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3905 [RAUCOUBT (Antoine)] Mani al of Lithography; clearly ixpluinin-r the whole An, ;uul 

 the Accidents that may liappen in Piintin*^, with the diflerent Methods ot avoidin^^ them, 3rd Kd., 

 corrected, to which is added (NOW FIRST printed) Selections from the Work of M. Bri^oeaut, 

 forming a Sequel, and brin^^^in;,' down the Inijirovenient in the Art to the ]>reseiit Titne, trans, by 

 Charles Joseph Hullmani»ki. ; uutJi •_» toldnKj lithiHjmphic iilntis Av //,> l ian>h>.t'.r, 8vo. rf., 



«WCW< (SCARCE), £ I. 1* ' 1832 



' IIullmand«rM practice ani xtudy r>»ult<<l iu the diiicovery of a new mode ot MidstoueA. . . . Among other 



Improvements he made in the art wei.- :i ^lai i.it.«d tint, the introduction of whit h lij;ht8, and the um of the 

 stump on the stone.'— Ctwmo Uonkhuui>:. 



3906 RAY (John, F.R.s.) Miscellaneous Discourses concerr issolution and Changes of 

 the VV^ORLD, wherein tlie Primitive Chaos and Creation, tl. . Deluge, Fountains, Formed 

 Stones, Sea Shells found in the Earth, Bubtorrauftous Trees, Muuutaius, EartlKiuakos, Vulcanoes, 

 the Universal Contiagration and Future State, are largely Discussed and Examined, Timo. old 

 calf, \'2s Qd 1692 



' Important on account of the accurate vlbwt it propound* •• to the nature of foasili, and trom the oae made of thim 

 by Paley '.—/). N. B. 



3907 BEAD (John) Experiments and Observations with the Douiiler of ELECTRicrry. to 

 determine its real Utility, in the Investigation of the Electricity of Atmospheric Air, in different 

 degrees of Purity, 4to. (pp. 9), sewn, 3s 1794 



3908 A Meteorological Journal, princi|»ally relating to Atmospheric Electricity, kept at 



Knightsbridge, from May 9, 1789 to May 8, 1791, 2 copperplates, 2 parU 4to. (pp. 60), «0wii, 

 5*6^/ 1791.2 



3909 BEAD (Samuel), Henry CHATFIELD, and Augustin F. B. CBEUZE: Kepobts on 

 Naval Construction, 1842-4, by the Chatham CoMMiriEE of Naval Arcuitecw, appointed 

 by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, April 27, 1842, wUh numerom folding plaUi and 

 tables, folio, hf. russia gilt (SCARCE), £1.1* 1847 



• Sent for the information of the Committee of Refercnre by Admiralty • iry IMS.'— /nior. «» tUk, 



lncludii»g 'Tables of Practical Dala for the Construction of Ships of U ■ . aI, who died In 186S, agad «7. 



was one of the founders of the Institution of Naval Architects, and his aoove JUjxirts • arc highly estceuied.' His bioKraidiy 



is unjustly excluded from D. iV. B. 



3910 BECOBDE (Bobert, m.d.) The Castle of Knowledge [on reverse of title :] containing the 

 Explication of the Spliere, bothe celestiall and materiall, and diuers other thinges incident therto. 

 With sundry pleasaunt proofesand certaine newe demonstrations not written before in any vulgare 

 woorkes, first edition, with emblematic engraved title, and numerous woodcuts, sra. folio, neto hf. 

 brown calf gilt {title somewhat defective, a few headlines shorn, some II. loater-stained, and last 2 //. 

 mended, otherwise a large and sound COPY) ; VERY BARE, with auto. 'John Bowles' [7], 1593* 

 on title, £7. 15* [colophon :] Reginalde Wolfe, 1556 



'The Copernican system was recognised in this book for the first time in England'.— J. 0. HallitorUPkiUippt. It 

 contains a dedication in English to Queen Mary, and another in Latin to Cardinal Pole. D. N. B. erronenuslv m«ntionii IMl 

 as the date of the first edition, a statement paliwibly wrong, as Queen Mary's accession did not take pl«c« until IS&S, 

 and Cardinal Pole was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury (as such the work is dedicated to him) only after Abp. 

