144 UENHY SOTHEtlAN & CO., UO, STRAND, W.C., AND 3?, PICCADILLY, W. 



2888 MATHEMATICI VETERES : ATIIEN.EI, APOLLODORI, PHILONIS, BITONIS, HERONIS, et 

 aliorum OPERA, Gra?ce et Latine pleraque NUNC PRIMUM EDITA ex MSS. Codd. Bibliotheca; 

 Regiae [a MELCH. THEVEXOT, Jo. BOIVIN etPn. DELA HIRE] ; beautifully printed, with numerous 

 fine engravings on copper of Physical and Chemical Apparatus and Instruments, etc., roy. folio, old 

 c//(VERY RARE), 5. 5s Parisiis, ex Typogr. Regia, 1693 



'Recueil recherche'. Brunei. This beautifully executed work contains : ATHEN.*:US [MECHANI'CUS] de Machinis 

 Bollicis ; APOLLODORI [ARCHITECTI] Poliorcetica excerpta [OH War Engines] ; PHILO [BYZANTINUS] de Teloruni Con- 

 structione ; BITONIS de Constructione Bellicarum Machinarum et Catapultarum ; HERONIS [CTESIBII] Opera Mathematica ; 

 HKRONIS [ALEXANDRINI] Spiritualia [i.e. Pneumatica, containing a description of Hero's Fountain', etc. etc.] ; - de Auto- 

 matorum Fabrica ; JULII AFRICANI KCOTOI [Greek Text only] ; etc. etc. 



28S9 MATHEMATICIAN (The), edited by THOMAS STEPHENS DAVIES, F.R.S.E., WILLIAM 



RUTHERFORD, F.R.A.S., and STEPHEN FENWICK, COMPLETE with the Supplementary No. to v. Ill, 



plates and diagrams. 3 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt (SCARCE), 1. Is 1845-50 



Vol. I is of special importance for containing the best and fullest account of WILLIAM GEORGE HORNER'S discovery of a 



method still known by his name of solving numerical equations of any degree by continuous approximation. 



2890 MATHEMATICIENS, L'INTERMEDIAIRE des, dirige par C. A. LAISANT et EMILE LEMOINE : 

 Tome III; with diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s (p. F. 7. nett unbound) 1896 



2891 MATHEMATICS, ELEMENTARY COURSE of, for the Use of the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, 

 WOOLWICH, with plates, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, and maps, 3 vols. roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, 

 l'2s Qd 1853 



2892 - ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf gilt, 15* 



Containing contributions by WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, F.R.A.S. (Arithmetic and Algebra, Different'al and Integral 

 Calculus) ; STEPHEN FENWICK, F.R.A.S. (Applications of Algebra to Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry) ; 

 THOMAS STEPHENS DAVIES, F.R.S. (Geometry) ; G. F. HEATHER (Mechanics) ; and COL. WILLIAM YOLIAND, F.R.S. (Geodesy, 

 including Practical Astronomy). 



2893 MATHEMATIQUES, ELE 



etc. etc., sin. 8vo. vellum 



, ELEMENS des, oil Ton explique les principals Proprietes des Grandeurs, 

 , with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 3s s. I., 1725 



2894 MATHER (William; surveyor of highways at Bedford) The YOUNG MAN'S COMPANION : or, 

 ARITHMETICK made EASIE, with Plain Directions for a Young Man, to attain to Read and Write 

 true English, and SHORT-HAND, or Characters, 4th Ed. (see note), With very large Additions, wood- 

 cuts andmap, thick IGmo.very sound copy in contemporary sheep (RARE), 1. 5s Sarah Howkins, 1695 



The author was one of the early Quakers, who, after continuing in the Society for fo^ty years, finally returned to the 

 English Church. The above is ' his chief work, containing, in a very small compass, information on nearly every practical 

 subject. It became extremely popular, and ran through 24 editions. To the fourth edition, 1695, are added some verse*, and 

 14 chapters written by Mathers son Samuel, a clever young man, who died at the age of 22.' D. N. B. There was no copy of 

 the above or any other edition in Piof. de Morgan's collection. 



