HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY. W. 261 



5126 VOLTA (Conte Alessandro; f.r s.), Collezione dell' Opere del [pubblicaU da Vincenzio 



Antinori] ; with fine engraved portrait by Raphael Morghen, and folding platen, 3 vols. 8vo. in 5 



boards, vncut, £1. 1* Firen^e 1816 



5127 Another Copy, 3 vols. Svo. hf. calf gilt (portrait wanting), £1. 1^ 



5128 A Large Paper Copy, on fine paper, with the portrait, 3 vols, large 8vo. in 5, boards 



uncut, £l.7s6d 



The only collected edition of the author's scientific works. His work, which started a new era in electrical 8oieuc« 



includes the discovery of the electric decomposition of water, and the invention of the electric battery, the Voltaic Pile' 



electrophorus, his condensing electroscope (proving contact electricity), etc. etc. * 



' By some writers the name aalianie Battery is given in honour of Galvani ; but the honour is certainly Yolta'g'.-- 



Prof. Silmnus Thompson. 



5129 Account of some Discoveries made by Mr. Galvani, of Bologna, with ExperimenUand 



Observations on tbem [in French], 4to. (pp. 35), sewn, 5* I793 



5130 Lettres snr I'AiR Inflammable des Marais, auxouelles on a ajout^ trois Lettres du 



nieme Auteur tiroes du Journal de Milan, traduites de I'ltahen ; with copperplate, Svo. eonUmp- 

 ovary mottled ralfqilt, 8jf 6^/ Strasbourg. 1778 



5131 VbSSnJS [VOSJ (Gerard Jan ; Canon of Canterbury) De QUATUOR ARTinus PoPULARIBLS 

 (drammatistice, Gymnastice, Mufice, etGraphice) ; de PlilLOLoaiA; deSciEXTIls Mathkmaticis, 

 cui Operi subjungitur, Chronologia Mathematicorum, 3 voU. cr. 4to. in 1, old calf {very sound 

 copy), 10« Amsteiadami, Jo. Blaev, 1650 



The third work is interesting for containing a short history of the matbenutical aeiences. Uermnl VoMOwed hisCtooorr 

 to Ahp. Land— a characteristic example of the tatter's enlixhtaned patntiiage of learning. 



5132 VOSSIUS (Isaac; Canon of Windsor, son of the above) De LUCIS Natura et PbopRIETATB; 

 with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, sra. 4lo. sewn {rare), \2s 6d 



AmsUlodami, L. et D. Elzevir, 1662 

 This work contains the passage in which the author accuses Deacartea of plagiarism from WiUebront Bnetliua for his 

 law of refraction. Vossius also fornudates in it a new theory of colours, in which sulphur, said to be cuntainail in •vary 

 body, plays an important part ; and declares that light and heat are merely accidents. 



5133 De MoTU Marium et Ventorum Liljer ; with diagrams, cr. 4to. sound copy inold vellum, 



105 6d HagaeCom., A. Vlacq, 166S 



5134 Another Copy, sewn, 9* 



' He attributes the tides to the influence of the sun, and describes a ' baroscope ' by means of which Davigaton might 

 with certainty foretell the approach of storms.' — D. N. B. 



5135 De NiLi et alioruin Fluminum Origine [cum Appendice ad Scriptum de Natura et 



Proprietate Lucis, accedit Epistola ad Amicum de Potentiis quibusdHm MechauiciM]; with 

 2 large folding maps on copper of Abyssinia and the Nile, and numerous woodcuts, sni. 4to. sewn 

 (rare), £1. \s ibidem, apud eundem, 1666 



The author's most valuable scientific work, containing an important doctrine in oceanography: 'Omnia tlumina ex 

 collectione aquae pluvialis oriii', afterwards elaborated by Mariotlr and de la Metherie. Baiicd cin it, he attribute* the 

 flooding of the Nile to the heavy rainfall of Ethiopia. It also contains a theory of the capillarity of mercury, but 

 erroneously attributes the rising of the sap in plants to the action of capillarity. 



