HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 105 



3877 RAILWAY STRUCTURES, REPORT of the COMMITTEE on WIND PRESSURE on, with 12 

 folding diagrams, folio, hf. calf gilt, 5s 1881 



A result ot the Tay Bridge disaster. The Commissioners were Sir John Hawkshaw, Sir William Armstrong, Mr. W. R. 

 Barlow, Sir George Stokes, and Col. Yolland. 



3878 RAMBOSSON (Jean) ASTRONOMY, trans, by C. B. PITMAN, with 10 coloured plates, 63 wood- 

 cuts, and 3 maps, 8vo. cl. (out of print), 6s Qd (p. 16s) 1875 



3379 _ HISTOIRE des METEORES, et des Grands Phenomenes de la Nature, with 2 coloured plates, 

 and 90 ivoodcuts, 8vo. hf. morocco, g. e., 3s Qd (p. F. 8.50) Didot, 1869 



3880 RAMCHUNDRA (Teacher of Science, Delhi College) TREATISE on PROBLEMS of MAXIMA and 

 MINIMA, solved by ALGEBRA ; reprinted under the superintendence of [and with Preface (pp. 23) 

 by] AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN, with 8 plates, 8vo. cl., 5s 1859 



' Reprinted by order of the Court of Directors of the East India Company in acknowledgement of the author's merit, 

 and in testimony ot the sense entertained of the importance of independent speculation as an instrument of national 

 progress in India'. Title. Ramchuudra was afterwards baptized, and nearly lost his life in the Indian Mutiny. 



3881 RAMELLI (Agostino, Ingegniero del Re di Francia et^ di Pollonia) DIVERSE et ARTIFICIOSE 

 MACHINE, nelle quali si contengono varij et industries! MOVIMENTI, degni di GRANDISSIMA 

 SPECULATIONS, per cavarne beneficio infinite in ogni sorte d' operatione, prima edizione ; with 

 engraved title with fine portrait on reverse and 195 copperplates illustrating a great variety of 

 machinery, folio, new hf. calf antique (title slightly inked, and margined, some II. somewhat soiled 

 or water -stained, and the last mended] ; VERY RARE, 2. 10s Parigi, in casa deV autore, 1588 



'Get ouvrage, ecrit en itcdien et en fran$ais, est rare et recherche'. Brunei. The MacCarthy copy, on large paper, 

 fetched 512 francs. The above copy belonged to HENRY MAUDSLAY (1771-1831), engineer, teacher of Sir Joseph Whitworth 

 and James Nasmyth, etc., and has his bookplate as well as terse MS. remarks bearing on the value of each machine 

 described. 



3882 SCHATZKAMMER MfiCHANlSCHER KtJNSTE, darinnen viel unterschiedene Wunderbahre, 



Kunstreiche Machinoe zu betinden, so man zu Friedens und Kriegesszeiten, in- und ausserhalb 

 Vestungen, auch sonsten hochniitzlichen und wohl gebrauchen kan. Jetzo mit besonderem tteiss 

 ins Deutsche versetzet durch HENNING GROSSEN den Jiingern ; with engraved title, fine portrait, 

 and 195 copperplates re-engraved by A. Bretschneider, folio, FINE COPY in contemporary white 

 vellum, 2. 2s Leipzig, apud interpretem, 1620 



These are the only two editions of this work ever published. ' Un recueil fort curieux, representant des machines 

 destinoes la plupart a clever I'eau, a trainer de lourdes charges, a lancer des traits et des grenades enflammees. On y 

 remarque 1'application de 1'axe coude, de la pompe aspirante et foulante, de la vis d'Archimede et de la fontaine d'Heron. 

 Differentes sortes de balistes et de catapultes y sont representees, ainsi qu'une scierie mecanique ; et, chose plus singuliere 

 encore, on y tronve, moins la vapeur, notre bateau a aubes'. Biogr. Gen. 



3883 RAMMELSBERG (Karl Friedrich, Univ. Berlin) HANDBUCH der KRYSTALLOGRAPHISCH- 

 PHYSIKALISCHEN CHEMIE ; with 343 woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, Us Qd (p. M. 28.) Leipzig, 1881-2 



The standard work on the subject. 



