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3650 THOMPSON (Silvanus Phillips, F.R.S.) DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINERY; 4th Edition, enlarged, with 29 plates, and 298 woodcuts, very thick 8vo. cl., 4s (p. £1. 4s)

1892

3651

The ELECTROMAGNET, and ELECTROMAGNETIC MECHANISM, with 213 woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (scarce), with note by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., 10s

1891

Including a very interesting historical introduction (pp. 34). POLYPHASE ELECTRIC CURRENTS, and ALTERNATE-CURRENT MOTORS, with 2 folding plates, and 171 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 5s

1895

3652

3653

This edition contains a BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp. 17), which was left out in the second edition. SECOND [LATEST] EDITION, enlarged, with 8 folding plates and 358 woodcuts, large 8vo. cl. (scarce), 10s 6d 1900 With Appendix containing a schedule of British patents on polyphase and alternating current motors, 1878 99. 3654_TREVÏTHICK (Richard; inventor of the Locomotive Engine), LIFE of, with Account of his INVENTIONS, by FRANCIS TREVITHICK, C.E., with portrait by W. Holl, 10 plates (chiefly folding), and numerous pretty woodcuts by W. J. Welch, 2 vols. large 8vo. in 1, cl. (o. p.), 12s 6d (p. £1. 16s) 1872 Containing a very interesting account of the author's numerous inventions, e.g. the first steam carriage to carry passengers, at Redruth (1801), the first locomotive tried on a railway ('04), his 'Catch-me-who-can' locomotive engine, tried on the London Railway, in Torrington Square, then a waste piece ('08), the first Cornish Engine ('12), improvements in the propulsion of steamboats, etc. etc.

'Trevithick's achievements, somewhat obscured by the eulogists of Watt and Stephenson, were first brought into a just prominence in the Life by Francis Trevithick.'-Ď. N. B. 3655 UNWIN (William Cawthorne, F.R.S.) On the DEVELOPMENT and TRANSMISSION of POWER from CENTRAL STATIONS (Howard Lectures, 1893), with 81 woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 6s (p. 10s nett) 1894 3656 The ELEMENTS of MACHINE DESIGN; new [latest] Edition, revised and enlarged, PART I: General Principles, Strength of Materials, Rivets, Bolts, and other Fastenings, Journals and Shafting, Couplings, Pedestals, and Transmission of Power by Gearing, Belting, Ropes, and Chains, with 387 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 7s 6d nett)

3657

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1888

The TESTING of MATERIALS of CONSTRUCTION: a Text-Book for the Engineering Laboratory and a Collection of the Results of Experiment, with 5 plates and 141 other illustrations, thick 8vo. cl., with auto. of F. J. Jervis-Smith, pr., F.R.S., 7s (p. £l. ls) 3658 VERANZIO [vere WRANCZY (Fausto, da Sebenico; Vescovo di Canadio) MACHINE NOVA, cum Declaratione Latina, Italica, Hispanica, Gallica, et Germanica; with engraved title and 49 fine double plates, folio, old English calf, newly mended (title slightly soiled, otherwise a VERY SOUND COPY), with auto. of GEORGE RENNIE, F.R.S., on title (excessively rare), £10. 10s Venetiis [c. 1595]

An extremely rare and interesting work of which three varieties are known: two having the descriptions only in Latin and Italian, one issue of which has only 40 plates, and the third as above with the descriptions also in Spanish, French, German, and 49 plates. This issue is the rarest of all. Some of the plates are of great importance, e.g. plate 38' Homovolans', giving a perfect representation of a parachute, plates 34-36 suspension bridges, of which no. 34 is the earliest description of one wholly of iron, 49 a driving belt, 41 a dredging machine, 43 a rope-making machine, 40 a boat with paddle wheels going up a river, and a great variety of wind, water, and mechanically-driven mills, oil presses, etc. represents Ecclesia Sibenici'.

Plate 4

The author, a native of Sebenico, Dalmatia, was Bishop in Partibus of Canadium, in Hungary, and in his later years seems to have lived in Venice. There is a full description of the work in M. Libri's Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques, where it is termed 'un ouvrage très-rare qui ne se trouve guère indiqué par les bibliographes.'

At the end of the descriptions is a List of Machines of the author's own invention, fra le quali veramente alcune sono interessantissime' (Riccardi).

