96 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



1907 HERSCHEL (Sir John Frederick William, F.R.S.) TRAITE de la LUMIERE, traduit, avec 

 Notes, par P. H. VERHULST et A. QUETELET : with 15 plates, 2 vols., or, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo. hf. calf, 

 10s 1829-33 



This work, originally published in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitan a, has never been published in English in a separate 

 form. ' This admirable treatise, translated into French by Quetelet, besides including many original discoveries, gave 

 European currency to the undulatory theory of light.' Miss A. M. Cler'ke. 



THE MOON-HOAX : 



1908 - : SOME ACCOUNT of the GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES lately made by SIR JOHN 

 HERSCHEL, at the Cape of Good Hope, 2nd Ed., 12mo. hf. roan (nice copy) ; SCARCE, 1. Is 



Effingham Wilson, 1836 



This solemn scientific hoax by an anonymous writer (supposed to have been M. NICOLLET). which was originally 

 broached by the New York Sun, relates how Sir John Herschel during his astronomical observations in South Africa 

 made the most startling discoveries on the moon by magnifying the image obtained by the telescope with a powerful 

 microscope [!J. Mountain ranges, buildings, animals in motion, and even flowers (in one instance a red corn poppy) are 

 described to have been observed by the lucky Astronomer Royal, and the statements were taken as genuine astronomical 

 discoveries and swallowed wholesale by the numerous breed of the half-learned. 



v . PEACOCK, post. 



1909 [HEBTTENSTEIN (Johann Heinrich)] CAHIERS de MATHEMATIQUE a 1'usage de MM. les 

 Officiers de 1'Ecole Royale d'Artillerie de Strasbourg ; with numerous folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. 

 nine copy in old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.E.S., 7s Qd Strasbourg, 1737 



1910 HERTZ (Heinrich) UNTERSUCHUNGEN ueber die AUSBREITUNG der ELEKTRISCHEN KRAFT; 

 with 40 diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 4s (p. M. 6.) Leipzig, 1S92 



1911 ELECTRIC WAVES : Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity 



through Space : authorised English Translation by D. E. JONES, with Preface by LORD KELVIN, 

 40 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 10s nett) 1893 



Containing the author's epoch-making investigations on the diffusion of electric force, now known as ' Hertzian waves ', 

 which play such an important part in connexion with wireless telegraphy. 



1912 HESSE (Ludwig Otto) VORLESUNGEN iiber ANALYTISCHE GEOMETRIE des RAUMES, ins- 

 besondere iiber Oberflachen zweiter Ordnung, 8vo. hf. bound, 3s 6d Leipzig, 1861 



'By linear substitution, he reduced a form of curves of the third degree in three variables to one of only four terms, 

 and was led to an important determinant involving the second differential coefficient of a form of the third degree called the 

 Hefsian . . . Many of the most important theorems of curves of the third order are due to Hesse. Pro/. Cajori. 



1913 HEVELIUS [recte HEWELCKE] (Johannes ; F.R.S ) SELENOGRAPHIA : sive LUN.E DE- 

 SCRlPTio ; atque accurata, tam Macularum ejus, quam Motuum Diversorum, aliorumque omnium 

 Vicissitudinum, Phasiumque, TELESCOPH Ope Deprehensarum, Delineatio : in qua simul cseter- 

 orum omnium Planetarum nativa Facies . . . addita est, Lentes Expoliendi Nova Ratio, etc. etc. ; 

 with engraved title, and very numerous other fine copperplates, folio, old calf gilt (one corner water- 

 stained, and binding slightly damaged, otherwise a sound copy) ; RARE, 1. 10s Gedani, 1647 



1914 ANOTHER COPY, ivith a beautiful portrait of the author by J. Falck (corner water-stained, 



but brilliant impression), folio, old stamped vellum (FINE AND LARGE COPY), 2. 5s 

 ' The earliest great work on the geography of the moon and the aspects of the planets.' Prof. S. Newcomb. 

 It also contains his discovery of the libration of the moon in longitude, and is a work still in great demand. 



1915 HEYWOOD (Thomas ; dramatist) A TRUE DESCRIPTION of His MAJESTIES ROYALL SHIP 

 ['The SOVEREIGN of the SEAS'] built this Yeare 1637 [by PHINEAS PETT], at WOOL-WITCH in 

 KENT. To the great glory of our English Nation, and not paraleld in the whole Christian 

 World. Published by Authoritie, with engraved front, of the ship, sm. 4to. hf. morocco, g. c. 

 (blank margin of dedication and last 1. mended, otherwise, a LARGE AND SOUND COPY) ; VERY 

 RARE, 4. 4s John Okes,for John Aston at his shop in Cat-eaten-streete, 1637 



The ' Sovereign of the Seas ' marked an epoch in the history of ship-building, being ' the first three-decker and the largest 

 ship hitherto constructed on modern principles. She was 232 feet in length, of 1637 tons, and carried at first 130 pieces 

 of cannon ; being found unwieldy, she was cut down, and proved an excellent ship, but was burned in l69tV Capt. Garbett, 

 R.N. A model of the ship, supposed to be contemporary, is still preserved in the Museum of the Royal Naval College at 

 Greenwich. 



1916 HIGGIN'S (Bryan, M.D.) EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS relating to Acetous Acid, Fixable 

 Air, Dense Inflammable Air, Oils, and Fuel ; the Matter of Fire and Light, Metallic Reduction, 

 Combustion, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Respiration, and other Subjects of CHEMICAL PHILO- 

 SOPHY, 8vo. boards, uncut (slightly acid-stained) ; rare, 12s Qd 1786 



' His best-known work, which appears also to have formed the subject of some of his lectures. He was more successful as 

 a speculator than as an experimentalist, and many of his views are, for tLeir time, remarkable for their acuteness and 

 generalising character'. D. N. JL All his experiments and views are still based on the phlogiston theory. 



1917 HIGGTNS (William, F.R.S. ; nephew of the above) EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on the 

 ATOMIC THEORY, and ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA, 8vo. cl. (rare), 12s 6d 



' An unworthy attack upon DALTON, in which Higgins set forth his superior claims to be considered the author of the 

 atomic theory'. D. N. B. 



1918 HIGHMORE (Joseph; painter) The PRACTICE of PERSPECTIVE on the Principles of DR. 

 BROOK TAYLOR, with 48 folding plates, 4to. old calf (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip Ind Earl 

 Stanhope, F.R.S., 10s Qd 1763 



1919 HIGHTON (Edward, C.E.) The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ; its History and Progress, with wood- 

 cuts and diagrams, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), 3s Qd 1852 



Historically interesting for illustrating various early apparatus and accessories. He incidentally mentions the interest- 

 ing fact that the semaphore telegraph was still in use between Liverpool and Holyhead. 



1920 HILL (Aaron; dramatist) ACCOUNT of the RISE ami PROGRESS of the BEECH-OlL INVENTION, 

 and all the Steps which have been taken in that Affair, from the First Discovery, to the present 

 Time, as also what is FURTHER DESIGN'D in That Undertaking, post 8vo. (pp. 112), sewn (title 

 soiled) ; VERY RARE, 1. Is 1715 



A flaming prospectus of the author's scheme for extracting the oil from beechmast. A patent was granted for the 

 process, and a company formed to work it with a capital of 25,000, while 45 per cent, was promised after 2 years, ' besides 

 making the whole notion happy.' The venture collapsed in 1716, and Hill lost a considerable sum by it. 



The above work was apparently unknown to the author's biographer in D. N. B. 



