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



5659 AEBEO-STATICA : Relazione dell' Espekienza Aereo-Statica, eseguita in Bologna, 

 li 22 Agosto 1804, 12mo. (pp. 37), sewn {rare), lOs 6d Bologna [1804] 



Unknown to Mr. Hatton Turnor. 



5660 AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY of GT. BRITAIN, First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth 

 Annual Reports of the (1866-7, '69-70), with 2 plates, and woodcuts, 4 vols. cr. 8vo. sewn (very 

 SCARCE), £2. 2s 1866-70 



The first volinne is entitled 'Aerial Locomotion ', and contains interesting experiments with flying machines. 



5661 AEROSTATICS; or a History of Balloons: giving an Account of the Aerial Voyages, 

 Observations, and Discoveries in France, England, Ireland, and Scotland, with the Practice of 

 Aerostation, explaining the Art of Constructing, Inflating, and Navigating Air Balloons, and 

 the Uses they may be applied to, particularly that by which the French gained the Battle of 

 Fleurus, with fine coloured front, {folding) of a balloon and parachute, post 8vo. (pp. 55), 

 marbled boards, uncut, £1. 15* printed for the author, 1802 



Verv rark, and unknown to Hatton Turnor, Watt, or Lowndes. At end are accounts of ascents by R. C. Sowdkn and 

 E. H. Locker. 



5662 AEROSTATION: the Article (18 columns) from Nicholson's 'British Encyclopedia', 

 with copperplate by Lowry, 8vo. unbound, 5s 1808 



5663 DISPLAYED; containing a Circumstantial and Authentic Account of the most 



celebrated Aerial Voyages that have been performed in France and England from the first 

 Invention of the Air Balloons, to the present Time, from the most authentic Documents, with 

 their probable Uses in Philosophical and Commercial Pursuits, the most improved Method of 

 Making and Filling Balloons, etc. etc., with coloured etching of Garnerin and Sowden's balloon, 

 June 28, 1802 (? inserted), 8vo. (pp. 56), sew7i {title mounted, and plate apparently wanting), 

 £l.5s [c. 1802] 



Vkry rare, and unknown to Hatton Turnor, Watt, Lowndes, etc. It contains accounts of all the important English 

 Ascents, from Lunardi's on Sept. 15th 1784 to Garnerin and Locker's in 1802, and chapters on 'General Principles of 

 Aerostation ', ' Probable Uses of Air Balloons ', ' of the Construction of Air Balloons ', etc. 



56C4 AGRIGOLA (Georgius) Bergwerck Buch : darinnen nicht allein alle Empter, Instrument, 

 Gezeug, und alles, so zu diseni Handel gehorig, sondern audi, wie ein rechtverstandiger Bergmann 

 seyn soil, und die Gang ausszurichten seyen . . . Item, wie das Gold vom Silber, und das 

 SiLBER vom Gold . . . zu scheiden sey . . . durch Philippum Bechium gut verteutscht, und 

 nun zum andern mal gedruckt ; with very good impressions of the numerous large woodcuts of 

 mining and metallurgy, folio, oiew hf. calf antique (fine COPY); RARE, £3. 15.? Basel, 1621 



5665 De Re Metallica Libri XII, quibus Officia, Instrumenta, MachinvE, ac omnia denique 



ad Metallicara spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed et per Effigies, suis Locis 

 insertas, adjunctis Latinis, Germanicisque Appellationibus ita ob Oculos ponuntur, ut clarius 

 tradi non possint ; ejusdem de Animantibus Subterraneis Liber, ab Auctore recognitus, cum 

 Indicibus diversis, quicquid in Opere tractatum est, pulchre demonstrantibus ; with very numerous 

 large and well-executed woodcuts, folio, contemporary pressed vellum, ornamented with figures and 

 floral borders {some II. slightly stained, and blank side margin of title and about 20 pp. somewhat 



worn, otherwise a FINE AND TALL COPY), £7. ibidem, H. Frobenius et N. Episcopius, 1556 



5666 Editio Altera ; omnibus nunc iteruni ad archetypum diligenter restituta et castigata ; 



WITH unusually FINE AND CLEAN IMPRESSIONS of the numerous woodcuts, 1561 : De Ortu et 

 Causis Subterraneorum Lib. V. De Natura eorum qua? effluunt ex Terra Lib. I III. 

 De Natura Fossilium Lib. X. De Veteris et Novis Metallis Lib. II. Bermannus, sive de 

 Re Metallica Dialogus Lib. I. Interpretatio Germanica Vocum Rei Metallic^., addito 

 DuPLici Indice, altero Rerum, altero Locorum, omnia cum baud poenitenda accessione recens 

 recognita — 2 vols, folio in 1, old {/Italian) calf extra, with fine gold-tooled ornament in centre 

 (very fine copies, but title of ^ De Ortu ' slightly soiled, some MS. notes on margin, and a few II. 

 in the same vol. slightly wormed on blank margin), £12. 125 ib., apud eosdem, 1561-58 



The above copies, save for the slight defect mentioned in the first-named, are in itnusually fine condition, nearly all 

 copies occurring for sale being more or less browned. These early fditions contain moreover the best impressions of the 

 fine woodcuts, which are greatly inferior in those publi.-hed in the XVIIth Century. 



The work is becoming rapidly rare and increasing in value, a copy of the little-valued German translation having 

 fetched £7. 15s at auction only a few months ago. 



' It remained for a long time the most important textbook of mineralogy ... It is characterised by a clearness of 

 expression, a temperate conception of the operations described, and a distinct description both of the apparatus employed 

 and the processes followed— qualities which stamp Agricola as a true investigator. It was through this work that the 

 more important operations in the working up of ores for their metals first became generally known ; and Agricola was likewise 

 the first to explain intelligibly the manufacture of other products obtained by smelting, and of various preparations of 

 technical importance.' — Prof. E. v. Meyer. The woodcuts illustrating the work are remarkably good, and important as 

 the first exhaustive pictorial account of the machinery and processes in Mining and Metallurgy then in vogue. 



The author, whose real name was Bauer, was the first to give a full account of the chemistry of metals. He also 

 discovered bismuth, and in mineralogy distinguished between simple and compound minerals, the first of which he 

 divided into earth.«, concretions, stones, and metals. In ' De Re Metallica' t.h3 auUior states that mineral sub.stances may 

 be recognised by the colouring of a flame on burning them — the first suggestion of blow-pipe analysis. 



5667 AGBIPPA [von NETTESHEIM] (Heinrich Cornelius) Of the Vanitie and Uncer- 

 TAiNTiE of Artes and Sciences: Englished by Ja[mes] San[ford], Gent., sm. 4to., blarfe Ifttrr, 

 old calf {pp. 92-103 wanting, and a few pp. stained on margin) ; RARE, 15s Henrie Bynneman, 1575 



Tliere is no copy of this edition in the British Museum. 



5668 Another Edition [with Life], with portrait by Bumford, 12mo. hf. calf gilt {title 



slighly mended, but a VERY SOUND copy), 15* G. Blount, 1684 



5669 Later Edition [with Life], large 12mo. tall copy in contemporary calf, \0s Qd 1694 



' It was a work of high reputation in its day, and will always remain a monument of his great ability' (Rose) ; but is 

 perhaps of most interest as a satirical but true picture of th9 state of science during the early part of the Sixteenth 

 Century, which landed it!^ author in pri»?on. 



