HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 533 



10708 LEIGKH (Valentine) The most PROFITABLE and COMMENDABLE SCIENCE, of SURUEIYNG of 

 LANDES, TENEMENTES, and HEREDITAMENTES. Whereunto is also annexed by the same 

 Aucthor, a right necessarie Treatise, of the measuryng of all Kindes of Landes, be it Meadowe, 

 Pasture, Errable, Woodde, Hill, or Dale, and that aswell by certaine easie, and compendious 

 Rules, as also by an exacte and benenciall Table, purposely drawen and deuised for that Behalf e. 

 Newly Imprinted and corrected, printed in Mack letter ; with woodcuts, large woodcut initials, and 

 numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. old hf. binding (wanting sigg. H 1-4 ; also a few II. ivater-stained, 

 but otherwise a VERY SOUND AND UNUSUALLY LARGE COPY)'; rare, 1. 15s 



Andrewe Maunsell, in Paules church-yarde, at the signe of the Parret, 1578 

 In his preface the author states that he was ' one of the firste, that attempted the collectyng of the same Arte into a 



volume.' 



The above, the second edition, was unknown to Lowndes. It was first published in 1577, and reprinted in 1583. 1588. 



1592, and 1596. 



10709 LELY (C.) ONTWERP tot VERBETERING van de SCHIPBEEK in het belang der Afwatering van 

 het Waterschap de Schipbeek; with Q coloured and plain folding plates, 4to. (pp. 90), sewn, 3s 



Zwolle, 1884 



10710 LEMERY (Nicolas) COURS de CHYMIE : la Maniere de faire les Operations qui sont en Usage 

 dans, la M6decine, par line Methode facile, avec des Raispnnemens sur chaque Operation ; 

 ll e Edition, reveue, corrigee et augmentee par 1'Auteur ; with front, and % plates, and folding 

 table, thick 8vo. old mottled calf (sound copy), with Calgarth Park booklabel of Richard Watson, 

 F.R.S., absentee Bp. of Llanda/, 10s Qd Leyde, 1716 



10711 A COURSE of CHYMESTRY, containing an easie Method of preparing those Chymical 



Medicins which are used in PHYSICK, with curious Remarks and useful Discourses upon each 

 Preparation, 3rd Edition, translated from the 8th French Edition, which is very much enlarged 

 beyond any of the former [by JAMES KEILL, M.D.], with 1 plates, 8vo. old calf (back slightly 

 damaged), 15s 1698 



' Ce livre a fait autorite en chimie pendant plus de 100 ans. II a ete le guide, le code, le manuel oblige des chimistes du 

 XVIII 6 siecle, et meine apres le renouvellement de la science on chercha longtemps encore dans le livre de Lemery des 

 precedes, des details pratiques que Ton ne trouvait point alors.' Cap. 



Lemery, who could not bring himself permanently to leave France, though he had previously taken refuge in England 

 and been favourably received by Charles II., renounced Protestantism on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 



' Lemery, compare a Lefevre, est l'homme positif succedant a 1'homme d'imagination. Ce qui caracterise le cours de 

 Lefevre, c'est 1'etendue des idees ; ce que Ton remarque dans celui de Lemery, c'est la clarte de ses descriptions '.Dumas. 



10712 LEMOINE (mile) GEOMETROGRAPHIE, on ART des CONSTRUCTIONS GEOMETRIQUES ; with 

 32 diagrams, 8vo. boards, Is 1902 



10713 [LE MONNIEE. (Pierre Charles; de Vlnstitut; F.R.S.)] DESCRIPTION et USAGE des 

 principaux INSTRUMENTS d'AsTRONOMiE ; with llfine folding copperplates of mural circles, and 

 machine for making and dividing circles, impl. folio, sewn, uncut (RARE), 12s Qd 1774 



Including probably the fullest account ever issued of the construction of the now obsolete mural circle. 



