Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
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WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1376 FORSYTH (Andrew Russell, r.z.s.) THEORY of DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, 3 parts in 4 vols. 8vo. cl., £1. 16s 6d (p. £2. 2s 6d nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1890-1902 The standard work on the subject. 1377 TREATISE on DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, large 8vo. cl., 7s (p. 14s) ° ; 1885 1378 FOSTER (Sir Clement Le Neve, F.R.s.) The ELEMENTS of MINING and QUARRYING, with nearly 300 full-page and other illustrations, large cr. 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 7s 6d nett) 1903 1379 FOSTER (Samuel, Gresham-Colledg) PoStHUMA FosTERI: the DESCRIPTION of a RULER, upon which is INSCRIBED DIVERS SCALES: and the Usss thereof: by which the most usual Propositions in Astronomie, Navigation, and DIALLING, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said Scales in deliniating of far declining Dials; etc. etc. [ed. by EDMUND WINGATE], with woodcuts and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to, sewn (partly water-stained) ; rare, 15s R. and W. Leybourn, 1652 1380 FOUCAULT (Théophile), APPAREIL de, pour la FABRICATION du Gaz riche, Gaz mixte et Gaz pauvre, réemplacant économiquement les Usines particulitres & Gaz de Houille ; with 2 plates, Svo. sewn, 1s 6d ; é s. d. 1381 FOUCHER (Abbé Paul) GKoMETRIE METAPHYSIQUE, ou Essai d’Analyse sur les ELEMENS de VPETENDUE BORNEE; with numerous folding plates, 8vo. contemporary French mottled calf extra (rare), 12s 6d 1758 ‘Cet ouvrage donna lieu & des discussions assez vives, parce que l’auteur y combat un certain nombre de propositions adoptées par tous les géométres ; mais il partait en géométrie d’un faux principe, car il admettait que le calcul infinitésimal suppose nécessairement l’existence d’éléments physiques infiniment petits.’--Biogr. Gén. 1382 FOULLON (Abel; italice FULLONE; Valet de chambre de Henri I1) DESCRITTIONE et Uso dell’ HOLOMETRO, per saper misurare tutte le cose, che si possono veder, coll’ occhio cosi in Lunghezza, e Larghezza; come in Altezza, e Profondita; with numerous engravings on copper, 4to. sewn (RARE), £1. 1s ; Venetia, 1564 The author is chiefly known for his invention of the ‘holometer’, an improved surveying instrument, of which the above work contains minute descriptions and illustrations. 1383 FOURCROY (Antoine Francois Comte de) PHILOSOPHIE CHIMIQUE, ou VERITES FONDA- MENTALES de la CHIMIE MODERNE, disposées dans un nouvel Ordre, premiere edition, 12mo. hf. cl., uncut (RARE), 17s 6d ) 1792 1384 SECONDE EDITION [revue et corrigée], Svo. boards, uncut (rare), 10s 6d An IIT [1795] % This edition is printed in a larger type and on a superior paper, and is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 1385 - TROISIEME [DERNIERE] EDITION, 8vo. sewn, uncut (rare), 10s 6d 1806 The above are sound and uncut copies of all the editions published of this important work, setting forth the antiphlogistic doctrine of the author, who conjointly with Lavoisier and Berthollet was the originator of chemical nomenclature. 1386 The Puitosopay of CHEMISTRY, or Fundamental Truths of Modern Chemical Science, arranged in a New Order, trans. from the 2nd Ed., 8vo. boards, uncut, 8s 6a 1795 The English translation of the above work. H ELEMENTS of NATURAL History and CHEMISTRY, trans. from the 3rd Ed. (1789), with Alphabetical Comparative View of the Ancient and Modern Names of Chemical Substances, and Preface by the Translator [WILLIAM NICHOLSON], containing Strictures on the History and present State of Chemistry, OBSERVATIONS on the ANTIPHLOGISTIC THEORY and the NEW NOMENCLATURE, ete. etc., fables, 3 vols. roy. 8vo. old hf. calf, uncut (rare), 12s 6d 1790 ‘Le plus grand monument élevé 4 la science de la chimie au XVIIle siecle. —Biogr. Gen. 1388 FOURIER (Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron de) THEORIE ANALYTIQUE de la CHALEUR, édition originale; with 2 plates, 4to. new hf. brown calf gilt (a number of margins water- stained) ; VERY SCARCE, £1. 8s Didot, 1822 The author’s most important work, containing the celebrated theorem named after him, here applied to solve the transmission of heat. z ‘In this work he shows that any function of a variable, whether continuous or discontinuous, can be expanded ina series of sines of multiples of the variable; a result which is constantly used in modern analysis.’—W. W, R. Ball. 1389 FOWLER (Sir John, joint-engineer of the Forth Bridge), LirE or, by THOMAS MACKAY, with photogravure portrait, and 18 illustrations from photographs, 8vo. cl., t. & J. 4s 6d (p. 16s) 1900 1390 FOWNES (George, F.R.S.) CHEMISTRY, as exemplifying the Wisdom and Beneficence of God, woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (back damaged), 2s 6d 1844 1391 MANUAL of ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY, 11th Ed., revised and corrected by HENRY WATTS, E.R.S., coloured front., and 164 diagrams and woodcuts, thick large post 8vo. cl. (out of abd 5S ; ‘A capital general text-book of chemistry.’—D. N. B. The author was the discoverer of benzoline, and the first to produce artificially a vegetable alkaloid (furfurine). 1392 FOXWELL (Ernest), and T. C. FARRER: Express TRAINS: English and Foreign, with maps (2 folding ones in pockets), 8vo. cl., 35 (p. 6s) , _, 1889 The average speed of crack expresses has been increased by ten miles an hour since this interesting book was written. 1393 FRACTIONS, VuLGAR and DECIMAL, 4to. (pp. 28), sewn, 5s Unknown to Prof. de Morgan. aes * iy 0 a oe 1394 FRANCG:UR (Louis Benjamin) TRAITE de MECANIQUE ELEMENTAIRE, redigé apres les 1395 CoMPLETE CoURSE of PURE MATHEMATICS, trans. by R. BLAKELOCK, plates, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf (back damaged), 3s 2 Cambridge, 1829-30 1396 — VoLLSTANDIGER LEHRKURS der REINEN MATHEMATIK, iibersetzt von E. KULP, 2% Ausgabe ; with plates, 2 vols. 8vo. in 4, cl., with Prof. Williamson’s auto. (Giessen 1845), 3s 6d Bern, 1834 1397 FRANKLAND (Sir Edward, F.R.S.) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES in PURE, APPLIED, and Puy- SICAL CHEMISTRY, with 2 plates, 3charts, and woodcuts, 8vo. (pp. 1091), cl., 158 (p. £1. 11s 6d) 1877 - Including all the author’s memoirs contributed to the Philosophical Transactions, and containing his investigations on ‘alcohol-radicles’, his introduetion of the doctrine of valency into chemistry, his investigations on combustion, water analysis, etc. etc. 1387
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