HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. . 325 



6352 BOBGNIS (Giuseppe Antonio; Univ. Pavia) TRAITE COMPLEX de MECANIQUE appliquee 

 aux ARTS, contenant 1' Exposition Me"thodique des Theories et des Experiences les plus utiies pour 

 dirigerle Choix, 1'Invention, la Construction et 1'Emploi de toutes les Especes de MACHINES; with 

 '2Q fine folding plates on copper, 10 vols. 4to. contemporary hf. calf (nice copy), 2. 10s 1818-23 



CONTENU : I. Composition des Machines : II. Mouveraent ties Pardeaux : III. Machines que' Ton employe dans les Con- 

 structions diverses : IV. Hydrauliques : V. d'Agriculture : VI. employees dans diverses Fabrications : 



VII. qui servent a confectionner les fitofles : VIII. qui imitent ou facilitent les Fonctions des Corps Amines 



et des Machines Theatrales : IX. Theorie de Mecanique Usuelle : X. Traite elementaire de Constructioli appliquee a 

 1' Architecture Civile. 



6353 BOBNACCINI (Giuseppe) IDEE TEORETICHE e PRATICHE di RAGIONATERIA, e di DOPPIO 

 GIRO di REGISTRAZIONE, 2 da Ed., accresciuta, 4to. (pp. 416), boards, uncut, 6s Qd Rimino, 1838 



6354 BORNE (Giacomo, prete francese) PRINCIPJ RAGIONATI di ARITMETICA, colle loro Applicazioni 

 nei principali Usi delle Proporzioni ; corredati di un TRATTATO teorico-pratico dei LOGARITMI, 

 con TAVOLA di questi Numeri, 8vo. boards, 10s Qd Pesaro, 1795 



A rare work, quite unknown to Riccardi, Prof, de Morgan (who even omits the author from his List of Authors), 

 Poggendorff, Brunet, Graesse, and other bibliographers. There was no copy in the Libri Library. 



6355 [BORBO (Girolamo, d'Arezzo)'] DIALOGO del FLUSSO e REFLUSSO del MARE d'ALSEFORO 

 TALASCOPIO, con un Ragionarnento di Telifilo Filogenio della Perfettione delle Donne ; prinia 

 edizione; with woodcut titles, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, boards, 1. 8s Qd Lucca, peril Busdragho, 1561 



VERY RARE, especially in the above edition, which was unknown to Brunet, who only quotes those of 1567,' 1577, and 

 1581. The second part has never been reprinted. The work is of great interest as one of the earliest treatises on the tides. 



6356 [BOBTIEB (P., Ghistelles)} PRODUCTION de NITRATES : leur Application en Agriculture, roy. 

 8vo. (pp. 16), sewn, \s Qd Bruxelles, 1863 



6357 BOKTZ (Georg Heinrich) Ue FORMA RADICUM ex AEQUATIONIBUS QUADRATICS ei simili, 

 quam Cubicae per Methodum Cardani obtinent, 4to. (pp. 12), sewn, 5s Lipslae [1771] 



6358 - De Insigni SEMIOTICAE MATHESEOS Usu in GEOMETRIA et PHYSICA ; with plate, 4to. 

 (pp. 24), sewn, 5s ibidem [1763J 



6359 BOSANQUET (Samuel Bichard) ' VESTIGES of the NATURAL HISTORY of CREATION ' : its 

 Argument examined and exposed, post 8vo. cl., with auto, of Henry Jellett, Dean of St. Patrick's, 

 2s Qd 1845 



A denunciation of Robert Chambers's work (</. v. pout}. 



6360 BOSCOVICH (Buggiero Giuseppe, s.j. ; F.R.S.) OPERA pertinentia ad OPTICAM et ASTRO- 

 NOMIAM, maxima ex Parte nova, et omnia hucusque inedita ; with numerous folding plates, 5 vols. 

 4to. old extra boards (fine copy) ; RARE, 1. 7s Qd Bassani, 1785 



' Cette collection importante, dediee a Louis XVI, renferme plusieurs traites Merits en framjais ; le perfectionnement 

 de la theorie des lunettes achromatiques occupe la plusgrande partie dc cet ouvrage.' Itioqr. Gen. 



