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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    121 ANTONI (Alessandro Vittorio Papacino d’) TREATISE on GUN-POWDER, FIRE-ARMS, and the SERVICE of ARTILLERY in Time of War, trans. by CAPT. [J.] THOMSON, R.A., with 24 folding copper-plates, 8vo. old tree-calf (rare), 12s 6d 1789 The first treatise includes a large number of original experiments on gunpowder, some of which anticipate the discoveries of Count Rumford on the subject. APOLLODORUS Architectus—v. MATHEMATICI VETERES, post. 122 APOLLONIUS Pergzeus: Conicorum Libri VIII, et SERENI ANTISSENSIS de Sectione Cylindri et Coni Libri II [ex Codd. MSS. Grecis ed. EDMUNDUS HALLEY]; with front.:and vignette by Burghers, and numerous diagrams, roy. folio, LARGE PAPER ; old calf, newly rebacked (RARE), £3. 10s Oxonie, e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1710 _ ——— ANOTHER LARGE PAPER Copy, old calf gilt, with bookplate of Edward 12th Duke of Norfolk, £3. 13s 6d ‘The first complete edition, including a masterly restoration of the lost eighth book.’—D. N. B. This splendid Seon comprises the Greek text with a Latin translation, as wellas the commentary of Eutocius, and the Lemmata of 124 ——— ConicoruM Lipri IV, cum PAppr Alexandrini LEMMATIBUS, et Commentariis EUTOCII Ascalonite. SERENI Antissensis [de SECTIONE CYLINDRI et Cont] Lipri II nunc primum in Lucem editi, omnia ex Versione et cum Commentariis FREDERICI COMMANDINI; with numerous diagrams, folio, FINE TALL Copy in old Italian red morocco gilt (RARE), £1. 1s Bononiae, 1566 125 ———— ConicoruM Libri IV, cum Commentariis CLAUDII RICHARDI, $.J. 3 with vignette portrait on title and numerous plates, folio, fine copy in old white vellum, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 10s 6d Antverpie, 1655 126 ——— ConicoruM Libri V, VI, VII, paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi nunc primum editi; _ additus ARCHIMEDIS ASSUMPTORUM Liber ex Codd. Arabicis MSS. A. ECCHELLENSIS Maronita reddidit, et J. A. BoORELLUS curam in geometricis versione contulit, etc. ; with numerous diagrams, folio, old calf (sound tall copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 10s Ilorentiw, 1661 127 - - INCLINATIONUM Libri II; restituebat SAMUEL HORSLEY, R.S.S. [Epise. Asaphensis]; with folding plates, 4to. boards, 8s 6d Oxonit, Typ. Clarend., 1770 Dealing with the problem to draw a line so that the interception between two given lines, or the circumferences of two given circles, shall be of a given length. 128 —-—— De SECTIONE RATIONIS Libri II, ex Arabico MS. Latine versi, accedunt ejusd. de SECTIONE SpATI libb. II restituti, opera et studio EDMUNDI HALLEY; with numerous diagrams, 8vo. old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 9s ibidem, 1706 This is the first published edition of ‘ de sectione rationis’, translated from an Arabic MS. discovered by Bernard in the Bodleian Library. The ‘ sectio spatii’ is an attempted restoration of this lost work. ‘He is classed with Euclid, Archimedes, and Diophantus, among the founders of the mathematical sciences. In his work on coni¢ sections he not merely summed up all that was known on the subject, but made valuable discoveries ’. ; TREATISE on CONIC SECTIONS, ed. in Modern Notation, with Introductions, including an Essay on the earlier History of the Subject, by T. L. HEATH, 8vo. (pp. 424), cl., 8s 6d (p. 15s) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1896 : GHETALDI (Marino) APOLLONIUS ReEDIvivus, seu Restituts Apollonii Pergei de Inclinationibus Geometrize Liber Il. ; with diagrams, 4to. vellum (wanting title and sig. Ag, and 11. slightly damaged), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 5s Venetirs [1607] 130 ———, GRANDI (Guido) CoMPENDIO delle SEZIONI CONICHE d’, con nuove proprieta delle medesime ' sezioni; 7 plates, 18mo. parchment, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope,4s Firenze, 1722 131 APPELL (Paul, de l’ Institut) LECONS sur VATTRACTION et la FONCTION POTENTIELLE; with 123 128* 129 24 diagrams, roy. 8vo. (pp. 63), sewn (out of print), 2s 1892 132 APPLEBY (Brothers) ILLUSTRATED HAND-BooK and PRICE CURRENT of MACHINERY and Iron Work, woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 2s 6d 1863 Interesting as containing copious descriptions of machinery now superseded or no longer in use. : 133 APPLETON’S Dicrionary of MACHINES, MECHANICS, ENGINE-WoRK, and ENGINEERING, with fine steel portraits and plates, and 4000 woodcuts, 2 thick vols. roy. 8vo. hf morocco, 8s 6d, (p. £3. 15s) New York, 1865 134 ARAGO (Francois Jean Dominique) (HuvRES CoMPLETES, publiées d’apres son ordre sous la direction de J. A. BARRAL [avec Introduction par ALEX. DE HUMBOLDT]; with 24 plates, wood- | ,cuts, and maps, 16 vols. 8vo. half calf, contents lettered, £1. 17s 6d (p. F. 120 sewn) 1854-7 The only complete edition of the author’s works, comprising: Astronomie populaire, 4 v.: Notices biographiques, 3 v. : Notices scientifiques, 5 v.: Voyages scientifiques: Mémoires scientifiques, 2 v.: Mélanges. ‘He made several important discoveries in electro-magnetism—especially the phenomenon of rotatory magnetism. He may be said to have proved the relation between the aurora borealis and magnetic variations. He greatly promoted the acceptance of the undulatory theory of light, and made important advances in the doctrine of the polarisation of light. Other minor achievements were made in the departinent of photometric measurements of the brightness of the stars, the elastic force of steam and other gases.’ 135 ——— ASTRONOMIE POPULAIRE, publiée sous la direction de J. A. BARRAL, with plates and numerous woodcuts, 4 vols. Svo. sewn, 10s (p. F. 39) 4 . 1855 136 ——— PoruLAR ASTRONOMY, trans. and ed. by ADML. WILLIAM HENRY SMYTH, F.R.S., and ROBERT GRANT, with 19 plates and 226 woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. brown calf gilt ; or, hf. morocco neat (out of print), 12s 6d Th 1855 137 ——— KosMISCHE METEORE ; with 2 woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 1s Leipzig, 1865 138 METEOROLOGICAL ESSAYS, with Intro. by BAaRoN ALEX. V. HUMBOLDT, trans. under the superintendence of Sir EDWARD SABINE, F.R.S., 8vo. cl., 6s 6d 1855 ‘It contains, besides much interesting information in regard to the author’s early views, a resumé of the results of his own magnetical observations betweéen 1820 and 1835, The deductions from these observations are now for the first time made public.’—Preface. i ae, ; : ; 139 ARATA (Pedro N.) ApUNTES de Quimica, 3ra Edicién; with portraits and diagrams, 3 vols. sq. post 8vo. el., with author's inser. to Prof. Williamson, 5s Buenos Aires, 1901
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