HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 4l7 



8196 GAIRNS (J. F.) Locomotive Compounding and Superheating, with front, and 148 other 

 illvstrations, 8o. cl., 6s 6o? (p. 8s 6o? nett) 1907 



8197 GALBRAITH (Joseph A., pr.), and Samuel HAUGHTON, pr., f.r.s.: Manual of 

 Mathematical Tables, fcap. 8vo. c/., Is Qd 1860 



8198 GALE (J.) Cabinet of Knowledge ; or Miscellaneous Recreations, with a Series of easy, 

 entertaining, and interesting Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments . . . and 

 Appendix, containing various Propositions tending to prove Light and Heat Two Distinct Beings, 

 with some curious Definitions in Optics ; 2nd Edition, enlarged, with Q folding plates, 12rao. old 

 sheep {hack cloth-covered) ; rare, 105 6c? 1797 



8199 GALGEMAIB (Georg) Inventum P. Apianl Das ist : Beschreibung eines Geometrisch^ 

 Instruments, durch welches one alle rechnung gar behend vnd leichtlich, allerley hoche, weitte, 

 tiefe vnd braite, auch allerley tiiichenoder ebnen Innhalts, abgemessen, und andere mehr nutzliche 

 sachen erkundiget werden. Dabey auch Inventum Astrologicum Cypriani Leovitij zu 

 finden ; with woodcut title, and iiumerous fine woodcuts, sra. 4to. sewn {sound and clean copy) ; 

 RARE, lis Qd Augspurg, 1616 



An improvement of the qxmdrant of Apianus. Author and work were alike unknown to Poggendorft'. Kiistner 

 mentions two works by Galgeuiair, but apparently did not know the above, which is also unnoticed by Graesse, and 

 other bibliographers. 



8200 GALILEI (Galileo) Opere, in questa nuova Editione insieme raccolte, e di varij Trattati dell* 

 istesso Autore non piii stampati accresciute [da Carlo Manolessi] ; with engraved portrait hy 

 Villamoena, frontispiece, folding plate, and numerous icoodcuts and diagrams, 2 thick vols. 4to. 

 old calf {backs slightly damaged, otherwise a sound copy) ; rare, £1. 5* Bologna, 1656 



The first collected edition of Galileo's works, containing all the chief ones, save the Dicdogo, and first including the 

 treatise containing his invention of the hydrostatic balance. 



' This edition, which is pronounced by Gamba * stimatissima ', is cited by the Crusca, and contains many previously 

 unpublished writings of Galileo.* — Libri Catalogue. ' Kara edizione.'—Riccardi. 



8201 Opere, nuova Edizione, coll' aggiunta di varj Trattati dell' istesso Autore non piii dati 



alle stampe [pubblicate, con Vita, da G. G. Bottari e Tommaso Buonaventuri] ; unth finely 

 engraved portrait after Villamoena, plate, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 3 vols. 4to. 

 contemporary white Italian vellum (FINE COPY), £1. Is Firenze, 1718 



The second collected edition. ' Pregiata edizione.'— iJiccarcZi. 'Valuable for the general historical preface written by 

 Buonaventuri.'— ii&ri Catalogue. 



8202 Opere; Prima Edizione Completa, condotta sugli autentici MSS. Palatini [per Cura 



di Eugenio Alberi] ; con Supplemento (Ritratto e Tavole) ; with portrait {with another in- 

 serted), and plates, 16 vols, roy . 8vo. sewn, and vv. 1-2, boards, uncut, £3. 105 (p. F. 270) ibidem, 1842-56 



8203 Another Copy, with the Supplement, 16 vols. roy. 8vo. in 14, hf. calf gilt {v. I. wanting 



pp. 297-304), £3. 10^ 



FiR-sT Complete Edition of Galileo's works, including his life by his disciple Viviani, and his valuable Correspondence 

 with some of his most celebrated contemporaries, in itself forming valuable material on the state of science during the 

 beginning of the XVII. Century, and the history of his time. 



