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



5737 ALSTON (Capt. Alfred Henry, R.N.) SEAMANSHIP, and its associated Duties in the Royal 

 Navy ; with Treatise on NAUTICAL SURVEYING, 200 woodcuts, post 8vo. (pp. 446), cl., 2s 6d 1860 



5738 NEW EDITION, enlarged and brought up to date, by CAPT. T. P. WALKER, R.N., with 



coloured plates of flags, and numerous other illustrations, thick cr. 8vo. 4s (p. 10s Qd) 1902 



5739 ALVORD (Major Benjamin, U.S. Army) The TANGENCIES of CIRCLES and SPHERES, with 

 9 plates, folio (pp. 15), sewn, 3s [Washington], 1855 



5740 AMERICAN JOURNAL of MATHEMATICS, edited by SIMON NEWCOMB and THOMAS 

 CRAIG, from 1891 to 1895 (Vols. XIII XVII), with portraits and diagrams, 5 vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt, 

 1.1* Baltimore, 1891-5 



5741 _ MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, TRANSACTIONS of the, edited by E. H. MOORE, E. \V. 

 BROWN, and T. S. FISKE, from Jan., 1905 to April, 1907 (Vols. 6-8, No. 2), 10 parts 4to. sewn, 15s 

 (p. 2. 12s Qd nett) Lancaster, Pa., 1905-7 



5742 AMICI (Giovanni Battista, Univ. Pisa) DESCRIZIONE di alcuni ISTRUMENTI da MISURARE 

 gli ANGOLI per RIFLESSIONE ; with two folding plates, folio (pp. 33), sewn (rare), Is 6d Modena, 1836 



Containing the author's invention of a prismatic reflector. 



5743 Sopra alcuni STRUMENTI per LIVELLARE : due Memorie; with folding plate, 8vo. (pp. 16), 



sewn (rare), 5s s. I. [1829-37] 



Containing the author's invention of a new levelling instrument. 



5744 AMICO (Giovanni Battista, Cosentino) OPUSCULUM de MOTIBUS CORPORUM COZLESTIUM 

 juxta PRINCIPIA PERIPATETICA, SINE ECCENTRICIS et EPICYCLIS, denuo seditum, Additis 

 ndnullis que rem locupletiorum facilioremque reddut; with diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn (browned); 

 VERY RARE, C 1. 10* Venetiis, Aug. de Bindonis, 1537 



Of great interest as an original pre-Copernican planetary system. It was published when the' author was 2j years old. 

 He was murdered a year afterwards in Padua, where he studied mathematics and astronomy at the university. 



5745 AMIOT (A.) ELEMENTS de GEOMETRIE, avec Complement a 1' Usage des Eleves de Mathe- 

 matiques speciales, 15 Ed.; with diagrams: SOLUTIONS RAISONNEES des PROBLEMES, avec 

 Observations snr la Resolution des Problemesde Geometric par A. AMIOT et A. DESYIGNES, 6 e Ed. 

 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 4s , 1873-7 



5746 LECONS NOUVELLES d'ALGEBRE ELEMENTAIRE, 4 e Ed., augmentee,8vo. hf. calf gilt, 2s 1872 



5747 LECONS NOUVELLES de GEOMETRIE ELEMENTAIRE, 2 Ed., entierement refondue; with 



diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco neat, 5s 1865-6 



5748 AMPERE (Andre Marie; F.R.S.) ESSAI sur la PIIILOSOPIIIE des SCIENCES, ou Exposition 

 analytique d'une CLASSIFICATION NATUBELLE de toutes les Connaissances humaines ; with folding 

 tables, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. mottled calf extra (fine copy] ; VERY SCARCE, 1. 10s 1834-43 



"Toute la science hurnaine se rapporte uniquement a deux objets generaux, le inonde materiel et la pensee. De la nait 

 la division naturelle en sciences du monde ou cosmologiques, et sciences de la pensee ou nooloyiques. De cette facon 

 M. Ampere partage toutes nos connaissances en deux regnes ; chaque regne est, a son tour, 1'objet d'nne division pareille ; 

 les sciences cosmologiques se divisent en celles qui ont pour objet le monde inanime, et celles qui s'occupent du monde 

 anim6,' etc. etc.Littre. 



