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



11627 MAUGHAM (William) On a NEW COMPOUND of CARBON and HYDROGEN, impl. 4to. (pp. 3), 

 sewn, IsGd 1838 



11623 MAUMENE (Edme Jules) TRAITE THEORIQUE et PRATIQUE du TRAVAIL des VINS, 3 e [der- 

 niere] Edition, augmentee ; with 175 illustrations, 2 vols. impl. 8vo. hf. red morocco, Us Qd (p. F. 30 

 sewn) 1890 



11629 MAUPERTUIS (Pierre Louis Moreau de ; de I'Academie des Sciences; F.R.S.) DISCOURS 

 sur les DIFFERENTES FIGURES des ASTRES, oil Ton donne 1' Explication des Taches Lumineuses 

 qu'on a observees dans le Ciel : Des Etoiles qui paroissent s'allumer et s'eteindre : De celles qui 

 paroiesent changer de Grandeur : De 1'Anneau de Saturne : et des Effets qni peuvent produire 

 les Cometes, 2 e Edition augmentee ; with tinted front, and diagrams, 8vo. old calf (rare), 

 12* 1742 



'Par son Discours il eut le merite de repandre, 1'un des premiers, en France la theorie newtonienne, ce qui lui valut 

 1'inimitie de tous les physiciens exclusivenient attaches aux doctrines de Descartes. Parrni ces partisans des tourbillons 

 cartesiens on remarquait alors des savants bien connus. Cassini, Saurin, Mairan, Nollet, Fontenelle. Les deux parties 

 s'injuriaient en s'accusant reciproquement de ne rien entendre a la physique. La dispute s'echauffa et passa de 

 1'AcadeiTiie dans les collets. Au moins ses dissensions ne dvaient pas etre steriles : elles firent entreprendre une 

 determination plus exacte de la figure de la Terre ' (q. v. infra). Dr. f. Hoefer. 



11630 La FIGURE de la TERRE, determinee paries Observations de MM. DE MAUPERTUIS, 



CLAIRAUT, CAMUS, LE MONNIER, et de I'ABBE OUTHIER, accompagnes de M. CELSIUS, faites 

 au Cercle Polaire, premiere edition; with 9 folding plates, and fine map, 8vo. fine copy in 

 contemporary calf gilt, g. e., with auto. ofJ. M. Mersais on title (RARE), 18s 6d 



Imprimerie Roy ale, 1738 



The above fine copy is very interesting from its previous owners. According to an old MS. note in the book, it was 

 bought at the Maupertuis sale by J. J. Le F. de Lalaride, and passed afterwards into the possession of J. M. Mersais, 

 who was astronomer of the Kerguelen Expedition in the South Seas, and died in his 22nd year, by throwing himself into the 

 sea in a fit of fever. 



11631 - - NOUVELLE EDITION, dans laquelle on a mis les Figures aux Pages oil elles se rapportent ; 

 with numerous diagrams, and map, 8vo. contemporary Italian vellum, 10* Qd 1739 



11632 ANOTHER COPY, old hf. vellum, uncut, 10s 



11633 The FIGURE of the EARTH, determined from Observations at the Polar Circle, trans., 



with 9 folding plates, and map, 8v O . old calf, newly and neatly rebacked (RARE), 16s Qd 1738 



11634 ANOTHER COPY, old calf, or, old hf. calf, 15s 



'Maupertuis adopted and explained Newton's propositions on attraction and on the figure of the earth; and he 

 conducted an expedition to Lapland, for the measurement of an arc of the meridian, the result of which was fatal to the 

 Cassini.an hypothesis.' Prof. Todhunter. 



This expedition worked simultaneously with another sent to Peru under Bouguer, La Condamine, Juan, and L T lloa, 

 to measure 3 degrees of the meridian near the equator (o. Nos. 6368, 1)949, 10364-5, ante). 



