XII. SEAMANSHIP AND AIRMANSHIP. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING, continued:3805 RAPER (Lieut. Henry, R.N., F.R.A.S.) The PRACTICE of NAVIGATION and NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY; 14th Edition [partly revised by STAFF COMMR. THOMAS A. HULL, R.N.], with diagrams, thick roy. 8vo. old sheep (back damaged), 6s 6d 1882

'It was at once recognised as the best work on the subject, a position which it still holds in the opinion of practical navigators.'-Sir J. K. Laughton. Particularly valuable for its admirable table of [8800] geographical positions.'Adml. Smyth.

v. SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, No. 394.

3806 RÖDING (Johann Hinrich [sic]) ALLGEMEINES WÖRTERBUCH der MARINE in allen europäischen SEESPRACHEN [DEUTSCH, HOLLÄNDISCH, DÄNISCH, SCHWEDISCH, ENGLISCH, FRANZÖSISCH, ITALIENISCH, SPANISCH und PORTUGIESISCH], nebst vollständigen Erklärungen; with 115 copperplates, 4 vols. 4to. sound copy in old calf gilt, £1. ls Hamburg [1794-8] The most complete dictionary of sea terms ever published, and especially interesting for those of the old sailing days. 3807 ROEDDER (O. C.) Die ELEKTROTECHNISCHEN EINRICHTUNGEN MODERNER SCHIFFE; with 2 plates and 222 illustrations, impl. 8vo. sewn, 4s 6d (p. M. 8.60) Wiesbaden, 1903 3808 RONDELET (Jean, de l'Institut) MÉMOIRE sur la MARINE des ANCIENS, et sur les NAVIRES à PLUSIEURS RANGS de RAMES; with 10 folding copperplates, roy. 4to. sewn (RARE), 15s

Including wireless telegraphy installations on shipboard.

chez l'auteur, 1820

This is probably the only complete work ever written on this interesting subject, and fully discusses those galleys of many-banked oars which added a horror of their own to the slavery of a cultured and philosophical Antiquity. There was no copy of the work in the Scott Library, nor is there one in that of the Institution of Naval Architects. 3809 RUSSELL (John Scott, F.R.S.) The MODERN SYSTEM of NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, with 165 large and fine plates, 3 vols. large atlas folio, hf. morocco gilt, t. e. g., £2. 12s 6d (p. £42.) [1864-5] The most magnificent work on the subject ever published. The author was the builder of the Great Eastern' steamship, and joint designer of the Warrior,' the first sea-going armoured frigate. 'He discovered the existence of the wave of translation (cf. No. 2283 ante), and developed the wave-line system of construction of ships.'-D. N. B. 3810 SAIL-MAKING, The ART of, as practised in the ROYAL NAVY, and according to the most approved Methods in the Merchant Service, with the PARLIAMENTARY REGULATIONS relative to SAILS and SAIL CLOTH, with etched frontispiece of a sail-loft with its tackle, and numerous woodcuts of all the sails, and elaborate tables of dimensions, 8vo. boards, uncut (rare), 12s 6d David Steel, 1796 Very interesting as showing the elaborate art and science which went to give motive power to the old man-of-war, and made possible the manoeuvres which gave England victory after victory.

3812

There was no copy of this edition in the Scott Library, which contained only those of 1821 and 1843, nor is there a copy of any edition in the Library of the Institution of Naval Architects.

At end is a 4-p. Catalogue of Charts, Pilots, and Navigation Books, sold by Heather and Williams.

3811 SAVERY (Thomas) NAVIGATION IMPROV'D: or, the Art of RowING SHIPS of all Rates, in CALMS, with a more easy, swift, and steady Motion, than Oars can; also, a DESCRIPTION of the ENGINE that performs it; and the Author's Answer to all Mr. Dummer's Objections that have been made against it, original edition, with folding plate, and 3 smaller engravings on copper, sm. 4to. (pp. 30), sewn (folding plate in fs., but the smaller engravings in the GENUINE ORIGINAL STATE); very rare, £5.5s printed and sold by James Moxon, at the Atlas in Warwick-Lane, 1698 FACSIMILE REPRINT, with folding plate, and 3 woodcuts, cr. 4to. hf. parchment (ONLY 70 COPIES PRINTED), 17s 6d [1880] 'In 1696 he invented a contrivance for rowing ships in a calm by means of two paddle-wheels, one at each side of the vessel, worked by a capstan placed between. William III. thought highly of it, but, although Savery demonstrated its practicability by fitting it to a small yacht, official jealousy prevented its adoption by the navy. He was obliged to content himself by publishing an account [the above] of his invention . . . This treatise contained a vehement protest against the treatment accorded him in official circles.'-D. N. B. 3813_SCHEFFER (Johann) De MILITIA NAVALI VETERUM Libri IV, ad Historiam Græcam Latinamque utiles; with frontispiece and 3 other fine copperplates, and numerous interesting woodcuts, sm. 4to. old vellum (small hole in front., and binding somewhat defective), with fine engraved bookplate by du Vivien, of Liége, and of Thomas Phillips of Ickford (1708-74), with another of Francis North Lord Guilford, 1703 (rare), £1. 10s Ubsalia, Joh. Jansson, 1654 ANOTHER COPY, printed on stouter paper, but without the 3 copperplates, 4to. old vellum (back of binding damaged, otherwise a FINE COPY), with bookplate of Patrick Hume, first Earl of Marchmont, 1702, £1. Is

