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



3719 PONTON (Mungo) EABTIIQUAKES : their History, Phenomena, and Probable Causes, revised 

 Ed., with Account of recent Earthquakes, 28 plates and woodcuts, cr. 8vo. d. (out of print), 

 35 1888 



This work is not noticed in D. N. B. The author made the discovery that the action of sunlight renders bichromate of 

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3720 PORTER (George Richardson, F.B.S., author of * The Progress of the Nation ') The NATURE 

 and PROPERTIES of the SUGAR CANE, with practical Directions for the Improvement of its 

 CULTURE, and the MANUFACTURE of its Products, 6 plates of Machinery, etc., 8vo. cl., uncut 

 (stained) ; scarce, 10s Qd 1830 



Of value for its statistical portion (pp. 79). 



3721 [ ] TREATISE on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the MANU- 

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3722 On the ORIGIN, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the SILK MANUFACTURE, 



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3723 PORTRAITS : ICONES PROFESSORUM LEIDENSIUM ; 48 copperplate portraits of celebrated 

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 Ludolph van Ceulen, Hugo Grotius, J. J. Scaliger, Justus Lipsius, D. Heinsius, Franc. Junius, 

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3724 PORZIO [latine PORTIUS] (Lucantonio ; Univ. Naples) De MOTU CORPORUM Nonnulla, et 

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 old vellum, 8s Qd Neapoli, 1704 



Bound up is : Considerazioni del P. D. GUIDONE GRASDO sopra la Scrittura di L. A. Porzio circa '1 moto de' gravi per il 

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3725 PORZIO [latine PORTIUS] (Simone) De COLORIBUS [ARISTOTELIS] Libellus, Commentariis 

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 (RARE), 1. 55 Florentiae, 1548-51 



'Ses ouvrages sont tres-rares aujourd'hui.' Biogr. Gen. 



3726 POTTER (Francis, pr. ; F.R.S.) An INTERPRETATION of the NUMBER 666, wherein, not onely 

 the Manner, how this Number ought to be Interpreted, is clearely proved and demonstrated, but 

 it is also shewed y k this Number is an exquisite and perfect Character, truly, exactly, and 

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 with engraved symbolic title by W. MARSHALL, 4to. old calf, newly rebacked (RARE), 1. 7s Qd 



Oxford, Leon. Lichfield, 1642 

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various Romish institutions. Wood says it was translated into French, Dutch, and Latin. Pepys, who read the work in 



November 166(5, considered it ' mighty ingenious'.' D. N. B. 



See No. 461 ante, for another work on this palladium of British Protestantism. 



3727 POTTER (Richard, Prof. Astronomy, Univ. Coll., Lond.) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on HYDRO- 

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3723 ELEMENTARY TREATISE on MECHANICS, revised Ed., diagrams, 8vo. cl., 2s Qd 



1848, '55, or '59 



3729 - - ELEMENTARY TREATISE on OPTICS (Pt. I 2nd Ed.), illustrated, 2 vols. 8vo., cl., 4s Qd 1851 



3730 POTTER (Thomas, Clerk of Works to Lord Ashburton) CONCRETE : its Use in Building, and 

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3731 POTTS (Robert, Trinity Coll., Cantab.) ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, with brief Notices of its 

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3732 ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC, with brief Notices of its HISTORY, 8vo. cl., 2s Qd 



Cambridge, 1876 

 v. EUCLIDES (Nos. 1230-3), ante. 



3733 POTJCHET (Felix Archimede) The UNIVERSE : or the Infinitely Great and the Infinitely 

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1870 



3734 POUILLET (Claude Servais Mathias) ELEMENTS de PHYSIQUE EXPERIMENTALE et de 

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3735 POUMET ( ) INSTRUCTION sur les EFFETS des BOUCHES a FEU, et PArtillerie de Campagne, 

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3736 POUSSIGUE (Leon) CONDITIONS d'ExFLOiTATiON [des MINES] a GRANDE PHOFONDEUR ; 

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3737 POUTET (Jean Joseph Etienne, pharmacien-chimiste) TRAITE des HUILES, et TRAITE des 

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3738 POWELL (Baden, pr., F.R.S., Savilian Prof. Geometry ; ' Essayist and Reviewer ' ) ELEMENTARY 

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3739 - - HISTORY of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, fcap. 8vo. hf. calf, 3s Qd 1834 



3740 POYSER (Arthur William, T. C.D.) MAGNETISM and ELECTRICITY, with over 300 woodcuts, 

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3741 PRACTICAL BREWING-, etc. : PRIZE ESSAYS, reprinted from HOLMES'S BREWING TRADE 

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