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



1339S PLATEAU (Joseph Antoine Ferdinand ; Univ. Ghent ; f.r.s.) Dissertation sur quelques 

 Proprietes des Impressions produites par la Lumiere sur I'Organe de la Vue ; loith folding 

 plate, 4to. (pp. 32), sewn, 3* Liege, 1829 



The author's first work, published in a gallant town whose fame will never die. 



13399 EssAi d'une Theorie Gene;rale comprenant I'Ensemble des Apparences Visuelles 



qui succedent a la Contemplation des Objets Colories, et de celles qui aceompagnent cette 

 Contemplation, c'est-a-dire la Persistance des Impressions de la Retine, les Coulours Accidentelles, 

 r Irradiation, les Effets de la Juxtaposition des Couleurs, les Ombres Coloriees, etc. ; with folding 

 copperplate, 4to. (pp. 68), sewn, with author' sinscr. to Dr. P. M. Roget, F.R.S. , 6s 6d Bruxelles, 1834 



13400 Memoire sur I'lRRADlATlON ; with folding copperplate, 4to. (pp. 112), with author^ si?iscr- 



to the same, 8s 6d ibidem, 1839 



The author gives in the above memoir the first complete explanation of irradiation. ' He found that irradiation ditters 

 very much in different people, and even in the same person on different days. He also found that it increases with the , 

 lustre of the object and the length of time during which it is viewed. . . . Diverging lenses increase it, condensing lenses 

 diminish it.'— Pro/. A. W. Reinold, F.R.S. 



13401 Statique Experimentale et Theorique des Liquides soumis aux seules Forces 



Moleculaires ; with 96 diagrams, 2 vols. roy. Svo. sewn (scarce), 10s Gaud, 1873 



Specially valuable for the author's investigations on waves, surface tension, and the theory of jets. 



13402 PLATTNER (Karl Friedricli) Beitrag zur Erweiterung der Probirkunst durch ein 

 systematisches Verfahren bei Ausmittelung eines in Erzen, Hiitten- und Kunst-Producten 

 befindlichen Gehaltes an Kobalt, Nickel, Kupfer und Blei oder Wismuth auf trocknem Wege ; 

 ^vith 9 woodcuts, 12mo. cl. {scarce), 4s Freiberg, 1849 



It was Plattner's merit to have introduced the use of the blowpipe, till then exclusively confined to metallurgical 

 operations, into analytical chemistry. 



13403 Die Probirkunst mit dem Lothrohre, 3. umgearbeitete Auflage ; icith 78 woodcuts, 



Svo. hf. German calf, with auto, and MS. note by W. J. Russell, F.R.S., Ss Leipzig, 1853 



13404 Tableaux des Caracteres que presenbent au Chalumeau les Alcalis, les Terres, 



et les OxYDES Metalliques, soit Seuls, soit avec les Reactifs, traduits par A. Sobrero, 4to. 

 (pp. 16), setcn, 2s Qd 1843 



13405 The UsE of the Blowpipe, in the Examination of Minerals, Ores, Furnace-Products, 



etc., translated, with Notes, by James Sheridan Muspratt, f.r.s. ; with Preface by Justus 

 Freiherr v. Liebig, first English edition, with 50 tvoodcuts, 8vo. cl., Ss 6d 1845 



This edition contains an appendix : • A Simple Method of Finding the Weight of any very Minute Metallic Globules, 

 without a Balance,' by Oliver Byrne, 



13406 , and Theodor BICHTEB, Freiberg: Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative 



Analysis with the Blowpipe [translated by Henry B. Cornwall and John H. Caswell]. 

 Last Edition, by T. Hugo Cookesley, with 78 woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl. (scarce), with auto, of 

 J. M. Thomson, F.R.S., 85 6rf (p. £1. Is) 1875 



' This branch of chemical analysis, originally confined to the determination of the noble metals in the dry way, has 

 become expanded into an important branch of analytical chemistry, particularly since C. F. Plattner's comprehensive 

 researches and the publication of his [above] classical book.'— Pro/. E. v. Meyer. 



13407 PLINIUS Secundus (Caius) Naturalis Historia, nunc demum ex Aldinis Archetypis 

 pristinosuo Nitori accurate restituta : affixa SiGlSMUNDl Galenii Castigatione ; accessit Index 

 locupletissimus ; with vignettes, folio, old stamped calf, newly rebacked, with autos. of Richard 

 Whitlock, 1654, and Thomas Bradock, pr., 1577 {headmaster of Reading Grammar School) on 



flyleaf, and numerous MS. notes and references by them, also old autos. of J. Dickinson, 1734, J. 

 Harris, and Nic: Franckwell de Bexley on title, £1. 5s Venetiis, Hier. Scotus, 1571 



Bradock's autograph is interesting, as he was the translator into Latin (in 637 pp. folio) of Bishop Jewel's ' Con- 

 futation ' of Harding's ' Answer ' to Jewel's ' Apologia Ecclesite Anglicante.' 



13408 Naturalis Historia, cum Commentariis et Adnotationibus Hermolai, Barbari, 



PiNTiANi, Rhenani, Gelenii, Dalechampii, Scaligeri, Salmasii, Is. Vossii, et variorum ; 

 accedunt variae Lectiones ex MSS., item J. F. Gronovii Notae ; with engraved titles, 3 thick vols. 

 sm. 8vo. old smooth red morocco extra, blind tooled backs and borders, g. e.,from the library of the 

 Duchesse de Berri {engraved title to v. 2 backed) ; rare, with bookplate of Mr. Henry B. H. 

 Beaufoy, £2. lOs Lugd. Bat., apud Hackios, 1669-8 



'Belle edition, et I'une des moins communes de la collection des anciens Variorum '.—Bnuiet. ' Edition correcte'.— 

 Gr(t£sse. 



13409 The Historie of the World : commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius 



Secundus. Translated by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke, original edition, with 

 woodcut title, 2 vols, folio in 1, old panelled calf, rebacked {first title slightly de^fective and soiled) ; 

 rare, £3. 55 impensis G. B., 1601 



The above imprint is very unusual. Vol. II. and the colophon however bear that of Adam Islip. 

 FROM KING JAMES I.'S LIBRARY : 



13410 — ; — Another Copy, 2 vols, folio in 1, old calf gilt, rebacked, with Arms of King James I. 

 on sides {small wormhole through some margins at end of v. 2, otherwise a sound and tall 

 COPY) ; rare, £10. 10,9 Adatn Islip, 1601 



This IS Holland's chief translation, which brought him, to-^ether with his other translations, the title of ' Translator- 

 General ' of his age. 'Translated by that old worthy, Philemon, who, for the service which he rendered to his con- 

 temporaries and liis countrymen, deserves to be called the best of the Hollands, without disparaging either the Lord or 

 the Doctor of that appellation.'— So ui/ic^. 



13411 PLUTARCH on the Face which appears on the Orb of the Moon: Translation and Notes 

 with Appendix, by A. O. Prickard, Fellow of New College, Oxford, with2 plates, 8vo. (pp. 78), 

 figured boards, 2s Winchester, 1911 



