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



6004 [BARLOW (Peter, f.r.s.)] Treatise on the Hyperbola; with Tables of Hyperbolic 

 Logarithms from 1 to 10,000 to 8 Places of Decimals, 4to (pp. 30), sewn, 5s [c. 1820] 



6005 Treatises on Optics, Plane Astronomy, Magnetism, and Electro-Magnetism, 



ivith numerous plates, 4to. hf. calf, Ss 6d [1819-24] 



The author's own copy, with his bookplate. 



6006 BARLOW (William Henry, f.r.s.) On the Adaptation of different Modes of Illuminating 

 Lighthouses ; as depending on their Situations and the Object contemplated in their Erection, 

 diagrams, 4to. (pp. 15), sewn, 2s 1837 



6007 BARNES (R. G.) New and Improved Universal System of Book-Keeping, containing 

 Three Complete Sets of Books, and various supplementary and additional Forms, etc. etc., 9th Ed., 

 8vo. cL, '3s 1877 



6008 BARR (William M.) Boilers and Furnaces, considered in their Relations to Steam 

 Engineering, with 468 woodcuts, large 8vo. cl., 10s (p. 18s) Philadelphia, 1899 



6009 BARR]^jy[E [(rran9ois)], L'Arithmetique de, ou le Livre facile pour apprendre I'Arith- 

 mi tique de soi-meme et sans Mattre ; nouvelle Ed., augmentee de plus de 190 pages, ou Regies 

 diil'6rentes, de la Geometric, servant au Mesurage et a I'Arpeutage, etc. etc. ; with rude woodcut 

 front, and title, and diagrams, l2mo. old calf, 8* 1752 



The first ready reckoner in France, edited by the author's son Nicolas. His works enjoyed there the same popularity 

 as tliose of Edward Cocker in England, and of Adam Riese in Germany, and his name is immortalised in French as the 

 synonym for a ready reckoner (barevfie). 



6010 Le Livre des Comptes-Faits, S^ Ed. ; tvith engraved title inscribed to Colbert, and his 



finely engraved portrait and arms, l2mo. sound copy in old calf extra {rare), \5s 1673 



Prof, de Morgan, who erroneously calls the author 'Nicolas Barreme', knew only the edition of Amsterdam, 1773. 

 The other works were unknown to him. 



6011 Les COMPTES-FAITS, ou Tarif General de toutes les Monnoyes ; with finely engraved 



title, 12mo. old calf gilt {fine copy), with ''Avis ' signed by the author, 10* Qd 1720 



a greatly enlarged edition of the ' Livre des Comptes-Faits.' ' Par ses connaissances theoriqucs et pratiques, I'auteur 

 rendit son \io\n proverbial : C'cst un Barreme, il compte comme un. Barreme ', etc. — Biogr. (Jen. 



6012 BARRET (Robert) The Theorike and Practike of Moderne Warres, discoursed in 

 Dialogue wise, wherein is declared the Neglect of Martiall Discipline : the Inconuenience thereof : 

 the Imperfections of manie Training Captaines : a Redresse by due regard had : the fittest 

 Weapons of Moderne Warre : the Vse of the same : the Parts of a Perfect Souldier in generall 

 and in particular : the Officers in degrees, with their seuerall Duties : the Imbattailing of Men in 

 Formes now most in vse : with figures and Tables to the same ; with suudrie other martiall points, 

 with vignette on title, aiid full-page arms of Henry 2nd Earl of Pembroke on rev., folding plate, 

 numerous woodcuts, and author^ s arms on last I., folio, old vellum {blank top margitis badly stained, 

 and some corners worn away, also bla7ik corner of last I. torn off) ; very rare (cheap), £3. 15* 



William Ponsonby, 1598 

 ' Barret's first work. It was published in London in 1598 with two dedicatory addresses, the one to the Earl of 



Pembroke and the other to his son William, Lord Herbert of Cardiff, for whose instruction the book was professedly 



prepared . . . Barret deals largely with military tactics, and many interesting diagrams may be found among his 



pages.'— 1). iV. B. 



According to Chalmers, Shakespeare alludes to this work in ' All's well that ends well.' 



It contains complimentary verses, signed 'William Sa. Gentleman', wliich are of such unusual excellence that the 



assumption of their liaving been written by Suakf:speaue liimself is not altot,'ether beyond possibility. 



6018 BARROW (Isaac, d.d.. Master of Trinity, f.r.s. ; tutor oj Sir Isaac ISewton) Mathematical 

 Works, edited for Trinity College by William VVhewell, d.d., with 27 folding plates, besides 

 diagrams, thick 8vo. c/., 7^ Qd (p 155) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1860 



The only collected edition of liarrow's scientific works, with an interesting preface by the editor. 



60U Geometrical Lectures : explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of 



Curve Lines, translated from the Latin Edition revised, corrected and amended by Sir Isaac 

 Newton, by Edmund Stone, f.r.s., with fine portrait on copper, and 11 folding plates, Svo. old 

 calf gilt (fine copy), 10* M 1735 



6015 Lectio in qua Theoremata Archimedis de Sph.era et Cylindro, per Methodum 



Indivisibilium investigata, ac breviter demonstrata exhibentur: Euclidis Elementorum 

 Libri XV [et Data] breviter demonstrati, et prioribus Mendis typographicis nunc demuni jjurgati, 

 2 vols. 16mo. in 1, with numerous diagrams ; original calf {rare). Vis Londini, J. Eedmxiyne, 1678 



^ Lectiones Optica et Geometric^e (1674)— v. Archimedes, No. 5816, ante. 



See No. 50i>4, ante, for Barrow's Annotated Copy of V'ieta (1(546). 



6016 BARROW (Sir John, f.r.s.)' Sketches of the Koyal Society, and Royal Society Club, 

 withfs., 8vo.. cl., uncut {scarce). Is Qd privately printed, 1849 



lucludiii'i biographies of Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Wollaston, Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. Thomas Young, Henry Cavendish, 

 and others. 



6017 BARRY (Sir Edward, f.r.s) Observations Historical, Critical, and Medical on the Wines 

 of the Ancients, and the Analogy between them and Modern Wines, with general Observations 

 on the Principles and Qualiiies of Water, and in particular on those of Bath, with front, 

 and vignette on title by Isaac Taylor, 4to. old calf, newly rtbacked, \Qs iod 1175 



' Sir Edward Barry was the lirst who treated the subject of wines in this country scientiiically.' — D. N. B. 



6018 BARRY (Sir John Wolle Wolfe-; f.k.s.) Kail way Appliances: Details of Railway Con- 

 struction subsequent to the Completion of the Earthworks and Structures, including a short 

 Notice of Rolling Stock, tvith 2u7 woodctds, 12mo. ///. calf. Is Qd 1876 



6019 , and Sir Frederick Joseph BRAMWELL, f.r.s. : Railways and Locomotives : 



Lectures at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, with 228 woodcuts, Svo. hf. morocco 

 {scarce), 12s (p. £1. Is) 1882 



6020 BARWISlii (Sidney, m.d.) The Purification of Sewage, with 14 woodcuts, cr. Svo. cl., 2s Qd 



(p. 56) V ^, / j^^gg 



