HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 431 



8485 GLASGOW (David) WATCH and CLOCK MAKING, with 69 woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 5s 



1885, w '93 



8463 GLAUBER (Johann Rudolph) WORKS, containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in 

 MEDICINE and ALCHYMY, in the WORKING of METALLICK MINES, and the SEPARATION of 

 METALS : also, various Cheap and Easie Ways of making Salt-petre, and Improving of Barren- 

 Land, and the Fruits of the Earth, translated, by CHRISTOPHER PACKE, first English edition, 

 with 10 plates, folio, hf. calf (title guarded, but a very sound copy) ; RARE, 2. 10s 



Thomas Milbourn, 1689 



8467 SECOND EDITION, with 10 plates on copper and wood, folio, hf. morocco (last 2 II. of Index 



missing), 1. 105 printed for the Author, 1694 



8468 FURNI Novi PHILOSOPHICI, sive Descriptio Artis Destillatoriae Novse ; with folding plates, 



and other woodcuts, 5 v. : ANNOTATIONES in APPENDICEM V. PARTIS 6 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. 

 old limp vellum (sound copy) ; RARE, 1. Is Amst., J. Jansson, 1651 



One of the author's most important works, describing a large number of new chemical processes, with illustrations of 

 his apparatus. 



8469 DESCRIPTION of NEW PHILOSOPHICAL FURNACES, or a new ART of DISTILLING, with 



a Description of the TINCTURE of GOLD, or the True Aurum Potabile, also the FIRST PART of the 

 MINERAL WORK, set forth in English by J[OHN] F[RENCH] D. M., with curious woodcuts, sm. 4to. 

 very sound copy in contemporary calf (joints cracked) ; RARE, 3. 3s R. Coats, 1651 



FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the 'Furni Novi Philosophici.' The translator was JOHN FRENCH, M.D. (1616 ?-57), author 

 of ' The Art of Distillation ' (q. v. ante)& fact unknown to Lowudes and Halkett and Laing. 



Besides the particulars on Glauber given in the note to no. 1570 ante, it may be mentioned that according to Dr. Percy 

 he seems to have been the first to use leaden cisterns for the condensation of acid vapours in metallurgical processes. 



8470 GLAZEBROOK (Richard Tetley , F.R.S. , director, National Physical Laboratory) ELECTRICITY 

 and MAGNETISM, with 270 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 3s Qd (p. 7s Qd) Umv. Press, Cambridge, 1903, or '4 



8471 HEAT : an Elementary Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, with 88 illustrations, cr. 



8vo. cl., Is Qd a. e., ib., 1894 



8472 MECHANICS and HYDROSTATICS : an Elementary Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical, 



with 336 illustrations, 3 vols. cr. 8vo, cl., 5s (p. 10s) a. e., ib., 1895 



8473 PHYSICAL OPTICS, with 183 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1883 



8474 , and William Napier SHAW, F.R.S. , Director, Meteorological Office: PRACTICAL 



PHYSICS, with frontispiece and 80 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. cl., 2s (p. Qs) 1885 



8475 NEW [FOURTH] EDITION [greatly enlarged], with 134 woodcuts, thick post 8vo. cl., 3s 



(p. Qs) 1894 



8476 GLASENAPP (Serge de ; Univ. St. Petersburg) MESURES d'ETOiLES DOUBLES, Series I a III 

 et V ; with frontispiece, 4 parts impl. 8vo. sewn, ivith inscrs. to Dr. A. M. W. Downing, F.R.S., 

 Qs Qd St.-Petersbourg, 1892-99 



8477 ORBITES des ETOILES DOUBLES du CATALOGUE de POULKOVA ; impl. 8vo. (pp. 51), sewn, 



2s ib., 1889 



8478 GLENIE (James, F.R.S.) The ANTECEDENTAL CALCULUS, or a GEOMETRICAL METHOD of 

 REASONING, WITHOUT any Consideration of MOTION or VELOCITY, applicable to every Purpose to 

 which* FLUXIONS have been or can be applied, with the Geometrical Principles of Increments, etc., 

 etc., with diagrams, 4to. (pp. 16), sewn, 4s Qd 1793 



8479 GLOBES : An INTRODUCTION to GEOGRAPHY and ASTRONOMY ; containing chiefly the 

 DESCRIPTION and USE of the TERRESTRIAL and CELESTIAL GLOBES, with many New and Useful 

 Particulars not yet made Publick in any other Treatise on this Subject ; 2nd Edition, with 3 

 copperplates, 16mo. contemporary calf, with Chippendale bookplate of Sir William Irby (rare), 

 12s Qd 1735 



On p. 96 is an account of the foundation of GEORGIA, U.S.A., ' come to hand while this sheet was printing off.' 



8480 GLOESENER (Michel, Univ. Liege) RECHERCHES sur la TELEGRAPHIE ELECTRIQUE ; with 

 15 plates (Infolding), large 8vo. sewn, with author's inscr. (scarce), 10s Qd Liege, 1853 



'Contenant un expose sommaire des nombreuses recherches que j'ai faites sur tcus les'systemes de telegraphes 

 electriques, a 1'exception de celui qui a pour but 1'impression a 1'aide le lettres.' Page 1. 



8481 GLYNN (Joseph, F.R.S.) The CONSTRUCTION of CRANES and other HOISTING MACHINERY, 

 5th Edition, with 39 woodcuts, 12mo. hf. maroon morocco, Is Qd 1873 



8482 GMELIN (Johann Friedrich, Univ. Gottingen) EINLEITUNG in die CHEMIE, zum Gebrauch 

 auf Universitaten, sm. 8vo. sewn (some II. at end gnawed) , 3s Nurnberg, 1780 



8483 GRUNDSATZE der TECHNISCHEN CHEMIE, sm. 8vo. (p. 766), sewn, 5s Halle, 1786 



8484 Ueber die NEUERE [sic] ENTDECKUNGEN in der LEHRE von der LUFT, und deren 



Anwendung auf Arzneikunst, 8vo. sewn, 3s Qd Berlin, 1784 



None of the above works is in Prof. John Ferguson's ' Bibliotheca Chemica '. 



8485 GMELIN (Johann Georg; Univ. Tubingen) DISSERT ATIO INAUGURALIS CHYMICA, sistens 

 Celebrium Wurtenbergiae nostrse ACIDULARUM TEINACENSIUM SPIRITUSQUE VITRIOLI VOLATILIS 

 et ejus Phlegmatis EXAMEN per REAGENTIA, cum Phcenomenorum Explicatione ; accedunt 

 qusedam de Metallorum et Mineralium Diagnosi, variis curiosis illustrata Experimentis ; with 

 folding table, sm. 4to. (pp. 48), sewn (rare), 10s Qd Tubingce, 1727 



The author's first published work, and unknown to Poggendorff and other bibliographers. He was a well-known 

 botanist and the founder of comparative geography. 



8486 GMELIN (Leopold) HAND-BOOK of CHEMISTRY, translated, with INDEX, by HENRY 

 WATTS, F.R.S., with plates, 19 vols. 8vo. cl., uncut, t. e. g. (o. p.), 3. 3s Cavendish Soc., 1848-72 



CONTENTS : Anorganic Chemistry, 6 v. : Organic Chemistry, 12 v. : Index, 1 v. 



8487 ANOTHER COPY, without Vols. 18 and 19 (Organic Chemistry, v. XII, and Index), 17 vols. 



8vo. cl., uncut, t. e. g., 2. 2s 1848-66 



The English version of this classical work contains many additions by its translator. 