3814

This is next to Snellius's the earliest work on the naval arts of the ancients. It is chiefly collected from the Greek and Roman Classics, and treats the subject far more fully than that of Snellius, which is more exclusively devoted to navigation, while the present work treats more especially of naval architecture.

3815 SCHWARZ (Tjard), und Ernst v. HALLE: SCHIFFBAUINDUSTRIE in DEUTSCHLAND und im AUSLANDE, unter BENUTZUNG amtlichen Materials herausgegeben; with 17 folding plans of dockyards and 5 folding tables, 2 vols. sq. roy. 8vo. cl., 12s 6d (p. M. 22.25 nett) Berlin, 1902 The above copy is an interesting memorial of the German Naval murders, as it contains a printed presentation form to Dr. Francis Elgar, P.I.N.A., F.R.S., from their initiator Grand Admiral von Tirpitz.

3816 SEATON (Albert Edward, M.I.C.E.) The SCREW PROPELLER, and other competing Instruments for Marine Propulsion, with 7 plates, and 65 diagrams, large 8vo. cl., 8s (p. 12s 6d nett) 1909 SEPPINGS (Sir Robert, Surveyor of the Navy, F.R.S.) NEW PRINCIPLE of CONSTRUCTING SHIPS of WAR (1814)-v. SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, No. 394. 3817 SHIPBUILDING, THEORETICAL and PRACTICAL, illustrated from Drawings by some of the most eminent British Shipbuilders, by ISAAC WATTS, W. J. M. RANKINE, F.R.S., FREDERICK K. BARNES, and JAMES ROBERT NAPIER. Corresponding and General Editor W. J. M. RANKINE, with 44 large plates (mostly folding), and over 100 woodcuts and diagrams, atlas 4to. in 30 parts as issued, £1. 1s (p. £3. 15s) 1866

Including: Hydraulics of Shipbuilding: Geometry of Shipbuilding: Strength of Materials: Practical Shipbuilding in Wood and Iron: Masts, Sails, and Rigging: Marine Steam Engineering: Shipbuilding for Purposes of War.

XII. SEAMANSHIP AND AIRMANSHIP. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING, continued :3819 SHIPWRIGHT'S VADE-MECUM (The): a Clear and Familiar Introduction to the PRINCIPLES and PRACTICE of SHIP-BUILDING: including the more complex Rules of Arithmetic made Use of in that Art; with so much of the Principles of Practical Geometry and Mensuration as are required in the Practice thereof; also a Description of the SLIDING RULE; Rules for the Admeasurement of Timber, etc., first edition, with frontispiece and numerous woodcuts, large 8vo. boards (scarce), 12s 6d 1805

There is no copy of this work in the Library of the Institution of Naval Architects, while the Scott Library only contained the edition of 1822. 3820 SHORLTAND (Vice-Adml. Peter Frederick) NAUTICAL SURVEYING, published by his WIDOW and CHILDREN, with SO diagrams, 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 10s (p. £1. ls) 1890 3821 SIMPSON (George, M.I.N.A.) The NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR: a Vade Mecum of Ship Design, with 288 diagrams, fcap. 8vo. roan, 7s 6d (p. 16s nett) New York, 1904

3822 SOCIÉTÉ MARITIME de PARIS, BULLETIN de la, Tome I; with folding plan and map (pp. 660): CONSIDÉRATIONS sur les MARINES à VOILES et à VAPEUR de France et d'Angleterre, par un LIEUTENANT DE VAISSEAU (pp. 51): NOTE sur l'ÉTAT des FORCES NAVALES de la FRANCE (pp. 40)-in one vol. 8vo. hf. calf, with auto. of GEORGE RENNIE, C.E., F.R.S. (SCARCE), £1. Is 1844 This seems to have been the only volume published by the Society, founded to help à conserver à la France le rang qu'elle occupe et qui la place à la tête de toutes les marines secondaires pour la protection de l'indépendance navale de tous les peuples et de la liberté des mers.'