5749 MEMOIRES, sur 1' ACTION MUTUELLE de DEUX COURANS ELECTRKJUES, sur celle qui Cxxiste 



entre un Courant Electrique et un Aimant ou le Globe Terrestre, et celle de deux Aimans Pun 

 sur 1'autre ; with 6 folding plates, 8vo. sewn, uncut (rare), 10s 6d [1821] 



This seems to be the first publication that made known Ampere's law of parallel circuits. It also contains a transla- 

 tion of a ' Memoir' by FARADAY, with notes on,it by Ampere. 



5750 - THEORIE des PIIENOMENES ELECTRO-DYNAMIQUES, uniquement deduite de 1'Experience 

 [avec ses Memoires k 1' Academic Royale des Sciences, 1820, '22, '23 et '25] , edition originale ; 

 with 2 folding plates on copper, 4to. hf. cl. neat (large and sound copy) ; RARE, with lNs>CR. TO 

 AUGUST LEOPOLD CRELLE (mathematician), and numerous MS. notes by the late PROF. A. S. 

 HERSCHEL, F.R.S. , 1. 10s 6d J826 



' A Monsieur A. L. Crelle de la part de 1'auteur.' Inner, on cover. 



ORIGINAL EDITION OF THK AUTHOR'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK, which laid the foundation of electro dynamics, and prepared 

 the way for Faraday's discoveries. The author's name is immortalized in electrical science as the unit for electro-motive force. 



5751 - , et Jacques BABINET : EXPOSE des NOUVELLES DECOUVERTES sur I'ELECTRICITK et 

 le MAGNETISMS, de MM. Oersted, Arago, Ampere, H. Davy, Biot, Erman, Schweiger, de La Rive, 

 etc. ; with 33 ivoodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. sewn, uncut (rare), 7s 6d 1822 



5752 ANDERSON (Elbert) The SKYLIGHT and the DARK-ROOM : a Complete Text-Book on PORTRAIT 

 PHOTOGRAPHY, with 12 photographs, and 177 woodcuts, sq. 8vo. cl. (cover stained), with authors 

 inscr " 6s AN UNPUBLISHED MS. : Philadelphia, 1872 



5753 [ANDERSON (Hugh. A.)] TREATISE on SUN J)IALS, an original and unpublished Manu- 

 script, very neatly written on 90 pp. of paper, with 46 prettily drawn illustrations, sm. 4to. 

 contemporary calf (binding damaged, otherwise in good preservation), 6. 6s [16S9-1708J 



This handsome Manuscript is divided into the following chapters : ' Definitions and Problems ; To make the Lines of 

 Chords, Sines, etc. ; To find the Sun's Azimuth ; To find the Declination and Reclination of Plains ; To make a Verticall 

 Diall Trigonometrically ; To make an East or West Diall ; To draw Erect Declining Dials : To make Direct Reclining Dials ; 

 An Equinoctiall Declining Reclining Diall ; Of Diall Plains ; To draw Erect Declining and Declining Reclining Dials ; 

 Instrumentall Dialling ; the Furniture of Sundials' ; and is preceded by a ' Table of Equation of time for the adjusting and 

 managing of Pendulum Clocks.' 



Nothing is known of its author. 



5754 ANDERSON (Sir James) STATISTICS of TELEGRAPHY [Description of the various Types of 

 Cables, etc.], with 8 plates, and 2 large folding maps, roy. 8vo. cl., 3s Qd 1872 



5755 ANDERSON (John Wemyss, M.I.C.E.) REFRIGERATION: an Elementary Text-Book, with 

 3 folding plates, and 87 cuts, 8vo. cl., 5s (sells 7s 6d nett) 1908 



5756 ANDEKSON (Richard, F.C.S.) LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS: their History, Nature, and Mode of 

 Application ; 3rd [LAST] ED., revised and enlarged, with numerous woodcuts, 8vo. cl., presentation 

 copy to Henry Reeve, C.B., with his bookplate, 7s 6d (p. 16s) 1885 



Including a copious history from their invention by Benjamin Franklin to 1885, and a bibliography, 1028-1884. 



