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10S16 LEYBOXJRN (William) The Line of Proportion, sixth Edition [of the first part], 

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 slide rule {slightly damaged), 24mo. old calf {binding damaged^ title and some II. soiled and worn, 

 and some side margins cut into), 6s Gc? A. and J. Churchill, 1689 



10^17 Panarithmologia, being a Mirror, Breviate, Treasure, Mate for Merchants, Bankers, 



Tradesnoen, Mechanicks, and a Sure Guide for Purchasers, Sellers, or Mortgagers of Land, 

 Leases, Annuities, Rents, Pensions, etc. in present Possession or Reversion, and a Constant Con- 

 comitant fitted for all Mens Occasions, all Performed by Tables Ready Cast up . . . and by 

 Common Addition and Substraction, with a Necessary Appendix, containing Heads of Daily Use 

 to all Traders, first edition, small 8vo. sound copy in old ca// (rare), £1. 12* 6rf 



J. Dunton and J. Harris, 1693 

 The 'Appendix ' (pp. 144), whicli has a separate title and pagination, is not contained in the following editions, and ' is 

 rich in niiscellanoom coniKicrcial information'.— l>. S. B. 



10818 Thirteenth Edition, with Table of Commission or Brokerage, 12mo. old sheep, 



105 Qd 1761 



j()S19 Sixteenth Edition, carefully corrected and enlarged, with Tables directing how to 



Buy and Sell by the Hundred : And to Cast up Expenses by the Day, Week, Month, and Year, 

 and a Calculation of Portugal Coin, 12mo.^»e cop;/ in old sheep, \Qs 1772 



' The most enduring of his works ' [D. N. ll.'\, and, according to Professor de Morgan, the Earliest Ready Reckoner 

 in English. 



10S2(J Panorganon : or a Universal Instrument, performing all such Conclusions (leo- 



nietrical and Astronomical as are usually wrought by the Globes, Spheres, Sectors, Quadrants, 

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 portrait, 2 copperplates of the instrument, and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. old calf {joints cracked ^ 

 also a few wormholes, and water -stained on margins) ; rare, £1. 5* }V. Birch, 1672 



Containing also ' Problemes in Dialling '. 



The author claims bis instrument as an improvement on Guriter's Quadrant, devoid of its ' incuniberances, and it hath 

 manv other conveniences '. 



10S21 LIBERT (Jcseph) Emploi de I'Electricite dans les Mines, 8vo. (pp. 130), sewn, 2s 



St.-Etienne, 1900 



l(t<22 LIBBI [-CARRUCCI] (Guglielmo Brutus Icilius Timoleon Conte; biblioklept) Histoire 

 des Sciences Mathematiques en Italie, depuis la Renaissance des Lettres jusqu'h la Fin du 

 XVII^ Siecle, Tomes I h, IV (seulsparus; jusqu'a Galilee); with diagrams, 4 vols. 8vo. seivn, 

 uncut {slightly water-stained) ; SCARCE, £1. 1* 1838-41 



' Ouvrage rtmiiquable par de consciencieuses recherches d'erudition et par un style aussi clair qu'elegant.' — BioQr. Gen. 

 •It is a valuable history as concerns arithmetic, both in text and notes; the latter contain the liber aitgvienti ft 

 dimiaut'AiHi.^ compiled by Abraham, supposed to be Aben Ezra (/.I pp. 304-70), Account of an extract from the Liber 

 AOIxtei of Leonard ot Pisa (v. II pp. 287-304), the I'ractica Gtometrifp. of the same author, being the whole of his algebra 

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As was remarked in the first division of the Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, it is very sad that a mathematician 

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10323 LICETI (Fortunio ; Univ. Padua) De Lucernis Antiquorum Reconditis Libri IV, in 

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 Ditferentiivque Singul;e . . . explicatis diligenter abditissimis Qnrestionibus de Ignium Caussis, 

 Origin**,, Varietate, Duratione, Motu, et Extinctu : de Antiperistasi, de Fumis, de Cinere, de 

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 folding plote and other fine luoodcutSy 4to. contemporary white vellum (fine copy), 12.9 Qd 



Venetii^, 1621 

 The author seriously maintains that the lamps of the Vestal Virgins were inextinguishable, and continued to burn for 

 several centuriis without the addition of any fuel. The work is chiefly of antiquarian interest. 



1US24 LICK OBSERVATORY of the University of California, Publications of the, prepared 

 under the Direction of the Lick Trustees, by Edward S. Holden : Vols. I-VI, VIII, and X, 

 with numerous plates and other illustrations, 8 vols. roy. 4to. cl. {partly o. p.), £3. 10* 



Sacramento, 1887-1908 

 Contents :— I. History of the Observatory, with its Buildings and Instruments : Observations of Double Stars by 

 8. W. BimNBAM, 1879, of the Transit of Mercury, 1881, by Capt. Floyd, E. S. Holden, and S W. Blrnham, of the 

 Transit of Venus, 18S2, by D. P. Todd ; Meteorological Observations, by T. E. Eraser, 1880-5, and Reduction Tables for 

 Mount Hamilto!!, by G. C. Comstock. II. Double-Star Observations with the 3t)-iach and 12-inch Refractors, by S. VV. 

 BuRNHAM. III. Drawings and Photographs of the Moon, by L. Weinkk ; Investigation of Prisms of Optical Glass, by 

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 Nebula*, by J. E. Keeler. IV. VI. and X. Meridian Circle Observations, '5)3-1000, by R. H. Tucker. V. Micrometrical 

 Observations of Double Stars discovered at Pulkowa, by W. J. Hussev. VIII. Photographs of Nebulae and Clusters 

 made with the Crossley Reflector, by J. E. Keeler, v:ith 70 fine plates. 



10325 Volumes II-VI and VIII, with numerous plates and other illustrations, 6 vols. roy. 4to. 



cl., £2. 155 ibidem, 1894-1908 



10326 Volumes II, and IV- VI only, ivith plates and other illustrations, 4 vols. roy. 4to. cl., 



£\. 5s ib., 1894-1903 



]()S27 Volume IV only, with front , roy. 4to. cl., 5s ib., 1894 



10328 , Contributions from the. Vols. I-IV, with numerous plates {including fine silver prints 



of Eclipses) and other illustrations, 4 vols, laige 8vo cl. {o. p.), lis 6rf ib., 1889-95 



Contents:— I. Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun of Jan, 1, 't9 : of the Total 



Eclipse of the Sun, Dec. 21-22, "89, and of the Total Eclipse of the Moon, July 22, '8S, and Catalogue of the Library, "91 : 

 III. Terrestrial Atmospheric Absorption of the Pnotographic Rays of Light, by J. M. S^'Haeberle, '93: IV. Report on 

 the Total Eclipse of the Sun, observed at Mina Bronces, Chile, on April 10, 93, by J. M. Schaeberle, '95. 



10S29 Volume iv only, with 11 plates, large 8vo. cl., is ib., 1895 



