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



35S7 PEPPER (John Henry ; exhibitor of ' Pepper's Ghost ') Cyclopedic Science Simplified ; 

 revised Ed., with coloured front, and 537 woodcuts {including the Ghost), cr. 8vo. cl., g. e., 35 6c? 



[c. 1880] 



A COMPLETE COPY '. 



3538 PERCY (John, f.e.s.) Metallurgy : the Art of Extracting Metals from their Ores, and 

 adapting them to various purposes of Manufacture, a complete set, with numerous plates and 

 u-oodcuts, 5 vols. 8vo. cL, uncut {fresh set) ; SCARCE, £3. 3^ (p. £7. 13*) 1861-80 



Contents :— Fuel, Fire-Clays, Copper, Zinc, Brass, etc., '61 : Iron and Steel, '64: Lead, including Desilverization and 

 Cupellation, '70 : Refractory Materials, and Fuel, '75 : Silver and Gold, Pt. I (all pub.), '80. 



' The first great treatise on metallurgy written in modern times. It contains over 3,500 pp. of terse and exact description 

 of metallurgical processes, of minute and scientific discussion of the chemical problems they involve, often based on the 

 author's careful original research, and of suggestions for future investigations. The drawings of plants are remarkably 

 exact. The book, which has been translated into French and German, and has become a classic, involved an immense 

 amount of labour. Percy's work on alloys, his discovery of ' aluminium bronze,' and his view that in many countries the 

 iron age preceded the bronze age, deserve special mention '.—D. N. B. 



3539 : Fuel, Fire-Clays, Copper, Zinc, Brass, etc., with 152 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 



uncut (scarce), 15s 1861 



The metallurgy of copper, zinc, and brass has not been included in the new edition of the work, and never republished 

 in any other form. 



3540 : Introduction, Refractory Materials, and Fuel, greatly enlarged Ed., 



with 112 woodcuts, and 9 folding plates, thick 8vo. cl., uncut, 10s Qd (p. £1. 10s) 1875 



a new edition of the work on ' Fuel, Fire-Clays,' etc., excluding, however, the metallurgy of copper, zinc, and brass. 



3541 : Iron and Steel, with 223 woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl., uncut (VERY scarce), 



£1. 5s 1864 



' The exceedingly important Thomas-Gilchrist process for making Bessemer steel from iron-ores containing phosphorus 

 was an outcome of this work (pp. 815, 818-19), and was discovered by his pupils.' — D. N. B. The work has been out of 

 print for many years, and is now very scarce. It also contains the result of the analysis of a large number of specimens of 

 iron and steel, collected by S. H. Blackwell, and now in the Jermyn Street Museum. 



3542 : Lead, including Desilverization and Cupellation, with 155 woodcuts, 8vo. 



cl., uncut, 10s 6^ (p. £1. 10s) , 1870 



3543 PERDONNET (Albert Auguste) Traite Elementaire des Chemins de Fer, 3^ [derniere] 

 Ed., considerablement angnientee; with fine steel portraits of George Stephenson and others, and 

 numerous plates, maps and plans {the folding ones linen-mounted), and woodcuts, 4 thick vols., 

 8vo. hf. morocco {titles stamped), 8s 6of (p. F. 70. sewn) 1865 



3544 PEREGRINUS of MARICOURT (Peter) Epistle to Sygerus of Foncaucourt, Soldier, 

 concerning the Magnet [written in 1269 ; trans, from the Latin by SiLVANUS P. Thompson, and 

 amended by reference to the Phillipps MS., A.D. 1391], finely printed in red and black in special 

 Caxton type at the Chiswick Press on handmade paper, with 3 woodcuts, cr. 4to. hf. holland, uncut 

 (only 240 copies privately printed), £1. 10s Qd 1902 



Peregriiius was the first who made experimental investigations on the magnet, distinguishing the two poles, and pointing 

 out the attraction of oi>posite poles. 



3545 PEREIRA (Jonathan, m.d., f.r.s.) Lectures on Polarized Light ; with Lecture on the 

 Microscope, 2nd [last] Ed., greatly enlarged from Materials left by the Author, ed. by Baden 



. Powell, pr., f.r.s., with 103 ivoodcuts and diagrams, fcap. 8vo. cl. {scarce), 8s Qd 1854 



Specially valuable for the notes by the editor, a contributor to ' Essays and Reviews ', and discoverer of that curious 

 phenomenon of interference known as ' Powell's Bands '. 



3546 PERI (Giovanni Domenico, Genovese) II Negotiante; aggiuntovi in questa Editione il 

 Secretario di Banco di Mattia Cramero ; with vignette on titles, 4 vols. 4to. in 1, fine copy 

 in boards, uncut, £1. 5s Venetia, 1697 



The most complete edition. Vol. Ill is entitled ' I Frutti d' Albaro overo il Negotiante'. 



3547 PERISSE (Sylvain) De I'Emploi de I'Acier dans les Constructions Navales, Civiles et 

 Mecaniques, roy. 8vo. sewn, 2s 1884 



3548 PERKIN (William Henry, Jun.), and Frederic Stanley KIPPING ; ff.r.s. : Organic 

 Chemistry, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. cl., 2s 6d (p. 7s) 1894-5 



3549 [PERRINET d'ORVAL (Jean Charles)] Manuel de I'Artificier, 2^ Ed., augmentee ; 

 ivith 12 folding copperplates, and tables, 12mo. nice copy in contemporary French mottled calf gilt 

 {rare), 10s ' 1757 



' Ouvragc dans lequel Diderot et d'Alembcrt ont puis6 des renseignments pour les parties de V Encyclopedie qui traitaient 

 de cette partie '.—iitogr. Gen. 



3550 PERRY (Stephen Joseph, s.j., f.r.s.) :—Cortie (A. L., s.j.) Father Perry, the Jesuit 

 Astronomer, with portrait and illustrations, post 8vo. boards, 2s 1890 



3551 PESCHEL (A.) Hilfsbuch flir die Montage elektrischer Leitungen zu Beleuchtungs- 

 ZWECKEN ; with 322 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 2s (p. M. 6.) Leipzig, 1896 



3552 PETERMANN (A., station agricole de Gembloux) Recherches de Chimie et de Physiologie 

 appliquees k 1'Agriculture : Analyses de Matieres fertilisantes et alimentaires. Tome I (1872- 

 82) ; with 2 plates, and woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 4s (p. F. 10.) Bruxelles, 1883 



3553 PETERMANN (Augustus) Atlas of Physical Geography, with Descriptions embracing 

 the Physical Phenomena of the Globe, by Thomas Milner, coloured front., and 15 coloured 

 maps, besides 130 woodcuts, impl. 4to. cl., g. e., 3s Qd 1850 



3554 PETERS (C. F. W., Sternwarte Altona) Astronomische Tafeln und FormelN, 8vo. hf 

 morocco gilt {nice copy), 6s Hamburg, 1871 



3555 PETEiRS (Edward Dyer, Jr., m.d.) Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting, 

 with woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., os (p. 18s) New York, 1887 



3556 PETIT (P.) Etude sur I'Aerage des Travaux Pr]^paratoires dans les Mines a Grisou ; 

 with \3 folding plates, 27 charts, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 4s Qd St.-Mienne, 1900 



3557 PETROVITCH (Michailo, Belgrade) La Mecanique des PHENOMiiNES fondle sur les 

 Analogies, post 8vo. boards, Is Qd 1906 



