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



2812 MANNHEIM (A.) MiiMOlRES (24) sur la Geomi^trie ; with diagrams, 4to. sewn, Is Qd 1867-77 



2813 MANUAL of Geographical Science ; Part I: Mathematical Geography, by M. O'Brien, pr., 

 F.R.S., Physical Geography, by D. T. Ansted, f.r.s., Chartography, by J. R. Jackson, f.r.s., 

 and Theory of Description and Geographical Terminology, by C. G. Nicolay, pr. ; illustrated, 

 ^vo.cl.,AsQd 1852 



2814 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES (British), edited by G. Phillips Bevan, with plates 

 and woodcuts, complete in 14 vols. 12m6. cl., \5s (p. £2. 9s) 1877 



2815 MAQ,UENNE (Leon) Les Sucres et leurs principaux Derives, 8vo. (pp. 1032), cl., 9* 

 (p. F. 16. nett) 1900 



2816 MARAT (Jean Paul, Docteur en Medecine et Midecin des Gardes-du-Corps de Monseiffneur le 

 Comte d'Artois; M.D. of St. Andreivs, killed by Charlotte Corday) D^COUVERTES sur la Lumiere ; 

 constatees par une Suite d'Exp^riences nouvelles qui ont ^te faites un trfes-grand nombre de fois 

 sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de I'Academie des Sciences, 2® Ed., 8vo. oldcalf, newly and 

 neatly rebacked, £1. 105 Londres, 1780 



Though now chiefly known as one of the most hideous monsters of the Terror, Marat was previously the author of 

 works of no small scientific value. He was one of the first to attack Newton's emission theory of light— a heresy which 

 prevented his elevation to the French Academy. 



2817 Kecherches Physiques sur le Feu ; with 7 folding plates, 8vo. seion, uncut {slightly 



wormed, and corners of some II. and of the plates gone), £\.\s 1780 



Giving, by his theory of a jluide igne, a mechanical explanation of the phenomena of heat. 



Marat stayed many years in England, and on the recommendation of certain Edinburgh physicians received the degree 

 of M.D. from St. Andrews University. 

 All his works are now very rare. 



2818 [MAROET (Jane)] Conversations on Natural Philosophy; in which the Elements of that 

 Science are familiarly explained, and adapted to the Comprehension of Young Pupils, by the 

 Author of Conversations on Chemistry, etc., revised Ed., with 23 plates, thick post 8vo. 

 boards, uncut, 4* 1820 



2819 MARCHAND (Abbe D.) La Science des Nombres d'apr^s la Tradition des Sifecles. I^ Partie 

 [seule parfie] : Explication de la Table de Pythagore : Hoefer (Ferdinand) Histoire des 

 Mathematiques jusqu'au Commencement du XIX^ Sifecle, 2^ "td. : Bosanquet (Bernard 

 Tindal) Treatise on the Trisection of an Angle of 30^, and of any other Plane Angle, diagrams— 

 3 vols, post 8vo. in 1, hf morocco neat, Qs 1877-9-6 



2820 MARCHELLI (Giovanni, s. J.) Trattato de Compasso di Proporzione ; with large folding 

 plate, sm. sq. 8vo. old hf calf {back damaged), Qs Milano, 1759 



Rare, unknown to Poggendorff, and other bibliographers. 



2821 MARCHETTI (Angelo) La Natura della Proporzione, e della Proporzionalita, con 

 nuovo, facile, e sicuro Metodo spiegata, sm. 4to. sewn, 8s Pistoia, 1697) 



Unknown to Poggendorff. 



2822 MARCI [de KRONLANDJ (Johann Marcus, M.D. ; Univ. Prague) Thaumantias Liber de 

 Arcu Coelesti deque Colorum Apparentium Natura, Ortu, et Causis. In quo pellucidi 

 Opticao Pontes a sua scaturigine, ab his vero colorigeni rivi derivantur; with fine engraved title 

 and portrait, and numerous diagrams on copper, sm. 4to. white vellum extra, r. e. (fine tall 

 copy) ; VERY RARE, £1. 15* [colophon :] PragcB, 1648 



This important work contains the author's discovery of the prismatic dispersion of light, in which he was the fore- 

 runner of Newton. 



2823 MARESKA (Joseph Daniel Benoit), et Franqois Marie Louis DONNY: Memoire sur 

 un Appareil de Thilorier Modifie, et de I'Acide Carbonique liquide et solide ; with '^ plates, 

 4to. (pp. 33), sewn, 3^ Qd Bruxelles, 1845 



An improvement on Thilorier's apparatus (the first to produce liquified carbon dioxyde in larger quantities), which 

 excluded all danger in operating it, and at the .same time liist enabled the author to liquify a number of other gases. 



2824 MARESTIER (Jean Baptists, ingenieur de la Marine royale) Memoire sur les Bateaux ;\ 

 Vapeur des Etats-Unis d'AMERiQUE, avec Appendice sur diverses Machines relatives a la 

 Marine, roy. 4to. hf calf {wanting Atlas), Is Qd Imprimerie Royale, 1824- 



' Charge de faire I'application des principes qu'il avait emisdanscet ouvrage, il construisit le premier batiment k vapeur 

 et le premier appareil a basse pression que la marine franc^aise ait possede.'— Biogfr. Gen. 



2825 MAREY (fitienne Jules) La Methode Graphique dans les Sciences Experimentales, et 

 principalement en Physiologie et Medecine ; with 348 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. sewn, 5s (p. F. 18.) [1878] 



2826 Movement; trans, by Eric Pritchard, with 200 illustrations, post 8vo. cl., 3s 6d 



(p. 7a- 6c?) 1895 



' The most comprehensive summary hitherto published of the result and possibilities of instantaneous photography.'— 



Translator. 



2827 MARIE (Maximilien) Histoire des Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques, Tomes 1 et 2 

 (de Thales k Vihte) ; ivith diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, 6s 6d (p. F. 12.) 1883 



2828 MARIOTTE (Edme) CEuvres, comprenant tons ses Traitez paruz separement ou pas encore 

 publiez ; with 25 plates, 2 vols. 4to. old Spanish calf extra, tooled sides, g. e. {fine copy), with book- 

 plate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.B.S., £1. 5* Leide, 1717 



2829 Nouvelle Edition; with 25 plates, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, hf. calf gilt {some II. foxed), lis Qd 



La H aye, 1740 

 Containing all the author's important papers on percussion, the nature of air and its pressure, the movements of fluid 

 bodies and of pendulums, on colours, etc. He is best known as the discoverer of the law namsd after him (although first 

 discovered by Boyle) on the pressure of gases, and was the first to make observations on radiant heat. 



2830 The Motion of Water, and other P'luids ; a Treatise of Hydrostaticks, with Practical 



Rules for Fountains, or Jets d'Eau, trans., mth Annotations, by J. T. Desaguliers, pr., f.r.s., 

 7 plates, sm. 8vo. old panelled calf 8s Qd 1718 



2831 [MARSH (J., of Chichester)] The Astrarium Improved ; or Views of the principal Fixed 

 Stars and Constellations, 12 plates^ with Introduction, 4to. boards, Zs 1833 



