76 HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, \V. 



1491 GAUSS (Johann Karl Friedrich) : BRIEFWECHSEL zwischen C. F. GAUSS und H. C. SCHUH- 

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1492 GATJTHEY (Emiland Marie) TRAITE de la CONSTRUCTION des PONTS [Ouvrage posthunie, 

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' Cet ouvrage estime se vendait ori^inairement 72 fr., mais comme V edition des tomes II et III est epuisee, on lo pnye 

 plus cher aujourd'hui. Le troisieme volume est compose de memoires coiicernant les CANAUX de NAVIGATION.' Lrunet. 



' II attaqua la theorie ordinaire des voutes, aujourd'hui entierement rejetee : et c'est a ses vues et aux experiences qu'il 

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1493 GAUTIER (E. J. Armand) La CHIMIE de la CELLULE VIVANTE; 2 e Ed. ; illustrated, postSvo. 

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1194 Les TOXINKS MICROBIENNES et ANIMALES ; with 20 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. hf. maroon calf 



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1495 [GAUTIER (Hubert)] NOUVELLES CONJECTURES sur le GLOBE de la TERRE, ou Ton fait voir 

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1496 GAY-LUSSAC (Louis Joseph) COURS de CHIMIE, professe a la Faculte des Sciences, com- 

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1497 - - INSTRUCTION sur 1'EssAi des MATIERES d'ARGENT par la VOIEHUMIDE; with 6 large 

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1493 _ t et Louis Jacques, Baron TH^3NARD : RECHERCHES PHYSICO-CHIMIQUES faites sur la 

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 with 6 copperplates, 2 vols. 8vo. contemporary French tree-calf gilt (VERY SCARCE), 1. 10* 1811 

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1501 GELLIBRAND (Henry, Prof. Astronomy, Gresham Coll.) EPITOME of NAVIGATION, with 

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' I think there is no book of Navigation of this Volume extant, that contains so much useful matter as this Treatise.' 

 Preface. 



TRIGONOMETRIA BRITANNICA v. NEWTON (John), post. 



1502 GEMMA Frisius (Rainer) ARITMETICA PRATTICA FACILISSIMA, con 1' aggiunta dell' Abbrevia- 

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1505 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY of LONDON, JOURNAL of the, COMPLETE from its beginning 

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