No copy of this work can be traced as having been sold at auction within the last 30 years. 3659_ VITRUVIUS Pollio (Marcus) De ARCHITECTURA Libri X, cum Commentariis DANIELIS BARBARI, electi Patriarchae Aquileiensis: multis AEDIFICIORUM, HOROLOGIORUM, et MACHINARUM DESCRIPTIONIBUS, et FIGURIS, unà cum Indicibus copiosis, aucti et illustrati; with very numerous large and fine woodcuts, and diagrams, folio, hf. morocco (name torn off title); RARE, £2. 2s Venetiis, Franc. Franciscius Senensis et Joa. Crugher, 1567 A beautiful edition, esteemed for the woodcuts it contains. 'Texte de l'édition Lyonnaise de 1552 corrigé sur de conjectures et muni d'un commentaire explicatif. Une partie des figures ont été gravées par Giov. Crugher.'-Graesse. The Sunderland copy (in calf) fetched £4. 15s. De ARCHITECTURA Libri X, cum Notis, Castigationibus et Observationibus GUILIELMI PHILANDRI integris; DANIELIS BARBARI excerptis, et CLAUDII SALMASII passim insertis, præmittuntur ELEMENTA ARCHITECTURÆ, collecta ab HENRICO WOTTONO Equite Anglo ; accedunt Lexicon Vitruvianum BERNARDINI BALDI Urbinatis, et ejusdem Scamilli Impares Vitruviani, de Pictura Libri III Leonis Baptista de Albertis, de Sculptura Excerpta ex Dialogo Pomponii Gaurici cum Indicibus copiosissimis, omnia collecta, digesta, et illustrata a JOANNE DE LAET; with finely engraved title, and numerous well-executed woodcuts, thick sm. folio, hf. calf gilt (joints cracked, but a sound and clean copy); rare, £3. 3s

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Amstelodami, apud Lud. Elzevirium, 1649 'Magnifique édition.' -A. Willems. 'Belle édition. Elle est encore recherchée, et les exemplaires en sont assez rares.' --Brunet. It is interesting to find Sir Henry Wotton's treatise among the works included.

Ce qui donne à cet ouvrage une valeur particulière, c'est qu'il est le seul de ce genre qui soit parvenu jusqu'à nous, c'est qu'il renferme des notions importantes pour l'histoire de l'art, c'est qu'il a été ecrit à une époque où l'architecture à Rome atteignit à sa plus grande perfection'.-Biogr. Gén. But the everlasting pattern-book repetition of Vitruvian and Palladian models, as in Whitehall and everywhere else nowadays, makes the modern town as dull as ditch water.

Book 8 deals with WATER-SUPPLY and AQUEDUCTS; the 9th with DIALLING, and the 10th with MECHANICS. 3661 WARDLE (Sir Thomas, F.C.S.) On SEWAGE TREATMENT and DISPOSAL: for Cities, Towns, Villages, private Dwellings, and public Institutions, with 10 plates, besides text-illustrations, roy. 8vo. cl., 6s (p. (p. 15s) Manchester [1893]

This work was unknown to the author's biographer in D. N. B. 3662 WARING Jr. (George Edwin, M.I.C.E.) SEWERAGE and LAND-DRAINAGE; 3rd Edition, with 29 plates and 75 other illustrations, roy. 4to. cl., 10s (p. £1. 10s) New York, 1891

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1888.

3664 WALMISLEY (Arthur Thomas, M.I.C.E.) IRON ROOFS: EXAMPLES of DESIGN. Description, illustrated with Working Drawings; 2nd [latest] Edition [greatly enlarged], with 70 plates (mostly double), and numerous text-illustrations, large impl. 4to. hf. morocco (o. p.), 15s (p. £3. 38) 3665 WATT (James, F.R.S.):—-ARAGO (François Jean Dominique, de l'Institut) ÉLOGE HISTORIQUE de JAMES WATT; with steel portrait by Finden, 4to. cl. (with the original cover, but one corner water-stained), with AUTHOR'S INSCR. (see below); scarce, 10s 6d F. Didot, 1839

:

Monsieur [George] Peacock [Dean of Ely] de la Société royale de Londres et de l'Université de Cambridge de la part de l'auteur.' 3666 LIFE of JAMES WATT [with MEMOIR on MACHINERY considered in Relation to the Prosperity of the Working Classes], translated, with additional Notes and Appendix, by J. P. MUIRHEAD [and Historical Account of the Discovery of the Composition of Water, by LORD BROUGHAM, and Eulogium of Watt by LORD JEFFREY], with fine portrait by Finden, 8vo. cl.,

