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



15093 STOCKMAN (Bernardus, eertyts Fransoysche Schoolm'r- tot Dordrecht) Arithmetica, met 

 Tafelken om te rebatteren, door Abel W. Wassenaer, van nieus oversien, gecorrigeert en 

 verbeetert ; engraved title with portrait, 12mo. old vellum {rare), \2s iad Amsterdam, 1648 



This work was unknown to Prof, de Morgan, Poggendorft, and other bibliographers. It contains much on commercial 

 arithmetic. 



15094 STOFFLEB ( Johann ; Univ. Tubingen) Calendarium Romanum Magnum [in fine: 

 Abacus Regionum, Principatuil, DucatuCi, Satrapiaru, Marchiaru Comitatuum, Prouineiaru, 

 Insularu, Peninsularu, et Oppidorum nobilioru, aut cognobilioni per tota ferme Europ^i ; title sur- 

 rounded by woodcut border of arms, and numerous fine troodcut initials ; the second part printed 

 in red and black, with beautiful woodcut vignettes representing the seasons, fortified towns, etc. 

 [col. :] Oppenheym per Jacobum Kobel, 1518 : Rudimenta Mathematica, ha3c in duos digeruntur 

 Libros, quorum prior Geometric tradit Principia seu Prima Elementa, una cum Rerum et 

 uariarum Figuraru Dimensionibus. Posterior uer5 omnigenum Horologiorum docet Deline- 

 ATIONES, autore Sebastiano Munstero ; with folding plate, and numerous large and fine wood- 

 cuts and diagrams {col. .] Basileoi in ofiicina Henrichi Petri, 1551 — 2 vols, folio in 1, old calf gilt, 

 with arms on sides {binding rubbed and back damaged, but SOUND AND TALL copies) ; very rare, 

 £7. 7* ' 1518-51 



The above edition of the first work is according to Houzeau and Lancaster {Bibliographie de V Aslroi\omie) ' fort rare. 

 Ouvrage remarquable corame execution typographique, imprime en rouge et noir, orne dans ton te son etenduede superbes 

 initiales et d'enjolivements. Les colonnes de la table des lieux se terminent par de charmantes vues de villes : il y en a 

 24. La seconde partie, contenant le calendrier proprement dit, offre a cote de chaque mois ie signe du zodiaque, et au bas 

 lesattributs propres aux diflerentes epoques de I'annee ; il y en a egalement 24, graves sur bois par un maltre de I'ecolede 

 Francfort. Vient ensuite le tableau des eclipses de Suleil et de Lune, depuis 151S jusqu'en \hlb, au nombre de 63, avec 

 diagrammcs pour toutes. A la fin, une table de la Lune, le quadrant, le cadran solaireetl'instrument pour determiner les 

 heures temporaires, fort bien executes, dans toute la grandeur de la page '. 



The second work is valuable for its treatise on dialling (pp. 74-243), one of the earliest works on the subject. 



15095 Elucidatio Fabrics Ususque Astrolabii, cui multa et diligens aceessit Recognitio, 



unk cum Schematum Negotio accommodatorum, exactissima Expressione, et Indice Rerum et 

 Verborum copiosissimo ; printed in italics, ivith numerous fine woodcuts, and folding tables, 12mo. 

 hf. calf gilt {nice copy) ; RARE, £1. 5s Lutetioi, Gul. Cauellat, 1553 



' Ouvrage qui resume les precedes employes alors pour la construction des astrolabes ; une analyse a ete donnee dans 

 I'Histoire de I'Astronomie de Delambre. — JS7.o^r. G4n. 



15096 In Procli DiADOCHi, Authoris grauissimi Sph^ram Mundi, omnibus Numeris longfe 



absolutissimus Commentarius, ante hac nunquam Typis excusus ; ivith numerous diagrams, 

 folio, sev)n (RARE), £1. 5s {col.:) Tabinqcc, ex offic. Hnlderrichi Morhart, 1534 



15097 STONE (Edmund, f.r.s.) Analise des Infiniment Petits, comprenantle Calcul Integral 

 dans toute son Etendue ; avec son Application aux Quadratures, Rectifications, Cubatures, Centres 

 de Gravity, de Percussion, et de toutes Sortes de Courbes, Iraduitpar M. Rondet; ivith 4: folding 

 plates : Analyse des Infiniment Petits, pour I'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes, par le 

 Marquis de I'Hospital, 2^ lildition ; with 11 folding plates— 2 vols. 4to. in 1, old hf calf {back 

 damaged), with long presentation inscription by James Lockhart {ivell-known amateur mathema- 

 tician), 8s * 1735-16 



L'Hospital's work was the first published in French on the differential calculus. Stone's was originally published 

 with his English translation of the first work, and was later translated into French as the first wort published in that 

 language on the integral calculus. 



15098 [ — — ] The Description, Nature and General Use, of the Sector and Plain-Scale, 

 briefly and plainly laid down ; as also, a Short Account of the Uses of the Lines of Numbers, 

 Artificial Sines and Tangents; 2nd Edition, with Z folding plates, post 8vo. (pp 44), sewn 

 {rare), Is 6d 1728 



The authorship of this brochure is not noticed in D. N. B., AUibone, or Poggendorff, and was unknown to Halkett 

 and Laing, but may be inferred from the preface being signed E. S. Stone also revised the new edition of Cunn's Treatise 

 of the Sector in 1729. 



15099 New Mathematical Dictionary, wherein is contain'd, not only the Explanation of 



the bare Terms, but likewise an History of, with the Rise, Progress, State, Properties, etc. of 

 Things in Pure Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, first edition, ivith numerous 

 woodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. contemporary calf gilt {rare), 6s 1726 



15100 Second [last] Edition, with [Preface and] large Additions, with numerous woodcuts 



and diagrams, 8vo. old calf, roughly rebacked {title and some II. soiled), 5s 1743 



15101 Some Reflections on the Uncertainty of many Astronomical and Geographical 



Positions, with Regard to the Figure and Magnitude of the Earth, the finding the Longitude 

 at Sea by Watches, and other Assertions of the most eminent Astronomers ; with some Hints 

 towards their Reformation and Emendation, post 8vo. (pp. 135), sewn, 6s 1766 



' Consisting of a series of propositions attacking the accuracy of the conclusions of astronomers concerning the shape 

 of the earth and other matters of a similar kind.'— D. N. B. 



' Exposing the weakness and insufficiency of the arguments and proofs of those who will have the figure of the earth 

 spherial or spheroidical, with some hints tending to shew the uncertainty of the truth of the Newtonian physical 

 part of astronomy.' — p. 17. 



15102 STONE (Edward, pr., Wadham Coll.) The Whole Doctrine of Parallaxes explained and 

 illustrated by an Arithmetical and Geometrical Construction of the Transit of Venus over the 

 Sun, June 6th, 1761 ; Avith a new and general Method of determining the Places where any Transit 

 of this Planet, and especially that which will be June 3d, 1769, may be best observed for the 

 Investigation of its Parallax, with numerous diagrams, post 8vo. (pp. 108), sewn, 4s Oxford, 1758 



15103 STORER (Frank Humphreys ; Mass. Inst. Technology) First Outlines of a Dictionary 

 of Solubilities of Chemical Substances, thick roy. 8vo. cL, with auto, of Alex. Scott, F.R.S. 

 (VERY SCARCE), £2. lOs ' Cambridge [Mass.], 1864 



The only dictionary of chemical solubilities ever attempted, and at the same time the first English alphabetical 

 catalogue of chemical substances. 



