238 HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



4679 SUESS (Eduard, Univ. Vienna) The Future of Silver, trans, by Robert Stein, 8vo. cl., 

 2s M Washington, 1893 



Partly metallurgical. 



4680 SUFFOLK (W.T.,f.r.m.s.) Spectrum Analysis as applied to Microscopical Observation ; 

 with 7 plates {one coloured) of absorption spectra, 8vo. cL, '6s Qd 1873 



4681 SUGAR:— Enquete sur les Sucres : Commission formee a vec 1' Approbation dii Roi, sous la 

 Presidence du Ministre du Commerce et de Manufactures, pour I'Examen de certaines Questions 

 de Legislation Commerciale, interleaved throughout, 4to. hf. calf {joints cracked), 8s Qd [1828] 



Containing much statistical information. 



4682 SULLY (Henry) Regle Artificielle du Tems. Traite de la Division naturellc et artificielle 

 du Tems, des HoRLOGES et des MoNTRES de differentes constructions, de la maniere de les con- 

 noitre et de les regler avec justesse ; with plate, 12mo. old calf gilt, with old armorial bookplate 

 of Mr. Carpentier, Auditeur en la Chambre des Comptes, also that of Charles Srd Earl Stanhope, 

 F.B.S. (VERY RARE), £1. 15s 1717 



The author, an Englishman, who settled in Paris as a watchmaker, was the inventor of the frictional roller, and was the 

 maker of watches showing both mean and apparent time. The work contains ' Remarques sur le Discours de M''. H. S.', 

 by Leibniz, a 'Description d'une Montre de Nouvelle Construction' by the author, and his controversy with Jacob 

 Kresa, s.j. 



' His justly-appreciated work, ' Regie artificielle du Temps ', now extremely scarce.'— Nelthropp's ' Treatise on Watch- 

 Work', where a full and interesting account of the author and Lis work will be found on pp. 88-91. 



4683 SURVEYORS' INSTITUTION'S Transactions, from the beginning in 1868 to 1896, 28 v. : 

 Professional Notes, 1886-1896, 7 v.— together 35 vols. 8vo. cl., with folding maps and plates, 

 and Index, sewn, £3. 15s ' 1868-96 



4684 SUTCLIFFE (George L.) Concrete : its Nature and Uses, with 58 woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 

 3s 6d (p. 9s) 1893 



4685 SUTTON (Francis) Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis, 6th Ed., enlarged, 

 with 102 ivoodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 17s Qd) 1890 



4686 SUTTON (Samuel) Historical Account of a New Method for extracting the Foul Air 

 out of Ships, etc., with the Description and Draught of the Machines, 2nd Ed., with Two Rela- 

 tions given thereof to the Ptoyal Society by Dr. Mead and Mr. Watson, and Discourse on 

 Scurvy by Dr. Mead, with folding plate, 8vo. old calf, newly rebacked, with auto, of William 

 Vaughan (1752-1850) on title '{rare), 12s Qd 1749 



The author's invention was taken up by the Admiralty, who provided every ship with the apparatus. The above 

 edition has a preface by Richard Mead, m.d., f.r.s., in which he exclaims : ' The invention, I may venture to say, does 

 honour to our nation, and will in time be found of more public benefit than any discovery in mechanics, which has been 

 produced these hundred years.' There is no notice of the author in D. N. B., and the work was unknown to Lowndes. 



4687 SUTTON (Thomas, Caius Coll., Cantab.) The Calotype Process : a Hand Book to Photography 

 on Paper, with specimens of unwashed and washed iodized paper, post 8vo. cl. boards {scarce), 6s 1 855 



The calotype or talbotype was the photographic process which immediately followed the daguerrotype, and consisted of 

 paper sensitized by iodide of silver and nitrate of silver. It was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, f.r.s. 



4688 Dictionary of Photography, the Chemical Articles A, B, C, by John Worden, first 



edition, with numerous diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl.. Is Qd 1858 



' The first photographic dictionary published in Europe.' — Preface. 



It is also interesting in connexion with the history of photography, and contains many recipes and processes long 

 since forgotten . 



4689 , and George DAWSON : Dictionary of Photography, with numerous diagrams, cr. 



8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 8s 6d) 1867 



Second edition of the foregoing work. 



4690 SUZZI (Giuseppe) Disquisitiones Mathematic^e ; tvith 2 plates and vignettes, 4to. (pp. 86), 

 sewn, 4s Venetiis, 1723 



Unknown to Poggendorff. One chapter treats of the Newton-Leibniz controversy concerning the priority of the 

 invention of the differential calculus. 



4691 SVANBERG (JOns) Exposition des Operations faites en Lapponie, pour la Determination 

 d'un Arc du Meridien, 1801-3, par MM. ufverbom, Svanberg, Holmquist, et Palander ; vnth 3 

 plates, 8vo. boards {rare), 12s Qd Stockholm, 1805 



' It is well known that the Lapland arc was measured at the beginning of the present century by Svanberg and others 

 under the direction of the Stockholm Academy of Sciences. Lalande alludes to the early stages of this operation. 

 Svanberg obtained a decidedly shorter length for a degree of the meridian than that of Maupertuis, namely 5"1?(}. 159 

 instead of 57437.9 toises ; but the middle points of the two degrees are not quite identical.'—/. Todhunter, F.R.S. 



4692 SWAN (John) Calamus Mensurandi : the Measuring Keed, or, the Standard of Time, con- 

 taining an exact Computation of the Yeares of the World, from the Creation thereof to the 

 Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans ; stating also, and clearing the hid Mysteries of Daniels 

 70 Weekes and other Prophecies, etc. etc., 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, cl. {title slightly damaged) ; rare, 

 175 Qd J. Williams, 1653 



Dedicated to Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, and probably the earliest English work on chronology. 



4693 Speculum Mundi. Or, a Glasse representing the Face of the World : shewing both that 



it did begin, and must also end : the manner How, and Time When, being largely examined. The 

 whole of which maj^ be fitly called an Hexameron, or Discourse of the Clauses [sic'], Continuance, 

 and Qualities of things in Nature; 3rd Ed., much beautified and enlarged, sm. 4to. old calf, 

 newly rebacked {slightly wormed) ; very rare, £1. IDs B. Davenport, 1665 



This very curious and interesting work, valuable for its meteorological portion, is divided into six parts, to repre- 

 sent the Days of Creation. It is a kind of encyclopedia of natural and mythical history, interspersed with curious stories 

 and quotations. In the chapter on Earthquakes is a curious reference to ' America, a conjecture how it came at the first to 

 be unknown.' On page 443 we read ' In the Kingdom of Congo be certain great Dragons with wings, in bignesse like to 

 rams, ... of blew and green colour.' 



There is also a copious account of that heraldic beast, the Unicorn. 



' An extremely interesting and popular treatise on meteorology . . . Some of the notions are very funny,' etc. etc.— 

 G. J. Symons, F.R.S. 



