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



15135 STOVESANDT (J. 0.) Deutliche Anweisung zur Feuerwerkerey, worinnen alle gebrauch- 

 liclie Arten der Lust- und Einstfeuer, nebst derselben Verfertigung und denen dazu notigen 

 Werkzeugen ordentlich und genau beschrieben ; with vignette on title, and Infolding copperplates, 

 4to. hf. cl. {fine copy), with bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A. (rare), 15s Leipzig, 1757 



Especially valuable for giving a full account of how to make fireworks, with a description of all the necessary tools. 



15136 STREETE (Thomas) Astronomia Carolina : a New Theorie of the Ccelestial Motions, 

 composed according to the best Observations and most Rational Grounds of Art, yet far more 

 Easie, Expedite and Perspicuous than any before Extant, with Exact and most Easie Tables 

 thereunto, and Precepts for the Calculation of Eclipses, etc., first edition, with diagrams, sm. 

 4to. old calf {title guarded and last I. slightly defective on blank margin, otherwise a sound copy) ; 

 rare, lbs Lodowick Lloyd, 1663 

 Containing at end a ' Canon Triangularum Logarithmicus,' and on the last 10 pp. a ' Tabula Logarithmorum Logisticorum '. 



15137 Second Edition, corrected, to which are added some Lunar and Planetary Observ- 

 ations, with a Proposal of their Uses in Navigation, with diagrams, 4to. contemporary calf, 

 newly rebacked {some slight water-stains, otherwise a sound and large copy), I2s 



E. Smith and S. Briscoe, 1710 



•The appendix, ' Observationes Sydennn, et imprimis Lunse in Suburbio Londinensi apud Islington, 16S2-4' is by 

 Edmund Hallev, f.r.s. The work was attacked by Vincent Wing (v. No. 5447 ante). 



15138 Memorial Verses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Calendar: with an Epitome of 



the Heavenly Motions, sm. 4to. (pp. 23), hf. calf neat (rare), 12s John Darby y 1667 



Containing the following verses, signed J. P., on reverse of title : 



' Burlesque is stale and Travesty, 



And all that Drolling Poetry 



For Numbers now in Numbers flow, 



And Time and Tide together go. 



Here little Boyes that love to Play ' 



May know when 't will be Holyday, 



And Men that are not Rosie-Crucians 



May learn the Planets Revolutions 



In sober sadness, what d'you lack ? 



Here's your Perpetual Almanack.' 

 None of the above works is noticed by Lowndes or Watt. 



15139 STRETCH (R. H.) Prospecting, Locating and Valuing Mines, with Account of the 

 principal Minerals and Country Rocks, Ore Deposits, Locations and Patents, the early Develop- 

 ment of Mines, Earthy Mineral Products, Coal, Gold Gravels and Gravel Mining, Measurement 

 of Water, and Artesian Wells, with 15 plates, thick cr. 8vo. cL, 5s (p. 10s nett) New York, 1900 



15140 STROMEYER (Johann Philip Edmond Charles, m.i.c.e.) Unity and Nature: an 

 Analogy between Music and Life, 8vo. cL, t. e. g.. Is (p. 12a' Gd nett) 1911 



Including chapters on Flatland, Matter, Energy, Geological Records, the Fourth Dimension, etc. etc. 



15141 STRONG (Thomas Banks, Dean of Christ Church), Lectures on the Method of Science, 

 edited by, ivith 16 diagrams, 8vo. buckram, 4s (p. 7* Gd nett) Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1906 



Containing contributions by Protf. Thomas Case, Francis Gotch, C. S. Sherrington, and W. M. Flinders Petrie, 

 W. McDougall, A. H. Fison, Sir Richard C. Temple, and the Editor. 



STRUBI (Heinrich) Arithmetic A : ein new kiinstlich Rechenbuch mit der Zipher, Ziirych^ 

 1599— V. Lauremberg, No. 10569, ante. 



15142 STRUKEL (M., Technical High School Helsingfors) Der Bruckenbau, nach Vortriigen 

 gehalten am finnlandishen Polytechnischen Institute in Helsingfors; Atlas, II. Teil: Bewegliche 

 und steinerne Briicken ; with 41 plates, 4to. sewn, 5s (p. M. 10) Helsingfors, 1906 



15143 Der Grundbau, nach den Vortriigen gehalten am finnlandischen Polytechnischen 



Institute in Helsingfors, mit Atlas, 2. vermehrte Auflage ; with 36 plates and 118 other illustra- 

 tions, 2 vols. 4to. seivn, 10s Qd (p. M. 18) ibidem, 1906 



15144 Der Wasserbau, nach den Vortriigen am finnlandischen Polytechnischen Institute in 



Helsingfors, I. Teil: Ursprung, Vorkommen und Eigenschaften des Wassers ; Stauwerke ; 

 Fischwerke, 2. vermehrte Auflage ; with 15 plates and 103 other illustrations, 4to. sewn, Is 6d 

 (p. M. Us) ib., 1904 



15145 IV. (letzter) Teil : Flussbau, Deiche, Hafen und Schiffahrtszeichen ; ivith 37 



plates and 52 other illustrations, 4to. sewn, 9s (p. M. 18) ib., 1904 



15146 STRUTT (Hon. Robert John, f.r.s. ; Frof. Physics, Imperial College of Science) The Bec- 

 QUEREL Rays and the Properties of Radium, with 3 plates, and 27 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 4* Gd 

 (p. 85 Gd nett) 1904 



15147 On the liEAST Potential Difference required to produce Discharge through various 



Gases, with woodcuts, roy. 4to. (pp. 18), sewn, IsGd 1900 



15148 STRUVE (Otto Wilhelm v., Pulkova Observatory) Beobachtung der totalen Sonnenfin- 

 STERNiss vom 18. (6.) JULi 1860 in PoBES, nach den Berichten der einzelnen Theilnehmer zu- 

 sammengestellt; with'^ plates and folding map, 4:to. hf. roan, ^sGd St. Petersburg [Petrograd], 1861 



Bound up with the above is : On the Total Solar Eclipse of July ISth, 1860, observed at Rivabelosa, near Miranda 

 de Ebro, in Spain (Bakerian Lecture), by Warren de La Rue, f.r.s., with li plates of Solar Frominences, besides woodcuts, 

 '62. 



• De La Rue's observations proved conclusively that the ' red flames ' or ' prominences ' observed during eclipses, belong 

 to the sun and not to the moon.'— D.N. B. 'To De La Rue belongs the full credit of having solved this important 

 question.' — Sir Norman Lockyer. 



15149 Beobachtungen des Bielaschen Cometen in 1852, angestellt am grossen Refractor 



der Pulkowaer Sternwarte ; with 2 plates, 4to. (pp. 26), sewn, 2s [ibidem, 1853] 



15150 Bestimmung der Constante de Praecession, mit Beriicksichtigung der eigenen 



Bewegung des Sonnensystems, 4to. (pp. 108), sewn.^ 5s ib., 1842 



15151 Determination de la Parallaxe de I'Etoile Groombridge 1830, folio (pp. 28), sewn, 



2s Gd [ib., 1850] 



