HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 445 



8777 HADLEY (John, F.R.S.) A SPIRIT LEVEL to be FIXED to a QUADRANT for taking a MERIDIONAL 

 ALTITUDE at SEA, when the HORIZON is NOT VISIBLE, with copperplate (pp. 6) : Hodgson 

 (James, F.R.S.) CATALOGUE of ECLIPSES of JUPITER'S SATELLITES for 1735 (pp. 9) 4to. unbound 



(rare), 9s [1734] 



The spirit level was the final improvement of Hadley's sextant. 



8778 : The NATURE and USE of HADLEY'S QUADRANT, with the Theory of that Noble and 



Useful Instrument, and Description of the NONIUS, 8vo. (pp. 32), sewn (plate wanting), rare, 6s Qd 



[c. 1750] 



The only description of the invention of the sextant by Hadley himself was a 10 pp. contribution to the Philosophical 

 Transactions of the Royal Society. The above tract was written by a London optician, and is now rare. 



8779 HAEDER (Hermann) KONSTRUIEREN und RECHNEN, 2. neu bearbeitete Auflage ; with 24 

 folding plates, and 1400 cuts, post 8vo. cl., 4* (p. M. 12) Duisburg, 1903 



WITH MS. NOTES BY AN EARLY ENGLISH BREWER I 



8780 HAGECIUS [HAJEK] ab HAYCK (Thaddaeus; M.D.) De CERVISIA, eiusque CONFICIENDI 

 RATIONE, Natura, Viribus, et Facultatibus, Opusculum; interleaved with old writing paper, 

 12mo.f,ne copy in contemporary vellum (very rare), 5. 5s 



Francofurdi [ad M.'], Andreas Wechel, 1585 



One of the earliest, if not the earliest, printed works on BREWING, and containing numerous and interesting references 

 to English Beer. The above copy is specially interesting for containing at end 12 pp. of MS. in a contemporary 

 English, hand, containing recipes for making beer. 



The author, ignored both in Biographic Universelle and Biographic Generate, and other standard biographical works, 

 was a native of Prague, a teacher of mathematics at the Carolinum there, and physician-in-ordinary to the Emperors 

 Maximilian II. and Rudolph II. He died in 1600. 



8781 HAGEN (Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig) HANDBUCH der WASSERBAUKUNST, I. Theil: 

 BRUNNEN, WASSERLEITUNGEN und FUNDIRUNGEN, 3. [neueste] neu bearbeitete Auflage, 2 vols. 

 8vo. in 1, with Atlas, containing 23 plates, oblong folio 3 vols. in 2, half roan, 12s Qd (p. M. 24 

 sewn) Berlin, 1869-70 



8782 HAGEN (Karl Gottfried ; Univ. Konigsberg) GRUNDRISS der EXPERIMENTALCHEMIE ; with 

 vignette on title, and 4 folding tables, 8vo. sewn, uncut (rare), 8s Qd Konigsberg, 1786 



First edition of one of the earliest text-books of experimental chemistry, which went through four editions. 



8783 HAGENBAOH (August), et Heinrich KONEN : ATLAS des SPECTRES d'EMissiON des 

 ELEMENTS d'apres des Photographies, avec Texte explicatif, traduit par HENRI VEILLON; with 

 28 plates, 4to. sewn, 19s (p. F. 30 nett) lena, 1905 



' Un atlas etabli sur une base unique, et contenant les spectres de tous les elements avec le degre de perfection que les 

 precedes modernes permettent d'atteiudre dans une echelle de reproduction identique pour tous les spectres, et 

 embrassant tant les parties visibles que les invisibles.' 



8784 HAGUE (Arnold), and Samuel Franklin EMMONS : DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY, with 26 fine 

 lithographic plates, thick 4to. cl. , 14s Washington, 1877 



Forming vol. II of the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. 



8785 HAGUE (Charles Arthur) PUMPING ENGINES for WATER WORKS, with portrait of James 

 Watt, and 113 illustrations, roy. 8vo. cl., 12s Qd (p. 1. Is nett) New York, 1907 



8786 HAGUE (James Duncan) MINING INDUSTRY, with GEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS by CLARENCE 

 KING, with 38 plates (many folding), thick 4to. cl., with Atlas, containing 14 coloured plans and 

 maps (2 folding), oblong atlas folio, hf. morocco, cl. sides 2 vols., 1. 14s Washington, 1870 



Forming vol. Ill of the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. 



8787 , George Ferdinand BECKER, and others: MINING INDUSTRIES (Report on the 



Exhibits of Ores, Minerals, and Crude Products of Mining Industry at the Paris Exhibition, 1878), 

 8vo. hf. roan, 2s Qd [1878] 



8788 HAGUE (John), SPECIFICATION of the PATENT granted to, for RAISING WATER by the 

 Application and Arrangement of a WELL KNOWN POWER, from Mines, Excavations, Holds of 

 Ships, etc., and giving MOTION to certain MACHINERY, with plate, 8vo. (pp. 6), sewn, 4s [1837] 



8789 HAHN (Daniel) ENTWICKELUNG der ANSICHTEN iiber die CHEMISCHE CONSTITUTION der 

 NATURLICHEN SILICATE, 8vo. (pp. 50), sewn, 2s [Berlin, 1874] 



8790 HAHN (Philipp Matthias), and Albrecht v. MYLIUS: DESCRIPTION of a PLANETARIUM, 

 or Astronomical Machine, which exhibits the most remarkable Phenomena, Motions, and 

 Revolutions of the Universe, with folding copperplate, 8vo. (pp. 32), sewn, uncut, 5s 1791 

 Hahn constructed some of the most elaborate planetaria of his time. After his death they were brought to England for sale. 



8791 HAIDINGER (Wilhelm Karl v. ; F.R.S.E.) On the NATURAL-HISTORICAL DETERMINATION 

 of DIALLAGE, 4to. (pp. 21), sewn, 3s Qd Edin., 1823 



' Diallage ' is a variety of smaragdite. The author, a native of Austria, and afterwards the inventor of the dichroscope, 

 writes a curious English. 



8792 HAIGH (James, Silk and Muslin Dyer, Leeds) The DYER'S ASSISTANT in the Art of DYING 

 [sic] WOOL and Woolen Goods, extracted from the Philosophical and Chymical Works of 

 Ferguson, Dufay, Hellol, Geoffery [sic], Colbert, and de Julienne, translated from the French, with 

 Additions and PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS, first edition, sm. 8vo. fine and tall copy in con- 

 temporary hf. calf, with Bp. Watson's Calgarth Park booklabel (rare), 18s Qd Leeds, 1778 



8793 LONDON RE-ISSUE, sm. 8vo. hf. bound, 10s Qd [1778] 



The first practical English treatise on the subject. 



8794 HAINDL (Sebastian ; Munich) MASCHINENKUNDE und MASCHINENZEICHNEN, 2. Auflage ; 

 with woodcuts, 8vo., and Atlas, containing 64 plates, folio 2 vols. hf. calf, 5s (p. M. 30 sewn) 



Munchen, 1852 



8795 H ALBERT {William, schoolmaster at Auchinleck) The PRACTICAL FIGURER ; or, an Improved 

 System of Arithmetic, 8vo. tree-calf extra (rare), 15s Paisley, 1789 



'This Book belonged to Provost John Ballantine of Ayr, the 'Provost John' of Burns's ' Kirk's Alarm." Inscr. on 

 flyleaf. It also has his autograph on title. 



The work was unknown to Lowndes and Allibone. 



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