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



3164 MUSSCHENBROEK(Pieter van; F.R.S.) ELKMENTA PHYSIC*: conscriptain Usua Academicos ; 

 with numerous plates, Svo. old mottled calf (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 

 F.E.S., 5s Lugd. Bat., 1734 



3165 ELEMENTS of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, trans, by JOHN COLSON, pr., F.R.S., with 26 plates, 



2 vols. 8vo. sound copy in old calf, with Lord Stanhope's bookplate, 6s Qd 1744 



3166 ESSAI de PFIYSIQUE, avec une Description de nouvelles sortes de MACHINES PNEUMAT- 



IQUES, et un Recueil d'Expdriences par J[AN] V[AN] M[USSCHENBROEK], ._ 



MASSUET ; with 33 plates, thick 4to. old calf gilt (joints cracked), with Lord Stanhope's bookplate, 



12.<? Qd Lei/den, 1739 



' C'est le plus vaste recueil de ce qu'on comiaissait alors en physique : il contient beaucoup de recherches particulieres 

 a 1'auteur sur les frotteinents, la roideur ct la force des cordes, 1'electricite, la cohesion des corps, etc.' Biogr. Gen. 



3167 PHYSICVE EXPERIMENTALES et GEOMETRIC*: DisSERTATiONES ; with 28 plates and large 



chart, thick 4to. old calf gilt, with Lord Stanhope's bookplate, 10s Qd ibidem, 1729 



' On y trouve d'excellents travaux sur I'aimant, sur les tubes capillaircs, sur la cohesion de la force des corps, etde bonnes 

 observations meteorologiques appliquees meme a la medicine '. Biogr. Gen. 



3168 - -TENTAMINA EXPERIMENTORUM NATURALIUM captorum in ACADEMIA del CIMENTO, ex 

 Italico in Latinum conversa ; quibus Commentarios, Nova Experimenta, et Orationem de Methodo 

 Instituendi Experimenta Physica addidit ipse ; with 32 copperplates, 4to. contemporary calf gilt 

 (rare), 15s Vienna?, 1756 



Containing 'Experimenta in Ambra aliisque Corporibus Vii-tutis Electricse ', etc., but of special importance as including 

 the first description of the author's pyrometer the first ever invented. 



The author was also the inventor of the Leyden Jar in conjunction with Cunaeus, his assistant, who was felled to the 

 ground on its unexpected discharge ; and with his teacher 's Gravesande is regarded as the regenerator of experimental 

 physics. 



3169 MYDORGE (Claude) PRODROMI CATOPTRICORUM et DIOPTRICORUM sive CONICORUM Libri IV 

 priores ; with numerous diagrams, folio, old calf (rare), 15s Parisiis, 1639 



1 One who treated conies still by ancient methods, but who succeeded in greatly simplifying many prolix proofs of Apol- 

 lonius, was Claude Mydorge.' Prof. Cajori. ' 11 tit tailler a Paris d'excelleuts verres, qui furent au philosophe d'une grande 

 utilite pour etudier les proprietes de la nature dela lumiere'. Biogr. Gen. 



3170 EXAMEN du LIVRE des RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES : et de ses PROBLEMES en 



Geometric, Mechanique, Optique, et Catoptrique ; oil sont aussi discutees et restablies plusieurs 

 Experiences Physiques proposees, premiere edition; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 

 large 12mo../me copy in contemporary limp vellum, 12s 1630 



Tliis was a reconstruction, with great improvements, of the Recreation itiathematinue of Jean Leurechon, s.j. (v. No. 

 1193, ante.) 



3171 MYTHOGRAPHI LATINI : C. JUL. HYGINUS, FAB. PLANCIADES FULGENTIUS, LACTAN- 

 TIUS PLACIDUS, ALBRICUS PHILOSOPHUS. THOMAS MUNCKERUS ex MSS. emendavit, et Com- 

 mentariis perpetuis instruxit, cum Dissertatione deMythologia ; with front., portrait, and numer- 

 ous astronomical engravings, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, brov'n calf, Qs Qd Amst., 1681 



3172 NACHRICHTEN von der KONIG LICHEN GESELLSCHAFT der Wl&SENSCHAFTEN und dor 

 GEORG-AUGUST-TJNIVERSITAT zu GOETTINGEN, 1888-92, und 1894, 6 vols. roy. 8vo. sewn, 7s 6^ 

 (p. 1. 15s nett) Gottingen, 1888-94 



NADAB : A TERRE et en I'Am v. TOURNACHON (F.), post. 



3173 NAPIEB (James, F.C.S.) MANUAL of DYEING RECEIPTS, with numerous SAMPLES of dyed cloth 

 and silk, cr. Svo. cl., 5s 1855 



3174 - MANUAL of ELECTRO-METALLURGY : including its Applications to Manufacturing 

 Processes, 3rd Ed., enlarged, with 53 woodcuts, post Svo. cl., 3s Qd 1857 



3175 NABBIEN (John, F.R.S.) ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY, with the Properties of CONIC SECTIONS, 

 and Appendix on DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, diagrams, Svo. boards, 2s 1846 



3176 - HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the ORIGIN and PROGRESS of ASTRONOMY, 5 plates illustrating 

 the ancient systems, Svo. scored russia gilt, with author's inscr. to Joseph Gwilt, F.S.A., and the 

 latter 1 s bookplate (scarce), 10s Qd 1833 



' A work of considerable merit and research '. Agnes M. Clerke. ' The chapters on the Hindu and other Asiatic systems 

 are particularly valuable, and embody much matter that is nowhere else accessible to the English reader.' 



3177 NASMYTH (James; inventor of the steam-hammer), and James CARPENTER, F.R.A.S. : 

 The MOON : considered as a PLANET, a WORLD, and a SATELLITE, first edition, with 24 fine 

 plates (one coloured), and numerous woodcuts, 4to. cl., 15s (p. 1. 10s) 1874 



First and best edition, with superior impressions of the beautiful plates, ' consisting of photographs of carefully con- 

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 taken direct.'!). .\. /;. 



3178 : JAMES NASMYTH, ENGINEER: an AUTOBIOGRAPHY, edited ]>y SAMUEL SMILES ; LIBRARY 



EDITION, with fine etched portrait by Rajon (on India paper), and numerous illustrations, Svo. cl., 

 Qs (p. 16s) 1883 



Including a chronological list of the author's numerous mechanical inventions. 



3179 NEW EDITION, with portrait, and numerous other woodcuts, cr. Svo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1885 



3180 NATURE : a WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL of SCIENCE, containing Articles and 

 Reviews by many eminent Writers ; COMPLETE from its beginning in November, 1869 

 to 1904, with many thousand excellent woodcut illustrations, 71 vols. impl. 8vo. 

 original cl. gilt (A FRESH LIBRARY SET), 12. 12s 1870-1904 



3181 NATURWISSENSOHAFTLICHE RUNDSCHAU : Wochentliche Berichte ttber die 

 Fortschritte auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Naturwissenschaften, herausgegeben von W. SKLAREK ; 

 IX. XX. JAHRUANG ; illustrated, 12 vols. 4to., the first 1 v. in buckram, and the rest in nos. as issued, 

 2. 10s (p. M. 200. unbound) Braunschweig, 1894-1905 



