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



11943 MISCELLANEA CURIOSA : a Collection of some of the Principal Ph.enomena in 

 Nature, accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age, being the most vahiable 

 Discourses, read before the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical 

 Knowledge ; 2nd Edition, with Discourse of the Influence of the Sun and Moon on Humane Bodies, 

 etc., by R. Mead, f.r.s., also Fontenelle's Preface of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, 

 with front, by v. d. Gucht^ and numerous folding plates and map, 3 vols, post Svo. fine copy in old 

 contemporary free-calf {rare), £1. I5s 1708-27 



Containing the following 'discourses ' by Edmund Halley, f.r.s. : Estimate of the Quantity of Vapours raised out of 

 the Sea ; True Theory of the Tides: Theory of the Variation of the Magnetic Needle, and the Cause of the Change ; Hist- 

 orical Account of the Trade Winds and Monsoons ; The Rule of the Decrease of the Heighth of the Mercury in the 

 Barometer ; the Measure ot Gold upon Gilt Wire ; Account of Ur. R. Hooke's Invention of the Marine Barometer; Propor- 

 tional Heat of the Sun in all Latitudes ; Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind ; Discourse concerning Gravity ; the Excel- 

 lency of the Modern Algebra ; Analogy of the Logarithmick Tangents to the Meridian Line ; Facile Meth.xl for constructing 

 the Logarithms ; New Methods of finding tlie Roots of any Equations ; Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets ; etc. etc., 

 besides contributions by John Collins, J. Craig, David Gregory, A. de Moivre, Sir Isaac Newton, John Wallis, and 

 many others. 



The map included in v. I is the earliest wind and current chart ever published. 



11944 Another Copy (Vol. I 3rd Ed., Vol. II 1st Ed., and Vol. Ill 3rd Ed.) with numerous 



folding plates, and map, 3 vols, post 8vo. new hf. calf gilt ( front, wanting), £1. 7s Qd 1726-0S-27 



11945 Vols. I and II only (Vol. I 3rd Ed. and Vol. II ^nd Ed.), with front, by v. d. Gucht, 



folding plates, and map, 2 vols, post Svo. contemporary calf extra {Joints cracked) with bookplate 

 ofFrof. H. W. Lloyd Tanner, F.R.S., £1. Is ' 1726-23 



Containing the following meteorological contributions besides those mentioned above : Experiment on the Refraction of 

 the .Air, by J. Lowthrop ; Scale of the Degrees of Heat ; Letter concerning the Generation of Hail, Thunder, and 

 Lightning, by John Wallis ; Geometrical Dissertation concerning the Rainbow, by Edmund Halley. 



11946 : or Entertainments for the Ingenious of both Sexes, containing Enigmas, 



Paradoxes, and Mathematical Questions, complete for 1734 and 1735, unth 4^ folding plates, 

 and diagrams, 6 nos. in 1 vol. Svo. old calf {joints cracked), 7s 6d T. Gent, York, 1734-5 



This publication was unknown to Lowndes and Watt. It includes 'Of the Invention of the Method of Fluxions'. 



11947 MITCHEL (Major-Gen. Ormsby Mackaight, U.S. Army, Director Cincinnati Observatory) 

 The Orbs of Heaven: a Popular Exposition of the great Discoveries and Theories of 

 Modern Astronomy, 4th Edition, with portrait of Galileo, and numerous plates and woodcuts, 

 post Svo. cL, 2s Qd 1853 



11948 The Planetary and Stellar Worlds : the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern 



Astronomy, first American edition, with 17 plates of nebulcc, post Svo. cl., 5s New York, 1848 



11949 Popular Astronomy : a Concise Elementary Treatise, on the Sun, Planets, Satellites, 



and Comets, revised by L. Tomlinson, with plates and diagrams, post Svo. cl., 2s 6rf 1860 



'His lectures on celestial phenomena stirred an impressionable audience to the pitch of providing him with the means 

 of erecting at Cincinnati the first astronomical observatory worthy of the name in thatgreat country.' —Miss Agnes M. Gierke. 



