HENRY 8OTHERAN <fc CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 703 



14025 BEINSCH (Paulus Friedrich) NEUE UNTERSUCHUNGEN iiber die MIKROSTRUKTUR der 

 STEINKOHLE des CARBON, der DYAS und TRIAS : Beitrage zur Aufhellung des Ursprunges und 

 der Zusammensetzung dieser Mineralkorper, sowie zur Kenntniss des einfachbten Pflanzenlebens 

 der Vorwelt ; with 94 plates (I folding), roy. 4to. hf. cl., 1. 10* (p. M. 50) Leipzig, 1881 



1402S BEISCH (Gregor; confessor of the Emperor Maximilian I.) MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA 

 NOUA, cui insunt sequentia. Epigrammata in coinendationem operis. Institutio Grammatice 

 Latine. Pr^eepta Logices. Rhetorice informatio. Ars Memorandi Ravennatis. Beroaldi modus 

 coponedi Epi. ARITHMETICA. MUSICA PLANA. GEOMETRIE PRINCIPIA. ASTRONOMIA, cum 

 quibusda de Astrologia. PHILOSOPHIA NATURALIS. Moralis Philosophia cu tiguris ; finely 

 printed in gotfytc Utter ; title ivithin woodcut border, large woodcut title to each Book, and numer- 

 ous very fine and large woodcuts, also plainsong and folding table of diapason, 4to. old oaken 

 boards, covered with contemporary pressed pigskin, richly ornamented on sides (one table wanting, 

 binding slightly damaged and some II. slightly water-stained on lower margin, otherwise A REMARK- 

 ABLY SOUND, CLEAN AND TALL COPY) ; very rare, 8. 8* [col. : ] Argentine, Joa. Grilninger, 1512 



The fifth edition of this celebrated work, valuable as an encyclopedia of all that was known of science at the end of 

 the XVth. Century, and regarded as the earliest work containing anatomical illustrations. 



This edition contains an ' Appedix Matheseos ' (pp. 128), which includes treatises on the astrolabe, perspective, etc. etc. 

 The last four 11. 'Speculum Orbis Declaratio speculi orbis compositi a Gualtero Lud. Canonico Peodatensi ' have the- 

 signatures AI^. Many of the woodcuts give illustrations of contemporary astronomical, mathematical, and chemical 

 instruments. 



'If the number were sufficient of those who wish to take their notions of liberal education in Europe at the Mme 

 immediately preceding the Reformation from original sources, and not from the reports of others, a reprint of the 

 Margarita PkUosnphica would be made. The diversity of the matters which it treats, and the largeness of its circulation, 

 stamp it as the best book for such a purpose. . . . The Arithmetic has a frontispiece representing Boethius at one table 

 with Arabic numerals before him ; and Pythagoras at another with counters. Pythagoras among the Greeks, Apuleius 

 and Boethius among the Romans, were often made the inventors of arithmetic. The arithmetic is divided into speculative 

 and practical. The former is a summary of Boethius, often in the words of John de Muris. The latter is a short treatise on 

 Algorithm, as it was called, or the rules of computation by the Arabic numerals. There is also computation by counters, 

 fractions, common and sexagesimal, and the rule of three. Many works of fifty years later do no more difficult questions,' 

 etc. etc., eto. Prof, de Morgan, who gives an interesting account of the work in his Arithmetical Books, pp. 4-0. 



Ten editions of this work are known ; those of 1496, 1503, 1504, 1508, 1512, 1515, 1517, 1585, 1583, and 159H. 



14027 BEMOND (L.) DOUZE CENT MILLE ANS d'HuMANiTE et I'AGE de la TERRE, par PExplication 

 de 1'Evolution Periodique des Climats des Glaciers et des Cours d'Eau, cr. 8vo. (pp. 164), sewn, 

 2s 6d Monaco, 1902 



14028 BENALDINI (Carlo, Univ. Pisa) OPUS MATHEMATICUM, in quo utraqne ALGEBRA, vetu& 

 sc., et nova a se in Opere, hac de Re pridem edito, pertractata Novis PR.ECEPTIS ; novisque 

 Demonstrationibus illustratur. Methodus quoque Resolutionis et Cornpositionis Mathematics 

 longe copiosus, quam ibidem, ad abstrusiora Theoremata, et Problemata enodanda declarator. 

