564 HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



11351 MANN (Isaac John; m.i c.e.) River Bars : Notes on the Causes of their Formation, and on 

 their Treatment by ' Induced Tidal Scour ', with Description of the successful Reduction by this 

 Method of the Bar at Dublin, u-ith 23 illustrations {including folding plates), sq. 8vo. cL, Zs Qd 

 (p. 75 6d) ' 1881 



11352 MANN (James), and James AYSOOUG-H ; opticians: Description of the Compound 

 (commonly call'd the Reflecting or Double) Microscope, with great Improvements, with 



folding copperplate (pp. 15) : DESCRIPTION of the Solar, or Camera-Obscura Microscope, 

 with folding copperplate (pp. 3), 8vo. seivn {scarce), 10* 6c? [c. 1750] 



The chief improvements claimed are an improved objective with an increased magnifying power, and a movable stage. 

 The microscope also contained a parabolic condenser for dark-ground illumination, for which it is claimed that this 

 microscope was the lirst to use it ' underneath the middle of the stage '. 



11353 MANN (William, patentee, Brixton) Description of a New Method of Propelling 

 Locomotive Machines, and of communicating Power and Motion to all other Kinds of 

 Machinery, with folding front, of Mann's Patent Locomotive Air Carriage, 8vo. (pp. 56), seivn 

 {scarce), \0s M 1830 



' Presented by the Author to George Ren[nie, f.r s ], 6th Octob[er] 18 -.'—Inscr. on titU. 



The carriage described was constructed to be driven by compressed air, ' which at a density of 32 atmospheres is 

 sufficient to propel it 14 miles . . . and at 64 atmospheres 31 miles. The average cost of the power will be about a penny 

 per mile.' 



11354 MANNHEIM (Amedee, Colonel d'Artillerie) CouRS de Geometrie Descriptive de I'Ecole 

 Poly technique, comprenant les Elements de la Geometrie Cinematique, 2^ [derniere] Edition ; 

 with 256 diagrams, roy. 8vo. hf. calf gilt, uncut, t. e. g., with Prof. Lloyd Tanner's bookplate, 

 10? 6c? (p. F. 17 nett sewn) ' 1886 



11355 MANNING (James Alexander) The Utilization of Sewage : a Reply to Baron Liebig's 

 Letter to Lord Kobert Montagu, 8vo. (pp. 32), ^eivn, \s 6c? [1864] 



11356 MANNINGHAM (Henry) Compleat Treatise of Mines, extracted from the Memoires 

 d'Artillerie, with Professor Belidor's Dissertation on the Force and Physical Effects of 

 Gunpowder, laith 21 folding copperplates, roy. 8vo. unbound, 6s 6d 1752 



The ' mining ' treated in the above work'is the less useful art of military undermining. 



11357 MANSELL (Major J. H., r.a.) Investigation of the Law of Burning of Modified 

 Cordite, with 7 illuntrations, roy. 4to. (pp. 20), sewn. Is Qd 1907 



11358 MANSERGH (James, f.g.s.) Lectures on Water Supply, Prospecting for Water, and 

 Well-Sinking and Boring, with 23 plates (20 folding and linen-mounted), besides woodcuts, 

 roy. 8vo. hf. calf, As Chatham, 1882 



11359 MANSFIELD (Charles Blachford) Benzole : its Nature and Utility, with 3 icoodcuts, 

 Svo. (pp. 47), cl. {scarce), 10s 6c? 1849 



' Nevll Story Maskelyne [f.r.s.] from his friend C. B. M..'— Inscr. on title. The work is important for containing the 

 author's discovery of a method of extracting benzol from coal-tar, which 'laid the necessaiy foundation for the 

 development of the aniline industry.'— /'jo/. E. v. Mtyr. The work also describes 'some of the most important 

 applications of benzol, among others the production of a light of peculiar brilliancy by charging air with its vapour.' — 

 IJ.N.B. Added are some proof sheets of a Lecture on the subject by the author. 



11360 Researches on Coal Tar, Part I, 8vo. (pp. 24), sewn, 3s 6c? [1849] 



11361 A Theory of Salts: a Treatise on the Constitution of Bi-Polar (Two-Membered) 



Chemical Compounds [edited with Preface (pp. 25) by M. H. Nevil Story Maskelyne, f.r.s.], 

 2cith 2 folding plates, thick cr. 8vo. cl., uncut {scarce), 10s 6c? 1865 



' His most important contribution to theoretical chemistry.'— D. N. B. 



' Mansfield wrote this book to defend the principle, that the facts of voltaic decomposition afforded the true indication, 

 if properly interpreted, of the nature of the saline structure and of the atomicity of the elements that built it up ; and 

 he held that this structure or form of constitution is only one, but a most important one, among the types of constitution 

 on which chemical compounds can be moulded.'— Editor'. ^^ prefoc, which also contains an interesting biographical .sketch. 



The author died a martyr to science at the early age of 35, from injuries received by carrying a blazing naphtha still 

 into the street, in an attempt to save the premises. 



11362 MANTELL (Gideon Algernon, f.r.s.) Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight, 

 and alonf? the adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire ; 3rd Edition, with 19 plates, 43 woodcuts, and 

 coloured geological map, post 8vo. cl. {o.p.), Ss 6c? 1854 



' In the infancy of geological science he placed before the world the means by which others could write a thesis or 

 found a system.' 



11363 The Geology of the South-East of England, unth 6 lithographs^ numerous woodcuts, 



and coloured map, post 8vo. hf. calf {scarce), 6s 6d ' 1833 



11364 The Medals of Creation; or First Lessons in Geology, and in the Study of 



Organic Remains, with 6 plates (3 coloured), and 167 woodcuts by Sir George Scharf and J. W. 

 Whymper, etc., 2 vols. cr. 8vo. cl., 5s 1844 



11365 Petrifactions and their Teachings; or a Handbook to the Gallery of Organic 



Remains of the British Museum, ivith front, and 115 icoodcuts, cr. 8vo. cL, Zs 1851 



11366 Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of Coloured Illustrations selected 



from Parkinson's ' Organic Remains of a Former World ', and Artis's ' Antediluvian Phytology ', 

 with Descriptions, iHth 74 COLOURED plates, containing nearly 900 figures, 4to. cl., Vis 6d 

 (p. £2. bs) ' 1850 



11367 Sketch of the Geology of Surrey (from Brayley's Topographical History of Surrey), 



with 3 plates (1 coloured), 4to. (pp. 48), unbound, with inscr. to William Benjamin Carpenter, 

 F.R.S.,/rom E. W. Brayley, 5s Dorking, 1840 



11368 The Wonders of Geology : or a Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena, 6th 



Edition, ivith 7 plates (3 coloured), and 198 woodcuts, 2 vols. cr. Svo. cl., 5s 1848 



' Mantell was not only a popular lecturer and writer, but also the first to demonstrate the fresh-water origin of the 

 Wealden strata, and by his researches among them [largely during the building of the Brighton Railway, especially in 

 Tilgate Forest at the Balcombe Tunnel and Cutting] to discover four out of the five genera of Dinosaurs known at the 

 time of his death.'— P/o/. T. G. Bonney. 



