HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 4i<, PICCADILLY, W. 431 

 846-5 GLASGOW (Ddvid) Watch and Clock Making, with 69 woodcutsy fcap. 8vo. d. {o.p.), 5s 



1885, 07' '93 

 8i6o GLAUBER (Johann Rudolph) Works, containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in 

 Medicine and Alchymv, in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of 

 Metals : also, various Cheap and Easie Wavs of making Salt-petre, and Improving of Barren- 

 Land, and the Fruits of the Earth, translated by Christopher Packe, first JSnglish edition, 

 with 10 plates, folio, hf. calf {title giiarded, but a very sound copy) ; rare, £2. 10* 



Thomas Milbourn, 1689 



8467 Second Edition, with 10 plates on copper and wood, folio, hf. morocco {last 2 II. of Index 



missing), £1. 10* printed for the Author, 1694 



8468 FuRNi Novi Philosophici, sive Descriptio Artis Destillatoriae Novce ; with folding plates, 



and other woodcuts, 5 v. : Annotationes in APPENDICEM V. Partis— 6 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. 

 old limp vellum {sound copy) ; RARE, £1. Is Amst., J. Jansson, 1651 



One of the author's most important works, describing a large number of new chemical processes, with illustrations of 

 his apparatus. 



8469 Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, or a new Art of Distilling, with 



a Description of the Tincture of Gold, or the True Aurum Potabile, also the First Part of the 

 Mineral Work, set forth in English by J[ohn] F[rench] D. M., with curious woodcuts, sm. 4to. 

 very soicnd copy in contemporary calf {joints cracked) ; RARE, £3. 3* E. Coats, 1651 



First English Edition of the ' Furni Novi Philosophici.' The translator was John French, m.d. (1616 ?-57), author 

 of ' The Art of Distillation ' (q. v. ante)— a, fact unknown to Lowndes and Halkett and Laing. 



Besides the particulars on Glaubsr given in the note to no. 1570 ante, it may be mentioned that according to Dr. Percy 

 he seems to have been the first to use leaden cisterns for the condensation of acid vapours in metallurgical processes. 



8470 GLAZEBROOK (Richard Tetley, f.r.s., director. National Physical Laboratory) Electricity 

 and Magnetism, unth 270 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., Ss 6d (p. 7* Hd) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1903, or '4 



8471 Heat : an Elementary Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, with 88 illustrations, cr. 



8vo. cl.. Is 6d a. e., ib., 1894 



8472 Mechanics and HvDROSTATics : an Elementary Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, 



with 336 illustrations, 3 vols. cr. 8vo, cl., 5s (p. 10*) a. e., ib., 1895 



8473 Physical Optics, with 183 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cL, Ss (p. 6s) 1883 



8474 , and William Napier SHAW, f.r.s.. Director, Meteorological Office: Practical 



Physics, with frontispiece and 80 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 2s (p. 6s) 1885 



8475 New [Fourth] Edition [greatly enlarged], with 134 woodcuts, thick post 8vo. cl., 3s 



(p. 6s) 1894 



8476 GLASENAPP (Serge de ; Univ. St. Petersburg) Mesures d'^TOiLES Doubles, Series I k III 

 et V ; lu it h frontispiece, 4 parts irapl. 8vo. sewn, with inscrs. to Dr. A.M. W. Downing, F.R.S., 

 6s 6d St.-PHersbourg, 1892-99 



8477 Orbites des ^toiles Doubles du Catalogue de Poulkova ; impl. 8vo. (pp. 51), sewn, 



2s ib., 1889 



8478 GLENIE (James, f.r.s.) The Antecedental Calculus, or a Geometrical Method of 

 Keasoning, without any Consideration of Motion or Velocity, applicable to every Purpose to 

 which Fluxions have been or can be applied, with the Geometrical Principles of Increments, etc., 

 etc., with diagrams, 4to. (pp. 16), sewn, 4s %d 1793 



8479 GLOBES :— An INTRODUCTION to Geography and Astronomy ; containing chiefly the 

 Description and Use of the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, with many New and tlseful 

 Particulars not yet made Publick in any other Treatise on this Subject ; 2nd Edition, with 3 

 copperplates, 16mo. contemporary calf , with Chippendale bookplate of Sir William Irby {rare), 

 12s 6rf 1735 



On p. 96 is an account of the foundation of Georgia, u.s.a., ' come to hand while this sheet was printing off.' 



8480 GLOESENER (Michel, Univ. Li^ge) Recherches sur la T6l6graphie Electrique ; with 

 15 plates {Infolding), large 8vo. sewn, with author's inscr. {scarce), 10s Qd Li6ge, 1853 



' Contenant un expose sonimaire des nombreuses recherches que j'ai faites sur tous les systemes de t616graphes 

 elect rique s, a I'exception de celui qui a pour but I'impression i I'aide 1e lettres.' — Page 1. 



8481 GLYNN (Joseph, f.r.s.) The Construction of Cranes and other Hoisting Machinery, 

 5th Edition, with 39 woodcuts, 12mo. hf. maroon morocco, Is %d 1873 



8482 GMELIN (Johann Friedrich, Univ. Gottingen) Einleitung in die Chemie, zum Gebrauch 

 auf Universitiiten, sm. 8vo. sewn {some II. at end gnawed) , 3s Niirnberg, 1780 



8483 Grundsatze der technischen Chemie, sm. 8vo. (p. 766), seum, 5s Halle, 1786 



8484 Ueber die neuere [sic] Entdeckungen in der Lehre von der LUFT, und deren 



Anwendung auf Arzneikunst, 8vo. seum, 3s Qd Berlin, 1784 



None of the above works is in Prof. John Ferguson's ' Bibliotheca Chemica '. 



8485 GMELIN (Johann Georg; Univ. Tubingen) Dissert ATio Inauguralis Chymica, sistens 

 Celebrium Wurtenbergioe nostrre Acidularum Teinacensium Spiritusque Vitrioli Volatilis 

 et ejus Phlegmatis Examen per Reagentia, cum Phoenomenorum Explicatione ; accedunt 

 qusedam de iSetallorum et Mineralium Diagnosi, variis curiosis illustrata Experimentis ; with 

 folding table, sm. 4to. (pp. 48), seum {rare), 10s Qd Tubingce, 1727 



The author's first published work, and unknown to Poggendorff and other bibliographers. He was a well-known 

 botanist and the founder of comparative geography. 



8486 GMELIN (Leopold) Hand-book of Chemistry, translated, with Index, by Henry 

 Watts, f.r.s., with plates, 19 vols. Bvo. cl., uncut, t. e. g. {o. p.), £3. 3s Cavendish Soc, 1848-72 



Contents :— Anorganic Chemistry, 6 v. : Organic Chemistry, 12 v. : Index, 1 v. 



8487 Another Copy, without Vols. 18 and 19 (Organic Chemistry, v. XII, and Index), 17 vols. 



8vo. cl., uncut, t. e. g., £2. 2s 1848-66 



The English version of this classical work contains many additions by its translator. 



