HENRY SOTHtiRAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 343 



6697 [CAMPBELL (John Francis, of Islay ; author of ' Popular Tales of the West Highlands ')] 



FROST and FIRE : Natural Engines, Tool Marks and Chips, with Sketches at home and abroad, 



by a TRAVELLER, numerous woodcuts by J. W. WIIYMPER, 2 thick vols. 8vo. cl. , 15s Edin., 1865 



Containing much interesting meteorological information. The author was the inventor of the sunshine recorder now in 



ui'iitTul use at meteorological stations. 



6598 CAMPBELL (Lt.-Col. John Robert) THEORY and PRACTICE of the SLIDE RULE, with 

 diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl., Is 18S6 



6599 CAMPOLINI (Giacomo) PROPOSITIONI ARITHMETICHE et Operation! de Nnmeri Rotti per 

 essercitio, studio, e instruttione . . . e per chi brama farsi computista, o Ragionato, scienza chi 

 dimostra gl'eft'etti, e produttioni de numeri, pesi, e misure, ecc., sin. 4to. sewn (RARE), 15s 



Venetia, 1700 

 'Questa raro libro e una bella raccolta di 265 problemi in mavsimi pirte spettanti all' aritmsfcica mercantile.' Riccardi. 



6700 CAMUS (Fra^ois Joseph de, Gentilhomm? Lorrain) TRAITE des FORCES Mouv ANTES, pour 

 la Pratique des Arts et Metiers, avec Explication de 20 MACHINES NOUVELLES et UTILES ; with 

 8 folding plates, 8vo. old calf [rare], 12s Qd 1732 



' Sou principal ouvrage. L'auteur y donne beaucoup dedications sur les moyeus de perfectionner les cibestan?, ainsi 

 que sur une meilleure trempe des metaux ; et il tire de ses theories plusieurs consequences utiles pour la construction des 

 mousquets, des gros canons, et des machines de toute sorte. On y trouve les descriptions de plusieurs mecanismes 

 iugenieux : une espece de tamis, une grue basse ;i bee, pour creuser un canal ou clever une chaussee, une machine a battre 

 les gros pilots par un treuil en forme de cabsstan ', etc. etc. Biog. Gen. 



6701 GANNIZZARO (Stanislao ; F.R.S.) CONSIDERATIONS on some Points of the THEORETIC 

 TEACHING of CHEMISTRY (Faraday Lecture), 8vo. (pp. 27), sewn, 2s 1872 



6702 CANON (John) : JOANNIS CANONICI dpctoris clarissimi ordi. minor/ sup octo libros PHYSICOR/ 

 [ARISTOTELIS COMMENTARIUS] qoes icipiiit ; printed in double columns in gotf)tf letter, folio, 

 sewn (SOUND AND LARGE COPY) ; VERY RARE, 2. 10s 



|> 8 :] Venetiorlp . . . Octauiani Scotus de Modoetia. M.CCCCLXXXI 

 Hain-Copinger *4345 and Proctor 4569. It consists of signatures a to o in eights, or 112 11. in all. 



' The work upon which his reputation rests, and one very widely used in the XIV. and XV. centuries, is a commentary 

 on Aristotle's Piiysics.' D. N. B. According to the same authority, the author ' studied at Oxford, and became a member 

 of the Franciscan order. Afterwards he attended the lectures of Duns Scotus at Paris, but appears to have returned 

 to Oxford, and to have proceeded there to the degree of D.D.' 



6703 CANTERZANI (Sebastiano) OSSERVAZIONI sul VALOR CARDANICO, in una Lettera a 

 Girolamo Saladini, in occasione d' essere uscito un Foglio Anonimo, che propone una Maniera di 

 Ridurre il Casso Irreducibile, con Dissertaxione del medesimo Autore ; with vignette of the 

 Bologncse Inst. of_ Science on title, 4to. (pp. 59), sewn, 4s Qd Bologna, 1787 



6704 CA'NTONE (Girolamo, minor conventuale) Nupvo, e FACIL MODO di FARE col QUADRANTE 

 GEOMETRICO HOROLOGI SOLARI, Ori/ontali, e Vertical! a tutte 1' Elevationi di Polo ; with numerous 

 large woodcuts, roy. 4to. extra boards (slightly water-stained) ; VERY RARE, 1. 10s Torino, 1670 



Unknown to Brunet, Graesse, Poggendo'rff, and the author's biographer in Biographie Generate. 



