HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 573 



11527 MARZABJ-PENCATI (Giuseppe [Conte]) DESCRIZIONE del TACHIGONIMETRO, nuovo 

 Strumento Geodetico, accompagnata dal Metodo per delineare con una sorprendente Celeritk una 

 Carta Militare, per modellar nel piii breve Tempo il Rilievo d'un Paese Montuoso, od in qualunque 

 altra Operazione Geodetica, per cui non esigasi una Precisione maggiore di due Minuti degli 

 Angoli ; with 1 folding copperplates, 4to. hf. bound (binding damaged, and slightly water stained), 

 10s 6d Milano, 1811 



The author was awarded for this invention its gold medal by the Government on the recommendation of the Institute 

 of Milan. , 



11528 MASCART (Eleuthere ; de rinstitut), et J. JOTTBERT : LECONS sur 1'ELECTRiciTE et le 

 MAGNETISME, 2 e [DERNIERE] EDITION, entierement refondue par E. MASCART, TOME I : 

 PHENOMENES GENERAUX et THEORIE ; with 126 illustrations, thick Toy. 8vo. sewn, 10s Gd 

 (p. F. 25 nett) 1896 



11529 MASCHEBONI (Abate Lorenzo ; Univ.Pavia) GEOMETRIE du COMPAS, traduite par ANTOINE 

 MICHEL CARETTE; with 14 folding plates, 8vo. sewn, or, hf. calf (rubbed, and last plate slightly 

 damaged), 6s ' 1798 



This curious work attempts to work problems for which Euclid, as is well known, presupposes the use of a ruler and 

 a pair of con.passes, by the latter instrument only. ' A curious tour-de-force.' JF. W. R. Ball. 



11530 PROBLEMES pour les ARPENTEURS, avec differentes Solutions ; Ouvrage traduit de 



1'Italien ; with 4 folding plates, 8vo. sewn, 5s 1803 



' Pregiata raccolta di problem! di geometria pratica, elegantemente risoluti. notevole 1'invenzione del quadrante per 

 determinare meccanicamente il seno et il coseno dell' angolo misurato.' Riccardi. 



11531 : FRISCHAUF (J.) Die GEOMETRISCHEN CONSTRUCTIONEN von L. MASCHERONI and J. 



STEINER ; with plate, 8vo. (pp. 23), sewn, Is Graz, 1869 



11532 MASERES (Francis, F.R.S. , Cursitor-Baron of the Exchequer) DISSERTATION on the USE of 

 the NEGATIVE SIGN in ALGEBRA : containing a Demonstration of the Rules usually given 

 concerning it ; and shewing how Quadratic and Cubic EQUATIONS may be EXPLAINED, WITHOUT 

 the Consideration of NEGATIVE ROOTS; with MR. MACHIN'S QUADRATURE of the CIRCLE, 

 diagrams, 4to. old calf (joints cracked), ivilh Chippendale bookplate of William Abbot, Fellow of 

 St. John's Coll., Cantab. (RARE), 1. 10s printed by SAMUEL RICHARDSON, 1758 



The author's first published work, and especially interesting as having been printed by Samuel Richardson, the 

 novelist. 



1 He rejected negative quantities and made war of extermination on all that distinguishes algebra from arithmetic '. 

 He had followers in his rejection of negative and imaginary quantities in his friend William Frend, William Ludlam, 

 Thomas Manning, and Robert Simson. 



11533 The DOCTRINE of PERMUTATIONS and COMBINATIONS, as delivered by JAMES BERNOULLI, 



in his ; Ars Conjectandi', and JOHN WALLIS, in his Treatise on Algebra, the former containing 

 a Deir.onstration of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem ; with other useful MATHEMATICAL 

 TRACTS, 8vo. prize calf gilt, 15s 1795 



Containing a translation of the 3 first chapters of Book II of Jean Bernoulli's ' Ars Conjectandi ' ; THOMAS SIMPSON'S 

 ' New aud General Method of finding the Sum of any Series of Powers ' (1740) ; JOHN WALLIS'S ' Discourse of Combinations, 

 Alternations, and Aliquot Parts' (1085) ; THOMAS BRANCKKR'S 'Table of Odd Numbers' (IOCS); DE LAGNKY'S 'Method of 

 Approximation,' translated ; Ilaphson's Method of resolving Equations by Approximation ; CHARLES BUTTON'S 'Table of 

 Square Roots, etc., from 1-1000', etc. etc. 



