HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND. W.C., and 37, PICCADILLY, W. 277 



5440 WILSON (George, m.d., f.r.s.e.) Chemistry, illustrated, 12mo. cl., 2s I860 



5441 Religio Chemici : Essays [editetl l»y Jessie A. Wilson], with ingnette by Jeens after 



Sir Noel Paton, cr. 8vo. hf. polished green morocco extra, uncut, t. e. g., 6a- Ha 1862 



CoutainiiiK essays on Robert Bovlk, Wru.LASTON, and Johk Dalton, 'Chemistry and Natural Thpology * 'Cliemisiry 

 of the Stars ', ' Chemical Final Causes ', and ' Thoughts on the Resurrection.' ' ' 



Nos. 742-3, ante. 



5442 WILSON (Henry) Geodesia Catenea : or Surveying by the Chain only (a Metlio<l entirely 

 New) ; how to measure, plot, and divide any Parcel of Land, without any other Instrument but the 

 Chain, with Directions for Mapping, etc. etc., />ar/ra?<,rtwrf 2 ;>/a^6*,16nio.o/f/crt//"(«ic?co/)w),15i 1732 



Rare. and unknown to Watt, AUibone, and Lowndes. The author, a native of Pickering in Yorkshire, claims his method 

 to be ' the most true, easy, cheap, and expeditious that is or can be practised.' 



5443 [WILSON (John)] Trigonometry, with the Doctrine of the Suhere; Plain Dialing and 

 Splierique Geometry, 2nd Ed , with Treatise of Sections of Plans, and Introduction to Architecture, 

 numerous folding jilates, 12mo. old calf {Jinc copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 

 P. lis., Is Gd AV/w., 1724 



5444 WILSON (John) The Lost Solar Syste.m of the Ancients Discovered, with Appendix, 

 with woodcuts and diagrams, 3 vols. 8vo. in 1 (pp. 1003), cl., 6«6tif (p. £L 8») 1850 



* An iindijjested mass of data'. — Athrntruni, 



5445 WTNDISCH (Karl Gottlieb v.) Inanimate Reason ; or a Circum.stantial Account of that 

 Astonishing,' Piece of Mechanism, M. DE Kemi'ELEX's Chess Playek, now e.xhibitin«; at No. 8 

 Savile-Row, Riirlinj^ton-Gardens, trans. ; with 3 caliper plates, 8vo. (pp. OS), ««<r;j ( v Ss- crf 1784 



Wolfjiang von Kenjpelen's 'aut<>maton ch«ss-piuyer' cause*! an inunense seniuitiun in its time, ; ,.f a ngara 



in Turkish dress, which was supposed to n)Ove the pieces automatically, but really hid behind as.; , ,iaie whael* 



work a man of small 8t4itun>, who could guide the arm of the playing Turk. The machine made the tour oi im- whole work!, 

 and was burnt in a tire in Piiiiadelphia in 1854. 



The above enthusiastic account was written before the secret was found out. 



5446 WING (John) Ephemerides of the Ca:LE.STiAL Motions, 1702-7, diligently calculated from 

 Scientia Stellarum, and accommodatetl to the Horizon of the City of London, with Intro, touching 

 the Theory of the Sun and Planets, Demonstration of the Hei;;ht of the AtmoKphere, Tables c2 

 Right and Oblique Ascensions, etc. etc , tooodcuts, sm. 4to. mottled calf ejctra (title mounted, a 

 number of II. rudely mended, and others damaged or stained) ; CHEAP, 8* 6d 1720 



Includinti a 'Table of Loj'istical Logarithms . . . for finding the tnie latitude,' etc. etc. 



