HENRY S0THER4N & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 405 



7923 FISHBOURNE (AdmL Edmund Gardiner) Our Ironclads and Merchant Ships, with 14 

 folding plates, and numerous diagrams, 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 6s (p. 10* %d) 1874 



Consisting larf,'ely of mathematical demonstrations of the laws wliich go/ern the motion of ships at sea. 



7924 FISHER (George, accomptant) Arithmetick in the Plainest and most Concise Methods 

 hitherto extant, with New Improvements for Dispatch of Business in all the several Rules, as also 

 Fractions Vulvar and Decimal wrought together after a new Method ; 7th Edition, with con- 

 siderable Additions and curious Improvements, 12mo. hf. bound, uncut, 15s 1748 



7925 The Instructor : or, the Young Man's Best Companion, containing Spelling, Reading, 



Writing, Arithmetic, Merchants Accompts . . . the Practical Ganger, with the Art of Dialling, 

 etc. etc. ; 24th Edition, improved, with plates and woodcuts, 12mo. old sheep {Joints cracked), 

 10s 6d 1784 



Both the above works are rare, and were unknown to Prof, de Morgan, Lowndes, Watt, or Allibone ; nor is the author 

 in D. N. B. 



7926 FISHER (George Egbert), and Isaac Joachim SCHWATT, Univ. Penna. : Text-Book 

 of Algkbka, with Exercises, Part I, large cr. 8vo. cl., 5s Philadelphia, 1898 



7927 FITTON (William Henry, m.d., f.r.s.) Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings, 

 with coloured folding plate and woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. cl., uncut (scarce), 4s 1833 



7928 Inquiries respecting the Geological Relations of the Beds between the Chalk and 



the Purdeck Limestone in the South-East of England, with coloured folding map and table, 4to. 

 (pp. 26), sewn, vnth author's inscr. to W. T. Brande, F.R.S. , 5s 1833 



7929 . Observations on some of the Strata between the Chalk and the Oxford Oolite, in 



the South-east of England, with 14 lithographs of palceozoa, 5 coloured plates and maps {4 folding), 

 and woodcuts, 4to. hf. calf (scarce), 15s [1836] 



' He laid down the proper succession of the strata between the oolite and the chalk ; dividing the ' greensand ' into 

 an upper and lower division, separated by a bed of clay, the gault. This work forms a distinct landmark in the history 

 of geology.'— 7). N. B. 



7930 FITZGERALD (George Francis, t.c.d., f.r.s.) Scientific Writings, collected and edited, 

 with Historical Introduction, by Sir Joseph L ARMOR, M.P., F.R.S. , with fine portrait, and 

 diagrams, thick 8vo. cl., 9s (p. 15*) Dublin, 1902 



' The very brevity of most of FitzGerald's papers, and their direct attack on the barriers tliat limited the scientific 

 horizon of the day, enhance their value towards an historical coiispactus of the progress of the theory of the ether, and 

 of the branches of physics which are founded thereon.' — Preface. 



7931 : by Sir Joseph Larmor, m.p,, f.r.s., with portrait, impl. 8vo. (pp. 22), seum. Is 6d 



[New York], 1901 



7932 FITZGERALD (Hon. Robert) Salt-Water Sweetned ; or a true Account of the Great 

 Advantages of this New Invention both by Sea and by Land : with full and satisfactory 

 Answer to all Apparent Difficulties ; also the Approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, 

 likewise a Letter of the Hon. Robert Boyle upon the same subject, first edition, sm. 4to. 

 (pp. 18), unbound (rare), 15s 1683 



7933 Fourth Edition, with Additions, sm. 4to. (pp. 13), unbound, 12s 1684 



The author appears to have been the first to have produced drinkable water from sea water by distillation— an invention 



generally ascribed to Gauthier in 1717. 



7934 FITZROY (Vice-Adm. Robert, f.r.s.) Barometer and Weather-Guide (Board of Trade, 

 1859), third Edition, enlarged, 8vo. (pp. 31), sewn, 2s 1859 



7935 Notes on Meteorology (Board of Trade, 1859), 8vo. (pp. 35), sewn, 2s 18.59 



7936 [ ] Report of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade, 1857, roy. 8vo. 



(pp. 83), sewn, 2s 1857 



7937 The Weather Book : a Manual of Practical Meteorology, 2nd Edition, with 16 folding 



plates and charts, and woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl. (scarce), 12? 6d 1863 



7938 . Another Copy, cl. (title wanting and cover dam,aged). Is 



' His ' Weather Book,' published in 1863, inaugurated a distinct advance in the study of the science. He instituted, for 

 the first time, a system of storm warnings, which have been gradually developed into the present daily forecasts'.— Sir 

 /. K. Ijiughton. 



He also constructed the barometer known by his name. 



7939 FLAM9IARI0N (Camille) Astronomie Populaire : Description g^n^rale da Ciel ; toith 

 coloured front., 8 plates and maps, and 358 woodcuts and diagrams, thick colombier 8vo. hf. 

 crimson morocco extra, g. e. (nice copy), IQs 1884 



An excellent popular work which received the prize of the French Academy. 



7940 L' Atmosphere : Description des Grands Phenombnes de la Nature ; with 15 coloured 



plates, and 228 woodcuts (many full-page), and 2 maps, roy. 8vo. (pp. 824), hf. morocco gilt, g. e., 

 8s 6d (p. F. 20) 1872 



7941 The Atmosphere, translated [and abridged by C. B. Pitman], edited by James Glaisher, 



f.r.s., with 10 coloured plates, and 81 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., g. e.. Is (p. £1. 10^) 1873 



Including Optical Phenomena of the Air, Temperature, Winds, Water, Cloud, Rain, Electricity, Thunderstorms, and 

 Lightning. 



7942 ■ HiSTOiRE du Ciel, nouvelle Ed. ; with numerous plates and woodcuts, impl 8vo. sewn, 



35 Qd (p. F. 9) [c. 1875] 



7943 Astronomical Myths, based on his ' History of the Heavens,' by J. F. Blake, ujith 



plates and numerous woodcuts (many from old prints), and chart, large post 8vo. d., uncut (scarce), 

 65 1877 



a valuable popular history of astronomy from the earliest times to Copernicus. 



7944 Lea Mondes Imaginaires et les Mondes R6els : Revue critique des Theories Humaines, 



Scientifiques, et Romanesques, anciennes et modemes, sur les Habitants des Astres ; with front., 

 8vo. sewn, 4* , 186S 



7945 La Plurality des Mondes Habitus, nouvelle Edition ; with 4 plates, cr. 8vo. seum, with 



inscr. to Dr. Phipson, 2s 6d 1864 