3667

3668 3669

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1839

ANOTHER COPY, hf. morocco, with auto. and references by F. J. Jervis-Smith, pr., F.R.S., 78
A LARGE PAPER COPY, 4to. cl., uncut, 7s 6d

THIRD EDITION, with illustrative Notes, with woodcuts, 12mo. cl., 4s

Edin., 1839 : MUIRHEAD (James Patrick) The LIFE of JAMES WATT, with Selections from his Correspondence, with 3 portraits (2 medallion), plate, fs. title-page, and 32 fs. woodcuts, 8vo. hf. calf (rubbed), with bookplate of Henry Reeve, C.B., editor of the Greville Memoirs, 6s 6d 1858 This work, scholarly in style, and sympathetic in tone, avoids with careful accuracy the errors of unfounded claim, noless than of unfounded detraction.'-D. N. B. 3671 The ORIGIN and PROGRESS of the MECHANICAL INVENTIONS of JAMES WATT, illustrated by his Correspondence with his Friends, and the Specifications of his Patents, with 2 steel portraits, 35 folding plates of machinery, and 60 fs. woodcuts, 3 vols. 8vo. cl., uncut (o. p.), £1. ls (p. £2. 5s) 1854 3672 ANOTHER COPY ; with the LIFE by the same, as above, with steel portraits, and woodcuts -in all 4 vols. 8vo. brown calf extra (nice copies), £1. 15s 1854-8

3673

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3675 3676

:

'A work of great labour, which offers a rich mine to the scientific student. The third volume, illustrated by 34 admirable engravings of machinery by Lowry, deals with the 'specification of patents'; the second with 'extracts from correspondence'. But the introductory memoir (vol. I) was of more general interest, and became the nucleus of the fuller Life of James Watt' (q. v. supra).-D. N. B.

'A complete and exact history of the more important steps in the progress of the steam engine down to the time of Watt, and of the inventions of Watt himself, is contained in Muirhead's Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, and Life of James Watt; works specially distinguished by the fullness and precision with which original documents and authorities for facts are cited.'-Prof. Rankine, F.R.S.

: ROBISON (John, Prof. Natural Philosophy, Edin.) The ARTICLES STEAM and STEAM ENGINES written for the Encyclopædia Britannica, with Notes and Additions by JAMES WATT, F.R.S., and Letter on some Properties of Steam, by JOHN SOUTHERN, with 8 folding plates, besides woodcuts, 8vo. hf. calf, with inscr. on title by George Rennie, C.E., F.R.S. (see below); SCARCE,

£1. 1s

Edin., 1818.

"Presented by the late Mr. Watt to the late Mr. [John] Rennie [C.E., F.R.S.].'-Inscr. in George Rennie's handwriting.
These articles are important for having been revised and enlarged by JAMES WATT, the author's friend (v. No. 3602).
: SMILES (Samuel, LL.D.) LIVES of BOULTON and WATT-v. No. 3612, ante.

: WILLIAMSON (George) MEMORIALS of the LINEAGE, EARLY LIFE, EDUCATION, and DEVELOPMENT of the GENIUS of JAMES WATT, with 3 portraits (2 of Watt after Henning and Sir W. Beechey), 5 plates of engines, etc., and 7 fs. letters etc., and fs. map, 4to. boards (SCARCE), printed for the Watt Club [Edin.], 1856

£1. 1s

ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf neat, cl. sides, £l. 5s

This is the chief authority on Watt's early life. It was privately printed for members of the Watt Club only. MONUMENT:-PROCEEDINGS of the PUBLIC MEETING at Freemasons' Hall, on June 18th, 1824, for ERECTING & MONUMENT to the late JAMES WATT, 8vo., LARGE PAPER; boards, 4s 6d 1824 Including speeches by Sir Humphry Davy, Watt's partner Boulton, the first Sir Robert Peel, William Wilberforce, and the inevitable Lord Brougham, who thought a steam engine immeasurably more wonderful than an elephant's trunk. 3677 WEGMANN (Edward, C.E.) The DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION of DAMS, including Masonry, Earth, Rock-Fill, Timber, and Steel Structures, also the principal Types of Movable Dams; 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, with 95 plates (many folding), 75 smaller illustrations, and 24 tables, 4to. cl., 10s (p. £1. ls nett) New York, 1901

3678

One of the best works on the subject.

