HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C , and 37, PICCADILLY. W. 195 



3877 RAILWAY STBUCTUBES, Report of the Committee on Wind Pressure on, ttnth 12 

 folding diagrams^ folio, hf. calf gilt, 5s 1881 



A result ot the Tay Hri<lge disaster. The Coininissioners were Sir John Uawkshavr, Sir William Armiitroug, Mr. W. R. 

 IJarlow, Hir George Stokes, and Col. Yullaitd. 



3878 RAMBOSSON (Jean) Astronomy, trans, by C. B. Pitman, unth 10 coloured plates, 63 toood- 

 cuts, and 3 maps, 8vo. cl. (out of print), ts 6rf (p. 16«) 1875 



3879 Histoire desMETtORES, et de« (J rands Ph^nonienes de la Nature, with 2 coloured platts, 



and 90 imodcuts, 8vo. hf. morocco, g. c, 3* 6rf (p. F. 8.50) Didot, 1869 



3880 RAMCHUNDRA {Teacher of Science, Delhi College) Treatise on Problems of Maxima and 

 Minima, solved by Algebra ; reprinted under the superintendence of [and with Preface (i»p. 23) 

 by] Augustus de Morgan, with 8 plates, 8vo. cl., 5s 1859 



• Reprinted by ortler of the Court of Directors of the East India ComiMDy in a«knowledg<>nieot of the author's merit, 

 and in testimony ot the sense ent«rtaine«l of the importance of indepcndc>nt speculation as an instrament of national 

 progress in India '.—rit/e. Hanichuudra was anerwards baptized, and nearly losi his life in the Indian Mutiny. 



3881 RAMELLI (Agostino, Ingegniero del Re di Francia ct di Polhmia) DIVERSE et Artikiciose 

 Machine, nelle quali si contenjjono varij et industrioni MoviMENTi, de-^ni di Grandissima 

 Speculatione, per cavame beneticio inlinito in o<;ni sorte d' oi>eratione, prima edizione; tcith 

 engraved title with fine portrait on reverse and 1 )5 copperplates illustrating a grttU wuritty of 

 machinery, folio, new hf. calf antioue (title slightly inked, and margined, some U. somewhai soiled 

 or water -stained, and the last mended) ; VERY RARE, £2. 10» Pcwigi, in oaea del* autore, \SS8 



•Get ouvraKe, <icrit en italien, H en /raiifau, est rare ft recherche '.—Bniii.*!. The MaoOMrtliy eopjr, OB Imut |Mi|«er, 

 fetched 512 francs. The above copy belonged to Hbnry Maudslay (1771-1831). engineer, teacher of Sir Joeeph Wbitwofth 

 and James Na^imyth, etc., and has his bookplate as well as teree MS. remarks bearing on the value of raeh uuchloe 

 described. 



3882 SCHATZKAMMER Meciianischer KCnste, darinnen viel nnterschiedene Wanderl»alire, 



Kunstreiche Machinae zn belinden, so man zu Friedens und KriegesHzeiten, in- und auRserhalb 

 Vestungen, auch sonsten hochniitzlichen und wohl gebrauchen kan. Jetzo mit besonilcreni Heiss 

 ins Deutsche versetzet durch Henning Grossen den Jiingem; with engraved title, fine portrait, 

 and 195 copperplates re-engraved by A. Bretschneider, folio, FINE COPY in contemporary white 

 vellum, £2. 2s Leipzig, apud interpretem, 16*20 



The.se are the only two editions of this work ever published. ' Un recueil fort curieux, repr^Hentant den niachinoK 

 destinoes la plupart a Clever I'eau, a trainer de lourdes charges, k lancer dcs traits et dcs i;r<»nades enflauimoes. On y 

 reniarque I'application de I'axe comle, dc la ponipc aspirante et foulante, de la vis d'Archim^e et de la fontainc d'Uiroo. 

 Diffcrentes sortes de balistes et de catapultes y soiit representees, aiusi qu'une scierie mecaniquo ; et, chose plus slogulltoa 

 encore, on y tronvo, nioins la vai)eiir, notre bateau a aubes'.— J5i<^r. Gen. 



3883 RAMMELSBERQ (Karl Friedrich, Univ. Berlin) Handbuch der KRVSTALlXKiRAPlll.scil- 

 riiYSiivALisciiP:^ Chemie ; ivith 313 woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, lis 6d (p. M. 28.) Leipzig, 1S81-2 



The standard work on the subject. 



