HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 255 



5022 URE (Andrew, m.d., f.r.s.) Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: their Prin- 

 ciples and Practice, first edition, with 1241 woodcuts, 8vo. (pp. 1341), russia gilt, Ss 1839 



5023 Fifth Edition, rewritten and greatly enlarged by Robert Hunt, f.r.s., with marly 



2000 woodcuts, 3 thick vols. Svo. cL, Us 1863 



5024 Another Copy, 3 vols. hf. russia {nice copy), 6s 6d 



5025 Seventh [last] Edition [greatly enlarged], by Robert Hunt, f.r.s., and F. W. 



IlUDLER, Vols. I, II, and IV (Supplement), with about 2000 woodcuts, 3 thick vols. Svo. r/., 

 10* 1878-81 



5026 New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated 



Nature are reconciled at once to Modern Science and Sacred History, iri/A 7 plates, and 51 wood- 

 cuts, thick Svo. boards, uncut (title inked) ; scarce, Is 6rf 1829 



' Pointing out the importance of chemistry and physics to the geologint, but chiefly deroted to a criticism of th« 

 Huttonian and Wernerian theories, and to the advocacy of the orthodox system of chronology.'— X). S. B. 



5027 Recent Imi>rovements in Arts, Manufacturiw, and M!NEs,190ia)orfa</#,8vo.c/.,3* 18U 



Intended as a supplement to tlie ' Dictionar)' of Arts." 



5028 URaUHABT (John W., c E.) Sewing Maciiinkhy: its History and Constmction, with 

 Technical Directions, illustrated, fcap. 8vo. el.. Is 6d 1881 



5029 Electric Light : its Produrtion and Use, 5th Ed., enlarged, with numerous UiuttratiotUt 



post Svo. /if. calf, 2s 180S 



5030 URaUHART (Sir Thomas, of Cromartie ; translator of Rabelais) The Trissotetraa : or a 

 most exoui.site Table for resolvinj; all manner of TRIANQLE.S. whetlier Phuno or Spliericall, 

 Rectangular or Ohliquangular, with greater facility, then ever hitherto hath been i>ractic«*l .... 

 Now lately invented, and perfected, explained, commented on, and, with all poMible brevity, and 

 perspicuity, in the hiddest, and most researched mysteries, from the very nnit grounds of the 

 Science it selfe, proved, and convincingly demonstrated, flrat edition, with 2 pp. of diagramt, 

 sm. 4to. sewn, uncut {portrait wanting and title and last I. soiled) ; rare, £1.1* 



Printed by Jame^ Young, 1645 

 An extraordinary work, and interesting as having been infloenced by Napier's discoveries. It is written in Um fkneiftil 

 language that might be expected from the translator of Rabelais, and is mathematically perhaps most inVeraaUng Ibr 

 trying t« create fresh though impractic ab le symbols. 



5031 URSINUS [Germanice BEHR] (Benjamin) Rhabdologia Neperiana, das ist, Newe, nod 

 sehr leichte art durch etliche Stiihichen allerhand Zahlen ohne miihe, und herg^^en gar gewiM, 

 zu Multipliciren und zu dividiren, auch die Regulam Detri, und beyderlcy ins gemein ubliche 

 Radices zu extrahirn . . . erstlich erfunden durch . . . JoilANNEM Neperum . . . Anitzo auff« 

 kiirtzeste, als immer miiglich gewesen, nach vorhergehenden gnugsamen ProbstUeken ins Deutrtcbe 

 uber^esetzt ; with 6 copperplates, sm. 4to. old painted boards (small piece of title and last I. 

 mended); VERY RARE, £1. 10* Berlin, im Grawen Klosler, 1623 



The first Continental translation of Napier's RibdMogia (ji. v. ante). It is very rare and was unknown to Pn|{;t«'Mdor(r, 

 Kiistner, and Montucla. The imprint is interesting as an early use of the name Berlin at a time when according to 

 M. Deschamps and other bibliographers the city was called FriedrichsRta<lt. 



5032 VALENTIN (William George, f.c.s.) Course of Practical Chemistry, or Qnalitative 

 Chemical Analysis, ed. and rcvii»ed by W. R. HODOKINSON, 9th ViiV^with front. andiX woodcuts, 

 Svo. cl.. As (p. 9.V) 1886 



Including very useful ' Qualitative Analysis Tables.' 



