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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    1398 FRANKLAND (Sir Edward, F.r.s.) LEcTURE NoTEs for CHEMICAL STUDENTS, 3rd Ed., by F. R. JAPP, 2 vols. post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 10s) 1881 The author was the founder of the doctrine of the saturation-capacity of the elements. 1399 FRANKLIN (Benjamin, F.R.S.) WORKS, containing several political and historical Tracts not included in any former edition, and many Letters, official and private, not hitherto published, with:Notes and LIFE, by JARED SPARKES; LARGE TYPE EDITION, with jine engraved portraits, 10 vols. roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, £2. 18s — - 1882 1400 COMPLETE WoRKS in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, now first collected and arranged, with Memoirs of his early Life, by himself, 2nd Ed., portrait by W. Haines, vignettes, and plates, 3 vols. 8vo. contemporary calf (a few plates stained), 15s [1806] Memotrs of his LIFE and WRITINGS, by himself, continued by his grandson, WILLIAM TEMPLE FRANKLIN, with his CORRESPONDENCE and Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous WORKS, portrait, plates, and fs., 6 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt (nice set), £1. 10s 1818-19 CONTENTS :—vv. 1-2, Life ; vv. 3-4, Correspondence: vv. 5-6, Works, ; ——— Vols. 1-2, comprising the LIFE only, with jine vignette portrait, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 8s 1818 1403 EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on ELECTRICITY made at PHILADELPHIA in AMERICA, with LETTERS and PAPERS on PHILOSOPHICAL SuBJECTS; the whole corrected, methodized, improved, etc., 5th Ed., with 7 copperplates, and woodcuts, 4to. old calf (RARE), with auto. TTHOMAS] JEFF. Hoae, UNIv. Cou. Oxon. (friend and biographer of SHELLEY) on flyleaf, £1. 10s 1774 Last Epition, ‘supposed by Dr. Sparks to have received some degree of attention from the author, who was then in London.’—Allibone. It contains not only his important investigations on electricity, including his kite experiments, proving that lightning and electricity are identical, and his invention of the lightning conductor, ete., but also the important discovery of the course of storms over the North American continent, and other meteorological subjects of almost equal importance. — EXPERIENCES et OBSERVATIONS sur |’ELECTRICITE faites & Philadelphie en Amérique, traduites [avec Advertissement (pp. 20) et Histoire abregée de |’ Electricité (pp. 70) par THomas FRANCOIS DALIBARD]; with plate, 12mo. contemporary French calf gilt, 10s 6d 1752 The first French translation. The history of electricity prefixed to this edition has not been published in any other form. ‘ 1405 FRANKLIN (J. A.) The DeciImAL SysTEM FACILITATED, and adapted intermediately to the routine methods of Account, Money, and the Precious Metals, ete. etc., 4to. sewn, 2s 1853 1406 FRAXNO (Claudio del), y Joacquin de BOULIGNY: Memoria sobre la TEORIA y _ FABRICACION del ACERO en General, y de su Aplicacion a las Armas. Blancas; with 11 folding plates, 8vo. morocco gilt, g. e. (stamp on title), 5s Segovia, 1850 1407 : : TRATADO de la TEORIA y FABRICACION de la POLVORA en General, las Piezas de Artilleria y los Proyectiles de Hierro; with tables, 2 vols. 8vo., and folio Atlas, containing 52 folding plates—3 vols. morocco gilt, g. e. (stamp on titles), 15s ibidem, 1847-8 Both the above works are uniformly bound, with the arms of Spain in centre, and both bear the following inscription: ‘Presented tothe Library of the Royal Military College Sandhurst by [Gun.Si1r] Roperr [WILLIAM] GARDINER [Governor of Gibraltar], The Convent, Gibraltar, 1 Sept, 1851.’ 1408 FREMY (Edmond, de l’ Académie) CHEMIE VEGETALE: la RAMIE, 8vo. cl., 3s 1886 1409 FRENCH (John, m.p.) The ArT of DISTILLATION: or Treatise of the Choicest Spagiricall Preparations performed by way of Distillation, with Description of the CHIEFEST FURNACES and VESSELS used by Ancient and Modern Chymists, also Discourse of Spagiricall Experiments and Curiosities, the Anatomy of Gold and Silver, ete. etc., 2nd Ed., to which is added the Lonpon- DISTILLER: exactly and truly showing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong- Waters, with the Additions of other Excellent Waters, with numerous woodcuts of CHEMICAL APPARATUS, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, hf. calf antique (some blank corners stained, otherwise a sound and large copy) ; RARE, £2. 2s ; i, Cotes, 1653-2 With interesting preface on the chemical quack of the time. 1410 --—--- FOURTH [AND LAST] EDITION, to which is added, SUBLIMATION and CALCINATION, with numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, contemporary calf (joints broken, but sound clean copy), B12 10s a. €., 1667 1411 [FRENCH (John, Teacher of the Mathematicks)| A PERFECT DISCOVERY of the LONGITUDE at SEA: being the Product of 9 Years Study, and the Frequent Amendments of a Mathematician, who has us’d the Sea upwards of 25 Years, with woodcuts representing instruments for finding the Latitude, Altitude, and Longitude, 4to. (pp. 20), sewn (rare), 10s 1715 The author claims his discovery to be ‘ truly projected and adapted for Sea-service ; having first found the Latitude by an absolute new and true Method ; which is to be done in a minute’s space any time of the Day or Night, without the help ofSun, Moon or Star.’ There was no copy in the Scott Library. 1412 FREND (William) PRINcIPLEs of ALGEBRA [with Appendix (pp. 246) by FRANCIS MASERES, F.R.S,, and Observations on Mr. Raphson’s Method of resolving Affected Equations of all Degrees by Approximation], 8vo. boards, uncut, 6s 6d 1796 ‘Frend was the last of the learned anti-Newtonians, and a noted oppugner of all that distinguishes algebra from arith- metic.’ He rejeets in the above work negative quantities as nonsensical. TANGIBLE ARITHMETIC; or the Art of Numbering made Easy, by means of an Arith- metical Toy, which will express any Number up to 16,666,665 ; and with which, by moving a few Balls, a great variety of Operations in Arithmetic may be performed, 2nd Ed., 12mo. boards, uncut (scarce), 10s 6d 1806 ‘The toy is the Chinese instrument or abacus, called the Schwanpan.’—Prof. de Morgan. 1414 FRENICLE [de BESSY (Bernard)] TrAITE des TRIANGLES RECTANGLES en NOMBRES, 18mo. contemporary old calf gilt,with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. (rare) 8s 6d 1676 See Diverses OvvraGEs, ante, for a number of the author’s works, including his celebrated ‘Solution par les exclusions,’ 1401 1402 1404 1413 ee
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