HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 261 



5126 VOLTA (Conte Alessandro; F.R.S.), COLLEZIONE dell' OPERE del [pubblicata da VINCENZIO 

 ANTINORI] ; with fine engraved portrait bij Raphael Morghen, and folding plates, 3 vols. 8vo. in 5, 

 boards, uncut, 1. Is Firenze, 1816 



5127 ANOTHER COPY, 3 vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt (portrait wanting), 1. Is 



5128 - A LARGE PAPER COPY, on fine paper, with the portrait, 3 vols. large 8vo. in 5, boards, 

 uncut, 1. IsQd 



The only collected edition of the author's scientific works. His work, which started a new era in electrical science, 

 includes the discovery of the electric decomposition of water, and the invention of the electric battery, the Voltaic Pile, 

 electrophorus, his condensing electroscope (proving contact electricity), etc. etc. 



' By some writers the name Galvanic Battery is given in honour of Galvani ; but the honour is certainly Volta's'. 

 Prof. Silvanus Thompson. 



5129 - ACCOUNT of some DISCOVERIES made by MR. GALVANI, of Bologna, with Experiments and 

 Observations on them [in French] , 4to. (pp. 35), sewn, 5s 1793 



5130 . LETTRES sur 1'AiR INFLAMMABLE des MARAIS, auxquelles on a ajoute trois Lettres du 



meme Auteur tirees du Journal de Milan, traduites de 1'Italien ; with copperplate, 8vo. contemp- 

 orary mottled calf gilt, 8s Qd Strasbourg, 1778 



5131 VOSSIUS [VOS] (GerardJan; Canon of Canterbury) De QUATUOR ARTIBUS POPULARIBUS 

 (Grammatistice, Gymnastice, Musice, et Graphice) ; de PHILOLOGIA; de SCIENTIIS MATHEMATICIS, 

 cui Operi subjungitur, CHRONOLOGIA MATHEMATICORUM, 3 vols. cr. 4to. in 1, old calf (very sound 

 copy), 10s Amstel&dami, Jo. Blaev, 1650 



The third work is interesting for containing a short history of the mathematical sciences. Gerard Vos owed his Canonry 

 to Abp. Laud a characteristic example of the latter's enlightened patronage of learning. 



5132 VOSSIUS (Isaac; Canon of Windsor, son of the above) De Lucis NATURA et PROPRIETATE ; 

 with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn (rare), 12s 6d 



Amstelodami, L. et D. Elzevir, 1662 



This work contains the passage in which the author accuses Descartes of plagiarism from Willebrord Snellius for his 

 law of refraction. Vossius also formulates in it a new theory of colours, in which sulphur, said to be contained in every 

 body, plays an important part ; and declares that light and heat are merely accidents. 



5133 De MOTU MARIUM et VENTORUM Liber ; with diagrams, cr. 4to. sound copy in old vellum, 



IQsQd Hagae-Com.', A. Vlacq, 1663 



5134. _ _ ANOTHER COPY, sewn, 9s 



' He attributes the tides to the influence of the sun, and describes a ' baroscope ' by means of which navigators might 

 with certainty foretell the approach of storms.' D. N. B. 



5135 _ -De NILI et aliorum FLUMINUM ORIGINE [cum APPENDICE ad Scriptum de NATURA et 

 PROPRIETATE Lucis, accedit Epistola ad Amicum de Potentiis quibusdam Mechanicis] ; with 

 2 large folding maps on copper of Abyssinia and the Nile, and numerous woodcuts, sm. 4to. sewn 

 (RARE), 1. Is ibidem, apud eundem, 1666 



The author's most valuable scientific work, containing an important doctrine in oceanography : ' Omnia flumina ex 

 collectione aquae pluvialis oriri ', afterwards elaborated by Mariotte and de la Metherie. Based on it, he attributes the 

 flooding of the Nile to the heavy rainfall of Ethiopia. It also contains a theory of the capillarity of mercury, but 

 erroneously attributes the rising of the sap in plants to the action of capillarity. 



