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



14217 RICHARDS (Theodore William ; Harvard Univ.), and Wilfred Newsome STXJLL : New 

 Method for Determining Compressibility, with 5 illustrations, cr. 4to. (pp. 45), sewn, 2s M 



Washington, 1903 



The author's work is of importance for having revised the atomic weight of 10 different elements, and invented in this 

 connexion a number of ingenious apparatus and devices for drying the substances that had to be investigated. 



14218 RICHARDS (William, c.E.) Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Distri- 

 bution of Coal Gas, with 29 plates (10 double), and 103 woodcuts, thick 4to. cl. [o. p.), 10s 6d 

 (p. £1. 8s) 1877 



' A considerable degree of detail has been entered into in the work, alike in the description of the various apparatus as 

 well as in the modes of operation, which has never been attempted in any production of the kind hitherto published.'— Pre/ace. 



14219 RICHARDSON (George, pr., Winchester Coll.), and A. S. RAMSEY: Modern Plane 

 Geometry : the Proofs of the Theorems in the Syllabus of Modern Plane Geometry, issued by 

 the A.I.G.T., with diagrams, fcap. 8vo. cl., with auto, and bookplate of Prof. Lloyd Tanner, 

 F.R.S.,26 1894 



An excellent introduction to advanced books on plane geometry. 



14220 RICHARDSON (John) Theoretic Hints on an Improved Practice of Breaving Malt 

 Liquors; including some Strictures on the Nature and Properties of Water, Malt, and Hops ; the 

 Doctrine of Fermentation, the Agency of Air, the Effect of Heat and Cold on Fermented Liquors, 

 etc. etc. ; 2nd Edition, 8vo. (pp. 74), sewn, 6s 1777 



' The author Avas the first to "bring to the knowledge of brewers the use and value of the saccharoraeter, as 

 Conibrune in I7t>2 had first recommended the thermometer.'— I). N. B., wherein the above pamphlet is not mentioned. 



14221 RICHARDSON (Owen Williams, f.r.s.. Prof. Physics, Princeton Univ.) The loNiSATlON 

 produced by Hot Platinum in difierent Gases, with 17 diagrams, roy. 4to. (pp. 64), seivn, 2s 6d 1906 



14222 RICHARDSON (T.). and G. W. JAFFREY, Hartlepoollron Works, Durham), Harbour 

 of Refuge proposed by [at Hartlepool], icith 2 folding plates, 8vo. (pp. 7), seum, with inscr. 

 'given to G. Rennie ' [c.E., F.R.S.], Zs M ' [1860] 



a suggestion for a breakwater consisting of a row of cylinders on the lines of tlie piers of Charing Cross Railway 

 Bridge, ' made either of castor wrought iron, or of stone, each having a clear intermediate distance or space between eacb 

 at the top, equal to its diameter,' connected by a lattice-work of timber or iron. 



14223 RICHARDSON (Thomas), and Henry WATTS, ff.r s. : The Manufacture and Appli- 

 cations of Acids, Alkalies, and Salts ; founded on Dr. Knapp's Technology, 2nd [last] 

 Edition [wholly rewritten], with folding plates and 752 woodcuts, 3 thick vols. Svo. cl., lOs 

 (p. £4. 10s) 1863-7 



Vol. Ill contains a very complete list of abstracts of patent specifications (pp. 395). 



14224 R [ICHARDSON] (W[igliam]) Practical Directions for the Construction and Fixing 

 of Sux-DiALS, irith 3 folding plates and 3 diagrams, cr. 4to. (pp. 16), sewn, 2s 1889 



14225 RICHARDSON (William, Greenwich Observatory) Catalogue of 7385 Stars, chiefly in the 

 Southern Hemisphere, prepared from Observations, 1822-6, at the Observatory at 

 Paramatta, N.S.W., founded by Lt.-Gen. Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, f.r.s., with front, of 

 Paramatta Observatory {demolished in 1855), 4to. cl., uncut (scarce), £1. 5* 1835 



This important work, generally known as the • Brisbane Catalogue ', procured for its author the Copley medal from the 

 Royal Society. ' Brisbane was the founder of Australian science ' {Sir John Herschel), as well as the hero eponymus of the 

 capital of Queensland. 



