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



13539 POUTER (George Richardson, F.R.S., author of '' The Progress of the Nation ') The NATURE 

 and PROPERTIES of the SUGAR CANE, with Practical Directions for the IMPROVEMENT of its 

 CULTURE, and the MANUFACTURE of its Products, 6 plates of Machinery, etc., besides v:oodcuts, 

 8vo. cl., uncut (scarce), 10s 1830 



Written before the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies. 



This edition contains an Appendix (pp. 70) left out in the second, containing Extracts from Reports made to the 

 Agricultural Society of Antigua, Tables of Imports and Exports of Sugar to and from Great Britain, and other information 

 giving interesting statistical details. 



13540 SECOND EDITION, with additional Chapter on the Manufacture of Sugar from BEET 



ROOT, with 6 plates and 3 woodcuts, 8vo. cL, 10s 1843 



Published after Abolition, with a view to make up for dearer labour by more efficient processes. 



13541 PORTER (Samuel, surveyor and engineer to the Stratford-on-Avon Canal] The ARTIFICER'S, 

 FARMER'S, and INLAND-NAVIGATOR'S ASSISTANTS shewing by DECIMAL TABLES (at Sight) the 

 most useful Kinds of Admeasurements at any Length, Breadth, or Depth ; also an easy and 

 practical Method of Leveling, Surveying, etc., ivith Jront. of 'Porters Balance Level', 4to. hf. 

 bound (back damaged]. Is Qd 1799 



Scarce, and unknown to Watt, Lowndes, Allibone, and others. The ' inland-navigator ' was the original form of the 

 present word navvy. 



13542 PORTER (Henry, M.D., F.G.S.) The GEOLOGY of PETERBOROUGH and its Vicinity, with 10 

 lithographs, post 8vo. cl., with inscr. to Prof. James Tennant, 4s Peterborough, 1861 



13543 PORTS MARITIMES de la FRANCE: NOTICE sur le PORT de BOULOGNE, par M. 

 VIVENOT, 74: DIEPPE, par M. LAVOINNER, '74: CHERBOURG, par M. DE ST.-AMANT, '77 : LE 

 HAVRE, par M. QUINETTE DE ROCHEMONT, '75 : SAINT-MALO et SAINT-SERVAN, par M. FLOU- 

 CAUD DE FOURCROY, '77: ALGER, par M. TREVES, '91 : DELLYS, parlememe, '92; with a large 

 folding plan to each port (except Cherbourg, Saint- Mai o, and Saint- Servan), and numerous 

 smaller plans, and diagrams 1 vols. roy. 4to. in 1, hf. morocco neat, 1. Is 



v , Imprimerie Nationale, 1874-92 



13544 POSEPNY (Franz) The GENESIS of ORE-DEPOSITS (read before the International Engineering 

 Congress, Chicago, 1893), with portrait (inserted), and 12 plates (pp. 173) : DISCUSSIONS on the 

 above Paper, with diagrams, 5 papers (pp. 89) : BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE by R. W. RAYMOND 

 (pp. 13) in 1 vol. 8vo. cl. (scarce), 6s 6d [New York, 1893-4] 



'A complete treatise on the subject, comparable in importance with those of Cotta, Groddeck and Grimm.' 

 Engineering and Mining Journal. 



13545 POST ( J.) , et Bernhard NEUMANN : TRAITE COMPLET d'ANALYSE CHIMIQUE appliquee aux 

 ESSAIS INDUSTRIELS, 2 e Edition francaise, entierement refondue, et augmentee par M. PELLET et 

 G. CHENU, Tome II, Fascicule II : SUCRE, Amidon, Dextrine, et Glucose ; with 120 illustrations, 

 roy. 8vo. sewn, 3s Qd (p. F. 8 nett) 1910 



13546 POST (J. W., N iederldndische Staatsbahn) QUERSCHWELLEN mit DIRECT EINGEWALZTEN, 

 GENEIGTEN und VERSTARKTEN AuFLAGEFLACHEN ; with 3 folding plates, 4to. (pp. 4), sewn, with 

 inscr. to J. Bosscha, inventor of duplex telegraphy, 2s Qd Wiesbaden [1885] 



