HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 773 



15378 VAUdUELIN (Louis Nicholas, de VImtitut ; f.r.s.) Manuel de I'Essayeue, 8vo. (pp.96), 

 seion {rare), with MS. corrections (see below), 9* 1812 



' L'exemplaire du laboratoire des essais a ete paye 40 francs a la vente D'Arcet. Toutes les corrections sent celles 

 indiquees ])ar d'Arct't sur son exenii>laire.' — Inscr. on flyleaf . 



15379 VEGETIUS Renatus (Flavius) De Re Militari Libri IV, post onines omnium Editiones 

 Ope veterum Librorum correcti a GOD. Stewechio ; accesserunt Sexti Julii Frontini Strate- 

 GEMATA, in eadem F. MODII Notae et G. Stewechii Conjectanea. Aeliani de Instruendis 

 AciEBUS . Modesti de Vocabulis Rei Militaris, aecessit God. Stewechii Commentarius ; 

 with fine portrait of Stewechius wt. 3*2 by Hioltzius, and numerous good woodcuts of military 

 engines^ 2 vols. sm. 4to. in \,fine copy in old limp vellum^ with bookplate of John Lord Sheffield 

 {friend of Gibbon), £1. 5s Antverpice, Christ. Plantinus, 1585 



15380 Another Copy, calf antique, red edges (fine copy), £1. 5* 



First edition with the celebrated commentary by Stewechius, which has often been republished. The above edition is 

 moreover very interesting for the numerous good woodcuts of war-engines, ancient warfare, etc., which it contains. 



15381 VENEMA (Pieter) Korte en Klaare ONDERWVZiNGin de Beginselen van de Algebra of 

 Stkl-Konst, 6'1<' Druk, 12mo. hf. boutid, 3s 6d Amsterdam, 1794 



15382 VENN (John, FR.s.) The Logic of Chance : an Essay on the Foundations and Province of 

 the Theory of Probability, with the esnecial Reference to its Logical Bearings and its 

 Application to Moral and Social Science ; 2ua Edition, re-\sritten and greatly enlarged, large cr. 

 8vo. cl., 4« Qd (p. 105 Qd) 1876 



15383 Symbolic Logic ; 2nd [latest] Edition, revised and re-written, with diagrams, large cr. 



8vo. cl., with Dr. Emil Reich's bookplate, 5s 6d (p. 105 6d) 1894 



15384 VENTUROLI (Giuseppe, Univ. Bologna) Elementi di Meccanica e d'iDRAULiCA, 3* Edi- 

 zione, arapliata dall' Autore ; with 14 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco gilt {nice copy), Qs 6d 



Milano, 1817-18 



15385 QuiNTA Edizione ; with 14 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, 4* Napoli, 1833 



15386 Elements of the Theory of Mechanics, with 'S folding plates : Elements of Practical 



Mechanics, with Treatise on the Principle of Virtual Velocities, and its Uses in Mechanics, 

 translated by Daniel Cresswell, d.d., f.r.s., 4plates — 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, cl., 4s fid 



Cambridge, 1822 3 



15387 VERANZIO [vere WRANCZY] (Fausto, da Sebenico ; Vescovo di Canadio) Machin^e 

 NoViE, cum Declaratione Latina, Italica, Hispanica, Gallica, et Germanica ; with engraved title 

 and 4^ fine double plates, folio, old English calf, newly mended {title slightly soiled, otherwise a 

 VERY SOUND COPY), with auto. of George Rennie, F.R.S., on title (excessively rare), £10. 10.? 



