HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.O., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 353 



6892 CIAGCHI (Giuseppe) Regole Generali d' Abbaco, con un breve Trattato di Geometria, e Modi 

 del misiirare le Superhcie de' Terreni, e Corpi Solidi ; with arms on title, and woodcuts, 12nio. old 

 limp vellum [title and a few II. wormed, and some others water -stained), \'2s Firenze, 1675 



' Raro. . . . Pregevole i^er purezza di lingua, e come tale registrato dal Ganiba.*— /ficrar(/(. Unknowu to Poggendorff 

 and I'rof. de Morgan, 



6893 CIALDI (Alessandro) Cenni sul MoTO Ondoso del Mare, e suUe Correnti di esso ; with 

 plates, 4to. sewti. As Roma, 1856 



6894 CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY, Inaugural REPORT of the Director of the, 30th June, 

 1868 ; and ANNUAL Rkport 1st May, 1869, 8vo. sewn, 2s Cincinnati, 1869 



6895 CIVIL ENGINEER (The) and ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, Vols. I— VIII, ivith plates 

 and numerous woodcuts, 8 vols. 4to. cl., \os 1837-45 



a complete set to date : 



6896 ENGINEERS (INSTITQTION of), Minutes of Proceedings of thu ; from their 



beginning in 1887 to li)08, 173 v., Sdbject Index to vv. I— CXVIII, 2 v., Name Index 

 to vv. I — LVIII, I V. — together 176 vols. 8vo., with an immense number of large plates 

 and plans ^ besides cuts ; cl. (very scarce), £40. 10s 1837-1908 



TmK KARI.Y V0I-UME8 ARK EXTKKMKLY SOAIUJK. 



6897 Another Set, from 1858 to 1907 (Vols. XVIII— CLXVIII), 151 v. ; with Indexes, 15 v. 



—together 166 vols. 8vo. hf. calf cl., and sewn, £21. 1858-1907 



6898 Another Set, from March, 1882 to June, 1907 (vv. LXVII— CLXVIII; wanting vv. 



72-4, 133, 150, and 156), 96 vols. 8vo. sewn, uncut (a useful series), £8. 1882-1907 



'This valuable publication contains the history and description of the greatest engineering works of the greater 



1)art oflhe last century, the greatest engineering epoch in the history of the world. There is no other publication of its 

 :ind that can bear the laist comparison with it. From the time of Telford, Robert Stephenson and Brunei, to that of 

 the eminent men of the present day, scarcely a work has been accomplished but it is fully described and carefully 

 illustrated here.' 



A further most interesting feature is the full and intimate biographies of deceased members of the Institution. 



6899 , Transactions of the, with fine portrait of Telford, and 69 fne plates 



{mostly folding, and one of autographs of Engineers), complete in 3 vols. 4to. new hf. calf 

 (scarce), £2. 15* 1836-42 



Containing original contrib»tions by Tliomas Telford. Peter W. Barlow, k.r.s., T. Tredgold, Joshua Field, f.r.s., 

 Lt.-Gen. Sir W. T. Denison, f.r.s., Bryan Donkin, f.r.s., W, J. Henwood, f.r.s., T. E. Harrison, im.c.k.. Prof. Robert 

 Willis, pr,, F.R.S. ,Josiah Parkes, Col. J. T. Smith, k.r.s., J. M. Rendel, f.r s., George Rennie, f.r.8.. Gen. Sir C. W. 

 Pasley, k.r.s., W. T. Clark, f.r.s., Edward Bury, m.i.c e., David Stevenson, Samuel Seaward, f.r.r, and many others, and 

 including interesting articles on Railway and Locomotive Enoineering. 



The above set of the Transactions should accompany the Institution's Proceedin(js {q. v. suprj.). 



6900 [CLAIRAUT (Alexis Claude)] Recherches sur les Courbes a Double Courbure ; with 

 6 plates, 4 to. mottled calf gilt {fine and large copy) ; RARE, 18« 6rf 1731 



This work, demonstrating that all curves of the third order are projections of one of five parabolas, was written at the 

 age of IS, and procured the author's admission to the Academy of Sciences. ' Dans ce livre, il resolvait d'importants 

 probli-mes roulant sur les tangentes de ces courbes particuliferes. Leur rectitication et la quadrature des cylindres qui les 

 projettent sur les plans coordonnes y sont traitt-es par la methode encore en usage aujourd'hui '.—lioyer. 



6901 CLARE (Martin, f.r.s.) The Motion of Fluids, Natural and Artificial, in particular of tlie 

 Air and Water, third Edition, with 9 plates, 8vo. old calf {sound copy), 5s 1747 



6902 New Edition, with considerable Additions by R. Hall, m.d., 10 plates, 8vo. old 



calf, 4.9 1802 



6903 CLARIDGE (John, shepherd) : The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to judge of the Changes of 

 the Weather, grounded on 40 Years' Experience, with a Rational Account of their Causes, the 

 Nature of Wind, Rain, Snow, etc., on the Principals [sic] of the Newtonian Philosophy, 8vo. hf 

 leather {title in neat MS., and Index in the same contemporary hand ADDED); VERY RARE, 

 £1. 10* [1744] 



First Eeition of the recast of this popular work, which was originally published in 1670. 



6904 Second Edition, corrected, with 2 fine engravings of IlerscheVs Table of the Weather, 



ADDED, 8vo. boards {very rare), £\. bs 1748 



6905 New [Third and Last] Edition, corrected, 8vo. hf. cl., uncut {scarce), \2s 6rf 1827 



'To John Campbell [ll.d., friend of Dr. Johnson, 1708-75], has been generally ascribed the recast of 'The Shepherd of 

 Banbury'.« Rules '. It is somewhat noticeable as an attempt to base on quasi-scientific principles the weather forecasts of 

 the alleged Banbury shcphenl.'— D. N. B. See al.so Notes and Queries, I. Ser., v. VII, 373. 



6906 CLARK (Alexander) The Polarity of Matter ; showing that Electricity, Magnetism, 

 Clieniical Affinity, Cohesion, and Gravitation, have one Common Origin, illustrated, cr. 8vo. cl., 

 'Is 6rf (p. 35 6d nett) 1907 



6907 CLARK (Daniel Kinnear, m.lc.e.) Fuel : its Combustion and Economy, third Ed., with 

 144 woodcuts, 12nio. hf. calf neat, .3* 1886 



6908 Manual of Rules, Tables, and Data for Mechanical Engineers ; unth S5S diagrams, 



thick 8vo. (pp. 1011), hf. calf, 6s 6rf (p. £1. 5* in cl.) 1877 



6909 The Steam Engine : a Treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers, comprising the 



Principles and Practice of the Combustion of Fuel, the Economical Generation of Steam, the 

 Construction of Steam Boilers, and the Principles, Construction, and Performance of Steam 

 Engines, Stationary, Portable, Locomotive, and Marine, ivith numerous folding plates to scale, and 

 woodcuts, 2 thick vols. roy. 8vo. in 4, cl., £1. 5* (p. £2. 10* nett) 1890-1 



6910 Tramways : their Construction and Working, with special reference to the United 



Kingdom, \^ folding plates {linen-mounted), and numerous woodcuts, thick large post 8vo. hf. 

 morocco, 3s 6/(p. 18*) 1878 



6911 Another Copy ; with Supplement, with front, and 76 icoodcuts, 2 vols, large post 8vo. 



hf olive morocco, 5s Qd (p. £1. 10* in cl.) 1878-82 



