HE^KY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STKAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 561: 



11294 [MAGNE de MAROLLES (G. F.)] La CHASSE au FUSIL ; contenant 1 des Recherches sur les 

 ARMES de TRAIT usitees pour la Chasse avant 1'Invention des Armes a Feu ; savoir 1'ARC et 

 PARBALETE ... la Fabrication des Canons de Fusil, la Portee des Canons, etc. etc., avec des 

 Instructions a bien tirer ; 2 les Enseignemens et Connoissances necessaires pour chasser utile- 

 ment les differentes Especes de Gibier, etc. etc. ; with 9 copperplates (3 folding), chiefly of 

 CROSSBOWS, 8vo. old calf (joints cracked), with bookplate of John Symmons, and another of 

 Henry B. H. Beaufoy, F.R.S. (rare), 12s Qd 1788 



' A very useful book to a sportsman, as it shews every method practised with the gun in France, and also some of their 

 methods of catching wild fowl with nets.' Old inscr. on flyleaf. 



11295 MAILLABD (Gen. Sebastian v. ; Austrian Army) Die MECHANIK derGEWOLBE . . . nebst 

 der Bestimmung ihrer Dicke und jener der Widerlagen, und der Dicke der Bruckenpfeiler, 8vo. 

 boards (wanting plates), 2s Qd Pesth, 1817 



11296 MEM'OIRE sur la THEORIE des MACHINES a FEU; with folding' copperplate, 4to. (pp. 71), 



sewn, (rare), 8s Qd St. Petersbourg [1783} 



This work was awarded a prize by the Imperial Academy of Science of St. Petersburg. 



11297 THEORIE des MACHINES mues par la Force de la VAPEUR de 1'Eau : with 2 folding 



copperplates, 8vo. old calf gilt (joint cracked) ; rare, 12s Qd Vienne, 1784- 



Also awarded the prize by the St. Petersburg Academy of Science. 



11298 MAILLET (Benoit de) TELLIAMED : or Discourses between an INDIAN PHILOSOPHER and a- 

 FRENCH MISSIONARY, on the DIMINUTION of the SEA, the FORMATION of the EARTH, the ORIGIN 

 of MEN and ANIMALS, and other Curious Subjects, relating to Natural History and Philosophy, 

 translated, 8vo. old calf, with MS. Note by Henry Reeve, editor of the ' Grevdle Memoirs ' (see 

 below) and his bookplate (rare), 15s 1750 



11299 REPRINT, 8vo. sewn, 10s 60? 



This remarkable work anticipated a number of geological and biological theories, and was highly praised by Buffon 

 and Cuvier. 



' This is a translation of the rare and curious work of Benoit de Maillet, which contains the germs of the systems of 

 Lamarck and Darwin. Maillet died in 1733 : this book was published after his death in 1748.' //. Reeve. 



11300 MAIN (Robert, pr., F.R.S. ; Radcli/e Observer) The ANNUAL ADDRESS of the 

 VICTORIA INSTITUTE, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, 3rd Edition, 8vo. (pp. 36), sewn, 

 3s 1875 



The address was on Modern Philosophic Scepticism, and ' was frequently reprinted ' (D. N. B.). 



11301 On the PRESENT STATE of our KNOWLEDGE of the PARALLAX of the FIXED STARS, 



with 2 plates and diagrams, 4to. (pp. 60), sewn, 5s 1340' 



'A critical and historical essay.' D. N. B. 



11302 [and Philip Thomas]) PRACTICAL and SPHERICAL ASTRONOMY, with diagrams, 8. 



cl., 4s (p. 14s) Cambridge, 1863 



' Including all the mathematical processes which will enable the reader to understand the operations of a modern 

 Observatory furnished with the ordinary meridional and extrameridional instruments.' Preface. 



