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



12900 PAIXHANS (General Henry Joseph ; inventor of the Paixhans Gun) Nouvelle Force 

 Maritime, et Application de cette Force a qnelques Parties du Service de I'Arm^e de Terre; 

 ou Essai sur I'Etat Actuel des Moyens de ia Force Maritime, sur une Espece Nouvelle 

 d'ARTlLLERiE de Mer, qui detruirait promptement les Vaisseanx de Haut-Bord, sur la Con- 

 struction de Navires a Voile et a Vapeur, de Grandeur Moderee, qui armes de cette Artillerie, 

 donneraient une Marine moins Couteuse et plus Puissante que celles Existantes, et sur la 

 Force que le Syst^me de Bouches-k-Feu propose offrirait a Terre ; loith 7 folding plates, 4to. 

 sewn (scarce), 15s 1822 



Important as one of the first works to advocate the use of a steel armature for warships to protect them against the 

 devastating effect of the author's gun. 



12901 PAJOT des CHAKMES (C, Inspector of Manvfactures) The Art of Bleaching Piece 

 Goods, Cottons, and Threads of every Description, rendered more Easy and General by means of 

 the Oxygenated Muriatic Acid, with the most certain Method of rendering Printed Goods 

 perfectly white and colourless, and of bleaching Silk and Wool; and the Discoveries made by 

 the Author in the Art of bleaching Paper, translated from the French, with Appendix [by 

 William Nicholson], with ^folding copperplates, 8vo. boards, uncut {rare), 12$ %d 1799 



Interesting as an early work describing the chlorine bleaching process, discovered by Berthollet in 17S5. 

 A COMPLETE SERIES TO 1902 : 



12902 PAL^ONTOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS: a complete set from the 

 beginning in 1847 to 1902 (issued to the Members only), with over 2000 fine plates by 

 G. B. SowEBBY, etc., containing many thousands of lithographed figures ; and woodcuts^ 

 56 vols. 4to. in 57, osiginal hf. cl., or hoards, as issued (scarce), £22. 10s 1847-1902 



This valuable work, published for the Illustration of British Fossil Organic Remains, comprises contributions by 

 Charles Darwin, Sir Richard Owen, Henri Milne-Edwards, Searles V. Wood, Edward Forbes, John Morris. Thomas Bell, 

 William King, Thomas Davidson, Daniel Sharpe, J. W. Salter, John Phillips, Henry Woodward, P. M, Duncan, Sir E. 

 Ray Lankester, W. Boyd Dawkins, H. A. Nicholson, L. C. Miall, and very many others. 



12903 PALLADIUM (The British) : or Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science, 

 1770-6, by the Author of the Improved and Perpetual Astronomer and Navigator, with diagrams, 

 7 vols. 12mo. in 1, hf. calf {binding broken), 6s 



D. Steele, on Little Tower Hill ; and B. Carr^ Portsmouth, 1770-6 



Containing very numerous mathematical problems, which Eighteenth Century amateurs took such remarkable pleasure 

 in solving. 



12904 PALLISEB. (Lt.-Col. Sir William ; inventor of the Palliser Shot) Treatise on Compound 

 Ordnance, with 5 folding plates, 8vo. cl., with author's inscr. to and auto, of Sir Frederick 

 [Joseph'] Bramwell, F.B.S. {name torn off title, and one plate defective) ; scarce, £1. 1.5 



for private circulation [1863] 



This work, which was unknown to the author's biographer in D. N. B., describes his invention of converting 

 old smooth-bore ordnance into rifled guns by inserting tubes of coiled wrought iron — an inner tube of more ductile and an 

 outer of less ductile metal — in cast-iron guns suitably bored out. ' Guns so treated were found on trial to give excellent 

 results, and the method afforded means of utilizing the large .stock of cast-iron smooth-bore ordnance . . . at one-third of 

 the cost of new guns. Some thousands of these ' converted guns ' have taken their place in the armamen of our 

 fortresses and coast batteries ' (D. N. B.) — as built during the invasion-scare in the the early 'Sixties. 

 Only a few copies ot this work were privately printed, and it is now very scarce. 



12905 FALMEK (Chase; Chemist to U.S. Geol. Survey) The Geochemical Interpretation of 

 Water Analyses, ivith map and 4: folding tables, 8vo. (pp. 31), sewn, \s Qd Washington, 1911 



12906 PALMEB. (Major-Gen. Henry Spencer, r.e.) The Ordnance Survey of the Kingdom : 

 its Objects, Mode of Execution, History, and present Condition, 8vo. cl., 2s 1873 



12907 PALMIERI (Luigi, Univ. Naples) The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, Avith Notes and 

 Introduction on the present State of Knowledge of Terrestrial VuLCANiciTY, and theCosmical 

 Nature and Relations of Vulcanoes and Earthquakes, by Robert Mallet, f.r.S. ; with SplateSy 

 roy. 8vo. cl. {scarce), with auto, of Edward Whymper, Is Qd 1873 



Important for the editor's preface (pp. 78), in which he lays the foundation of his theory of the fracturing and folding 

 origin of the earth's crust. The work also describes the author's seismographic apparatus and his electrometer for 

 atmospheric electricity. 



12908 Der Ausbruch des Vesuv's vom 26. April 1872, autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe, besorgt 



von C. Rammelsberg ; ivith 7 plates, 8vo. sewn, \s Qd Berlin, 1872 



12909 PANOT (L., St. Omer) CouRS sur les Armes a Feu Portattves, 4^ [derniere] Edition, 

 considerablenient augmentee; with 6 folding plates, 8vo. hf. calf gilt {joints rubbed), 5s 1851 



12910 PAPILLON (Jean Michel, graveur en bois) Supplement du Trait e Historique et 

 Pratique de la Gravure en Bois, contenant plusieurs Faits Historiques, de Nouvelles 

 Manieres, servant a perfectionner cet Art, les Arrets rendus en Faveur de la Gravure, et une 

 Table des Matieres des trois Volumes ; with woodcuts of tools and speciinens, 8vo. old calf 

 {joints cracked) ; rare, 8s Qd 1766 



This supplementary volume (forming vol. Ill) is rare, and was unknown to Qu^rard and the BiograpJde Genirale. 

 ' Ce livre contient beaucoup de renseignements pr^cieux'. — Biogr. Gen. 



Papin's Digester : 



12911 PAPIN (Denis, m.d. : f.r.s., assistant to Boyle) La MANli:RE d'AMOLlR les Os, et de faire 

 cuire toutes Sortes de Viands en fort pen de Temps, et k pen de Frais, avec une Description de 

 la Machine dont il se faut servir pour cet Effet, ses Proprietez, et ses Usages, confirmez par 

 plusieurs Experiences, nouvellement invente ; with 2 folding plates {one mended), 16mo. contem- 

 porary calf {back damaged), VERY RARE, £1. 15* B. Michallet, 1682 



This work contains the invention of the steam digester, and, forming part of it, that of the Safety Valve. The 

 latter exerted a great influence on the progress of the steam engine, as it did not form part of the engines constructed 

 before this (e. g. Savery's and the Marquess of Worcester's). 



The work was originally published in English, in 1(581, as 'The New Digester'. This French edition contains an 

 ' Advis ' by Claude Comiees, in which he describes an improved form of the digester. 