6705 CANTONE (Oberto, da Genova) L'Uso PRATTICO dell' ARITMETICA, nel quale con Nuova 

 Inventione s'insegna in Materiadi CONTI, 1'Uso tantodella Regia Camera della Sonimaria, quauto 

 di Negotiant! Mercandanti, et Artegiani, e come Napoli Cambij, e Recambij in ciascuna Piazza ; 

 prima edizione ; with arms on title, sm. 4to. old vellum (title and 2 II. slightly mended and 2 II. 

 stained, otherwise a sound copy] ; RARE, 1. 5s Napoli, T. Longho, 1599 



This rare work was unknown to Poggendorff, and to Prof, de Morgan, who did not even know the author by repute, as 

 his name is not included in the ' List of 1580 Names of Authors of Works on Arithmetic.' There was no copy of any 

 edition in the Libri Library. 



Pp. 239-56 contain a very interesting alphabetical list of about 600 articles of merchandise, with their prices then 

 ruling in Naples. 



6706 CANTOR (Georg. Univ. Halle] Sur les FONDEMENTS de la THEORIE des ENSEMBLES TRANS- 

 FINIS, Traduction de F. MAROTTE ; roy. 8vo. sewn, 2s (p. F. 4.50 nett) 1899 



6707 CANTOR (Moritz; Univ. Heidelberg) VORLESUNGEN iiber GESCHICHTE der MATHEMATIK, 

 von den altesten Zeiten bis 1758 (Bd. Ill 2. Auflage) ; ivith plate and numerous diagrams, 3 vols. 

 large Svo. hf. calf, 2. 7s Qd (p. M 70 unbound) Leipzig, 1880-1901 



The standard work on the history of mathematics, indispensable to any good scientific library. 



6708 CAPE (Jonathan, pr. : F.R.S.) COURSE of MATHEMATICS for H. E. I. C. College, Addiscombe, 

 3rd Edition, with diagrams, 2 vols. Svo. hf. calf, 3s Qd . 1847 



6709 - - FOURTH EDITION [enlarged], diagrams, 2 vols. Svo. cl., 4s Qd 1850 



Ranging from Arithmetic to the Differential and Integral Calculus, Calculus of Variations and Finite Differences, and 

 Astronomy. 



6710 MATHEMATICAL TABLES of Logarithms, Logarithmic Sines, Tangents, and Secants, with 



such other Tables as are requisite to be used with the Nautical Almanac, 2nd Ed., roy. Svo. cl., 

 Is Qd 1847 



6711 CAPELLO (Angelo, Canonico Parmense; F.R.S.) ASTROSOPHIA NUMERICA, sive ASTRONOMICA 

 SUPPUTANDI RATIO : Coclestium Cprporum Longitude, ac Latitude ; Nova Eclipsium Methodus : 

 Problemata Astronomica : Ephemeridum Constructio ; Tabulae Astronomicre sen Planetaria?, 2 v. : 



NOVISSOLE NOVISSIMARUM SATURNI, JOVIS, MARTIS, VfiNERIS, et MERCURII, TABUL/E ad 



datam Planetrea Sole Distantiam conditce, et per Trigonometric Planar CAVALERII Problema 

 XI supputatrc ; ivith 8 folding plates : ASTROSOPHIA NUMERIC^ SUPPLEMENTUM, id est HELIO- 

 SELENOMETRIA ad Numeros revocata, ac Exactissim;ie Luminarium Tabul.ie juxta Hypotheses ac 

 Mensuras ISAACCI NEWTONI ; with 8 folding plates 4 vols. 4to. in 1, contemporary calf extra 

 (blank lower margin ofv. I cut off, but FINE COPY), 12s Qd Venetiis, 1733-7 



The first work was highly recommended by Weidler ; the other two were unknown to him, nor are they mentioned by- 

 Poggendorff, Graesse, Brunet, etc. The Libri Collection included only vol. I of the first work. 



6712 CAPPER (Col. James) OBSERVATIONS on the WINDS and MONSOONS, with Notes, Geo- 

 graphical and Meteorological, folding map, 4to. (? LARGE PAPER), fine copy in contemporary calf, 

 with inscr. to Kichard Watson, Bp. of Llandaff, and his Calgarth Park booklabcl, Is Q(? 1801 