Venetiis [c. 1595] 



An extremely rare and interesting work of which three varieties are known : two having the descriptions only in Latin 

 and Italian, one issue of which has only 40 plates, and the third as above with the descriptions also in Spani.sh, French, 

 German, and 49 plates. This issue is the rarest of all. Some of the plates are of great importance, e. g. plate 38 ' Homo 

 volans ', giving a perfect representation of a parachute, plates 34-36 suspension bridges, of which no. 34 is the earliest 

 description of one wholly of iron, 49 a diving belt, 41 a digging machine, 43 a rope-making machine, 40 a boat with paddle 

 wheels going up a river, and a great variety of wind, water, and mechanically-driven mills, oil presses, etc. Plate 4 

 represents ' Ecclesia Sibenici ' 



The author, a native of Sebeniro, Dalmatia, was Bishop in Partibus of Canadium, in Hungary, and in his later years 

 appears to haved lived in Venice. There is a full description of the work in M. Libri's Histoire des Sciences MatheTnatiques, 

 where it is termed ' un ouvrage tr^s rare qui ne se trouve guere indiqu^ par les bibliographcs,' 



At the end of the descriptions is a List of Machines of the author's own invention, * fra le quali veramente alcune sono 

 interessantissime ' (Riccardi). 



No copy of this work can be traced as having been sold at auction within the last 30 years. 



15388 VEBNEUIL (Philippe ijdouard Poulletier de ; de Vlnstitut;^ f.r.s.), et Edouard 

 GOLLOMB : Carte Geologique de I'Espagne et du Portugal, 2^ Edition (26 x 35 inches), 

 finelu coloured ; mounted on linen and folded, in cl. case, 4s [c. 1865] 



15389 VIERI [detto il VERINO II^] (Francesco di Giovambatista de', da Firenze) Trattatg 

 nel quale si contengono i Tre Primi Libri delle Metheore, nuovamente ristampati, e da Lui 

 ricorretti con I'Aggiunta del Quarto Libro, 12mo. fine copy in old vellvm {rare), 15* 



Fiorenza, G. Marescotti, 1582 

 Second and last edition of this early treatise on meteorology, and the only one containing the fourth book. Besides 



meteorological subjects, it treats of comets, the tides, and the rainbow. Book IV (pp. 187-424) treats of Aristotelian 



meteorology and physics. 



The author is not noticed by Poggendorff. 



15390 VIETE [latine VIETA] (Fran9ois) Opera Mathematica, Opera atque Studio Francisci 

 A ScHOOTEN ; with numerous diagrams {a few with moveable slips), folio, boards, uncut (RARE), 

 £1. 17s Qd Lugd. Batav., B. et A. Elzevir, 1646 



' Belle edition ', — Brunei. 



In his most important work. In Artem, ' the earliest work on symbolic algebra, explaining how algebra could be applied 

 to the solution of geometrical problems', he 'introduced the use of letters for both known and unknown (positive) 

 quantities, a notation for the powers of quantities, and enforced the advantage of working with homogeneous equations 

 . . . One of his improvements was that he denoted the known quantities by the consonants B,C, D, etc., and the unknown 

 quantities by the vowels A, E, I, etc., the other was to introduce new .symbols to repre.sent the square, cube, etc. of 

 quantities which had already occurred in the equations , . . These two improvements were almost essential in any 

 further progress in algebra. . . . Vieta's works on geometry are good. He applied algebra and trigonometry to help him 

 in investigating the properties of figures ', etc. etc. etc.— W. W. R. Ball. 



'The greatest mathematician of the Sixteenth Century '.—Thonias Fowler, pr., President ofCorjnis. 



15391 : Principes de CosMOGRAPHiE : tirez d'un Manuscrit de Viette, et traduitsen Francois ; 



loith astronomical diagram, I81110. old vellum {rare), 10* f\d A. Courb^, 1637 



15392 Zeteticorum Libri V ; icith diagrams, folio, limp vellum wrapper (rare), 15* 



*. /. a. aut t. n. 

 This work, which treats of the .solution of equations, was originally published as an appendix to Vieta's In Artem 

 Analyticam Isagoge. The above edition, which is quite different from that of 1593, has no title, and is numbered from 

 1 to 24, with the signatures A— M in twos, and appeals to be unknown to bibliographers. 



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