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



53S9 WHISTLECRAFT (Orlando, Thwaite, Suffolk) The Climate of England, with Meteorolog- 

 ical Tables, and j^eneial Records ; the whole constituting some Rules whereby to judge of the 

 Future [Weather], 8vo. (pp. 236), hf. cl., 5s 1840 



Apparently the author's real name, in spite of the Anti-Jacobin, He seems to have been a genuine and painstaking 

 country observer, but to have been taught to keep his station by Whig parsons, as he grovels to Bp. Stanley of Norwich in 

 a long dedication which outdoes Uriah Heep. 



WHITE (J.) Art's Treasury of Rarities and Curious Inventions (1773)— v. O'Brien (C), 

 ante. 



5390 WHITE (Sir William Henry, f.r.s.) Manual of Naval Architecture, for Officers of the 

 Royal Navj^, Oliicers of the Mercantile Marine, Shipbuilders, Shipowners, and Yachtsmen, 2nd 

 Ed., enlarged, with numerous woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl., Qs (p. £1. 4s) 1882 



' Rear- Admiral Hoskins c.b. etc. etc. with the author's respectful compliments.' — Inscr. on flyleaf. 



5391 WHITEHURST (John, f.r.s.) Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the 

 Earth ; deduced from Facts and the Laws of Nature, with Appendix containing some general 

 Observations on the Strata in Derbyshire, first edition, with 5 plates, 4to. hf. russia, 

 8s 6d 1778 



5392 Second Edition, considerably enlarged, with fine engraved 'portrait hy J. Hall, and 



1 folding plates, 4to. old tree-calf, 12s Qd 1786 



' The original design of this work was to facilitate the discovery of valuable minerals beneath the earth's surface.' — 

 1). N. n. 



5393 WHITELAW (John, Jr., a.m.lc.e.) Surveying as practised by Civil Engineers and Sur- 

 veyors, including the Setting-out of Works for Construction, and Surveys abroad, with Examples 

 from actual Practice, 2nd Ed., with plates and mimerous woodcuts, thick large post 8vo. cl., 6s Qd 

 (p. 10s 6c? nett) 1906 



5394 WHITING (Thomas, Keppel-House Seminary, Bromptou) Comprehensive System of 

 Astronomy, Theoretic and Practical, with extensive Tables of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, with 

 IS folding plates, 4 to. boards, 6s (p. £2. 8s) 1828 



5395 Mathematical, GeOxMetrical, and Philosophical Delights: containing Essays, 



Problems, Solutions, Theorems, etc. : Poetical Delights, containing Enigmas, Charades, 

 Rebuses, etc., with their Answers — 2 vols. cr. 4to. in 1, new hf. calf gilt (rare), 12s 6d 1798-7 



5396 WHITWORTH (Sir Joseph, f.r.s. ; inventor of the Whitworth gun and rifle) MISCELLANE- 

 OUS Papers on Mechanical Subjects, 2 coloured plates, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 12s 6^ 1858 



Containing five papers, 'each one of which signalises a revolution in its subject' (D. JV. i?.), viz., 'Plane Metallic 

 Surfaces or True Planes ; Uniform System of Screw Threads ; Address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 

 Glasgow, 1856 ; Standard Decimal Measures of Length ; Rifled Fire-arms ; and Report of the New York Industrial 

 Exhibition, 1853.' 



5397 Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects : Guns and Steel, with numerous 



woodcuts, cr. 4to. cl. (SCARCE), WITH author's INSCR. TO LORD GOSCHEN, 17s Qd 1872 



' The Right HonWe G. J. Goschen, m.p. with the Author's Compliments.' — /user, onflj/leaf. 



Containing the author's great discovery, that of fluid-compressed ductile steel for the manufacture of big guns ; also 

 •giving an account of my system of rifled guns, and showing how it originated and has been developed,' etc. etc., but 

 especially interesting for telling the story of his dift'erences with the Admiralty. 



' In 1873 he gave to the world his own version of the points at issue with the Ordnance Department in ' Miscellaneous 

 Papers on Practical [sic] Subjects : Guns and Steel'. The unfortunate treatment to which he was subjected was due in 

 part, no doubt, to his plain and inflexible determination.' — D. N. B. 



The inscription is interesting, as Lord Goschen was then First Lord of the Admiralty. 



5398 WICKSTEED (Thomas, m.i.c.e. ; East London Water-Works) EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY 

 concerning the relative Power of, and Useful Eflects produced by, the Cornish and BOULTON and 

 Watt Pumping Engines, and Cylindrical and Waggon-Head Boilers, with folding tables, 

 4to. cl., 4s 1841 



5399 Another Copy, hf russia gilt, os 



The first comparative account, sliowing the superiority of the Cornish Engine and Boiler. 



5400 WIEBEKING (Karl Friedrich v.), und Hermann KKdNGKE : Allgemeine auf Ge- 

 schichte und Erfahrunggegriindete theoretisch-practisclie Wassekbaukunst, bearbeitet von einer 

 Gesellschaft Hydrodecten, Professoren der Mathematik, Ingenieuren und Maschinen-Directoren, 

 5 vols. roy. 4to., and Atlas, with over 100 plates, impl. folio— in all 6 vols, boards, uncut, £1. Is 



Darmstadt, 1798-1807 

 This work long continued the standard one on hydraulic engineering. There was no copy in the Scott Library. 



5401 WIECHMANN (Ferdinand Gerhard; F.c.s.) Sugar Analysis, for Refineries, Sugar-Houses, 

 Experiinent.al Stations, etc., with 5 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 12s 6c?) 1890 



5402 WIEDEMANN (Eilhard), und Hermann EBEKT : Physikalisches Praktikum, niit 

 besonderer Beriicksichtigung der physikalisch-chemischen Methoden, 4. vermehrte Auflage ; with 

 366 woodcuts, 8vo. hf. cl., 5s (p. M. 10 sewn) Brau7ischweig, 1899 



5103 WIEDEMANN (Gustav; f.r.s.) Die Lehre vom Galvanismus und ELEKTROMAGNE-risMUS, 

 nebst ihren technischen Anwendungen ; ivith numerous woodcuts, 3 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt {nice 

 copy), 4s Braunschweig, 1861 3 



5404 Die Lehre von der Elektricitat, 3. vollig umgearbeitete Auflage der Lehre vom 



Galvanismus ; with plates and numerous woodcuts, 4 vols. 8vo. in 5, sewn, 15s (p. M. 108) 



ibidem, 1882-5 



5405 Another Copy, 4 vols, in 5, cl., 18s 6d 



'This work is a mor.ument of industry, untiring and judicious, and for accuracy and completeness has no rival in any 

 other branch of physics.' — R. ^'. Obituarxj Notices, 



5406 WILDE (Heinrich Emil) Geschichte der Op'tik, vom Ursprunge bis auf die gegenwiirtige 

 Zeit (von Aristoteles bis Eulcr) ; with 7 folding plates, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf calf gilt {nice copy) ; 

 scarce, 12s Berlin, 1838-43 



still a much esteemed history of the subject. 