The WATER-SUPPLY of the CITY of NEW YORK, with 148 plates, plans, and maps (the many folding ones LINEN-MOUNTED), and 73 smaller illustrations, 2 vols. 4to. hf. green morocco gilt, cl. sides, 18s 6d (p. £2. 2s nett in cl.)

ibidem, 1896

This valuable work is specially interesting for the historical information it contains, which includes a full account of the Old Croton Aqueduct. 3679 WEISBACH (Julius; Bergakademie, Freiberg) LEHRBUCH der INGENIEUR- und MASCHINENMECHANIK, mit den nöthigen Hülfslehren aus der Analysis; 5. [neueste] verbesserte und vervollständigte Auflage bearbeitet von GUSTAV HERMANN, Teil I, Teil II, 1.-2. Abteilung, Teil III, 2.-3. Abteilung: with about 4000 woodcuts, 6 thick vols. 8vo. 1 vol. boards, and the rest sewn, £3. 10s (p. M. 158.60) Braunschweig, 1875-1901 INHALT:-I. Theoretische Mechanik, '75: II. 1. Statik der Bauwerke, '83: II. 2. Mechanik der Umtriebsmaschinen, '87: III. 2. Maschinen zur Ortsveränderung, '82: III. 3. Maschinen zur Formveränderung, 2 v., '96-1901. and Gustav HERMANN: The MECHANICS of HOISTING MACHINERY, including Accumulators, Excavators, and Pile-Drivers: Authorised Translation from the 2nd German Edition, by KARL P. DAHLSTROM, with 177 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 7s (p. 12s 6d nett) 1893 The MECHANICS of PUMPING MACHINERY: Authorised Translation from the 2nd German Edition, by KARL P. DAHLSTROM, with 197 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 7s (p. 12s 6d nett) 1897

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XI. ENGINEERING, continued :—

3683 WEILER (W.) WÖRTERBUCH der ELEKTRICITÄT und des MAGNETISMUS; ein Hand- und Nachschlagebuch zur Erklärung, Erläuterung und Beschreibung der elektrischen und magnetischen Ausdrücke, Gesetze, Vorgänge, Apparate, Instrumente und Maschinen nebst Hilfswissenschaften und Anwendungen; with 816 illustrations, large roy. 8vo. hf. pigskin, cl. sides (back worn), 6s (p. M. 12 sewn) Leipzig [1898] 3684 WHITWORTH (Sir Joseph, F.R.S.; inventor of the Whitworth gun and rifle) MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS on MECHANICAL SUBJECTS, with 2 coloured plates, 8vo. cl. (SCARCE), with author's inscr., 15s ANOTHER COPY, hf. roan (binding damaged), with auto. letter from the author and numerous cuttings inserted), 16s 6d Containing five papers, each one of which signalises a revolution in its subject' (D. N. B.), viz, 'Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes; Uniform System of Screw Threads; Address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Glasgow, 1856; Standard Decimal Measures of Length; Rifled Fire-arms; and Report of the New York Industrial Exhibition, 1853.'

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3686

3687

3688

1858

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS on MECHANICAL SUBJECTS: GUNS and STEEL, with numerous woodcuts, with Appendix, 2 vols. cr. 4to. cl. (SCARCE), £l. Is privately printed, 1873 Containing the author's great discovery, that of fluid-compressed ductile steel for the manufacture of big guns; also 'giving an account of my system of rifled guns, and showing how it originated and has been developed,' etc. etc., but especially interesting for telling the story of his differences with the Admiralty.

In 1873 he gave to the world his own version of the points at issue with the Ordnance Department in 'Miscellaneous Papers on Practical [sic] Subjects: Guns and Steel'. The unfortunate treatment to which he was subjected was due in part, no doubt, to his plain and inflexible determination.'-D. N. B.