6361 DIMOSTRAZIONE di un METODO dato da EULERO per DIVIDERE una FRAZIONE RAZIONALE 



in piu Frazioni piu semplici, con altre Rirlessioni sulla stessa Materia, 4to. (pp. 19), sewn, 

 4s s. I. ed a. 



Rare ; unknown to Poggendorff, etc. 



6362 BOSE (Georg Mathias; F.R.S.) In ECLIPSIN TERRAE 1733 g Maii; with 2 vignettes and 

 folding plate, 4to. sewn, 4s Qd Lipsiae, 1733 



6363 BOSSCHA (H. C.) VERSLAG van PROEVEN ter BEPALING van den BESTEN VORM van GEGOTEN 

 IJZEREN BALKEN, met Inachtnerning van de Grenzen der Veerkracht ; with 2 folding plates, 8vo. 

 (pp. 43), sewn, 2s [Deventer, 1857] 



6364 BOSSUT (Charles, s. j. ; de VInstitut) GENERAL HISTORY of MATHEMATICS to the Middle of the 

 XVIII. Century, trans, [by T. O. CHURCHILL] , with Chronological Table of the most eminent 

 Mathematicians [by JOHN BONNYCASTLE] , Svo. prize calf extra (scarce), Is Qd 1803 



The prize label is signed by PROF. DE MORGAN. 



6365 ELEMENTI d'ALGEBRA e GEOMETRIA, nuovamente tradotti, con Aggiunte, da FRANCESCO 



CARDINAL! ; with 1 folding plates, 2 vols. Svo. sewn, 3s Qd Bologna, 1808-9 



6366 BOUGUEB (Pierre; F.R.S.) ESSAI d'OpTiQUE, sur la GRADATION de la LUMIERE, premiere 

 edition; with 3 plates, 12mo. old calf (HARE), with auto, of CHARLES WALMESLEY, O.S.B., Bp. of 

 llama (1722-97), F.R.S., 1. Is 1729 



6367 - ANOTHER COPY, large \-2n\Q.fine copy in contemporary marbled boards, UNCUT, 1. 5s 



In this work the author laid the foundation of rational photometry, while it also contains important investigations on 

 the absorption of light. His views were enlarged in the Traite d'Optique (v. No. 4!>8, ante). 



6363 La FIGURE de la TERRE, determined par les Observations de MM. BOUGUER et DE LA 



CONDAMINE, envoyes au PEROU pour observer aux Environs de 1'Equateur, avec une Relation 

 abregee de ce Voyage ; with 9 folding plates, 4to. old calf, newly rebacked (slightly water stained, 

 but a sound copy) ; RARE, 1. 5s 1749 



' Both on practical and theoretical grounds it may be justly considered the most important work of all which the 

 Peruvian expedition occasioned, and as that which should be selected by a student who desires to confine himself to one 

 of the original accounts.' Prof. Todhunter. 



6369 - De la MANOEUVRE des VAISSEAUX, ou TRAITE de MECHANIQUE et de DYNAMIQUE, dans 

 lequel on reduit a des Solutions tres-simples les Problemes de Marine les plus difficiles, qui ont 

 pour objet le Mouvemerit du Navire; with 15 folding plates, 4to. contemporary calf gilt (RARE), 

 1. Is 1757 



' Le premier livre est un excellent traite de mecanique et de dynamique, ainsi que d'hydrostatique et d'hydrodynamique, 

 oi\ 1'auteur etablit les pnncipaa de ces deux sciences.' Montuda's His'Mre des Mathcmdtiques, where a full account of the 

 work will be found in v. IV, pp. 423-5. The third Book solves important sailing problems by geometrical means. 



6370 TRAITE du NAVIRE, de sa CONSTRUCTION, et de ses MOUVEMENS, premiere edition ; 



with 12 folding plates, 4to. contemporary calf extra (RARE), 1. Is 1746 



6371 - ANOTHER COPY, cl., with auto, of Dr. Francis Elgar, F.R.S., and bookstamp of Gen. J. 

 Drinkwater Bethune (historian of the Siege of Gibraltar), 18s Qd 



This important work is generally considered to have laid the foundation of the theory of naval architecture. 



