HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, \V 65 



1268 EWBANK (Thomas) DESCRIPTIVE and HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of HYDRAULIC and other 



MACHINES for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern, with Observations on the Mechanic Arts, and 



the Development of the STEAM ENGINE, 16th [last] Ed., enlarged, engraved title, and 290 woodcuts, 



roy. 8vo. cl., 10s- Qd (p. 1. 10s) New York, 1870 



Containing much interesting historical information. 



12G9 EWING (James Alfred, F.R.S.) MAGNETIC INDUCTION in IRON and other METALS, 159 illus- 

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1270 FABRE (Jean Antoine) ESSAI sur la Maniere la plus avantageuse de construire les MACHINES 

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1271 FABRI (Ottayio) L'Uso della SQUADRA MOBILE, con la quale per Teprica et per Pratica si 

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Unknown to Poggendorff and Gra-sse. ' Bella e rara edizione.' Riccardi. 



1272 FAGNANO (Giulio Carlo, Marchese de' Toschi) PRODUZIONI MATEMATICHE ; with folding 

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' He may be said to have been the first writer who directed attention to the theory of elliptic functions . . . He also 

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1273 FAHIE (J. J.) HISTORY of WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY (1838-99), including Bare-Wire Proposals 

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1274 FAIRBAIRN (Sir William, F.R.S.) The RISE and PROGRESS of MANUFACTURES and COM- 

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[privately printed, Manchester, 1869] 

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1275 - - TREATISE on IRON SHIP BUILDING ; its History and Progress, with 4 plates, and 127 

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Including an enquiry into the then and prospective state of the Navy, with experimental results on the resisting 

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1276 - - TREATISE on MILLS and MILLWORK, 2nd Ed., with folding plates, and numerous ivood- 

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1277 FAIRFAX (George) NAVIGATION EPITOMIZ'D : or Particulars most useful and usually taught 

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1278 FALCONER (William, author of ' The Shipwreck ') UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY of the MARINE : 

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1279 FALE (Thomas; Corpus Chn'sti Coll., Cantab.) HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA : the ART of DIALLING: 

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1280 ANOTHER COPY, hf. bound (binding broken, and some II. neatly mended and a few worm- 

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1281 - - ANOTHER COPY (wanting title), IQs Qd 



' The table of sines which it contains is probably the earliest specimen of a trigonometrical table printed in England." 



1282 FARADAY (Michael, F.R.S.) The CHEMICAL HISTORY of a CANDLE [including a Lecture on 

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1283 - CHEMICAL MANIPULATION ; being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods 

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1284 - SECOND EDITION [enlarged] , with woodcuts, Svo. boards, uncut (some II. foxed) ; scarce, 

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1285 - - THIRD [LAST] EDITION, revised, with woodcuts, Svo. original cl., uncut, 17s Qd 1842 



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1286 - - MANIPULATIONS CHIMIQUES ; traduit par MAISEAU, et revu pour la Partie technique par 

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Published in the same year as the English original, and interesting as showing the early appreciation of the great 

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1287 - - EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES in ELECTRICITY, from the Philosophical Transactions, with 

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