HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 179 



3559 PETTY (Sir William, F.K.S.) The DISCOURSE made before the ROYAL SOCIETY the 26. of 

 November 1674 concerning the USE of DUPLICATE PROPORTION in sundry Important Particulars; 

 with a NEW HYPOTHESIS of SPRINGING or ELASTIQUE MOTIONS, 24mo. contemporary sheep (title 

 somewhat soiled, and pp. 113-114 slightly defective}-, VERY RARE, with Chippendale bookplate of 

 James Erskine, Lord Alva, 1722-98, 18s Gd ' John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Soc., 1674 



In his dedication to the Duke of Newcastle the author states the work to 'contain three parts : ' I. an Endeavour to 

 explain the Intricate Notions, or Philosophia Primaof Place, Time, Motion, and Electricity ; II. to excite the World to the 

 study of a little Mathematicks by shewing the use of Duplicate Proportions in som3 of the most weighty of Humane 

 affairs ; III. Chymerical Speculations, to consider such points and proportions, even in Atoms (such, whereof perhaps a 

 Million do not make up one visible Corpuscidum,) as may give an intelligible Account of the Nexures, Mixtures, and 

 Mobilities of all the parts of the Universe.' 



3560 PETVIN (John, Vicar of Ilsington, Devon) LETTERS concerning MIND, with a Sketch of 

 UNIVERSAL ARITHMETIC, comprehending the DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS, and the DOCTRINE of 

 FLUXIONS, 8vo. contemporary ca//(RARE), 1. Is 1750 



'Donum Gulielimi [sic] Petvin Edvdo Stone'. [? Edmund Stone, F.R.S., mathematician, ob. 1765]. Inscr. on flyleaf. 



This work, which was seemingly unknown to Prof, de Morgan, ' was written before the Dispute arose about the 

 Doctrine of Fluxions', and aims at 'discovering the Philosophical Arithmetic (lost for Ages), and reducing the Science of 

 Mathematics to its primitive Parity and Simplicity.' 



3561 PEUCER (Kaspar ; Univ. Wittenberg, son-in-law of Melanchthon) ELEMENTA DOCTRINE de 

 CIRCULIS CCELESTIBUS, et PRiMO MoTU, recognita et correcta : De DIMENSIONE TERR.E et 

 Geometrice Numerandis Locorum Particulariorum Intervallis ex DOCTRINA TRIANGULORUM 

 SpHjERicoRUM et Canone Subtensarum; accedit DESCRIPTIO LOCORUM TERRAE SANCTAE autore 

 BROCARDO Monacho 2 vols. 12mo. in 1, with folding tables, and numerous woodcuts (one with 

 movable slips], and diagrams ; old limp vellum (VERY RARE), 1. 5s Wittebergce, 1553-4 



3562 PEUEHBACH [Latine PURBACHIUS] (Georg) : ELEMENTA ARITHMETICES : ALGORITHMUS 

 de NUMERIS INTEGRIS auctore GEORGIO PEURBACHIO. De NUMERIS FRACTIS, REGULIS 

 COMMUNIBUS, et PROPORCIONIBUS [sic]. Cum PRAEFATIONE PHILIPPI MELANCHTHONIS; title 

 within woodcut border, 12mo. hf. calf (a number of II. water-stained, otherwise sound, and a very 

 large copy], 2. Ws [col. :] Vitebergae, per Jos. dug, 1534 



AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE EDITION, unknown to Prof, de Morgan, Poggendorff, Brunet, and Graesse. The latter mentions 

 however an edition of Wittenberg, 1536. It is of special interest as the first containing MELANCHTHON'S PREFACE. The 

 last part, ' De Proportionibus ex Elementis Euclidis ', is by JOHANN VOGELIN. 



3563 - : QLTADRATU GEOMETRIC praeclarissimi Matheraatici GEORGII BURBACHII ; title printed 

 in red, with woodcut, and diagrams, folio (pp. 20), sewn (RARE), 1. 10s 



Nurenberge, Joa. Stuchs, 1516 



1 He also invented various other instruments, among which was the Gnomon, or Geometrical' Square, with canons and 

 a table for its use.' Dr. Hutton, F.R.S. 



