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



2930 MA WE (John) DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of MINERALS, 2nd Ed., with the Method of examining 

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 calf, 5s 6d 1816-15 



2931 MAXWELL (William H.) BRITISH PROGRESS in MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING, icith 66 plates 

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2932 MAYER (Alfred Marshall) SOUND : a Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experi- 

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2933 -- , and Charles BARNARD : LIGHT : Simple, Entertaining and Inexpensive Experiments, 

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2934 MAYER (Johann Tobias) TABULA MOTUUM SOLIS et LUN^ novre et corrected, quibus accedit 

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2935 - ANOTHER COPY, contemporary calf gilt (FINE COPY), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl 

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FIRST EDITION of these celebrated tables, for which the author was recommended by Bradley as worthy to participate 

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' Mayer was the first who constructed lunar tables of sufficient accuracy for the great practical purpose of finding the 

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2936 MAYOW (John; F.R.S.) TRACTATUS V MEDICO-PHYSICI. I. De Sal-Nitro et Spiritu Nitro- 

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2937 - EDITIO ALTERA ; with portrait and 7 plates, re-engraved from the above, 12mo. old vellum, 

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Mayow may be said to have laid the foundation of anti-phlogistic chemistry (although it was not fully developed until 

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 He also gave a theory of chemical affinity, and a mechanical explanation of the act of jumping. 



MECHAIN (P. F. A.), et J. B. J. DELAMBRE : BASE du SYSTEME METRIQUE DECIMAL 

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A COMPLETE SET TO JUNE 1905: 



2938 MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, PROCEEDINGS of the INSTITUTION of, complete 

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Birmingham and London, 1847-1905 



The above is a very good set of this valuable publication, founded under the Presidency of GEORGE STEPHENSON, and 

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2939 MEERMAN (Gerard) SPECIMEN CALCULI FLUXIONALIS, quo exhibetur Generalis Methodus 

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 (pp. 112), sewn, 6s 6d Lugd. Bat., 1742 



Rare ; unknown to Poggendorff. 



2940 MELANDERHJELM (Daniel), and Paolo FRISI; Barnabite : alterius ad alterum de 

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Essex Field Club, 1885 



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Imprimerie Roy ale, 1692-1734 



This important publication of the scientific section of the French Academy (afterwards changed to Inslitnt <ii> l-'i-mn-i) 

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Comprising a large number of original contributions, some by Lavoisier, Laplace, Monge, Coulomb, Lagrange, Sabatier, etc. 



- See INSTITUT de FRANCE, ante. 



2944 de la SOCIETE des SCIENCES PHYSIQUES et NATURELLES de BORDEAUX, complete from 

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Four of the above volumes are out of print and SCARCE. Added are PROCES-VERBAUX des Seances. 1804-5 a 1903-4, in 

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2945 MENDELEEFF (Dmitri Ivanovitch) The PRINCIPLES of CHEMISTRY, trans, from the 

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