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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    101 102 103 104 109 110 114 119 120 to le thrown over the FriTu of FORTH at Queensferry, 4to. (pp. 31), sewn, 3s — Edin., 1818 ANDERSON (Sir John) The STRENGTH of MATERIALS and STRUCTURES, 66 <dlustrations, 12mo. cl., 1s 6d ' 1872 ANDERSON (Richard) LIGHTNING CoNDUCTORS: their History, Nature, and Mode of Application, front. and numerous woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., 4s 6d (p. 16s) 1879 or ’80 THIRD [LAST] EDITION, enlarged, woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 6s 6d (p. 12s 6d) 1885 Including a copious history from their invention by Benjamin Franklin to 1879, and a bibliography. ANDERSON (Col. William) SKETCH of the MopE of MANUFACTURING GUNPOWDER at the Ishapore Mills in Bengal, with EXPERIMENTS to ascertain the Value of Charge, Windage, Vent - and Weight, etc., in Mortars and Muskets, etc. etc., with Notes and Additions by LT.-COL. SAMUEL PARLBY, with 10 plates, and woodcuts, impl. 8vo. cl., 7s 6d 1862 i Still valuable for the record of experiments on gunpowder contained in the work. ANDRE (George G.) PRACTICAL TREATISE on COAL MINING, with 84 plates (many folding), 2 vols. roy. 4to. cl., £1. 7s 6d (p. £3. 12s) 1879 One of the most extensive treatises on this important subject in any language. ANDREWS (0. W.) HAND-Book of PUBLic HEALTH LABORATORY WoRK and FooD INSPECTION, woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 7s 6d nett) 1901 ANDREWS (Thomas, M.D., F.R.S., Prof. Chemistry, Queen’s Coll., Belfast) SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, with Memoir by P.G. Tair, and A. CRUM BROWN, FF.R.S., with steel portrait, 6 plates, and woodcuts, 8vo., cl., 9s (p. 18s) 1889 The author’s great achievement was his discovery of the critical teinperature of gases, besides important researches (in conjunction with Prof. Tait) on ozone, and on the heat of combination. On the ConTINUITY of the GASEOUS and LIQUID STATES of MATTER (Abstract), with diagrams, 8vo. (pp. 4), with inser. ‘ From the Author’, 1s 1869 ANGLIN (S.) The DEsIGN of STRUCTURES: a Practical Treatise on the Building of Bridges, Roofs, ete., with 255 figures, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 16s) 1891 ANNALES de CHIMIE; ou RECUEIL de MEMOIRES concernant la CHIMIE et les ARTS qui en dépendent, par MM. DE MoRVEAU, LAVOISIER, MONGE, BERTHOLLET, DE FourcrRoY, le BARON DE DIETRICH, HASSENFRATZ et ADET; from the beginning in 1789 to 1806 (Vols. 1-56), with ‘Table des Matiéres’ to v. 1-30, plates—in all 57 vols. 8vo. in 29, cl. (in sound condition); very rare, £9. 9s ‘1789-1806 The most interesting and valuable portion of this important publication (afterwards continued as ‘ Annales de Chimie et de Physique’), containing all the important contributions of Lavoisier, Berthollet, etc., and indispeusable to the historian of chemistry when freed from the Phlogiston incubus. Les MémgEs; from 1789 to 1793 (Vols. 1-12), plates, 12 vols. 8vo. boards, uncut, tas. 1789-93 de CHIMIE et de PHYSIQUE, par Gay-Lussac, ARAGO, REGNAULT, etc., IIT? Série, Tomes 26 4.45; with numerous plates, 20 vols. 8vo. 18 v. Af. calf, and 2 v. el., £3. 10s 1849-55 ANNALS of the ROYAL OBSERVATORY, EDINBURGH, Vol. I, ed. by RALPH COPELAND, F.R.A.S., with woodcuts, roy. 4to., cl., 5s Glasgow, 1902 ConTENTS :—Observations of 217 Nebule made with the Transit Circle, by L. Becker: Positions of Stars within one Degree from the North Pole, by the same: Contributions to the Theory of the Sun, by J. Halm: On a New Double Image Micrometer, by J. Gerhard Lohse. [ANNET (Peter)! A Book of ARITHMETIC: for the Use of Schools, 4to. sewn (rare), 15s sold by P. Annet [ca. 1750] The author of this work—unnoticed by Lowndes, Watt, or Allibone—was undoubtedly Peter Annet, the deistical writer and forerunner of Tom Paine. It was unknown to Prof. de Morgan. ANNUAIRE de CuHIMIE, comprenant ses applications & la Médecine et 4 la Pharmacie: REPER- TOIRE des DECOUVERTES etc., par E. MILLON et J. NICKLES, 1851, 8vo. sewn, 2s 1851 ANSTIE (John) The CoAL FIELDS of GLOUCESTERSHIRE and SOMERSETSHIRE, and their Re- sources, with 6 folding plates and 3 tables, roy. 8vo. cl. (out of print), 2s 6d (p. 6s) 1873 ANSTRUTHER (Robert H., r.N.), and Raffaele SETTEMBRINI: SEA-FARING PHRASES and TECHNICAL TERMS, ENGLISH and ITALIAN, with coloured plates, sq. post 8vo. cl., 2s 6d Portsmouth, 1894 ANTHONY’S PHOTOGRAPHIC BULLETIN, The INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL, and AMER- ICAN Process YEAR Book, ed. by W. I. SCANDLIN, Vols. 10-14, with numerous fine plates and other illustrations, 5 vols. 8vo. sewn, 7s 6d New York, 1898-1902 APIANUS [germanice BIENEWITZ] (Petrus) CosMOGRAPHIA, per [REYNERUM] GEMMAM FRISIUM iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta. Additis ejusdem argumenti libellis Gemmee Frisii [Usus ANNULI ASTRONOMICI REGIONUM et LOCORUM DESCRIPTIO, ete.]; with numerous woodcuts (including several MOVEABLE ones), sm. 4to. old hf. calf (margin of title and last 1. mended, otherwise a sound tall copy); RARE, £3. 15s Antverpie, Greg. Bontius, 1550 COSMOGRAPHIA, corregida y afiadida por GEMMA FRISIO: La manera de descrivir y situar los Lugares, con el Uso del ANILLO ASTRONOMICO, de GEMMA FRISIO ; el Sitio y DESCRIPCION de las INDIAS y Mtpo NveEvo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la Cosmographia de Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez ; with numerous woodcuts (some with MOVEABLE | FIGURES), and folding map (including AMERICA), sm. 4to. FINE AND LARGECOPY inhf. calf (RARE), £2. 2s . Anvers, 1575 The author was the first to suggest (in the above work) the determination of the longitude by lunar distances, while its editor, Gemma Frisius, proposed the use of a chronometer for the same purpose. He also first suggested the use of coloured glasses in observations of the sun, and discovered that the direction of comets’ tails is opposite to that of the sun. ge ,
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