96 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AKD 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



1907 HERSCHEL (Sir John Frederick William, f.r.s.) Trait6 de la Lumiere, traduit, avec 

 Notes, par P. H. Verhulst et A. Quetelet : with \b plates, 2 vols., or, 2 vols, in l,8vo. hf. calf, 

 105 1829-33 



This work, originally published in the Encyclopcedia Metropolitan a, has never been published in English in a separate 

 fonn. ' This admirable treatise, translated into French by Quetelet, besides including many original discoveries, gave 

 European currency to the undulatory theory of light.'— 3/iss A. M. Clerke. 



THE MOON-HOAX : 



1908 : Some Account of the Great Astronomical Discoveries lately made l>y Sir John 



Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope, 2nd Ed., 12mo. hf. roan (nice copy) ; SCARCE, £1. ]s 



Effingham Wilson, 1836 



This solemn scientific hoax by an anonymous writer 'supposed to have been M. Nicollet), which was originally 

 broached by the New York Sun, relates how Sir John Herschel during his astronomical observations in South Africa 

 made the most startling discoveries on the moon by magnifying the image obtained by the telescope with a pow^-rful 

 microscope [IJ. Mountain ranges, buildings, animals in motion, and even flowers (in one instance a red corn poppy) arc 

 rlescribed to have been observed by the lu(;ky Astronomer Royal, and the statements were taken as genuine astronomical 

 discoveries and swallowed wholesale by the numerous breed of the half-learned. 



V. Peacock, post. 



1909 [HERTTENSTEIN { Johann Heinrich)] Cahiers de Mathematique a I'u^age de MM. les 

 Otticiers de I'Ecole Royale d'Artillerie de Strasbourg ; with numerous folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. 

 nif.e copy in old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.E.S., ls(5d Sirashourg, 1737 



1910 HERTZ (Heinrich) Untersuchungen iieber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft; 

 with 40 diagrams, 8vo. sew7i, As (p. M. 6.) Leipzig, 1892 



1911 Electric Waves : Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity 



through Space : authorised English Translation by D. E. JoNES, M-ith Preface by LORD Kelvin, 

 40 illustrations, 8vo. cl., Qs (p. 105 nett) 1893 



Containing the author's epoch-making investigations on the diftusion of electric force, now known as ' Hertzian waves ', 

 which play such an important part in connexion with wireless telegraphy. 



1912 HESSE (Ludwig Otto) Vorlesungen liber analytische Geometrie des Raumes, ins- 

 besondere liber Oberfljichen zweiter Ordnung, 8vo. hf. bound, Zs Orf Leipzig, 1861 



'By linear substitution, he reduced a form of curves of the third degree in three variables to one of only four terms, 

 and was led to an important determinant involving the second ditl'erential coefficient of a form of the third degree called the 

 He^sUni . . . Many of the most important theorems of curves of the third order are due to Hesse. —Prof. Cojori. 



1913 HEVELIXJS [recte HEWELCKE] (Johannes ; f.r.s ) Selenographia : sive LuN,« De- 

 SCRIPTIO; atque accurata, tarn Macularuni ejus, quani Motuum Diversoruin, aliorumque omnium 

 Vicissitudinum, Phasiumque, Telescopii Ope Deprehensarum, Delineatio ; in qu& simul cajter- 

 orum omnium Planetarum nativa Facies . . . addita est, Lentes Expoliendi Nova Ratio, etc. etc. ; 

 vnth engraved title, and very numerous other fine copperplates, folio, old calf gilt {one corner water- 

 stained, and binding slightly damaged, otherwise a sound copy) ; rare, £1. lO* Gedani, 1647 



1914 Another Copy, uiith a beautiful portrait of the author by J. Falck {corner water-stained, 



but brilliant impression), folio, old stamped vellum (FINE AND LARGE COPY), £2. 5* 

 ' The earliest great work on the geography of the moon and tlie aspects of the planets." — Prof. S. Newcomb. 

 It also contains his discovery of the libration of the moon in longitude, and is a work still in great demand. 



1915 HEYWOOD (Thomas ; dramatist) A True Description of His Majesties Royall Ship 

 ['The Sovereign of the Seas'] built this Yeare 1637 [by Phineas Pett], at Wool-witch in 

 Kent. To the great glory of our English Nation, and not paraleld in thfe whole Christian 

 "World. Published by Authoritie, with engraved front, of the ship, sm. 4to. hf. morocco, g. e. 

 {blank margin of declication and last I. mended, otherwise a large and sound copy) ; very 

 RARE, £4. 4* John Okes,for John Aston at his shop in Cat-eaten-streete, 1637 



The ' Sovereign of the Seas ' marked an epoch in the history of ship-building, being ' the first three-decker and the largest 

 ship hitherto constructed on modern principles. She Avas 232 feet in length, of 1637 tons, and carried at first 130 pieces 

 of cannon ; being found unwieldy, she was cut down, and proved an excellent ship, but was biirned in \Gi)(i. '—Capt. Carbett, 

 R.N. A model of the ship, supposed to be contemporary, is still preserved in the Museum of the Royal Naval College at 

 Greenwich. 



1916 HIGGINS (Bryan, m.d.) Experiments and Observations relating to Acetous Acid, Eixable 

 Air, Dense Inflammable Air, Oils, and Fuel ; tbe Matter of Fire and Light, Metallic Reduction, 

 Combustion, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Respiration, and other Subjects of Chemical Philo- 

 sophy, 8vo. boards, uncut {slightly acid-stained) ; rare, 12s 6c? 1786 



• His best-known work, which appears also to have formed the subject of some of his lectures. He was more successful as 

 a speculator than as an experimentalist, and many of his views are, for their time, remarkable for their acuteness and 

 generalising character '.— Z>. N. P>. All his experiments and views are still based on the phlogiston theory. 



1917 HIGGINS (William, f.r.s. ; nephew of the above) Experiments and Observations on the 

 Atomic Theory, and Electrical Phenomena, Svo. cl. {rare), 12s 6rf 1814 



'An unworthy attack upon D.\i.ton, in which Higgins set forth his superior claims to be considered the author of the 

 al,oniic theory'. — D. N. B. 



1918 HIGHMOKE (Joseph; painter) The Practice of Perspective on the Principles of Dr. 

 Bl'OOK Taylor, with 48 folding plates, 4to. old calf {fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl 

 Stanhope, F.R.S., 10.9 Qd 1763 



1919 HIGHTON (Edward, c.e.) The Electric Telegraph ; its History and Progress, with wood- 

 cuts and diagrams, post 8vo. cl. {out of print), 3s Qd 1852 



Historically interesting for illustrating various early apparatus and accessories. He incidentally mentions the interest- 

 ing fact that the semaphore telegraph Avas still in use between Liverpool and Holyhead. 



1920 HILL (Aaron; dramatist) Account of the Rise and Progress of the Beech-Oil Invention, 

 and all the Steps which have been taken in that Atfair, from the First Discovery, to the present 

 Time, as also what is further design'd in That Undertaking, post Svo. (pp. 112), sewn {title 

 soiled) ; VERY rare, £1. \s 1715 



a flaming prospectus of the author's .scheme for extracting the oil from beechmast. A patent was granted for the 

 process, and a company formed to work it with a capital of £25,000, while 45 per cent, was promised after 2 years, ' besides 

 making the whole nation happy.' The venture collapsed in 171G, and Hill lost a considerable sum by it. 



The above work was apparently unknown to the author's biogmpher in D. N. B. 



