HENRY SOTHEKAiN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 505 



10103 KEPLER (Johann) Pro Suo Opere Harmonices Mundi Apologia adversus Demonstra- 

 TiONEM Analyticam Roberti de Fluctibus MetUci Oxoniensis, in qua ille se dicit respondere 

 ad Appendicem dicti Operis ; with large, uocdcvt device en title, folio, hf. morocco neat (2 //. 

 water stained on margin, other a-ise a FINE AND TALL COPY) ; VERY RARE, £1. 6s Francofurti, 1622 



A reply to the Oxford Rosicruciai Robert Fludd's attack in his Vcritatis Pros'^fHiUHi (1621), which was provoked by 

 Kepler's owu criticism in the appendix lo the Harmouice Mmtdi. 



10104 Tabul.e Rudolphin^, quibus Astronomicae Scientise, Teinporum Longinquitate collapsce 



Re-tauratio continetur, a . . . Tychone ex . . . Braheorum Familia oriundo Kqiiite, piiiiium 

 Animo concepta et destinata A.C. MDLXIV: exinde Observationibus Sidernm accuiatissimis 

 . . . serio atiectata, etc. etc. ete. ; with fine engraved front, containing portraits of Copernicus, 

 Tycho Brahe, etc, and diagrams, folio, old limp vellum {some II. browned, otherwise a sound and 

 large copy) ; rare, £1. \s Ulnne, 1627 



'The vahie of these tables appears from the fact that they ranked for a century as the best aid to astronomy. 

 Appended are tables of logarithms and of refractions, together with Tycho's catalogue of 777 stars, enlarged by Kepler to 

 lUOci.'— J/i*»- Agnes M. Cleike. 



' Ce sont de toutes lesanciennes tables astronomiques celles qui reposent sur les plus solides fondeniens, etil est encore 

 des cas ou elles s'ecartent peu des phenomenes.' — Montiida. 



See MoBiN, post, for a revised edition of the Rudolphine Tables. 



10105 : Kepler's Traum von Mond [mit Einleitung und zahlreiehen Noten] von Ludwig 



GiJNTHER ; vith portrait, fs. title of the original edition, 2 plates, and 24 other illustrations, 

 loy. 8vo. buckram, t. e. g., with Dr. Emil Reich's bookplate, 5s (p. M. 8 sewn) Leipzig, 1898 



Tliis work was largely used by Iluygens in his Cosmotlieoros. 



10106 : Epistol.e ad JoANNEM Kepplerum Matliematicum C.ipsareiim scriptfe ; insertis ad 



eastleni Responsionibus Kepplerianis, quotquot hactenus reperiri potuerunt : Opus Novum, 

 quo recondita Kepplerianfe Doctrinje Capita dilucide explicantur, et Historia Literaria in 

 Universum mirifice illustratur, nunc primum cum Pisefatione de Meritis Germanorum in 

 Mathesin, Introductione in Historian! Literariam SjX'culorum XVI. et XVII. et Jo. Keppleri 

 Vita, Jussu et Auspiciis Caroli VI. Romanor. Imperat. S.A.P.F.V.P.P. ex MSS. editum [k 

 Michaele Gottlieb Hanschio] ; with engraved vignettes, arms, and 8 plates, roy. folio, sound 

 copy in old white vellum, with bookplate of Lord Eliock, £1. 12* 6rf {Liphiie.] 1718 



Tins was the only volume ever published by Hansch, who bought the whole of Kepler's MSS. for 100 florins, and 

 received 4000 florins from the Emperor Charles VI. for editing the above volume. A proposed second volume was never 

 published, as no further funds were forthcoming from the Emperor. 



Hansch afterwards sold the collection in Frankfort for S28 florins, where it was discovered by v. Murr, and purchased, 

 at Euler's instigation, by the Empress Catherine of Russia for 2000 roubles. Frisch's edition is based on it. 