There was no copy of this work in the Scott Library, nor is there one in that of the Institution of Naval Architects. 3823 STEBBING (Frank Cole, Chaplain and Naval Instructor, R.N.) NAVIGATION and NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY, with 140 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 4s 6d (p. 8s 6d nett)

1896 3824 STEELE (J. E., M.I.N.A.) NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, Part I (all published), with 121 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 5s nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1917 3825_SUTHERLAND (William) BRITAIN'S GLORY: or SHIP-BUILDING unvail'd being a General Director for Building and Compleating the said Machines, first edition, with 6 copperplates, and numerous woodcuts, folio, old panelled calf, newly rebacked (very rare), £4. 4s 1717

3826

SECOND EDITION, with the RARE PORTRAIT of GEORGE I., surrounded by the 257 ships of the Royal Navy, 6 copperplates, and numerous woodcuts, folio, contemporary mottled calf (joints cracked, but a FINE COPY), with bookplate of the Rt. Hon. George Rose, M.P., £5. 5s

1729

Both editions contain a second part, with a separate title-page: The PRICES of the LABOUR in SHIP-BUILDING Adjusted: or the Mystery of Ship-Building Unveiled, being a brief Explanation of the Labouring Part in Ship-Building; from a Ship of the biggest Magnitude to a small Boat, first shewing the Working of the whole Ship, according to the Length, Breadth, Depth and Girt, and then by Sub-divisions shews the Value of every particular Part (pp. 286). 3827 TISSANDIER (Gaston) Le GRAND BALLON CAPTIF à VAPEUR de M. HENRY GIFFARD: Cour des Tuileries-Paris, 1878, nouvelle Édition; with 43 full-page and other woodcuts by A. Tissandier, 8vo. hf. bound (scarce), 6s 6d

1914

1878 A description of the first partly-successful controllable balloon, the forerunner of the colossal and oligoctonous futilities of Count Zeppelin. 3828_TOMPKINS (Eng.-Capt. A. E., R.N., Royal Naval Coll., Greenwich) TEXT-BOOK of MARINE ENGINEERING; 4th Edition, revised and partly rewritten, with about 430 illustrations, thick 8vo. cl., 10s (p. 15s nett) 3829 UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION (ROYAL), JOURNAL of the, published under Authority of the Council, from the Beginning in 1857 to 1870, with numerous plans, maps, and illustrations, 13 vols. large 8vo. hf. calf gilt, £1. 10s 1858-70 3830 ANOTHER SERIES, from 1893 to 1908 (Vols. XXXVII to LII), with numerous plates (mostly folding), and text-illustrations, 24 thick vols. 8vo. handsomely bound in hf. red morocco extra, cl. sides, t. e. g., with all the wrappers, etc. bound up, and 3 parts, sewn (a very choice set), £3. 3s 1893-1908 Containing numerous original contributions on naval architecture and engineering, and extracts from all the best foreign papers. 3831 VALENTINE (E. Seton), and F. L. TOMLINSON: TRAVELS in SPACE: a HISTORY of AERIAL NAVIGATION, with Introduction by SIR HIRAM MAXIM, with numerous plates and smaller illustrations from contemporary prints or photographs, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 12s 6d 1902

A copiously illustrated history, specially valuable for its account of early types of aeroplanes and dirigible balloons. In spite of the title none of the travellers left the Earth's atmosphere. 3832 WISE (John, aëronaut) SYSTEM of AERONAUTICS, comprehending its EARLIEST INVESTIGATIONS, and modern Practice and Art, containing the various Attempts in the Art of Flying by artificial Means, from the earliest Period to the Discovery of the aeronautic Machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later Period; with the Author's 15 Years' Experience in aerial Voyages, full Instructions in the Art of making Balloons, Parachutes, etc. etc., and Directions to prepare experimental Balloons, with fine mezzotint portrait, and numerous plates, 8vo. cl. (partly water-stained); VERY SCARCE; with bookplate of Sir Percy Florence Shelley, £1. 12s 6d

Philadelphia, 1850

The historical portion is very valuable, and is often quoted in Hatton Turnor's 'Astra Castra'. It is moreover the only work giving an adequate account of AMERICAN BALLOONING, and the fullest description of the author's own ascents. He designed a new balloon known as Wise's Transatlantic Balloon.

'Some of Wise's ascents were highly interesting, and their number and daring character justified his title to be considered the foremost American aeronaut'.-Valentine and Tomlinson's Travels in Space. It is interesting that a copy should have belonged to Shelley's son.

3833 WOODCROFT (Bennet, Prof. of Machinery, Univ. Coll., London; F.R.S.) SKETCH of the ORIGIN and PROGRESS of STEAM NAVIGATION, from authentic Documents, with lithographed title, and 16 other fine lithographs, besides woodcuts, cr. 4to. cl. (SCARCE), 15s

1848

Including a List of Patents for Propelling Vessels, 1618-1848 (pp. 19). Added is: 'The Paddle and the Screw from the Earliest Times', by JOHN MACGREGOR, illustrated, roy. 8vo. (pp. 8), 1858.

