HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO.. 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 731 



14623 SABINE (Robert) The Electric Telegraph, first edition, with 189 woodcuts, 8vo. cl. 



(SCARCE), 105 M 1867 



Historically important as the first complete English work on the subject. It is dedicated to Sir William Siemens. 

 The later editions were much condensed. 



14624 SAGE (Balthazar Georges, de Vlnstitut) L'Art d'ESSAYER I'Or et I'Argent; Tableau 

 compare de la CouPELLATiON des Substances metalliques, par le Moyen du Plomb ou du Bismuth : 

 Procedes pour obtenir I'Or plus pur que par la vole du Depart ; witk 4t folding plates oncopper, 8vo. 

 old mottled calf extra {loose in cover) ; rare, \2s Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1780 



' Sage peut ttre regard^ comme ayant cree la docimasie en France, et c'est \k son plus beau titre de gloire. —Biogr. Gin. 

 He was the first to mention in this work that ferrocyanide of potassium may be obtained in solid form. 



14625 ExamenChymique de Differentes Substances MiNERALES; Essai sur le Vin, les 



Pierres, les Bezoards, et d'autres Parties d'Histoire Naturelle et deChymie; Traduction d'une 

 Lettre de M. Lehmann, sur la Mine de Plomb Rouge, 12mo. old hf. calf. Is Qd 1769 



14626 Memoires de Chimie ; with folding plate of chemical symbols, 8vo. hf bound, 85 



Imprimerie Roy ale, 1773 



14627 Another Copy, old calf {joints cracked), ivith book-stamp of the Hon. Henry Caven- 

 dish, F.R.S., on rev. of title, lOs 6d 



The author describes in the above work hydrofluoric acid, which he considers a variety of phosphoric acid. Hewasone 

 of the last French adherents of the Phlogiston Theory. 



14628 SAIGEY (Jacques Frederic) Traite de Metrologie, ancienne etmoderne, suivid'un Precis 

 de Chronologie, et des Signes Num6riques ; with 3 copperplates {one folding), 12mo. hf. cl., 

 35 ikl L. Hachette, 1834 



14029 Another Copy, hf. morocco gilt, by BelzNiedr^e {nice copy), 5s 6d 



14630 SAIL-MAKING, The Art of, as practised in the ROYAL Navy, and according to the most 

 approved Methods in the Merchant Service, with the Parliamentary Regulations relative to 

 Sails and Sail Cloth, luith etched front, of a sail-loft with its tackle, and numerous woodcuts of 

 all the sails, and elaborate tables of dimensions, 8vo. boards, uncut {rare), 12s Qd David Steel, 1796 



Very interesting as showing the elaborate art and science which went to give motive power to the old man-of-war, and 

 made possible the niananivres which gave England victory after victory .- 



There was no copy of this edition in the Scott Library, which contained only those of 1821 and 1843, nor is there a copy 

 of any edition in the Library of the Institution of Naval Architects. 



At end is a 4-p. Catalogue of Charts, Pilots, and Navigation Books, sold by Heather and Williams. 



14631 ST. LEGEB (Mathew) Essay on the Improvement of the Art of Navigation; or a New 

 Invented Method for Finding the Longitude at Sea mechanically, by the Help of a Simple 

 Theorem founded in true Principles of Spherical Geometry, icith frontispiece, 12mo. (pp. 64), seivn 

 {rare). Is Qd " Dublin, printed for the author, 1776 



This work, which begins with a quotation from the Bible and ends with a receipt signed by the author, was unknown 

 to Watt, AUibone, and Lowndes. Pp. 49-63 contain 'An Absolute Time-Keeper for finding the Longitude by Celestral 

 Isic] Observatiomj.' 



14632 SAINT-LEON (— , chef de gare du Chemin de Fer de Paris a Rouen) Manuel Pratique des 

 Chemins de Fer, a 1' Usage des Voyageurs, des Industriels, des Administrations sp^ciales, des 

 Practiciens, des Employes, et des Personnes qui sedestinent a des Emplois actifs dans Jesnouvelles 

 Compagnies ; with folding plate of carriage and signal lamps, 12mo. sewn {scarce). Is 6d 1845 



14633 STE.-MAB.IE MAGDELAINE (Pierre de, de la Congregation des Fueillans) Traitt6 

 d'HoRLOGiOGRAPHiE, contenant plusieurs Mauieres de construire sur Toutes Surfaces, toutes 

 Sortes de Lignes Horaires, et autres Cercles de la Sphere, avec quelques Instrumens pour la 

 mesme Pratique, et pour connoistre les Heures durant NuiT : I'Heure de Flus et Reflus de la 

 Mer; plus la Methode de couper, en, Pierre ou en Bois, les Corps Reguliers et autres Polyedres, 

 par le Cube et par le Cylindre ; 2° Edition, augmentee de plusieurs Propositions ; with engraved 

 title, and 1% fine copperplates, 12nio. sound copy in contemporary vellum (RARE), £1. \0s 



Fra7igois VAnglois, dit Chartres, 1645 



14634 Troisieme Edition, reueue, corrigee et augmentee de plusieurs Propositions eb Figures; 



with engraved title and 72 copperplates, 12mo. old calf {back damaged and somewhat browned), 

 lis Cd Jean Dupuis, 1665 



This edition contains a number of new Proposition's. 



14635 NouvELLE Edition [R^impression de la Troisieme Edition]; with 72 copperplates, 



12mo. old calf {back damaged : wanting the engraved title and plate 33), IO5 %d 



Antoine Dezallier, 1680 



14636 Quatrieme Edition, revue et augmentee de plusieurs Remarques et Figures; with 



engraved title and 72 copperplates, 12mo. sound copy in old calf 18s 6c? Lyon, L. Plaignard, 1691 



14637 Another Copy, old calf {engraved title and Plates 37 and 69 wanting, and some others 



slightly soiled, lOs 



This edition contains a number of Tabl^, and 5 new Propositions. 



14638 Nouvelle [Cinquieme et Derniere] Edition; with engraved title, and 12 copper- 

 plates, 12mo. old calf^ 15* A. Dezallier, 1701 



14639 Another Copy, old calf gilt {loanting engraved title and part of printed title, otherwise 



a sound copy), 85 Qd 



Unknown to Poggcndortf, Graesse, Brunet, etc., while Querard only knows the editions of 1645, 1605, and 1701. It is 

 no. 11,4")") in IIou/.pau-Lancaster. 



14640 SALVERTE (Anne Joseph Eusebe Baconniere) The Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies, 

 and Apparent Miracles, translated, with Notes illustrative, explanatory, and critical, by 

 Anthony Todd Thomson, m.d. [and Biographical Sketch by Francois Arago], 2 vols. 8vo. in 

 1, rl. {op.), 10.S Qd (p. £1. 45) ' 1846 



' L'auteur pretend y expliquer par la physique et la chimie tons les actes attribu^s par les religions anciennes et 

 modernes a une intervention sumaturelle.'— Bioj/rapAJe Genende. He would find himself in a strangely inverted world 

 ineunte Sa?culo Vigesimo, when all the prodigies are swallowed whole and only Religion is disbelieve 1 



