HENRY SOTSElRAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY, W. 177 



3523 P^LIGOT (Eugene Melchior, de VImtitut ; discoverer of uranium) Recherciies sur la 

 Naturf: et les Pkoprietes Chimiques des Sucres, 8vo. (pp. 65), sewn, 3s [1838] 



3524 PELLATT (Apsley) Curiosities of Glass Making, with tl»e Processes and Productions of 

 ancient and modern Glass MANUFACTURE, with^fine COLOURED PLATES, and numerous woodcuts^ 

 cr. 4to. calfg'Ut {rubbed), g. e. (SCARCE), £1. 1« 1849 



Containing valuable investigations on glass-making. The author was the inventor of • crystallo-ceramie or glass incrus- 

 tation". 



3525 PELLIZEB (Joseph Emmanuel) Memoirs for the Correction of Time, with copperplate and 

 woodcut, 4 tracts 8vo. and 12nio. setvn, Qs 6rf [18(X)] 



Four paniphlet,", including one for suppressing tlie Precession of the Equinoxes. Tlie author complains in one of 

 'having been grossly repulse<l by the Uoanl of Longitude, and other l*»arned societies'. 



3526 PELOUZE (Theophile Jules), et Paul AUDOUIN" : Notice et Certificate relatifs k 

 TApparkil Condexsateuk pour UsiNES a Gaz ; with 2 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. sewn, 2s 1878 



3527 . et Edmond FBEM7, Membres de_ VInstilut : Trait6 de CiliMlE Generale, Analytique, 



Industrielle, et A;,aicole, 3" [DERNikRE] Edition, enti^remcnt refondue ; with very numerous 

 ipoodcuts, 6 vols roy. 8vo. in 7, hf. morocco gilt, £1.5? (p. F. 120. unboun«l) 1860-4 



3528 PELTZ (S.), und R. HABICH: Praktisches Hand- und Hulfsbuch fiir Bierbrauer und 

 Malzkr ; with 118 illustrations, 8vo. sewn, 3« (p. M. 8.) Braunschweig, 1876 



[PEMBERTON (Henry, M.D., F.R.s.)] View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, ITI^—v. 



Nos. 3295-7, ante. 

 ;{.-)29 PEMBERTON (Max; novelist) The AMATEUR MOTORIST, with 68 illustrations, mostly from 



jthntoqviuihs, 8v(). cl., 8s (sells V2s 6d nett) 1907 



3530 PENDLEBURY (Charles, f.r.a.s.; St. Paul's School) Lenses and Systems of Lensf:s, 

 treated after the Manner of Gauss, with 24 diaqrnms, 8vo. cl, 2s Qd (p. 5.?) Cambridge, 1881 



3531 PENNETHORNE (John), and John ROBINSON : The Geometry and Optics of Ancient 

 Architecture, illustrated by Examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome, with 56 larqe and 

 fine plates {some beautifully coloured), besides numerous engravings in text, atlas folio, ///. 

 morocco gill, t. e. g. {scarce), £3. 3a* (p. £7. 7*) 1878 



Tlie final work attempted by the author to prove his theory of 'optical corrections', showing that 'the Greek architects 

 changed the first tigure in their design into one which should produce to the eye an anparent symmetry and accuracy of 

 outline, or, in the words of Plato, 'the artists bidding farewell r^) truth, change the real symmetry, and accommodate to 

 images such commeiisurations as are only apparently beautiful' ... [In the ab.)ve work] Pjanetliorne sets forth in 

 minute detail his theory of the manner in which the actual proportions of the original design were adapted to the optical 

 conditi'His of correct perspective.'— D. N. B. 



3532 [PENROSE (Francis, m.d.) An Essay on Magnetism: or an Endeavour to explain the 

 various Properties and Effects of the LOADSTONE, with its Causes], 8vo. (pp. 40', sewn {title 

 wiintino), 3s Oxford, 1753 



3533 PENROSE (Francis Cranmer, f.r.s., f.r.i.b.a., f.r.a.s.; Surveyor to St. Paul's) On a 

 Method of Predicting by Graphical Construction Occultations of Stars by the Moon, 

 and Solar Eclipses, for any given Place, with more rigorous Methods of Reduction for the 

 accurate Calculation of Longitude, 3 plates, roy. folio, cl. {cover stained), os (p. 12*) 18C9 



3531 PENTHER (Johann Friedrich) Gnomonica Fundamentalis et Mechanica : wie man . . . 

 allerhand Sonnen-Uhren, Regulaire, Irregulaire, mit Minuten und himmlischen Zeichen auf 

 allerhand Flachen . . . verfertigen solle. Worzu noch eine neue Invention einer Universal- 

 Sonnen-Uhr kommt, welche ohne Magnet-Nadel zu stellen, selbst die wahre Mitternachts Linie, 

 und Abweichung aller Wiinde von den Haupt-Plagis Mundi, wie auch Elevationem Poll bei Tage 

 anzeiget, u. s. w. ; with engraved title, and i.5 fine folding plates on copper, large folio, sound copy 

 in old vellum, £1. 10* Augspvrg, 1734 



Very rare, unknown to Graesse, and interesting for containing tlie author's invention of a ' universal sundial which 

 may be set without the magnetic needle.* Very little is known of the author, who was professor of mathematics at 

 Gottingen University. 



3535 Praxis Geometri^e : Alle bey dem Feld-messen vorkommende Fiille, mit Staben, dem 



Astrolabio, der Boussole und der Mensul, in Ausmessung eintzeler Linien, Flachen, etc. ; with 

 engraved title, and 25 fine copperplates, Augspvrg, 1732: Schtibler (Johann Jacob) NiJTZLlCHE 

 Anweisung zur unentbehrlichen Zimmermanns-Kunst, worinnen von den Antiquen und 

 Modernen proportionirten Diichern die nothige Projection in einem deutlichen Zusammenhang 

 geometrisch vorgestellet, und daraus die Itaiianische, Franziisische und Teutsche Heng- und 

 Spreng-Werke unter einer leichten Methode . . . recht begreifflich gemacht ; with 44 fine copper- 

 plates, Nilrnberg, 1731—2 vols, large folio in 1, contemporary calf gilt (rare), £1. 10* 1732-1 



;>536 [PEPYS (Samuel ; p.r.s., Secretary to the Admiralty, diarist)] Memoirks relating to 



the State of the Royal Navy of England for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688, 



with very fine portrait by R. White after Kneller (brilliant impression), sm. 8vo., 



Large Paper; contemporary mottled calf, with old auto, of T. Coke on title (fine fresh 



copy) ; very rare, £15. lbs 1690 



One of the most important works in connexion with the early history of the British Navy, containing tn account of its 

 reconstruction, chietly due to the Duke of York (later James II ), and the author himself. 



'The Duke of York, afterwards James II., a.s8ist.ed by the celebrated Samuel Pepys, as Secretary, did much for the 

 navy. He appointed a new commission when he came to the throne, with which he joined Sir Anthony Deanc, the Itest 

 naval architect of the time, who essentially tmi)roved the ships of the line by copying from French models ; at this time 

 and during the XVIII. Century, naval architecture was zealously studied in France, and the English constructors were so 

 sensible of their inferiority that even up to the beginning of the XIX. Century all our best ships were either captured from 

 the French or copied from them. At the Revolution of 1689 the fleet was in excellent condition, with sea stores complete 

 for eight months for each ship. The force consisted of 184 vessels, carrying 6930 guns, and 42,000 men, whereof nine were 

 first-rates.'— C«i><. Garbett, R.N. 



