HENUY SOTHEHAN i<t CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 37, riCCADILLY, W. .317 



0218 BILLET (Felix) Traitk d'OniQUE Phvsique ; with 14 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. d. {v. I irater- 

 stained), 5* (p. F. 15 nett unbound) 1858-9 



6219 Another Copy, 2 vols. hj. red morocco {nice copy), Is 6d 



6220 BILLY (Jacques de, s.j.) Nova Geometri.*: Clavis Algebra, cuius Beneficio aperitur 

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' A scarce work, unnoticed by Montucia and Cbasles, containing much inqtiiry respecting the theory of numbers. As 

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6221 BINGLEY (Henry ; Royal Mint) CHEMICAL FRAGMENTS [in verse] , 12mo. (pp. 55), Mtm» 

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Queer dopgrel mfinoria Uchnica, e.g:— 



Two more thermoiuet«rs of note, 



or which we likewise read. 

 Arc Reaumur's, as is on it wrote, 



And the French Centisrade. 



6222 BINKE3 (J. W., Obseroatorium, Leyden) Over de Naauwrkurigheid van de Waarnemiso 

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6223 BINNS (William) Elementary and Second Course of Orthographic FRaiEcriON : a New 

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6224 BIOT (Jean Baptiste, de VInstitut ; F.R.S.), E.S.SAI de GtOMKTRlK Analytique, aupliqui^e aux 

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' Ouvra};*' tn'-s-fstlme.' — liiogr. (Un. 



6225 Tables Barom^triques l*ORTATiVES, donnant les Difrerences de Niveau |»ar une simple 



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6226 Relation d'un voyage fait dans le D^partement de I'Orne, pour constater la R<^alite 



d'un M^t^ore observe a I'Aigle le 26 Floreal an 11 ; with maps, 4to. (pp. 471. sewn, 4s 



Thermidor an XI [IS03] 



6227 Traite Elementaire d'AsTRONOMiK PHYSIQUE, 3« [dermierk] VaI, corrigj^ et 



auginentee, 5 vols. 8vo. mottled calf extra (Atlas wanting), 12* 1841-57 



' Biot in his Astronotai: Physii/Uf has considered the subject of the motion of the solar system In spaca. Ao iuvesUpi* 

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 l>e!ieving that the solar system is adviin'-in}; towanls any determinate iM)iht of the heavens '.—Hobert Cmnt. 



La Veritk sur le PROcksde Uahlke (1858)— v. Galilei, post. 



, et F. LEFORT : Commercium Epistolicum (1856)— r. Nbhtoniana, po^t. 



6228 BIB.INGUC0IO (Vanoccio, Sennese) De la PiROTECHNiA Libri X, dove ampiamente si tratu 

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Venetia, per Venturino Roffinello, 1540 



6229 Another Copy, old vellum (water stained), £2. 2* 



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' Ia premiere e<lition de 1540 est la i>lus U-We.'—Itrunet. 



6231 Terza Edizione; with woodcut title, and numerous woodcuts, sm. 4io. very sound copy 



in old limp vellum, £1. 10.v ibidem, per Comin da Trino di Monfrrrato, \55S 



6232 Quarta Edizione, nuovamente corretta, et ristampata, con TavolA; printed in italics, 



with numerous woodcuts, thick 12mo. old limp vellum (back of cover damaged, othentisr a FINK 

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RARE, £1. 15* Rouen, Jacques Cailloui, 1627 



' Wo'rking on lines similar to those of Agricola (7. v. anU), and at about the same period, the Italian Biringuccio busied 

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