIsH), PUBLICATIONS of the, ed. by EDwIN QO. SACHS, with numerous plates, maps, and other illustrations, 3 vols. 8vo. hf. red roan, £1. 1s (p. £2. 10s 6d) ; 1898-1900 1339 FIREBRACE (F., Thomason Engineering Coll., Roorkee) SURVEYING, 2nd Ed., enlarged [with Appendixes by A. M. L.], 15 plates (2 colowred), and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. hf. bound (used copy), 3s Roorkee, 1871 1340 FISCHER (Ferdinand) HANDBUCH der CHEMISCHEN TECHNOLOGIE, 15. umgearbeitete Auflage ; with 830 ilustrations, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. v. I finely bound in hf. crushed brown morocco, uncut, t. €. g., v. IL sewn, 18s 6d (p. M. 22. unbound) Leipzig, 1900-2 The last edition of the best text-book on the subject. 1341 FISCHER (Philipp) LEuRBUCH der HOHEREN GEODASIE ; with folding plates, 3 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. bound (scarce), 8s 6d Giessen [1845-6] Important as having formed the basis of J. B. Listing’s geodetic work. 1342 FISHER (Irving) Brier INTRODUCTION to the INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS, 1] diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 2s 6d (p. 4s nett) New York, 1897 1343 FISHER (Osmond, pr.) PHysics of the EARTH’S CRUST, diagrams, 8vo. cel., 5s (p. 12s) 1881 Treating mathematically a number of phenomena of Physical Geography. 1344 FISHER (W. Clark) The POTENTIOMETER, and its Adjuncts, 2 plates and 85 illustrations, Svo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1897 1345 FITHIAN (A. W.) PRACTICAL COLLOTYPE, «lustrated, cr. 8vo. cl., 1s 6d 1901 1346 FLAMMARION (Camille) ASTRONOMIE. POPULAIRE: Description générale du Ciel; with coloured front., plates, and over 350 woodcuts and diagrams: Le MONDE avant la CREATION de VHoOMME; 5 coloured plates, over 400 woodcuts, and 5 coloured maps—2 thick vols. colombier 8vo. hf. green morocco, uncut, t. e. g., 18s 1885-6 1347 - The ATMOSPHERE, trans. [and abridged by C. B. PITMAN], ed. by JAMES GLAISHER, ) F.R.S., with 10 coloured plates, and 81 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., g. €., 8s 6d (p. £1. 10s) 1873 1348 CONTEMPLATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES, thick post 8vo. Af. bound, 3s 1870 1349 FLAMSTEED (John; pr., F.R.S., first Astronomer Royal) ATLAS CELESTE, 2° Ed. par J. FoRTIN ; 50 copperplates, with Text in French, sm. 4to. fine copy in contemporary mottled calf gilt, 7s 6d : 1776 1350 HISTORIA C@ELESTIS BRITANNICA, complectens Stellarum Fixarum necnon Planetarum omnium Observationes; subjuncta sunt Planetarum Loca Observationibus deducta, 1675-1720; with fine portrait by G. VERTUE (brilliant impression), plates and vignettes, 3 vols. roy. folio, SOUND AND TALL COPY in contemporary calf, with auto. (1739) and bookplate of JOHN BOYLE, 5TH EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY, F.B:S. (friend of Swift and Pope); VERY RARE, £4. 4s 1725 ‘Flamsteed’s Historia Celestis, published in 1725, formed a new era in sidereal astronomy. The first volume comprised the observations of Gascoigne and Crabtree, 1638-43; those made by Flamsteed at Derby and the Tower, 1663-74, with the sextant observations at Greenwich, 1676-89, spared from destruction with the edition of 1712. The second contained his observations with the mural arc, 1689-1720. The third opened with a disquisition entitled ‘ Prolegomeua to the Catalogue’, on the progress of astronomy from the earliest ages, chiefly valuable for the description, with which it terminated, of the Greenwich instruments and methods; the catalogues of Ptolemy, Ulugh Beigh, Tycho Brahe, the Landgrave of Hesse, and Hevelius followed ; finally came the ‘BritisH CaTALOGuE’ of 2,935 stars observed at Greenwich, to which Halley’s southern stars were appended . . . His ‘British Catalogue’ is styled by Baily ‘one of the proudest productions of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich’. Its importance is due to its being the first collection of the kind made with the telescope and clock’.—Miss A. M. Clerke. : : ; wey. LETTER concerning EARTHQUAKES, written in 1693, to a Gentleman then residing at Turin in Savoy, on the DESTRUCTION of CATANEA, and many other Cities, Towns, and Villages, in Sicily, in 1692; with woodcut, 8vo. (pp. 24), sewn (RARE), 15s 1750 This pamphlet is chiefly interesting from betraying the astounding ignorance of the Astronomer Royal in matters chemical and meteorological. He explains that earthquakes are nothing else but explosions in the air, caused by the tiling of the ‘nitrous and sulphureous particles’ in the latter, and rejects the idea of underground causes as absurd, 1351
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