5135 - RESPONSUM ad OBJECTA JOH. DE BRUYN, Professorio Trajectini, et PETRI PETITI, Medici 

 Parisiensis [de LUCE] ; with diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn, Is 6d ib., apud eundem, 1663 



A defence of his ' de Lucis Natura.' 



In spite of his clerical preferment, Isaac Vossius was a freethinker, yet absurdly credulous. Charles II. is said to have 

 remarked of him that he would believe anything if only it were not in the Bible. 



5137 VYVYAN (Thomas Grenfell) ELEMENTARY ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY, revised Ed., with 

 diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 2s (p. 7s 6d) Cambridge, 1870 



WAALS (Johannes Diderik v. d.) v. MOLENBROEK, ante. 



5138 WABNER (Robert) VENTILATION in MINES, trans, by CHARLES SALTER, with 30 folding plates, 

 besides woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., 6s Qd (p. 10s 6d nett) 1903 



5139 WAGENAER (Lucas Janssen) : The MARINERS MIRROUR, wherin may playnly be seen the 

 COURSES, HEIGHTS, DISTANCES, DEPTHS, SOUNDINGS, FLOUDS and EBS, RISINGS of Lands, Rocks, 

 Sands and Shoalds, with the Marks for th' ENTRINGS of the HARBOUROUGHS, HAVENS and PORTS 

 of the greatest Part of EUROPE : their several Traficks and Commodities : Together w l . h the 

 RULES and INSTRUMETS of NAVIGATION. First made & set fourth in diuers exact SEA-CHARTS, 

 by that famous Navigator LUKE WAGENAR of Enchuisen, and now fitted with necessarie 

 ADDITIONS for the use of Englishmen by [SiR] ANTHONY ASHLEY. Heerin also may be under- 

 stood the EXPLOITS lately atchiued by the right Honorable the L. Admiral of Englad with her 

 Ma u . es Nauie, and some former Seruices don by that worthy Knight S FRA. DRAKE, with beauti- 

 fully engraved title by THEODORE DE BRY, 38 fine folding charts on copper by T. DE BRY, A. 

 RYTHER, JOD. HONDIUS, and J. RUTLINGER, and 3 plates (one with moveable compass-card), 

 2 parts in 1 vol. roy. folio, old white vellum extra, in cardboard-case (binding slightly damaged, leaf 

 of arms, charts 3, 6, 11, 14, 22, half of 20 of part I, and 13 and 14 of part II missing, and 

 engraved title slightly stained, otherwise a REMARKABLY SOUND, CLEAN AND LARGE COPY) ; 

 extremely rare,' 18. 18* s. l.aut. t. n. [1588] 



This work, which first appeared in the original Dutch in 1584, is of great importance not only from being the FIRST 

 KNOWN COLLECTION of CHARTS, but especially for containing, in the above translation, the FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE DEFEAT 

 OF THE SPANISH ARMADA. There is also an account of Sir Francis Drake's expedition to Cadiz in 1587, referred to as ' the 

 former services'. 



The translator, the grandfather of the first Earl of Shaftesbury, afterwards accompanied Drake and Sir John Norris on 

 their expedition to Spain in 1589, and in 1596 acted as secretary to the Earl of Essex during the expedition to Cadiz. 



The work is exceedingly rare, and the above copy was the only one sold by auction (in 1905, when it fetched 25. 10s) 

 within the last 22 years, and probably for many years before. It belonged to Ad ml. Sir Sidney Smith, the hero of the 

 Siege of Acre, and was exhibited at the Tudor Exhibition, London, 1889-90. 



5140 WAGNER (Rudolf) HANDBOOK of CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, trans, and edited from the 8th 

 German Edition, with extensive ADDITIONS, by SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, F.R.S., with 336 woodcuts, 

 thick 8vo. cl., 6s 6d (p. 1. 5s) 1872 