11303 MAIN (Thomas John, pr. ; F.R.A.S. ; Roy. Naval Coll., Portsmouth), and Thomas 

 BROWN: The MARINE STEAM-ENGINE; 3rd Edition, with Opiates (2 folding), and numerous 

 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s Gd 1855 



11304 [MAIN AUDI (Matteo) OPERE MERCANTILI, et ECONOMICHE, che contengono la FORMA 

 REGOLATA della SCRITTURA MERCANTILE, con le Lettere de' Negotij Correlativi ; il CAMBIO 

 KEALE per ogni Piazza, e conaltri Quesiti concernenti la Mercatura ; e la SCRITTURA 'I UTELARE 

 per Istruttione de' Ministri, circa al Governo Famigliare] , 4to. sewn (title wanting, but very sound 

 copy) ; rare, 15s Bologna, G. Monti, 1646 



This edition was unknown to Mr. R. Brown (History of Accounting), who only mentions the edition of 1(332 of Scrittura- 

 Mercantile, and that of 1700 of Scrittura Tutelare. The Cambio Reale was apparently quite unknown to him. 



11305 MAIRAN (Jean Jacques Dortous de; F.R.S.) DISSERTATION sur la GLACE, ou Explication 

 Physique de la Glace, et de ses divers Phenomenes ; with fine front, by Ingram, and 5 folding 

 copperplates, 12mo. contemporary mottled calf gilt (VERY FINE COPY) ; RARE, 12s Qd 



Imprimerie Roy ale, 1749 



11306 NOUVELLE EDITION, augmented d'un Discours sur la CONSTRUCTION et la COMPARAISON 



des THERMOMETRES par GEORGE MARTINE, M.D., F.R.S. ; with 5 folding plates, and table of 

 thermometric scales, 2 vols. large 12mo. in 1, old boards, uncut, 15s Lucques, 1757 



' Cette dissertation fut couronnee par 1' Academic de Bordeaux.' Querard. There is no copy of any edition in the- 

 Royal Meteorological Society's Library Catalogue, 1891. 



11307 TRAITE Physique et Historique de 1'AuRORE BOREALE, premiere edition ; with 15 



copperplates, 4to. contemporary calf gilt (back slightly ivormed), 10s Qd Imprimerie Roy ale, 1733 



11308 SECONDE [DERNIERE] Edition, revue et augmentee de plusieurs Eclaircissemens ; with 



17 plates, 4to. contemporary brown calf gilt, newly rebacked (FINE COPY), 16s Qd apud eandem, 1754 



BEST EDITION of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the' aurora borealis, whose height the author estimates as above-- 

 100 geographical miles, and which he supposes to be zodiacal light that has come into contact Avith the atmosphere. 



11309 MAISSIAT (Michel) MEMOIRE sur quelques CHANGEMENTS faits a la BOUSSOLE et an RAP- 

 PORTEUR, suivi de la DESCRIPTION d'un NOUVEL INSTRUMENT, nomme GRAMMOMETRE, servant 

 a disposer sur les Plans et Cartes, les Hauteurs et 1'Inclinaison des Ecritures, et a diviser sans. 

 Compas les Lignes Droites ; with 8 folding copperplates, 8vo. sewn, uncut (scarce), 10s Qd 1818 



'En 1801 il fut appele a travailler sous la direction du colonel Tranchot, a la carte generale des departements nouvelle- 

 inent conquis, du Mont-Tonnerre, de la Sarre, du Rhin-et-Moselle, et de la Roer, carte pour lariuelle il inventa deux 

 instruments, le nouveau rapporteur et le grammometre.' Biogr. Gen. 



11310 MALLET (Allain Manesson) La GEOMETRIE PRATIQUE, divisee en 4 Livres, 1 Elements de 

 la Geometric Pratique, IE la Trigonometric, III la Planime"trie, IV la Stereometric ; with 500 

 copperplates (including portraits of the author and Louis XIV.), 4 vols. large 8vo. old mottled calf 

 extra (binding ofv. II damaged) ; RARE, 1. Is 1702 



Valuable for the numerous views of French towns, villages, and castles, which form the majority of the plates of the 

 above work. There are also many illustrations of mathematical instruments. 



