144 HENRY SOTHERAN Sc CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



2888 MATHEMATICI VETERES : Atiien^i, Apollodori, Philonis, Bitonis, Heronis, et 

 aliorum Opera, Gra?ce et Latine pleraque NUNC primum edit A ex MSS. Codd. Bibliotlieca3 

 Regiai [a Melch. Thevenot, Jo. Boivin etPn. dela Hire] ; beautifully printed, with numerous 

 fine engravings on copper of Physical and Chemical Apparatus and Instruments, etc., roy. folio, old 

 calf {VERY rare), £5. 5.9 Parisiis, ex Typogr. Eegia, 1693 



'Recueil recherche'.— -Bnj?ie<. This beautifully executed work contains :—ATHEN^ua [Mechanicus] de Machini-; 

 Bellicis ; Apollodori [Archipecti] Poliorcetica excerpta \_on War Engines]; Philo [Byzantinus] de Teloruni Con- 

 structione ; Bitonis de Constructione Bellicaruin Machinarum et Catapnltarum ; Heronis [Ctesibii] Opera Mathematica ; 



Hkronis [Alexandbini] Spiritualia [i.e. Pneumatica, containing a description of ' Hero's Fountain', etc. etc.'] ; de Auto- 



matorum Fabrica ; Julii Africani Kea-roi [Greek Text only] ; etc. etc. 



2889 MATHEMATICIAN (The), edited by Thomas Stephens Davies, f.r.s.e., William 

 Rutherford, f.r.a.s., and Stephen Fenwick, complete with the Supplementary No. to v. Ill, 

 plates and diagrams, 3 vols. 8vo. hf calf gilt (SCARCE), £1. Is 1845-50 



Vol, I is of special importance for containing the' best and fullest account of William George Horner's discovery of a 

 method— still known by liis name— of solving numerical equations of any degree by continuous approximation. 



2390 MATHEMATICIENS, L'Intermediaire des, diiige par C. A. Laisant et Emile Lemoine : 

 Tome III ; ivith diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s (p. F. 7. nett unbound) 1896 



2891 MATHEMATICS, Elementary Course of, for the Use of the Royal Military Academy, 

 Woolwich, with plates, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, and maps, 3 vols. roy. 8vo. cl., uncut. 

 Us Qd 1853 



2892 Another Copy, hf. calf gilt, I5s 



Containing contributions by William Rutherford, f.r.a.s. (Arithmetic and Algebra, Differential and Integral 

 Calculus); Stephen Fenwick, f.r.a.s. (Applications of Algebra to Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry); 

 Thomas Stephens Davies, f.r.s. (Geometry) ; G. F. Heather (Mechanics) ; and Col. William Yoll^nd, f.r.s. (Geodesy, 

 including Pr;ictical Astronomy). , 



2803 MATHEMATIdUES, Elemens des, oii Ton expliqne les principales Proprietds des Grandeurs, 

 etc. etc., sm. 8vo. vellum, with bookplate of Philip '2nd Earl Stanhope, F.B.S., 3? s. I., 1725 



2894 MATHER (William; surveyor of highways at Bedford) The Young Man's Companion : or, 

 Arithmetick made Easie, with Plain Directions for a Young Man, to attain to Read and Write 

 true English, and Short-Hand, or Characters, 4th Ed. [see note), with very large Additions, wood- 

 cuts and map, thick 16nio. very sound copy in contemporary sheep (RARE), £1. 5* Sarah Howkins, 1695 



The author was one of the early Quakers, who, after continuing in the Society for forty years, finally returned to the 

 English Church. The above is ' his chief work, containing, in a very small compass, information on nearly every practical 

 .subject. It became extremely popular, and ran through 24 editions. To the fourth edition, 1095, are culded some verses, and 

 14 chapters written bji Mather's son Samuel, a clever young man, who died at the age of 22.'— Z). N. D. There was no copy of 

 the above or any other edition in Prof, de Morgan's collection. 



