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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    1352 FLAUTI (V.) GEOMETRIA di SrTo sul Piano, e nello Spazio, 3* ed. riveduta; with folding plates, roy. 8vo. boards, 5s Napolt, 1842 1353 FLEMING (John Ambrose, F.R.S.) The ALTERNATE CURRENT TRANSFORMER in Theory and Practice, numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 8s (p. £1. 5s) 1890-2 1354 Vol. I: The INDUCTION of ELECTRIC CURRENTS, woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 12s 6d) 1890 135é — The PRINCIPLES of ELECTRIC WAVE TELEGRAPHY, with 7 plates, and numerous other illustrations, thick 8vo. cl., 18s (sells £1. 4s nett) 1906 1356 FOCK (Andreas) INTRODUCTION to CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, trans. and ed. by WILLIAM J. POPE, with Preface by M. H. NEVIL STORY-MASKELYNE, F.R.S., large post 8vo. cl., 3s ; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1895 1357 FONTAINE (Hippolyte) ELECTROLYSE: Renseignements pratiques; with 34 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. sewn, 3s 6d ' 1885 1358 FONTAINE des CRUTES (Pierre) TRAITE COMPLET sur l ABERRATION des ETOILES FIXEs, avec une Méthode pour déterminer les Différences en Longitude en se servant de l’Occultation des Etoiles fixes par la Lune [par PIERRE CHARLES LEMONNIER]; with plates, 8vo. old calf gilt (nice copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, ¥.R.S., 10s 6d 174 RaReE, unknown to Poggendorff, etc. 1359 FONTANA (Francesco): Nova Ca@LESTIUM, 'TERRESTRIUMQUE RERUM OBSERVATIONES, et fortasse hactenus non vulgats, 1 FRANCESCO FONTANA, specillis a se inventis, et ad summam perfectionem perductis, editee; with etched portrait, et. 61, title and numerous other engravings, and woodcuts, sm. 4to. old limp vellum (some small holes in title, and 1 plate slightly defective) ; RARE, £1. ls Neapoli, 1646 Chiefly interesting for the author’s claim to have invented the astronomical telescope in 1608 (invented one year later by Galileo), and the microscope in 1618 (actually invented by Zacharias Jansen in 1590). The work contains however a genuine discovery—not generally known—the first observation of spots on the surface of Mars. 1360 [FONTENELLE (Bernard le Bovier de)] ELEMENTS de la GEOMETRIE de VINFINI; with plate, 4to. old calf gilt (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 8s 6d Imprimerie Royale, 1727 1361 ANOTHER Copy, old calf, with bookplate of Edward 12th Duke of Norfolk, 7s 6d 1362 [ ] A PLURALITY of WoRLDS, written in French by the Author of the ‘Dialogues of the Dead’, trans. by [JOHN] GLANVILL, front., and folding plate, 16mo. old calf (binding Baas 7s 6d 170 1363 ] THEORIE des TOURBILLONS CARTESIENS; avec des Réflexions sur l’Attraction, 12mo. old calf gilt, 7s 6d 1752 One of the last forlorn-hope attacks on Newton’s theory of gravitation, and a defence of Descartes’s theory of vortices, which soon became discredited after the appearance of the Principia. 1364 FONVIELLE (Wilfrid de) Les GRANDES ASCENSIONS MARITIMES: La TRAVERSEE de la MANCHE; with folding plates, post 8vo. sewn, 2s 1882 SS elie (George, F.R.S.) LECTURES ON ELECTRICITY, tlustrated, post 8vo. cl. (out of ee $6 18 1366 FORBES (James David, F.R.s., Principal of the United College, St. Andrews ; geologist), LIFE and LETTERS of, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP, PETER GUTHRIE TAIT, and A. ADAMS-REILLY, with portraits, map, and photo-illustrations, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 16s) 1873 With chapter on Forbes’s scientitic work. 1367 FORBES (John, p.p.) THEORY of the DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, derived synthetically from an Original Principle, diagrams, 8vo. cl., with author's inser., 4s Glasgow, 1837 Attempting to establish the calculus on geometrical principles. v. DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, ante. 1368 FORBES (Ugo) MEMORIA sopra un Nuovo ForTINO e due Nuovi Sistemi per Recinti in Fortificazione Passeggera ; with folding plates, feap. 8vo. hf. calf, 2s 6d Firenze, 1849 1369 FORD (William) PRacTICAL TREATISE on MALTING and BREWING, with Historical Account of the Malt Trade and Laws, 3 folding plates, 8vo. cl., 5s 1862 1370 FORFAIT (Pierre Alexandre Laurent) TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE de la MATURE des V AISSEAUX ; with 24 folding plates containing 190 figures, 4to. old calf gilt (some Il. stained), 15s 1788 ‘Tout ce qui concerne les bois, les mats, les voilures, les vergues et les autres parties du vaisseau y est décrit avec une précision remarquable ’.—Biogr. Gen. 1371 FORSTER (Thomas Ignatius Maria, M.D., F.R.A.s.) ANNALS of some remarkable AERIAL ’ and ALPINE VOYAGES, with the Affections to which Aerial and Mountain Travellers are liable, and Essay on the Flight and Migration of Birds, woodcuts, 8vo. sewn (scarce), 6s 1832 Including an account of the author's ascent, with Green, in 1831, specially undertaken to study the atmospheric origin of diseases. The above work was unknown to D. N. B. RESEARCHES about ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA, 3rd [last] Ed., enlarged, with the CALENDAR of NATURE, 6 tinted plates, 8vo. boards, uncut (scarce), 10s 6d 1823 1373 FORSTER (Westgarth) TREATISE on a SECTION of the STRATA from NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE to the Mountain of Cross FELL, Cumberland, with REMARKS on MINERAL VEINS in General, and _ Treatise on the Discovery, Opening, and Working of LEAD MINES, with the Dressing and Smelting of Lead Ores, 2nd Ed., greatly enlarged, with folding plates (a few coloured), and table, 8vo. new hf. brown calf gilt (SCARCE), 15s : Alston, 1821 & One of the earliest works on lead mining. 1374 FORSTER (Wilhelm) SAMMLUNG von HULFSTAFELN der BERLINER STERNWARTE, roy. 4to. cl., 4s “4 Berlin, 1869 1375 FORT (0.), und O. SCHLOMILCH: LEHRBUCH der ANALYTISCHEN GEOMETRIE; with diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. calf, 2s 6d Leipzig, 1855 1372
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