HENRY SOTHERAX CO., & 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, VV. 543 



10900 LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER RAILWAY : Minutes of Evidence before tlie Lords' 

 Committees to whom was referred the Bill intituled 'An Act for Making and Maintaining a 

 RAILWAY or Tramroad from the Town of Liverpool to the Town of Manchester, with 

 certain Branches therefrom, all in the County of Lancaster,' folio, hf. calf {joints broken), with 

 au'o. * George Rennie [F.R.S\ May 9th, 1826' (verv scarce), £3. 3s 1826 



Th3 parliamentary evideuce in the Lords concerning the first railway line ever opanei for passenger traffic, and thus 

 of great importance in connexion with the early history of railway eiigiaeering. Among the witnesses were James 

 Cropper (afterwards director of the railway), Sir John Gladstone, M.P. (father of Mr. Gladstone), Alexander Nimmo, 

 F.R.S , George Rennie. F. R.S , and Charles Blacker Vignoles, F.R.S.; while among counsel for the promoters was the 

 delightfully Pickwickian Mr. Serjeant Span^ie, 



10901 GEOLOOIGAL SOCIETY, Abstract of the Proceedings of the, complete from 



the beginning in 1859 to 1885 (V^ols. 1-5, No. 1), with numerous plates {coloured, photographic and 

 plain), and other illustrations, 4 vols, and 1 part 8vo. va. 1-3 buckram, and the rest sewn, £1.1* 



Liverpool, 1861-85 



10D02 LIVERSEDG-E (Alfred John, a.m.i.c.e.) Commercial Engineering, by ' a General 



Manager,' 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 7* 6d nett) 1912 



10903 LIVERSIDOE (Archibald, f.r.s.) The Minerals of New South Wales, 2nd Edition, 4to. 

 sewn, 5.V [Sydney, 18821 



10904 LLOYD (Commr. Eiward William, r.n.), and Lt.-Col. A. G. H ADCOCK, Etswlck Works : 

 Artillery : its Progress and Present Position, with numerous plates (2 coloured), and woodcuts, 

 thick roy. 8vo. (pp. 463), d., ivith auto, of Major Gen. E. S. May, R.A., 125 6fl^(p. £1. Us Qd) 



Portsmouth, 1893 

 a valuable work. Pp. 315-423 contain ballistics. 



10905 LLOYD (Humphrey, d.d., f.r.s. ; RrouoU T. C. D.) Elementary Treatise on the 

 Wave Theory of Light; 2nd Edition, with Additions, diagrams, 8vo. cL, 4.s 1857 



10306 Third [last] Editiom, revised and enlarged, with diagrams, 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 8s Qd 1873 



'There is no book in any language which puts the leading principles of this subject so clearly and concisely, and at the 

 same time so completely and in t^uch an interesting manner, before the student.'— Jca/ewii/- 

 The third edition contains aa additional chapter on absorption and emission. 



10907 Elements of Optics, with '2 folding plates, 8vo. cL, with auto, of W. F. Donkin, F.R.S., 



5s ' Dublin, 1849 



1090S Lectures on the W\\ve Theory of Light, 2 folding plates, 8vo. hf. calf, 4^ ibidem, 18tl 



Forming the first edition of the ' Elementary Treatise on the Wave Theory of Light.' 



10909 On the Phenomena presented by Light in its Passage along the Axes of Bi-Axal [sic] 



Crystals, with 2 plates, 4to. (pp. 13), sewn {scarce), 6s 6s [ib., 1833] 



'Perhaps his most notable single scientific achievement, establishing by experiment the existence of conical refraction 

 in biaxial crystals, in conformity with the theoretical anticipations of Sir William Rowan Hamilton [?'. A'o SEGlt, ante]. 

 He also succeeded in establishing experimentally the law by which the polarisation of the rays composing the luminous 

 cone is governed.'— Z). N. B. 



10910 Results of Observations at the Magnetical Observatory of Dublin, 1840-3: 



1. Series: Magnetic Declination (pp. 25), with 3 plates: On the Mean Kesults of 

 Observations (pp. 36)— in 1 vol. 4to. sewn, \s Qd ib., 1849 



10911 LOBATSCHEWSKY (Nicolai Ivanovitch) Geometrical Researches on the Theory of 

 Parallels, transhited [with Introduction, and Appendix on Elliptic Geometry], by George 

 Bruce Halsted [4th Edition] , with 37 diagrams, roy. 8vo. cl. {scarce). 8s M A ustin, Texas [1892] 



The only English translation of the author's celtbiatrd resrarclies on the theory of parallel lines — the foundation of 

 hyperholic geometry. 'What Vesalius was to Galen, Avhat Copernicus was to Ptolemy, that was Lobatschewsky to 

 Euclid '.— Pro/t'.s.vor Clifford. 



10912 LOBATTO (Rehuel; Delft) Lessen over de Integraal-Rekening ; with 2 folding plates, 

 2 vols. 8vo. boards, 2s Qd 's Gravenhage, 1851-2 



10913 Memoire sur les Fonctions Elliptiques de Premiere et de Seconds Espece, 4to. 



([•p. 47), sei<?/i, 2s [Amsterdam, 18A6] 



10914 Memoire sur I'IntiSgration des Equations Lin^:aires aux Differentielles 



Partielles a Trois Variables, 4to. sewn.^ 2s 6d ibidem, 1837 



10915 Memoire sur I'Integration des Equations Liniiiaires aux Differentielles et aux 



Differences Finies, 4to. (pp. 73), sewn, 2s dd [ib., 1837] 



10916 Mi&MOiRE sur une M6TH0DE d' Approximation pour le Calcul des Rentes Viageres, 



4to. (pp. 32), sewn, 2s 6d ib., 1864 



10917 Memoire sur la Theorie des Caracteristiques, 4to. (pp. 82), sewn, 2s 6d ib., 1837 



10918 Note sur une Propriete relative aux Racines d'une Classe Particuliere 



d'EQUATlONS du 3e Degre, 4to. (pp. 14), sewn. Is Qd 1844 



10919 Recherches sur la Sommation de quelnues Series Trigonom^triques, 4to. seivn, 



2s 6d Delft, 1827 



10920 Verhandeling over de Zamenstelling en het Evenwigt van een Stelsel Krachten 



werkende op een Vast Ligcliaam, 4to. (pp. 66), sewn, 2s Amsterdam, 1849 



10921 Verklaring eener NiEUWE^n Vereenvoudigde Handelwijze voor het Trekken 



van den Cubuswortel, 12mo. sewn, \s 6d "s Gravenhage, 1842 



10922 LOBLEY (James Log-an, f.g.s.) Mount Vesuvius : a Descriptive, Historical, and Geological 

 Account of the Volcano and its Surroundings, 20 yo/a<es and maps, 8vo. cl., t. e. q., 5s (p. 12a' 6c?) 1889 



Containing reprints of four contenip )rary accounts of the formation of Monte Nuovo iu 153S, a description of Prof. 

 Palmieri's Seismograph, et<'. etc. 



10923 Volcanic Phenomena : The Mean Variation of the Globe : The Crust of the 



Globe and its Disturbances, plate— 3 pamphlets 8vo. sewn, 2s Qd Lewes, 1897-8 



10924 LOBMEYR (L.), Albert ILG^, und Wendelin BOEHEIM : Die Glasindustrie, ihre 

 Geschichte, gegenwartige Entwicklung und SrATlsriK, 8vo. hf. roan neat, 5s S'Aitfgart, 1874 



Pp. 3-144 contain sin interesting history of glassniaking to ths end of the XVIIIth Ceatury. 



