HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 387 



7587 ENGRAVING : Sculptura-Historico-Technica : or History and Art of Ingraving : its 

 Rise and Progress: Ingraving in General : Idea of a fine Collection of Prints : The Repertorium, 

 or Collection of Marks and Cyphers, by which the Prints of the best Ingravers are distinguished : 

 Ingraving, Etching, and Scraping on Copper, as now practised, with 10 copperplates, 12mo. old 

 calf (rare), lis Qd S. Harding, 11^7 



This interesting little work was unknown to Lowndes or Watt. Besides engravers' marks it contains a copious list of 

 engravers. 



7588 ENNEFEB. (Alfred ; Univ. Gottingen) Elliptische FUNKTIONEN : Theorie und Geschichte, 

 large 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 5s (p. M. 16 sewn) Halle a. S., 1876 



7589 ENNIS (William Duane, Polytechnic Inst., Brooklyn) Linseed Oil, and other Seed Oils : an 

 Industrial Manual, with 70 illustrations, some folding, roy. 8vo. c/., 10* 6d (p. 16* nett) 1909 



7590 EPHEMEBIS (The American), and Nautical Almanac, 1896-1912, toith maps, 17 vols, 

 impl. 8vo. (1 V. 8vo.), cl., £2. 5* Washington, 1893-1909 



7591 EBBE (Johann Jacob), Johann Friedrich BEINMANN, et Christian Theophilus 

 OMELIN: Dissertatio Academica de Aureo Vellere, aut Possibilitate Transmuta- 

 TIONis Metallorum, sm. 4to. (pp. 88), boards [title mended) ; RARE, 12* 6d Tubingoe, 1737 



Interesting as showing that alchemy was still taught as part of chemical science at Tubingen University at the time 

 of its publication. It includes Historia Aurei Velleris ; de Productione Artificiali Ferri et Sulphuri ; Experimenta 

 Hombergiaiia ; Argumenta pro Possibilitate Transmutationis, cum Responsione ad Dubia, etc. etc. 



7592 EBCKEB. (Lazarus) Beschreibung Allerfurnemisten Mineralischen Ertzt unnd Berg- 

 WERKSARTEN, wie dieselbigcn, und eine jede insonderheit, ihrer Natur und Eygenschafft nach, 

 auff alle Metalla Probirt, unnd ini Kleinen Fewer sollen versucht werden, mit Erkliirung etlicher 

 fiirnemmer niitzUcher Schmeltzwerk, im grossen Fewer, auch SCHEIDUNG Goldts, Silbers, und 

 anderer Metalln, Sampt, einem Bericht dess Kupffersaigerns, Messingbrennens, und 

 Salpetersiedens, auch aller saltzigen Mineralischen Proben, und was denen allei> 

 anhangig, dessgleichen zuvom niemals in Druck kommen ; with numerous fine and large woodcuts 

 illustrating metallurgical processes and apparatus, folio, boards {slightly browned as usual, but a 

 sound and tall copy) ; very rare, £2. 10* Franckfurt a. M., G. Tampach, 1629 



An important work ranking with those of Agricola and Biringuccio {qq,. v. ante), and of great interest in connexion with 

 the early history of metallurgy. It is often quoted iu Percy's Metallurgy of Silver and Gold. 



It was unknown to Poggendorflf, Brunet, Ebert, or Graesse, the last of whom only mentions the author's ' Aula 

 Subterranea ', 1684, 



7593 : Assays of Lazarus Erckern [sic] , translated by Sir John Pettus, f.r.s. v. 



Pettus's Fleta Minor, post. 



7594 EBDMANN (Hugo, Berlin), und Paul KOTHNEB; Breslau: Naturkonstanten in 

 alphabetischer Anordnung : Hilfsbuch fiir chemische und physikalische Rechnungen, mit 

 Unterstutzung des Internationalen Atomgewichtsausschusses herausgegeben, large 8vo. buckram, 

 45 (p. M. 6) Berlin, 1905 



7595 EBDMANNSDOBFF (G. A. von) Die kleinen Waffen, oder die Waffen der Infanterie und 

 Cavallerie, mit der Lehre vom Schiesspulver und besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Percussions- 

 Gewehre ; with 4 folding plates : Die Artillerie. Die Truppenlehre. Der Kleine Krieg. 

 Die Fortification ; with 1 folding plates, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf calf, 6s 6rf Magdeburg, 1845 



Interesting as having been written at a time when the flintlock musket was being superseded by the percussion-lock 

 rifle, both of which are described and illustrated. 



7596 EBGEBNISSE (Die) der Triangulierungen des k. und k. militar-geographischen 

 Institutes ; Band I — IV: Triangulierungen I. II. und III. Ordnung; ^vith \^ folding plates and 

 m^ps, and woodcuts, 4 vols, large impl. 8vo. sewn, 10s 6d (p. M. 28 nett) Wten, 1901-6 



7597 EBICSSON (John), The Life of. by William Con ant Church, with portraits, and numerous 

 illustrations of his inventions, etc., 2 vols, large 8vo. cl., 8s 6d (p. £1. 45) 1890, or '2 



Containing a mil and lively account of one of the most remarkable engineering geniuses of the world, and his lifelong 

 course of invention, beginning with the Novelty, the rival and possible superior of Stephenson's Rocket, the ironclad 

 monitors of the United States Navy, and his experiments for deriving motive power from the sun's rays, etc. etc. etc. 



7598 EBXLEBEN (Johann Christian Polykarp, Univ. Gottingen) Anfangsgrunde der Chemie, 

 mit neuen Zusatzen vermehrt von Johann Christian Wiegleb, post 8vo. sewn, uncut, 5s 6d 



Gottingen, 1784 

 Pp. 9-43 contain an interesting bibliography. 



7599 EBZEY (Adrianus) Wiskonstige Beschryving der Reguliere Lichamen, aantoonende hoe 

 men die uit Massive Stoffe kan maaken, hun Inhoud berekenen, en op dezelveu Zonnewyzers 

 beschrijven ; with 12 folding copperplates, 8vo. contemporary hf calf gilt {nice copy) ; rare, 12* Qd 



Amsterdam, 1764 



7600 ESTABBOOKE (Edward M.) The Ferrotype, and how to make it, with 2 fe/rrotype por- 

 traits, and diagrams, post 8vo. cl., g. e., with author's inscr., 6s 6d Cincinnati, 1872 



7601 : The Ferrotypers' Friend, by a Practical Ferrotyper, illustrated by E. M. 



Estabrooke, with fne ferrotype portrait, 12mo. sewn {last I. defective), Zs Baltimore, 1880 



7602 ESTIENNE (Charles), et Jean LIEBAXJLT, Docteurs en Medecine : L' Agriculture, et 

 Maison Rustique, Edition demiere, reueue et augmentee de beaucoup, dont le contenu se voit 

 en la page suyuante. Plus un brief recueil des chasses du Cerf, du Sanglier, du Lieure, du 

 Renard, du Blereau, du Connil, du Loup, des Oiseaux, et de la Fauconnerie. Item, la 

 Fabrique et Usage de la Jauge, ou Diapason ; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 3 vols, 

 sm. 8vo. in 1, hf coif antique {a number of pp. water-stained) ; rare, £1. Is 



s. I., Charles de la Fontaine, 1601 

 ' Livre qui a eu beaucoup de succ^s, et dont le second titre {Maison rustique), adapts 4 de nouveaux ouvrages da 

 m6me genre, s'est perp^tu6 jusqu'i nos jours '.—Brunret, Pp. 521-88 treat of Distilling. 



