HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 719 



14374 ROBSON (John Henry, pr., Downing Coll.] SOLUTIONS of the EXAMINATION PAPERS in 

 ALGEBRA, MENSURATION, and the THEORY and USE of LOGARITHMS, set for Entrance to the 

 Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1880-8, cr. 8vo. cl., 2s 6d [1889] 



14375 ROBSON (Joseph) The BRITISH MARS : containing several SCHEMES and INVENTIONS, to be 

 practised by LAND or SEA against the Enemies of Gt. Britain, shewing more plainly the great 

 Advantage Britain has over other Nations by being Masters at Sea, with Appendix of a 

 Scheme for Manning the British Navy, with less Grievance to the Subject, etc. etc., 11 folding 

 plates, 8vo. hf. bound (title trimmed] ; RARE, 12s 6d 1763 



' The best work on the art of war, next to Bobadil.' Watt. The author was surveyor and supervisor of buildings to 

 the Hudson's Bay Co. He is not included in D. N. B. The work was apparently unknown to Lowndes. 



14376 ROBSON (Philip W.) POWER GAS PRODUCERS : their Design and Application, with 105 

 illustrations (including 2 folding plates), 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 10s Qd nett) 1908 



14377 ROCH (Gustav) ANWENDUNG der POTENTIALAUSDRUCKE auf die Theorie der MOLEKULAR- 

 PHYSISCHEN FERNEWIRKUNGEN und der Bewegung der Electricitiit in Leitern, 4to. (pp. 28), 

 sewn, 2s Qd Gottingen, 1862 



Treating the subject mathematically. 



14378 ROCHE (Edouard Albert: Univ. Montpellier) THESES de PHYSIQUE MATHEMATIQUE et 

 d'AsTRONOMiE, 4to. (pp. 47), sewn, 2s Qd Montpellier, 1844 



Containing : Stir la Distribution de la Chaleur dans une Sphere : Snrla Figure des Planetes. 



14379 ROCHEMORE (Franqois Comte de) De GEOMETRIC SUBLIMIORIS THEORIA, et Usu de 

 SPH^RA ARMILLARI atque INSTRUMENTORUM GEOMETRICORUM PRAXI in Altimetria, Geodaesia, 

 et Architectura publica Exercitatio, in qua selectas Propositiones ad audientium Libitum evolvit, 

 demonstrat Difficultatibus Proponendis Kesponsurus; with^plates, 4to.(pp. 40), sewn, 5sMowce, 1769 



' In planetario systemate, vel sol circa terrain in ecliptica moveatur, vel tellus circa solem in systemate Copernicano, 

 corporis moti phenomena explicari non possunt, nisi motus orbita sit ellipsis.' P. 25. 



14380 ROCQTJES (X.) Les INDUSTRIES de la CONSERVATION des ALIMENTS ; Prefaces par 

 P. BROUARDEL et A. MUNTZ ; with 111 illustrations, 8vo. cl. (cover stained), 6s Qd (p. F. 15 

 nett) 1906 



14381 RODGER (James Wyllie), and William WATSON ; F.R.S., -Roy. Coll. of Science: On the 

 MAGNETIC ROTATION on the PLANE of POLARIZATION of LIGHT in LIQUIDS, PART I : CARBON 

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14382 RODRIGTJES de PASSOS (Joaquim Antonio, ingenieur civil) THESE d'AsTRONOMiE pour 

 le Doctorat es Sciences Mathematiques, 4to. (pp. 42), sewn, 2s 1853 



14383 RODWELL (George F., F.R.A.S., F.c.s.) The BIRTH of CHEMISTRY, with portrait of John 

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An interesting introduction to the history of chemistry to the time of Lavoisier, Priestley, and Scheele. 



14384 On the EFFECTS of HEAT on certain HALOID COMPOUNDS of SILVER, MERCURY, LEAD, 



and COPPER, with plate and 11 woodcuts, roy. 4to. (pp. 44), sewn, with inscr. to Prof. A. S. 

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14385 ROECHLING (Herman Alfred, M.I.C.E.) SEWER GAS and its INFLUENCE on HEALTH, with 

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14386 ROEDDER (O. C.) Die ELEKTROTECHNISCHEN EINRICHTUNGEN MODERNER SCHIFFE; with 

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Including wireless telegraphy installations on shipboard. 



14387 ROERDANSZ (R.) Das GEZOGENE VIERPFUNDIGE FELDGESCHUTZ ; with 4 folding plates 

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14388 ROGERS (Samuel Baldwyn, Nant-y-Glo) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on IRON METALLURGY, 

 up to the Manufacture of Puddled Bars, built upon the Atomic System of Philosophy, etc., com- 

 prising Suggestions relative to important Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel, and 

 the Conduct of extensive Iron Works, with Analytical Tables of Iron-Making Materials, 20 plates 

 (2 folding), 8vo. (pp. 556), cl. (scarce), 9s (p. 1. 5s) 1858 



Containing an interesting account of the author's invention of iron bottoms to puddling furnaces, which is extensively 

 quoted in Dr. Percy's ' Metallurgy of Iron and Steel '. According to the latter the author ' died in absolute penury at the 

 age of 85 ' . 



14389 ROGERS (Thomas, Engineer and Light House Builder) DOCUMENTS relating to PORTDYN- 

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 Trade, and a shorter and safer Communication between IRELAND and ENGLAND, with 3 folding 

 copperplates, 12mo. (pp. 51), sawn, Qs Dublin, 1807 



Porthdinlleyn, midway between Holyhead and Fishguard, nearly cut them both out as the mail-port for Dublin ; but 

 when railways were made the impossibility of getting one across the transverse mountain- chains of Central Wales spoilt 

 its chance for ever. 



14390 ROGERS (William A. ; Harvard College Observatory) COMPARISON of the HARVARD COLLEGE 

 OBSERVATORY CATALOGUE of STARS for 1875.0, with the Fundamental Systems of AUWERS, 

 SAFFORD, Boss, and NEWCOMB, 4to. (pp. 40), sewn, 3s Cambridge [Mass.], 1882 



14391 , and Clement Henry McLEOD, McGill Univ.-. The LONGITUDE of the McGiLL 



COLLEGE OBSERVATORY, 4to. (pp. 67). sewn, '2s Qd Montreal, 1886 



14392 , and Anna WINLOCK: CATALOGUE of 130 POLAR STARS for the EPOCH of 1875.0, 



resulting from all the available Observations made between 1860 and 1885, and reduced to the 

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14393 ROHDE (Gen. -Major Johann Philipp v. ; Prussian Army) MATHEMATISCHE ABHAND- 

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 der PLANETEN- und COMETENBAHNEN in einem widcrstehendeu Mittel. 4to. (pp. 52), sewn, 3s Qd 



Potsdam, 1797 



