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



5586 [ZACUTH (Abraham ben Samuel)] Almanack Perpetuum exactissime nuper emedatfi 

 omniil CELI xMOTUUM, cum additionibus in eo factis tenens complementum, cr. 4to. partly m gotT)ic 

 letter ; old parchment {some II. badly stained) ; very rare, with contemporary MS. notes, £2. 2* 



Venetiis, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1502 



Not mentioned by Brunet or Poggendorf. ' Abraham Zacuth paroit meriter ime mention particuliere. 11 enseigna 



I'astronomie a Salamanque et etoit observateur d'Emmanuel, roi de Portugal ... II pretend y lAlmanach] reduire tous 



les mouvoments celestes a des periodes qui ramenent les planetes a des points, ou recommencent de nouveau les meraes 



inegalites.' — Montucla. 



5587 ZANOTTI (Francesco Maria, Bologna) Delia FoRZA de' Corpi che chiamano Viva, Libri tre ; 

 with folding plate, Svo. old vellum {title mended), 4s' Qd Bologna, 1752 



A metaphysical argument, ' senza assumere dalla geometria ; no dalla meccanica altro, che le proposizione, 'piu note e 

 piCi comuni.' 



5588 Opere Scelte ; with fine portrait, and folding plate ^ 2 thick vols. Svo. contemporary hf. 



Italian morocco gilt ^ lOs 71f*7awo,'l8l8 



' Oe qu'il y a de meilleur des ouvrages de I'auteur en italien sur les lettres et les sciences a ete imprime sous le titre 

 O^ere. Scelte.' — Biogr. Gen. 



5589 ZEIDLER (J., Berlin), and J. LUSTGARTEN, Manchester Univ.: Electric Arc Lamps, 

 with 16 plates, and 163 other illustrations, Svo. cl., 3s (id (sells 5s nett) 1908 



5590 ZEITSCHRIFT fiir INSTUUMENTENKUNDE : Organ fiir Mittheilungen aus dem 

 gesammten Gebiete derwissenschaftlichen Technik, Redakteur: Georg Schwirkus, I. Jahr- 

 GANG ; with numerous woodcuts, impl. Svo. hf. red morocco gilt, 6s (p. M. 18 unbound) Berlin, 1881 



5591 ZENKER (Wilhelm) Lehrbuch der Photochromie (Photographic der natlirlichen Farben), 

 neu herausg. von B. Schwalbe ; with portrait, coloured plate, and other illustrations, Svo. new 

 hf. cl., 3s (p. M. 4 sewn) Braunschweig, 1900 



Including ' Lebenslauf und Vorzeichniss der wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten Zenker's von G. Krech.' 



5592 ZEXTNER (Gustav Anton, Zurich) Treatise on Valve-Gears, with Special Consideration of 

 the LiNK-MoTiONS of Locomotive Engines, trans, by Moritz Muller, 3rd Ed., enlarged, ivith 

 5 folding plates, and numerous woodcuts, Svo. cl., 3s (p. V2s) 1869 



5593 ZEUTHEN (Hieronymus Georg, Univ. Copenhagen) Histoire des Mathematiques dans 

 I'Antiquite et le Moyen Age, Ed. fran9aise, revue et corrigee par I'Auteur, traduite par Jean 

 Mascart ; with diagrams, Svo. sevm, 5s lod (p. F. 9 nett) 1902 



5594 ZIWET (Alexander, Univ. Michigan) Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics, 

 Part I : Kinematics, with 78 diagrams, Svo. cl., 5s (p. Ss 6d nett) 1893 



5595 Part III ; Kinetics, with 55 diagrams, Svo. cL, 5s (p. Ss 6d nett) New York, 1894 



5596 ZONCA (Vittorio, architetto di Padova) Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii per varie et 

 SICURE Operationi, CO le loro Figure tagliate in Kame e la Dichiaratione e Dimostratione di 

