HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY, W 6.1 



1268 EWBANK (Thomas) Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and otlier 



Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modem, with Observations on the Mechanic Arts, and 



the Development of the Steam Engine, 16th [last] Kd., vn\ixrired,ejigraifed title, and 290 looodcuts, 



rov. 8vo. cl., \0s (kl (p. £1. 10») A'eJt' York, 1870 



Contaiuing much interesting historical iiiforinatioii. 



12G9 EWING (James Alfred, f.r.s.) Magnetic Induction in Iron and other Metals, 159 illus- 



tratiuns, 8vo. cL, As (p 10a- Qd) 1892 



1270 FABRE (Jean Antoine) EssAl sur la Maniere la plus avantageuse de construire les Machines 

 Hvdrauliqles, et en partioulior les MOULINS A Bled ; with 6 folding plates, larj,'e 4to. 

 coiiteinporarif calf gilt ^ Is 6d 1783 



1271 FABRI (Ottavio) L'Uso della Si^uadra Mobile, con la quale per Teorica et per Pratica si 

 inisura ;,'e<>nietricaniente ojjni distanza, altezza, e profonditji, s'inipara ii perticare livellare, et 

 pi;,'lare in dlsegno, ecc. ; with engraved title, folding plate on copper representing the ' movable 

 quadrants and numerous engravings in text, >iii Uo. Jine copy in old vellum {rare), 

 I5.V Venetia, 1598 



Unknown to Poggendorff and Grsetise. ' Bella e rara edizione.'—Riccardu 



1272 FAONANO (Giulio Carlo, Marchese de' Tasehi) Produzioni Matematiche ; with folding 

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■ n- ni:iy Ik- .vii-l to h!i\.- U-«'ii ih'- tii?.t writer who direi-ted attention to the theory of elliptic functions ... He also 

 I"iiir...l uiit ili.^ riMiiinkuhl.' ainlo/v <'\isting between the intagrals which repretient the arc of a circle and the arc of 

 ;i 1. !iii>. at«'. Finally h^ provtHi the Vurniula » - 2i log < (1-0/(1 + where i )• stands for V— 1.'— ir. W. R. Ikill. 



1273 FAHIE (J. J.) History of Wireless Telegraphy (1838-99), including Bare-Wire Proposals 

 for Su1mi»|U«'oiis Tele«,'raj)hs, portraits and illustrations, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6*) 1899 



1J74 FAIRBAIBN (Sir William, f.r.s.) The Rise and Progress of Manufactures and Com- 

 merce, and of Civil and Mechanical Engineering in Lancashire and Cheshire, with fne 

 tteel portrait on India paper, 5 plates, woodcuts and diagrams, 4to. cl. extra, g. e., I2s %d 



[privately printed, Manchester, 1869] 

 ' To A. H. Novelli, Esqr« with the author's very kind regards.'— /iwcr. onjlylec^f. 



1275 Treatise on Iron Ship Building ; it« History and Progress, toith 4 plates, and 127 



woodcuts, Svo. cl. (out of print), 10s 6rf 1865 



Including an enquiry into the then and prospective state of the Navy, with experimental resultH on the resisting 

 powers of armour plates and shot at high velocities. 



1276 Treatise on Mills and Mill\vork, 2nd Ed., with folding plates, and numerous xoood- 



cuts, 2 vols. 8vo. cL, %s 1864-5 



1277 FAIRFAX (George) Navigation Epitomiz'd : or Particulars most useful and usually taucjht 

 in Navigation, briefly represented and humbly tender'd to the Governours of Christ's-Hospital, 

 broadsheet of 2 pp. : DlscuRSUS HlSTlODROMlCUS [a short TREATISE on NAVIGATION in English 

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127S FALCONER (William, author of ' The Shipwreck ') UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY of the Marine : 

 or the Technical Terras and Phrases employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, 

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 [sic]. Translation of French Sea Terms, etc. etc., 2nd Ed., with fine copperplates, minutely 

 illustrating the various parts of a ship, and its building, 4to. contemporary calf gilt, I5s 1771 



' A jjrand national work, compreheii<liii« everything relating to the Marine of this country : a performance which dis- 

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1279 FALE (Thomas; Corjms Christi Coll., Cantab.) Horologiographia : the ART of Dialling: 

 teaching an Easie and Perfect Way to make all Kindes of Dials upon any plain plat howsoever 

 placed, with the drawing of the Twelve Signes, and Howres unequall in them all, with the 

 making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the Day and Night is 

 knowne, with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. ftlark letter; seum (fine uncut 

 copy I, £2. 2s F. Kingstone, 1652 



1280 Another Copy, hf. bound (binding brohen, and some 11. neatly mended and a few worm- 

 holed), £1. 7« 6d 



1281 Another Copy {wanting title), 16« 6rf 



' The table <tf<iinei which it contaiuii is probably the earliest specimen of a trigonometrical table printed iu England.'— 



/) S. n. 

 12M2 FARADAT (Michael, F.R.S.) The Chemical History of a Candle [including a Lecture on 



l'LATiNi-.M j , ed. by Sir William Crookes, f.r.s., 3S woodcuts, cr. Svo. cl. (out of print), 35 6rf [1874] 

 I2S.3 Chemical Manipulation ; being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods 



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edition, with woodcuts, Svo. hf. calf neat (scarce), lis 6fl? 1S27 



1284 Second Edition [enfargedf] , t^^YA t^^oorfcwfe, Svo. boards, uncut (some II. foxed); scarce, 



10s %d 1830 



1285 Third [last] Edition. Hth woodcuts, S\o. original cl., uncut, VJs Qd 1842 



' Even ntn. tble book of reference.'— iVo/. Tuit. 



1286 Manipulations Chimic^i ks ; naduit par Maiseau, et revu pour la Partie technique par 



A. BussY; with woodcuts, 2 vols. Svo. original hf. roan gilt, 9« Qd 1827 



Publi.slie<l in the same year &^ the English original, and interesting as showing the early appreciation of the great 

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1287 Experimental Researches in Electricity, from the Philosophical Transactions, with 



Opiates, 4to. sewn, with author's inscr., 15* 1832 



•Thos. Allan, Esq., etc. etc. etc. [f.r s., mineralogist'^ from theAu[thor].'— 7nser. on title. Consisting of Experimental 

 Researches in Electricity, read before the Royal Society, Nov. 24, 1831, and of the Bakerian Lecture, 1832, 'Teirestrial 

 Magneto-el jctric Induction, and Force and Direction of Magneto-electric Induction generally ', and containing the first and 

 most important of all his discoveries— that of induced electricity. 



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