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1398 FRANKLAND (Sir Edward, f.r.s.) Lecture Notes for Chemical Students, 3rd Ed., by 

 F. R. Japp, 2 vols, post 8vo. cL, :is (p. lO*) 1881 



Tlie autlior was the founder of the doctrine of the saturation-capacity of the elements. 



1399 FRANKLIN (Benjamin, f.r.s.) Works, containing several political and historical Tracts not 

 included in any former edition, and many Letters, official and private, not hitherto published, 

 with Notes and' Life, by Jared Sparkes ; Large Type Edition, ivith fine engraved portraits, 

 10 vols. roy. 8vo. c/., uncut, £2. 18* 1882 



1400 Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, now first collected and arranged, 



with Memoirs of his early Life, by himself, 2nd Ed. , portrait by W. Haines, vignettes, and plates, 

 3 vols. 8\'o. conteinporarif calf {a few plates stained), los [1806] 



1401 Mkmoihs of his Life and Writings, by himself, continued by his grandson, William 



Temple Franklin, with his Correspondence and Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous 

 Works, portrait, plates, andfs., 6 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt (nice set), £1. 10* 1818-19 



Contents :— vv. 1-2, Life ; vv. 3-4, Correspondence: vv. 5-G, Works. 



1402 Vols. 1-2, comprising the LIFE only, with fine vignette portrait, 2 vols. 8vo. 



cl., 8* 1818 



1403 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America, 



with Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects; the whole corrected, methodized, 

 improved, etc., 5th Ed.,t/n'<A 7 copperplates, and woodcuts, 4to. old calf (rare), with auto. T[hom.vs] 

 Jeff^. Hogg, Univ. Coll. Oxon. (friend and biographer of Shelley) on flyleaf, £1. 10* 1774 



Last Edition, ' 8uppose<l by Dr. Sparks to have receivml some degree of attention from the author, who was then in 

 \jox\i\ovi.'—AlUbQne. 



It contains not only his important investigations on electricity, including his kite experiments, proving that lightning 

 and eh'ctricity are identical, and his iavention of the lightning conductor, etc., but also the important discovery of the 

 course of storms over the North Anierican continent, and other meteorological subjects of almost equal importance. 



1404 Experiences et Observations sur I'EFiECTRiciTE faites h. Philadelphie en Amerique, 



traduites [avec Advertissement (pp. 20) et Histoire abregde de I'Electricite (pp. 70) par Thomas 

 Francois Dalibard]; with plate, \2\\\o. contemporary French calf gilt, 10* 6a 1752 



Tlie Virst French translation. The history of electricity prefixed to this edition has not been published in any other 

 form. 



1405 FRANKLIN (J. A.) The Decimal System Facilitated, and adapted intermediately to the 

 rotitine methods of Account, Money, and the Precious Metals, etc. etc., 4to. seian, 2s 1853 



1406 FRAXNO (Claudio del), y Joacquin de BOULIGNY : Memoria sobre la Teoria y 

 Fabricacion del Acero en General, yde.su Aplicacion a las Armas Blancas ; with II folding 

 plates, Hvo. morocco gilt, g. e. [stamp on title), 5* Segovia, 1850 



1407 , : Tratado de la Teoria y Fabricacion de la P6lvora en General, las Piezas de 



Artilleria y los Proyectiles de Hierro; with tables, 2 vols. 8vo , .and folio Atlas, containing 52 

 folding plates — ?i vols, morocco gilt, g. e. [stamp on titles), \6s ibidem, 1847-8 



Both the above works are uniformly bound, with the arms of Spain in centre, and both bear the following inscription : 

 • Presents to the Library of the Roval Military College Sandhurst by [Gkn.SirJ Robert [William] Gardinkr [Governor 

 of Gibraltar], The Convent, Gibraltar, 1 Sept. 1S51.' 



1408 FR^JMY (Edmond, de V Academic) Chemie YtGtTALE : la Ramie, 8vo. cl., 3s 1886 



1409 FRENCH (John, m.d.) The Art of Distillation: or Treatise of the Choicest Spagiricall 

 Preparations performed by way of Distillation, with Description of the Chiefest Furnaces and 

 Vessels used by Ancient and Modem Chymists, also Discourse of Spajriricall Experiments and 

 Curiosities, the Anatomy of Gold and Silver, etc. etc., 2nd Ed., to which is added the LONDON- 

 Distiller: exactly and truly showing,' the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Stron<^- Waters, 

 with the Additions of other Excellent Waters, with nimieroiis woodcuts of Chemical Apparatus, 

 2 vols. 8m.4to. in 1, hf. calf antique [some blank corners stained, otherwise a sound and large copy) ; 

 RARE, £2. 2s E. Cotes, 1653-2 



With interesting preface on the chemical quack of the time. 



1410 Fourth [and Last] Edition, to which is added. Sublimation and Calcination, with 



numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, contemporary calf [joints broken^ but sound clean copy), 

 £1- 10.? ' a. e., 1667 



1411 (FRENCH (John, Teacher of the Mathem^ticks)] A PERFECT DISCOVERY of the Longitude at 

 Sea : heinj; the Product of 9 Yeai*s Study, and the Frequent Amendments of a Mathematician, 

 who has us'd the Sea upwards of 25 Years, with woodcuts representing instruments for finding the 

 Latitude, Altitude, atid Longitude, 4to. (pp. 20), sewn [rare), lOs 1715 



The author claims his discoverj* to bo ' truly projecto<l and adapted for Sea-service ; having first found the Latitude by 

 an ai>solute new ami true Method ; wliich is to be done in a minute's space any time of the Day or Night, without the help 

 ofHun, .M(M>n or Star." There was no copy in the Scott Library. 



1412 FREND (William) Principles of Algebra [with Apnendix (pp. 246) by Francis Maseres, 

 F.R.S., and Observations on Mr. Kaphson's Method of resolving Affected Equations of all Degrees 

 by Approximation], 8vo. boards, uncut, 6s 6d 179(5 



' Freud was the last of the learned anti-Newtonians, aiid a noted oppugnerof all that distinguishes algebra from arith- 

 metic' He rejects in the above work negative quantities as nonsensical. 



1413 — ^ — Tangible Arithmetic ; or the Art of Numbering made Easy, by means of an Arith- 

 metical Toy, which will express any Number up to 16,666,665 ; and with which, by moving a few 

 IJalls, a great variety of Operations in Arithmetic may be performed, 2nd Ed., 12mo. boards^ uncut 

 [.scarce), 10s 6d 1806 



' The toy is the Chinese instrument or abacus, called the Schwanpan.'—Prof. de Morgan. 



1414 FRENTCLE [de BESSY (Bernard)] Traite des Triangles Rectangles en Nombres, 

 18nio. contemporary old mlf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. [rare) 85 6^1676 



See DIVER.SE.S Ouvraoes, ante, for a number of the author's works, including his celebrated 'Solution par les 

 exclusions.* 



