(enry EODESIA A : or y LY a eo enrey 



) ; how to measure, plot, and divide any Parcel of Land, without any other Instrument but the 



in, with Directions for Mapping, etc. etc., portrait, and 2 plates, 16mo. old calf (nice copy), 15* 1732 



ARE, and unknown to Watt, Allibone, and Lowndes. The author, a native of Pickering in Yorkshire, claims his method 



HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 277 



5440 WILSON (George, M.D., F.R.S.E.) CHEMISTRY, illustrated, 12mo. cl., 2s I860 



5441 -RELIGIO CHEMICI : Essays [edited by JESSIE A. WILSON], with vignette by Jeens after 

 Sir Noel Paton, cr. 8vo. hf. polished green morocco extra, uncut, t. e. g. t 6s 6d 1862 



Containing essays on ROBERT BOYLE, WOLLASTON, and JOHN DALTON, ' Chemistry and Natural Theology', 'Chemistry 

 of the Stars ', ' Chemical Final Causes ', and ' Thoughts on the Resurrection.' 

 - v. Nos. 742-3, ante. 



5442 WILSON (Henry) GEODESIA CATENEA : or SURVEYING by the CHAIN ONLY (a Method entirely 

 New) 



Chain, 



RARE, 

 to he ' the most true, easy, cheap, and expeditious that is or can be practised. 



5443 [WILSON (John)] TRIGONOMETRY, with the Doctrine of the Sphere; PLAIN DIALING and 

 Spherique Geometry, 2nd Ed., with Treatise of Sections of Plans, and Introduction to Architecture, 

 numerous folding plates, 12mo. old calf (fine copy), with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 

 F.R.S.,1sQd Edin.,1124: 



5444 WILSON (John) The LOST SOLAR SYSTEM of the ANCIENTS DISCOVERED, with Appendix, 

 with woodcuts and diagrams, 3 vols. Svo. in 1 (pp. 1003), cL, Qs Qd (p. 1. 8s) 1850 



' An undigested mass of data'. Athenaeum. 



5445 WINDISCH (Karl Gottlieb v.) INANIMATE REASON ; or a CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT of that 

 Astonishing Piece of Mechanism, M. DE KEMPELEN'S CHESS PLAYER, now exhibiting at No. 8 

 Savile-Row, Burlington-Gardens, trans. ; with 3 copperplates, Svo. (pp. 63), sewn (scarce), 8s 6d 1784 



Wolfgang von Kempelen's 'automaton chess-player' caused an immense sensation in its time, and consisted of a figure 

 in Turkish dress, which was supposed to move the pieces automatically, but really hid behind a screen of elaborate wheel- 

 work a man of small stature, who could guide the arm of the playing Turk. The machine made the tour of the whole world, 

 and was burnt in a fire in Philadelphia in 1854. 



The above enthusiastic account was written before the secret was found out. 



5446 WING (John) EPHEMERIDES of the COZLESTIAL MOTIONS, 1702-7, diligently calculated from 

 Scientia Stellarum, and accommodated to the Horizon of the City of London, with Intro, touching 

 the Theory of the Sun and Planets, Demonstration of the Height of the Atmosphere, Tables of 

 Right and Oblique Ascensions, etc. etc , woodcuts, sm. 4to. mottled calf extra (title mounted, a 

 number of II. rudely mended, and others damaged or stained) ; CHEAP, 8s Qd 1720 



Including a 'Table of Logistical Logarithms . . . for finding the true Latitude,' etc. etc. 



