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



3914 RAYMOND (Rossiter Worthington) Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific States 

 and Territories, with o folding plates, and diagrams, large 8vo. cL, As (p. I65) New York, 1871 



3915 READE (T. Mellard, f.g.s.) The Evolution of Earth Structure, with a Theory of Geo- 

 MORPHic Changes, 40 plates, 8vo. buckram, \2s Qd (p. £1. 1* nett) 1903 



Applying dynamical principles to the explanation of the facts of geology. 



3916 READWIN (T. Allison, f.g.s.) Index to Mineralogy: an Alphabetical List of about 2500 

 Minerals, with references to their Place in the British Museum, Svo. (pp. 52), sewn {out of print), 

 25 U 1867 



3917 REAUMUR (Rene Antoine Ferchault de, de VAcademie) L'Art de Convertir le Fer Forge 

 en Acier, et I'Art d'Adoucir le Fer Fondu, ou de faire des Ouvrages de Fer Fondu aussi hnis que 

 de Fer Forge ; with 17 folding plates, 4to. contemporary calf gilt, newly rebacked (VERY rare), 

 £2. 2*- 1722 



' His admirable treatise ... He made an extensive series of experiments on the subject [carburization of bar-iron], of 

 which the records are worthy of being perused at the present da.y '. —John Percy, F.R.S. 



It is also valuable for the plates illustrating contemporary apparatus and methods for converting iron into steel. 



3918 REBIERE (Alphonse) Mathematiques et Mathematiciens : Pensees et Curiosites, 2^ Ed. , 

 angmentee, 8vo. sewn, As 1893 



3919 RECORDON (C. J.) Solutions Approchees de la Trisection de I'Angle et de la 

 Quadrature du Cercle ; with diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 'Is Lausanne, 1865 



' Le dernier effort possible de la geometrie proprement ^itQ.'— Introduction. 



3920 RECORDS of the School of Mines. Vol. I. Part I : Inaugural and Introductory Lectures to 

 the Courses 1851-2, impl. 8vo. cl. {scarce), 65 1852 



Containing contributions by Sir H. T. de la Beche, Lord Playfair, Edward Forbes, Robert Hunt, Sir A. C. Ramsay 

 Sir W. W. Smyth, and John Percy, if.r.s. 



3921 RECUEIL des Pieces qui ont remport^ les Prix de I'Acad^mie Royale des Sciences depuis 

 leur Fondation en 1720 jusqu'ii 1772; with numerous copperplates, 9 vols. 4to. calf gilt, newly 

 rebacked (fine set) ; rare, £6. Qs 1752-77 



a most valuable collection of prize essays on mathematical and physical subjectti, many of which have never been 

 published in any other form. It includes contributions by J. P. de Crousaz, Colin Maclaurin, f.r.s., J. S. Afazieres, Daniel 

 and Jean Bernoulli, Pierre Bouguer, C. E. L. Camus, Charles Bossut, s.J., Giovanni Poleni, Euler, Voltaire, J. L. 

 Lagrange, and many others. 



de DiVERSES Pieces sur la Philosophie, la Keligion Naturelle, I'Histoire, les Mathd- 



matiques, etc. par Mrs. Leibniz, Clarke, Newton, etc.— v. Newtoniana {No. 3298), ante. 



3922 REDDING (Cyrus) French Wines and Vineyards ; and the Way to find them, cr. 8vo. 

 cl., 3s 1860 



3923 History and Description of Modern Wines, 3rd Ed., enlarged, with steel front, and 



numerous woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 3s Qd 1851 



'His best book. By advocating the reduction of the duties on French wines it did much to educate public opinion 

 on this subject, and to prepare the way for the rectification of the tariff [and the introduction of Gladstone Claret] in 

 I860.'— D. N. B. 



3924 REDMAN (J. B., M.i.c.E.) Lectures on Marine Engineering at the School of Military- 

 Engineering, Chatham, 1875-6, with 10 plates, and folding table {linen-mounted), folio, hf calf 

 {title stamped) ; scarce, Ss 6d privately printed, Chathajn, 1877 



3925 REED (Sir Edward James, f.r.s.) Our Iron-Clad Ships : their Qualities, Performances, 

 and Cost, with Chapters on Turret Ships, Iron-Clad lla,ms, etc., front, and other illustrations, 

 large 8vo. cl. {out of print), 5s (p. 12*) 1869 



3926 REGIOMONTANUS (Joannes) Fund amenta Operationum, quae fiunt per Tabulam 

 Generalem : vel, Apodixes et Demonstrationes earum, qujB in Tabulis Primi Mobilis, cum Tahulis 

 EclijDsium Burbachii [sic] praeceptoris editis a [Georgio] Tanstetero, prascepit, in communem 

 omnium Mathematum studiosorum utilitatem nunc primum edita^. [ah Andrea Schonero] ; tuith 

 bold title in red and black, woodcut arms of Otto Heinrich, Pfalzgraf bei lihein on rev., and 

 diagramsy folio, boards (very large and fine copy) ; very rare, £3. 35 



Neuburgi ad Danubium, 1557 



3927 De Triangulis Omnimodis Libri V : quibus explicantur res necessarice co^nitu, volentibus 



ad scientiarum Astronomicarum perfectionem devenire : qute cum nusqua alibi hoc tempore 

 exposita3 habeantur, frustra sine harum instructione ad illam quisquam aspirarit. Accesserunt 

 NicOLAi CUSANI de QuADRATURA CiRCULi, deque recti ac curvicommensuratione: itemque Io.de 

 Monteregio eadeni de re sXtyKn/cd, hactenus a nemine publicata ; with numerous diagrams, 2 parts 

 folio, sewn {p)t. II slightly wormed, otherwise large and sound copies) ; very rare, £3. 3* 



Norimbergw, Jo. Petreius, 1533 

 First Edition of the first work, the first systematic treatise on trigonometry, and also the author's most 



important work. The second piece is a refutation of Cardinal Cusa's circle-squaring problems. 



Regiomontanus— whose real name was Miiller— is also known as Johannes de Monteregio and Konigsperg, and was 



the disciple of Peuerbach {q. v. ante). 



3928 ^ — De Triangulis Planis et Sph^ricis Libri V, una cum Tabulis Sinuum, in quibus 



tota ipsorum triangulorum scientia exprimis fundamentis Geometricarum diroStiUf^v absolutissime 

 extructa continetur, edita per Danielem Santbech ; with numerous diagrams, folio, new hf. 

 brown calf gilt (large and fine copy) ; rare, £1. 125 M Basilete [15611 



Third Edition of the author's trigonometry, a second having been published in 1546. Appended is ' Tractatus super 

 Propositiones Ptolemaei de Sinibus et Chordis ', by Georg Peuerbach (Purbachius), the teacher of Regiomontanus. 



' Regiomontanus and Purbach adopted the Hindoo ii?ie in place of the Greek chord of double the arc. Regiomontanus 

 emphasised the use of the tangent in trigonometry, and following out some ideas of his master, calculated a table of 

 tangents ... He was the author of a com])lete treatise on trigonometry, containing solutions of both plane and spherical 

 triangles. The form which he gave to trigonometry has been retained, in its main features, to the present day. . . . 

 Regiomontanus ranks among the greatest men that Germany has ever produced.'— Pro/. Cajori, 



V. PTOLEMiEUS, ante, et Santbech (Daniel), post. 



