HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 667 



13329 PIESSE (GK W. Septimus, analytical chemist] The ART of PERFUMERY, and the Methods of 

 Obtaining the Odours of Plants, with Appendix on the Colours of Flowers, Artificial Fruit 

 Essences, etc., first edition, with numerous pretty full -page and other woodcuts, post 8vo. cl. 

 (scarce), 6s 1855 



13330 FIFTH EDITION, edited by CHARLES H. PIESSE, F.I.C., with frontispiece of a Lavender 



Still, and numerous other woodcuts, 8vo. (pp. 515), cl., 8s Qd apud auctorem, 1891 



One of the best books on the subject, by heads of the old London perfumery firm of Piesse and Lubin. 



13331 PIFFEBI (Francesco, Monaco Camaldolense) MONICOMETRO: INSTROMENTO da MISURAR 

 con la VlSTA STANDO FERMO ; with numerous woodcuts, sm. 4to. boards (large and sound copy) ; 

 RARE, 1. 5s Siena, 1695 



' Raro opuscolo. Vi si trova un priino tentativo della costruzione dei distanziometri.' Riccardi. 

 The Libri copy fetched 47 francs in 1847, but the work was unknown to Poggendorff. 



13332 PIG-IRON INDUSTRY, COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT illustrating the, Franco-British Exhibition, 

 1908, with plate, 8vo. sewn, \s Iron and Steel Institute, 1908 



13333 PIGEON (Jean) DESCRIPTION d'une SPHERE MOUVANTE, par le Moyen d'une PENDULE,d'un 

 GLOBE monte d'une Facon particuliere et d'un nouveau PLANISPHERE pour les Distances et 

 Grosseurs des Planetes, selon FHypothese de Copernic ; with fine front, by Scotin, and 3 plates 

 (2 with volvelles), sm. 8vo. old calf gilt (RARE), 1. Is 



Jacques Quillau, Imprimeur-Jure de VUniversitc, 1714 



This rare work was unknown to Querard, Brunet, or Graesse, but is mentioned by Poggendorff, who states that the 

 author made a planetarium, as described above, for Louis XIV., for which lie received ' a royal reward ', and sold another 

 ' for a high price ' to Peter the Great in 1716. 



13334 PIGGOT (A. Snowden) The CHEMISTRY and METALLURGY of COPPER, including the 

 principal Copper Mines of U.S. and other Countries, with the Art of Mining and Preparing Ores 

 for Market, and the various Processes of Copper Smelting, etc., with 15 woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 

 (scarce), 6s Philadelphia, 1858 



13335 PIGOTT (Edward; discoverer of Pigotfs Comet; son of Nathaniel Pigott) ACCOUNT of 

 some LUMINOUS ARCHES, 4to. (pp. 4), sewn, Is Qd 1789 



13336 DETERMINATION of the LONGITUDES and LATITUDES of some Remarkable Places near 



the SEVERN, 4to. (pp. 6), unbound, 2s 6d 1790 



The author's determination of geographical coordinates is deduced from observed meridian transits of the moon's limbs. 



13337 The LATITUDE and LONGITUDE of YORK determined from a Variety of Astronomical 



Observations, with a Recommendation of the METHOD of DETERMINING the LONGITUDE of 

 Places by Observations of the MOON'S TRANSIT over the MERIDIAN, 4to. (pp. 17), sewn, 6s 1786 



' In a paper on the geographical co-ordinates of York he gave the first practical application of the method of longitudes 

 by lunar transits, independently struck out by him.' Miss Agnes M. Clerke. 



Added are: Advertisement of the expected Return of the Cometo1532 and 1661 in 1788, byNEviL MASKKLYNE, pr., F.R.S. 

 (pp. 6) : A New Method of finding Fluents by Continuation, by SAMUEL VINCE, pr., F.R.S. (pp. 11). 



