578 HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STKAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



11627 MAUGHAM (William) On a New Compound of Carbon and Hydrogen, impl. 4to. (pp. 3), 

 sewn. Is 6rf 1838 



11623 MATJMENE (Edme Jules) Traite theorique et pratique du Travail des Vins, 3® [der- 

 niere] Edition, augmeutee ; with 175 illustrations, 2 vols. impl. 8vo. hf. red morocco, \ls M (p. F. 30 

 sewn) \^^0 



11629 MAXJPERTUIS (Pierre Louis Moreau de; de VAcadcmie des Sciences; f.r.s.) Discours 

 sur les Differentes Figures des Astres, ou Ton donne 1' Explication des Taches Lumineuses 

 qu'on a observees dans le Ciel : JDes Etoiles qui paroissent s'allumer et s'eteindre : De celles qui 

 paroi?sent changer de Grandeur : De I'Anneau de Saturne : et des Effets qui peuvent produire 

 fes Cometes, 2^ Edition augnientee ; with tinted front, and diagrams, 8vo. old calf [rare), 

 \2s ^ 1742 



•Par son Db>cours il ent le merite de repandre, I'un des premiers, en France la theorie newtonienne, ce qui lui valut 

 rinimitie de tons les pliysicions exclusivenient altach^es aux doctrines de Descartes. Parmi ces partisans des tourbillons 

 cart^siens on remarqiiait alors des savants bien connus. Cassini, Saurin, Mairan, NoUet, Fontenelle. Les deux parties 

 s'injuriaient en s'accusant reciproquement de ne rien entendre a la physique. La dispute sechautfa et passa de 

 rAcideniie dans les colleges. Au moins ses dissensions ne d^vaient pas etre steriles: elles firent entreprendre une 

 determination plus exacte de la figure de la Terre ' {q. v. infra).— hr. f. Hoefer. 



11630 La Figure de la Terre, determinee par les Observations de MM. de Maupertuis, 



Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, et de 1'Abbe Outhier, accompagnes de M. Celsius, faites 

 au Cercle Polaire, premiere edition ; with 9 folding plates, and fine map, Svo. fine copy in 

 contemporary calf gilt, g. e., with auto. ofJ.M. Mersais on title (rare), 18s Qd 



Imprimerie Boyale, 1738 



The above fine copy is very interesting from its previous owners. According to an old MS. note in the book, it was 



bought at the Maupertuis .sale by J. J. Le F. de Lalande, and passed afterwards into the possession of J. M. Mersais, 



who was astronomer of the Kerguelen Expedition in the South Seas, and died in his 22nd year, by throwing himself into the 



sea in a fit of fever. 



11631 Nouvelle Edition, dans laquelleon a mis les Figures aux Pages oii elles se rapportent ; 



vnth numerous diagram.s, and map, Svo. contemporary Italian vellum, 10s Qd 1739 



11632 Another Copy, old hf vellum, uncut, 10s 



11633 The Figure of the Earth, determined from Observations at the Polar Circle, trans., 



with 9 folding plates, and map, 8vo. old calf, neicly and neatly rebacked (RARE), 16s Qd 1738 



11634 Another Copy, old calf or, old hf calf, 15s 



' Maupertuis adopted and explained Newton's propositions on attraction and on the figure of the earth ; and he 

 conducted an expedition to Lapland, f.;r the measurement of an arc of the meridian, the result of which was fatal to the 

 Cas.«»inian hypothesis.'— Pro/. Todhunter. 



This expedition worked simultaneously with another sent to Peru under Bouguer, La Condamine, Juan, and Ulloa, 

 to measure 3 degrees of the meridian near the equator (v. Nos. 6368, \)Oi'J, 10364-5, ante). 



11635 FiGURA Telluris, determinata per Observationes factas ad Circuluni Polarem, 



transtulit Notisque proremialibus auxit Alaricus Zeller, m.d. ; with vignette, 9 folding plates, 

 and map, 12mo. boards (rare), 8s (Sd Lipsiae, 1742 



11636 [ ] Lettre sur la Comete, IBmo. boards [rare). Is Qd s. I. {a la sphdre), 1742 



1 1637 Saggio di CosMOLOGiA, col DiscORSO sulle diverse CONFIGURAZIONI delle JStelle, 



tradotti, e con Note illustrati, da Orazio degli Arrighi Landini, sm. Svo. sewn, 4s 6d 



Venezia, 1768 

 a translation of the above Discours and the Essai de Cosmologie, in which the author propounds the theory of ' least 

 action ' . 



11638 MATJPIN (— ) : Methode de Maupin sur la Maniere de CULTIVER la ViGNE et I'Art de 

 faire le Vin, nouvelle ^^dition, augraent6ede deux Memnires instructifs [de Buc'HOZ] sur ce qui 

 se pratique de plus interessant dans les diflerents Vignobles de France ; with 2 folding plates, 

 Svo. unbound, 7s 6d An VII {1799^ 



A reissue of the author's more important memoirs. 'Sa methode de cultiver la vigne se r^duit a la planter par 

 rangees, a I'espacer suffisamment, pour qu'elle puisse jouir en plein des rayons du soleil, a la tailler courte, a ne pas 

 provigner, et a ne fumer qu'a derniere extremite '.—Pre/ace. 



11639 MAUPIN (Georges) Opinions et Cukiosites touchant la Mathematique d'apres les 

 OUVRAGES Francais des XVIe, XVIIe et XVlIle Siecles ; with portrait of Oronce Fine, and 12 

 diagrams. 8vo. cL, 3s Qd 1898 



11640 MAURICE (George; Geneva) Dissertation sur les Premiers Elemens de la Theorie de 

 la Vision ; with plate, 8vo. sewn, with auto, of Dr. P. M. Roget, F.R.S. , 3s Gendm, 1823 



11641 Memoire sur les Apparences Visibles, 4to. (pp. 28), sewn, 3s ibid., 1825 



11642 MAURO (Fra, Fiorentino, Theosebo, Phonasco, e Philopanareto) Annotationi sopra la 

 Lettione della Spera del S.\CRO Bosco. dove si dichiarano tutti i Principii Mathematici e 

 Naturali, che in quella si possan' desiderare ; con alcune Quistioni Notabili . . . e rari Segreti 

 . . . una NuoVA . . . Traduttione di detta Spera ; una Spera Theologica Divina, e Christiana ; 

 una Spera Platonica, con alcune Eccitationi matheraatiche, ecc. ; una NuovA Inventione, et 

 Astronomico Instrumento, per subitamente fabricare le dodici Case Celesti della FiGURA 

 ASTRONOMICA, senza altri Canoni, o Calculo ; with numerous woodcuts {some, full-page), and 

 diagrams, sm. 4to. sound and clean copy in old calf gilt (very rare), £1. 12s Qd 



{colophon .] Firenze, 1550 



11643 Another Copy, old Italian vellum {partly water-stained, and a few small holes in blank 



margin of title), £1. 5s 



• In this volume we find the proof that the Spanish mathematician Ortega (v. No. 3397, ante) was in 1550 at Florence '. 

 — Libri Catulcgue. 



Unknown to Poggendorff and Biogr. Gen. The above copies contain pp. 201-19, which are often wanting. The work is 

 dedifated to Cosmo de Medici, Duca di Firenze. 



11644 MAWSON (E. O., mi.c.e.) Pioneer Irrigation: a Manual of Information for Farmers in 

 the Colonies ; with Additional Chapters on Light Railways by Everard Richard Calthrop, 

 M.l.c.E. , with 38 platen, and numerous other illustrations, 8vo. cl., Qs (p. 10s Qd nett) 1904 