PAPERS on MECHANICAL SUBJECTS, Part I: TRUE PLANES, SCREW THREADS, and STANDARD MEASURES, cr. 4to. sewn, with auto. of F. J. Jervis-Smith, pr., F.R.S. (SCARCE), 10s 6d [1882] Part II: RIFLED SMALL ARMS, with plate and woodcuts, cr. 4to. sewn, with author's inscr. (SCARCE), 12s 6d [1873] Containing an account of his improved Enfield rifle, which in accuracy of fire, penetration, and range 'excelled the Enfield to a degree which hardly leaves room for comparison' (Times). 3689 WICKSTEED (Thomas, M.I.C. E.; East London Water-Works) EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY concerning the relative Power of, and useful Effects produced by, the CORNISH and BOULTON and WATT PUMPING ENGINES, and Cylindrical and Waggon-Head BOILERS, with folding tables, 4to. cl., 5s

1841 The first comparative account, showing the superiority of the Cornish Engine and Boiler. 3690 [WILKINS (John, 14th Bp. of Chester, first Sec. R.S.)] MATHEMATICALL MAGICK, or the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry, concerning Mechanicall Powers and Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull (and yet most neglected) parts of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By J. W. M. A., first edition, with numerous engravings on copper and wood, 12mo. sound copy in old calf (RARE), £1. 10s S. Gellibrand, 1648 [SECOND EDITION; a Reprint of the first], with portrait, and numerous engravings on copper and wood, 12mo. old calf, 178 6d E. Gellibrand, 1680 FOURTH EDITION [unaltered], with portrait, and numerous engravings on copper and wood, 12mo. contemporary calf, rebacked (a sound and clean copy), 15s R. Baldwin, 1691

3691

3692

3693

ANOTHER COPY, wanting the portrait; contemporary calf, 10s

An exceedingly interesting storehouse of extravaganzas in engineering, and of special interest for containing descriptions of a number of machines, some of them the author's own invention, supposed to produce PERPETUAL MOTION, & subject in which he took a special interest; 72 pages are devoted to this subject. There are also three chapters on Airmanship: 'Of the volant Automata, Archytas his Dove, and Regiomontanus his Eagle. The possibility and great usefulness of such inventions; Concerning the Art of flying. The several ways whereby this hath been, or may be attempted. A resolution of the two chief difficulties that seem to oppose the possibility of a flying Chariot'; and others of the contrivance of several motions by rarified air,' on 'Wind-guns', 'an Ark for submarine Navigation', etc. etc. etc.

'He was well versed in mechanical science, and his writings display an extensive acquaintance with a variety of ancient authorities on every matter on which he discourses. He is the most exact writer of the XVIIth, century on the subject of Perpetual Motion, examining it thoroughly, with admirable acuteness as well as candour.'-H. Dircks, C. E. 3694 WILLIAMS (Gardner Stewart, Univ. Michigan), and Allen HAZEN: HYDRAULIC TABLES: the Elements of Gagings and the Friction of Water flowing in Pipes, Aqueducts, etc., as determined by the Hazen and Williams Formula, and its Flow over Sharp-edged and Irregular Weirs, and the Quantity discharged, as determined by Bazin's Formula, etc.; 2nd [latest] Edition, enlarged, with frontispiece and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 6s 6d nett) New York, 1911 3695_WILSON (Frederick J. F.), and Douglas GREY: PRACTICAL TREATISE on MODERN PRINTING MACHINERY and LETTERPRESS PRINTING, with 136 woodcuts (many full-page), roy. Svo. cl., uncut, t. e. g. (o. p.), 8s (p. £1. 1s) 1888

3696 WILSON (Herbert Michael; U.S. Bureau of Mines) IRRIGATION ENGINEERING; 5th Edition, with 41 plates and 148 other illustrations, large cr. 8vo. cl. (cover stained), 7s (p. 17s nett) New York, 1906 3697 TOPOGRAPHIC SURYEYING, including Geographic, Exploratory, and Military Mapping, with Hints on Camping, Emergency Surgery, and Photography, with 4 plates and 205 other illustrations, 8vo. cl. (cover damaged), 6s (p. 15s nett) ibidem, 1902 3698 WOLPERT (Adolf, Nürnberg, und Heinrich, Berlin) PHYSIKALISCH-CHEMISCHE PROPAEDEUTIK, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der VENTILATION und HEIZUNG ; with 188 illustrations, 8vo. buckram, with auto. of Dr. A. Macfadyen, 7s (p. M. 12 sewn) Leipzig, 1896 3699 WOODS (Arthur T., Washington Univ.), and Albert W. STAHL, Constructor, U.S.N.: ELEMENTARY MECHANISM; 15th Edition, with 198 illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl., 4s (p. $2.) New York, 1905

XI. ENGINEERING, continued :

3701 WORCESTER (Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of), The CENTURY of INVENTIONS of, from the ORIGINAL MS., with historical and explanatory Notes, and Memoir, by CHARLES F. PARTINGTON, with woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. boards, uncut, with auto. of Samuel Roberts, F.R.S., 10s 6d

1825

This celebrated work, originally published in 1663, consists of short accounts or outlines of ideas of one hundred inven. tions claimed by the author. The most important is undoubtedly No. 100, on the basis of which Mr. Dircks and others claimed for the author the Invention of the Steam Engine. The description is but a vague one of a 'water commanding engine', termed by him 'the most stupendous work in the whole world'. No. 68 describes an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire', while No. 5 contains a suggestion of shorthand, and No. 84 one of a calculating machine. No 77 is important in the history of airmanship, being how to make a man to fly', and Nos. 59, 64 and 67 contain improvements in fire-arms.