The Brisbane Observatory was the first regular one established in the Southern Hemisphere. 



14226 RICHE (Jean Baptiste Leopold Alfred) Recherches sur le Tungstene et ses Composes : 

 These, 4to. (pp. 81), sewn, ivith auto, of T. L. Phipson, F.C.S., 3s Qd 1857 



14227 RICHELOT (Friedrich Julius ; 'Univ. Koenigsberg) De Transformatione atque COMPU- 

 TATIONE Integralium Abelianorum Primi Ordinis, 4to. (pp. 124), scwn, 3s Berolini, 1837 



14228 RICHMOND (Herbert William ; f.r.s., King's Coll., Cantab.), and Thomas STUART: 

 The Inflexion Conic of a Trinodal Quartic Curve, impl. 8vo. (pp. 3), sewn. Is [1903] 



14229 RICHMOND (W. D.) The Grammar of Lithography : a Practical Guide in Commercial 

 and Artistic Lithography, Chromolithography, Zincography, Photo-Lithography, and Litho- 

 graphic Machine Printing, edited and revised, with Introduction, by the Editor of ' The Printing 

 Times and Lithographer ' ; 2nd Edition, with woodcuts, cr. Svo. cL, 5s 1880 



With appendix containing original racipes for preparing chalks, inks, transfer-papers, etc. 



14230 RICHTER (Georg Friedrich ; Univ. Leipzig) Dissertatio Geometrica de Sectionibus 

 in Infinitum Alternatis ; with plate, sm. 4to. (pp. 24), sewn {rare), 8s 6d Lipsite, 1712 



The author's first published work, which was unknown to Poggendorff. 



14231 RICHTER (M. M.) Lexikon der Kohlenstoff-Verbindungen, mit Supplement I-III, 

 umfassend die Litteraturzeit v. 1 Apr., 1889 bis 31. Dec, 1904, 5 vols. sq. impl. 8vo. hf. German 

 morocco {backs rubbed), £3. 3s (p. M. 133) Hamburg, 19U0-5 



This important work, unique of its kind, is arranged according to the atomicity of carbon, from Ci to Cg^j, with a Table 

 of Percentages, and an alphabetical Index. The text is in four languages— German, English, French, and Italian. 



' Ein General- Register fiir das Gesamtgebiet der organischen Chemie. . . . Das vollkommenste Werk, welches auf dem 

 Gebiete des Litteraturnachweises geschaflen i&t.'— Bet: d. cleutsch. vharm. Ges. 



14232 RICKETTS (Louis Davidson) The Ores of Leadville, and their Mode of Occurrence, as 

 illustrated in the Morning and Evening Star Mines, with Chapter on the Methods of their Ex- 

 traction, with 6 plates (1 coloured), roy. 4to. sewn, with author's inscr., 4s Princeton, 1883 



142.33 RICKETTS '(Pierre de Peyster, Co^wm6m Co^^.) Notes on Assaying and Assay Schemes ; 

 fifth Edition, enlarged, with 31 woodcuts, and table, Svo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 10^ 6d nett) New York, 1880 



14234 [RICOTJR (Theopkile)] Introduction a la Notice sur le Tube d'iNVERSiON ; with 4 

 woodcuts, 8vo. (pp. 15), unbound, 2s [1869] 



The author claims priority over Paul Lechatklier in the introduction of a jet of steam into the exhaust-passages 

 when reversing the locomotive engine, thus preventing the ingress of dust-laden air and the wear of brake surfaces. 



14235 RIECEE (Eduard; Univ. Goettingen) Ueber die electrischen Elementargesetze, 4to. 

 (pp. 35), sewn, 2s (\d [Gattingen, 1875] 



