HENKY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 583 



11725 MEIBOM{JohannHeinrich; m.d. ; Zi/ftgc^) De Cervisiis, Potibusque et Ehriamimbus 

 EXTRA ViNUM aliLs Coiuinentariiis ; accadit Adriani Turnebi Libellus de Vino ; sm. 4to. 

 boards {rare), \hs Helmestadii, 1668 



a learned treatise, full of quotations from Greek and Latin authors, which was reprinted by Gronovius in his 

 Thesaurus. It was unkmnvn to Pofrgeiidortt'. 



11726 MEIB O M [reo^c MAYBAUM] (Marcus sive Marqvard) : Antique Musics Auctores 

 VII, Greece et Latine, Marcus Meibomius restituit et Notis explicavit; wifJi a folding tables 

 and 8 pp. of music , besides diagrams^ 2 vols. 4to. in 1, white vellum (fine copy) ; rare, £3. 3.s 



Amstelodami, apml Ludov. Elzevirimn, 1652 



11727 Another Copy, calf gilt < joints cracked^ and one table wanting), with bookplate of 



Henry B. H. Beaufoy, F.R.S., £2. 7* 6rf 



Inciudin<,' :— Aristoxeni Ilarmonicorum Eiementa ; Euclidis Introductio Harmonipa ; Nicomachi Gerasini 

 Pythagorici Harmoiiices Manuale; Alypii Introductio Musica ; Gaudkstii Phiiosophi Introtluctio Harmonica; Bacchii 

 Sknioris Introductio Artis Musica- ; Aristidis Quinfiliani de Musica Libri IH; Martiani Capell.« do Musica 

 Liber nonus. 



* Collection tres-estiinee, et que Ton rencontre dilficilement'.— 4. Willems. 



' On y trouve de bonnes choses concernant la niusique des anciens ; pirticuliorement sur lobscure description de 

 I'orgue hydraulique donne par I'auteur latin. Cette collection, dont I'utilite ne pent pas etre contest6e, est uu service 

 important rendu ;i la litterature musicale'.— Fetis-. 



The author was a well-known crank, who in turn offered for sale his supposed discovery of constructinR the triremes 

 of the ancients to the French government, and his revision of the Old Testiment, after a novel method of his own, to the 

 British government for the paltry sum of £20,000. He also pretended to have discovered the authentic text of St. 

 Jerome's commentary on the Book of Job, supposetl to have been lost, for which he refused an otter of 10,0C0 florins. 



Following an invitation to Sweden by the learned and eccentric Queen Christina, Meibom caused the musical 

 instruments of the ancients to be made from instructions contained in the above work in order to revive the ancient 

 Greek music before the Swedish court. As he further insisted on improving the performance by the accompaniment of his 

 own harnh voice, the attempt caused great merriment. He considered himself insulted, and in a lit of rage boxed the 

 eara of the Queen's phvsician, which at once put a stop to the revival of ' classic' music, and to his farther stav in Sweden. 



11728 MELANCHTHON [hie MELANTHON, germanicd SCHWAB.ZERD] (Philipp) DOCTRINE 

 Physic.*: Elementa, sive Initia, dictata in Academia Vuitel)er^'ensi, ex postrema Autoris 

 Kecognitione, cum Reruni et Verborum Indice ; editio princeps [col. :] Basilew, ex offic. Joa. 

 Oporini, 1550: LiBER de Anima recognitus ab Autore ; Witebergcc, hceredes Petri Seitzii, 1544; 

 both works neatly printed in italics, with woodcut initials, and the second with vignette on title — 

 2 vols. 12mo. in 1, VERY SOUND AND CLEAN COPIES in contemporary German pressed vellum on 

 oaken boards, ornamented with biblical figures, and dated 1545, with autos. * F. Cornelii Curtii 

 1621 \ and * Bibliothecce August iniantc Ingolstadii^ on title, and numerous marginal notes in a 

 very neat XVI, Century hand (very rare), £3. 15* 1550-4 



The above Jirst edition of the Doctrvue, the only independent scientific work published by Luther's fellow-labourer in 

 the Reformation, is excessively rare, and was unknown to Graesse, Poggendorff, and Kiistner. The former quotes the 

 editions of if>bb, 1559, and 1587, while the other two only knew an edition of 15S1. The work is not mentioned at all by- 

 Brunetand Ebert. 