'He was the means of rescuing from oblivion the first marine engine ever made, that invented by William Symington (1763-1831).'-D. N. B.

XII. SEAMANSHIP AND AIRMANSHIP. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING, continued:3835_WILDA (Hermann, Technikum Bremen) Der SCHIFFSMASCHINENBAU: Grundlagen der Theorie, Berechnung und Konstruktion, auf Grund des Werkes Machines Marines' von L. E. BERTIN bearbeitet; with folding plate, and 492 illustrations, roy. 8vo. cl., 10s 6d (p. M. 26) Hannover, 1901 3836 ZAHM (Albert Francis) AERIAL NAVIGATION: a Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and of Aeronautical Meteorology, with 32 plates and 58 other illustrations, large cr. 8vo. cl., 7s 6d (p. 12s 6d nett) New York, 1911 Interesting as a pictorial record of early types of flying machines and dirigibles. 3837 ZAMBECCARI (Francesco Conte) DESCRIZIONE della MACCHINA AEROSTATICA destinata a tentare il Regolamento della medesima per l'Atmosfera; with 3 folding copperplates, also plate containing portrait of Orlandi of Bologna, and illustration of his Balloon (? 1828) INSERTED, 8vo. (pp. 32), boards (RARE), £1. 5s

3838

ANOTHER COPY, wanting plate 1, sewn, 10s

Bologna, 1803

Unknown to Hatton Turnor. The author made the first aerostatical experiment in England, sending up in Nov. 1783 a balloon from the Artillery Ground, which was found 2 hours afterwards at Graffham, near Petworth in Sussex. He ascended himself in a balloon of his own construction in Bologna on Oct. 7th, 1803, when the balloon reached so great a height that the author lost two fingers on one hand from frostbite. He lost his life in another ascent in 1812.

The above work contains a very interesting catalogue of the cost of a balloon and its parts, and the scientific instruments required for observations. 3839 ZUSTO (Giovanni, Senatore), DESCRIZIONE ISTORICA dell' ESTRAZIONE della PUBBLICA NAVE LA FENICE dal Canale Spignon, in cui giacque circa tre Anni totalmente sommersa, appoggiata alla nota Esperienza da, e verificata sotto la di lui Direzione e Comando; with frontispiece and 7 very large and fine copperplates, 4to. boards (RARE), with the Duke of Sussex's bookplate, £1. Is [Venezia,] 1789

An account of the successful raising of the Venetian 74-Gun Frigate La Fenice after she had been sunk for three years. It is probably the earliest pictorial account of the salving of a ship. There is no copy of this work in the Library of the Institution of Naval Architects. 'Bella edizione. È opera interessantissima per gli studiosi della meccanica applicata alla nautica.'—Riccardi.

XIII. ADDENDA:

3840 AGRIPPA [von Nettesheim] (Henry Cornelius) Of the VANITIE and UNCERTAINTIE of ARTES and SCIENCES: Englished by JA[MES] SAN[FORD], with portrait by Burnford (added), sm. 4to., black letter; old calf (SOUND TALL COPY), £2. 10s Henrie Bynneman, 1575 'L'auteur cherche à prouver qu'il n'y a rien de plus pernicieux pour la vie des hommes et le salut de leurs âmes que les arts et les sciences.'-Biogr. Gén.

There is no copy of this edition in the British Museum. 3841 AGUILLON (François d', S.J.) OPTICORUM Libri VI; with finely engraved title, vignette, woodcuts, and numerous diagrams, folio, old calf gilt (VERY RARE), £2. 2s

Antverpiæ, ex officina PLANTINIANA, 1613

With old presentation inscription to 'Theodorus Joannes Sanches d' Aguillar'. Added also is a transcript of an order of the Municipal Council of Brussels (in Flemish), dated July 23, 1613, in which the sum of 200 guilders is ordered to be paid as an acknowledgment for a few copies of the work presented to the Council. 3842

ANOTHER COPY, old vellum (SOUND AND VERY TALL COPY), £2. 5s

'C'est dans cet ouvrage qu'on vit, pour la première fois, le nom de Projection stéréographique; cette projection était connu depuis Hipparque, mais elle n'avait pas reçu de nom'.-Biogr. Univ. The author also distinguished a third kind of colours, the intentional or national (the image of a coloured body, produced by the action of lenses or mirrors) in addition to the real and apparent colours, the two kinds previously distinguished by physicists, but his work is above everything important as having laid the foundation of horopterology (in physiological optics), which was developed by J. Müller (1826), Prévost (1843), Helmholtz (1862), and Hering and Volkmann (1863).

