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2789 MALLEY (Abraham Cowley) Photo-Micrography, including Description of tlie Wet 

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 Preparing, 2nd Ed., enlarged, 3 p/rt<C5, and numei'ous woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 3« (p. Is Qd) 1885 



2790 MALOMBBA (Giuseppe, Nohile Cremonese) Pratica Universale, faeilissima, et hreve di 

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 boards, luicut {a few II. stained), 12s [Fiorenza, 1630J 



Unknown to Pogi^endorff. 



2701 MALORTIE (Col. C. Martmont de) Treatise on the Science and Practical Detail of 

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2702 MANCHESTER SCIENCE LECTURES for the PEOPLE [edited by Sir Henry 

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Manchester [1866-79] 

 A valuable collection of popular lectures by the Editor, Prof. Clifford, Sir William Huggins, Prof. Huxlev, Prof, 

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2793 MANDEY (Venterus) Mellificium Mensionis : or the Marrow of Measuring, with choice 

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2794 Fourth Edition [Reprint of the above], toith the portrait, 8vo. Jine copy in old calf, with 



bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. , 6s 1727 



2795 Synopsis Mathematica Universalis : or a Brief System of Mathematics, inclnding 



Astronomy, Dialling, Optics, etc. etc., with Astronomical and Geographical Tables, portrait by 

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AccordiiiK to the preface a translation of J. J. Hainlin's * Synopsis Mathematica * (1(5710. 



2796 and Joseph MOXON, f.r.s. : Mechanick-Powers : or the Mistery of Nature and Art 



nnvail'd, shewing what Great Things may be performed by Mechanick Engines . . . with 

 a Treatise of Circular Motion artificially fitted to Mechanick use, and the making of Clock- 

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2797 Another Copy, unbound, \os 



According to the preface the first systematic treatise on practical mechanics. Tiie autlior is not noticed in D. N. 11., 

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•2798 MANFREDI (Eustachio ; f.r.s.) De Annuis Inerrantium Stellarum Aberrationibus ; 

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A work still of importance, controverting some of Roemer's observations on the parallactic path of .s'i/i«s and Lyra. 



2799 Ephemerides [et ^ovm Ephemerides] Motuum Ca<:LESTiUM, 1715-50, e Cassinianis 



Tabulis ad Meridi.aniim Bononia? supputat.^e ; with numerous charts and diagrams, 4 vols, 4to. in 2, 



old calf (fine copy), with Lord Stanhope's bookplate, 15s ibid., 1715-25 



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•JSOO De Gnomone Meridiano Bononiensi deque Observationibus Astronomicis eo Instru- 



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ls6d 



2H02 1 — Instituzioni Astronomiche : Opera postuma ; with \o folding plates, 4to. sound copy in 



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2803 MANFBEDI (Qabriello) De Constructions .^^quationum Differentialium Primi 

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A very rare work wliich was highly commended by Leibniz. It is practically the first work on the subject, and 

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2804 MANILIU3 (Marcus) Astronomicon [cunt Antonio Molinio] ; very neatly printed in 

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2805 Idem, a Josepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice Gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum, 



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2806 Idem, ex Recensione et cum Notis Richardi Bentleii ; finely printed in large type, with 



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_>S07 Editio Altera, cum selectis Variorum ac i)ropriis Notis, Prjefationi subjuncta, Varia de 



Manilio Judicia et Julii Ponteder^e Epistola de Manilii Astronomia et Anno coolesti, cura 

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Argentorati, 1767 



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2809 MANN (Robert James; M.D., f.r.a.s.) The Planetary and Stellar Universe, ivith 10 

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The first of the author's popular textbooks, which 'entitled him to a notable place amongst those who first attempted 

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