According to Kastner, the first book of the Doctrina contains a more lucid exposition of astronomy than is to be found 

 in many treatises published during the XVIII. Century. 



Melanchthon also wrote prefaces to Arati Ph8eiiomena,1521, Purbachii Theoricsp., 1534 [r. No. 35t'.2, ante], Schoneri 

 Tabuhc Astronomicie, 153G, Alfragani Rudimenta Astronomica, 1537, Joannis de Sacro Bosco Libellus de Sphiera. 

 \v. No. 4174, ante], and Stifel's Arithmetica Integra, 1544 [q. v. 2^ost], wrote a commentary on Ptolemy's de Pr»dictionibus 

 Astronomicis, 1553, and described some eclipses in Bonincontri de Rebus Coelestibus, 1540. 



' 11 admettait cinq facultes de Tame : potentiam vegetatioam, sentientem, appetimvi, locomotivam et rationalem. La 

 revelation divine etait pour lui I'un des criteria de la certitude. Dans ses Initia Doctrina: PhysicfB, il n'admettait pas 

 I'opinion d' Aristarque, demontree depuis par Kopernick : 'C'est, dit-il, une doctrine contraire a la Bible, et qu'on peut 

 d'ailleurs refuter par la physique, que la Terre et les planfetes tournent autour du Soleil.' ... 11 etait convaincu avec 

 Platon ' que les etoiles ont etd crees pour les yeux de I'homme '.'—Dr. F. Hoefer. 



11729 MELDOLA (Raphael; f.r.s.) Chemistry of Photography, with H diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl., 

 Zs (p. 6s) 1889, or 1901 



A course of lectures, admirably illustrating the chemical principles underlying the subject. 



11730 The Chemical Synthesis of Vital Products and the Inter-Relations between 



Organic Compounds, Vol. I (all pub.) : Hydrocarbons, Alcohols and Phenols, Aldehydes, 

 Ketones, Carbohydrates and Glucosides, Sulphur and Cyanogen Compounds, Camphor and 

 Terpenes, and Colouring-Matters of the Flavone Group, roy. 8vo. cl., 12s (p. £1. Is nett) 1904 



11731 Coal, and what we get from it: Lectures at the London Institution, Jan. 20th, 1890, 



with 11 woodcuts, 12mo. cl., \s Qd 1891 



11732 The Position and Prospects of Chemical Research in Gt. Britain, 8vo. sewn. 



Is 1907 



11733 MELDRUM (Andrew Norman) The Development of the Atomic Theory, Parts 4-7, 

 8vo. sewn, 2s 6d Manchester, 1911 



11734 MELLANBY (J.) Globulin, with 16 diagrams, roy. 8vo. (pp. 36), sew7i. Is 6d [1905] 

 'Globulin as used in this paper indicated a proteid insoluble in water but soluble in dilute solutions of electrolytes.' 



11735 MELLOB (Joseph William, d.sc.) Chemical Statics and Dynamics, including the 

 Theories of Chemical Change, Catalysis, and Explosions, with 50 diagrams, cr. Bvo. cl., 4s 

 (p. 7* 6d) 1904 



11736 Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics, with special 



Reference to Practical Work, with 142 diagrams, 8vo. cl., Qs Qd (p. 12^ M nett) 1902 



11737 [MELVILLE (Rear-Adml. Georgre Wallace, u.s.N.) Annual Report of the Chief of the 

 Bureau of Steam Engineering for 1890, and '98-1902, with numerous folding plates and other 

 illustrations, 6 vols. 8vo. sewn. Mis 6rf Washington, 1890-1902 



11738 Report of the U.S. Naval 'Liquid Fuel' Board of Te.sts conducted on the 



Hohenstein Water Tube Boiler, showing the relative Evaporative Efficiencies of Coal and 

 Liquid Fuel under Forced and Natural Draft Conditions, with 144 illustrations {including many 

 folding plates), large impl. 8vo. sewn, with author's inscr. to Francis Elgar, P. I.N. A., F.R.S., 

 Ss U ibid., 1904 



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