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



11312 MAITLAND (Samuel Roffey, d.d., f.r.s. ; Lambeth Librarian ; author of ' The Dark Ages ') 

 Superstition and Science : an Essay, with 2 woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. sewn [scarce), 5s 1855 



Directed against spiritualism and Faraday's Lecture on Mental Education. 



11313 MA-LCOLM (Alexander, teacher of the Mathematicks at Aberdeen) New System of 

 Arithmetick, Theoretical and Practical, wherein the Science of Numbers is demonstrated in a 

 Regular Course from its First Principles ; the Practice and Application to the Affairs of Life and 

 •Commerce being also fully explained : making the Whole a Complete System of Theory, for Men 

 •of Science and Business, 4to. old calf {binding broken, and title and a feiv II. vjater- stained), 

 7s 6d 1730 



' One of the most extensive and erudite books of the XVIII. century.'— Pw/essor de Morgan. 



11314 MALLET (John William, t.c.d. ; f.r.s. ; Confederate States Army ; Prof, of Chemistry, 

 ■ Univ. Virginia) On ACHREMATITE, a New Molybdo-Arsenate of Lead, from Mexico, Svo. (pp. 7), 



sewn, \s 6d 1875 



11315 On Certain New Reactions of Tungsten, 8vo. (pp. 6), sewn, Is 6d 1875 



11316 On the Chemical and Meteorological Conditions involved in the Successful 



Cultivation of Cotton, 8vo. (pp. 14), sewn, 2s 1861 



11317 Jean Jervais Stas, and the Measurement of the Relative Masses of the Atoms of 



the Chemical Elements, with 2^ortrait and 4 p.fs. letter, 8vo. (pp. 56), seivn, 3s Qd 1892 



The Stas Memorial lecture. 



11318 On Nitrogen Iodide, roy. Svo. (pp. 6), setvn, Is 6d Baltimore, Md., 1879 



1]319 Redetermination of the Atomic Weight of Lithium, 8vo. (pp. 8), with inscr. to Sir 



E. Frankland, F.R.S., 2s Qd 1856 



11320 Revision of the Atomic Weight of Gold, ivith 9 woodcuts^ roy. 4to. (pp. 47), sewn, 



Zs 1889 



11321 On the Structure of Gold-Leaf, and the Absorption Spectrum of Gold, with plate, 



rov. 4to. (pp. 9), sevm, \s Qd 1904 



11322 MALLET (Robert, t.c.d.; f.r.s., m.i.c.e.; father of the above) On the Physical 

 Conditions involved in the Construction of Artillery: with Investigation of the relative 

 and absolute Values of the Materials principally employed, and of some hitherto unexplained 

 Causes of the Destruction of Cannon in Service, with 9 plates and 13 diagrams, roy. 4to. cl. 

 (cover damaged) ; scarce, 9s (p. £1. 10s) 1856 



11323 Another Copy, cl., or, hf. morocco, 10s 



The author constructed a S6-inch giant mortar, 'the Palmerston mortar', to blow up the Russians, which became 

 useless after its fourth discharge, and was afterwards known as ' Palmerston's folly.' It rests now in Woolwich Arsenal. 



11324 Volcanic Energy : an Attempt to develop its True Origin and Cosmical Relations, 



with the Additional Paper, and Leaf of Errata, with 2 folding plates, 11 diagrams, and large 



folding table, roy. 4to. (pp. 91), sewn, with author\s inscr., 6s Qd 1872-4 



This important memoir laid the foundation of the contraction and wrinkling theory of the earth's crust— a fact unknown 

 to the author's biographer in D. N. B. 



The author, who was the largest, and eventually the only, ironfounder in Ireland, invented the buckled plate, uoav 

 universal for flooring bridges, and built the lighthouse on the Fastnet rock. 



11325 MALO (Leon) Guide Pratique pour la Fabrication et 1' Application de I'Asphalte et 

 des Bitumes ; with 7 folding plates, post Svo. cl., 3s [1866] 



11326 Asphalte Roadways, translated by J. Henderson, 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 2s 6d 1886 



11327 MALOUIN (Paul Jacques, f.r.s.) Chimie Medicinale, contenant la Maniere de preparer 

 les Remedes les plus unites, et la Methode de les employer pour la Guerison des Maladies; 

 nouvelle Edition, 2 vols. 12mo. contemporary calf gilt {nice copy), 8s 6d 1754 



One of the best works of its time on pharmaceutical chemistry. The author contributed several articles on chemistry 

 to the EwydopRclie. 



11328 MALi?HE (Franqois de, Commissaire des Feux artificiels du Roy) Traite des Feux 

 Artificiels pour la Guerre, et pour la Recreation; avec plusieurs belles Observations, 

 abregez de Geometric, Fortifications, Horloges Solairs [sic], et Exemples d'Arithmetique ; de 

 nouveau reueu, corrige et augmente par I'Autheur ; with engraved title, and numerous engravings 

 on copper and wood, large 12mo. old calf gilt {sound copy) ; RARE, £1. \s 1640 



Dedicated to Cardinal de Richelieu, It is interesting for the numerous copper-engravings it contains. One of the 

 chapters treats of a ' Methode tres-violente pour porter le feu dans une ville.' 



11329 MALTON (Thomas) Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in Theory and Practice; on the 

 true Principles of Dr. Brook Taylor, made clear, in Theory, and reduced to Practice, in the most 

 familiar and intelligent Manner ; 2nd Edition, with large Additions, with 49 folding copperplates, 

 folio, old calf {2 II. defective). 10* 1778 



This work is remarkable for the fine plates it contains. There are some on contemporary furniture, which are of special 

 interest as the author was originally a cabinetmaker in the Strand. 



111330 The Royal Road to Geometry ; or an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the 



Mathematics, with Appendix on the Theory of Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, as deduced 

 from the Elements, with numerous woodcuts and diagrams {many with movable slips), 8vo. old 

 calf, 5s 1774 



' a school-book intended as an improvement on Euclid.'— 7). N. B. 



11331 MAMPIERI (Alessandro) Illustrazione del Quadro Geografico-Astronomico-Fisico 

 AsTRONOMico-CiviLE Storico Statistico Commerciale, con Aggiunta delle ^lOzioni Generali 

 sulli Conoscenze dei Tempi in Rapporto dell' EfFemeridi Permanenti, cr. 4to. (pp. 40), sewn, 

 2s Qd Roma, 1856 



11332 MANGEOT (H., arqnebusier de la cour a Bruxelles) Traite du FusiL de Chasse, et Moyens 

 d'en ameliorer la Portee, le Fini et la Duree, avec la Maniere d'eviter les Accidents, une 

 Mdthode de Tir au Pistolet, etc. etc. ; with numerous plates and woodcuts, 8vo. sewn {scarce), 

 Qs Qd Bruxelles, apud auctorem, 1851 