5447 WING (Vincent) Geod.«:tes Practicus : or the Art of Surveying, surveyed and laid out 

 in a more Accurate, Plain and Expeditious Plat, than hath hitherto been i>erformed ; 2nd Ed., 

 with a Treatise entitled, Examen Astrononiia' Carolin.T, l)eing an Answer to Mr. Tiio. Streets 

 Treatise of Astronomy, with plates, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 12mo. old calf, 

 \2sQd Jy. Ley bourn, imQ 



5448 New Edition, now much augmented and improv'd; with Appendix, shewing the whole 



Art ot Surveying by a New Instrument, called the Emperial Table, performing the Work of 

 the Theodolite, Circumferentor, Semi-Circle, Chard and Needle ; with the Description and Use of 

 a New (Quadrant, with Supplement, Scientia Stellaru.m, containing new and accurate Tables 

 of the Planetary Motions, etc. etc. by John Wixg, with copperplates, and numerous diagrams, 

 folio, old calf, newly and neatly rebacked (RARE), £1. \Qs 1700 



The • Emperial Table ' was the editor's own invention, and consisted of 'a perfect plain table, an exact thecMlolitc ami 

 circumferentor, and the peractor exactly adjusted, the needle or declinatory also fully rompleated thereon, in iU* own 

 kind and order, which inhtruments are here fidly compleated uiwn this one instrument, without tiie least coufuaiun of 

 lines or parts.' 



One of Vincent Wing's best known publications was the Olympia Domata, a semi-astrological ^linanack, continued for 

 over a hundred years by the Stationers* Comiiany. 



5449 WING ATE (Edmund) Arithmetick; containing a Plain and Familiar Method for attaining 

 the Knowledge and Practice of Common Arithmetick, carefully revised and much imoroved by 

 John Kersey [the Elder], 9th Ed., very much enlarged, thick sm. 8vo. old mottled eeUf { fine 



copy) ', rare, \bs 1694 



The last edition e<lited by John Kersey the elder, and unknown to D. N. B., where the 8th edition is given as the lakt 



edited by him. 



f,450 Tabul.ic Logaritiimic^e, or Two Tables of Logarithmes: the first containing those of all 



numbers from 1 to 100,000, contracted by Nathaniel Roe ; the other, those of the right Sines and 

 Tangents ; with the ISE of LOGARITHMES, first edition, with diagrams, 12nio. contemporary 

 caff (first I. of preface defective, one I. mended, and back of binding damaged, otherwise a sound 

 and clean copy) ; RARE, 11. Is M. Flesher, 1633 



' C'est a Edmiiiiil Winirate que la France dolt h'S premien«s Ubles logarlthmiques dont elle a joul. '—ifon/Mr/M. 



5451 WISLICENUS (Walter F., Unic. Strassburg) AstronomischeChbonologie: ein Hiilfsbuch 

 flir Historiker, Archaeologen, und A8tronomen,*8vo. cl., 3« (p. M. 5) J^ipzig, 1895 



5452 Haxdbuch der geographi.schen Ortsbestim.muN(;en auf Reisen ; %rith 19 illustrations ^ 



8vo. cl., 55 6rf (p. M. 8 sewn) ibidem, 1891 



545.3 WISE (John, aironaut) Sy.stem of AERONAUTICS, comprehending its EARLIE.ST Investiga- 

 tions, and Modern Practice and Art, containing the Various Attempts in the Art of Flying by 

 Artificial Means, from the Earliest Perio<l to the Discovery of the Aeronautic Machine by the 

 Montgoltiers, in 1782, and to a later Period ; with the Author's 15 Years' Exi»erience in Aerial 

 Voyages, full Instructions in the Art of Making lialloons. Parachutes, etc. etc., and Directions to 

 prepaTe Experimental Halloons, with fine mezzotint portrait, and numerous plates, 8vo. cl. 

 (slinhtly soiled) ; VERY SCARCE, £1. 10* Philadelphia, 1850 



The historical portion is very valuable, and is often quoted In Hatton Tumor'* ' Astra Castra '. It Is moreover the 

 only work giving an adequate account of American Balux>niso, and the fullest description of the author's own ascents. 

 He designed a new balloon known as Wises Transatlantic Balloon. 



• Some of Wises ascenta were highly Interesting, and their number and darinfc character juatlfled his title to b« 

 considered the foremost American aeronaut'.— KcUeiUin* ami Tondinton't TrateU in Space. 



