HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 387 



7587 ENGRAVING : ScuLPTURA-HiSTORico-TECHNiCA : or' HISTORY and ART of INGRAVING : its 

 Rise and Progress: Ingraving in General : Idea of a fine Collection of Prints : The Repertorium, 

 or Collection of Marks and Cyphers, by which the Prints of the best Ingravers are distinguished : 

 Ingraving, Etching, and Scraping on Copper, as now practised, with 10 copperplates, 12mo. old 

 calf (rare), 12s Qd S. Harding, 1747 



This interesting little work was unknown to Lowndes or Watt. Besides engravers' marks it contains a copious list of 

 engravers. 



7588 ENNEPER (Alfred ; Univ. Gottingen) ELLIPTISCHE FUNKTIONEN : Theorie und Geschichte, 

 large 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 5s (p. M. 16 sewn) Halle a. S., 1876 



7589 ENNIS (William Duane, Polytechnic Inst., Brooklyn) LINSEED OIL, and other SEED OILS : an 

 Industrial Manual, with 70 illustrations, some folding, roy. 8vo. cl., 10s Qd (p. 16s nett) 1909 



7590 EPHEMERIS (The American), and NAUTICAL ALMANAC, 1896-1912, with maps, 17 vols. 

 impl. 8vo. (1 v. 8vo.), cl., 2. 5s Washington, 1893-1909 



7591 ERBE (Johann Jacob), Johann Friedrich REINMANN, et Christian Theophilus 

 GMELIN: DISSERTATIO ACADEMICA de AUREO VELLERE, aut POSSIBILITATE TRANSMUTA- 

 TIONIS METALLORUM, sm. 4to. (pp. 88), boards (title mended) ; RARE, 12s Qd Tubingce, 1737 



Interesting as showing that alchemy was still taught as part of chemical science at Tubingen University at the time 

 of its publication. It includes Historia Aurei Velleris ; de Productione Artificial! Ferri et Sulphuri ; Experimenta 

 Hombergiana ; Argumenta pro Possibilitate Transmutationis, cum Responsione ad Dubia, etc. etc. 



7592 ERCKER (Lazarus) BESCHREIBUNG ALLERFURNEMISTEN MINERALISCHEN ERTZT unnd BERG- 

 WERKSARTEN, wie dieselbigen, und eine jede insonderheit, ihrer Natur und Eygenschafft nach, 

 aufF alle Metalla Probirt, unnd im Kleinen Fewer sollen versucht werden, mit Erklarung etlicher 

 fiirnemmer niitzlicher Schmeltzwerk, im grossen Fewer, auch SCHEIDUNG GOLDTS, SILBERS, und 

 anderer Metalln, Sampt, einem Bericht dess KUPFFERSAIGERNS, MESSINGBRENNENS, und 

 SALPETERSIEDENS, auch aller SALTZIGEN MINERALISCHEN PROBEN, und was denen alien 

 anhangig, dessgleichen zuvorn niemals in Druck kommen ; with numerous fine and large woodcuts 

 illustrating metallurgical processes and apparatus, folio, boards (slightly browned as usual, but a 

 sound and tall copy] ; VERY RARE, 2. 10s Franckfurt a. M., G. Tampach, 1629 



An important work ranking with those of Agricola and Biringuccio (qq. v. ante), and of great interest in connexion with 

 the early history of metallurgy. It is often quoted iu Percy's Metallurgy of Silver and Gold. 



It was unknown to Poggendorff, Brunet, Ebert, or Graesse, the last of whom only mentions the author's ' Aula 

 Subterranea ', 1684. 



7593 : ASSAYS of LAZARUS ERCKERN [sic] , translated by SIR JOHN PETTUS, F.R.S. v. 



PETTUS'S Fleta Minor, post. 



