HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 775 



15409 VITBUVIUS Pollio (Marcus) [De Architectura Libri X] per Jocundum Solito castig- 

 atior fact[ij, cum Figuris et Tabula ut jam legi etintelligi possit ; title icithin woodcut border, and 

 numerous good ivoodcuts, folio, hf. ichite vellum {wanting ff. 1, 9, 13, 19. 22, 35-8, 40-1, 64-5, 88-90, 

 95-7, 104, and first I. of table) ; rare, lOsr (Sd {col.:) Venetiis, Joa. de Tridino alias Tacuino, 1511 



The first illustrated edition of Vitruvius. The above copy contains the table which is often missing. 



15410 De Architectura Libri X, cum Comraentariis Danielis Barbari, electi Patriarchae 



Aquileiensis : Multis Aedificiorum, Horologiorum, et Machinarum Descriptionibus, et 

 Figuris, una cum Indicibus copiosis, aucti et illustrati ; with very numerous large and fine 

 woodcuts, and diagrams^ folio, hf. morocco {name torn off title) ; RARE, £2. 2* 



ibidem. Franc. Franciscius Senensis et Joa. Crugher, 1567 

 A beautiful edition, esteemed for the wootlcuts it contains. 'Texte de I'edition Lyonnaiae de 1552 coirig6 sur de 

 conjectures et muni d'un commentaire explicatif. Une parte des figures ont 6te gravees par Giov. Crugher.'— Graesse. 

 The Sunderland copy (in calf) fetched £4. 15s. 



15411 De Architectura Libri X, cum Notis, Castigationibus et Observationibus Guilielmi 



Philandri integria ; Danielis Barbari excerptis, et Claudii Sai.masii passim insertis, 

 praemittuntur Elementa ARCHiTECTURi^E, coUecta ab Henrico Wottono Equite Anglo ; 

 accedunt Lexicon Vitruvianum Bernardini Baldi Urbinatis, et ejusdem Scamilli Impares 

 Vitruviani, de Pictura Libri III Leonis Baptistte de Albertis, de Sculptura Excerpta ex Dialogo 

 Pomponii Gaurici . . . cum Indicibus copiosissimis, omnia coUecta, digesta, et illuatrata a 

 Joanne DE Laet ; vnth finely engraved title, and numerous luell-executed woodcuts, thick sm. 

 folio, hf. calf gilt {Joints cracked, but a sound and clean copy) ; rare, £3. 3* 



Amstelodami, apud Lud. Elzevirium, 1649 



' Magnifique edition.'— A. IVillems. ' Belle edition. Elle est encore recherchee, et les exemplaires en sont assez rares.' 

 — Brunei. It is interesting to llnd Sir Henry Wotton's treatise among the works included. 



'Ce qui donne a cet ouvrageune valeur particuliere, c'est qu'il est le seul de ce genre qui soit parvenu jusqu'a nous, c'est 

 qu'il renferme des notions importantes pou^-l'histoire de I'art, c'est qu'il a et6 ecrit liuue epoque oii I'architectureiRomo 

 atteignit a sa plus grande perfection'.— Biojr. Gen. 



Book S deals with Water-supply and Aqueducts ; the 9th with Dialling, and the 10th with Mechanics. 



15412 VOQEL (Rudolf Augustin, U7iiv. Gottingen) Institutiones Chemiae ad Lectiones 

 Academicas accommodatae, Editio altera locupletata, Svo. old calf (nice copy), 5s Lugd. Bat., 1757 



The author was a distinguished adherent of the Phlogiston Theory. He denied the metallic character of mercury, 



15413 Leiirsatze der Chemie, iibersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von JoHANN 



Christian Wiegleb, 8vo. old hf calf, 4s 6rf Weimar, 1775 



15414 VOIGT (Woldemar ; Univ. Gottingeti) Elementare Mechanik als Einleitung in das Studium 

 der theoretischen Pliysik ; with 55 illustrations, Svo. cl.^ with Dr. Emil Beich's bookplate, 4s 6d 

