HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 291 



5721 ALESSIO Piemontese: De' SECRETI del Reverendo Donno A. P. : PRIMA, SECONDA e TERZA 

 PARTE, Edizione migliorata, aggiuntove molti bellissimi SECRETI NOUI, con Tavole ; printed in 

 italics, with woodcut titles, 3 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, hf. white, vellum extra (part III wanting Jf. 11 and 

 24, title of part 1 mounted, and 2 II. holed) ; RARE, 12s 6d Veneiia, 1570 03 



5722 - : The SECRETES of the reuerende Maister ALEXIS of PIEMOUNT [Parts I-IV] : contayning 

 excellent remedies agayiiste diuers dyseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to 

 make dystillations, parfnmes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, aiid meltings. A worke Wei 

 approued, very profitable and necessary for every man. Newely corrected and amended, and also 

 somewhat enlarged in certayne places which wanted in the first edition. Translated out of French 

 into Englishe, by WILLIAM WARDE [and RICHARD ANDROSE], 4 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, blarfc letter ; 

 old (? contemporary] English calf, blind-tooled sides, gold-ornament in centre (first title soiled and 

 its margin worn, about 30 II. wormed, and back of binding damaged, otherwise a sound, tall, and 

 clean copy] ; very rare, 4. 15s 



Henry Bynneman, for John Wight, 1568 Henry Denham [1566] a. e., 1569 



FIRST COMPLETE AND FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF PARTS 3 AND 4. 



5723 _ ANOTHER COPY (Parts I-IV, Part II of the Edition of Rovland Hall, 1563), 4 vols. sm. 4tn. 

 in 1, old English black morocco gilt, with gilt centre-ornaments, with initials R. B., rebacked in 

 calf (first title soiled, and a number of headlines shorn], 3. 3s 1583-3 6-9 



FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF PARTS 2 TO 4. 



5724 - [PART IV ONLY, entitled:] A very excellent and profitable Booke conteyning sixe 

 hundred foure score and odde experienced Medicines, appertayning vnto Physicke and Surgerie 

 . . . translated by RICHARD ANDROSE, woodcut border round title and arms of Francis Russell, 

 2nd Earl of Bedford, on rev., also large woodcut initial, sm. 4to., Marft letter ; sewn (bottom of title 

 margined, but sound and clean copy], 15s John Wyght, 1578 



A storehouse of very curious chemical and medical recipes. Its authorship has sometimes been mistakenly attributed 



tO GlROLAMO RUSCELLI. 



'Alessio parcourut pendant 57 ans les differentes contrecs de 1'Europe, recueillant des recettes precieuses et operant 

 des cures etonnantes. Son livre ne traitepas seulement des drogues, mais des cosmetiques, des paifums, des savons etc. 

 II raconte qu'au moyen d'une drogue preparee avec de la rosee du romarin et quelques autres ingredients, il etait parvenu 

 a rajeunir de vieilles femmes infirmes.' Biogr. Gen. 



5725 ALEXANDRE (Jacques, Benedictin de la Congregation de St. Maur) TRAITE du FLUX et 

 REFLUX de la MER, ou Ton explique d'une Maniere nouvelle et simple, la Nature, les Causes, et 

 les Particularitez de ce Phe'nomene ; with 6 folding copperplates, 16mp. sound copy in contemporary 

 calf gilt (top of back slightly damaged) ; RARE, 155 1726 



Poor Dom Alexandre's theory rests on the assumption that the earth moves round the moon. His work received 

 nevertheless the prize of the Bordeaux Academy. 



5726 ALIMARI (Dorotheas, mathematicus Venetus] LoNGiTUDiNis aut TERRA aut MARI IN- 

 VESTIGAND^E METHODUS, adjectis insuper Demonstrationibus, et Instrumentorum Iconismis ; with 

 5 folding plates on copper of Geodetic Instruments, and tables, 8vo. white vellum (RARE), 1. Is 



Londini, 1715 



The author seems to have been quite unknown to biographers, nor is the work mentioned by Prof. Todhunter, Lowndes, 

 Poggendorft', er others. Prefixed is a fulsome Latin address to the Commissioners of Longitude by SEBASTIANO RICCI, the 

 painter. The work is interesting for containing several new geodetic methods of observation. 



5727 ALLEN (William; F.R.S.), and William Hasledine PEPYS: On the QUANTITY of CARBON 

 in CARBONIC ACID, and on the NATURE of the DIAMOND, with folding plate by Basire, 4to. 

 (pp. 28), unbound, loith author's inscr., 3s 1807 



5728 [ALLETZ (Pons Augustin)] L' ALBERT MODERNS, ou Nouveaux Secrets eprouves et licites, 

 recueillis d'apres les Decouvertes les plus recentes, sm. 8vo. contemporary French marbled calf gilt 

 (nice copy), 10s Qd , 1768 



5729 SECONDE EDITION, augmentee de plusieurs Secrets nouveaux, sm. 8vo. hf. vellum gilt, 



8s Qd 1769 



A modernisation of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus. 



5730 ALLEYNE (Sir John Gay Newton, M.I.C.E.) On the ESTIMATION of SMALL QUANTITIES of 

 PHOSPHORUS in IRON and STEEL by the SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, 8vo. (pp. 11), sewn, Is Qd [c. 1872] 



By the Manager of the historical Butterley Iron Company, Derbyshire, now (1910J in his POth year. 



5731 ALLMAN (George Johnston; F.R.S.) On the ATTRACTION of ELLIPSOIDS, with a New 

 Demonstration of Clairaut's Theorem, being an Account of PROF. MAcCULLAGH's Lectures on 

 those Subjects, diagrams, 4to. (pp. 19), sewn, 3s Qd Dublin, 1853 



5732 ALLNUTT (Zachariah) CONSIDERATIONS on the BEST MODE of IMPROVING the present 

 IMPERFECT STATE of the NAVIGATION of the RIVER THAMES from RICHMOND to STAINES ; 

 shewing the Advantages by improving its Navigation in preference to the Making any Canal, with 

 coloured maps and plan, post Svo. sewn, Is Qd Henley [on Thames], 1805 



5733 ALLSOP (F. C.). TELEPHONES : their Construction and Fitting, with front, and 163 other 

 woodcuts, cr. Svo. cl", 2s (p. 5s) 1891 



6734 ALOAB.DI (Luigi, ragioniere) II RAGIONIERE ossiaCorsodi ComputistsriaTeorico-Pratico, 4to. 

 sewn, Qs Milan o, 1817 



' Opera classica assai pregiata.' 



5735 ALPHONSUS Bex: ASTRONOMIC^: TABULA in PROPRIAM INTEGRITATEM RESTITUTE, ad 

 Calcem adjectis Tabulis qute in postrema Editione deerant, cum plurimoru Locorii Correctione, & 

 Accessione variarfi Tabellaru ex diversis Autoribus huic Operi insertaril, cum in Usus Ubertate, 

 turn Difficultatis Subsidiu : quorum Nomina Summa Pagellis V., VI. & VII. describuntur. Qua 

 in Re PASCHALIUS HAMELLIUS sedula Operam suam prtvstitit, 4to. FINE AND LARGE COPY in old 

 white vellum. (RARE), 1. 15s Parisiis, Christ. Wechel, 1545 



The last and most correct edition of the 'Alfonsine Tables' (edited by PASQUIER DUHAMEL), an improvement of the 

 Almagest undertaken by command of Alfor,so X. ('El Sabio '), King of Castile and Leon (1-J20-1284), by aO of the 

 celebrated astronomers of the time. 