2895 MATHER (Sir William) On the Machinery used in Boring Artesian Wells, and its 

 Application to Mining Purposes, with 3 folding plans, 8vo. (pp. 23), sewn, \s Qd Manchester, 1864 



2896 MATHESON (Ewing, m.i.c.e.) Aid Book to Engineering Enterprise Abroad, illustrated, 

 8vo. cl., 3.S 6c? (p. 12s Q^d) 1878 



2897 Works in Iron : Bridge and Roof Structures [with Technical Vocabulary in 6 



Languages], numeroiis icoodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., or, ///. bound (out of print), 5s (p. 15-s in cl.) 1873 



2898 MATHET (L.) Traite pratique de Photomicographie : le Microscope et son Application a 

 la Photographie des Intiniment Petits ; ivith 7 plates, woodcuts, and diagrams, or. 8vo. sewn, 

 2« * [1899] 



2399 Traite pratique de Photographie St^r^oscopique ; illustrated, cr. Svo. sewn, 



l-v [1899] 



2900 MATTEUCCI (Carlo, Univ. Pisa) CouRS Special sur 1'Induction, le Magnetisme de 

 Rotation, le Diamagnetisme, et sur les Relations entre la Force magnetique et les Actions 

 moleculaires ; with '1 folding plates, 8vo. hf. roan neat (scarce), 10s 1854 



2901 Le Meme, avec CoURS d'ELECTRO-PHYSiOLOGiE ; with '2 folding plates— 2 vols. Svo. in 1, 



hf. calf gilt (scarce), Us 6d 1854-8 



Containing important investigations by the author (see Wiedemann's Ixhre vom Galvanismns), especially in connexion 

 with physiological electricity. The first work contains his experiments and the apparatus invented by him showing the 

 devclopineiit of induced currents produced either by the discharge of a Levdcn jar or by the passage of a voltaic current. 



2902 MATTHEWS (Charles George), and Francis Edward LOTT, ff.i.c. : The Microscope in 

 the Brewery and Malt-House ; tvith 21 fine plates (some coloured), besides woodcuts, roy. 8vo. 

 cl.,QsQd 1889 



Dedicated to Pasteur. 



2903 MATTHEWS (G. F., Peterhouse) Manual of Logarithms, diagrams, Svo. cl., 3s (p. 5s 

 nett) 1890 



2904 MATTHEWS (William) Compendium of Gas-Lighting, with Account of some recent 

 Contrivances for enabling the Consumers of Gas to ascertain the Quantity and Quality supplied, 

 2nd Ed., 2 plates, and woodcuts, post Svo. boards (scarce), Is Qd " 1832 



2905 MATTHIES (E.) Nautische Tafeln fur Nord- und Ostsee, roy. Svo. cl., \s Qd Emden, 1897 



2906 MAUNDER (Edward Walter, f.r.a.s.; Greenwich Observatory) Astronomy >vitiiout a 

 ^Telescope, with \2star maps, and 45 other illustrations, Svo. cl. (cover stained) 3s (p. 56'nett) [1902J 



2907 MAXJPERTUIS (Pierre Louis Moreau de) CEuvres, nouvelle Edition corrigee et augment^e ; 

 with fine engraved portrait by Daulle, plan, and diagrams, 4 vols. Svo. old calf gilt (FINE COPY), 

 with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stayihope, F.R.S., lis Qd Lyon, 1756 



' La meilleure edition '.—Querard. Containing an account of the author's important geodetic mission to Lapland for the- 

 meridian nieasurement near the North Pole, which his fur-clad portrait recalls. He is best known for his theorem of ' last 

 action , later enlarged by Euler. 



2908 — Astronomie Nautique : ou Elemens d'Astronomie, tant pour un Observatoire fixe que 



mobile ; with diagrams, Svo. old calf gilt (fine copy), with Lord Stanhope's bookplate, Qs Qd 



Jmprimerie Boy ale, 1743f 



Not contained in the above edition of the author's works. 



