HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 563 



11334 MALT-LIQUORS, DISCOURSE on the PREPARATION, etc., of, 12mo. (pp. 94), unbound (title 

 missing) ; rare, 6s [c. 17401 



Unknown to Watt. 



11335 MANBY (George William, inventor of the Rocket Apparatus; F.R.S.) ESSAY on the 

 PRESERVATION of SHIPWRECKED PERSONS ; with ACCOUNT of the APPARATUS, and the Manner 

 of Applying it, first edition, with numerous fine woodcuts by Berryman, roy. 8vo. original 

 boards, uncut (back broken), 10s 6d 1812 



Man by, who was a schoolfellow of Nelson's at bownham Market, was the actual inventor of the mortar or rocket- 

 apparatus, which has saved so many lives ; but the idea had been put forward before by JOHN CAREY, author of the Gradus. 



' In 1810 the apparatus was investigated by a committee of the House of Commons, and the report was ordered to be 

 printed 26 March of the same year. Manby embodied the results of his work in An Essay, published in 1812, which has 

 been reprinted in many different forms.' D. N. B. 



11336 MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, TRANSACTIONS of the, complete from the 

 beginning in 1841 to 1901, with numerous plates (many coloured or folding), 26 vols. 8vo. and 

 7 parts, 18 vv. in 12 hf. bound, and the rest in parts as issued (SCARCE), 7. 10s 



1841 Manchester, 1901 



11337 LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, MEMOIRS of the, from the 



beginning in 1785 to 1898 (being FIRST SERIES COMPLETE, 1785-1802, 7 v. hf. calf; SECOND 

 SERIES, 1805-57, 14 v. boards and cl. ; THIRD SERIES (Vols. 2-8), 1865-84, 7 v. cl. : FOURTH 

 SERIES, 1888-98, 12 v. cl.), with copperplates in all 40 vols. 8vo. in 38, variously bound as above, 

 6. 16s Qd Warrington, 1785 Manchester, 1898 



The early volumes of this rare publication are especially valuable for containing numerous contributions by JOHN 

 DALTON, F.R.S. There are also others by THOMAS HENRY, F.R.S., J. P. JOULE, F.R.S., LORD KELVIN, P.R s., and many 

 other well-known scientific men. 



11338 FIRST SERIES, VOLS. l-II only, with 5 copperplates (one defective), 2 vols. 8vo. 



boards, uncut (backs torn and some II. waterstained) ; rare, 15s Warrington, 1785 



Including a memoir by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN : ' Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures ', in which he propounds 

 a theory of hail. 



11339 THIRD SERIES, Vols. V. VII-VIII, and FOURTH SERIES, Vols. I-III, with plates 



and woodcuts, 6 vols. 8vo. cl., 12s Qd 1876 Manchester, 1890 



Including original articles by J. T. Bottomley, H. B. Dixon, W. S. Jevons, Horace Lamb, J. H. Poynting, Osborne 

 Reynolds, Sir H. E. Roscoe, Arthur Schuster, R. Angus Smith, and Balfour Stewart, FF.R s. 



11340 MANDEY (Venter us) MELLIFICIUM MENSIONIS : or the MARROW of MEASURING, with 

 choice Principles and Problems of Geometry, 4th Edition, with Additions, portrait (et. 37 by 

 R. White, plates, and diagrams, 8vo. old calf gilt, Qs Qd 1727 



11341 ANOTHER COPY (wanting the portrait), boards, uncut, 5s 



Containing an Appendix : the Measuring of Chimneys reformed, etc. etc. The 2nd Book: 'A Garden of Geometrical 

 Roses ' consists of a translation of Thomas Hobbes's ' Rosa Geometrica ', and the 3rd ' Principles and Problems in 

 Geometry thought formerly desperate', also translated from Hobbes. 