3843 AIKEN (Arthur; F.C.S., and Charles Rochemont) DICTIONARY of CHEMISTRY and MINERALOGY, with the Processes employed in many of the most important Chemical Manufactures, a Description of Chemical Apparatus, and various useful Tables of Weights and Measures, Chemical Instruments, etc. etc., with 15 copperplates, chiefly of chemical apparatus, 2 vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt, 17s 6d

1807

Valuable to the historian of chemistry as representing an excellent encyclopedic view of the state of chemistry at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century. The original authorities have been uniformly resorted to whenever the authors had access to them.'-Preface. 3844 ALESSIO Piemontese: The SECRETES of the reuerende Maister ALEXIS of PIEMOUNT [Parts I-IV]: contayning excellent remedies agaynste diuers dyseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make dystillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings. A worke wel approued very profitable and necessary for every man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certayne places which wanted in the first edition. Translated out of French into Englishe, by WILLIAM WARDE [and RICHARD ANDROSE], 4 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, black letter (Part II of the Edition of Rovland Hall, 1563); old English black morocco gilt, with gilt centre-ornaments, with initials R. B., rebacked in calf (first title soiled, and a number of headlines shorn); VERY RARE, £3. 3s Henry Bynneman, for John Wight, 1568-3-6-9 FIRST ENGLISH ÉDITION OF PARTS 2 TO 4 of this storehouse of very curious chemical and medical recipes. Its authorship has sometimes been mistakenly attributed to GIROLAMO RUSCELLI.

Alessio parcourut pendant 57 ans les différentes contrées de l'Europe, recueillant des recettes précieuses et opérant des cures étonnantes. Son livre ne traite pas seulement des drogues, mais des cosmétiques, des parfums, des savons etc. Il raconte qu'au moyen d'une drogue préparée avec de la rosée du romarin et quelques autres ingrédients, il était parvenu à rajeunir de vieilles femmes infirmes.-Biogr. Gen.

3845 ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (ROYAL), MONTHLY NOTICES of the, containing Papers, Abstracts of Papers, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Society, COMPLETE from May, 1876 to 1916 (Vols. XXXVI No. 7 to LXXVI), with GENERAL INDEX to vols. 30-52, with numerous plates, woodcuts, and maps, 48 vols. and 3 parts 8vo. the Index in boards, and the rest in parts as issued (wanting v. 37 No. 9), £7. 15s

1876-1916

XIII. ADDENDA, continued :—

3847 ALPHONSUS Rex: ASTRONOMICE TABULE in PROPRIAM INTEGRITATEM RESTITUTÆ, ad Calcem adjectis Tabulis quæ in postrema Editione deerant, cum plurimoru Locoru Correctione, & Accessione variarũ Tabellarũ ex diversis Autoribus huic Operi insertară, cùm in Usus Ubertate, tum Difficultatis Subsidiu: quorum Nomina Summa Pagellis V., VI. & VII. describuntur. Qua in Re PASCHALIUS HAMELLIUS, Regius Professor, sedula Operam suam præstitit, 4to. old white vellum (binding damaged, and a few wormholes on blank margin, otherwise a FINE AND LARGE COPY); VERY RARE, with auto. of Giuglio Baricelli [M.D., fl. 1620] on title, £2. 2s

Parisiis, Christ. Wechel, 1545

The latest and most correct edition of the Alfonsine Tables' (edited by PASQUIER DUHAMEL), an improvement of the Almagest, undertaken by command of Alfonso X. ('El Sabio'), King of Castile and Leon (1226-1284), by 50 of the most celebrated astronomers of the time. 3848 AUTOGRAPHS of SCIENTISTS:-BABBAGE (Charles, F.R.S.) PASSAGES from the LIFE of a PHILOSOPHER, with frontispiece of the author's invention the 'Difference Engine (No. 1),' extended by the insertion of 88 Holograph Letters from well-known Scientists, etc., mentioned in the work (as under), many being addressed to Faraday, also interesting cuttings, etc., thick 8vo. hf. brown calf extra, uncut, t. e. g. (a most interesting volume), with fine etched bookplate of Frederick Hendriks, F.S.S., £9. 9s 1864

