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4351 SFORTTJNATI (Giovanni, da Siena) Nvovo LuME. Libri di Arithmetica, intitulato : 

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 si emedano : «Jc castigano: con chiate: lucide : ^: aperte diniostrationi : niolto bene discusse, & 

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CJonsisting of 129 numbered 11., signatures a— p in fours, aiid q in 6, the last leaf being blank, 



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4353 Another Copy, boards, uncut {title mended and some II. stained), £1. 



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4351^ Altra Edizione ; with icoodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. old limp vcllvm, £1. os 



[col. :] Venetia, Francesco de Leno, 1568 

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Prof, de Morgan, who owned an imperfect copy of an edition which he was on this account unable to describe, states : 

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4.355 SHADWELL (Arthur, m.b.) The London Water Supply, post 8vo. cl. {out of print), 2s %d 

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4356 SHADWELL (Adml. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander, f.r.s.) Tables for Facilitating 

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4357 Tables for Facilitating the Reduction of Lunar Observations, diagrams, roy. 8vo. 



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4358 SHALEB (Nathaniel Southgate, Harvard Univ.) Aspects of the Earth: a Popular 

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4.361 SHANNON (Robert, m.d.) Practical Treatise on the Art of Brewing, Distilling, and 

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Probably one of the fullest treatises on the subject ever published. The author claims to have had unique opportunities 

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4.362 S[HABP] (A[braham], philomath) Geometry Improv'd : 1. By a Large and Accurate 

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4366 SHAW (Thomas George) Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar, with woodcuts, large 8vo. cl., 5s 

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4387 SHAW (William N.) Heat (Practical Work at the Cavendish Lalioratory), woodcuts, 8vo. 

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4368 SHEEPSHANKS (Richard, pr., f.r.s., Sec. R.A.s.) Tables for facilitating Astronomical 

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