HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 193 



3843 PHONY (Baron Gaspard Glair Francois Marie Biche de) LE90NS de MECANIQUE ANA- 

 LYTIQUE, donnees a 1'Ecole Imperiale Poly technique ; with 4 folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. hf. calf, 

 with Sandhurst Cc liege bookplate, 7s Qd '1810-15 



The above vols. contain : de 1'equilibre et du mouvement des corps solides ; no continuation was ever published. 



3844 MECANIQUE PHILOSOPHIQUE, on Analyse Raisonn6e, des diverses Parties de la Science 



de I'lilQUlLiBRE et du MOUVEMENT, 4 to. calf (scarce), 10s Imprimerie de la Eepubliqu", an F7//[1800] 



The author was one of the first to apply to practical purposes the discoveries and progress iu theoretical mechanics 

 made during the second half of the XVIII. Century, and vas the inventor of a frictional dynamometer known by his name. 



3845 PRYCE (William, M.D., of Redruth) MINERALOGIA CORNUBIENSIS : a TREATISE on MINE- 

 RALS, MINES, and MINING, the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, etc., 

 with the METHODS of DISCOVERING and WORKING of TIN, COPPER, and LEAD MINES, and of 

 Cleansing and Metalizing their Products ; with Explanation of the TERMS and IDIOMS of MINERS, 

 fine portrait by Basire, and 1 folding plates, folio, hf. calf gilt (portrait mounted, otherwise a very 

 sound and clean copy) ; RARE, 1. 12s Qd 1778 



'His chief work. It was the result of careful study of the mining world of Cornwall, and is still of value, both for 

 historical purposes and for practical mining '. D. N. B. 



3846 PTOLEM^US (Claudius) OMNIA quae extant OPERA [Latine] , praeter Geographiam : summa 

 Cura et Diligentia castigata ab ERASMO OSUALDO SCHREKHENFUCHSIO, et ab eodem Isagogica in 

 Ahnagestum Praefatione, et lidelissimis in priores libros Annotationibusillustrata ; with numerous 

 diagrams, folio, sewn, with bookstamp of IStrasburg University Library (large and sound copy), 

 2. 2s [col. :] Basileae, Henr. Petrus, 1551 



' Edition tres-estimee des astronomes, et que Ton prefere, avec raison, a celle de 1541'. Brunei. It contains the Alma- 

 gest, with additions by Gaurico, and introduction and annotations by the editor; de ludiciis Libri IV ; Centiloquium ; 

 luerrantium Stellarum Sig lificationes ; PROCM UIADOCHI Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum (pp. 46). 



3847 ALMAGEST^ : Opus ingens ac nobile onmes Celoril motus continens. Felicibus Astris 



eat in lucej : Ductu PETRI LIECHTENSTEIN Coloniesis ; finely printed in got!) if Iftter ; with beauti- 

 ful woodcut initials, and numerous geometrical designs on margin, folio, old stamped calf (A LARGE 

 AND FINE COPY), 2. 2s Venetiis, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1515 



The Latin version was made from the Arabic. The above edition is remarkable as a fine specimen of typography. 



3848 - ALMAGESTE : MAGNAE CONSTRUCTIONS, id est Perfectse Ccelestium Motuum Pertracta- 

 tionis, Lib. XIII, Graece [edente SIMONE GRYN^EO]. Theonis Alexandrini in eosdeni COM- 

 MENTATIORUM Lib. XI [edente JOACHIMO CAMERARIO] ; with very numerous diagrams, 2 vols. 

 folio in 1, boards (some II. wormzd on blank margin, but a tall copy) ; RARE, 2. 10s 



Basilecv, Joa. \Valderus, 1533 



FIRST EDITION of the Greek Original of the Almagest, with a 1-i-p. dedication to HENRY VIII. by the editor. Theon's com- 

 mentary has a separate title and pagination. 