11534 ELEMENTS of PLANE TRIGONOMETRY, in which is introduced, a DISSERTATION on the 



Nature and Use of LOGARITHMS, with 13 folding plates, 8vo. old calf gilt, rebacked (rare), 

 12s Gd 1760 



Rare and interesting for the dissertation on logarithms which it contains (pp. 20G-406). 



11535 [ ] SCRIPTORES LOGARITHMICI ; or COLLECTION of several CURIOUS TRACTS on the Nature 



and Construction of Logarithms, with some TRACTS on the BINOMIAL THEOREM and other 

 Subjects connected with the Doctrine of Logarithms, VOL. VI ONLY, with diagrams, thick 4to. 

 contemporary calf gilt (SCARCE), with author's inscr. as below, 1. Is 1807 



' For the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Llandaff ' [Richard Watson, absentee ; F.R.S.]. Inscr. on flyleaf. 



Containing reprints of ' Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ' (1614), by JOHN NAPIER, with Observation by the 

 Editor, ' Tractatus de Logarithmis ' and ' De Limitibus Quantitatum et Rationum ', both by ROBERT SIMSON, ' Tractatus 

 de Limitibus ^Equationum', by F. DE BEAUNE, an Account of J. SPEIDELL'S New Logarithms, published in 1619 and 1628, 

 and treatises by CHARLES BUTTON, F.R.S., SIR JAMES IVORY, F.R.S., ANDREW MACKAY, THOMAS MANNING, and the Editor. 



11536 TRACTS on the RESOLUTION of AFFECTED ALGEBRAICK EQUATIONS by Dr. Halley's, 



Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's METHODS of APPROXIMATION, 8vo. nice copy in con- 

 temporary tree-calf, with inscr. to Richard Watson, F.R.S. (1737-1816), absentee Bp. of Llandaff, 

 and his Calgarth Park booklabel, 8s 6d 1800 



' For the Bishop of Landaff from the Author.' Inscr. on title. 



11537 ANOTHER COPY, prize calf gilt (uniform with No. 11533), with inscr. by William Knight 



(1786-1844), prof, natural philosophy, Aberdeen, 7s 6d 



Including ' A New, Exact, and Easie Method of finding the Roots of Equations generally,' by EDMUND HALLEY, F.R.S. , 

 'Remarks on the Number of Negative and Impossible Roots in Algebraick Equations', and 'Another Solution of Col. 

 Titus's Arithmetical Problem', both by WILLIAM FREND, and 'Explanation of Simon Stevin's General Rule to extract 

 Roots ', by JOHN KERSEY. 



11538 TRACTS on the RESOLUTION of CUBICK and BIQUADRATICK EQUATIONS, thick 8vo. hf. 



calf (title and a few II. water -stained), 5s [1803], 



11539 ANOTHER COPY, contemporary calf gilt (back faded, otherwise a fine copy), with auto. 



'R[iCHARD WATSON, F.R.S., absentee Bp. of] Llandaff, from the author' on title, and his 

 Calgarth Park booklabel, 6s 6rf 



Containing 'Ferrarius Redivivus : or, a Comparison between the Method invented by Lewis Ferrari, and that given by 

 Descartes ' (pp. 265) : A Supplement to the Appendix of Mr. Frend's Principles of Algebra ' (pp. 100) : ' Remarks on the 

 Doctrine of the Generation of Algebra'ick Equations invented by Thomas Harriot' (pp. 74): 'Comparison between the 

 Resolution by the Method of Dr. Warren and that of L. Ferrari ' (pp. 44), and Preface (pp. 58). 



MASETTI (Gianbatista) v. IDRAULICI (OPUSCOLI), No. 9658, ante. 

 MASKELYNE (Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story, F.R.S.) v. STORY-MASKELYNE, post. 