 ciascuna, prima edizione ; with engraved title, and 44 large and fine etchings of a variety of 

 machinery, folio, old vellum {one plate slightly damaged^ another rnended, and some stained on 

 margin) ; RARE, £1. 5s Padova, P. Bertelli, 1607 



5597 NUOVA Edizione : with engraved title and 44 large and fine etchings {good impressions), 



folio, cl. {some II. mended, out a sound copy), £1. 5s ibidem, F. Bertelli, 1621 



5598 Altra Edizione ; with engraved title, and fine impressions of the 44 large and fine 



etchings, folio, old Italian vellum (FINE COPY), £1. 15s ib., a. e., 1656 



'A very rare work on machinery, displaying the wonderful inventions of the author, including those for various mills, 

 copperplate and printing presses, a smoke-jack for roasting, etc. Among the rest is a spinning-jenny, identical with the 

 one patented over a century later in England, the honour of inventing which certainly belongs to the ingenious Italian, 

 whose countrymen seem to have given themselves little trouble to claim justice for Zonca.' — Libri Catalogue. The last 

 machine illustrated represents a monster siphon for perpetual motion, which is described in Dircks's ' Perpetuum Mobile ', 

 2ud series. ' Ce recueil pent etre consulte avec fruit par ceux qui voudraient imiter actuellement quelques produits des 

 manufactures de I'epoque oi\ vivait I'auteur.' — G. Libri. 



5599 ZUCCHI (Niccolo, s.J.) Nova de Machinis Philosophia, in qua, Paralogismis Antique? 

 detectis, explicantur Machinarum .Vires Unico Principio, singulis immediato ; accessit Ex- 

 CLUSIO Vacui contra Nova Experimenta, contra Vires Machinarum ; Promotio Pidlosophice 

 Magnetic?e ex ea novum Argumentum contra Systema Pythagoricum ; with numerous woodcuts^ 

 sm. 4to. limp Italian vellum (RARE), £1. 5s Bomce, 1649 



The ' exelusio vacui ' is not contained in the first edition of 1646. 



The author was the first to construct a reflecting telescope, and according to Bailly, the first to discover spots on 

 Jupiter. 



5600 ZUCHETTA (Giovanni Battista, cittadino Genovese) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, per 

 la quale con mirabile Ordine, e nuove Regole si risolve con mirabile Facilita ogni Dubbio 

 Mercantesco, con un Trattato che risolve qualunque quesito bisognoso a Zecchieri, Orefici, et 

 Argentari ; with etched portrait^ mt. 48, on title, folio, old limp vellum {back of binding damaged, 

 title slightly defective and mended, and one I. inked and holed); very rare, £2. 2s Brescia, 1600 



' Apprezzato come uno dei migliori trattati di aritmetica mercantile'. — Riccardi. The first part was the only one ever 

 issued. The work was seemingly unknown to Prof, de Morgan, who only mentions the author's name in the index to his 

 ' Arithmetical Books '. 



5601 ZYL (Johannes van) Theatrum Machinarum Universale, of groot algemeen Moolen- 

 BoEK, behelzende de Beschryving en Afbeeldingen van allerhande Soorten van Moolens, derzelver 

 Opstallen en Gronden . . . nevens eene naauwkeurige Af beelding van de Amsterdamsche Modder- 

 Moolens, enz. ; with vignette and 62 fine folding plates on copper by Jan Schenk, impl. folio, 

 boards, £1. Is ' Amsterdam, 1761 



5602 Laatste EN BESTE Druk ; with vignette, and 64 folding plates on copper, 2 vols. impl. 



folio in 1, handsomely bound in hf. crimson morocco extra, g. e. (very fine copy), £2. 15s 



ibidem [c. 1770] 

 The most sumptuous work ever published on Windmills, which were brought to perfection by stress of circumstances 

 in Holland. This edition contains 2 plates which were not issued with the foregoing one. 