3884 RAMSAY (Sir Andrew Crombie, F.R.S.) The Physical Geologv and Geography of Gt. 

 Britain, 3rd Ed., with coloured map and woodcuts, large post 8vo. cl., 3j Qd (p. 7* 6rf) 1872 



3885 RAlilSAY (Sir William, f.r.s.) The Gases of the Atmosphere : the History of their Dis- 

 cover v, with 8 portraits, and woodcuts, large post 8vo. cl., Ss 6d (p. 6j nctt) 1896 



3886 RAMUS (Petrus, recte Pierre de la Ram^e) Arithmetices Lihri II, et Algebr.« totidem: 

 a Lazaro Schonero emendati et explicati : ejusdem Schoneri Libri II: De NUMERls KIOUR- 

 atis : De Logistica Sexagenaria ; with folding table, Francofurdi, '86 (title damaged^ : 

 SCHOLARUM Metaphysicarum Libri XIV, in totidetu Metaphysicoa Libros Aristotelis, Parisiu, 

 'C6: Scholarum Physicaru Libri VIII, in totidem acroamaticos libros Aristotelis, ib., '65 — 

 3 vols. 12mo. in 1, contemporary vellum, £1. 5s 1665-W 



The last two works are FiR'iT kditioss ; they are a fierce attack on Aristotelian principles, still in the spirit of hi* 

 inaugural thesis, ' quiccunque ab Aristotele dicta essent, ccinmentitia esse '. 



The above edition of the ArUhmetice was unknown to Prof, de Morgan, who only quotes that of 1592. 



3887 Scholarum Mathematicarum Libri XXXI, eclitio princeps; with large woodcut 



vignette on title, and numerous diagrams, 4to. old limp vellum {browned and some U. water-stained, 

 oihenvise a sound and large copy) ; VERY RARE, £2. 12* 6d Basilete, Eus. Episeopius, 1009 



* Cette premiere edition est si rare qu'elle est rest^e incounue k de Moipin. On y tiouve (pp. 1 IS-45) eon trait* d'Aritb- 

 ni6tiqueendeuxlivres'.— Gra«s««. .... ...t j t m 



3888 Editio Nova, a Lazaro Schonero recognita et eniendata; wtth device on title ana tost 



I., and numerous diagrams, 4to. old vellum (back damaged) ; RARE, lbs . , «^ 



Francofurti, Adrtm Wechdi heredes, I5W 



This work remained for a long time the textbook on the subject. Tlie author was one of the victims of the maNiMcre of 

 St. Bartholomew. ,, .,, _ _ m^ j m 



3SS9 RANSOME (James Stafford, m.i.c.e.) Modern Wood- Working Maciiinkry, 72 ^ooodctdt, 



{cii\y. Hvo. hf. calf {title stamped), 2s Qd mow ^ ^ 



3890 RANYARD (Arthur Cowper, F.R.A.S.) OBSERVATIONS made daring TOTAL SOLAB ECLirs^ 



t collated, with 18 plates, and numerous woodcuts, thick 4to. hf. morocco, uncut, t. e. g., *''J5j 

 (p. £2. 2* nett unbound) *87» 



The celebrated ' Eclipse Volume ' of the Royal Astronomical Society's Mcinoira (vol. X LI)- 



• His most extensive work in astronomy was the eclipse volume of the R. A.8. (Memoirs, vo . X\.\ , »"*'';">•«' 



down to 1878. It was oriffinally oonimenoed In coo* 



systematised and discussed the observations of all solar eclipses down to 18<! 



junction with Sir George Airy, but soon devolved on Ranyard alone -—D.N. '*• , ^ . „ , , . ,„ . 



' In his splendid volume on eclipses, with which the systematic study of coronal stnictnrR may d« «« »1 W " 

 Mr. Ranyard first generalised the svnclinal peculiarity by a comparison of records. Ue nirlhcr polnU« oni 

 and brandling shapes assumed by the component filaments of massive bundles of rays. —Uttt Agtus M. LuriM. 



3rd 



I't wirat"^?e ^c^nis'^'a'^ tVe^besIt ^rk on the sal^ject, a posiUon which It rtiU holds In the oplnkm of practical 

 navigators.'— Sir J. K. Laughton. 



3891 RAPER (Lt. Henry, R.N.) The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astbonomy, 



Ed., with diagrams, thick 8vo. hfcalf, 5s 