 PARS PRIOR NuMEROSAM A.LGEBRAM complectens ; with diagrams, thick 4to. old limp vellum 

 (back torn off and water -stained], 10s 60? Bononio3, 1655 



' Raro. 1 Riccardi. 



'In this almost unknown work Renaldini, who subsequently became one of the most influential members of the 

 Accademia del Cimento, relates the discoveries of Yieta and Girard, and uses new curious notations.' Libri Catalogue. It 

 includes, among other problems, an approximate rectification of the circle by trigonometrical means. 



14029 RENABD (Th.), et Philippe A. GUYE ; Univ. Geneva : MESURES de TENSIONS SUPKR- 

 FICIELLES a 1'AiR LIBRE ; with 2 illustrations, roy. Svo. (pp. 32), sewn, Is 6d Geneve, 1907 



14030 BENIEBI [Latine hie BENEBIUS] (Vicenzo, da Genova) TABULA MOTUUM C^ELESTIUM 

 UNIVERSALES, Magni Ducis EtrurioR Ferdinandi II. Auspiciis primo editae, et MEDICE.E nuncupatae 

 . . . quibus Planetarum Calculus juxta precipuos Astronomice Restauratores, ALPHONSUM Regem, 

 COPERNICUM, atque TYCHONEM facili Methodo exhibetur, et Alphonsini, Prutenici, Danici, 

 Rudolphini, Lansbergianique Canones continentur ; with engravings, 2 vols. folio in 1, old vellum, 

 (back of binding wormed, otherwise a sound copy), 15s Florentice, 1647 



The second and last edition of the M'diccan Tables. The second volume contains 'Plena Eclipsium Soliset Lunse 

 Doctrina, ac reliquae Planetarum Passiones.' 



14031 BENNELL (Major James, Surveyor-Gen, of Bengal, F.R.S.) INVESTIGATION of the CURRENTS 

 of the ATLANTIC OCEAN, and of those prevailing between the INDIAN OCEAN and the Atlantic, 

 with 2 folding maps, Svo. cl., uncut (RARE), 10* Qd published for Lady Rodd, 1832' 



' Ren uell devoted an enormous amount of labour and trouble to the study of winds and currents, collecting a great mass 

 of materials from t>>e logs of his numerous friends and correspondents. He was the first to explain the causes of the occa- 

 sional northerly set to the southward of the Scilly Islands, which has since been known as ' Rennell's Current ' [y. second' 

 chart si<pra~]. His current charts and memoirs were invaluable at the time.' Sir Clements Markliam. 



14032 BENNIE (George, c.E., F.R.S. ; son of John and brother of Sir John Rennie) ACCOUNT BOOK,. 

 chiefly with the ADMIRALTY and NAVY BOARD, from 1821 to 1827, a Manuscript, 4to. scored 

 calf, 2. 2* . 1821-7 



14033 , COPY-LETTER-BOOK of, containing his CORRESPONDENCE from Sept. 22nd, 1854 to- 



April 25th, 1860, with a few others by his Sons, the MS. copy on 729 pp. of flimsy , 2 vols. 4to. 

 hf. bound, 3. 3s 1854-60- 



The interesting volumes contain all the author's professional and business correspondence. It should be a valuable 

 contribution to the history of mechanical engineering, and in a narrower sense to the writer's biography, which has yet 

 to be written. 



14034 JOURNAL of my ABSENCE from HOME, commencing from Tuesday, June 24th, 1817, a 



manuscript Note-book on 2OO pp., with numerous architectural sketches, and a full-page one 

 of Spanish country scenery, sm. Svo. hf. bound, 2. 10s 1817 



A very interesting notebook, written during George Rennie's tour in Spain, Gibraltar, and Morocco soon after the 

 Peninsular War. The last entry is Dec. 5, 1817. 



14035 - PRIVATE ACCOUNT BOOK in Connexion with ENGINEERING WORKS, from 1836 to 1850, 

 a Manuscript, cr. 4to. rough calf, 1. Is 1836-50- 



Including the expenses incurred during his supervision of the Railway from Namur to Liege. 



