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



2930 MA WE (John) Descriptive Catalogue of Minerals, 2nd Ed., -with the Method of examining 

 Minerals by the Blow-Pipe, front. : Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones, with the 

 best Methods of Cutting and Polishing them, 2nd Ed., 2 coloured 'plates — 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. 

 calf, 5s M 1816-15 



2931 MAXWELL (William H.) British Progress in Municipal Engineering, idth 66 •plates 

 {\\ folding), impL 8vo. hoards, 3^ (p. 6* nett) 1904 



2932 MAYER (Alfred Marshall) Sound : a Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experi- 

 ments, with front, and 61 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 2s 1879, or '81 



2933 , and Charles BAKNABD : Light : Simple, Entertaining and Inexpensive Experiments, 



with 29 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl. {out of print), 2s 6d 1878 



2934 MAYER (Johann Tobias) Tabula Motuum Solis et Lun^ nov.-e et correeta?, quibus accedit 

 Methodus Longitudinum promota, editaj jussu Prcefectoruni Rei Longitutidiarise [cura Nevil 

 Maskelyne, sac., f.r.s.] ; with 2 plates, 4to. old calf (rare), 17* 6d Londini, 1770 



2935 Another Copy, contemporary calf gilt (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl 



Stanhope, F.R.S. , £\. \s 



FiBST Editton of these celebrated tables, for which the author was recommended by Bradley as worthy to participate 

 in the price offered by Parliament for finding the longitude at sea. By ActofParliament Mayer's widow was awarded £.3000. 



' Mayer was the first who constructed lunar tables of sufficient accuracy for the great practical purpose of finding the 

 longitude at .sea. This he did by means of Euler's theory and a skilful discussion of observations.'— Pro/. It. Grant. 



2936 MAYOW (John; f.r.s.) Tractatus V Medico-Physici. I. De Sal-Nitro et Spiritu Nitro- 

 Aereo. II. De Respiratione. III. De Respiratione Foetus in Utero, et Ovo. IV. De Motu 

 Musculari, et Spiritibus Animalibus ; ultimus de Rhachitide ; first complete edition, ^vith fine 

 engraved portrait, and 6 folding plates, sm. 8vo. large sound copy in old calf (very rare), 

 £2. 25 Oxonii, 1674 



2937 Editio Altera ; icith portrait and 7 plates, re-engraved from the above, 12mo. old vellum, 



£1. \s Hagae-Com., 1681 



Mayow may be said to have laid the foundation of anti-phlogistic chemistry (although it was not fully developed until 

 Lavoisier) by his theory of combustion contained in the first treatise. He was moreover the first to give a good physio- 

 logical explanation of the function of breathing, and the discoverer of the double articulation of the ribs with the spine. 

 He also gave a theory of chemical affinity, and a mechanical explanation of the act of jumping. 



MEOHAIN (P. F. A.), et J. B. J. DELAMBRE : Base du Systeme Metrique Decimal 

 —V. Delambre, ante. 



A COMPLETE SE.T TO JUNE 1905: 



2938 MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, PROCEEDINGS of the INSTITUTION of, complete 



from its beginning in 1847 to June 1905, with General Index, 1874-84, with many 

 diagrams, tables, etc., 64 vols. 8yo. cl., and 8 parts, sewn (scarce), £21. 



Birmingham and London, 1847-1905 



The above is a very good set of this valuable publication, founded under the Presidency of George Stephenson, and 

 containing a great number of contributions by leading men during fifty of the most important years in the history of 

 English mechanical development. It is of equal importance to the railway and to the general mechanical engineer. 



2939 MEERMAN (Gerard) Specimen Calculi Fluxionalis, quo exhibetur Generalis Methodus 

 duarum pluriumve Quantitatum Variabiliuin in semet Multiplicatarum Fluxiones et Fluentes 

 cujuscunque Ordinis ope Serierum Intinitarum adinveiiiendi ; accedunt alia Miscellanea, 4to. 

 (pp. 112), sewn, Qs Qd Lugd. Bat., 1742 



Rare ; unknown to Poggendortf. 



2940 MELANDERHJELM (Daniel), and Paolo FBISI; Barnabite : alterius ad alteruni de 

 Thkoria Lun.^. COMMENTARlI ; ivith plate, 4to. sewn. As Parmm, 1769 



2911 MELDOLA (Raphael; f.r.s.), and William WHITE: Report on the East Anglian 

 Earthquake of April 22nd, 1884 ; with maps, and views of damaged buildings, 8vo. cl., bs 



Essex Field Club, 1885 



2912 MEMOIRES de Mathematique et de Physique, tirez des Registres de I'Academie 

 Royale des Sciences : a Series from 1692 to 1734 (wanting 1708) ; with very numerous plates 

 and ivoodcids, 39 vols. 4to. contemporary dark purple morocco extra, r. c. (very fine old set), 

 with bookplate of John Ath Duke of Bedford (1736), and Woburn Abbey bookplate, £8. 8* 



Imprimerie Royale, 1692-1734 

 This important publication of the scientific section of the French Academy (afterwards changed to Institut de France) 

 equals in importance the Transactions of the Royal Society, containing as it does memoirs by tlie most eminent French, 

 and many foreign, scientists. The larger part has never been reprinted, and can only be obtained in this form. 



2943 , presentes h I'Academie Roy'ALE des Sciences, par divers S9avans, et Ifts dans les 



Assembles; with numerous copperplates, Vols. I- VII (of 11), 4to. contejnporary brown calf gilt 



(fine series), ivith bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. , £3. 3* apud eandem, 1750-76 



Comprising a large number of original contributions, some by Lavoisier, Laplace, Monge, Coulomb, Lagrange, Sabatier, etc. 



• See INSTITUT de France, ante. 



2914 de la Societe des Sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, complete from 



1866 to 1903 (P Serie, Tome IV a 6^ Serie, Tome III) ; with portraits, and numerous plates and 

 tcoodcuts, 30 vols. roy. 8vo. seiun, £8. (p. F. 348.) 1866-1903 



This important publication contains contributions by the foremost French scientists, e.g. Bourget, Darboux, Delbos, 

 P. Duhem, Frenet, Gayon, Hoiiel, Laisant, Perez, Rayet, Tannery, and Vigouroux, and was the first to publish translations 

 of, and thereby make known, the famous discoveries of Lobatschewsky and Bolyai. 



Four of the above volumes are out of print and scarce. Added are PROcis-VERBAUx des Seances, 1S04-5 a 1903-4, in 

 10 vols. sew7i. 



2945 MENDELEEFF (Dmitri Ivanovitch) The Principles of Chemistry, trans, from the 

 Russian (5th Ed.) by George Kamensky, and edited by A. J. Greenaway, tvith 97 icoodcuts, 

 2 vols, large 8vo. cl., lOs Qd (p. £1. 16*) 1891 