10714 HISTOIRE CELESTE, ou Recueil de toutes les Observations Astronomiques faites par 



OrdreduRoy; avec Discours sur le Progres de 1'Astronomie, oil 1'on compare les pins recentes 

 Observations a celles qui ont ete faites immediatement apres la Fondation de 1'Observatoire 

 Royal ; with 7 plates (2 illustrating the transit instrument), 4to. old calf gilt, newly rebacked, 

 12s Qd 1741 



Including the observations by PICARD and DE LA HIRE from 1666-85, also full description of the transit instrument 

 (made by GEORGE GRAHAM, F.R.S.), which the author was the first to introduce into France. 



10715 MEMOIRES concernant diverses Questions d'AsTRONOMiE et de PHYSIQUE; lus et 



communiques a 1' Academic Royale des Sciences ; with 2 plates and folding map, 4 parts in 1 vol. 

 4to. sewn, 10s Qd Imprimerie Royale, 1781-8 



10716 ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf (rubbed), with bookplate of Sir John Francis Davies, 12s 



Containing, 'Histoire abregee du progres des decouvertes relatives a la pesanteur del'air; Eclipse du Soleil, 24juin 

 1778 Observations physiques sur la theorie des vents ; De la Variation de 1'Aiguille Aimantee ; de 1'Aiguille Aimantee et 

 de 1'Etat de la Boussole aux Mers de Chine ', etc. etc. etc. 



10717 LE MOBT (Jacobus, M.D. ; Univ. Utrecht) CHYMIA, RATIONIBUS et EXPERIMENTS Auctior- 

 ibus, iisque Demonstrativis SUPERSTRUCTA, in qua Malevolorum Calumnire modeste simul 

 diluuntur ; with 2 folding plates of chemical apparatus, 12mo. old calf gilt (back slightly damaged, 

 otherwise sound copy], 10s Qd Lugduni Batavorum, 1688 



10718 CHYMLE VER^; NOBILITAS et UTILITAS, in Physica Corpusculari, Theoria Medica, 



ej usque Materia et Signis, ad majorem Perfectionem deducendis: CHYMIA MEDICO-PHYSICA, 

 Ratione et Experientia Nobilitata : PHARMACIA MEDICO-PHYSICA : COLLECTANEA CHYMICA 

 LEIDENSIA MAETSIANA et MARCGRAVIANA 4 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, old calf, 'newly rebacked, Us Qd 



ibidem, 1696 



' Dass auch ohne Sublimat, durch Erhitzen von Quecksilber, Kochsalz und calcinirtem Vitriol, versiisstes Quecksilber 

 gewonnen werden kanri, behauptete zuerst Le Mort in Chymia medico-physica 1696.' H. Kopp. 



10719 : JACOBI LE MORT, Pseudochemici et Ratiocinatoris Dupondiarii IGNORANTIA circa 



CHEMIAM et Universam Scientiam Naturalem, detecta a Christiano Marggravio, M.D., large 

 12mo. extra boards, uncut (fine copy), 7s Qd ib., 1687 



Doubtless the Calumnice Malevolorum referred to in the first article supra. 



10720 LENAB-D (Philipp), Heike KAMEBLINGH ONNES, and W. E. PAULI: The 



BEHAVIOUR of the PHOSPHORESCENT SULPHIDES of the ALKALINE EARTHS at VARIOUS 

 TEMPERATURES, and particularly at very Low Temperatures, translated, with plate, roy. 8vo. 

 (pp. 23), sewn, Is Qd Leiden, 1909 



10721 LEONHABD (Carl Caesar v.; Univ. Heidelberg) HANDBUCH der ORYKTOGNOSIE, 2. vermehrte 

 Auflage ; with 7 folding plates, thick 8vo. hf. calf, 3s 6d Heidelberg, 1826 



10722 , und Heinrich August VOG-EL : MINERALOGISCH-CHEMISCHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN 



des TRIPHAN'S und TANTALIT'S; with plate, 4to. (pp. 38), sewn, 3s Qd Munchen, 1818 



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