11950 MITFORD (Bertram) Plain and Popular Explanation of the Pendulum-Experiment, 

 unth 5 diagrams, Svo. (pp. 23), sewn, 2s 1851 



11951 MITSCiaERLICH (Eilhard; Univ. Berlin, f.r.s.) Lehrbuch der Chemie, 2. Auflage ; with 

 numerous woodcuts by Unzelmann, 2 vols. Svo. hf. calf, 4* Berlin, 1834-40 



11952 Dritte Auflage (Bd. II 2. Auflage); with numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. Svo. boards 



{sound copy), 5s ibid., 1837-40 



11953 ViERTE [stark vermehrte und umgearbeitete] Auflage ; with numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. 



roy. Svo. sewn, 6s ib., 1844-7 



Last edition of the author's most important work, containing ' his important investigation of manganic and per- 

 manganic acids, his work on selenic acid, and on benzine and its derivatives. His successful attempts to prepare minerals 

 artificially give further proof of the many-sidedness of the man, his greatest achievement of all being the discovery of 

 isomorphism [to which he added that of dimorphism and polymorphism]. His Lehrbuch der Cheniie is marked by 

 originality both of form and contents.'— P/o/. E. v. Meyer. 



11954 MITTHEILUNGEN liber Gegenstande des Artillerie- und Genie- Wesens, herausgegeben 

 vom k. k. technischen und administrativen Militar-Comite, II — X. Jahrgang ; with numerous 

 plates and woodcuts, 9 vols. Svo. in 11, hf. morocco gilt, 17s 6d (p. M. 168 sewn) Wien, 1871-9 



11955 MIZAULD [Latine MIZALDUSJ (Antoine ; M.D., He divin\ astrologer, friend of Oronce 

 Fine) Aesculapii et Uraniae Medicum simul et Astronomicum ex Colloquio Coniugium, 

 Harmoniam Microcosmi cum Macrocosmo, sine Humani Corporis cum Coelo, paucis figurans, et 

 perspicue demonstrans : Planetologia, Rebus Astronomicis, Medicis et Philosophicis 

 erudite referta : ex qua, Coelestium Corporum cum Humanis, et Astronomise cum Medicina 



Societas, et Harmonia (quam Prisci «Wpojua0?7juar»K/)v perapposite nuncuparunt 2 vols. 4to. in 1, 



with mystic vignettes on titles, and woodcut initials ; old white vellum {slightly broivned, otherwise 

 A FINE copy) ; RARE, £1. lOs Lugd., Joa. Torncesius, 1550— ibidem, M. Boy et L. Pesnot, 1551 



11956 Harmonia Coelestium Corporum et Humanorum, Dialogis X'l Astronomice et 



Medice elaborata et demonstrata, editio princeps ; handsomely printed in italics, large 12mo. 

 boards {slightly wormed, otherivise a large and fine copy) ; rare, £\. Is 



Lutetice, Jacobus Kerver, 1555 



The above first edition is very rare, the earliest mentioned by Graesse being 155S. It was reprinted in 1589 and 1592. 



\ De Thou dit que ' les ecrits de Mizauld font paraitre sa rare doctrine et son jngement exquis et qu'ils seront toujours 



e.stimes de ceux qui sont juges competents en ces sortes de matieres.' Dans le siecle suivaut telle etait la reputation de 



Mizauld qu'un libraire parisien eut le projet de reimprimer ses oeuvres. ... La plupart des Merits de Mizauld est devenue 



extremement r&re.'—Biogr. Gen. 



11957 MODEL (Johann Georg:, St. Petersburg) Versuche und Gedanken uber ein naturliches 

 Oder GEWACHSENES Salmiak, nebst Erorterung einiger von [Theodor] Baron [de Henonville] 

 gemachten Einwiirfe iiber das persische Salz, Svo. sewn, 4s Leipzig, 1758 



11958 MOEDEBECK (Hermann W. L.) Taschenbuch zum praktischen Gebrauch fiir Flugtech- 

 NIKER und Luftschiffer ; with 17 diagrams, 16mo. cl., 2s Berlin, 1895 