3384 RAMSAY (Sir Andrew Crombie, F.R.S.) The PHYSICAL GEOLOGY and GEOGRAPHY of GT. 

 BRITAIN, 3rd Ed., with coloured map and woodcuts, large post Svo. cl., 3s Qd (p. Is Qd) 1872 



3883 RAMSAY (Sir William, F.R.S.) The GASES of the ATMOSPHERE : the HISTORY of their DIS- 

 COVERY, with 8 portraits, and woodcuts, large past Svo. cL, 3s Qd (p. 6s nett) 1896 



3885 RAMUS (Petrus, recte PIERRE DE LA RAMEE) ARITHMETICES Libri II, et ALGEBRA totidem : 

 a LAZARO SCHONERO emendati et explicati : ejusdem SCHONERI Libri II : De NUMERIS FIGUR- 

 ATIS : De LOGISTICA SEXAGENARIA ; with folding table, Francofurdi, '86 (title damaged) : 

 SCHOLARUM METAPIIYSICARUM Libri XIV, in totidem Metaphysicos Libros Aristotelis, Parisiis, 

 '66: SCHOLARUM PHYSICARU Libri VIII, in totidem acroamaticos libros Aristotelis, ib., '65 

 3 vols. 12mo. in 1, contemporary vellum, 1. 5s 1565-86 



The last two works are FIRST EDITIONS ; they are a fierce attack on Aristotelian principles, still in the spirit of his 

 inaugural thesis, ' qu<ecunque ab Aristotele dicta essent, commentitia esse '. 



The above edition of the Arithmetice was unknown to Prof, de Morgan, who only quotes that of 1592. 



3887 - SCHOLARUM MATHEMATICARUM Libri XXXI, editio princeps; with large woodcut 

 vignette on title, and numerous diagrams, 4to. old limp vellum (browned andsomell. water-stained, 

 otherwise a sound and large copy) ; VERY RARE, 2. 12* Qd Basilece, Eus. Episcopius, 1569 



' Gette premiere edition est si rare qu'elle est restee inconnue a de Morgan. On y tiouve (pp. ] 13-45) son traite d'Arith- 

 metique en deux livres'. Graesse. 



3888 EDITIO NOVA, a LAZARO SCHONERO recognita et emendata; with device on title and last 



I., and numerous diagrams, 4to. old vellum (back damaged) ; RARE, 15s 



Francofurti, Adrece Wecheli heredes, 1599 



This work remained for a long time the textbook on the subject. The author was one of the victims of the massacre of 

 St. Bartholomew. 



3389 RANSOME (James Stafford, M.I. C.E.) MODERN WOOD- WORKING MACHINERY, 72 woodcuts, 

 fcap. Svo. hf. calf (title stamped), 2.9 Qd [1895] 



3890 RANYARD (Arthur Cowper, F.R.A.S.) OBSERVATIONS made during TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES 

 collated, with 18 plates, and numerous woodcuts, thick 4to. hf. morocco, uncut, t. c. g., 1. 5s 

 (p. 2. 2s nett unbound) 1879 



The celebrated ' ECLIPSE VOLUME' of the Royal Astronomical Society's Memoirs (vol. XLI). 



1 His most extensive work in astronomy was the eclipse volume of the R. A. S. (Memoirs, vol. XLP, in which are 

 systematised and discussed the observations of all solar eclipses down to 1878. It was originally commenced in con- 

 junction with Sir George Airy, but soon devolved on Ranyard alone '. D. N. B. 



' In his splendid volume on eclipses, with which the systematic study of coronal structure may be sail to have begun, 

 Mr. Ranyard first generalised the synclinal peculiarity by a comparison of records. He further pointed out the curved 

 and branching shapes assumed by the component filaments of massive bundles of rays.' Miss Agnes M. Clcrke. 



3891 RAPER (Lt. Henry, R.N.) The PRACTICE of NAVIGATION and NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY, 3rd 

 Ed., with diagrams, thick Svo. hfcalf, 5s 1849 



' It was at once recognised as the best work on the subject, a position which it still holds in the opinion of practical 

 navigators.' Sir J. K. Laughton. 