LIST OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS-AIRY (Sir George Biddell), Astronomer Royal, 1801-92 (3): ARNOTT (Neil), M.D., F.R.S., 1788-1874 (1): BABBAGE (Charles), F.R.S., 1792-1871 (3): BABBAGE (The late Henry Prevost, his son), general (2): BABINGTON (William), M.D., F.R.S., mineralogist, 1756-1833 (1): BAILY (Francis), F.R.S., astronomer, 1744-1844 (1): BARRY (Sir Charles), architect of the Houses of Parliament, 1795-1860 (1): BEAUFORT (Sir Francis), admiral, 1774-1857 (1): BRUNEL (Sir Marc Isambard), builder of the Thames Tunnel, 1769-1849 (3, with original announcement of Opening of the Tunnel): BUCKLAND (William), F.R.S., Dean of Westminster, 1784-1856 (2): CHALLIS (James), F.R.S., astronomer, 1803-82 (1): CHILDREN (John George), F.R.S., 1777-1852 (1): DALTON (John), F.R.S., propounder of the Atomic Theory, 1766-1844 (1): DOUGLASS (Sir James Nicholas), F.R.S., engineer, 1826-98 (1): FAIRHOLT (Frederick William), F.S.A., antiquary, 1814-66 (Original Poem): FARADAY (Michael), F.R.S., 1791-1867 (2): GILBERT (Davies), P.R.S., 1767-1839 (1): GREGORY (Olinthus Gilbert), mathematician, 1774-1841 (1): HARRIS (Sir William Snow), F.R.S., electrician, 1791-1867 (2): HATCHETT (Charles), F.R.S., chemist, 1765 ?-1847 (2): HENDRIKS (Frederick), F.s.s. (2): HENRY (William), M.D., F.R.S., chemist, 1774-1836 (3): JARDINE (George), professor of Greek, Glasgow, 1742-1827 (1): LA BECHE (Sir Henry Thomas de), geologist, 1796-1855 (4): LANSDOWNE (Henry 3rd Marquess of), 1780-1863(1): LEMON (Sir Charles), M.P. (2): LYELL (Sir Charles), geologist, 1797-1875 (1): MANTELL (Gideon Algernon), F.R.S., geologist, 1790-1852 (2): MAWE (John), mineralogist, 1764-1829 (1): MURCHISON (Sir Roderick Impey), geologist, 17921871 (2): OERSTED (Hans Christian), discoverer of electro-magnetism, 1777-1851 (1, written in English): OMMANNEY (Sir John Acworth), admiral, 1773-1855 (1): OWEN (Sir Richard), naturalist, 1804-92 (3): POWELL (Baden), pr., F.R.S., Savilian Prof. Geometry, Oxon., 1796-1860 (1): QUETELET (Lambert Adolphe Jacques), mathematician, 1796-1874 (signature): Ross (Sir John), Arctic explorer, 1777-1856 (1): SABINE (Sir Edward), general and astronomer, 1788-1883 (2): SMYTH (William Henry), F.R.S., admiral and astronomer, 1788-1865 (4): STANHOPE (Philip Henry 5th Earl), historian, 1805-75 (1): TALBOT (William Henry Fox), F.R.S., inventor of photography, 1800-77 (3): THOMSON (Thomas), M.D., F. R.S., chemist, 1773-1852 (1): TUPPER (Martin Farquhar), platitudinous philosopher, 1810-89 (1): TURNER (Sharon), F.S.A., historian, 1768-1847 (1): URE (Andrew), M.D., F.R.S., chemist, 1778-1857 (1): WAGHORN (Thomas), pioneer of the Overland Route, 1800-50 (1): WALLICH (Nathaniel), M.D., F.R.S., botanist, 1786-1854 (1): WRIGHT (Thomas), F.S.A., antiquary, 1810-77 (1): YATES (James), F.R.S., antiquary, 1789-1871 (1); AND A FEW OTHERS. It is interesting to note that Mr. Babbage's youngest son, supra, an old Indian Army and Mutiny man, has died as this last sheet of the catalogue was in the press, in his ninety-fourth year. 3849 BERICHTE der DEUTSCHEN CHEMISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT zu BERLIN; from 1881 to 1902 (Jahrgang XIV-XXXV), with numerous fine portraits and other illustrations, Svo., the vols. to 1897 in cl., and the rest in parts as issued, £12. 12s

Berlin, 1881-1902 3850 ANOTHER SERIES, from 1883 to 1901 (Jahrgang XVI-XXXIV), in parts as issued (wanting 1883 No. 6, '84 No. 8, and last part of 1895, £8. 8s ibidem, 1883-1901 One of the most important chemical periodicals, containing 'a record of pretty nearly all that is being done in scientific chemistry, either in the form of original papers or of abstracts from other journals.'-Prof. E. v. Meyer. 3851 CENTRAL (The): being the JOURNAL of the OLD STUDENTS of the College known successively as the CENTRAL INSTITUTION, the CENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE, and the CITY and GUILDS (ENGINEERING) COLLEGE, edited on behalf of the Old Centralians by JAMES E. MONTGOMERY, A. KLEMIN SCHMIDT, F. W. JACKSON, and E. FRANKLAND ARMSTRONG, COMPLETE from the Beginning in 1903 to 1915 (Vols. I—XII), with fine portraits, and numerous plates and text-illustrations, 12 vols. roy. Svo. in 6, buckram (FINE SET, but wanting title to v. II), £3. 10s 1903-15

Including original contributions on various subjects of science and engineering by Proff. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., and A. G. Ashcroft, A. C. Cookson, M.I.C.E., Proff. W. E. Dalby, F.R.S., O. Henrici, F.R.S., and G. W. O. Howe, H. A. Humphrey, M.I.C.E., Dr. T. M. Lowry, F.c.s., Proff. E. W. Marchant, F.R.S., and T. Mather, F.R.S., C. E. S. Phillips, F.R.S.E., Prof. W. J. Pope, F.R.S., R. W. Sindall, and many others.

