-648 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



12952 PARK (James, f.g.s., Utiiv. Otago) The Geology of the Cromwell Subdivision, Western 

 Otago Division, New Zealand, with 21 plates (2 folding), 16 coloured maps and geological 

 sections {^folding), and 48 woodcuts, 4to. sewn, 2* 6rf Wellington, N.Z., 1908 



12953 The Geology of New Zealand: an Introduction to its Historical, Structural, and 



Economic Geology, with 27 plates, 145 woodcuts, and coloured geological mar), 8vo. cl.. Is (p. \^s^d 

 nett) Christchurch, N.Z., 1910 



12954 Text-Book of Mining Geology, i««YA 3 /?Za<e5 awG? 78 other illustrations, cr. 8vo. cL, 



35 M (p. 65) 1906 



12955 PAB-KEB. (Edward Wheeler), Josepli Austin HOLMES, and Marius Robison 

 CAMPBELL: Preliminary Report on the Operations of the Coal-Testing Plant of the 

 U.S. Geological Survey at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904, with 2 

 folding tables, 8vo. sewn, 3s Washingto?i, 1905 



42956 PARKER (J., St. John's Coll., Cantab.) Elementary Thermodynamics, numerous' diagrams, 

 'Cr. 8vo. (pp. 416), cl., 'Ss Qd (p. 9s) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1891 



Including Conservation of Energy (pp. 1-80); On Perfect Cases (pp. 81-103); Carnot's Principle and its Applications 

 (pp. 104-324) ; and Therinodynaniic Potential and its Applications (pp. 325-408). 



12957 Supplementary Volume to Thermodynamics treated with Elementary Math- 

 ematics: Applications to Animal and Vegetable Life, Tidal Friction, and Electricity, vjith 21 

 diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1896 



12958 PARKER (Thomas Netherson) Essay, or Practical Enquiry concerning the Hanging 

 and Fastening of Gates and Wickets, with 4 plates, 8vo. sewn, 5s 1801 



12959 PARKES (S. H., F.R.A.s.) Unfinished Worlds: a Study in Astronomy, ivith 10 plates, 

 cr. 8vo. cl., with inscr. to Dr. Dallinger, F.B.S., 3s 1887 



12960 Second Edition, with 10 plates, 8vo. cl , 3s 1888 



12961 PARKES (Samuel, manufacturing chemist) The Chemical Catechism, with Notes, Illus- 

 trations, and Experiments, 3rd Edition, containing the New Discoveries and other very consider- 

 able Additions, with plate etched on glass, and vignette, thick 8vo. hf calf {slightly soiled), 

 5s ^ [1808] 



12962 Sixth Edition, with considerable Additions, with folding front., thick 8vo. old calf 



(Joints cracked) , 3s 6c? 1314 



12963 Ninth Edition, carefully corrected, and adapted to the present State of Chemical 



Science, ivUh 2 plates of apparatus^ thick 8vo. boards, uncut, or, hf. roan { damaged), 4s 6d 1819 



All the above editions contain a chapter on Caloric, in which the author, in spite of the investigations of Count 

 Rumford, Scheele, and Sir John Leslie, still treats heat as a specific substance. 



12964 New Edition [entitled : Catechism of Chemistry], revised throughout, and consider- 

 ably enlarged, by William Barker, ivith woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 3s 6d 1837 



' His manuals of chemistry brought him much repute and honours from learned societies. The Chemical Caiiichism, 

 the most popular of the author's works, went through numerous editions. When it was translated into Russian, the 

 Emperor of Russia sent him a valuable ring.'— D.A'.B. 



12965 Chemischer Katechismus, mit Noten, Erlauterungen und Anleitung zu Versuchen, 



2. vermehrte Auflage; with 2 copperplates, thick 8vo. boards, 2s 6d Weimar, 1820 



12966 Chemical Essays, principally relating to the Arts and Manufactures of the British 



Dominions ; 3rd Edition, enlarged by Joseph Wainwright Hodgetts, with 14 plates, thick 8vo. 

 hf. calf, 4s 1830 



Including glass manufacture, calico-printing, bleaching, etc. etc. The editor, the author's son-in-law, lost his life at 

 an explosion in chemical works in Manchester. 



12967 PARKIN (G.) A Method for Casting of Tonnage and the Load Draught of Water for 

 Ships of War, etc., a neatly written Manuscript on 38 pages, irapl. 8vo. sewn, ls6d [c. 1800] 



Among the warships described is Nelson's flag-ship the Victory. 



12968 PARKIN (Thomas) A Letter, on Important Matters, addressed to the Proprietors of 

 the London and Birmingham Railway, with Dr. Birkbeck's and Prof. Barlow's Opinion on 

 Mr. Parkin's Patent Railway Invention ; and [sic] which will interest the Proprietors of all 

 Railways yet to be made, with folding plate, post 8vo. (pp. 24), sewn, with inscr. to George Rcnnie, 

 C.E., F.RS. (scarce), 10* 1836 



An attempt to overcome the intolerable bumps due to the original inelastic permanent way laid on granite blocks, by a 

 continuous compound sleeper laid on blocks of clinker. Though ingenious, it was very miich more complicated than 

 Brunei's longitudinal road, and never came into use. 



12969 PARKINSON (Richard Marion, a.m.i.c.e.) Light Railway Construction, with 85 

 diagrams and 8 //. of squared paper, roy. 8vo. buckram, 6* (p. IO5 Qd nett) 1902 



12970 PARKINSON (Thomas, Archdeacon of Leicester ; f.r.s ) System of Mechanics, with 24 

 jolding plates, 4to. sewn, uncut, 85 6rf Cambridge, 1785 



This copy belonged to Richard Watson, f.r.s., absentee Bp. of Llandaff (,1737-1816), and has his Calgarth Park book- 

 label, as well as the inscription ' The Bishop of Landaff.' 



12971 System of Mechanics and Hydrostatics, with 34 folding copperplates, 4to. old calf 



gilt, IO5 ibidem, 1789 



A reprint of the foregoing work, with a section on hydrostatics (pp. 192) added. 



12972 PARNELL (Edward Andrew) Applied Chemistry ; in Manufactures, Arts, and Domestic 

 Economy (Gas Illumination : Preservation of Wood : Dyeing and Calico-Printinjj; : Glass Manu- 

 facture : Starch, Tanning, and the Caoutchouc, Borax, Soap, Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid, and 

 Soda Manufacture), with numerous woodcuts, and 22 specimens of printed calico, 2 vols. 8vo. cl.t 

 {damaged), 8s 6d 184C 



42973 Dyeing and Calico-Printing, with 41 illustrations, and 23 specimens of printed calico] 



8vo. cl., with auto, of W. J. Russell, F.R.S., 6s 6d 184f 



' In many parts of the article on Calico-printing I have derived material assistance from my esteemed friend Mr. [Jobn| 

 3IERCKR [f.r s.], of the Oakenshaw print-works, near Blackburn.'— Pre/(tce. 



