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



11740 MELSENS (Louis Henri Frederic) NOUVEAU PROCEDE pour I'EXTRACTION du SUCRE de 

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1 1741 SUR les PARATONNERRES, et sur quelques Experiences faites avec FEtincelle dlnduc- 



tion et les Batteries de Leyde, 8vo. (pp. 22), sewn, with inscr. to Dr. Phipson, Is Qd [c. 1863] 



MELVILL (Thomas) OBSERVATIONS on LIGHT and COLOURS v. EDINBURGH ESSAYS, ante. 



11742 MEMOIRES de MATHEMATIQTJE et de PHYSIQUE, presentes a 1'AcADEMiE ROYALE 

 des SCIENCES, par divers Scavans, et lus dans ses Assemblies ; with numerous copperplates, 

 11 vols. 4to. old calf (newly and neatly rebacked), 4. 4,s 1750-86 



Comprising a large number of original contributions, some by Lavoisier, Laplace, Monge, Coulomb, Lagrange, Sabatier, etc. 



ARAGO'S COPY: 



11743 de PHYSIQUE et de CHIMIE, de la SOCIETE d'ARCUEiL ; with 2 plates and 3 



folding tables, complete in 3 vols. 8vo. cl. (very rare), with bookplate of Prof. M. H. N. Story - 

 Maskelyne, F.E.S., 5. 55 1807-17 



This society was originally founded by Laplace, Berthollet, Gay-Lussac, Biot, Humboldt, de Candolle, and Collet- 

 Descostils at Berthollet's country house in Arcueil, near Paris, where its members were to meet twice a month. 



The work contains memoirs by Laplace (1), Berthollet (20), Gay-Lussac (10), Thenard (10), Biot (9), Humboldt (3), 

 Malus (3), Dulong (2), de Candolle (2), Descostils (2), Berard (1), and Arago (1). That by Laplace is ' Sur le mouvement 

 de la lumiere dans les milieux diaphanes ' ; among Gay-Lussac's is the important one ' Sur la combinaison des substances 

 gazeuses ' (vol. If. p. 207), in which he first expounded the law of volumes named after him. One of Dulong's memoirs 

 gives an account of his discovery of chloride of nitrogen (the most powerful and unstable explosive known), which cost 

 him an eye and three fingers. 



The above copy belonged to F. J. D. Arago, a MS. note in vol. I, in Prof. Story-Maskelyne's handwriting, reading : 

 'M. Arago's sale. 1854. N.S. M.' 



11744 MEMOIRS (SCIENTIFIC), selected from the TRANSACTIONS of FOREIGN ACADEMIES of 

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 Cauchy, R. J. E. Clausius, H. W. Dove, J. F. Encke, A. J. Fresnel, K. F. Gauss, P. A. Hansen, H. L. F. v. Helmholtz, 

 Joseph Henry, M. H. Jacobi, J. Lamont, M. Melloni, O. F. Mossotti, Johannes JVIiiller, F. E. Neumann, J. A. F. Plateau, 

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11745 VOLS. I AND II ONLY, with numerous plates, 2 thick vols. Svo. hf. calf (binding rubbed) ; 



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The first two volumes contain some of the most important memoirs included in this publication. 



11746 of SCIENCE and the ARTS ; or a GENERAL ABRIDGEMENT of the TRANSACTIONS published 



by the PRINCIPAL LEARNED and (ECONOMICAL SOCIETIES of different Parts of the WORLD, by an 

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MENABREA (General Federigo Luigi, Minister of Victor Emanuel)v. BABBAGE, ante. 



11747 MENARD de la GROYE (Francois Jean Baptiste) OBSERVATIONS avec REFLECTIONS sur 

 I'ETAT et les PHENOMENES du VESUVE, pendant une Partie des Annees 1813 et 1814, 4to. (pp. 102), 

 sewn, 3s Qd 1815 



11748 MENDELEJEFF (Dmitri Ivanovitch ; F.R.S.) GRUNDLAGEN der CHEMIE, aus dem 

 Russischen iibersetzt von L. JAWEIN und A. THILLOT, I. LIEFERUNG; with woodcuts, roy. Svo. 

 sewn, with author's inscr. as below, 2s Qd St. Petersburg, 1890 



' Herrn Prof. Dr. Thorpe hochachtuugsvoll D. MENDELEEFF.' Inscr. on cover. 



11749 MENDENHALL (Walter Curran) RECONNAISSANCE from FORT HAMLIN to KOTZEBUE 

 SOUND, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak Rivers, with 4 folding maps (3 

 coloured), and Q plates, 4to. sewn, 3s Qd Washington, 1902 



11750 , and Frank Charles SCHRADER: The MINERAL RESOURCES of the MOUNT 



WRANGELL DISTRICT, Alaska, with 4 maps (2 coloured, and folding], Q plates, and 5 woodcuts, 4to. 

 sewn. 3* 60? ibidem, 1903 



11751 MENELAI [Alexandrini] SPH^ERICORUM Libri III, quos olim, collatis MSS. Hebrseis et 

 Arabicis, curavit EDMUNDUS H ALLEY, S.R.S., Prsefationem addidit GEORGIUS COSTARD, Sac., Svo. 

 fine copy in contemporary calf, Is Qd Oxonii, sumptibus academicis, 1758 



' ... In it are also found the theorems that the sum of the three sides of a spherical triangle is less than a great circle, 

 and that the sum of the three angles exceeds two right angles.' Prof. Cajori. 



11752 MENGOLI (Abate Pietro; da Bologna] NOVJE QUADRATURE ARITHMETICS, sen de 

 ADDITIONS FRACTIONUM, 4to. old limp vellum (back slightly damaged andafehu IL water- stained, 

 otherwise a sound and clean copy] ; RARE, 1.1$ Bononice, Jac. Montius, 1650 



The author's first published work, it is rare, and was unknown to Poggendorff, Prof, de Morgan, Graesse, Brunet, and 

 the author's biographer in Biogr. Gen., nor was there a copy in the Libii Library. 



The work is of interest as being entirely devoted to fractions. According to G. Libri, the author's Geometries Speciosae 

 Elementa, published in 1659, dealt with Newton's binomial theorem a palpable mistake, as Sir Isaac Newton did not 

 publish it until 16G9 in his De Analyst per Aequationes. 



11753 MENNELL (Henry T.), George Clayton ATKINSON, Robert Faulding WHEELER, 

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Newcastle-on Tune, 1858-73 

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11734 MERFIELD (Charles J. ; F.R.A.S.) DEFINITIVE ORBIT ELEMENTS of COMET 1899 I. : COMET 



1899 I. 4to. (pp. 24), sewn, with author's inscr., 2s Qd [Kiel] , 1901 



11755 ORBIT ELEMENTS COMET 1., 1899 (SWIFT), Svo. (pp. 16), sewn, Is 1899 