3852 CEULEN [alias COLLEN] (Ludolph van; Univ. Leyden) De CIRCULO et ADSCRIPTIS Liber, in quo plurimorum Polygonorum Latera per irrationalium Numerorum Griphos, quorum libet autem per Numeros absolutos secundum Algebricarum Æquationum Leges explicantur. Omnia Latina fecit, et Annotationibus illustravit WILLEBRORDUS SNELLIUS; with finely engraved portrait on title by Gheijn, and numerous diagrams, 4to. old tree-calf, rebacked (title and some ll. wormed, otherwise a sound copy); RARE, £1. 10s Lugduni Batavorum, Jodocus à Colster, 1619 'Adrianus Romanus and Ludolph van Ceulen occupied themselves with approximating to the ratio between the circumference and the diameter [of the circle]. The former carried the value to 15, the latter to 35, places. The value of is therefore often named Ludolph's number. His performance was considered so extraordinary, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter's church-yard at Leyden.'-Prof. Cajori. 3853 ELECTRICIAN (The): a WEEKLY JOURNAL of THEORETICAL and APPLIED ELECTRICITY, and CHEMICAL PHYSICS, COMPLETE from 1883 to 1917 (Vols. X-LXXIX), with numerous fine portraits, plates, and woodcuts, 70 vols. impl. 4to., vv. 10-11 in hf. calf, vv. 12-46 in cl., vv. 47-76 in hf. red roan, cl. sides (2 vv. in uniform hf. cl.), and vv. 77-9 in parts as issued (a fine set), £30. (p. £45. 10s nett unbound) 1883-1917

XIII. ADDENDA, continued :—

LARGE AND FINE COPY OF THE FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF EUCLID:

3855 EUCLIDES: [ELEMENTA GEOMETRIAE, cum CAMPANI ANNOTATIONIBUS; incipit :] PRECLARISSIMUS LIBER ELEMENTORUM EUCLIDIS perspicacissimi: in ARTEM GEOMETRIE incipit quafoelicissime; in large and small gothic type, with fine woodcut border to A2, ornamental initials (some large and fine), and geometrical diagrams throughout in margins, folio, old white vellum (leaf A1 missing, some ll. slightly stained, one blank corner mended, and top of woodcut border shorn, otherwise A SOUND COPY WITH GOOD MARGINS, measuring 11×8 inches); very rare, £12. 12s [in fine:] Opus elementoru euclidis megarensis in geometria arte. In id quoqz CAMPA NI Pspicacissimi Comentationes finiut ERHARDUS RATDOLT Augustensis impressor solertissimus. Venetiis impressit. Anno salutis. MCCCCLXXXII. Octauis Calen | Juñ. Lector. Vale. [1482] 'PREMIÈRE ÉDITION de cette version, et un des plus anciens livres imprimés où se trouvent des figures de mathé matiques'.-Brunet. In his dedication the printer says that the difficulty of printing geometrical designs had hitherto made it impossible to print geometrical books; but that this difficulty had been overcome so well by great painters, that 6 qua facilitate litterarum elementa imprimuntur ea etiam geometrice figure conficerentur'. The fine woodcut border surrounding p. 3 (which is contained in the above copy) is a well-known example in the history of book ornamentation.

THIS TRANSLATION is of great interest as having been made by an Englishman, ÆTHELHARD or ADELARD of BATH, either from the Greek original, or, more probably, from an Arabic version. Ethelhard was a great traveller as well as one of the greatest philosophical writers of the Thirteenth Century, and seems to have passed through Spain, the North of Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor. He was one of those Englishmen who lived for a time in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and is known to have visited Syracuse and Salerno. That he knew Greek is almost certain; but it has not been determined whether the translation of Euclid (undoubtedly executed by him, though often ascribed to Campanus of Novara, with whose comments it was published at Venice in 1482, was made from an Arabic version or from the original' (Professor Adamson). On either supposition the instance of English medieval scholarship is a striking one, and Ethelhard is one more disproof of the theory of the blank ignorauce and obscurantism of the Middle Ages with which the youth of England is still regaled by the timberheaded textbook-writer of British popular Protestantism and journalistic State-Churchmanship. 3856 GALILEI (Galileo) Il SAGGIATORE, nel quale con Bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderando le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e filosofica di LOTARIA SARSI, prima edizione; with engraved title and fine portrait by Villamoena, and engravings in text, sm. 4to. old English calf (joints mended, and some ll. slightly wormed, otherwise a LARGE AND SOUND COPY); VERY RARE, £2. 2s Roma, G. Mascardi, 1623

3857

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ANOTHER COPY, hf. Italian calf (engraved title and portrait stained, and some ll. An answer to Horatio Grassi's 'Libra Astronomica ac Philosophica', and still unsurpaased as a masterpiece of crushing scientific criticism.