5133 Responsum ad Objecta Joii. de Bruyn, Professorio Trajectini, et Petri Petiti, Medici 



Par'siensis [de Luce] ; with diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn, Is 6d ib., apud eundem, 1663 



A defence of his ' de Lucis Natura.' 



In spitft of his clerical preft^rment, Isaac Vossius was a freethinker, yet absurdly credulous. Cliarles II. is said to have 

 remarke'l of him that he would iK'lieve anything if only it were not in the Bible. 



5137 V Y V Y AN (Thomas Grenfell) Elementary Analytical Geometry, revised Ed., with 

 diaqram.<t, jjost Svo. c/., 2s (p. 7* 6f/) Cambridge, 1870 



WAALS (Johannes Diderik v. d.)— v. Molenbroek, ante. 



5138 WABNER (Robert) Ventilation in Mines, trans, by Charles Salter, with ^folding plates, 

 besides wondrufs, roy. Svo. cl., 6s 6f/(p. 10^ 6rf nett) 1903 



5139 WAGENAEB (Lucas Janssen) : The .Mariners Mirrour, wherin may playnlv be seen the 

 C0UR.SES, Heights, Dlstances, Depths, Soundings, FLOUUsand Ebs, Kisings of Lands, Rocks, 

 Sands and Shoalds, with the Marks for th'KNTRiNosof the Harbouroughs, Havbns and PORTS 

 of the greatest Part of Europe : their several Trnlicks and Commwhties : Together wV' the 

 Rules and Instrumkts of Navigation. First made & set fourth in diners exact 8ea-Ciiart.s, 

 by that famous Navigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen, and now fitted with neceMMirie 

 ADDITIONS for the use of Englishmen by [Sir] Anthony Ashley. Ilecrin also may Ikj un<ler- 

 stood the Exploits lately atchiued by the riglit Honorable the L. Admiral of Englad with her 

 Ma''«* Nauie, and some former Seruices don by that worthy Knight 8* Fra. Drakk, teith beauti- 

 fully engraved title by Theodore de Bry, 3S fine folding charts on copper by T. DE Bry, A. 

 Ryther, Jod. Hondius, and J. Kutlinger, and 3 plates (one with moveable compass-card), 

 2 parts in 1 vol. roy. folio, old white vellum extra, in cardboard-case {binding slightly damaged, leaf 

 of arms, charts 3, 6, 11, 14, 22, half of 20 of part I, and 13 and 14 of part II micstng, and 

 engraved title slightly stained, otherwise a REMARKABLY SOUND, CLEAN AND LARGE COPY); 

 extremely rare,' £18. 18* «. /. aut. t. n. [1588] 



This work, which first appeared in the original Dutch in 1&84, !• of great itnpnrUnce not only from being the nun 

 KNOWN COLLECTION of CH.4BTM, but enpeclally for containing, in the alx)ve tranalation, the riBar acooukt or thk DKrSAT 

 OK TOR Spanish Armada. There is also an account of Sir Francia Drake'* expedition to Cadiz in 1&87, referred to ai ' the 

 fonner services '. 



The translator, the grandfather of the tint Earl of Shaftesbury, afierwarda acoouipanied Drake and Sir John Norrls on 

 their expedition to SjKiin in 1.189, and in 1596 acted as secretary to the Karl of Essex during the exoedition to Oadiz. 



The work is exceedingly rare, and the above copy was the only one sold by auction (in 1905, when it fetched iC25. 10*) 

 within the last 22 years, and jirolmbly for many yrara before. It belonged to Adml. Sir Sidney Smith, the hero of the 

 Sipsenf \cTf. and was exhibited at the Tudor Exhibition, Ix)ndon. 18S9-90. 



5140 WAGNER (Rudolf) Handbook of Chemical Technology, trans, and edited from the Stli 

 German Edition, with extensive ADDITIONS, by SiR WILLIAM Crookks, F R.8., with 336 woodcuts, 

 thick Svo. cl., 6s 6d (p. £1. 5*) 1872 