13547 POSTE (Edward. Oriel Coll.) The Locic of SCIENCE : a Translation of the Posterior Analytics 

 of ARISTOTLE, with Notes and Introduction, post 8vo. cl., 5s Oxford, 1850 



13548 POTAIN (Le Docteur, ex-chirurgien principal d'armee) RELATION AEROSTATIQUE, dediee a la 



The above copy contains ' Document et Pieces principales a 1'Appui du present Memoire ' (pp. 6), containing the 

 deliberations and correspondence of the Irish Committee, which included the ill-fated Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the Earl 

 of Moira (afterwards Marquess of Hastings), and many other well-known Irishmen. 



The work, as well as the ascent (at Dublin, June 17, 1785), was unknown to Hatton Turner. 



13549 POTT (Johann Heinrich; Berlin) EXERCITATIONES CHYMICAE, de Sulphuribus Metallprum, 

 de Auripigmento, de Solutione Corporuni Particular!, de Terra Foliata Taitari, de Acido Vitrioli 

 Vinoso, et de Acido Nitri Vinoso, sparsim hactenus editae, jam vero collects, restitutae, a Mendis 

 repurgata?, variisque Notis, Experiments et Discussionibus adauctee, 4to. contemporary calf gilt 

 (fine copy); rare, 12* 6d Berolini, 1738 



' Stahl's disciple and pupil, Johann Heinrich Pott, enriched chemistry by many valuable observations. . . . With 

 regard to the nature of phlogiston itself, he expressed the opinion that it was ' a variety of sulphur'.' Prof. E. v. Meyer. 



1 Pott vereinigte eine grundliche Kenntniss der chemischen Wissenschaft, wie sie seiner Zeit vorlag, mit einem rastlosen 

 Htreben nach Forderung derselben. Er hatte eiue ungemeine Geschicklichkeit in dem praktischen Theile der Chemie, 

 eine unermiidete Ausdauer bei den langwierigsten Untersuchungen ; und was er auf diese Weise neu erlangt hatte, theilte 

 er mit eiuer Offenheit und Klarheit mit, welche fiir die damalige /eit hoch anzuschlagen ist.' H. Kopp. 



13550 LITHOGEOGNOSIE, ou EXAMEN CHYMIQUE des PIERRES et des TERRES en general, et du 



Talc, de la Topaze, et de la Steatite en particulier, avec une Dissertation sur le Feu et sur la 

 Lumiere. Ouvrages traduits de 1'Allemand : CONTINUATION de la LITHOGEC/GNOSIE PYROTECH- 

 NIQUE, oil Ton traite plus particulierement de la Connoissance des Terres et des Pierres, et de la 

 Maniere d'en faire 1'Examen, 2 vols. 12mo. contemporary French calf gilt, 12s Qd 1753 



The author was a disciple of G. E. Stahl, and in the above work did' much to promote a knowledge of chemical analysis. 

 He was the first to treat of bismuth and its compounds, and discovered silicic acid, although it was recognised as such 

 only in 1811 by James Smithson, F.R.S., founder of the Smithsonian Institution. 



13551 [POUCHET (Georges)] J^CLAIRAGE par la BOUGIE ELECTRIQUE [JABLOCHKOFF], des Voies 

 Publiques, des Grands Magasins, Caf6s, etc. etc. ; with ivoodcuts, roy. 8vo. (pp. 47), sewn, 2s 



Lille, 1878 



The Jablochkoff 'Candle' was an ingenious expedient for making the Arc Lamp handier for general use before the 

 practicable development of the GloAv Lamp by Swan and Edison. 



' So they lit up the heights 

 With Jablochkoff lights, 



And now I suppose there's a war.' 



Anglo-Indian verses temp, the annexation of Burma. 