3702 WORDINGHAM (Charles Henry, M.I.C.E.) CENTRAL ELECTRICAL STATIONS: their Design, Organisation, and Management, with 145 illustrations (including 7 folding plates), sq. 8vo. cl., 12s (p. £1. 4s nett) 3703

1901

1903

SECOND [LATEST] EDITION [revised], with 145 illustrations (including 7 folding plates), sq. 8vo. cl., 14s (p. £1. 4s nett) 3704 WREDE (Ernst Friedrich, Univ. Königsberg) GRUNDRISS einer THEORIE des STOSSHEBERS, nach Massgabe der höhern Mechanik entworfen; with plate, 4to. old tree-calf, 6s 6d Berlin, 1815 This work first treated analytically the theory of the hydraulic ram. See EYTELWEIN, ante, for another work on the same subject. 3705 ZAHIKJANZ (Gabriel) Die THEORIE, BERECHNUNG und KONSTRUKTION der DAMPFTURBINEN; with 23 illustrations, roy. 8vo. sewn, 3s 6d (p. M. 6) Berlin, 1906 ZEITSCHRIFT für ANGEWANDTE ELEKRIZITÄTSLEHRE—v. No. 214. 3706 ZEUNER (Gustav Anton; Polytechnikum, Zürich) GRUNDZÜGE der MECHANISCHEN WÄRMETHEORIE, mit Anwendungen auf die der Wärmelehre angehörigen Theile der Maschinenlehre, insbesondere auf die THEORIE der calorischen Maschinen und DAMPFMASCHINEN, 2. [neueste Auflage]; with 56 woodcuts, 8vo. hf. black calf neat, cl. sides, 5s (p. M. 13 sewn) Leipzig, 1877 3707 ZONCA (Vittorio, architetto di Padova) Novo TEATRO MACHINE et EDIFICII per VARIE et SECURE OPERATIONI, có le loro Figure tagliate in Rame e la Dichiaratione e Dimostratione di ciascuna, nuova Edizione; with engraved title and 44 large and fine etchings (good impressions), folio, cl. (some ll. mended, but a sound copy); RARE, £1. 5s Padova, F. Bertelli, 1621 ALTRA EDIZIONE; with engraved title, and FINE IMPRESSIONS of the 44 large and fine etchings, folio. old Italian vellum (FINE COPY), £1. 15s ib., a. e., 1656

3708

'A very rare work on machinery, displaying the wonderful inventions of the author, including those for various mills, copperplate and printing presses, a smoke-jack for roasting, etc. Among the rest is a spinning-jenny, identical with the one patented over a century later in England, the honour of inventing which certainly belongs to the ingenious Italian, whose countrymen seem to have given themselves little trouble to claim justice for Zonca.'-Libri Catalogue. The last machine illustrated represents a monster siphon for perpetual motion, which is described in Dircks's 'Perpetuum Mobile', 2nd series. Ce recueil peut être consulté avec fruit par ceux qui voudraient imiter actuellement quelques produits des manufactures de l'époque où vivait l'auteur.'-G. Libri.

3709 ZYL (Johannes van) THEATRUM MACHINARUM UNIVERSALE, of groot algemeen MOOLENBOEK, behelzende de Beschryving en Afbeeldingen van allerhande Soorten van Moolens, derzelver Opstallen en Gronden nevens eene naauwkeurige Afbeelding van de AMSTERDAMSCHE MODDER-MOOLENS, enz.; with vignette and 62 fine folding plates on copper by Jan Schenk, impl. folio, boards (clean and tall copy); RARE, £1. 5s Amsterdam, 1761 The most sumptuous work ever published on Windmills, which were brought to perfection by stress of circumstances

in Holland.

