HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 525 



10545 LAKKIN (James) The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's Guide: a Concise Treatise 

 on Brass Founding, Moulding, the Metals, and their Alloys, with recent Improvements in the 

 Manufacture of Iron and Steel by the Bessemer Process, etc. etc., 5th Edition, with extensive 

 Additions, cr. 8vo. hf. green moroccoy As (p. 12* Qd in cl.) Philadelphia, 1887 



10546 LARKIN (N. J., teacher of crystallography and matheviatics) Introduction to Solid 

 Geometry, and to the Study of Crystallography, containing an Investigation of some of the 

 Properties belonging to the Platonic Bodies independent of the Sphere [with Api>endix by 

 P. M. Roget, M.D., F.R.S.], with A folding plates by Lowry, Svo. boards. As 182(> 



10547 [LABNACH (W. J. M.)] Handbook of New Zealand Mines; I. Gold, Silver, Copper, and 

 Antimony Mining, etc. ; II. Coal Deposits and Coal Mining ; Appendix : School of Mines, 

 principal Forest-Trees, Building-Materials, Mineral Waters, Mineral Leases, etc., with S foldina 

 ynaps, and 24 plates, Svo. (pp. 514), cl., 6s Wellington, N.Z , 1887 



10548 LA BUE (Warren de, f.r.s.). Auxiliary Tables for Determining the Angle of Position 

 of the Sun's Axis and the Latitude and Longitude of the Earth, referred to the Sun's Equator, 

 4to. (pp. 20), sewn, 3^ 6rf privately printed, 1875 



10549 Report of Celestial Photography in England, with diagrams, Svo. (pp. 23), setan, 



2s 6d 1860 



'To Warren de la Rue belongs the honour of having obtained the earliest results of substantial value in celestial i-hoto- 

 graphy.'— Mi5.j Agnes M. Clerke. 



10550 , Hugo W. Mt)^LLEB, f.r.s., and William SPOTTISWOODE, p.r.s. : Experiments 



to ascertain the Cause of Stratification in Electrical Discharges in Vacuo, with 4 diagrams, 

 8vo. (pp. 6). sewn, 2s .. 1875 



10551 LASATJLX (A. v.) liber ein Demonstrationspolariscop ; with 2 illustrations, 8vo. (pp. 6), 

 sewn, 1? ()d [Stuttgart,] 1878 



10552 IjASS^'R-CO^HN (Dr.y Konigsberg) Chemistry in Daily LIFE : Popular Lectures, translated 

 by M. M. Pattison Muir, 3rd Edition, with 22 woodcuts, cr. Svo. cl., 2s Qd (p. 6*) 1905 



10553 Fourth Edition, tvith 25 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., Ss 1909 



10554 LASSELL (William, f.r.s ) Observations of Planets and Nebulae at Malta ; Miscell- 

 aneous Observations with the Four- Foot Equatoreal at Malta ; Catalogue of New Nebula 

 discovered at Malta with the Four- Foot Equatoreal, 1863-5, ivith 10 plates, 4to. (pp. 77), sewn {one 

 plate missing), 35 6c? 1867 



10555 LATHAM (Baldwin, M.i.c.E.) Sanitary Engineering : a Guide to the Construction of Woiks 

 of Sewerage and House Drainage, with Tables for facilitating the Calculations of the Engineer, 

 21 plates (linen-mounted), and 112 woodcuts, Svo. hf calf, or, hf morocco {title stamjyed) ; scarce, 

 10* 6^; (p. £ 1.10s) 1875 



10556 Another Copy, cl., \2s 



10557 Second [latest] Edition {jgreatly enlarged], with 23 folding plates, and IQ9 woodcuts, 



thick Svo. cl. (SCARCE), £1. 55 I87» 



10558 Another Copy, with the plates linen-mounted^ thick Svo. hf. calf gilt, as good as new 



{title stamped), £1. 5* 



Still a standard work on the subject, the result primarily of the author's drainage of Croydon, and the first treating 

 ■wlioUy on sewerage. It is now out of print and scarce, 



10559 LATHAM (Frank, m.i.c.e.) The Construction of Roads, Paths, and Sea Defences, 

 with Private Street Repairs, Specilication Clauses, Prices for Estimating, and Engineer's Replies 

 to Queries, 3 folding plates in pocket, and 57 woodcuts, Svo. cl.. As 6d (p. 7* 6rf nett) 1903- 



10560 The SANITATION of Domestic Dwellings, with Introduction by Baldwin Latham, 



M.I C.E., with 98 illustrations, cr. Svo. cl., 2s [1898] 



10561 LATHAM (John Herbert, c.e.) The Construction of Wrought Iron Bridges : em- 

 bracing the Practical Application of the Principles of Mechanics to Wrought Iron Girder Work, 

 with 6 folding plates, and woodcuts, Svo. cl., 2s 6d Cambridge, 1858 



10562 Another Copy, cl., with auto, letter and inscr. to Col. J. T. Smith, F.R.S. , 3s 



10563 LAUaHTON (Sir John Knox, r.n., f.r.met.soc. ; naval historian) Introduction to the 

 Pr.\ctical and Theoretical Study of Nautical Surveying, w;i<A 33 diagrams, cr. Svo. cl., 

 3s (p. 65) 1872- 



10564 LAUNDY (Samuel Linn) Table of Quarter-Squares of all Integer Numbers up to 



100,000, by which the Product of Two Factors may be found by Addition and Subtraction alone 



[with Introduction], sq. roy. Svo. cl., 7s 6d (p. £1. 1*) 1856 



Based on the formula <-^Jl^ _ (?JL^^ = ab. 

 4 4 



1(J565 LAXJREMBERG fJohann Wilhelm) Arithmetic A, peculiaribus Observationibus et 

 Exemplis Historicis illustrata, itidem ALGEBRA Principia, in Regia Academift SoranS, 

 propofiita ; with diagrams, sm. Ato.fne copy in contemporary white vellum {back damaged) ; rare, 

 £1.1* Sorce, H. Crusius, 164a 



' a curious work, containing the solutions of numerous algebraic problems, some indeterminate. The Arabic origin of 

 the word algebra is here derived from ' its inventor Al-Geber', and we note as a curious fact that the Arabic characters 

 used to express the different powers given in this work, are in perfect accordance with the modern European notati'>n.' — 

 Lihri Catalogice. 



'A book which uses the Italian methotl of division is a rarity among German books of this period. The examples are 

 drawn from historical matters, and from the military art.'— P;o/. ik Morgan. 



10566 LAUSANNE (Soci^te des Sciences Physiques de), M^moires de la. Tome l®""; vnth 

 folding plates, 4to. sewn, 5s 6d Lausanne, 1784- 



Containing contributions by Samuel Jean Franoois, Gregor Count Razumofski, Jean Louis Antoine Reynier, Heiurich 

 Struve, and Frangois Verdeil. 