11342 MANELLI (Francesco, Faentino) OPERA d'ARiTMETiCA e GEOMETRIA ; nella quale con 

 grandissima Facilitk e Breuith, insegnansi i veri MODI di SCIOGLIERE qual si voglia Conto 

 Mercantile, di Cambio, di Campagnie, di Baratti, e altri, col Modo di Misurare . . . e come si 

 debbano conoscere i Vantaggi delle Monete si d'Oro come d'Argento ; with portrait on copper ait. 

 39, woodcuts, and diagrams, sm. 4to. boards (RARE), 1. Is Bologna, 1659 



This rare work was quite unknown to Professor de Morgan, nor is it mentioned by Poggendorff, Graesse, or Brunet. 

 There was no copy in the Libri Library. 



11343 MANFREDI (Eustachio ; Univ. Bologna, F.R.S.) EPHEMERIDES [et XOVISSIM^E 

 EPHEMERIDES] MOTUUM CCELESTIUM, 1715-50, e Cassinianis Tabulis ad Meridianum Bononise 

 supputatse, cum Introductione in Ephemerides ; with 29 folding charts and plates, besides 

 diagrams, 4 vols. 4to. contemporary white vellum (back of v. IV slightly damaged, otherwise a fine 

 copy), 15s Bononice, 1715-25 



' Delia prefazione al t. I si raccoglie che 1'autore ebbe a soei e collaborator! in questo pregiato lavoro, Giacomo Parma, 

 Giuseppe Bolsi Marchesi, G. Bat. Bandieri, Dornenico Weber, Guis. Ant. Nadi e Carlo Hebert '. Riccanli. 



11344 De GNOMONE MERIDIANO BONONIENSI, deque Observationibus Astronomicis eo Instru- 



mento ab ejus Constructione ad hoc Tempus peractis ; with 2 folding plates, 4to. old boards (sound 

 copy), 8s Qd ibid., 1736 



11345 MANFREDI (Gabriele ; Univ. Bologna) De CONSTRUCTIONS ^EQUATIONUM DIFFEREN- 

 TIALIUM PRIMI GRADUS ; with 1 folding' plates, 4to. old vellum (fine copy), 17s Qd Bononice, 1707 



11346 ANOTHER COPY, old vellum, having copious MS. additions in a contemporary hand 



(loiverpart of plates and some II. water- stained), 16s Qd 



A very rare work which was highly commended by Leibniz. It is practically the first work on the subject, and 

 contains all that was known at the time of the integral calculus, including as well numerous new problems of the 

 .author's invention. 



11347 MANGIN (Arthur) The MYSTERIES of the OCEAN, translated, edited, and enlarged by W. H. 

 DAVENPORT ADAMS ; new Edition, revised, ivith 130 full-page and other woodcuts by W. Freeman 

 and J. Noel, roy. 8vo. red morocco qilt (rubbed), g. e., 5s 1870 



Pp. 88-160 contain Ocean Meteorology, and pp. 170-1SG Phosphorescence of the Sea. 



11348 MANGINUS (Carolus Antonius, philosophic doctor) TABULA PRIMI MOBILIS, quibus 

 Nova Dirigendi Ars, et praecipue Circuli Positionis Inventio, non minus facilis, quaiu exacta 

 ostenditur: cui accedit Compendium de Directionibus juxta aliorum Methodum per easdem 

 Tabulas absolvendis ; with engraved title, 12mo. old limp vellum (slightly damaged, and some II. 

 browned) ; RARE, 1. Is Bononice, 1626 



Nothing seems to be known of the author or his work, which was unknown to Riccardi, Houzeau and Lancaster, and 

 Poggendorff, and is not mentioned in Brunet and Graesse. 



11349 MANN (Charles Riborg, Univ. Chicago) MANUAL of ADVANCED OPTICS, with 40 illus- 

 trations, 8vo. cl. , 4s Qd Chicago, 1902 



The first text-book containing the methods of measurement which are based on the interference of light waves. 