3564 THEORICARUM NOUARUM [PLANETARUM] TEXTUS cu vtili ac preclarissima expositione 



FRANCISCI CAPUANI DE MANFREDONIA. Ite in eade SYLUESTRI DE PRIERIO perfamiliaris COM- 

 MENTATIO. Insuper JACOBI FABRI Stapulefi. ASTRONOMICUM. Omnia nuper summa diligentia 

 emendata . . . ; finely printed in a small gotfjir letter, with device of Jehan Petit on title, large 

 woodcut on its reverse, and numerous smaller ones and diagrams, folio, old calf (binding damaged, 

 and text slightly wormed, but a sound tall copy), with auto. ( Israel Lyons Jun r . [the Mathe- 

 matician], Jan. 1764' (RARE), 1. 17s 6d 



[colophon :] Parisiis, caracteribus Michaelis Lesclecher opificis. 

 Sumptibus Johanis Parvi et Reg. Chauderon, 1515 



Although containing no notable discoveries, the above work is important as closely examining the theories of the 

 ancients, and as having been the first to inaugurate the new era of astronomical research. It is moreover a fine specimen 

 of typography. 



' Les deux homines a qui les mathematiques doivent le plus dans 1ft X\ T c siecle, sont PurbacJi et Regiomontanus. Ce ne 

 sera pas concevoir d'eux une idee trop avantageuse, que de les regarder les vrais restaurateurs de ces sciences, et surtout 

 de 1 'astronomic '. Montucla. 



3565 - -EDITIO ALTERA: NOVAE THEORICAE PLANETARUM, a PETRO APIANO iam ad omnem 

 veritatem redact*, et eruditis figuris illustrate ; with numerous diagrams, 16mo. sewn (last I. 

 mounted), 5s [col. :] Venetiis, Petrus de Nicolinis, 1551 



v. REGIOMONTANUS, SACRO Bosco, et SCHRECKENFUCHS, post. 



3566 PEVERONE (Giovanni Francesco, di Cuneo) Due Breui et Facili TRATTATI, il primo 

 d'ARlTHMETlCA : 1'altro di GEOMETRIA : ne i qnali si contengono alcune Cose Nuoue Piaceuoli e 

 Utili, si h, gentilhuomini come artegiani ; with title within beautiful ornamental border, and 

 portrait, also numerous woodcuts and diagrams, cr. 4to. fine and large copy in old white vellum 

 (VERY RARE), 3. 3s Lione, Gio. di Tournes, 1558 



Original edition of this rare work, a full account of which will be found in Kiccardi's Biblioteca Matematica. It was 

 reprinted in 1581. 



3567 PFANHAUSER, (W.) Die GALVANOPLASTIK ; with 35 illustrations, large 8vo. sewn, 3s 



Halle a. S., 1904 



3568 PFEIFER (Franz Xavier) Der GOLDENE SCHNITT und dessen Erscheinungsformen in 

 MATHEMATIK, Natur, und Kunst ; with 13 plates, roy. 8vo. new hf. cl., 4s 6d Augsburg, [1885] 



3569 PFEIFFEB, (Emil) Die ANALYSE der MILCH ; with 5 illustrations, roy. 8vo. sewn, 2s 



Wiesbaden, 1887 



3570 PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL and TRANSACTIONS, edited by JACOB BELL, M.P., 



COMPLETE from the beginning in 1841-2 to Jane 8, 1901, with plates and numerous 

 woodcuts, 66 vols. 8vo., w. 1-51 hf. calf, and the rest sewn as issued, 15. 15s 1842-1901 



The foremost pharmaceutical journal in the English language, and the official organ of the Pharmaceutical Society, of 

 which the original editor was the founder. It contains many articles of great interest to chemists, especially in connexion 

 with vegetable alkaloids. 



Complete sets such as the above are excessively difficult to get. 



