HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 505 



10103 KEPLER (Johann) PRO Suo OPERE HARMONICES MUNDI APOLOGIA adversns DEMONSTRA- 

 TIONEM ANALYTICAM ROBERTI DE FLUCTIBUS Medici Oxoniensis, in qua ille se dicit respondere 

 ad Appendicem dicti Operis; with large woodcut device en title, folio, hf. morocco neat (2 II. 

 water-stained on margin, otherwise a FINE AND TALL COPY) ; VERY RARE, 1. 5s Francofurti, 1622 



A reply to the Oxford Rosicrucian Robert Fludd's attack in his Feritatis Proscenium (1621), which was provoked by 

 Kepler's own criticism in the appendix 1o the Harmonics Mundi. 



10104 TABULA RUDOLPHIN.E, quibus Astronomicse Scientise, Temporum Longinquitate collapsse 



Re>tauratio continetur, a ... TYCHONE ex ... BRAHEORUM Familia oriundo Equite, primum 

 Animo concepta et destinata A.C. MDLXIV: exinde Observatioriibus Siderum accuratissimis 

 . . . serio aftectata, etc. etc. etc. ; with fine engraved front, containing portraits of Copernicus, 

 Tycho Brake, etc., and diagrams, folio, old limp vellum (some II. browned, otherwise a sound and 

 large copy] ; RARE, 1. Is Ulmce, 1627 



'The value of these tables appears from the fact that they ranked for a century as the best aid to astronomy. 

 Appended are tables of logarithms and of refractions, together with Tycho's catalogue of 777 stars, enlarged by Kepler to 

 1005.' Miss Agnes M. Clerke. 



' Ce sont de toutes lesanciennes tables astronomiques celles qui reposent sur les plus solides fondemens, etil est encore 

 des cas on elles s'ecartent peu des phenomenes.' Montuda. 



See MORIN, post, for a revised edition of the Rudolphine Tables. 



10105 : KEPLER'S TRAUM von MONO [mit Einleitung und zahlreichen Noten] von LUDWIG 



GUNTHER ; loith portrait, fs. title of the original edition, 2 plates, and 24 other illustrations, 

 roy. 8vo. buckram, t. e. g., with Dr. Emil Reich's bookplate, 5s (p. M. 8 sewn) Leipzig, 1898 



This work was largely used by Huygens in his Cosmotheoros. 



10106 : EPISTOL.E ad JOANNEM KEPPLERUM Mathematicum Csesareum scriptse ; insertis ad 



easdem RESPONSIONIBUS KEPPLERIANIS, quotquot hactenus reperiri potuerunt: Opus Novum, 

 quo recondita Kepplerianae Doctrinss Capita dilucide explicantur, et Historia Literaria in 

 Universum rnirifice illustratur, mine primum cum Praefatione de MERITIS GERMANORUM in 

 MATHESIN, Introductione in Historian! Literariam Sttculorum XVI. et XVII. et Jo. KEPPLERI 

 VITA, Jussu et Auspiciis Caroli VI. Romanor. Imperat. S.A.P.F.V.P.P. ex MSS. editum [a 

 MICHAELE GOTTLIEB HANSCHIO] ; with engraved vignettes, arms, and 8 plates, roy. folio, sound 

 copy in old white vellum, with bookplate of Lord Eliock, 1. 12s Qd [Lip&ice,] 1718 



This was the only volume ever published by Hansch, who bought the whole of Kepler's MSS. for 100 florins, and 

 received 4000 florins from the Emperor Charles VI. for editing the above volume. A proposed second volume was never 

 published, as no further funds were forthcoming from the Emperor. 



Hansch afterwards sold the collection in Frankfort for 828 florins, where it was discovered by v. Murr, and purchased, 

 at Euler's instigation, by the Empress Catherine of Russia for 2000 roubles. Frisch's edition is based on it. 



10107 : BREITSCHWERT (J. Ludwig C. Freiherr v.) JOHANN KEPPLER'S LEBEN und WIRKEN, 



nach neuerlich aufgefundenen Manuscripten bearbeitet, sm. 8vo. boards, uncut, with bookplate of 

 Prof. Lloyd Tanner, F.E.S., 3s Stuttgart, 1831 



10108 : [BREWSTER (Sir David, F.R.S.)] LIFE of KEPLER [with Bibliography] , woodcuts, 4to. 