'Le discours de Giuducci et le Saggiatore ont pour objet de réfuter les assertions des anciens philosophes, d'Aristote principalement, sur les comètes, et de montrer que l'opinion la plus probable est que ces comètes sont des apparences produits par des exhalaisons émanées des astres, répandues dans l'espace et éclairées par le soleil, et qu'on n'en saurait déterminer la distance à la terre par le moyen des parallaxes, avant d'avoir prouvé que ce ne sont pas des phénomènes de position comme l'arc-en ciel.'-M. Libri.

3858 GILBERT (William, M.D., Physician to Queen Elizabeth):-THOMPSON (Silvanus Phillips, F.R.S.) GILBERT, of COLCHESTER; an Elizabethan Magnetizer, with 5 illustrations from the de Magnete sq. 18mo. parchment covers, uncut (SCARCE), 15s Sette of Odd Volumes, 1891 Only 249 coples were printed, cach being signed by the author. See Gilbert's 'De Magnete', ante. 3559 GROOMBBIDĠE (Stephen, F.R.S.) CATALOGUE of CIRCUMPOLAR STARS, reduced to January 1, 1810, edited by SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY, Astronomer Royal, P.R.S., 4to. cl., uncut (SCARCE), 15s 1838

'Including 4,243 star-places of standard accuracy, among them that of the swiftest-moving of known stars (No. 1830), first observed by Groom bridge'.-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

'This is universally admitted to be one of the most valuable contributions to practical astronomy made during the XIX. century.'-Prof. R. Grant. It contains at end a printed sheet of corrections by SIR G. B. AIRY, with MS. additions, apparently by himself. 3860 HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL (The): the special Organ of the BRITISH HOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE; COMPLETE from the Beginning in 1858 to 1900, with numerous illustrations, 42 vols. large 8vo. and roy. 8vo. in 10, hf. morocco gilt (v. I wanting title and index, otherwise a SOUND AND CLEAN SET), £5. 5s 1858-1900

3861 JAENISCH (C. F. de, Prof. de Mécanique, Institut des Voies de Communication, St. Pétersbourg) TRAITÉ des APPLICATIONS de l'ANALYSE MATHÉMATIQUE au JEU des ÉCHECS, précédé d'une Introduction à l'Usage des Lecteurs soit étrangers aux Échces, soit peu versés dans l'Analyse ; with 31 plates, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. in 1, hf. brown morocco extra, uncut, t. e. g. (fine copy); VERY SCARCE, £1. 10s Saint-Pétersbourg [Petrograd], 1862-3

The only comprehensive work on the mathematics of chess ever published. 'C'est à ces éléments principaux du jeu [la théorie des fins de partie] que le calcul est effectivement applicable, et quelque imparfaits que soient les résultats auxquels nous sommes parvenu en cette matière, nous les croyons assez curieux, même sous le rapport purement mathématique.'-Préface.

3862 MATHEMATICAL PAPERS, as under, 7 parts in one vol. 4to. cl., with MS. List of Contents by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., 17s 6d 1867-87

CONTENTS:-CASEY (John, F.R.S.) On the Bicircular Quartics (pp. 113), '67: On Cyclides and Sphero-Quartics (pp. 137), '71: Cn the Equations of Circles: Second Memoir (pp. 84), '78: On a New Form of Tangential Equation (pp. 74), '78: CAYLEY (Arthur, F.R.S.) On the Bicircular Quartic, '78: On Curvature and Orthogonal Surfaces, "73: LACHLAN (R.) On Systems of Circles and Spheres (pp. 145), '87.

3863 PHYSICAL PAPERS (French), COLLECTION of, as under, from various French Journals, 16 parts in one vol. 4to. cl., with MS. List of Contents by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., £1. ls 1822-63 CONTENTS:-BERTRAND (J.) Démonstration de quelques Théorèmes sur les Surfaces Orthogonales, '43: Développements sur quelques Points de la Théorie des, Surfaces isothermes orthogonales. '45: Intégrales communes à plusieurs Problèmes de Mécanique: DUHAMEL (J. M. C.) Équations générales de la Propagation de la Chaleur dans les Corps solides, '28; and seven others, '30-63; LAMÉ (G.) Les Surfaces isothermes dans les Corps solides homogènes en Equilibre de Température, s. d.: et B. P. E. CLAPEYRON : L'Équilibre intérieur des Corps solides homogènes, s. d.: NAVIER (C. Î. M. H. Mémoire sur les Lois du Mouvement des Fluides, '22: and two others.