10107 : Rreitschwert (J. Ludwig C. Freiherr v.) JoHANN Keppler's Leben und Wirken, 



nacli neuerlich aufgefundenen Manuscripten bearbeitet, sm. 8vo. boards, uncut, with bookplate of 

 Prof. Lloyd Tanner, F.R.S., 3s Stuttgart, 1831 



10108 : [Brewster (Sir David, f.r.s.)] Life of Kepler [with Bibliography] , tt'ooofcw^*, 4to. 



(pp. 54), sewn, 45 Qd n. d. 



10109 : Small (Robert, d.d., f.r.s.e.) Account of the Astronomical Discoveries of 



Kepler : including an historical Review of the Systems which had successively prevailed before 

 his Time, with 11 plates, 8vo. calf (back damaged), 4* 1804 



10110 KERCKHOFF (Pieter Jan van, Groningen) Een Blik op den tegenwoordigen Toestand 

 der SCHEIKUNDE, roy. 8vo. seam, is Qd Groningen, 1858 



10111 KEBGEB (Martin, m.d.) De Fermentatione Liber Physico-Medicus, cui de Inseparabil- 

 ITATE Formarum materialium et Vita singularia sunt innexa, omnia perpetuis Experiraentis 

 tirmata, sm. 4to. (pp. 276), old vellum {browned, but large copy) ; rare, 15s Wittebergw, 1663 



An iatro-chemical treatise of considerable interest, dealing not only witli fermentation proper, but also treating of the 

 supposed fermentative processes of the human body, i.e. fevers and tumours. It was unknown to Poggendorfl", and other 

 bibliographers. 



10112 KERIGAN (Lieut. Thomas, r.n., f.r.s.) The Complete Mathematical and General 

 Navigation Tables ; with copious Treatises on Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, Plane 

 and Splierical Trigonometry, Dialling, Gunnery, etc. ; new Edition, adapted to the Nautical 

 Almanac, with folding front., and numerous diagrams, 2 thick vols. roy. 8vo. cl., vnth auto, of 

 J. H. Speke {African explorer), \Qs 6d (p. £1. 7s) 1845 



10113 Practical Treatise on the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and the Deflection of the 



Moon and Planets; explaining their Calculation by Simple and Direct Methods, with Remarks on 

 the Anomalies of the Present Theory of the Tides; the Superior Attraction of the Sun 

 over that of the Moon at the Surface of the Earth, etc. etc., roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, os 1844 



' Lieut. Kerigan was elected to the Royal Society at a time when his proposers must have known that his immediate 

 object was to put F.R.S. on the titlepage of a work [supra] against the tides.'- Pro/, de Morgan. 



101 14 KEBL (Georg: Heinrich Bruno, Bergakademie, Berlin) The Assayer's Manual : an Abridged 

 Treatise on the Docimastic Examination of Ores, and Furnace and other Artificial Products ; trans- 

 lated by William T. Brannt, and edited by William H. Wahl, with 65 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 

 5s (p. 125 6d) Philadelphia, 1883 



10115 • Beschreibung der Oberharzer Huttenprozesse in ihrem ganzen Umfange, mit 



Beriicksichtigung anderer metallurgischer Prozesse im Allgemeinen ; with 4 folding plates, and 8 

 folding tables, 8vo. hf. cl, 3* &d Clausthal, 1852 



10116 [KEBN (Johann Gottlieb)] Bericht vom Bergbau ; with 18 copperplates, comprising about 

 100 figures, 4to. hf. bound {binding damaged) ; rare, 12s Leipzig, 1772 



Interesting as describing and illustrating very fully the metho<ls of mining in vogue in Germany — more especially at 

 Freiberg in Saxony— in the middle of the XVIIlth Century. 



10117 KEJB.P (Heinrich, Bonn) Die Erdkundlichen Raumvorstellungen ; with 33 diagrams, 

 8vo. sewn, 2s (p. M. 3.60) Berlin, 1899 



10118 . Die Landschaften Europas ; ivith Opiates, 8vo. sewti, 2s 6d (p. M. 5) Trier, 1900 



