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



3313 NICHOLSON (John, C.E.) The OPERATIVE MECHANIC, and BRITISH MACHINIST : a Practical 

 Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, 2nd Ed., thick 8vo. 

 hf. russia, 4s 1825 



3314 'NICHOLSON (Peter) The BUILDER'S and WORKMAN'S NEW DIRECTOR, with the Elements 

 and Practice of Geometry in its Application to the Building Art ; new Ed., much enlarged, with 

 fine portrait by Armstrong, 136 plates, and numerous diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt, 9s 1845 



3315 ESSAY on INVOLUTION and EVOLUTION ; containing a New, Accurate, and General 



Method of ascertaining the Numerical Value of any Function of an Unknown Quality ; particu- 

 larly applied to the Operation of Extracting the Roots of Equations, with Appendix, shewing the 

 Use of Figurate Numbers and Arithmetical Equivalents in the Extraction of Roots, 8vo. sewn, 

 (scarce), 8s 6d 1820 



One of the author's most important works, for which he received the thanks of the Paris Academy of Science. It con- 

 tains his invention of a method for obtaining the rational roots, and of approximating to the irrational roots, of an 

 equation of any order whatsoever. 



3316 - ESSAYS on the COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS : its Application to some Problems of Algebra ; 

 the Expansion of a Multinomial, the Reversion and Conversion of Series, etc. etc., clearly indicat- 

 ing the LAW of EXPANSION, 8vo. boards, 5s 1818 



3317 - - INTRODUCTION to the METHOD of INCREMENTS, expressed by a NEW FORM of NOTATION ; 

 shewing more intimately its relation to the Fluxional Analysis, 8vo. boards, 5s 1817 



3318 - The NEW CARPENTER'S GUIDE : a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry, etc. on 

 Methods entirely new ; founded on Geometrical Principles, with 20 plates engraved by the 

 Author, 4to. old hf. calf (rare), 12s 6d 1792 



FIRST EDITION of the author's first published work. ' In this he made known an original method of constructing groins 

 and niches of complex forms.' D. N. B. 



3319 POPULAR COURSE of PURE and MIXED MATHEMATICS, with Tables of Logarithms, and 



numerous Questions, numerous plates and diagrams, thick 8vo. old calf, 6s 6d 1823 



3320 TREATISE on PROJECTION on entirely NEW PRINCIPLES, with a Complete System of 



ISOMETRICAL DRAWING, engraved title, fine steel portrait, and 62 copperplates, 8vo. cl., uncut, 

 8s Qd 1837 



' His great ability as a mathematician enabled him to simplify and generalise many old methods, besides inventing new 

 ones. He formulated rules for finding sections of prisms, cylinders, or cylindroids, which enabled workmen to execute 

 handrails with greater facility and from less material than previously . . . and was the inventor of the application of 

 orthographical projection to solids in general.' D. N. B. 



3321 NICHOLSON (William) The FIRST PRINCIPLES of CHEMISTRY, first edition, with folding 

 plate, thick 8vo. old calf (cracked), 10s 6d 1790 



3322 THIRD EDITION, revised by the Author, folding plate, thick 8vo. boards, uncut, 10s 1796 



The first 82 pp. contain interesting chapters on physical chemistry, and the appendix tables of ' comparative heats ', 



' elective attractions ', etc. etc. 



3323 INTRODUCTION to NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, first edition, with numerous copperplates, 



2 vols. 8vo. contemporary tree-calf extra, with bookplate of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 

 9s 1782 



The first of the author's numerous publications, ' which soon superseded Rowning's ' System of Natural Philosophy ' as 

 an elementary class-book.' D. N. B. 



3324 THIRD EDITION, with Improvements, numerous copperplates, 2 vols. 8vo. fine copy in old 

 calf extra, 8s Qd 1790 



3325 JOURNAL of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, and the ARTS, with numerous copper- 

 plates, 34 vols. 8vo. old hf. calf gilt, and 3 vols. in boards (nice set), 1. 15s 1802-13 



3326 - ANOTHER SET, but wanting vv. 2, 4, 13, 19, 24, 29 and 30, '27 vols. 8vo. boards, uncut, 15s 



Containing important contributions by Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Horschel, Dr. Priestley, and others. 



3327 - The NAVIGATOR'S ASSISTANT, with Tables for determining a Ship's Place at Sea, plates, 

 8vo. old tree-calf extra (fine copy], with bookplate of Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope, F.E.S., 5s 1784 



The author discovered the chemical action of the galvanic pile, and in conjunction with Carlisle, was the first to observe, 

 by its action, the electrolysis of water. He also invented an improved areometer, which is in use at the present day, and 

 patented in 175)0 the first idea of a cylinder printing-machine. See also No. 1387, ante. 



3328 NICKEL (Emil) Die FARBENREAKTIONEN der KOHLENSTOFFVERBINDUNGEN, 2. umgearbeitete 

 Aufiage, Svo.sewn, Is 6d Berlin, 1890 



3329 NICOLAI (Giambatista, Arciprete di Padernello ; Univ. Padua] DTSSERTAZIONI DUE 

 FISICO-MATEMATICHE (degli Elastri di Massa Finita ; e di un Pendolo immerso in un Fluido) ; 

 with plate, 4to. (pp. 49), sewn, 4s Qd Padova, 1772 



3330 - - Delia POSSIBILITA della HEALE SOLUZIONE ANALYTICA del CASO IRREDUCIBILE, 4to. 

 sewn, or, boards, 4s ibidem, 1783 



3331 NIEROP (Dirck van) NEDERDUYTSCHE ASTRONOMIA : Onderwijs van den Loop des Kernels; 

 met Voorbeelden der Son-Eclipsen, welcke rekening door verscheyden voorbeelden ghetoont wordt ; 

 2 druck, vermeerdert, met een PLANEET-WYSER ; with fine engraved title with portraits of the 

 author and 6 astronomers, folding chart, and numerous diagrams, 4to. ftlartt If tter ; fine copy in 

 old white vellum, 12s 6d Amsterdam, 1658 



RARE ; unknown to Poggendorff. 



3332 NIFO [Latine NIPHUS] (Agostino) COMMENTATIONES in LIBR. AUEROIS de SUBSTATIA 

 ORBIS ; handsomely printed in (jottjic letter in double columns, folio, sewn (FINE AND LARGE COPY) ; 

 RARE, 1. Is [col. :] Venctiis, Bonetus Locatellus, 1508 



A commentary on Averrhoes's compendium to Ptolemy's Almagest. 



3333 De VERISSIMIS TEMPORUM SIGNIS COMMENTARIOLUS ; with vignette on title and last I., 



12mo. sewn, with BOOKSTAMP of the MAZARINE LIBRARY on title and last I., 12s Qd 



ibidem, Huron. Scotus, 1540 

 A commentary on Aristotle's Meteor ologica. 