(pp. 54), sewn, 4s Qd n. d. 



10109 : SMALL (Robert, D.D., F.R.S. E.) ACCOUNT of the ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES of 



KEPLER: including an historical Review of the Systems which had successively prevailed before 

 his Time, with 11 plates, 8vo. calf (back damaged), 4s 1804 



10110 KERCKHOFF (Pieter Jan van, Groningen) Een BLIK op den TEGENWOORDIGEN TOESTAND 

 der SCHEIKUNDE, roy. 8vo. sewn, Is Qd Groningen, 1858 



10111 KERGEB. (Martin, M.D.) De FERMENTATIONS Liber Physico-Medicus, cui de INSEPARABIL- 

 ITATE FORMARUM MATERIALIUM et VlTA singularia sunt innexa, omnia perpetuis Experimentis 

 nrmata, srn. 4to. (pp. 276), old vellum (browned, but large copy) ; RARE, 15s Wittebergce, 1663 



An iatro-chemical treatise of considerable' interest, dealing not only with fermentation proper, but also treating of the 

 supposed fermentative processes of the human body, i.e. fevers and tumours. It was unknown to Poggendorff, and other 

 bibliographers. 



10112 KERIGAN (Lieut. Thomas, R.N., F.R.S.) The COMPLETE MATHEMATICAL and GENERAL 

 NAVIGATION TABLES ; with copious TREATISES on NAVIGATION, NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY, Plane 

 and Spherical TRIGONOMETRY, DIALLING, GUNNERY, etc. ; new Edition, adapted to the Nautical 

 Almanac, with folding front. , and numerous diagrams, 2 thick vols. roy. 8vo. cl., with auto, of 

 J. H. Speke (African explorer], 10s Qd (p. 1. 7s) ' 1845 



10113 PRACTICAL TREATISE on the ECLIPSES of the SUN and MOON, and the Deflection of the 



Moon and Planets; explaining their Calculation by Simple and Direct Methods, with Remarks on 

 the ANOMALIES of the PRESENT THEORY of the TIDES ; the Superior Attraction of the Sun 

 over that of the Moon at the Surface of the Earth, etc. etc., roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, 5s 1844 



' Lieut. Kerigan was elected to the Royal Society at a time when his proposers must have known that his immediate 

 object was to put F.R.S. on the titlepage of a work [supra] against the tides. '-Prof, de Morgan. 



101 14 KERL (Georg Heinrich ~&iCM.-n.Q,Bergakademie, Berlin) The ASSAYER'S MANUAL : an Abridged 

 Treatise on the Docimastic Examination of Ores, and Furnace and other Artificial Products ; trans- 

 lated by WILLIAM T. BRANNT, and edited by WILLIAM H. WAHL, with 65 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 

 5s (p. 12s Qd) Philadelphia, 1883 



10115 BESCHREIBUNG der OBERHARZER HUTTENPROZESSE in ihrem ganzen Umfange, mit 



Beriicksichtigung anderer metal lurgischer Prozesse im Allgemeinen ; with 4 folding plates, and 8 

 folding tables., 8vo. hf. cl., 3s Qd Clausthal, 1852 



10116 [KERN (Johann Gottlieb)] BERICHT vom BERGBAU ; with 18 copperplates, comprising about 

 100 figures, 4to. hf. bound (binding damaged) ; RARE, 12s Leipzig, 1772 



Interesting as describing and illustrating very fully the methods of mining in vogue in Germany more especially at 

 Freiberg in Saxony in the middle of the XVIIIth Century. 



0117 KERP (Heinrich, Bonn) Die ERDKUNDLICHEN RAUMVORSTELLUNGEN ; with 33 diagrams, 



8vo. sewn, 2s (p. M. 3.60) Berlin, 1899 



10118 Die LANDSCHAFTEN EUROPAS ; with 4 plates, 8vo. sewn, 2s 6d (p. M. 5) Trier, 1900 



