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



11575 MATHESON (Ewingr, m.i.c.e.) Aid Book to Engineering Enterprise, 2ncl Edition [en- 

 larged and partly rewritten], illustrated, thick 8vo. c/., 5s Qd (p. £1. Is) 1889' 



11576 Another Copy, hf. calf neat, or, hf. morocco {title stamped), 6* 



The first eight chapters of this work were translated into Chinese. 



11577 The Depreciation of Factories, Mines, and Industrial Undertakings, and their 



Valuation, 2nd Edition, with front., 8vo. cL, 2s 6d 1893 



11578 Works in Iron: Bridge and Roof Structures [with Technical Vocabulary in 6- 



Languages], ivith front, and numerous woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cL (a. p.), 4s (p. 15*) 1873 



11579 MATHEWS (George Ballard, f.r.s.) Diophantine Inequalities, with 12 diagrams, 4to. 

 (pp. 28), sewn, with author's inscr., 2s [Cambridge], 1900 



11580 Note on Geodesic Torsion, loith plate, 8vo. (pp. 2), sewn. Is 1894 



11581 MATHIAS (Emile) Sur la Construction et FUtilization des Cartes Magnetiques: 

 Application an Bassin de la Garonne ; ^vith 3 folding plates, roy. 8vo. (pp. 28), sewn, with inscr. 

 to Sir E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 2s . 1897 



115S2 MATHLA.S (Felix, inspecieur du service des machines au Chemin de Fer d'OrUans) Etudes 

 sur les Machines Locomotives de Sharp et Roberts, compareesk celles d'autres Constructeurs, 

 avec des Developpements sur la Theorie de la Distribution de la Vapeur, et sur I'Application 

 de la Detente Fixe et Variable ; with large folding plate, and 3 folding tables, 8vo. sewn 

 (Atla^ wanting) ; scarce, os 1844 



11583 Another Copy (without Atlas), hf. roan, 6s Qd 



11584 MATHIEU (Charles Leopold, Professeur de Physique et de Chymie, Auiun) NOUVEAU 

 System E de I'Univ^ers, ou Abrege Philosophique de la Physique et de la Chymie, avec de 

 nouvelles Decouvertes de I'Auteur, un Coup-d'Oeil sur les Rapports des ces deux Sciences aux 

 autres, et leurs Applications aux Arts en grand, with fine front, showing a balloon and para- 

 chute, and folding plates, 8vo. old c«//(rare), 16* M An Vlf [1799] 



'La nouveaute de ce systeme consiste dans la reunion de la chimie a la jjhy.sique, dans I'exposition de la theorie, ou le^ 

 soleil est remarque en rapport avec le phosphore, par sa densite, sa pesanteur specifique et sa qualite luinineuse ; tandis 

 que les planetes sont en rapport avec le meine corps appesanti par I'augmentation d'oxigene dans la combustion de ses 

 elements.' — Qnerard. ^ 



11585 MATHIEU (Emile, Univ. Nancy) COURS de Physique Mathematique ; ivitk 16 diagrams, 

 4to. hf. calf gilt, 6s 6d (p F. 15 sewn) • 1873 



The introductory volurrie to the Traite de Physique mathematique, containing also the Methods of Integration. The 

 complete work comprises 8 vols. 



11586 Theorie de la Capillarity ; with 42 diagrams, 4to. hf. cl., Qs (p. F. 10 sewn) 1883 



11587 MATHIEU de DOMBASLE (Christophe Joseph Alexandre) Instruction Theorique 

 et Pratique sur la Fabrication des Eaux-de-Vie de Grains, et de Pommes de Terre ; with 

 folding plate of distilling plant, 8vo. sewn {scarce), 8s 6d 1820' 



The author rejects the method of treating potatoes with sulphuric acid as a wasteful process. 



11588 MATSCHOSS (Conrad, Charlottenburg) Die Entwicklung der Dampfmaschine : eine 

 Geschichte der ortsfesten Dampfmaschine und der Lokomobile, der Schiffsmaschine und Loko- 

 motive ; with 38 portraits and 1853 illustrations, including ma?iy reproductions from old prints, 

 2 vols. 4to. buckram, \6s (p. M. 24) Berlin, 1908 



The most complete work on the history of the steam engine yet published in any tongue. 



11589 Geschichte der Dampfmaschine : ihre kulturelle Bed eutung, technische Entwicklung. 



und ihre grossen Manner; with 5 portraits, 2 plates, and 188 smaller illustrations, roy. 8vo. cl., 6s 

 (p. M. 10) ibid., 1901 



11590 MATTEtrCI (Carlo, Univ. Pisa) Lectures on the Physical Phenomena of Living Beings, 

 translated under the Superintendence of JONATHAN Pereira, m.d., f.r.s., with 26 ivoodcuts, cr. 

 8vo. cl., with auto, of George Rennie, F.R.S., As 1847 



Including chapters on endosmosis, phosphorescence of organic beings, the muscular electric current, etc. etc. 



11591 MATTHES (Karel Jan) Dissertatio Mathematica de Invenienda Aequatione 

 Causticarum ; icith 2 folding plates, 4to. (pp. 70), sewn, 4s Lugd. Bat., 1837 



11592 MATTHEWS (G. F., Peterhouse) Manual of Logarithms, treated in Connexion with 

 Arithmetic, Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, and Mensuration, diagrams, 8\o. cl., 3s (p. Ssnett) 1890' 



11593 MATTHEWS (Richard Borlase, a.m.i.c.e.) Electricity for Everybody: a Popular 

 Handbook dealing with the Uses of Electricity in Home and Business, ivith numerous illustrations, 

 narrow 8vo. purple roan, t. e. g., 3$ (p. 5s nett) 1909- 



11594 MATTHEWS (William) Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress, and Present 

 State of Gas-Lighting, with woodcut vignette, post 8vo. boards, uncut {title margined) ; 

 scarce, 8s 6d 1827 



'The statement respecting the early attempts at Soho is given on the authority of a gentleman who has long been 

 resident there, and intimately acquainted with the principal transactions and the persons named.'— Preface. 

 11595 Second Edition, ivith vignette, post 8vo. boards (broken), uncut {scarce), 8s 6d 1832 



The author was a witness of William Murdock's exhibition of gas-lighting at Boulton and Watt's works at Soho, 

 Birmingham, ' the first public display of the kind in this country.' The work is valuable for containing a large amount ot 

 historical information not elsewhere to be found. 



The above edition contains ' Notice of Mr. Winsor's First Pamphlet, 'An Account of the most ingenious and important 

 National Discovery for some Ages '.' 



11596 Hydraulia: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Waterworks of London, 



and the Contrivances for supplying other great Cities, in different Ages and Countries, with por- 

 trait of Sir Hugh Myddelton, and 17 plates and maps {some folding), 8vo. cl., or, hf. calf, 8s 1835- 



11597 Another Copy {icithout the portrait), 8vo. cl., 7s 6d 



Interesting as an early treatise on water-supply engineering, and containing much historical information. It was- 

 unknown to Alii bone. 



11598 MATTHEY (Edward, f.c.s.) On the Liquation of Metals of the Platinum Group, unth 

 diagrams, 4to. (pp. 24), sewn, with inscr. to Sir E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Is 6d 1892; 



