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



4453 SMITH (James, member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board) Curiosities of MATHE- 

 MATICS, for the Instruction of Mathematicians, and the Benefit of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, with plate, and diagrams, 8vo. (pp. 51), sewn, 6s 



Liverpool, 1870 

 The red rag in this particular tauromachy was supplied by the late Prebendary Allen Whitworth, then incumbent of a 

 parish in Liverpool. 



4454 Letter to the Duke of Buccleuch, President elect of the British Association, on the 



Quadrature and Rectification of the Circle, diagram, Svo. (pp. 73), sewn, 5s ib., 1867 



Enough to make any Duke forswear to all eternity playing the figure-head at scientific picnics. 



4455 The Quadrature of the Circle : Correspondence between an Eminent Mathe- 

 matician [Prof, de Morgan] and James Smith, ivith 2^ plates [many folding), and diagrams, 

 8vo. cl., uncut (scarce), £1. 1* 1861 



This work was ridiculed in the Athenceum, and thus was instrumental in staiting its author on his interminable circle- 

 squaring crusade. A full account of his works and the controversy is given in Prof, de Morgan's Budget of Paradoxes. 



4456 The Ratio between Diameter and Circumference in a Circle demonstrated by 



Angles, and Euclid's Theorem, Proposition 32, Book I, proved to be fallacious, with 6 

 folding plates, and numerous diagrams, Svo. cl. (SCARCE), £1. 5s Liverpool, 1870 



' Ho is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning, and the greatest hand at writing it, of all who have tried in our 

 day to attach their names to an error. Common cyclometers sink into puny orthodoxy by his side.'— /'ro/. de Morgan. 



'Smith was not content to claim that he was able graphically to construct a square equal in area to a given circle, but 

 boldly laid down the proposition that the diameter of a circle was to the circumference in the exact proportion of 1 to 

 3 VI'j.'—D. N. B., wherein, for his eminence as a paradoxer, he secured the honour of a biography, when some of the best 

 English Churchmen of the Catholic Revival were left out in the cold. 



4457 SMITH (James Hamblin, Caitis Coll.) Introduction to the Study of Geometrical Conic 

 Sections, numerous diagra^ns, cr. 8vo. cl., Is 1887 



4458 Treatise on Elementary Statics ; 2nd Ed. , diagrams, roy. Svo. cl., 2s 1869 



4459 SMITH (Robert, d.d., f.r.s.. Master of Trinity ; founder of Smith's Prizes) COMPLEAT 

 System of Opticks : a Popular, Mathematical, Mechanical, and Philosophical Treatise, with 

 Remarks upon the Whole [with Essay on Distinct and Indistinct Vision, by James JURIN, 

 M.D., F.R.S.], with 83 plates, 2 vols. 4to. old calf gilt, newly and neatly rebacked, 10s 6d 



Cambridge, 1738 

 This work is of special importance in connexion with the theory of the telescope— a fact elucidated in Dr. v. Rohr'.s 

 ' binokulare Instrumente '. 



4460 CouRS Complet d'OPTiQUE, traduit, avec des Additions considerables sur toutes les 



nouvelles D^couvertes, par l[e] P[ere] P[ezenas] ; with 13 plates, 2 vols. 4to. contemporary French 

 calf gilt, with bookplate of L. A. P. Bourbon Biisset, Citoyen Frangais, 1793, 12* 6d Avignon, 1767 



The above-mentioned is an interesting example of a French bookplate of the Revolutionary Era, and is pasted over the 

 owner's earlier armorial bookplate, dated 1788, as General le Vicomtedu Bourbon Busset. 



4461 Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds, with 25 plates, thick roy. 8vo., 



Large and thick Paper ; old calf gilt, 12s 6d Cambridge, 1749 



4462 Second Edition, much improved and augmented, with 29 folding plates, Svo. old calf 



gilt {one Joint cracked), Is 6d 1759 



' Both works were of the highest value. They were recommended to Gibbon by George Lewis Scott, with the words 

 that the treatise on optics entered ' into too great details for beginners ', and that the volume on harmonics ' is the prin- 

 cipal book of the kind ' '.— D. iV. B. 



4463 SMITH (Robert H., Mason Coll., Birmingham) Forty-three Graphic Tables or Diagrams 

 for the Conversion of Measurements in Different Units, 28 plates, oblong 4to. boards, 4s 

 (p. 7* 6d) 1895 



4464 Graphics, or the Art of Calculation by Drawing Lines, applied especially to Mechan- 

 ical Engineering, Part I [all pub.l, Svo., with Atlas, containing 29 plates, roy. 4to.— 2 vols, cl., 

 Qs Qd (p. 15s) ■ 1889 



4465 SMITH (Thomas) Evolution : or the Power, and Operation of Numbers, in the Statement, 

 the Calculation, the Distribution, and the Arrangement of QUANTITIES, Linear, Superficial, and 

 Solid, with diagrams, large Svo. boards, 3s Qd 18.35 



4466 SMITH (W.Ford, m.i.m.e.) On an Improved Tool and Holder for Turning and Planing, 

 and on some Modern Systems of Cutting Metals, with plates, Svo. (pp. 64), sewn, 2s 6d [1883] 



4467 SMITH (William Robert, m.d., f.r.s.) Laboratory Text-Book of Public Health, ivith 

 front., 8 photographic plates, and 82 woodcuts and diagrams, Svo. cl.. Is Qd (p. £1.) 1896 



4468 SMITH (Willougrhby) Induction, with 4 plates, Svo. (pp. 17), limp morocco. Is Qd 1882 



4469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ANNUAL Reports of the Board of Regents of the, 

 from 1861 to 1875, and 1881 to 1882, with numerous plates and other illustrations, 17 vols. Svo. 

 cl., with auto, of John Hutton Balfour, F.R.S., £1. 10* Washington, 1861-82 



4470 SMYTH (Charles Piazzi, Astronomer Royal for Scotland ; son of Adml. Smyth) Astronom- 

 ical Observations at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Vol. XIV, with 22 plates {mostly 

 COLOURED), thick oblong 4to. cl., 12s 6d Edin., 1877 



Coutainiiig Edinburgh Star-Place Catalogue and Ephemeris, 1830-90 (pp. 641) ; and Observations of the Earth-Thermo- 

 meters at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 1870-6 (pp. 57). 



4471 Pamphlet of Extracts from the 13 Vols, of the Astronomical Observations at the 



Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, with numerous plates and charts {some coloured), oblong 

 4to. boards. Is Qd ib., 1872 



Contents :— Certain Annual Star Catalogues from Observation : Observations at the Great Pyramid in Egypt : Auroral 

 and other Faint-light Spectroscopy: Scottish Meteorology; Tables of Means, 1856-71 : The Hyperborean Storm, Oct. 2-3, 

 1860 : Short Description of Edinburgh Observatory. 



4472 Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment : or Specialities of a Residence above the 



Clouds, with 2Q photo-stereographs, and map, thick post Svo. cl., t. e. g., 5s Qd (p. £1. Is) 1858 



' The first example of the application of the principles of the stereoscope to book-i'llustration.'— £a:ami?ier. On p. 213 

 the author mentions his experiment to ascertain lunar radiation. 



