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1 AARON (Charles Howard) LEACHING GOLD and SILVER ORES (the Plattner and Kiss Processes): 



a Practical Treatise, with plates, 8vo. cl., IsQd (p. 18s) San Francisco, 1881 



2 ABAT (Bonaventure, Cordelier) AMUSEMENS PHILOSOPHIQUES sur diverses parties des Sciences, 



et pvincipalement de la PHYSIQUE; 4 plates, 8vo. contemporary calf gilt, with bookplate of 

 Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. (rare), 12s 6d Amsterdam, 1763 



A copious account of this important work, dealing chiefly with the mathematical theory of spherical mirrors, will be 

 found in Montucla's ' Histoire des Mathematiques ', 2eed., v. IIF, pp. 552-8. 



3 ABBE ( Ernst) NEUE APPARATE zur BESTIMMUNG des BRECHUNGS- und ZESTREUUNGSVERMOGENS 



FESTER und FLiissiGER KORPER ; with plate and 7 woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 3s Jena, 1874 



4 - tiber VERBESSERUNGEN des MIKROSKOPS mit Hilfe neuer Arten optischen Glases, roy. 8vo. 



(pp. 24), sewn, Is6d ibidem, 1880 



The author was the pioneer in the 'perfection of optical instruments by putting his .vast learning to practical purposes 

 in joining the tinn of Zeitz of Jena, now of world-wide renown. 



5 ABBOT (Brig. -Gen. Henry Larcom) PROBLEMS of the PANAMA CANAL: its Climatology, 



Physics, Hydraulics, etc., woodcuts and map, cr. 8vo. cl., 4s Qd (sells 6* 60? nett) New York, 1905 



G ABEL (Niels Henrik) (EuVRES COMPLETES, avec Notes et Developpements par B. HOLOMBOE, 



2 vols. 4to. hf. cl., t \5s , 1839 



NOUVELLE EDITION, publi^e, aux frais de 1'Etat Norvegien, par L. SYLOW et S. LIE, 2 vols. 



4 to sewn, 1. L? Chrisfiania, 1881 



8 ABERCROMBY (David, M.D.) ACADEMIA SCIENTIARUM : or the Academy of Sciences : being a 



Short and Easie INTRODUCTION to the Knowledge of the LIBERAL ARTS and SCIENCES, with the 

 Names of those Famous Authors that have written on every particular Science, in English and 

 Latine, IGmo. calf gilt, newly rcbacked (title slightly mended, but a sound large copy) ; RAKE, 

 1. Is 1687 



One of the earliest histories of natural science, written in English and Latin on opposite pages. ' It is arranged 

 alphabetically from Algebra to Rectiline Trigonometry, and is far ahead of its age '. Dr. drosart. The author is also the: 

 real originator of the ' Philosophy of Common Sense' distinctly taught in his writings, although it was not brought 

 into general vogue before Thomas Reid, who is generally supposed to have originated it. 



9 ABERCROMBY (Hon. Ralph) WEATHER: a Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather 



Changes from Day to Day, 96 illustrations, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 5*) 1887 



10 ABETTI (Antonio) TAVOLE di RIDUZIONE delle OSSERVAZIONI all' EQUATORIALE, impl. 8vo. cl., 



2.9 Firenze, 1896 



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