HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 677 

 i:i.5*2t) PORTA (Giovanni Battista della ; Napolctano) De Distillatione Lib. IX, quibus certa 

 Methodo, nialtipliciq; Artiticio, penitioribus Naturae Arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria 

 Elementa Resolutio, perfecte docetur, editio princeps ; with fine engraved portrait mt. 64 by 

 J. Laurus, and numerous large woodcuts of chemical apparatus^ etc., sni. 4to. contemporary ichiie 

 vellum {portrait and some II. stained and browned), 16s 



Ronuc, ex Typogr. Rev. Camercc Apostolicce, 1608 



13527 Another Copy, contemporary white vellum {sound and clean copy), £1. 1* 



13528 A Large Paper Copy, printed on blue paper y 4to. contemporary white vellum gilt^ with 



arms in gold on sides (fine copy), £1. lo* 



Copies on blue paper are very rare. Graesse only knew one such copy, that in the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence. 

 Coloured, paper of such an early date is also a curiosity in the art of paper-making. 



13529 — Editio Nova, nunc primum in Germania Typis vulgata ac Indice Capitum et 



M<ateriarum exornata ; with fine engraved portrait by J. v. Helden, and the numerous ivoodcuts 

 re-engraved, sin. 410. boards^ covert with old MS. on vellum {sound and clean copy) ; rare, 15* 



Argentorati, L. Zetzner, 1609 

 The tirst edition printed in Germany, and unknown to Graesse. It contains an index wliich is not included in the tirst 



edition ; the woodcuts are also more neatly executed than in the former edition. 



The above copy belonged to Samuel Eglinger, m.d., professor of mathematics, Basel University (H»3S-73), and bears the 



following inscription on flyleaf: ' Ham. Eglingeri D. A" MDCLXIII. Fo-lix qui potuit reru cognoscere causas ! Symb." 

 'Ouvrage curieux en ce qu'il donne un etat exact de la chimie au seizieme sii-cle.'— A'tofirr. Gvn. 



13530 La Fisonomia dell' Huo.mo, et la Celeste: Libri Sei, tradotti di Latino in Vol^'are, et 



liora in quenta Settinia Impressione ricorretta, cou la Fisonomia Naturale di Monsij^nor Giovanni 

 Ingegnieri, di Polenione, di Adamantio, et il Discorso di Livio Agrippa sopra la Natura e Com- 

 plessione Humana, con il Trattato di Nei di Lodovico Settali, aggiontovi da nuovo la Metoposcopio 

 di CiRO Spontoxe ; with full-page woodcut portrait {different from the foregoing ones), and very 

 numerous large woodcuts, 4to. hoards, uncut, 16s Venetia, N. Pezzana, 1668 



' Tout en protitant des observations d'Aristote, de Polemon et d' Adamantius, Porta a deploye tant de sagacit»i dans ses 

 propres recherches qu'il peut passer pour le veritable fondateur de la physiognomic.' — Biotjr. Gen. To this edition is added 

 the Cdetitt Fi-otioiiiia {v. No. 13515 supra), 



13531 De OccuLTis Literarum Notis, seu Artis Animi sensa occulte aliis signiticandi, aut 



ab aliis signiticata expiscandi enodandique Libri IIII ; explicantur autem inter cii'tera etc. veterum 

 quoque Scriptonim Loca, hac de Arte loquentia ; indidemque petita ; with woodcuts and figures, 

 12mo. sound and clean copy in old pressed calf {RAHE), £1. 12s iid Montisbeligardl, J. Foillet, 1593 



13532 Editio Nova, priori castigatior, cui [Liber Quintus et] Auctarium accesserunt, 



Additamenta quoedam continens, ad pnccedentes Libros, tum novis inventis, tum pluribus 

 Exemplis, auctiores et illustriores reddendos ; with numerous woodcuts and figures, thick 12mo. 

 fine copy in contemporary white vellum, £1. 10s Argentorati, L. Zetzner, 1606 



The tirst edition of this work was published in four books inl5tJ3 as De Furtivls Literarum Nbtis. The fifth book was 

 (irst published in the edition of Naples, 1592, and the above lirst contains the ' Auctarium ' and is the last mentioned by 

 Riccardi. 