This work embodies the geocentric system of astronomy known as the Ptolemaic, and formed the great authority on 

 astronomy down to Copernicus. 



3849 - - ANOTHER COPY, WITHOUT the Commentary by Theon of Alexandria, folio, original 

 stamped calf (back of binding mended, otherwise a \&v LARGE AND FINE COPY), with Sandhurst 

 College bookplate, 1. 10s 



A number of copies of the above work were issued without Theou's commentary, and its absence therefore does not 

 constitute an imperfection. 



3850 - - In MAGNAM COMPOSITIONEM, quam ALMAGESTUM vocant, Libri XIII, consciipti a 

 JOANNE REGIOMONTANO [MULLER], in quibus Universa Doctrina de Ccelestibus Motions, Magni- 

 tudinibus, Eclipsibus etc. in Epitonien redacta, proponitur ; with woodcut ornament on title, and 

 numerous geometrical designs on margins, folio, sewn (VERY RARE), 2. 10s Noribergce [sic], 1550 



The first work by Regiomontanus, who was helped in writing it by his teacher PEUERBAC-II (q. v. ante). 'In this the 

 trigonometrical functions sine and coaine were used, and a table of natural sines was introduced. Purbach died before the 

 book was finished '. W. W. R. Ball. 



3851 MA6HMAT1KH 2YNTAS12. COMPOSITION MATHEMATIQUE, traduite pour la premiere 



Fois du grec en francais, sur les MSS. originaux de la Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris, par 1'ABBE 

 NICOLAS B. HALMA, et suivie des NOTES de JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DELAMBRE ; with front., 

 portrait, and diagrams, 2 vols. roy. 4to. contemporary hf. russia gilt (a few II. of v. I waterstained, 

 otherwise a VERY SOUND AND CLEAN COPY) ; VERY SCARCE, 9. 9s 1813-16 



3852 VOLUME I ONLY, with front, and diagrams, thick roy. 4to. sewn, UNCUT, 1. 10s 1813 



Both the above copies of vol. I contain at end 48 pp., and vol. II 40 pp., of Notes. 



The best edition, and at the same time the only French translation of the work ever published. It has the Greek original 

 on opposite pages. Only 400 copies were issued, and the work has become very scarce, more especially the second volume 

 (where the Bibliotheque Imperiale has become the Bibl. du Roi, and which contains a medallion portrait of Louis XVIII.), 

 which is now most difficult to obtain. 



3853 - HARMONICORUM Libri III, ex Codd. MSS. XI, nunc primuni Grsece editus [sic] . JOHANNES 

 WALLIS, S.T.D., R. s.s. recensuit, edidit, Versione et Notis illustravit, et Auctarium adjecit ; with 

 fine engraved portrait by J. Savage, 4to. FINE COPY in cl. (RARE), 1. Is 



Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1682 



3854 ANOTHER COPY, without the portrait, 4to. old calf (back damaged), 12s 



1 Traite fort utile pour connoitre la theorie de cet art et son histoire chez les anciens '. Montuda. 



3855 LIBER de ANALEMMATE, a FREDERICK) COMMANDING instauratus, et Commentariis illus- 



tratus, qui nunc primum in Lucem prodit. Ejusdeiu FRED. COMMANDINI Liber de HOROLOGIORUM 

 DESCRIPTIONS; with anchor on title, and numerous diagrams, cr. 4to. large and fine copy in old 

 Italian vellum (rare), 17s Qd Romae, Paulus Manutius Aldi F., 1562 



The only edition published. 



3856 - PLANISPII^RIUM. JORDANI PLANISPII^RIUM. FREDERICI COMMANDINI in Ptolemcei 



Planisphserium COMMENTARIUS, in quo universa Scenographices ratio quam brevissime traditur, 



ac demonstrationibus confirmatur ; with anchor on titles and last I., and numerous diagrams, 



2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, old limp vellum, 1. Venetiis [Aldus], 1558 



v. DANTI, ante. 



