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



3640 PIOBERT (Gen. Guillaume) TRAITE d'ARTiLLERiE theorique et pratique: Precis de la 

 PARTIE ELEMENTAIRE et PRATIQUE, 3 e Ed., augmentee; PARTIE THEORIQUE et EXPERI- 

 MENTALE : Proprietes et EfFets de la Poudre, 2 e Ed. augmentee ; with 13 folding plates, 2 vols. 

 8vo. hf. calf (out of print), 6s Qd 1852-9 



3641 PISKO (F. J.) Die FLUORESCENZ des LICHTES ; with woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 2s Wien, 1861 



3642 PITATUS (Petrus, Veronensis) VER.E SOLARIS atque LUNARIS ANNI QUANTITATIS aliarumque 

 Rerum ad Calendarii Romani Emendationem pertinentium : de Ortu item atque Occasu Stellarum 

 Fixarum, couipendiosa atque dilucida EXPLICATIO. TRIDENTINI CONSILII PATRIBUS EXHIBITUM : 

 nunc verb denuo reuisum et diligentissime castigatum, sm. 4to. very large and sound copy in hf. 

 russia (hack slightly damaged), 1. Is Basilece, 1568 



RARE ; unknown to Poggendorff, and of great interest, as a precursor of the Gregorian reform of the Kalendar, proposed 

 to the Council of Trent. 'Pierre Pitatus de V'erone fit un grand nombre d'observations pour determiner an juste les 

 periodes lunaires et solaires. II presenta en 1550 au pape Pie IV un plan de reformation '. Montncla. 

 V. PICCOLOMINI (N~o. 3629), ante. 



3643 PITISCUS (Bartholomaeus) TRIGONOMETRIC sive de Dimensione Triangulor[um] Libri V, 

 item Problematum varioru nempe Geodaeticoram, Altimetricorum, Geographicorum, Gnomoni- 

 corum, et Astronomicorurn Libri X Trigonometric subiuncti, ad Usum eius demonstrandum ; 

 with engraved title (mounted), numerous diagrams, and vignette on last I., cr. 4to. pigskin, g. c. 

 (pp. 23 24 in MS.), 15s [colophon:] Aug. VindeL, 1600 



3644 TRIGONOMETRIE : or the DOCTRINE of TRIANGLES, trans, by RA : HANDSON, with 



certaine NAUTICALL QUESTIONS, together with the finding of the Variation of the Compasse. 

 All performed Arithmetically, without Map, Sphere, Globe, or Astrolabe, by the said R. H., title 

 within elaborate woodcut-border, and woodcuts and diagrams: A CANON of TRIANGLES 2 vols. 

 cr. 4to. in 1, sound copy in old panelled calf, 3. 3s J. Tap [1630] 



The English translation is EXCESSIVELY RARE, and was unknown to Watt, Lowndes, and Allibone ; nor is there a copy 

 in the British Museum Catalogue of English Books to 1640. 



The first complete textbook of trigonometry. ' It contains the expressions for sin (A + B) and cos (A + B) in terms of 

 the trigonometrical ratios of A and B.' W. W. R. Ball. 



3645 PITT (John, butler to Sir William Geary) How to BREW GOOD BEER, with Practical In- 

 structions for MAKING MALT, woodcuts, fcap'. 8vo. cl. (out of print), 3s Qd 1859 



3646 PIZZIGHELLI (G.), and Baron A. Htf BL : PLATINOTYPE, trans, by J. F. ISELIN, and ed. by 

 SIR W. DE W. ABNEY, F.R.S., woodcut*, cr. 8vo. sewn, 2s 1886 



3647 PLANA (Giovanni Antonio Amedeo) THEORIE du MOUVEMENT de la LUNE, 3 thick vols. ; 

 avec le Supplement 4 vols. 4to. original boards (VERY SCARCE), 2. 17s Qd (p. F. 120.) 



Turin, Impr. Royale, 1832-57 



'The method of Plana agrees essentially with that pursued by Clairau't and his successors ; but he has'introduced into 

 it several ingenious modifications. The entire researches of this distinguished geometer exhibit the most commanding 

 mastery of his subject.' Pr"/. R. Grant. 