2895 MATHER (Sir William) On the MACHINERY used in BORING ARTESIAN WELLS, and its 

 Application to Mining Purposes, with 3 folding plans, 8vo. (pp. 23), seivn, Is Qd Manchester, 1864 



2896 MATHESON (Ewing, M.I.C.E.) AID BOOK to ENGINEERING ENTERPRISE ABROAD, illustrated, 

 8vo. cl., 3s Qd (p. 12s Qd) 1878 



2897 - - WORKS in IRON : BRIDGE and ROOF STRUCTURES [with Technical Vocabulary in 6 

 Languages], numerous icoodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., or, ///. bound (out of print), 5s (p. 15s in cl.) 1873 



2898 MATHET (L.) TRAITE PRATIQUE de PHOTOMICOGRAPHIE : le Microscope et son Application a 

 la Photographic des Intiniment Petits ; with 1 plates, woodcuts, and diagrams, cr. 8vo. sewn, 

 2s [1899] 



2S99 - TRAITE PRATIQUE de PHOTOGRAPHIE STEREOSCOPIQUE ; illustrated, cr. 8vo. sewn, 

 Is [1899] 



2900 MATTEUCCI (Carlo, Univ. Pisa] COURS SPECIAL sur 1'lNDUCTiON, le MAGNETISME de 

 ROTATION, le DIAMAGNETISME, et sur les Relations entre la Force magnetique et les Actions 

 moleculaires ; with 2 folding plates, 8vo. hf. roan neat (scarce), 10s 1854 



2901 - LE MEME, avec COURS d'ELECTRO-PHYSiOLOGiE ; with 2 folding plates 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, 

 hf. calf gilt (scarce), 17s Qd 1854-8 



Containing important investigations by the author (see Wiedemanti's Lehre vom Galvanismus), especially in connexion 

 with physiological electricity. The first work contains his experiments and the apparatus invented by him showing the 

 development of induced currents produced either by the discharge of a Leyden jar or by the passage of a voltaic current. 



2902 MATTHEWS (Charles George), and Francis Edward LOTT, FF.I.C. : The MICROSCOPE in 

 the BREWERY and MALT-HOUSE ; with 21 fine plates (some coloured), besides woodcuts, roy. 8vo. 

 cl., Qs Qd 1889 



Dedicated to Pasteur. 



2903 MATTHEWS (G. F., Peterhouse) MANUAL of LOGARITHMS, diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 5s 

 nett) 1890 



2904 MATTHEWS (William) COMPENDIUM of GAS-LIGHTING, with Account of some recent 

 Contrivances for enabling the Consumers of Gas to ascertain the Quantity and Quality supplied, 

 2nd Ed., 2 plates, and woodcuts, post 8vo. boards (scarce), 7s Qd 1832 



2905 MATTHIES (E.) NAUTISCHK TAFELN fiir NORD- und OSTSEE, roy. 8vo. cl., Is Qd Emden, 1897 



2906 MAUNDER (Edward Walter, F.R.A.S.; Greenwich Observatory] ASTRONOMY WITHOUT A 

 TELESCOPE, with 12 star maps, and 45 other illustrations, 8vo. cl. (cover stained) 3s (p. 5s nett) [1902] 



2907 MAUPEBTUIS (Pierre Louis Moreau de) (EUVRES, nouvelle Edition corrigee et augmented ; 

 with fine engraved portrait by Daidle, plan, and diagrams, 4 vols. 8vo. old calf gilt (FINE COPY), 

 with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S,, 17s Qd Lyon, 1756- 



' La meilleure edition '.Qucrard. Containing an account of the author's important geodetic mission to Lapland for the 

 meridian measurement near the North Pole, which his fur-clad portrait recalls. He is best known for his theorem of ' last 

 action ', later enlarged by Euler. 



2908 - - ASTRONOMIE NAUTIQUE : ou Ele"mens d' Astronomic, tant pour un Observatoire fixe que 

 mobile ; with diagrams, 8vo. old calf gilt (fine copy), with Lord Stanhope's bookplate, 6s Qd 



Jmprimerie Roy ale, 1743 

 Not contained in the above edition of the author's works. 