338 OBSERVATIONS of a NEW VARIABLE STAR, 4to. (pp. 10), unbound, 2s 6d 1784 



13339 OBSERVATIONS and REMARKS on those STARS which the ASTRONOMERS of the last 



Century suspected to be CHANGEABLE, 4to. (pp. 30), sewn, 6s Qd 1786 



' A catalogue of fifty variable or suspected stars was published by him [supra'] in 1786, with the remark that ' these 

 discoveries may, at some future period, throw fresh light on astronomy.' Miss Agnes M. Clerke. 



Added is : An Account of a Subsidence of the Ground near Folkstone. by EDWARD KING, F.R.S., with 2 plates, 1786. 



13340 PIGOTT (Nathaniel, F.R.S.) OBSERVATIONS of the TRANSIT of MERCURY over the Sun's Disc, 

 made at Louvain, in the Netherlands, May 3, 1786, with diagram, 4to. (pp. 5), unbound, 2s 6d 1786 



The author was a private gentleman of Whitton, Middlesex, and an able amateur astronomer. He carried out for the 

 Austrian Government, then in possession, the first determination of the geographical positions of the chief towns of the 

 t Low Countries in 1772, with the help of his son Edward and his own servants. 



13341 PIHL (O. A. L.) On OCCULTING MICROMETERS, and their Value as applied to Exact Astro- 

 nomical Measurements, roy. 4to. (pp. 71), sewn, with inscr. to Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 3s Qd 



Christiania, 1893 



13342 The STELLAR CLUSTER ^ PERSEI micrometrically surveyed, with 2 folding maps, roy. 



4to. (pp. 107), sewn, with inscr. to the same, 4s Qd 'ibidem, 1891 



13343 PILATBE de ROZIER (Jean Fra^ois), La VIE et les MEMOIRES de, ecrits par lui-meme, 

 et publics par M. T[OURNON DE LA CHAPELLE] ; with 4 folding woodcuts, 18mo. sewn (RARE), 

 15s 1786 



M. Piiatre de Rozier was the first man to go up in a balloon (together with the Marquis d'Arlandes). Before him 

 only animals were sent up for experimental purposes. He was killed in an attempt to cross the Channel in a combined 

 charliere and montgolfiere, which caught fire and burst, in 1785. The above work contains a full account of his ascent and 

 death, and also includes his chief memoirs contributed to the Journal de Physique. 



13344 PILLET-WILL (Michel Frederic Comte) De la DEFENSE et du PRODUIT des CANAUX et 

 des CHEMINS deFER; de 1'Influence des Voies de Communication surla Prosperite Industriellede 

 la France ; with Atlas of 29 large folding copperplates and maps, 2 vols. 4to. hf. calf, with auto, 

 of GEORGE RENNIE, C.E., F.R.S.., on titles, 15* 1837 



Even in 1837 there were some railways already operated for sometime in France, chiefly horse lines in the mineral 

 districts of the Centre. The plates relate to Canal Engineering, and include a long profile of the Canal du Rhone au Rhin, 

 through Mulhouse, of interest at this moment of the Franco-Nietzschian War. 



13345 PINCOT (Daniel, Artificial Stone Manufacturer) ESSAY on the ORIGIN, NATURE, USES, and 

 PROPERTIES of ARTIFICIAL STONE, with some Observations upon Common Natural Stone, Clays, 

 and Burnt Earths in general, in which the Durability of the latter is shown to be equal, if not 

 superior, to the hardest Marbles, being the Result of many Experiments, 8vo. sewn (rare], 6s 1770 



13346 PINO (Domenico, O.P.) L'INCREDIBILITA del MOTO della TERRA brevemente esposta, 8vo. 

 sewn (RARE), 10s Qd Milano, 1806 



A deli 

 is unkin 



ightfully belated refutation of the Newtonian system, published under the auspices of Pope Pius VII. The author 

 dly ignored by Poggendorff and Riccardi. 