5447 WING (Vincent) GEOD^TES PRACTICUS : or the ART of SURVEYING, surveyed and laid out 

 in a more Accurate, Plain and Expeditious Plat, than hath hitherto been performed ; 2nd Ed., 

 with a Treatise entitled, Examen Astronomies Carolina, being an Answer to Mr. THO. STREETS 

 TREATISE of Astronomy, with plates, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 12mo. old calf, 

 12s Gd W. Ley bourn, 1666 



5448 _ _ NEW EDITION, now much augmented and improv'd; with APPENDIX, shewing the whole 

 Art of Surveying by a New Instrument, called the EMPERIAL TABLE, performing the Work of 

 the Theodolite, Circumferentor, Semi-Circle, Chard and Needle ; with the Description and Use of 

 a NEW QUADRANT, with Supplement, SCIENTIA STELLARUM, containing new and accurate Tables 

 of the Planetary Motions, etc. etc. by JOHN WING, with copperplates, and numerous diagrams, 

 folio, old calf, -newly and neatly rebacked (RARE), 1. 10s 1700 



The ' Emperial Table ' was the editor's own invention, and consisted of 'a perfect plain table, an exact theodolite and 

 Circumferentor, and the peractor exactly adjusted, the needle or declinatory also fully compleated thereon, in its own 

 kind and order, which instruments are here fully compleated upon this one instrument, without the least confusion of 

 lines or parts.' 



One of Vincent Wing's best known publications was the Olympia Domata, a semi-astrological almanack, continued for 

 over a hundred years by the Stationers' Company. 



5449 WINGATE (Edmund) ARITHMETICK; containing a Plain and Familiar Method for attaining 

 the Knowledge and Practice of Common Arithmetick, carefully revised and much improved by 

 JOHN KERSEY [THE ELDER], 9th Ed., very much enlarged, tliick sm. Svo. old mottled calf (fine 

 copy) ; rare, 15s 1694 



The last edition edited by John Kersey the elder, and unknown to D. AT. B., where the 8th edition is given as the last 

 edited by him. 



5450 -- TABULAE LOGARITHMIC^:, or Two Tables of Logarithmes: the first containing those of all 

 numbers from 1 to 100,000, contracted by NATHANIEL ROE ; the other, those of the right Sines and 

 Tangents ; with the USE of LOGARITHMES, first edition, with diagrams, 12mo. contemporary 

 calf (first 1. of preface defective, one I. mended, and back of binding damaged, otherwise a sound 

 and clean copy) ; RARE, 1. Is M. Flesher, 1633 



' C'est a Edmund Wingate que la France doit les premieres tables logarithmiques dont elle a joui.' MontticJa. 



5451 WISLICENUS (Walter F., Univ. Strassburg) ASTRONOMISCHE CHRONOLOGIE : ein Hiilfsbuch 

 fiir Historiker, Archaeologen, und Astronomen/8vo. cl., 3s (p. M. 5) Leipzig, 1895 



5450 _ HANDBUCH der GEOGRAPHISCHEN ORTSBESTIMMUNGEN auf REISEN ; with 19 illustrationx^ 

 8vo. cl., 5s 6d (p. M. 8 sewn) ibidem, 1891 



5453 WISE (John, aeronaut) SYSTEM of AERONAUTICS, comprehending its EARLIEST INVESTIGA- 

 TIONS, and Modern Practice and Art, containing the \ r arious Attempts in the Art of Flying by 

 Artificial Means, from the Earliest Period to the Discovery of the Aeronautic Machine by the 

 Montgolfiers, in 1782, arid to a later Period ; with the Author's 15 Years' Experience in Aerial 

 Voyages, full Instructions in the Ait of Making Balloons, Parachutes, etc. etc., and Directions to 

 prepare Experimental Balloons, with Jine mezzotint portrait, and numerous plates, Svo. cl. 

 (slightly soiled) ; VERY SCARCE, 1. 10* Philadelphia, 1850 



The historical portion is very valuable, and is often quoted in Hatton Tumor's ' Astra Castra'. It is moreover the 

 only work giving an adequate account of AMERICAN BALLOONING, and the fullest description of the author's own ascents. 

 He designed a new balloon known as Wise's Transatlantic Balloon. 



'Some of Wise's ascents were highly interesting, and their number and daring character justified his title to be 

 considered the foremost American aeronaut'. Valentine and Tomlinson's Traiels in Space, 