•Dans ce traite de chiffres ou d'ecriture .secrete, il indique 180 proced^s diflferents et met en outre sur la voie deles 

 multiplier a I'inlini.' — Biogr. Gtn. 



13533 Pneumaticorum Libri III, quibus accesserunt Curvilineorum Elementorum 



Libri II, editio princeps; with vignette on title and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 2 vols, 

 sm. 4to. in 1, old white vellum {a few II. very slightly vjormed, otherwise a large and fine copy) ; 

 RARE, £1. 5s Neapoli, Jo. Jac. Carlinus, 1601 



This work is of interest as containing the earliest attempt towards measuring the volume of steam given off by a given 

 quantity of water, 



' An apparatus similar to that of Hero of Alexandria is described by della Porta in his Pneumatics, published in 1001, 

 with this addition, that the condensation of steam within a close vessel is described as a means of producing a vacuum, 

 and thereby causing water to ascend and fill the vessel'.— P/-o/. Rankinc, F.R.S. 



The above volume first contained the author's work on curves, which was republished in an enlarged form in lt»10. 



13534 I Tre Libri de' Spiritali, cioe d'iNALZAR Acque per Forza dell' Aria [tradotti, colle 



Aggiunte dell' Autore, da JuAN EscRiVANO] ; toith vignette on title, and numerous ivoodcuts, 

 cr. 4to. fine copy in brown morocco, with bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy, F.R.S. (rare), 

 £1. 5s ibidem, a. e., 1606 



The Italian translation of the Pncmnatim, ftrst containing the illustration celebrated in the history of the steam engine. 



' On trouve a la page 75 de cet opuscule une figure representant la machine Invent^e par Porta pour dlever I'eau k I'aide 

 de la force elastique de la vapeur, figure dont Fr. Arago a donn6 un fac-siraile dans son Histoire des machines a vapeur '.— 

 Bruiiiet. Tliere is also an illustration of a thermoticope on page 70. 



' Dans la traduction italienne des Pruuinatiques, Porta parle des moyens a. employer pour connaitre en combien d'air se 

 transforme une quantite donnee d'eau. Cet air n'est autre chose que la vapeur, et Ton ne peut se refuser a voir ici une des 

 preiniires applications faites par les modernes de ce puissant moteur. Au meme endroit Porta traite de la rarefaction de 

 I'air par la dialeur, et I'aitplique a un instrument, qui est une espcce de thermometre'.— 3f. Lihri. 



13535 PORTA L£ON£ (Abrahamo [ben David Arie], Mantuanus, Medicus Hebra^us) De AuRO 

 DiALOGi Tres, in quibus non solum de AuRI in Re Medica Facultate, verum etiam de 

 Specifica eius, et cieterarum Rerum Forma, ac Duplici Potestate, qua mixtis in omnibus ilia 

 operatur, copiose disputatur. Cum Licentia Sanct^: Inquisitionis, et Illustrissimi Senatus 

 Veneti ; with plate of emblem, sm. 4to. old tohite vellum {some II. brmcned, otherwise a fine copy) ; 

 RARE, £1. 15s Venetiis, J. B. a Porta, 1584 



An iatro-chemical work of importance, in which the author denies that the internal use of gold lengthens life, and 

 containing matters of interest to the historian of chemistry and physics. It was unknown to Poggendorff, Bmnet, 

 Graesse, and other bibliographers, 



13536 POB.TLOCK (Major-Gen. Joseph Ellison, r.e., f.r.s.) Report on the Geology of the 

 County of Londonderry, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, with 38 lithographs of Fos- 

 sils, 9 folding plates {some coloured), woodcuts, and large colouredmap, thick 8vo. cl., 8s Dublin, 1843 



' He was a geologist after my own heart.' — Sir Rodcridc Murchison. 



1.3537 POSELGEB. (Friedrich Theodor; Berlin) Das Taylor'sche Theorem, als Grundlage 

 der Functionen-Rechnung, 4to. (pp. 26), sewn, 2s [Berlin, 1835] 



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