 (p. M. 12 sewn) Leipzig, 1889 



15415 Zweite umgearbeitete [NEUESTE] Auflage ; with 56 illustrations, Svo. hf. German 



morocco neat, 10s (p. M. 16) ibidem, 1901 



15416 Kompendium der theoretischen Physik, 2 vols. Svo. hf German morocco, with 



Dr. Emil Reich's bookplate, £1. Is (p. M. 36) ib., 1895-6 



15417 Lehrbucii der Kristallphysik (mit Ausschluss der Kristalloptik) ; uuith 213 illustrations 



and folding table, thick Svo. sewn, 18s (p. M. 30) lb., 1910 



VOLTAIRE (Fran9ois Marie Arouet de) The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philo- 

 sophy (1738)— V. Newtoniana, No. 12625, ante. 

 1541S VOSSIUS (Isaac ; Canon of Windsor) Variarum Observationum Liber ; with woodcuts, 

 4to. old white vellum, or, old calf, 12s Qd Londini, llobertus Scott, 1685 



Including : de Artibus et Scientiis Sinarum ; de Origine et Progressu Pulveris Bellici apud Europaeos : de Triremium 

 et Liburnicarum Constructione ; de Emendatione Longitudinum ; de apparentibus in Luna Circulis; de Causa Gravitatis, 

 etc. ; al.so his well-known 'de Sibyllinis aliisque Christi Natalem praecedentibus Oraculis." 



The dissertation on the construction of triremes was inserted by Gnevius in his Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum, 

 and is referred to with commendation in Smith of Jordanhill's ' Dissertation on the Navigation of the Ancients.' 



15419 VREDEMAN (Jan) Perspectiva Theoretica et Pratica, hoc est. Opus Opticum absolut- 

 issimum, continens yEdificiorum, Templorum, Pergularum aliarumque Structurarum perfectissima 

 Fundamenta, Icones atque Delineamenta, juxta veterum ac recentiorum Autorum Doctrina 

 accurate exaratum, multis verb Notis illustratum per Samuelem Marolois ; with 65 plates, folio, 

 old vellum {binding damaged and some plates torn) ; rare, with fine etched bookplate by Boutet, 

 £1. Is Amsterdam, Joa. Jans.^on, 1633 



15420 VULLIAMY (Benjamin Lewis, f.r.a.s.) Some Considerations on the Subject of Public 

 Clocks, particularly Church Clocks : with Hints for their Improvement, with the Supplement, 

 2 vols. 4to. in 1, (pp. 15 + 31), hf. russia {binding damaged), with author's inscr., 5s 



privately printed, 1828-30 



15421 WACKERBARTH (A. D.) Provisional Theory of Leda, 4to. (pp. 24^), sewn, with author's 

 insc, 2s ad Upsala, 1866 



15422 Another Copy, cL, 3s 



The planetoid Leda was discovered by Chacornac in ISSO. 



15423 WAEYWEL (Daniel) De.monstratie wegens de Quadratura Circuli ontdeckt en 

 uytgevonden ; with folding plate, sm. 4to. (pp. 28), boards {headlines cut into) ; rare, 15s 



Amsterdam, 1712 

 The author finds .3-142 as value for tt. Holland was the great country of circle-squarers during the XVIII. Century, 

 probably owing to the fact that a money prize was offered there for a 'correct' solution. 



15424 WAGNER (Joseph Friedricb) Notizen iiber die Mineralien-Sammlung von Alexander 

 V. Crichton ; with fine portrait of Gotthelf Fischer, and IS plates, 4to. (pp. 147), sewn, 4s Qd 



Moskwa, 1818 

 'Thomas Allan Esquire [f.r.s.] with best compliments from his friend [Sir] A[lexander] Cr[ichton, f.r.s.].'— 7»scr. 

 on title. 



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