5033 VALENTINE (E. Seton), and F. L. TOMLINSON: Travels in Spacb: a HuTORY of 

 Aerial Navigation, with Intro, by Sir Hiuam Maxim, %cith numerous plates and smalUr 

 illustrations from contemporary prints or photographs, Svo. cl., 5s (p. 10» Qd nett) 1902 



In Hpite of the title none of the'travellem left the atmosphere. 

 VALENTINUS (Basiliua)— t;. Basilius, ante. 



5034 VALERIO (Luca) I)e Centro (iRAViTATis Solidorum Libri III; with numerous diagrams : 

 Quadratura Parabolae per Simplex Falsum, et altera qahm secunda Archimedii expeditlor; 

 with diaqranui—2, vols. sm. 4to. in 1, old Italian vellum (BARB), £1. U Eomts, 1001-6 



First Editions of both works. They wera reprinted in IMO and IWl rMpeettrsly. The flrrt RiiiMd the admlratloa of 

 Galileo, who found It so much suoerior to his own reaearchec iu JHaeorti « DtmcttnttioiU, that ha 4»ekimi not to 

 continue his inveatipitions on the subject, ^ ... ^ ^ 



Valerio was a member of the Accademla de* Lincel, but expellwl ftora it In 1610 for pablicly dedaring Oalllao a fl»tlowtr 

 of Copernicus. 



5035 VALEBIUS de VALEBIIS, Patricius Venetus : AuREUM sane Opirs, in ^no ea omnia 

 breviter explicantur, qua* Scientiarum omnium Parens, Kaymijndus LfLLi'S, tarn in Scientiaram 

 Arbore, quam Arte (Jenerali tradit, sm. 4to. old vellum (a few U. water-stained, otherwise a very 

 sound and large copy); RARE, with auto, of Prof A, Wigand (ante- Darwinian), £1. 5» 



Augusta Vind., 1500 



5036 VALLEJO (Jos^ Mariano) Compendio de MatemAticas Puras y MistAs.4» Edicion, anment- 

 ada ; with plates, 2 vols, post Svo. Spanish calf gilt (title of v. I wanting), 3# 6d Madrid, 1840 



A BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATED COPY : 



5037 VALTUBIO (Roberto) De Kb Militari Libris XII mult<i emacnlatius, ac picturis, qnas 

 plurim.-e in eo sunt, elcKantioribus cxpressum, quhm cum Verona? int**r initia artis chalcojrraphi<» 

 Anno M.CCCCLXXXIll inuulgaretur ; trt/A numerous large and very fine woodcuU from the 

 designs o/ Mateo Pasti, and several hundred woodcut initials, all beautifully coloured and 

 heightened with gold by a contemporary hand, folio, old tree-calf extra (wantmff pp. \9l -2, 

 239-40, and 297-8, one I. damaged, a few others mended on margin, and a few Ulumtnatwns slightly 

 damp-stained; otherwise a VERY TALL COPY IN REMARKABLY GOOD PRESERVATION), £9. 9s 



ParisOs, Christianus Weckelus, 1632 

 The third edition and the first printed in Pat is. It was reprinted in 1534 and 15M. ,. ^x^* .„^ ..„« 



' Cat ouvra^e temoignc de la connaiasauce approfondie que Valturio avalt dea aateura da 1 antlqalt* ; II d«crtt avac una 

 grande clart6 leura machines de guerre, et en donne en mfime temps le desain. —Biogr. Gin. 



