734 HENKY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



14678 SAUNIER (Claudius) Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory and Practice, translated 

 by JULIEN Tripplin ; F, R. A. s., and Edward Kigg, Koyal Mint, with 21 coloured copperplates 

 and 78 woodcuts, thick impl. 8vo. cl. {cover worn), lis Qd [1882] 



a standard work on the subject, and having the plates finely engraved on a large scale. 



14679 The Watchmaker's Hand-Book : a Workshop Companion ior those engaged in 



Watchmaking and the allied Mechanical Arts, translated and considerably enlarged by Julien 

 Tripplin, f.r.a.s., and Edward Kigg, Koyal Mint; 3rd Edition, with Appendix, with 

 W folding plates and 36 ivoodcuts, thick cr. 8vo. cl., 49 Qd (p. 9s) 1891 



14'380 SAUR (L., m.d.) Betrachtungen iiber die Electricitat, post 8vo. (pp. 88), sewn [scarce), 

 6s Qd Berlin, 1832 



An attempt to form a new theory of electricity, from which the author tries to explain a number of physical and 

 chemical phenomena. 



14681 SATJSSUBE (Horace Benedict de, de Geneve; first climber of Mont Blanc) Defense de 

 I'Hygrometre a Cheveu, pour servir de Supplement aux Essais sur I'Hygrometrie ; luith copper- 

 plate, 8vo. (pp. 82), sewn, 6s Geneve, 1788 



14682 Essais sur I'Hygrometrie. I. Description d'un nouvel Hygrometre comparable. II. 



Theorie de I'Hygrometrie. III. Theorie de I'Evaporation. IV. Application des Theories pre- 

 cedentes a quelques Phenomenes de la Meteorologie, premiere edition; v)ith 2 copperplates, 4to. 

 hoards, uncut, or, hf. bound (rare), 15* Neuchdtel, 1783 



14683 Les Memks, avec Defence de I'H vgrometre a Cheveu ; with copperplate— 2 vols. 4to. 



in 1, hf parchment, £1. \s ib., 1783 — Geneve, 1788 



The Defence is directed against Jean Andre de Luc {v. No. 11059 ante), who proposed his own ivory and whalebone 

 hygrometers. 



14684 Keimpression ; with 2 copperplates, thick 8vo. boards, uncut, lOs 6d ib., 1783 



Containing the author's invention of the hair hygrometer. 'His ingenious and extensive researches, conducted with 



the simple hair hygrometer, entitle him to be considered thf. founder of hyaromelry .' —Alexander Buchan. 



' Un des plus beaux ouvrages dont la science se soit enrichie a la tin du XVlIle siecle '. — Cwvier. 



'C'est hi, que Saussure fit connaitre son importante decouverte que I'air se dilate et devient specifiquement plus leger a 

 mesure qu'il se charge d'humidite.' — Biogr. Gen. 



[ ] Delia Maniera di Freservare gli Edificj dal Fulmine ; with vignette, Venezia, 1772 



—V. Toaldo, post. 



14685 Voyages dans les Alpes, precedes d'un Essai sur I'Histoire Naturelle des Environs de 



Geneve [Nouvelle Edition], with numerous folding maps and plates, 8 vols, post 8vo. hf morocco 

 gilt {partly stained), £[. Is ib., 1803-1796 



The foundation of the Alpinist's library, and containing many valuable original researches on Meteorology, e.g., the 

 diurnal periodicity of the electric tension of the atmosphere, the decrement of temperature with height, etc. etc. 



14686 SAXJVEUB (Albert, Harvard Univ.) The Metallography of Iron and Steel, with several 

 hundred illustrations, sq. impl. 8vo. cl., I6s Qd (p. £1. 5* nett) Cambridge, Mass., 1912 



14687 SAViJRIEN' (Alexandre, Inginieur de la Marine) Histoire des Progres de I'EsPRlT 

 Humain dans les Sciences Exactes, et dans les Arts qui en dependent, avec un Abrege de la 

 Vie des Auteurs les plus celebres dans ces Sciences ; with frontispiece by Massard, 8vo. sound 

 copy in old hf. calf gilt, with Calgarth Park hooklabel of Richard Watson, F.R.S., absentee Bp. of 

 Llandaff, 5* 6d ^ 1766 



14688 SAVERY (Thomas) Navigation Impeov'd: or, the Art of Rowing Ships of all Rates, in 

 Calms, with a more easy, s-wift, and steady Motion, than Oars can ; also, a Description of the 

 Engine that performs it ; and the Author's Answer to all Mr. Dummer's Objections that have 

 been made against it, original edition, with folding plate, and 3 smaller engravings on copper, 

 sm. 4to. (pp. 30), seivn {folding plate infs.) ; very rare, £5. 55 



printed and sold by James Moxon, at the Atlas in Warwick- Lane, 1695 



14689 Facsimile Reprint, with folding plate, and 3 ivoodcuts, cr, 4to. hf parchment (ONLY 



70 copies PRINTED), 185 6d [1880] 



' In 169() he invented a contrivance for rowing ships in a calm by means of two paddle-wheels, one at each side of the 

 vessel, worked by a capstan placed between. William III. thought highly of it, but, although Savery demonstrated its 

 practicability by fitting it to a small yacht, official jealousy prevented its adoption by the navy. He was obliged to 

 content himself by publishing an account [the abovej of his invention . . . This treatise contained a vehement protest 

 against the treatment accorded him in official circles.'— X>. N. B. 



14690 SAVONAROLA (Girolamo, o.p.) Opus Eximium, adversus Divinatricem Astronomiam, 

 in ConfirmationExM Confutationis eiusdem Astronomical Praedictionis Joan. Pici Mirandul^ 

 COMi-ris, ex Italico in Latinum translatum, Interprete Thoma BONINSIGNIO, O.Prted. ; ab eodem 

 Scholiis, Adnotationibus, atque Indice illustratum ; accedit eiusdem Interpretis Apologeticus, 

 adversus huius Operis Vituperatores, 12mo. old white vellum {large and sound copy) ; rare, 12s Qd 



Florentice, G. Marescotus, 1582 

 The Italian original was published in 1495, in the same year as Pico della Mirandola's tract, and during the high tide of 

 Savonarola's reign over the Florentines. 



14691 SAXELBY (F. M.) A Course in Practical Mathematics, with 200 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s 6c? 

 (p. 6s 6^) 1905 



14692 SOACCHI (Francesco, Fabrianense) De Salubri Potu Dissertatio ; tvith engraved title, and 

 woodcut of the author^ s warming and cooling apparatus for wine, sm. ^to. fine copy in old red 

 vellum, with autograph and engraved bookplate of Albrecht v. Haller, f.r.s. (1708-77), 

 15s Romm, Alex. Zannettus, 1622 



Containing chapters on wine and the purification of bad water. The author also mentions a freezing mixture, 

 consisting of 24 pounds of sea salt melted in 100 parts of water. The author and his work was unknown to PoggendorflT. 



14693 [SCAFE (John)] King Coal's Levee, or Geological Etiquette, with explanatory :Notes; and 

 the Council of the Metals ; 4th Edition, to which is added Baron Basalt's Tour, 12mo. 

 boards, uncut {scarce), 4s 1820 



A poetical eff"usion, with explanatory notes in pro^e, which were revised by Dean Conybeare and Dean Buckland, ff.r.s. 



