294 HENRY SOTHEIIAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



5778 ANGLi:S (Robert) Traite du Quadrant (Montpellier, Xllle Siecle). Texte Latin et 

 ancienne Traduction Grecque publics [avee Prol^gomenes (pp. 32) et Appendice] par Paul 

 Tannery; tcith ivoodcut of the Quadrant, 4to. sewn, 3s Impr. JS ationale, 1897 



5779 ANaUETIL [(A. Thomas-)] Notice sur les Pistolets Tournants et Roulants, dits 

 Revolvers, ou leur Passe, Present, et Avenir, avec les Principes g^neraux sur le Tir de ces 

 Armes ; with tooodcuts, 8vo. (pp. 149), sewn (very scarce), 10s 6d 1854, or '5 



Ono of the earliest treatises on the revolver, published only 4 years after Col. Colt's invention, and discussing the 

 comparative merits of his, the Adanis-Deane, Couiblain, Mangeot-Comblain, Haaken-Plondeur, and a few other types 

 then in vogue. 



5780 ANSTED (David Thomas, f.r.s.) Water and Water-Supplv, chiefly in Reference to the 

 British Islands : SURFACE WATERS, with maps and charts, 8vo. cl., Qs (p. 18^) 1878 



5781 ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, Report of the Royal Society's Committee on Physics 

 and Meteorology, relative to the Observations to be made in the, and in Magnetic Observa- 

 tories, with folding charts and tables, 8vo. cl., 5s 6d 1840 



The expedition was "that undertaken in the 'Erebus' and 'Ten-or' under Capt. [afterwards Adml. Sir] James Clark 

 lloss, whose attention was ofticially directed, before all else, to the subject of Terrestrial Magnetism, 



5782 (National), 1901-4 {as under), prepared under the Superintendence of the Director 



of the Meteorological Ofiice and of the Royal Society, with very numerous plates {many folding 

 and some coloured), and maps, 4 vols. 4to. hf. buckram, cl sides, £2. 12« Qd (sells £3. 18* hd nett) 



Royal Society, 1908 

 Contents :— Meteobolooy, Part I : Observations at Winter Quarters and on Sledge Journeys: Physical Observations : 

 Album of Photographs and Sketches, with Portfolio of Panoramic Views, 2 v. 



5783 : Meteorology, Part I : Observations at Winter Quarters and on Sledge 



Journeys, Avitli Discussions by various Authors, 14 plates {some coloured), text-illustrations, and 

 5 foldinq maps, 4to. buckram, cl. sides, £1. 1* (sells £1. ll.s 6d nett) apud candem, 1908 



5784 ANTHONY (William Arnold, Cornell Univ.), Cyrus Fogg BRACKETT, Princeton Univ., 

 and William Francis MAO IE, ejusdem : Elementary Text-Book of Physics, 8th Ed., revised, 

 with illustrations, large cr. 8vo. hf. calf, Qs (p. 12* Crf nett) New York, 1897 



5785 [ANTONI (Alessandro Vittorio Papacino d')] Examen de la Poudre, traduit de I'italien 

 par le ViCOMTE de Flavigny; with ^folding copperplates, 8vo. old hf. calf {rare), 8* 



Amsterdam, 1773 

 Including a large number of original experiments on gunpowder, some of which anticipate the discoveries of Count 

 Ruinf)rd. 



5786 APIANTJS \jgermanice BIENEWITZ] (Petrus) Cosmographicus Liber, iam denuo integ- 

 ritati restitutus per Gemmam Phrysium [sic']. Item eiusdem Gemmae Phrysii Libellus de 

 LOCORUM DESCRIBENDORUM ratione, & de eorum distantiis inueniendis, nuntj ante hac visus ; 

 with numerous ivoodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn {title very slightly soiled, otherwise a SOUND 

 COPY) ; VERY RARE, £3. lOs Antverpice, Joa. Grapheus, 1533 



This rare edition was unknown to Brunet and Graesse. 



5787 Editio Nova: Cosmographia, per [Reynerum] Gemmam Frisium iam demum ab 



omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnuliis quoque locis aucta. Additis ejusdem argumenti libellis 

 Gemma? Frisii [Usus Annuli ASTRONOMICI Regionum et Locorum Descriptio, etc.] ; with 

 numerous woodcuts {including several MOVEABLE ones), and the fine folding map {often missing) 

 showing America, 4to. old vellum {back slightly damaged, but FINE and exceptionally large 

 copy) ; RARE, £5. 55 ibidem, Greg. Bontius, 1550 



The woodcut maps have been rei)laced by better ones in this edition, wliile the ajjpendix : Usus Annuli Astrononiici, 

 is here first publislied. The folding map is greatly valued as an early representation of America. 



5788 Another Copy, sm. 4to. old hf. calf {folding map wanting, and title and last I. margined^ 



also a few II. water-stained), £2. 2* 



5789 Editio Altera ; with numerous woodcuts {several being moveable), and the rare fold- 

 ing MAP, sm. 4to. sewn, with auto. * Christopherus Fabricius, 1580 ' on title, £3. 35 



ibidem, Joa. Bellcrus, 1574 



Practically a reprint of the foregoing edition. 



The author was the first to suggest (in the above work) the determination of the longitude by lucar distances, while 

 its editor, Gemma Frisius, proposed the use of a chronometer for the same purpose. 



Apianus also first suggested the use of coloured glasses in observations of the sun, and discovered that the direction of 

 comets' tails is opposite to the sun's. 



5790 : Instrument Buch, durch Petrum Apianum erst von new beschriben. I. darinne begriffen 



ein newer Quadrant, dardurch Tag und Nacht, bei der Sonnen, Mon, unnd andern Planeten, audi 

 durch ettliche Gestirn, die Stunden, und ander nutzung, gefunden werden. II. AVie man die hoch 

 der Thiirn, und anderer gebew, desgleichen die weyt, brayt, und tiefl'e durch die Spigel und Instru- 

 ment, messen soil. III. Wie man das wasser absehen oder abwegen soil . . . lY. iJrey Instrument, 

 die miigen in der gantzen welt bey Tag und bey Nacht gebraucht werden ... V. Wie man 

 kiinstlich durch die Finger der Hiinde die Stund in der Nacht, ohne alle Instrument erkhennen 

 soil. VI. Ein newer Messstab, desgleichen man nendt den Jacobsstab, dadurch auch die hiich, 

 brayt, weyt, und tieffe, aufF newe art gefunden wirt ; with numerous fine woodcuts, folio, large 

 and very sound copy in vellum cover from XV. Cent. MS. (very rare), £4. 105 Ingolstndii, 1533 



Containing the author's chief inventions to solve astronomical and geodetic problems by mechanical means. 



5791 QUADRANS AsTRONOMicus et iam recens inventus et nunc primum editus. Huic adiuncta 



sunt et alia Instrumenta Observatoria perinde nova, adcommodata Horis discernendis noc- 

 turnis simul et diurnis, idque ex Sole, Luna, Stellisque tum erraticis tum fixis, ad quoque tamen 

 cognitionem cuique citra onmem Preceptoris operam facile pervenire licebit. Deinde Altitudinis 

 etiam, Distantite, Profunditatisque Puteorum, Turriiimque sen .^i^dificiorum adnexa? sunt Dimen- 

 siones et Aquarum quoque ex Monte uno in alium Deductiones ; ivith numerous ivoodcuts, and 

 3 loose plates to form volvelles, and 5 plates of the Quadrant at end, folio, seivn (very large and 

 SOUND copy) ; VERY RARE, £3. 35 ibidcm, apud auctorcm, 1532 



