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



12712 NOBLE (Sir Andrew, f.b.s.) Artillery and Explosives : Essays and Lectures, ivith 79 

 plates {some folding), and many other illustrations, thick 8vo. cl., with auto, of [Major-Gen.] 

 Edward S[inclair] May [B.A., C.B., F.E.G.S.l Us (p. £1. Is nett) " 1906 



A republication in a collected form of the author's important papers and lectures on explosives and gunnery. 



12713 NOBLE (Edward) The Elements of Linear Perspective, demonstrated by Geometrical 

 Principles ; with Introduction, containing so much of the Elements of Geometry as will render 

 the whole Rationale of Perspective intelligible without any other previous Mathematical Know- 

 ledge, with 48 copperplates {some folding), 8vo. boards, uncut, 5s 1771 



12714 Another Copy, old sheep {binding damaged), 3s 



Referred to in 'AUibone' as Linnean Perspective ! — a triumph of the Transatlantic compositor hardly to be beaten by 

 his successor fifty years after who made Mr. Price Collier credit Frederick the Great -with the addition of Siberia to the 

 crown of Prussia. 



The work is dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds. 



12715 NOBLE (Major.Gen. William Henry; r.a., f.r.s.; inventor of cordite) Description [and 

 Employment] of Navez-Leurs's Electro- Ballistic Chronoscope for determining the 

 Velocity of Projectiles [with 23 Tables], with 4 plates {2 folding), besides woodcuts, roy. 8vo. 

 {pp.i6),seivn,4:s6d ' 186S 



12716 Another Covy,cI.,5s 



12717 , and Sir Frederick Augustus ABEL, f.r.s. : Researches on Explosives. Fired 



Gunpowder, ivith 12 plates, 4to. sewn, 15s 1875 



12718 Another Copy, cL, los 6d 



The report of the authors' most valuable researches, based on the experiments of Bunsen and Shishkoff, on the 

 chemical, dynamic, and ballistic effects of various kinds of gunpowder, which ultimately led to the manufacture of 

 prismatic powder. It is preceded by an interesting historical chapter. 



This important paper is not mentioned in an inadequate biography in D. N. B. 



12719 NOEL (— , Ingenieur-Geographe a Cherbourg) Recherche sur la Construction etlameilleure 

 Disposition des Digues, pour les rendre capables de r^sister aux Efforts de la Mer ; with 5 folding 

 copperplates, 8vo. contemporary calf gilt {corners of title and some II. badly stained), Qs Caen, 1781 



This work was awarded the prize by the Caen Academy in 177S. It was many years after that the Cherbourg break- 

 water rose out of the Channel. 



12720 NOEL (Adml. Sir Gerard Henry XJctred) The Gun, Ram, and Torpedo : Manoeuvres 

 and Tactics of a Naval Battle in the Present Day ; with two Essays [on Naval and Steam Tactics] 

 by Sir J. K. Laughton,f.r.a.s., andCAPT. Charles Campbell, r.n., ivith 14 plates, cr. 8vo. cl., 

 8* 6d (p. 8s 6d) 1874 



12721 NORDENSTROM (G.) L'Industrie Miniere de la Suede [traduite par J. H. Kramer] ; 

 with folding coloured map, 8vo. (pp. 60), seicn, 2s 6d [Stockholm, 1883] 



12722 NORIE (Jolin William) The Description and Use of Hadley's Quadrant and Sextant, 

 with an Improved Method of taking a Lunar Observation, without Assistants, with Complete 

 Tables of the Sun's Declination, Right Ascension of the Sun and Fixed Stars, etc. etc., with 

 folding copperplate, 8vo. (pp. 44), seivn, 4s 6d 



Heather and Williams, at the Navigntion Warehouse, Leadenhall St. , 1 796 

 The authors lirst published Avork. It was unknown to Lowndes, Allibone, and D. X. B. 



\2u2Z Formulas for Finding the Longitude, oblong 4to. sewn, 5s apud eosdem, 1807 



12724 New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation, with the most approved 



Methods of ascertaining the Latitude and Longitude, including a Journal of a Voyage from 

 London to Madeira, with a new and correct Set of Tables, more extensive than any hithert«j 

 published; 3rd Edition, with 9 copperplates, and diagrams, 8vo. old tree-calf {some 11.'^ browned), 

 7« 6rf for the author^ at the Navigation Warehouse, Leadenhall Street, 1810 



12725 Fourth (Stereotype) Edition ; with 9 copperplates, and diagrams, 8vo. old calf 



{plates and a number of II. foxed), 5s 1816 



' His ' Navigation' is still a standard work, and is in constant demand. —D. N. B. For the interest of the author and 

 his shop in connexion with Dickens see no. 3348, unte. 



12726 Sailing Directions for the Kiver Thames, from London to the Nore and Sheerness, 



etc. etc., 3rd Edition, 8vo. seum, 3s 1829 



12727 NORMANDY (Alphonse Rene le Mire de, f.c.s.) The Farmer's Manual of Agricult- 

 ural Chemistry, with Instructions respecting the Diseases of Cereals, and the Destruction 

 of Injurious Insects, with numerous woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 2s 1853 



12728 On the Production of Fresh-Water from Sea-Water, 8vo. (pp. 8), seivn, 2s 6d 1855 



'His apparatus for distilling sea-water [described .-iurra] is very largely used on board ship. The great merit of the 

 invention consists in conducting the operation at a low temperature, and causing the condensed water to absorb a large 

 quantity of atmospheric air, which renders it palatable.'— D. N. B. 



Dr. Normandy was also a valuable witness before the Commons' Committee on Food Adulteration, especially as to the 

 wholesale adulteration of bread with alum, which was rife in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. 



12729 NORRIS (William, m.i.mech.e.) Modern Steam Koad Wagons; with 79 illustrations, 

 8vo. cl. {o. p.), 3s 6d (p. 75 6d nett) 1906 



' The first publication which has in any way attempted to deal exclusively with the subject of heavy steam motor 

 wagons. '—Preface. 



12730 Practical Treatise on the ' Otto ' Cycle Gas Engine, tvith 207 illustrations {includ- 

 ing folding plate), 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 10* 6d) 1896 



12731 NORTH (Oliver) The Practical Assayer, containing Easy Methods for the Assay of the 

 Principal Metals and Alloys, principally for Explorers and those interested in Mines, with 

 woodcuts and tables, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 7s Qd) 1874 



12732 NORTHCOTE (Augustus Beauchamp, f.c.s.) On the Constitution of Allophane, 8vo. 

 (pp. 8), unbound. Is 6d 1S57 



12733 On the Water of the River Severn at Worcester, 8vo. (pp. 22), sewn, loith inscr. to 



M. H. N. Story- Maskelyne, F.R.S., Is Qd 1867 



