316 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND W.C, AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



6197 BESSEL (Friedrich Wilhelm, f.r.s.) : Auxiliary Tables for Mr. Bessel's Method of 

 Clearing the Distances, roy. 8vo. (pp. 91), sewn, 2^ Qd n. d. 



6198 : Fundamenta Astronomiae pro Anno MDCCLV, deducta ex Observationibus Viri 



incoinparabilis James [sic] Bradley in Specula Astronomica Grenovicensi per Annos 1750-62 

 institutis, folio, hf. morocco gilt, uncut, \6s Regiomonti, 1818 



'The eminent value of the work consisted in this, that by providing a mass of entirely reliable information as to the 

 state of the heavens at the epoch 1755, it threw back the beginning of exact astronomy almost half a century.'— i/^iss Aqnes 

 M. Gierke. 



6199 Tabulae Regiomontanae Reductionum Observationum Astronomicarum ab 



Anno 1750 usque ad Annum 1850 computatse ; roy. 8vo. hf. calf, 6s 6fl? ibidem, 1830 



6200 Another Copy, calf gilt {nice copy). Is Qd 



6201 BESSON (Jacques) Le Cosmolabe, ou Instrument Universel, concernant toutes Observations 

 qui se peuvent faire par les Sciences Mathematiques, tant au Ciel, en la Terre, corame en la Mer ; 

 with folding plate, and numerous fine and large woodcuts, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, white vellum [first 

 title missing, and a few II. scribbled on, otherwise a fine AND large copy) ; RARE, £1. \s 1569 



Of great rarity, unknown to Houzeau and Lancaster, and of importance as first proposing the method which Charles 

 Irwin was supposed to have discovered in 1760 for finding the longitude at sea. 



The above second edition first contains, with a separate title, the author's 'Le Cosmographe : Instrument adjoinct en la 

 superieure partie du Cosmolabe au lieu de I'Atlas, lequel sert particulierement pour la Corographie '. * 



6202 Description et Usaige du Compas Euclidien, contenant la plus-part des Observations 



qui se font en la Geometric, Perspective, Astronomic, et Corographie ; ^vith engraved title [hand- 

 coloured), sm. 4to. (pp. 9), sewn, 15s Galiot du Pre, 1571 



Very rare ; unknown to Brunet. 



6203 Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, cum Francisci Beroaldi Figurarum 



Declaratione demonstrativa, necnon ubique necessariis et utilissimis Additionibus nunquam 

 liactenus editis, auctum atque illustratum per JuLiUM Paschalem, Nobilem Messanensem ; title 

 within fine allegorical woodcut border, and 60 large plates, large folio, contemporary Italian vellum 

 [some II. very slightly stained as usual, otherwise an unusually fine copy) ; very rare, with 

 Prof. Biccardi's booklabel, £3. 15s Lugduni, Barth. Vincent, 1582 



The above edition of this curious work was unknown to Ebert, while Graesse mentions an edition of 1582 containing only 

 40 plates. M. Libri gives the following description of it in his Sale Catalogue : 'An important Avork, containing a great 

 number of fine large plates, exhibiting various inventions for the snsi)ending of carriages, for fire-engines, for musical 

 instruments (this work is not mentioned by Fetis), a new press for impressing coloured cloths, etc' 



6204 II Theatro de gl' Instrumenti e Machine, con una brieve necessaria Dicliiaration 



Dimostratiua, di Francesco Beroaldo ; sii tutte le Figure, che vi son comprese, nuovamente di 

 Latino in volgare Italiano traHotto e di moltisime Additioni per tutto Aummentato et illustrato 

 pel Signor GlULIO Paschali Messinese ; with title ivith woodcut border, and 60 large plates, 

 illustrating many ingenious mechanical devices, folio, old vellum [slightly stained) ; rare, £2. 10s 



ibidem, apud eundem, 1582 

 ' 11 inventa, pour des demonstrations mathematiques, plusieurs instruments ingenieux. '—Biogr. Gen. 



6205 BEVAN (Benjamin, c.e.) Guide to the Carpenter's Rule, 12mo. cl., 3s 6d 1832 



6206 BEVAN (P. V., Fellow of Trinity) The Combination of Hydrogen and Chlorine under the 

 Influence of Light, 4to. (pp. 51), sewn, 2s 1903 



6207 BEVEBIDGE (William; 48th Bp. of St. Asaph) Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II, 

 una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicje Li bell us, editio princeps, sm. 4to. old hf. calf 

 [rare), 15s Londini, T. Roy croft, 1669 



6208 Editio Altera, priori emendatior, sm. 4to. contemporary panelled calf gilt, 12s 



ibidem, a e., 1705 



' The arithmetical part is a treatise on the numerals of different nations, learned, but not always judicious, according 



to modern views of the history of symbols. It is followed bv a brief elementary treatise on arithmetic, with chronological 



examples '—Pro/, de Morgan, who only mentions the third edition of 1721. It was Bp. Beveridge"s first published work, 



issued three vears before his celebrated ^vuoSikov, after which he devoted himself wholly to theology. 



6209 BIBLIOTHECA MATHEMATICA : Journal d'HiSTOiRE dts Mathematiques, public par 

 Gustaf Enestrom, Nouvelle Serie, Tomes 1 a 7 ; with diagrams, 7 vols. 8vo. in 2, hf. morocco 

 neat, 12s (p. M. 28 unbound) Stockholm, 1887-93 



6210 BICdUILLEY (Charles Francjois de) Du Calcul des Probabilites, nouvelle Ed. ; with 

 folding plate, 8vo. sewn (rare), 6s 6d 1805 



a full account of this work is given in the History of the Theory of Probability by Dr. Todhunter, who states that he 

 has never seen the above edition. 



6211 BIEHRINGER (August, Nurnberg) Die Mechanischen Arbeitsleistungen und das 

 Perpetuum Mobile : eine populare Abhandlung ; ivith woodcuts, post 8vo. sewn [scarce), 5s 6d 



Nordlingen, 1875 



6212 BIERENS de HAAN (D. ; Univ. Leyden) Tables d'lNT^GRALES Definies, 4to. cl. [title 

 wanting, and corer slightly damaged), SCARCE, £1. 10s [Amsterdam, 1858] 



' A collection of the known results with respect to Definite Integrals has been published by D. Bierens de Haan, under 

 the title of Tables d'Integroles Definies.'— Prof. Todhvnter's Integral Galcidns (1891). 



6213 NouvELLES Tables d'iNTEGRALES D6finies, thick 4to. hf cl. [out of print), 16s 6d 



(p. £1. 5s nett) Leide, 1867 



6214 Iets over de QuADRATUUR van SiMON van der Eycke en hare Gevolgen, 8vo. (pp. 24), 



sewn, 2s z. p. enj. 



6215 Notes sur la Theorie des Int^grales Definies, Nos. IV— VII, 8vo. (pp. 23), seum. 



Is 6d s. I. [1867] 



6216 BILLINGS (Robert William ; author of ' Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland ') 

 The Power of Form applied to Geometric Tracery, 100 Designs and their Foundations, result- 

 ing from one Diagram, 50 fine plates, besides woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl. [scarce), 10s Qd Edin., 1851 

 ' Tlie author was the first to prove that not only was the whole detail of Gothic Architecture founded on geometric law, 

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