196 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



3892 RANKINE (William John Macquom, f.r.s.) Miscellaneous Scientific Papers, from the 

 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and other Scientific or Philosophical Societies, and the 

 Scientific Journals, with Memoir by P. G. Tait, edited by W. J. Millar, with fine Napieresque 

 portrait on steel by Adlard, ^ plates, a7id numerous diagrams, thick roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, \Qs Co? 

 (p. £1. WsM) 1881 



The work is divided into 3 parts : Temperature, Elasticity, and Expansion of Vapours, Liquids, and Solids ; Energy 

 and its Transformations, Thermodjnamics, Mechaniral Action of Heat in the Steam Engine, etc. ; Wave Forms, Propul- 

 sion of Vessels, Stability of Structures, etc, ; and contains his application (simultaneously with Lord Kelvin and 

 Clausius) of the doctrine that heat and work are convertible, to the discovery of new relations among the properties of 

 bodies ; as well as all his important papers on molecular jihysics. 



3893 Manual of Applied Mechanics, 11th Ed., thoroughly revised by W. J. Millap, 



numerous diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., bs (p. 12* Qd) 1885 



3894 Manual of Civil Engineering, 2nd Ed., revised, numerous diagrams, thick cr. 8vo, cl., 



35 (p. 16s) 1865 



3895 Manual of Machinery and Millwork, first edition, numerous diagrams, thick 



cr. 8vo. cL, 35 (p. 125 6^) 1869 



3896 Manual of the Steam Engine, and other Prime Movers, llth Ed., revised by W. J. 



'MihhA'R, folding plates, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., bs (p. 125 Qd) 1885 

 The fir.st treatise on the steam engine which was based on the mechanical theory of heat, and still one of the best text- 

 books on the subject. 



3897 Useful Rules and Tables relating to Mensuration, Engineering, Structures, and 



Machines, first edition, with plate and diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl., 2s 6d (p. 95) 1866 



' Eankine was one of the little group of thinkers to whom, after the wondrous Sadi Carnot, the world is indebted for 

 the pure science of modern thermodynamics But his services to applied science were relatively even greater. By his 

 admirable teaching, his excellent textbooks, and his original memoir-*, he has done more than any other man of recent 

 times for the advancement of British Scientific Engineering '.—Prof. Tait. 



V. Shipbuilding, post. 



3898 RAOULT (Francois M., Grenoble) Cryoscopie ; with portrait and woodcuts, post 8vo. boards, 

 l5 Gd 1901 



3899 RAPHSON (Jrseph, F.R.S.) Analysis ^Equationum Universalis, seu ad .^quationes 

 Algebraicas resolvendas Method us Generalis, et Expedita, ex nova Infinitarum Serierum Methodo, 

 deducta ac demonstrata. Ed. II., cum Appendice, cui annexum est, de Spatio Reali, seu Ente 

 Infinito Conanien Mathematico-Metaphysicuni ; with diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, old calf, with 

 armorial bookplate of J. L. Calandrini [1703-58, predecessor of G. Crayner at the Genevese 

 Academy], and MS. equations by him on fiy leaf (RA'RE), 165 Qd Londini, 1697 



' La methode suivie par Raphson difl'eie encore fort pen de celle de Newton. II lui a seulement donne quelques degrds 

 defacilite par certaines tables qu'il a dressees, et qui, sur I'inspection seule d'tuie equation d'un degre quelconque jusqu'au 

 dixieine, font connoitre le numerateur et le denominateur de la fraction qu'il faut ajonter a la racine d^ja a-peu pres ou 

 deja approchee par le ca\cn\.'—M onhida. 



3900 The History of P'luxions, showing in a Compendious Manner the first Rise of, and 



various Improvements made in that Incomparable Method, first edition, with diagrams, 

 4to. old calf, with bookplate of Edward \2th Duke of Norfolk, E.M. (RARE), £1. 55 1715 



An important work in connexion with the contest between Newton and Leibniz as to the priority of the invention of 

 the differential calculus On p. 97 first appears an important letter from the latter to the Abbe Conti, in which he admits 

 that ' Collins me fit voir unc partie de son commerce'. In a second letter (p. 106) he writes : ' Je u'ay jamais nie qu 'a mon 

 second Voyage en Angleterre j'aj-e vft quelques Lettres de M. Newton chez M. Collins, mais je n'en ay jamais vCi oil 

 M. Newton aitexplique sa Methode des Fluxions'. 



Bound up witli the above are : The Doctrine of Ultimators, or the tiue and genuine Foundation of what has hitherto 

 mistakenly pre\ ailed under the improper Names of Fluxions and the Differential Calculus, by John Kirkby, pr., vnth 

 diagrams, 1748: and Treatise of Conic Sections, by Robert Steell, iifih folding plates, 1745. 



3901 BASF AIL (Francois Vincent) Nouveau System e de Chimie Organique, fonde sur des 

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 bound, "s 6d 1833 



Dedicated ' a mon pauvre Mattre, I'Abb^ Eyss6ric '. The work had the honour of being placed on the Index by Decree 

 of July 28, 1834. Jt is important as the first woik in which the microscope was succcbsfully employed in the study of 

 organic chemistry. 



3902 RASPE (Rudolph Erich) Account of some German Volcanos, and their Productions, with 

 a new Hypothesis of the Prismatical Basaltes ; established upon Facts. Being an Essay of Physical 

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 165 * Lockyer Davis, 1116 



'Humbly presented by the author '.—7?j.''cr. on title. The work (which is unknown to Poggendorfl), is mainly of 

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 for theft. He was ekcttd a Fellow of the Royal Society, tut struck off the rolls on his antecedents becoming known. He 

 Avas the author of the original ' Banm Muncliausen ', and a swii.dler of a most interesting type, on Avhom the cliaracter of 

 1 ovstirswivd, with the incidents connected with him, are based in Sir Walter Scott's Antiqiiary. Ste No 478, ante. 



3Q03 Critical Essay on Oil-Painting ; proxinji; that this Art Mas known before the 



Pretended Discovery of John and HuBtRT van Eyck, with Theophilus de Arte Pingendi, 

 Eraclius de Artibus Romanorum, and a Keview of Farinator's Lumen Animse, with fs. ylaie, 4to. 

 sewn {rare), \2s 1781 



3904 BATHBORNE (Aaron) The Surveyor, in Foure bookes ; with finely engraved title wdh 

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 author, act. A4t, by S. Pass, and Charles /., aet. 16, by F. Delaram {Irilliant impressions), besides 

 numerous diagrams, folio, old hf. white vellum, with arms on sides, rebacked (fine copy) ; very 

 RARE, £3. 105 W. Stonsby,for W. Burre, 1616 



' The most valuable of the kind that was possessed by those times.'— Dor? aZrfson's Agricult. Biog. Nothing seems to be 

 known of the author. The various books comprise: I. The Elements of Geometric, with Theorems; II. The Use and 

 Operation of the former Theorems ; III. The Exact Operation of Instrumental! Dimensions by divers meanes ; IV. The 

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 the Peractor, and of a Chayne, which I call the Decimall Chayne, with the divisions and parts thereof : which rightly 

 vnderstood and practised is farre more vsefull and absolute for speed and exactnesse, then any yet euer vsed. 



