HENRY SOTHERAN i& CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 533 



10708 LEIGH (Valentine) The most Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surueiyng of 

 Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes. Whereunto is also annexed by the same 

 Aucthor, a riglit necessarie Treatise, of the measuryng of all Kindes of Landes, be it Meadowe, 

 Pasture, Errable, Woodde, Hill, or Dale, and that aswell by certaine easie, and compendious 

 Rules, as also by an exacte and beneficiall Table, purposely drawen and deuised for that Behalfe. 

 Newly Imprinted and corrected, printed in Ijlacfe {ctter ; with woodcuts, large looodcut initials, and 

 numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. old hf. binding {wanting sigg. H l-i ; also a few II. water- stained, 

 but othertoise a VERY SOUND AND UNUSUALLY large COPY] ; rare, £1. 15i- 



Andre we Maunsell, in Paules church-yarde, at the signe of the Parret, 1578 

 In liis preface the author states that he was ' one of the firste, that attempted the collectyng of the same Arte into a 



volume.' 



The above, the second edition, was unknown to Lowndes. It was first published in 1577, and reprinted in 15S3, 1588, 



\i>92. and IWti. 



10709 LELY (O.) Ontwerp tot Verbetering van de Schipbeek in het belang der Af watering van 

 het Waterschap de Scliipbeek; with 6 coloured and plain folding plates, 4to. (pp. 90), sewn, 'Ss 



Zivolle, 1884 



10710 LEBiERT (Nicolas) COURS de Chymie : la Maniere de faire les Operations qui sont en Usage 

 dans, la M^decine, par une Mebhode facile, avec des Raisonnemens sur chaque Operation ; 

 11" Edition, reveuii, corrigee et augmentee par I'Auteur ; with front, and 8 plates, and folding 

 table, thick 8vo. old mottled calf {sound copy), with Calgarth Park booklabd of Richard Watson, 

 F.R.S., absentee Bp. of Llamlajf, 10s 6c? Lcyde, 1716 



10711 A Course of Chymistry, containing an easie Method of preparing those Chymical 



Medicins which are used in Physick, with curious Remarks and useful Discourses upon each 

 Preparation, 3rd Edition, translated from the 8th French Edition, which is very much enlarged 

 beyond any of the former [by James Keill, M.D.], with 7 plates, 8vo. old calf {back slightly 

 damaged), \5s 1698 



' Ce livre a fait autorite en chimie pendant plus de 100 ans. II a 6te le guide, le code, le manuel oblige des chiinistes du 

 XVI lie siicle, et inenie apres le renouvellenieut de la science on chercha longtemps encore dans le livre de Leinery de3 

 proc^des, des details pratiques que Ton ne trouvait point alors.'— Cap. 



Lemery, who could not bring himself permanently to leave France, though he had previously taken refuge in England 

 and been favourably received by Charles 11., renounced Protestantism on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 



' Leinery, compare a Lef^vre, est I'homme positif succedant k I'homme d'imagination. Ce qui caracterise le cours de 

 Lef.vrp, c'est I'^tendne des ideea ; ce que i'on remarque dans celui de Lemery, c'est la clart6 de ses descriptions '.—Z)it?;ias. 



l(J712 LEBIOINE (ilmile) G6om6trographie, ou Art des Constructions G6ometriques ; with 

 32 diagrams, 8vo. boards, \s 1902 



10713 [LE MONNIEB. (Pierre Charles; de VInstitut; F.R.s.)] Description et Usage des 

 principaux Instruments d'AsTRONOMiE ; within fine folding copperplates of mural circles, and 

 machine for making and dividing circles, impl. folio, sewn, uncut (RARE), 125 6rf 1774 



Including probably the fullest account ever issued of the construction of the now obsolete mural circle. 



10714 HiSTOiRE Celeste, ou Recueil de toutes les Observations Astronomiques faites par 



Ordre du Roy ; avec Discours sur le Progr^s de I'Astronomie, oil Ton compare les plus recentes 

 Observations k celles qui ont ete faites immddiatement apres la Fondation de 1 Observatoire 

 Royal ; with 7 plates (2 illustrating the transit instrument), 4to. old calf gilt, newly rebacked, 

 12s 6d 1741 



Including tlie observations by Picard and de la Hire from 1666-85, also full description of the transit instrument 

 (made by Gkorge Graham, f.r.s.), which the author was the first to introduce into France. 



10715 Memoires concernant diverses Questions d'AsTRONOMiE et de Physique ; Ifts et 



communiques a I'Academie Royale des Sciences ; with 2 plates and folding map, 4 parts in 1 vol. 

 4to. seicn, \Qs 6rf Imprimerie Royale, 1781-8 



10716 Another Copy, hf. calf {rubbed), with bookplate of Sir John Francis Davies, \2s 



Containing, ' Histoire abregee du progres des decouvertes relatives a ia pesanteur de I'air ; Eclipse du Soleil, 24juin 

 1778 Observations physiques sur la th^orie des vents ; De la Variation de 1' Aiguille Aimantee ; de I'Aiguille Aimantee et 

 de I'Etat de la Boussole aux Mers de Chine ', etc. etc. etc. 



10717 LE MOBT (Jacobus, m.d. ; Univ. Utrecht) Chymia, Rationibus et Experi.mentis Auctior- 

 ibus, iisque Demonstrativis SUPERSTRUCTA, in qua Malevoloruni Calumniie modeste simul 

 diluuntur ; with 2 folding plates of chemical apparatus, 12mo. old calf gilt {back slightly damaged, 

 otherwise sound copy), lOs %d Lugduni Batavorum, 1688 



10718 Chymia Ver.f. Nobilitas et Utilitas, in Physica Corpusculari, Theoria Medica, 



eju.sque Materia et Signis, ad majorem Perfectionem deducendis: Chymia Medico-Physica, 

 Ratione et Experientia Nobilitata: Pharmacia Medico-Physica: Collectanea Chymica 

 Leidensia Maetsiana et Marcgraviana — 4 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, old calf, newly rebacked, lis 6d 



ibidem, 1696 

 ' Dass auch ohne Sublimat, durch Erhitzen von Quecksilber, Kochsalz und calcinirtera Vitriol, versilsstes Quecksilber 

 gewonnen werden kann, behauptete zuerst Le Mort in Chymia medico-physica 1696.' — //. Kopp. 



10719 : Jacobi Le Mort, Pseudochemici et Ratiocinatoris Dupondiarii Ignorantia circa 



Chemiam et Universam Scientiam Naturalem, detecta a Christiano Marggravio, M.p., large 

 12mo. extra boards, uncut {fine copy). Is 6d ib., 1687 



Doubtless the CcUumn'Ue Malevolorum referred to in the first article supra. 



10720 LENARD (PhiUpp), Heike KA.MERLINGH ONNES, and W. E. PAULI: The 



Bkhaviour of the Phosphorescent Sulphides of the Alkaline Earths at Various 

 Temperatures, and particularly at very Low Temperatures, translated, with plate, roy. 8vo. 

 (pp. 23), seivn. Is 6d ' Leiden, 1909 



10721 LEONHARD (Carl Caesar v.; Univ. Heidelberg) Handbuch der Oryktognosie, 2. vermehrte 

 Autlage ; with 1 folding plates, thick 8vo. hf. calf, Zs 6d Heidelberg, 1826 



10722 , und Heinrich August VOGEL : Mineralogisch-chemische Untersuchungen 



des Triphan's and Tantalit's; tviih plate, 4to. (pp. 38), sewn, 3s 6d Miinchen, 1818 



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