HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 601 



12069 MOREL (A. M. Th.) TRAITE PRATIQUE des FEUX D' ARTIFICE, pour le SPECTACLE, et pour 

 la GUERRE, avec les Petits Feux de Table, et I'Artifice a FUsage des Theatres, premiere edition ; 

 with 11 folding copperplates, illustrating a great variety of Fireworks, 8vo. contemporary calf gilt 

 (rare), 10s Qd ' Didot, 1800 



12070 MORELOT (Simon, Professeur de Chimie Pharmaceutique a VEcole de Mcdecine de Paris) 

 COURS ELEMENTAIRE the"orique et pratique de PHARMACIE-CHIMIQUE, ou Manuel du Pharmacien- 

 Chimiste ; with folding table, 3 vols. 8vo. old calf gilt, with auto, of William Thomas Brande, 

 F.R.S. (1788-1866), 6s Qd 1803 



12071 MOREWOOD (Samuel, Surveyor of Excise) ESSAY on the INVENTIONS and CUSTOMS, of both 

 Ancients and Moderns, in the USE of INEBRIATING LIQUORS [and OPIUM], with interesting 

 Anecdotes, illustrative of the principal Nations of the World, and Historical View of the Extent 

 and Practice of DISTILLATION, as to its COMMERCE, and as a SOURCE of NATIONAL INCOME ; with 

 much curious Information respecting the Application and Properties of several parts of the 

 Vegetable Kingdom, woodcuts, 8vo. boards, uncut (SCARCE), 10s 1824 



A rare and interesting work, unknown to Lowndes and Allibone. 



12072 PHILOSOPHICAL and STATISTICAL HISTORY of the INVENTIONS and CUSTOMS of ANCIENT 



and MODERN NATIONS in. the MANUFACTURE and USE of INEBRIATING LIQUORS; with the 

 PRESENT PRACTICE of DISTILLATION in all its Varieties ; with an extensive Illustration of the 

 CONSUMPTION and EFFECTS of OPIUM, and other Stimulants used in the East, as Substitutes for 

 Wine and Spirits, with front., and woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl. (scarce), 15s Dublin, 1838 



A new edition of the Essay, much enlarged ' by the addition of new, original and valuable matter ' (Preface). The 

 chapter on opium is also much enlarged, ' while the evil consequences of undue or irregular indulgence havo been 

 carefully depicted and illustrated by appropriate anecdotes.' 



12073 MORFIT (Campbell, Univ. Maryland) PRACTICAL TREATISE on PURE FERTILIZERS ; and 

 the Chemical Conversion of Rock Guanos, Marlstones, Coprolites, and the Crude Phosphates of 

 Lime and Alumina generally, into various Valuable Products, with 28 folding plates, and 24 

 woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl., uncut, 7s Qd (p. 4. 4s) New York, 1872', or London, 1873 



12074 MORGAN ( , late Master of Clare Hall) Six PHILOSOPHICAL DISSERTATIONS on the 

 MECHANICAL POWERS, ELASTIC BODIES, FALLING BODIES, the CYCLOID, the PARABOLA, and the 

 RAINBOW, published by SAMUEL CLARKE, in his Notes upon Rohault's Physics, done into 

 English by JOHN CLARKE, with 3 folding plates, 4to. (pp. 50), sewn, 4s Cambridge, 1770 



12075 MORGAN (Alexander) ELEMENTARY PHYSIOGRAPHY treated experimentally, with 244 

 illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl., Is Qd 1898 



12076 MORGAN (E.) The TAVERN-KEEPER'S GUIDE ; or, the Butler's Assistant : containing RE- 

 CEIPTS for the managing, colouring, and flavouring of FOREIGN WINES, and for making and 

 managing BRITISH WINES and COMPOUNDS, with Directions for the making of YEAST, etc. etc. etc., 

 3rd Edition, with Additions, cr. 8vo. boards (slightly stained), Is Qd [c. 1810] 



Specially interesting for giving on pp. 30-98 receipts for making 30 different varieties of British Wines. 



12077 MORGAN (John H., Cambridge Observatory), and John T. BARBER : ACCOUNT of the 

 AURORA BOREALIS seen near Cambridge, Oct. 24th, 1847, with those of Sept. 21, 1846, and 

 March 19, 1847, seen at the Cambridge Observatory, ivith 12 coloured plates, impl. 8vo. hf. calf, 

 g. e., with bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy, F.R.S. (SCARCE), 185 Qd Cambridge [1847] 



Valuable for giving coloured illustrations of aurora?. There is no copy of this work in the Royal Meteorological 

 Society's Library Catalogue, 1891. 



12078 MORGAN (Silvanus ; writer on heraldry) HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA OPTICA : DIALLING Universall 

 and Particular: Speculative and Practical . . . with diverse Propositions of the Use and Benefit of 

 Shadows, serving to prick down the Signes, Declination, and Azimuths, on Sun- Dials, etc., 

 illustrated by diverse OPTICALL CONCEITS ; lastly TOPOTHESIA, or a feigned Description of the 

 Conrt of Art, full of Benefit for the making of Dials, Use of the Globes, Difference of Meridians, 

 and most Propositions of Astronomic, with many usefull Instruments and Dials in Brasse, made 

 by WALTER HAYES, in More Fields, with finely engraved title, engravings on copper, and numerous 

 woodcuts, sm. 4to. old panelled calf (corner of engraved title missing and mended, otherwise a FINE 

 AND LARGE COPY) ; rare, 3. 35 R. and W. Leybourn, 1652 



One of the most valued early English works on dialling. It contains a ' Table of Right and Contrary Shadows, to every 

 Degree and tenth Minute of the Quadrant.' 



MORGAN (William; actuary to the Equitable Society, F.R.S.) ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS to 

 ascertain the NON-CONDUCTING POWER of a PERFECT VACUUM (1785) v. KIRWAN, No. 10207, 

 ante. 



12079 EXAMINATION of DR.[ADAIR] CRAWFORD'S [F.R.S.] THEORY of HEAT and COMBUSTION, 



with plate, 8vo. (pp. 70), sewn (scarce), Qs 1781 



Controverting Dr. Crawford's theory of heat (v. No. 894 ante), which was still based on the phlogiston theory. 



12080 On the METHOD of DETERMINING, from the real Probabilities of Life, the VALUES of 



CONTINGENT REVERSIONS, in which THREE LIVES are involved in the Survivorship, 4to. (pp. 32), 

 sewn, 3s Qd 1791 



Added to it is : The Longitude of Dunkirk and Paris from Greenwich, deduced by Triangular Measurement, 1787-8, by 

 ISAAC DALBY, with plate, 1791. 



12081 [SECOND PAPER], 4to. (pp. 39), sewn, 3s Qd 1794 



12082 The PRINCIPLES and DOCTRINE of ASSURANCES, ANNUITIES on LIVES, and CONTINGENT 



REVERSIONS, stated and explained, 8vo. boards, uncut, Ss Qd 1821 



' Morgan takes high rank among the pioneers of life assurance in England. The phenomenal success of the EQUITABLK 

 SOCIETY in the midst of so many contemporary failures was mainly due to his careful administration and sound actuarial 

 advice. The details which he published as to the mortality experience of that society furnished data for the amendment 

 of the Northampton tables, and the construction of others by various actuaries.'!). N. B. 



The above forms the 2nd edition of the Doctrine of Annuities (1779), greatly enlarged, and with ' the different problems 

 derived from the real probabilities of life rather than from an hypothesis.' 



