2S6 HENKY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



5628 ACCUM (Friedrich Christian) Culinary Chemistry, exhibiting the Scientific Principles of 

 Cookery, with concise Instructions for preparing good and wholesome Pickles, Vinegar Conserves, 

 Fruit Jellies, Marmalade, etc. etc. ; with the Chemical Constitution and Nutricive Qualities of 

 difierent Kinds of ¥ood, prettily coloured front, of kitchen-range, etc. and vignette on title, post 8vo. 

 cl.y uncut {rare), lOs Qd E. Ackermann, 1821 



5629 Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets, 



Houses, and Public Buildings, with Elevations, Sections, and Plans of the most improved sorts of 

 Apparatus now employed at the Gas Works in London, and the principal Provincial Towns of 

 Gt. Britain, with comparative Estimates, exhibiting the most Economical Mode of procuring this 

 species of Light, first edition, with coloured front., and Qfine COLOURED folding plates, large 

 8vo. original figured boards, uncut [nice copy) ; SCARCE, £1. 15* 1819 



5630 Second Edition, with coloured front. , and Qfine coloured folding plates, large 8vo. 



original figured hoards, uncut {back defective, otherwise a FINE copy), £1. 7* Qd 1820 



this forms to a certain extent a supplement to the ' Practical Treatise on Gas Light ' ((/. v. infra), and treats the subject 

 wholly from a technical standpoint. Tliese two works together form a complete treatise on the state of the science in its 

 very infancy, while the fine illustrations depict most accurately the methods and ai>paratus used at the time, and form an 

 unusual series of ' Ackermann Plates '. 



The di.scovery of coalgas was due to John Clayton, Dean of Kildare, who communicated his experiments to the Hon. 

 Robert Boyle some time before 1691. It was first employed for lighting purposes by Lord Dundonald in 1787, and on a 

 larger scale by William Murdoch, who in 1798 lit up a part of Boulton & Watt's Manufactory at Soho, Birmingham. 



6631 Elements of Crystallography, after the Method of Hauy ; with, or without, Series of 



Geometrical Models, both Solid and Dissected, ivith 4 copperplates {stained or foxed), and 

 woodcut figures, 8vo. boards, uncut, Qs 1813 



The first English treatise on Crystallography on the structural theory, based on Haiiy's epoch-making work. 



5632 Practical Treatise on Gas-Light ; exhibiting a summary Description of the 



Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, 

 with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal Gas ; with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General 

 Nature of this new branch of Civil Economy, 3rd Ed., with 7 fine COLOURED plates (2 folding), 

 and 2 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. boards, uncut {SCA.RCE), £1. 10s R. Ackermann, 1816 



5633 Fourth [last] Edition, with 7 fine coloured plates (2 folding), and 2 woodcuts, 



large 8vo. hoards, uncut, £1. 7* 6rf apud eundem, 1818 



This Important work is the first practical treatise on gas lightino, and was immediately translated into German, 

 French, and Italian. The author was engineer of the Lendon Chartered Gaslight and Coke Co., formed in ISIO, and ' it is 

 said that the prompt adoption of this mode of lighting in London and other large cities was greatly due to his Practical 

 Treathe on Gas Light.'— D. N. 11. 



The above two editions, besides a few additions, contain an interesting preface : ' A large part of London is illuminated 

 with Gas-Light, more than 4000 Argand's lamps now burn coal gas in this metropolis . . . The total length of main pipes 

 deposited in the streets of London, for conveying carburetted hydrogen gas, exceeds 20 miles.' Some of the plates illustrate 

 early gas-fittings in private houses, some of which are not in quite such bad taste as might be expected. 



5634 Traite Pratique de I'Eclairage par le Gaz Inflammable, contenant une Description 



sommaire de I'Appareil et du Mecanisme employes pour I'lllumination a I'aidc du Gaz Hydrogene 

 Carbur^, tire du' Charbon de Terre, traduit sur la 3® Ed. anglaise, public et augmente par F. A. 

 WiNSOR ; with 8 folding plates, 8vo. sewn, uncut, with inscr. * de lAuteur a Monsieur Briotte ' on 

 title (scarce), 155 1816 



The tirst treatise on gas-lighting in French, and specially interesting for the preface by Frederick Albert Winsor, one of 

 the pioneers of gas-lighting, then engaged in introducing it in Paris. 



This translation contains several interesting pieces by Winsor, which are not contained in the English original [q. v. aupra], 



5635 Treatise on the Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, exhibiting the 



Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spirituous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Con- 

 fectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, etc., and Methods of detecting 

 them, 2nd Ed., with sinister vignette on title, 12mo. hf morocco qilt {nice copy) ; rare, \Qs Qd 1820 

 A horrible exposure of a state of affairs which continued for very many years till the appeai-ance of Dr. Hassall. It 

 contains accounts cf a number of adulterators convicted, with their fines— as defrauding the revenue— not as poisoning 

 the public. 



5636 Treatise on the Art of Brewing, exhibiting the London Practice of Brewing Porter, 



Brown Stout, Ale, Table Beer, and other Malt Liquors, first edition, with coloured front, and 

 vignette, post 8vo. boards, uncut {scarce), 8s 6d 1820 



' My hiain object has been to divest the art of brewing of the mystery iu which it has been involved by interested 

 persons '. — Preface. 



5637 Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits : the Chemical Principles 



on which it depends, the most suitable Fruits, and the Method of Preparing them, with coloured 

 vignette, 12mo. hf calf extra, with bookplate of Henry B. H. Biaufoy, F.Ii.S. {rare), 8s 6d 1820 

 Tne author wrote many works on a great variety of chemical subjects, nearly all of which have kept some value and are 

 now scarce. See Nos, 17-27 for other works by him. 



5638 ACHAUD (Franz Carl) Sammluxg physikalisceer und chymischer Abhandlungen, 

 L Band ; with plate, 8vo. sewn, Ss 6d Berlin, 1784 



The author is well known as having introduced the process of manufacturing sugar from beetroot. 



5G39 ACKLAND (William) How to Take Stereoscopic Pictures, including detailed Account 

 of the Apparatus, and mmute Description of the Collodio- Albumen, Fothergill's, and Powell's 

 Dry Process, 3rd Ed., with 20 woodcuts, 12mo. sewn {scarce), 5s 6c? 1859 



5640 ADAMS (George, Sen.) Treatise describing the Construction and the Use of new Celestial 

 and Terrestial Globes ; with a Great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems, 30th 

 Ed., with Preface and Additions by Dudley Adams, ivith 14 copperplates, 8vo. boards, 5s 6d 1810 



Last etliUon of this once popular work. The dedication to the King is, according to Boswcll, by Dr. Johnson. 



5641 ABABIS (William Henry Davenport) Lighthouses and Lightships : their Construction 

 and Organization, with plates and woodcuts, cr. 8vo. calf gilt, 2s Qd 1870 



5642 The Story of our Lighthouses and Lightships, withwoodcutsandmap, cr. 8vo. cl.,1s 1891 



