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



4608 STIER (Johann) PE^ECEPTA DOCTRINE LOGICS, ETHICS, PHYSICS, METAPHYSICS, SPHERI- 

 C^QUE, brevibus Tabulis compacta, una cum QUESTIONIBUS PHYSICS controversis ; Editio IV. ; 

 with engraved emblematic title, cr. 4to. contemporary calf, newly rebacked (FINE COPY) ; RARE, 

 1. Is Londini, R. Daniel, 1652 



4609 EDITIO OCTAVA ; with engraved title, sm. 4to. sound copy in contemporary calf, 155 



ib., J. Redmayne, 1678 



Unknown to Poggendorff, Brunei, Graesse, Ebert, etc., nor does anything seem to be known of its author. Although 

 numerous editions appear to have been published in England, the work is not noticed by Watt or Lowndes. 



4610 STIRRUP (Thomas, Philomat.} The ARTIFICERS PLAIN SCALE : or the CARPENTERS NEW 

 RULE, shewing how to measure all Superficies and Solids . . . Geometrically, without the help of 

 Arithmetick : it being a new way not heretofore practised . . . and to measure Board and Timber 

 Instrumentally, upon the Scale it selfe, without Arithmetick or Geometry . . . also, how to take 

 Heights and Distances severall ways, and to draw the Plot of a Town or City, with numerous 

 woodcuts and diagrams, 18mo. contemporary sheep (RARE), 155 



R. and W. Leybourn,for Thomas Pirrepont, 1651 



4611 The DESCRIPTION and USE of the UNIVERSALL QUADRAT, by which is performed, with 



great expedition, the whole Doctrine of Triangles, both Plain and Spherical!, two severall wayes 

 with Ease and Exactness, also . . . Propositions ... in Astronomic, Navigation, and Dialling, by 

 which is also performed the proportioning of Lines and Superficies : the Measuring of all manner 

 of Land, Board, Glasse, Timber, Stone, etc., with 3 plates and numerous woodcuts, sm. 4to. 

 contemporary calf (FINIS, COPY) ; RARE, 1. 125 60? R. and W. Leybourn, 1655 



The author claims for his instrument the performance ' with incredible expedition, plainness, facility, and pleasure, of 

 the whole Doctrine trigonometrical, as well plain as sphericall.' Preface. 



4612 ANOTHER COPY ; with HOROMETRIA : or the COMPLEAT DIALLIST, wherein the whole 



mystery of the Art of Dialling is plainly taught three several wayes ; two of which are performed 

 Geometrically by Rule and Compass onely : and the third Instrumentally, by a Quadrant fitted 

 for that purpose ; with . . . Propositions ... in Astronomy and Navigation ; also APPENDIX, 

 shewing how the parallels of Declination ; the Jewish, Babylonish, and Italian hours ; the 

 Azimuths, Almicanters, etc. may be easily inscribed on a Dial whatsoever, by Rule and Compasse 

 onely ; and to DRAW a DIAL on the SEELING of a ROOM, by WILLIAM LEYBOURN. Also, DIALL- 

 ING UNIVERSAL, performed by an easie and most speedy way . . . performed by certain Scales 

 set on a small portable Rule, by G. S. Practitioner in the Mathematiclcs, 2nd Ed., with Additions, 

 with plates and numerous woodcuts 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, FINE COPIES in contemporary calf, 

 3. 135 6d apud eosdem, 1655-9 



VERY RARE ; unknown to Lowndea. 



4613 STODOLA (A., Polytechnikum, Zurich) STEAM TURBINES, GAS TURBINES, and the FUTURE of 

 HEAT ENGINES ; revised from the 2nd German Ed., with MATHEMATICAL SUPPLEMENT and Aid 

 by Louis C. LOEWENSTEIN, with 241 woodcuts and 3 lithographic tables in pocket, roy. 8vo. 

 cl., 145 (p. 1. 15 nett) 1906 



4614 STOEFLER (Johann; Univ. Tubingen) COELESTIUM RERUM DISCIPLINAE, atque totius 

 SPHAERICAE, variorum ASTROLABIORUM COMPOSITIONEM seu FABRICAM, necnon eorundem 

 Usuum ac variarum Utilitatum Explanationem ... in aliquot Locis praecipue cum Propositioni- 

 bus, turn earum Expositionibus, in meliorem Formam redigenda, atque imprimenda curavimus ; 

 with numerous large woodcuts; Moguntiae, Petrus Jordan, 1535: MtJNSTER (Sebastian) 

 ORGANA PLANETARUM ; with numerous large woodcuts (many withmoveable slips), [col. :] BasilecB, 

 H. Petrus, 1536 (Sigg. A-C in fours and D in sixes, without title) : THEORIA TRIUM SUPERIORUM 

 PLANETARUM, SATURNI scilicet, Jovis et MARTIS ; front, with portrait, and woodcuts (Sigg. a-i 3 

 in fours; s. 1. aut t. n.} 3 vols. folio in 1, old vellum, rebacked (RARE), 3. 35 1535-6 



The first work is valuable for giving an historical account of the various modes used in the construction of the astro- 

 labe. A full account of the work is given in Delambre's ' Histoire de 1' Astronomic '. 



4615 ELUCIDATIO FABRICAE USUSQUE ASTROLABII, cui perbrevis ejusdem Astrolabii Declaratio, 



k JAC. KOEBELLIO adjecta est ; cum diligent! Recognitione, una cum Schematum Negotio Accom- 

 modatorum, exactissima Expressione, et Indice; with numerous fine woodcuts, and folding tables, 

 12mo. sewn (imperfect at end), 8s 6d Colonice, 1594 



4616 EPHEMERIDUM OPUS, a capite anni Redemptoris Christi 1532 in alios 20 proximo subse- 



quentes : ad veterum imitation^ accuratissimo calculo elaboratum ; printed in got I) if Utter, with 

 arms on title, woodcuts and woodcut initials, cr. 4to. contemporary vellum (binding slightly 

 damaged, top of title worn, and a number of II. water-stained on top margin) ; ivith numerous MS. 

 notes in an old hand, 1. 105 Venetiis, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1532 



This extremely rare edition was unknown to Houzeau and Lancaster, and Graesse, who only mentions that of Tubingen, 

 1533. The latter edition only was contained in the Libri Catalogue, where it is said that ' the rarity of these Ephemtridcs 

 is such that Delambre was unable to see:a copy.' 



4617 STOKES (Sir George Gabriel, F.R.S.) The ABSORPTION of LIGHT, and the COLOURS of 

 NATURAL BODIES, illustrated, post 8vo. sewn, Is 6d 1877 



4618 On LIGHT, in three Courses (Burnett Lectures), post 8vo. cl., 45 (p. 7s 6d) 1887 



4619 ANOTHER COPY, 3 parts post 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 75 Gel) 1884-5-7 



' The evidences in favour of the ether-wave theory, and its success in explaining the most complicated phenomena, 

 under the most crucial tests, are admirably set forth.' Sat. Rev. 



4620 STONEY (Bindon Blood, F.R.S.) The THEORY of STRAINS in GIRDERS and Similar Structures, 

 with Observations on the Application of Theory to Practice, and Tables of the Strength and other 

 Properties of Materials ; enlarged Ed., with 5 plates, and numerous woodcuts, thick roy. 8vo. 

 hf. calf (back rubbed and title stamped), 155 (p. 1. 165) 1873 



A standard work on the subject. 