11635 FIGURA TELLURIS, determinata per Observationes factas ad Circulum Polarem, 



transtulit Notisque prooemialibus auxit ALARICUS ZKLLER, M.D. ; with vignette, 9 folding plates, 

 and map, I2mo. boards (rare}. 8s Gd Lipsiae, 1742 



11636 [ ] LETTRE sur la COMETE, 16mo. boards (rare), 7s 6d s. 1. (a la sphere), 1742 



) 1637 SAGGIO di COSMOLOGIA, col DISCORSO sulle diverse CONFIGURAZIONI delle STELLE, 



tradotti, e con Note illustrati, da ORAZIO DEGLI ARRIGHI LANDINI, sm. 8vo. sewn, 4s 6d 



Venezia, 1768 



A translation of the above Discours and the Essai fie Cosmologie, in which the author propounds the theory of ' least, 

 action ' . 



11638 MAUPIN ( ): METHODS de MAUPIN sur la MANIERE de CULTIVER la VIGNE et PART de 

 faire le VIN, nouvelle Edition, augmentee de deux Memoires instructifs [de BUC'HOZ] sur ce qui 

 se pratique de plus interessant dans les differents Vignobles de France ; with 2 folding plates, 

 8vo. unbound, Is 6d An FT/ [1799] 



A reissue of the author's more important memoirs. ' Sa methode de cultiver la vigne se reduit a la planter par 

 rangees, a 1'espacer sufflsamment, pour qu'elle puisse jouir en plein des rayons du soleil, a la tailler courte, a ne pas 

 provigner, et a ne fuiner qu'a derniere extremite*. Preface. 



11639 MAUPIN (Georges) OPINIONS et CUKIOSITES touchant la MATHEMATIQUE d'apres les 

 OUVRAGES FRANCAIS des XVI*, X VII* et XVIII* SIECLES ; with portrait of Oronce Fine, and 12 

 diagrams, 8vo. cl. , 3s Qd 1898 



11640 MAURICE (George; Geneva) DISSERTATION sur les PREMIERS ELEMENS de la THEORIE de 

 la VISION ; with plate, 8vo. sewn, with auto, of Dr. P. M. Roget, F.R.S. , 3s Geneve, 1823 



11641 - - MEMOIRE sur les APPARENCES VISIBLES, 4to. (pp. 28), sewn, 3s ibid., 1825 



11642 MAURO (Fra, Fiorentino, Theosebo, Phonasco, e Philopanareto) ANNOTATIONI sopra la 

 LETTIONE della SPERA del S\CRO Bosco, dove si dichiarano tutti i Principii Mathematici e 

 Naturali, che in quella si possan' desiderare ; con alcune Quistioni Notabili . . * e rari Segreti 

 . . . una NUOVA . . . TRADUTTIONE di delta SPERA ; una Spera Theologica Divina, e Christiana ; 

 una Spera Platonica, con alcune Eccitationi mathematiche, ecc. ; nna NUOVA INVENTIONE, et 

 Astronomico Instrument, per SUBITAMENTE FABRICARE le dodici CASE CELESTI della FIGURA 

 ASTRONOMICA, senza altri Canoni, o Calculo ; with numerous woodcuts (some full-page), and 

 diagrams, sm. 4to. sound and clean copy in old calf gilt (VERY RARE), 1. 12s 6d 



[colophon :] Firenze, 1550 



11643 - - ANOTHER COPY, old Italian vellum (partly water-stained, and a few small holes in blank 

 margin of title), 1. 5s 



' In this volume we find the proof that the Spanish mathematician Ortega (v. No. 3397, ante) was in 1550 at Florence '. 

 Lilri Catal< gue. 



Unknown to Poggendorff and Bingr. Gen. The above copies contain pp. 201-19, which are often wanting. The work is 

 dedicated to Cosmo de Medici, Duoa di Firenze. 



11644 MAWSON (E. O., M.I.C.E.) PIONEER IRRIGATION: a Manual of Information for Farmers in 



the Colonies ; with Additional Chapters on LIGHT RAILWAYS by EVERARD RICHARD CALTHROP, 

 M.I.C.E., with 38 plates, and numerous other illustrations, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 



10s Qd nett) 1904 