XII, SEAMANSHIP and AIRMANSHIP;

NAVAL ARCHITECTURE and ENGINEERING:

3710_BACON (John Mackenzie, pr.), The RECORD of an AERONAUT, being the LIFE of, by his Daughter GERTRUDE, with photogravure portrait and 62 illustrations on 40 plates, 8vo. cl., 7s 6d (p. 16s nett)

Valuable for the numerous photographs taken from a balloon.

1907

3711 BERTHOUD (Ferdinand, de l'Institut F.R.S.) TRAITÉ des HORLOGES MARINES, contenant la Théorie, la Construction, la Main-d'Euvre de ces Machines, et la Manière de les éprouver, pour parvenir, par leur Moyen, à la Rectification des Cartes Marines, et de la Détermination des Longitudes en Mer; with 27 fine folding plates by Choffard, 4to. sound copy in contemporary hf. vellum, uncut (RARE), £1. Is

3712

3713

ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf neat, £1.

1773 'Berthoud construisit les premières horloges marines . . . MM. de Fleurac et Borda, qui essayèrent les premiers les horloges marines de ce mécanicien, constatèrent qu'après une traversée de six semaines, elles marquaient la longitude en mer à un quart de degré ou cinq lieues au plus sans que l'explosion de l'artillerie troublât la régularité de leurs mouvements.'-Biogr. Gén.

It has been claimed that Berthoud was the first to apply compensation to the balance of the watch-the final step in the production of the chronometer-an invention generally ascribed to Harrison. He undoubtedly made the first pocket watch with compensation curb, and moreover invented an escapement in which the balance makes two vibrations in the time that one tooth only of the wheel escapes.

: VOYAGE fait par Ordre du Roi en 1768 et 1769, à différentes Parties du Monde pour ÉPROUVER en MER les HORLOGES MARINES inventées par F. B., par D'EVEUX DE FLEURIEU; with 5 folding plates and maps, and 4 tables, 2 vols. 4to. contemporary hf. calf gilt, 10s

Imprimerie Royale, 1773

XII. SEAMANSHIP AND AIRMANSHIP; NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING, continued:3715 BALL (Frederick, Chaplain and Naval Instructor, R.N.) ALTITUDE TABLES, computed for Intervals of 4' between the Parallels of Latitude 31° and 60°, and Parallels of Declination 0° and 24°, for the Determination of the Position Line at all Hour Angles, without Logarithmic Computation, impl. 8vo. cl., 10s (p. 15s nett) 1907

BEAUFOY (Col. Mark, F.R.S.) NAUTICAL and HYDRAULIC EXPERIMENTS (1834) — v. METEOROLOGY, ante.

3716 BLUNDEVILLE (Thomas): M. BLUNDEVILE HIS EXERCISES, containing sixe Treatises, the Titles whereof are set down in the next printed Page; which Treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such Disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue Knowledge as well in COSMOGRAPHIE, ASTRONOMIE, and GEOGRAPHIE, as also in the Arte of NAVIGATION, in which Arte it is impossible to profite without the Helpe of these, or such like Instructions, first edition, black letter; with folding plate, and numerous woodcuts (2 with volvelles), thick sm. 4to. contemporary limp vellum (some ll. slightly wormed, and others slightly torn or worn, but on the whole a sound copy, with contemporary MS. notes on margins); very rare, £10. 10s John Windet, dwelling at the signe of the crosse Keies, neere Paules wharffe, 1594 This first edition, which is especially rare, consists of six treatises, each with a separate title, viz., Of Arithmetike (including Astronomicall Fractions,' and the Use of the Sexagenerie Table '); Tables of Sines, Tangents, and Secants; Treatise of the Spheare; the Use of the Globe, with 'Description and Use of Plancius his Mappe'; Description and Use of Blagrave's Astrolabe (Mathematicall Jewell); and Treatise of Navigation.

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SECOND EDITION, corrected and augmented, containing EIGHT TREATISES, black letter; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 2 folding plates, and large folding Sexagenerie Table,' thick sm. 4to. old calf, newly rebacked (slightly stained. and rev. of title written on in an old hand, otherwise a very sound copy, with all the separate titles); VERY RARE, £8. 15s apud eundem, 1597 This edition first contains (with a separate title): A Briefe Description of vniuersall Maps and Cards, and of their vse, and also the vse of Ptolomey his Tables, together with the true order of making the saide Tables, and of all other Mappes and Cardes as well vniuersall as particular, and that according to the doctrine of the best Geographers that be or haue beene in these latter daies."

