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13375 PITOT (Henri; de V Academic des Sciences, F.R.S.) The THEORY of the WORKING of SHIPS, 

 applied to Practice, containing the PRINCIPLES and RULES for SAILING with the greatest 

 Advantage possible, translated by EDMUND STONE, F.R.S. , with 8 folding plates, 8vo. old calf 

 gilt (joints cracked, and title written on] ; RARE, 15s 1743 



'Ouvrage excellent.' Bi ogr. Generate. At end are 20 'Tables for the Working of Ships', which were specially recom- 

 mended for their excellence by the French Academy of Science. 



There was no copy of the English translation in the Scott Library, nor is there a copy of either original or translation 

 in that of the Institution of Naval Architects. 



13376 [PLACE (Le Captaine de)] L'ARTILLERIE ACTUELLE en France et a PETRANGER : Canons, 

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13377 PLAN A (Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Barone ; Univ. Turin; F.R.S.) EQUATION de la 

 COURBE formee par une LAME ELASTICJUE, quelles que soient les Forces qui agissent sur la 

 Lame : MEMOIRE sur 1'Integratiori des Equations Lineaires aux Differences Partielles du second 

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13378 MEMOIRE sur I'EXPRESSION ANALYTIQUE de la SURFACE TOTALE de I'ELLIPSOIDE dont 



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13379 MEMOIRE sur les FORMULES propres a determiner la PARALLAXE ANNUELLE des ETOILES 



Simples ou optiquement Doubles, 4to. (pp. 18), sewn, 3s 6d Impr. Royale, Turin, 1858 



133SO MEMOIRE sur les INTEGRALES DEFINIES, 4to. (pp. 48), sewn, 2s 6d [1818] 



13381 MEMOIRE sur le MOUVEMENT CONIQUE, k Double Courbure, d'un Pendule Simple, dans 



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13382 MEMOIRE sur differens PROCEDES d'lNTEGRATiON, par lesquels on obtient 1' Attraction 



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13383 MEMOIRE sur TROIS INTEGRALES DEFINIES, 4to. (pp. 23), sewn, 2s 6d \_Bruxelles, s.d.] 



13384 NOTE oil Ton explique une Remarquable OBJECTION faite par EULER en 1751, centre 



une REGLE donnee par NEWTON, dans son Arithmetique Universelle, pour extraire la Racine d'un 

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13385 NOTE sur le PROCES de GALILEE, 4to. (pp. 12), sewn, with author's inscr. an below, 4s 



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J3386 OBSERVATIONS ASTRONOMIQUES faites en 1822-5 a I'OBSERVATOIRE ROYAL de TURIN, 



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13387 - THEORIE du MOUVEMENT de la LUNE, 3 thick vols. ; avec le Supplement together 

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' The method of Plana agrees essentially with that pursued by Clairault and his successors ; but he has introduced into 

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13388 PLANTE (Gaston, de VInstitut) RECHERCHES sur I'ELECTRICITE, avec TOME II, FASCICULE 

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13389 REIMPRESSION, avec la VI e Partie (Analogies entre les Phenomenes Electriques et les 



Effets produits par des Actions M6caniques, Consequences relatives a la Nature de 1'Electrieite) ; 

 with 89 woodcuts, 8vo. sewn, 5s Qd 1883 



13390 ANOTHER COPY, cl., 6s Qd 



A collection of the results of the author's important researches on electricity made between 1859 and 1879, antl 

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13391 PLARR (Gustave) On the ESTABLISHMENT of the ELEMENTARY PRiNCiPLESof QUATERNIONS 

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13392 PLAT (Sir Hugh, of Lincoln's Inn) The JEWEL HOUSE of ART and NATURE : containing 

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Bernard Alsop, and are to be sold at his house in Grubstreet, 1653 



13393 ANOTHER COPY, handsomely bound in brown calf extra, inside borders, saffron 



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Containing important recipes and notes on manures, brewing, mnemonics, moulding and casting of metals, distilling 

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13394 PLATT (Franklin) The CAUSES, KINDS and AMOUNT of WASTE in MINING ANTHRACITE : 

 Special Report to the Legislature ; with the Methods of Mining by JOHN PRICE WETHERILL, with 

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13395 PLENCK (Joseph Jacob v., Prof. Chemistry, Vienna) ELEMENTA CHYMIAE, Editio altera, 

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13396 The HYGROLOGY, or Chemico-Physiological Doctrine of the FLUIDS of the HUMAN 



BODY, translated by ROBERT HOOPER, M.D., 8vo. boards, uncut, 4s 1797 