 Cranmer's execution in 1550. 

 Grounde of Artes [Arithmetic], last etlition (1699)— r. Hatton, ante. 



3911 [ ] The Pathway to Knowledg, containing the First Principles of Geometrie, a« they 



may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instruments Geomeiricall, and astro- 

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 a large and sound copy) ; verv rare, £8. 8* [colophon .) JUynold Wolfe, 1551 



According to Prof, de Morgan this work contains tlie first use of the Unn 'sine* In KnglUh. 'He explainn iwiUr and 



(lunar eclipses, promises a treatise on cosmography, and gives a description of Euclid Bk. I Prop. I\, a '"*^hod ofwurUac 

 7 various questions in practical geometry, an<l a list of astronomical instruments in uae. There ia alao a ronga cuunBlaMIOtt 

 ' of the magnitude of the earth, which is said to be 21, (KK) miles round.'— X>. N. B. 

 S912 : Records Arithmetick : or, the Ground of Arts : teaching the perfect work and pnurUoa 



of Arithmetick, both in whole Numbers and Fractions, after a more easie and exact forme thea 

 in former time hath been set forth ; afterwanls augmentetl by John Dee, and sitice enlarged wiUi 

 a third part of Kulesof Practice, abridged into a briefer metluMl then hithert4» hath Ik-ou imbltobed, 



tetc., by John Mellis; and now diligently perused, corrected, illiuitrale«l and enlargc«l, eUj. etc. 

 ; etc. by R. C. and Ro. Hartwell, Philomathemat., with diagrams, l2mo. parUy blark Iftirr ',n€W 

 ' hf brown calf gilt {rare), £\. lbs ^ . .»_... .«^ i?!? 



The above copy belonged to William Andrew Chatto, the historian of wood-engraving, and bwa hU auto, and toaer. 



3913 [-Z_^] The Whetstone of Witte, which is the seconde parte of Arithmetike : containvm; the 

 atraction of Rootes : The Cossike Practise, with the rule of Equation : and the woorkwi of Stinle 

 Nombers, first edition, with diagrams, and 2 folding tables, sm. 4to., black Uttrr; new sprtnuua 

 calf gilt {part of one table in contemporary MS., and some II. water stamed, oMerirwe a LABOl 

 and sound copy) ; very rare, £7. 7* ^ ^ ^ {/^ ^IS^ l^'^^'> 



The alK)ve is the tiret treatise on Algebra in English, and the flrst EnglUh work «"P^««J^,,»C»S5. tJS^ h^w 



' Interesting as containing the earliest introduction of the sip - for «»««»ity ... 1" thU work BMonU »liew« DOW 

 the square root of an algebraical expression could be extracted. —»r. W. R. «««• t»^ «.. »k- «--♦ — Htj» l« «i«rfl«h «• 



' Recorde was practiSilly the founder of an English sch.K.l of mathematical writera. He W9M ^^"^^ t!i wStiS 

 arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, and the first to intro.luce algebra into EnglaiKI. 'y,'*""*u" "57,^^ 

 one of the tirst to see the independence of an algebraical operation and its numerical |ot«^prawnOfi. "ISSir^d fcfcift^ 

 others, even Vieta, in his perception of general results conn-cle.1 with the f»'*[^^"*'>;^^ J^}*SSi^Ji!rn: ^ ^^ 

 fmm the tendency, then wmmon, to invest simple numbers with the character of pUiif., aoWda, etc He alao UM* IMC- 

 tions and Arabic numerals with greater freedom than was usual in his time. —IK ^-J*' «,„.H,f« r ommM^ obIv of ana 



Thk above copy ooktains thk poldino tables which ark nkarlv alwavu abbkkt Blgnawreroonmwooiy w obo 

 folding table, r 2-4 apparently having never been issued. 



