TTENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.O., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 71 



1398 FRANKLAND (Sir Edward, F.R.S.) LECTURE NOTES for CHEMICAL STUDENTS, 3rd Ed., hy 

 F. R. JAPP, 2 vols. post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 10s) 1881 



The author was the founder of the doctrine of the saturation-capacity of the elements. 



1399 FRANKLIN (Benjamin, F.R.S.) WORKS, containing several political and historical Tracts not 

 included in any former edition, and many Letters, official and private, not hitherto published, 

 with Notes and LIFE, by JARED SPARKES ; LARGE TYPE EDITION, with fine engraved portraits, 

 10 vols. roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, 2. 18* 1882 



1400 - COMPLETE WORKS in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, now first collected and arranged, 

 with Memoirs of his early Life, by himself, '2nd Ed. , portrait by W. Haines, vignettes, and plates, 

 3 vols. 8vo. contemporary calf (a few plates stained], \5s [1806] 



1401 - - MEMOIRS of his LIFE and WRITINGS, by himself, continued by his grandson, WILLIAM 

 TEMPLE FRANKLIN, with his CORRESPONDENCE and Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous 

 WORKS, portrait, plates, andfs., 6 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt (nice set), 1. 10s 1818-19 



CONTENTS : vv. 1-2, Life ; vv. 3-4, Correspondence: vv. 5-6, Works. 



1402 Vols. 1-2, comprising the LIFE only, with fine vignette portrait, 2 vols. 8vo. 



cl., 8s 1818 



1403 - EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on ELECTRICITY made at PHILADELPHIA in AMERICA, 

 with LETTERS and PAPERS on PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS; the whole corrected, methodized, 

 improved, etc., 5th Ed., with 1 copperplates, and woodcuts, 4to. old calf (RARE), with auto. T[HOMAS] 

 JEFF". HOGG, UNIV. COLL. OXON. (friend and biographer of SHELLEY) on flyleaf ', ]. 10s 1774 



LAST EDITION, ' supposed by Dr. Sparks to have received some degree of attention from the author, who was then in 

 London.' Allibone. 



It contains not only his important investigations on electricity, including his kite experiments, proving that lightning 

 and electricity are identical, and his invention of the lightning conductor, etc., but also the important discovery of the ' 

 course of storms over the North American continent, and other meteorological subjects of almost equal importance. 



1404 EXPERIENCES et OBSERVATIONS sur I'ELECTRICITE faites a Philadelphie en Amerique, 



traduites [avec Advertissement (pp. 20) et Histoire abregee de 1'Electricite (pp. 70) par THOMAS 

 FRANCOIS DALIBARD]; with plate, 12mo. contemporary French calf gilt, 10s Qd 1752 



The first French translation. The history of electricity prefixed' to this edition has not been published in any other 

 form. 



1405 FRANKLIN (J. A.) The DECIMAL SYSTEM FACILITATED, and adapted intermediately to the 

 routine methods of Account, Money, and the Precious Metals, etc. etc., 4to. sewn, 2s 1853 



1406 FRAXNO (Claudio del), y Joacquin de BOTJLIGNY : MEMORIA sobre la TEORIA y 

 FABRICACION del ACERO en General, y de su Aplicacion a las Armas Blancas ; ivith 1 1 folding 

 plates, 8vo. morocco gilt, g. e. (stamp on title), 5s Segovia, 1850 



1407 - , : TRATADO de la TEORIA y FABRICACION de la POLVORA en General, las Piezas de 



Artilleria y los Proyectiles de Hierro; with tables, 2 vols. 8vo., and folio Atlas, containing 52 

 folding plates 3 vols. morocco gilt, g. e. (stamp on titles], 15s ibidem, 1847-8 



Both the above works are uniformly bound, with the arms of Spain in centre, and both bear the following inscription : 

 'Presented to the Library of the Royal Military College Sandhurst by [GKN.Smj ROBERT [WILLIAM] GARDINER [Governor 

 of Gibraltar], The Convent, Gibraltar, 1 Sept. 1S51.' 



1408 FREMY (Edmond, de VAcademie} CHEMIE VEGETALE : la RAMIE, 8vo. cl., 3s 1886 



1409 FRENCH (John, M.D.) The ART of DISTILLATION : or Treatise of the Choicest Spagiricall 

 Preparations performed by way of Distillation, with Description of the CHIEFEST FURNACES and 

 VESSELS used by Ancient and Modern Chymists, also Discourse of Spagiricall Experiments and 

 Curiosities, the Anatomy of Gold and Silver, etc. etc., 2nd Ed., to which is added the LONDON- 

 DISTILLER: exactly and truly showing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong- Waters, 

 with the Additions of other Excellent Waters, with numerous woodcuts of CHEMICAL APPARATUS, 

 2 vols. sm.4to. in 1, hf. calf antique (some blank corners stained, otherwise a sound and large copy] ; 

 RARE, 2. 2s E. Cotes, 1653-2 



With interesting preface on the chemical quack of the time. 



1410 - - FOURTH [AND LAST] EDITION, to which is added, SUBLIMATION and CALCINATION, with 

 numerous ivoodcuts, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, contemporary calf (joints broken, but sound clean copy), 

 1. 10* a. e., 1667 



1411 [FRENCH (John, Teacher of the Mathematicks]'} A PERFECT DISCOVERY of the LONGITUDE at 

 SEA : being the Product of 9 Years Study, and the Frequent Amendments of a Mathematician, 

 who has us'd the Sea upwards of 25 Years, with woodcuts representing instruments for finding the 

 Latitude, Altitude, and Longitude, 4to. (pp. 20), sewn (rare), 10s 1715 



The author claims his discovery 'to be ' truly projected and adapted for Sea-service ; having first found the Latitude by 

 an absolute new and true Method ; which is to be done in a minute's space any time of the Day or Night, without the help 

 of Sun, Moon or Star.' There was no copy in the Scott Library. 



1412 FREND (William) PRINCIPLES of ALGEBRA [with Appendix (pp. 246) by FRANCIS MASERES, 

 F.R.S., and Observations on Mr. Raphson's Method of resolving Affected Equations of all Degrees 

 by Approximation], 8vo. boards, uncut, 6s Qd 1796 



' Freud was the last of the learned anti-Newtonians, and a noted oppugner of all that distinguishes algebra from arith- 

 metic.' He rejects in the above work negative quantities as nonsensical. 



1413 TANGIBLE ARITHMETIC ; or the Art of Numbering made Easy, by means of an Arith- 

 metical Toy, which will express any Number up to 16,666,665 ; and with which, by moving a few 

 Balls, a great variety of Operations in Arithmetic may be performed, 2nd Ed., 12mo. boards, uncut 

 (scarce], 10s 6d 1806 



' The toy is the Chinese instrument or abacus, called the Schwanpan.' Prof, de Morgan. 



1414 FRENICLE [de BESSY (Bernard)] TRAITE des TRIANGLES RECTANGLES en NOMBRES, 

 18mo. contemporary old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. (rare] 8s Qd 1676 



See DIVERSES OUVRAOES, ante, for a number of the author's works, including his celebrated 'Solution par les 

 exclusions.' 