' Cette edition comprend tout ce que Ton connaissait deja d'ecrits de Galil6e imprimes soit dans les differentes editions 

 des ceuvres, soit separement ; plus une quantite de morceaux inedits qui constituent i pen prfes le tiers de la collection, 

 panni lesquels la correspondance de Galilee avec les savants de son temps, composee de pres de 1600 lettres contenues en 

 six volumes. II s'y trouve aussi une quantity d'autres pieces qui se rapportent aux ceuvres et i la vie de Galil6e, ce qui 

 constitue un corps d'ouvrage qui laisse bien en arrifere toutes les precedentes 6ditionsdes oeuvres de ce grand homme.'—Brunet. 

 THE GREAT NATIONAL EDITION OF GALILEO : 



8204 OPERE, EDIZIONE NAZIONALE sotto gli Anspicii di Sua Maesta 



il R^ d'lTALiA [Direttore : Antonio Favaro. Coadiutore Letterario : Isidoro dEL 

 LuNGO. Consultori : V. Cerruti e G. V. Schiaparelli. Assistente per la Cura del 

 Teste: Umbkrto Marchesini] ; finely printed, and copiously illustrated with fss. of 

 autographs, title-pages, or textual illustrations, besides numerous other illustrations, 

 20 thick vols. 4to. in 21, Special Edition on Carta Distinta (only 55 sets thus 

 issued) ; original parchment wrappers, uncut (as fresh as new), £45. 



ibidem, Tipografia Barber a, 1890-1909 



The most complete, and inosst beautiful edition of Galileo ever Itsued. TJve work vxu prepared by order of the Italian Govern- 

 ment, in a style worthy of the great author, in a strictly limited nunU)er of sets, whi<^ were all reserved for presentation. No sets 

 were ever available for sale, except on those rare occasions when a presentee decided to sell his own. The above is moreover one of 

 the few sets on ' carta distinta ', and thus presents perhaps a unique opportunity to acquire this truly grand work. 



It contains all the author's scientific and literary works and his voluminous and v(iluable correspondence far more 



extensively than in any previous edition. Each volume has a copious index, while vol. XX consists of ' Indice dei 



Volumini' (pp. 17-46); 'Indice del Facsimili' ' " ' "" 



Biografico ' (pp. 35£ 

 Galilei sotto gli Au 

 1907, uniform vnth 



(pp. 47-53); 'Indice dei Nomi e delle Cose Notabili ' (pp. 55-357); 'Indice 

 Biografico' (pp. 359-661); ' Supplementi ' (pp. 563-89). Added is also 'Per la Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Galileo 

 Galilei sotto gli Auspicii di 8. M. il Rh d'ltalia, Trent' Anui di Studi Galileiani, par Antonio Favaro' (pp. 29), Firenze, 

 1907, uniform unth the edition. 



8205 System A Cosmicum : in quo IV Dialogis de duobus Maximis Mundi Systematibus, 



Ptolemaic 3 et Copernicano, Kationibus utriusque Rationibus Philosophicis ac Naturalibus 

 indefinite propositis disseritur. Ex Italica Lingua Latine conversuni [a Matthia Berneggero] ; 

 aceessit Appendix geniina, qua SS. Scripturjx} dicta cum Terrae mobilitate conciliantur [Auctore 

 Paulo Antonio Foscarini] ; editio liatina princeps ; with fine portrait by J. v. d. Hey den, 

 front, of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus, woodcuts, and diagrams, 4to. old vellum, arms on 

 sides, g. e. (sound copy) ; very rare, £2. 10* 



Au^ftistae Trebocorum, impensis Elzeviriorum, typis Davidis Hautti, 1635 

 ' Volume imprime k Strasbourg aux frais des Elzevier. La preface du traducteur nous apprend que c'est aux pressantes 

 sollicitations des c616bres typographes de Leyde, qu'il a entrepris son ti%v&il.'—Willems. 



The Systeme of the World in Four Dialogues. Inglished from the Original Italian 



by Thomas Salusbury (1661)— v. No. 4199 ante. 