SIXTH EDITION, corrected and augmented, black letter, with numerous woodcuts (some with movable slips), and folding plates and tables, sm. 4to. original rough calf (back of binding damaged, otherwise AN UNUSUALLY FINE AND LARGE COPY), £5. 5s

Printed by William Stansby, and are to be sold by Richard Meighen, at his shop vnder Saint Clements Church without Temple Barre, 1622 SEVENTH [AND LAST] EDITION, corrected and somewhat enlarged by RO. HARTWELL Philomathematicus, black letter; with numerous woodcuts (some with movable slips), and folding plates and tables, sm. 4to. old calf (title soiled, and some ll. inked or scribbled on in an old hand), £2.2s Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Benjamin Allen, at the signe of the Flowerdeluce in Popes-head Alley, 1636

'He was the first introducer [in the above work] of a complete trigonometrical canon into English, the first announcer of Wright's discovery of meridional parts, and exercised much influence on the studies of the first part of the XVIIth Century. Nor is he altogether out of date yet; for I lately observed (Mechanic's Magazine, v. XLIV, p. 477) that a patent for an improvement in horse-shoes was upset in the Court of Chancery, on proof that Blundevile had described it in one of his works. The first of these exercises is a treatise on arithmetic, in the form of question and answer, written for Elizabeth Bacon, the sister of the great philosopher. It is a dogmatical treatise, sufficiently clear.'-Prof. de Morgan. 3720 BONNEFOUX (— Baron de, Capitaine de Vaisseau), et Vice-Amiral François Edmond PARIS, de l'Institut: DICTIONNAIRE de MARINE à VOILES et à VAPEUR; with 17 folding plates, 2 thick vols. impl. 8vo. calf gilt (2 joints cracked), 15s [1848] Ouvrage qui n'a pas d'analogue, même en Angleterre.'-Biogr. Gén. 3721 BOUGUER (Jean, Professeur Royal d'Hydrographie) TRAITÉ COMPLET de la NAVIGATION, [2e Edition], nouvellement revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'Auteur de plusieurs Manieres de Naviguer par de nouvelles Echelles, avec des Remarques sur les Erreurs qu'on a commises jusqu'à présent dans les Regles composées de longues Routes fausses couruës par Estimes, et les Moyens de les corriger, par une quatrième nouvelle Correction; with folding plates, 4to. fine copy in contemporary mottled calf (RARE), £1. Is 1706 3722 BOUGUER (Pierre, de l'Académie Royale) De la MANŒUVRE des VAISSEAUX, ou TRAITÉ de MECHANIQUE et de DYNAMIQUE, dans lequel on ré luit à des Solutions très-simples des Problêmes de Marine les plus difficiles, qui ont pour Objet le Mouvement du Navire; with 15 folding plates, 4to. contemporary calf (RARE), £1. Is 1757 'Le premier livre est un excellent traité de mécanique et de dynamique, ainsi que d'hydrostatique et d'hydrodynamique, où l'auteur établit les principes de ces deux sciences.'-Montucla's Histoire des Mathématiques, where a full account of the work will be found in v. IV, pp. 423-5. The third Book solves important sailing problems by geometrical means. 3723 NOUVEAU TRAITÉ de NAVIGATION, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique du PILOTAGE; with 13 folding plates, 4to. contemporary calf, 15s 1753 No copies of either of the above works were in the Scott Library. TRAITÉ du NAVIRE, de sa CONSTRUCTION, et de ses MOUVEMENS, première édition ; with 12 folding plates, 4to. cl., with auto. of Dr. Francis Elgar, F.R.S., and bookstamp of Gen. J. Drinkwater Bethune (historian of the Siege of Gibraltar), 17s 6d

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1746 This important work is generally considered to have laid the foundation of the theory of naval architecture. 3725_BOURNE (John, C.E.) TREATISE on the SCREW PROPELLER, with various Suggestions of Improvement; 2nd Edition, revised, with 20 folding plates, and 206 woodcuts, 4to. cl., 6s 6d 1855 The first 85 pages contain a valuable historical account. 3726 BUCHANAN (Robertson, C.E.) PRACTICAL TREATISE on PROPELLING VESSELS by STEAM, etc., with 16 copperplates, 8vo. hf. calf (RARE), £l. Is Glasgow, 1816

Interesting as the first treatise on steamboats, and for containing copions descriptions of early steam vessels and contemporary inventions and improvements in connexion with them.