HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY. W. 193 



3843 PBONY (Baron Gaspard Clair FraiiQois Marie Biche de) Le(^ons de M6canique Ana- 



LYTIQUE, donn^es a I'Ecole Iinperiale Poly technique ; with 4 folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. hf. calf, 



vnth SandhurU Ccllege bookplate, 7s 6d *1810-lo 



oo . . ^^"'' »^.\« vols, contain : de requilibre et du mouveraent de« corpa solides ; no oonUniution was ever published. 



^^^^,~;:7r-^^^^'^^^^^'*=*^"^»'^^^**"^QU«» *>« Analyse Raiaonn^e, des divereea Parties de la Science 



de 1 Equilibre et da Mou vement, 4U). calf (scarce), \Qs Imprimerie de la Ripuhliau^, an !'///[ 1800J 



The author was one ofthe first to apply to practical purpotM the tII«fovcrle« and proKf*« iu theorvlical mediauica 



made during the second half of the X\ 111. Century, and vaa the inventor of a frictional dynamometer known by hi« name. 



3845 PRYCE (William, m.d., of Bedt-vth) Mineralooia Cornubiknsw : a Treatise on Mine- 

 rals, Mines, and Mining, the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, etc, 

 With the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, and of 

 Cleansing and Metalizing their Proilucts; with Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of MINERS, 

 fine portrait by Basire, and 1 folding plates, folio, hf calf gilt {portrait nwunUd, othericise a very 

 sound and clean copy) ; rare, £1. 12» 6rf 177*8 



' His chief work. It was the result t.f carrful study of the mining world of Cornwall, and is still of value, both fur 

 liistorical purposes and for practical mining '.—D. N. If. 



diagrams, folio, sewn, with bookstamp of Utrasburg Unictr*Hu Library (large and sound copy), 

 ^2. 2* icol. :] BasiUae, liemr. Peirus, fwi 



Edition tres-estimee dm astronomes, et que Ion prif^re, avee raUon, k relfa de l-SII '.-Brumtt. It oonlains the Alina- 

 gest, with additions by Qmrico, and Introduction and annuUtiors by the editor; d«* lulidik UtirilV; C«utiloqtuuui ; 

 luerrautium Stellarum 8b? lificatlones ; 1»k«k*i.i Diawh-iii Hypoty|«si« AHrononiicarum Pi<«itionuui (uii. M). 



3847 AlmagestC : Opus ingens ac nobile oumes Celoril motus continens. Velicibus Astris 



eat in luce} : Ductu PETRI Liechtenstein CohmiOsis , finely printed in gotliir Irltrr ; wUh bcauti. 



ful woodcut initials, and numerous geometrical designs on tnargin, folio, old tttimped calf (A LAROK 



and fine copy), £2. 2* Venetiis, Pctrus LiechUntUiH, 1615 



The Latin version was made from the Arabic. The above edition is remarkable as a fine speclmM of tfpompll/. 



3848 Almageste : Magnae Construction is, id est Perfect® Coelestium MoUmmParUMU- 



tionis. Lib. XllI, Graecb [edente Simone GRYNiF.oj. Theonis Alexandrini in eotdem Com* 

 MENTATIORUM Lib. XI [edente Joachimo Camerario] ; with very numerous diagramu, ^ ^<Am, 

 folio in 1, boards (some II. wormed on blank margin, but a tall copy) ; RARE, £2. 10« 



Basilefr, Joa. Wodderuit 1583 

 First Edition of the Greek Original of the Almagest, with a Up. dediccUion to IIexbv Ylll. fry tkt tditor. Th«oo't com* 

 mentary has a separate title and pagination. 



This work en. bodies the geocentric systein of astronomy known as the Ptolemaic, and formed the great autboritj Ml 

 astronomy down to Copernicus. 



3849 Another Copy, without the Commentary by Theon of Alexandria, folio, original 



stamped calf (back of binding mended, otherwise a VERV LARGE AND FINK COPY), wUh SxndhurA 

 Cullege bookplate, £1. 10* 



A number of copies of the above work were issued without Theou's commentary, and Its abMiiOt t hi wtbw doM nut 



constitute an imperfftction. 