7594 ERDM ANN (Hugo, Berlin), und Paul KOTHNER; Breslau: NATURKONSTANTEN in 

 alphabetischer ANORDNUNG : Hilfsbuch fiir chemische und physikalische Rechnungen, mit 

 Unterstiitzung des Internationalen Atomgewichtsausschusses herausgegeben, large 8vo. buckram, 

 4s (p. M. 6) Berlin, 1905 



7595 ERDMANNSDORFF (G. A. von) Die KLEINEN WAFFEN, oder die Waffen der Infanterie und 

 Cavallerie, mit der Lehre vom SCHIESSPULVER und besonderer Beriicksichtigung der PERCUSSIONS- 

 GEWEHRE ; with 4 folding plates : Die ARTILLERIE. Die TRUPPENLEHRE. Der KLEINE KRIEG, 

 Die FORTIFICATION ; with 7 folding plates, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. calf, Qs Qd Magdeburg, 1845 



Interesting as having been written at a time when the flintlock musket was being superseded by the percussion-lock 

 rifle, both of which are described and illustrated. 



7596 ERGEBNISSE (Die) der TRIANGULIERUNGEN des k. und k. MILIT&R-GEOGRAPHISCHEN 

 INSTITUTES ; BAND I IV : Triangulierungen I. II. und III. Ordnung ; with 18 folding plates and 

 maps, and woodcuts, 4 vols. large impl. 8vo. sewn, 10s Qd (p. M. 28 nett) Wien, 1901-6 



7597 ERICSSON (John), The LIFE of, by WILLIAM CONANT CHURCH, with portraits, and numerous 

 illustrations of his inventions, etc., 2 vols. large 8vo. cl., 8s Qd (p. 1. 4s) 1890, or '2 



Containing a full and lively account of one of the most remarkable engineering geniuses of the world, and his lifelong 

 course of invention, beginning with the Novelty, the rival and possible superior of Stephenson's Rocket, the ironclad 

 monitors of the United States Navy, and his experiments for deriving motive power from the sun's rays, etc. etc. etc. 



7598 ERXLEBEN (Johann Christian Polykarp, Univ. Gottingen) ANFANGSGRUNDE der CHEMIE, 

 mit neuen Zusatzen vermehrt von JOHANN CHRISTIAN WIEGLEB, post 8vo. sewn, uncut, 5s Qd 



Gottingen, 1784 



Pp. 9-43 contain an interesting bibliography. 



7599 ERZEY (Adrianus) WISKONSTIGE BESCHRYVING der REGULIERE LICHAMEN, aantoonende hoe 

 men die uit Massive Stoffe kan maaken, him Inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven ZONNEWYZERS 

 beschrijven ; with 12 folding copperplates, 8vo. contemporary hf. calf gilt (nice copy) ; rare, 12s Qd 



Amsterdam, 1764 



7600 ESTABROOKE (Edward M.) The FERROTYPE, and how to make it, with 2 ferrotype por- 

 traits, and diagrams, post 8vo. cl., g. e., with author's inscr., Qs Qd Cincinnati, 1872 



7601 : The FERROTYPERS' FRIEND, by a PRACTICAL FERROTYPER, illustrated by E. M. 



ESTABROOKE, with fine ferrotype portrait, 12mo. sewn (last I. defective], 3s Baltimore, 1880 



7602 ESTIENNE (Charles), et Jean LIEBAULT, Docteurs en Medecine : L'AGRICULTURE, et 

 MAISON RUSTIQUE, Edition derniere, reueue et augmentee de beaucoup, dont le contenu se voit 

 en la page suyuante. Plus un brief recueil des chasses du Cerf, du Sanglier, du Lieure, du 

 Renard, du Blereau, du Connil, du Loup, des Oiseaux, et de la FAUCONNERIE. Item, la 

 FABRIQUE et USAGE de la JAUGE, ou DIAPASON ; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 3 vols. 

 sm. 8vo. iul, hf. calf antique (a number of pp. water-stained) ; RARE, 1. Is 



s. L, Charles de la Fontaine, 1601 



' Livre qui a eu beaucoup de succes, et dont le second titre (Maison rustique), adapte" a de nouveaux ouvrages du 

 mfime genre, s'est perpetue jusqu'a nos jours '. Brunet. Pp. 521-88 treat of DISTILLING. 



