HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 673 



11527 MARZARI-PENCATI (Giuseppe [Conte]) Descrizione del Tachigonimetro, nuovo 

 Strumento Geodetico, accompagnata dal Metodo per delineare con una sorprendente Celerita una 

 Carta Militare, ])er niodellar nel piii breve Tempo il Rilievod'un PaeseMontuoso, od in qualunque 

 altra Operazione Geodetica, per cui non esigasi una Precisione niaggiore di due Minuti degli 

 Angoli ; vnthl folding copperplates^ 4to. hf. hound [binding damaged^ and slightly waterstained), 

 10s 6d ... j^j^^^^^ jgjj 



The author was awarded for this invention its gold medal by the Government on the recommendation of the Institute 

 nfMilan. 



11528 MASCART (Eleuthere ; de I'lnstitut), et J. JOUBERT : LEMONS sur TElectricit^ et le 

 Magnetism E, 2^ [derniere] Edition, entierement refondue par E. Mascart, Tome I : 

 Phenomenes G^neraux et Th^ORIE; with 126 illustrations, thick roy. 8vo. seu-n, 10s 6d 

 (p. F. 2.-) nett) 1896 



11529 MASCHERONI (Abate Lorenzo ; Univ. Favia)G to^ETRiKdn Compas, traduitepar Antoine 

 Michel Carette; with 14 folding plates ^ Svo. sew7i, or, hf. calf (rubbed, and last plate slightly 

 damaged), 6s 1798 



This curious work attempts to work problems for which Euclid, as is well known, presupposes the use of a ruler and 

 a pair of con. passes, by the latter instniment only. • A curious tour-de-force.'— W. If. R. Hall. 



11530 Problemes pour les Arpenteurs, avee diff^rentes Solutions; Ouvrage traduit de 



ritalien ; with 4 folding plates, Svo. sewn, 5s 1803 



* Pregiata raccolta di i)roblemi di geometria pratica, elegantemente risoluti. K notevole I'invenzione del quadrante per 

 determinare meccanicamente il seno et il coseno dell' angolo misurato.' — Eiccardi. 



11531 : Frlschauf (J.) Die Geometrischen Constructionen von L. Mascheroni and J. 



Steiner : with plate, 8vo. (pp. 23), sewn. Is Graz, 1869 



11532 MASERES (Francis, f.r.s., Cursitor- Baron of the Exchequer) Dissertation on the Use of 

 the Negative Sign in Algebra : containing a Demonstration of the Rules usually given 

 concerning it ; and shewing how Quadratic and Cubic Ec^UATlONS may be EXPLAINED, without 

 the Consideration of Negative Roots; witli Mr. Maciiin's Quadrature of the Circle, 

 diagrams, 4to. old calf (joints cracked), with Chippendale bookplate of William Abbot, Fellow of 

 St. John's Coll., Cantab. {B.AICE), £1. 10s printed 6r/ SAMUEL Richardson, 1758 



The author's first published work, and especially interesting as having been printed by Samuel Richardson, the 

 novelist. 



'He rejected negative quantities and uiade war of extermination on all that distinguishes algebra from arithmetic '. 

 He hfid followers in his rejection of negative and imaginary quantities in his friend William Frend, William Ludlam, 

 Thomas Manning, and Robert Simson. 



1 1533 — The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations, as delivered by James Bernoulli, 



in his ' Ars Conjectandi ', and John Wallis, in his Treatise on Algebra, the former containing 

 a Deifionstration of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem; with other useful Mathematical 

 Tracts, 8vo. prize calf gilt, 15« 1795 



Containing a translation of the 3 first chapters of Book II of Jean Bernoulli's ' Ars Conjectandi ' ; Thomas Simpson's 

 ' New aii<] General Method of finding the Sum of any Series of Powers ' (1740) ; John Wallis's ' Discourse of Combinations, 

 Alternations, and Aliquot Parts' (IGS.j) ; Thomas Branckkr'h 'Table of Odd Numbers' (1(308); de Lagnky's 'Method of 

 Approximation,' translated ; Ilaphson's Method of resolving Equations by Approximation ; Charlks Hutton's * Table of 

 Square Root><, etc., from l-KXK)', etc. etc. 



11534 Elements of Plane Trigonometry, in which is introduced, a Dissertation on the 



J^ature and Use of Logarithms, with 13 folding plates, 8vo. old calf gilt, rebacked (rare), 

 , 12* 6d 1760 



Rare and interesting for the dissertation on logarithms which it contains (pp. 206-400). 



11535 [ ] ScRiPTORES LoGARiTHMici ; or COLLECTION of several Curious Tracts on the Nature 



and Construction of Logarithms, with some Tracts on the Binomial Theorem and other 

 Subjects connected with the Doctrine of Logarithms, Vol. VI ONLY, ivith diagrams, thick 4to. 

 contemporary calf gilt (scarce), with author's inscr. as below, £1. Is 1807 



' For the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Llandaff ' [Richard Watson, absent e k ; v.R.s.'].—Inscr. onfiyleaf. 



Containing reprints of ' Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Dcscriptio ' (1014), by Johx Napier, witli Observation by the 

 Editor, ' Tractatus de Logarithmis' and ' De Limitibus Quanlitatum et Rationum ', both by Robert Simson, ' Tractatus 

 de Limitibus iEquationutu'. by F. de Beaune, an Account of J. Spkidells New Logarithms, published in 1019 and 1028, 

 and treatises by Charles Hutton, f.h.s., Sir James Ivory, kr.s., Andrew Mackay, Thomas Manning, and the Editor. 



11536 Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley's, 



Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of Approximation, 8vo. 7iice copy in con- 

 temporary tree-calf, with inscr. to Fuchard Watson, F.R.S. (1737-1816), absentee Bp. of Llandaff, 

 and his Calgarth Fark booklabel, 8s 6d 1800 



' For the Bishop of Landaft" from the Author.' — Inscr. on title. 



11537 Another Copy, prize calf gilt (uniform with No. 11533), with inscr. by William Knight 



(1786-1844), pi'of natural philosophy, Aberdeen, Is 6d 



Including • A New, Exact, and Easie Method of finding the Roots of Equations generally,' by Edmund Halley, f.r.s., 

 'Remarks on the Number of Negative and Impo.ssible Roots in Algebraick Equations', and ' Another Solution of Col. 

 Titus's Arithmetical Problem', both by William Frend, and 'Explanation of Simon Stevin's General Rule to extract 

 Roots ', by John Kersev. 



11538 Tracts on the Resolution of Cubick and Biquadratick Equations, thick 8vo. hf. 



calf (title and a few II. water-stained), 5s [1803]. 



11539 Another Copy, contemporary calf gilt (hack faded, otherwise a fine copy), with auto. 



'R[iCHARD Watson, f.r.s., absentee Bp. of^ Llandaff, from the author' on title, and his 

 Calqarth Fark booklabel, Qs 6rf 



Containing ' Ferrarius Redivivus : or, a Comparison between the Method invented by Lewis Ferrari, and that given by 

 Descartes ' (pp. 2')5) : ' A Supplement to the Appendix of Mr. Trend's Principles of Algebra ' (pp. 100) : ' Remarks on the 

 Doctrine of the Generation of Algebraick Equations invented by Thomas Harriot' (pp. 74): ' Comi)ari8on between the 

 Resolution by the Method of Dr. Warren and that of L. Ferrari ' (pp. 44), and Preface (pp. 58). 



MASETTI (Gianbatista)— V. Idraulici (Opuscoli), No. 9658, ante. 

 MASKELTNE (Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story, f.r.s.)— v. Story-Maskelyne, post. 