3850 In Magnam Compositionem, quam Almagestu.m vocant, Libri Xllf, consciipti K 



Joanne Regiomontano [Muller], in quibus Univeisa Doctrina de Coelestibus MotibuA, Ma;(ni- 

 tudinibus, Eclipnibus etc. in E[iitoiiien redacta, propunitur ; with woodcut ornament on title, and 

 numerous geometrical designs on margins, folio, sewn (very rare), £2. 10* Noriberga: [sic], 1550 



The first work by Regiomoutanus, who was heipetl in writing it by his teacher PKrKRiiA<'n (7. r. ante). 'In thia tiM 

 trigonometrical functions sine and coaine were used, and a table of natural sines was introduced. Purtiacb diad ImAnv tk^ 

 book was finished '.— IK. IK. IL Lull. 



3851 MAeHMATiKH SYNTASlS. COMPOSITION Mathi^imatique, tnvduite pour la prcrolkre 



Fois du grec en fran^ais, sur les MSS. originaux de la Riblioth6qne Inipcriale <io Vat'ia, |»ar lAnn^ 

 Nicolas B. Halma, et suivie des Notes de Je.\n Raptiste Joseph Delambrk; wah front., 

 portrait, and diagrams, 2 vols. roy. 4ta. contemporary hf russia gUt (a few U.ofv.l waterstaincd, 

 otherwise a VERY SOUND AND CLEAN COPY) ; VtRY SCARCE, £9. tf* 1813- Itt 



3852 Volume I only, taith front, and diagrams, thick roy. 4to. sewn, UXCCT, £L \0i 1813 



Both the above copies of vol. 1 contain at end 48 pp., and vol. II 40 pp.. of Notes. 



J he best edition, and at the same time the only Fi-ench triinsbtion of the work ever paMiahfld. It has tb* Or«^ orijdosl 

 on opposite pages. Only 400 copies were issued, and the work nan become very scarce, more e«peeially Um ■ccottd vulnor« 

 (where the BiUliotheqiu In] erialt has become the liiU. da Itoi, and which noutalus a mcJalllou portnit of umte X V lll.X 

 Avhich i.s now most ditticult to obtain. 



3853 Harmonicorum Libri III, ex Codd. MSS. XI,nunc primuni Gnrceeditusftir]. JohansE4 



VVallis, S.T.D., R.s.s. recensuit, edidit, Verbione et Nolis illustravit, et AucUrium ailjecit ; wUh 

 fine engraved portrait by J. Savage, 4to. FINE COPY i/» cl. (RARE), £L U .... ^ 



Oxonii, e Theairo Sheldoniano, 1082 



3854 Another Copy, without the portrait, 4to. old calf(l)ack damaged), Vis 



' Traite fort utile pour connoitre la theorie de cet art et son histoirc chpz Ics sncJens '.— Jfo»«i»*». 



3855 Liber de Analemmate, a Frederico Commanding insUuratus, et CoMimcntanis illiis- 



tratus, qui nunc prinmm in Luceni prodit. Ejusdem Fred. CommaNDINI Lil»er dc »loROLfx;iORUM 

 Descriptione; with anchor on title, and numerous diagrams, cr. 4lo. larae and fine coftyin old 

 Italian vellum (rare), lis Qd Bomae, Paulus Manuttus Aldt /., 1562 



The only etlilion published. • n 1 



3856 Planisph;Erium. Jordani PLANispiiiERiUM. Frederici Commandini m Ptolemai 



Planispharium COMMENTARIUS, in quo universa Scenographic38 ratio quam brevissimc tra<litur, 

 ac demonstrationibus conhrmatur; with anchor on titlet and laH I., and numerous duigrarns, 

 2 vols. sni. 4 to. in 1, old limp vellum, £1. Vencttu lAldusj, 1558 

 V. Danti, ante. 