3648 PLANTS CAMPY (David de, dit 1'Edelphe, Chirurgien du Roy) BOUQUET compose des plus 

 belles FLEURES CHIMIQUES, ou ajencement des preparations, et experiences es plus rares secrets, 

 et Medicamens Pharmaco-Chimiques ; prins des Mineraux, Animaux, et Vegetaux. Le tout par 

 une methode tres-facile, et commune aux Chimiques ordinaires ; fine portrait on copper, and 

 numerous woodcuts of chemical apparatus, thick sm. 8vo. old vellum (stained, a hole in title, and 

 pp. 993-4 wanting) ; VERY RARE, 1. Is 1629 



Probably the most copious chemical treatise of the time. It contains a full dictionary of terms and a list of symbols 

 at end. 



3649 PLANTAMOUR, (Emile; F.R.A.S.) EXPERIENCES faites a Geneve avec le PENDULE a REVER- 

 SION ; with 3 plates (2 folding] : NOUVELLES EXPERIENCES, et Determination de la Pesanteur a 

 GENEVE et au RIGHI-KULM 2 vols. roy. 4to. in 1, boards, 8s Qd Geneve, 1866-72 



3650 , et Gustav Adolph HIRSCH: DETERMINATION TELEGRAPIIIQUE de la DIFFERENCE 



de LONGITUDE entre les Observatoires de GENEVE et de NEUCHATEL ; with 4 plates (2 folding), 

 roy. 4 to. sewn, 4s ib., 1864 



3651 PLAT (Sir Hugh, of Lincoln's Inn) The JEWEL HOUSE of ART and NATURE : containing 

 Divers Rare and Profitable INVENTIONS, together with sundry new EXPERIMENTS in the Art of 

 HUSBANDRY ; with Divers CHIMICAL CONCLUSIONS concerning the Art of DISTILLATION, and the 

 rare practises and uses thereof ; also a rare and excellent DISCOURSE of MINERALS, STONES, 

 GUMS, and ROSINS, with the veitues and use thereof, by D. B., Gent. [ARNOLD DEBoATE], with 

 numerous woodcuts, cr. 4to. old ca/f, newly rebacked (water-stained, otherwise a sound and large 

 copy) ; RARE, 1. 17s Qd B. Alsop, 1653 



Containing important notes on manures, brewing, mnemonics, moulding and casting of metals, fishing, etc. 'Not 

 the least popular was his collection of reciies for pieserving fruits, distilling, cooking, housewifery, cosmetics, and the 

 dyeing of hair'. D. N. Ji. 



3652 PLATTNEB, (Karl Friedrich) The USE of the BLOWPIPE, in the Examination of Minerals, 

 Ores, Furnace-Products, etc., trans., with Notes, by JAMES SHERIDAN MUSPRATT, F.R.S. ; with 

 Preface by JUSTUS FREIHERR V. LIEBIG, first English edition, with diagrams, 8vo. hf. caff, 3s 



1845 



3653 THIRD EDITION, enlarged, illustrated, 8vo. cl., 4s 1854 



36,r )4 _ _ } an( j Theodor RICHTER : MANUAL of QUALITATIVE and QUANTITATIVE ANALYSTS 



with the BLOWPIPE ; trans by HENRY B. CORNWALL and JOHN H. CASWELL, 2nd Ed., with 

 spectrum plate and 88 woodcuts, thick roy. 8vo. cl. (scarce), 12s Qd (p. 1. lls Qd) New York, 1873 

 A complete translation of the original work, containing matter left out in the edition of 1875. 



3655 ANOTHER [LAST] EDITION, by T. HUGO COOKES.LEY, with 78 ivoodcuts, thick 8vo. cl. 



(scarce), 10s Qd (p. 1. Is) 1875 



'This branch 01 chemical analysis, originally confined to the determination of the noble metals in the dry way, has 

 become expanded into an important branch of analytical chemistry, particularly since C. F. Plattner's comprehensive 

 researches and the publication of his [above] classical book.' Prof. E. in Meyer. 



