HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 731 



14623 SABINE (Robert) The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, first edition, with 189 woodcuts, 8vo. cL 

 (SCARCE), 10s Qd 1867 



Historically important as the first complete English work on the subject. It is dedicated to Sir William Siemens. 

 The later editions were much condensed. 



14624 SAGE (Balthazar Georges, de I'lnstitut) L'ART d'ESSAYER 1'OR et I'ARGENT; Tableau 

 compart de la COUPELLATION des Substances metalliques, par le Moyen du PLOMB ou du BISMUTH : 

 Precedes pour obtenir 1'Or plus pur que par la voie du Depart ; with 4 folding plates on copper, 8vo. 

 old mottled calf extra (loose in cover] rare, 12s Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1780 



' Sage peut etre regarde comme ayant cree la docimasie en France, et c'est la son plus beau titre de gloire. Biogr. Gen. 

 He was the first to mention in this work that ferrocyanide of potassium may be obtained in solid form. 



H625 EXAMEN CHYMIQUE de DIFFERENTES SUBSTANCES MINERALES ; ESSAI sur le VIN, les 



PIERRES, les BEZOARDS, et d'autres Parties d'Histoire Naturelle et de Chymie ; Traduction d'une 

 Lettre de M. LEHMANN, sur la MINE de PLOMB ROUGE, 12mo. old hf. calf, Is Qd 1769 



14626 MEMOIRES de CHIMIE ; with folding plate of chemical symbols, 8vo. hf. bound, Ss 



Imprimerie Royale, 1773 



14627 ANOTHER COPY, old calf (joints cracked), with book-stamp of the HON. HENRY CAVEN- 

 DISH, F.R.S., on rev. of title, 10s Qd 



The author describes in the above work. hydrofluoric acid, which he considers a variety of phosphoric acid. He was one 

 of the last French adherents of the Phlogiston Theory. 



14628 SAIGEY (Jacques Frederic) TRAITE de METROLOGIE, ancienne etmoderne, suivi d'un Precis 

 de CHRONOLOGIE, et des SIGNES NUMERIQUES ; with 3 copperplates (one folding) , 12mo. hf. cl., 

 3s Qd 'L. Hachette, 1834 



14629 ANOTHER COPY, hf. morocco gilt, by Belz-Niedree (nice copy), 5s Qd 



\ 4630 SAIL-MAKING, The ART of, as practised in the ROYAL NAVY, and according to the most 

 approved Methods in the Merchant Service, with the PARLIAMENTARY REGULATIONS relative to 

 SAILS and SAIL CLOTH, with etched front, of a sail-loft with its tackle, and numerous woodcuts of 

 all the sails, and elaborate tables of dimensions, 8vo. boards, uncut (rare), 12s Qd David Steel, 1796 



Very interesting as showing the elaborate art and science which went to give motive power to the old man-of-war, and 

 made possible the manoeuvres which gave England victory after victory. 



There was no copy of this edition in the Scott Library, which contained only those of 1821 and 1843, nor is there a copy 

 of any edition in the Library of the Institution of Naval Architects. 



At end is a 4-p. Catalogue of Charts, Pilots, and Navigation Books, sold by Heather and Williams. 



14631 ST. LEGEB (Mathew) ESSAY on the IMPROVEMENT of the ART of NAVIGATION; or a NEW 

 INVENTED METHOD for FINDING the LONGITUDE at SEA MECHANICALLY, by the Help of a Simple 

 Theorem founded in true Principles of Spherical Geometry, with frontispiece, 12mo. (pp. 64), sewn 

 (rare), Is Qd Dublin, printed for the author, 1776 



This work, which begins with a quotation from the Bible and ends with a receipt signed by the author, was unknown 

 to Watt, Allibone, and Lowndes. Pp. 49-63 contain 'An Absolute Time-Keeper for finding the Longitude by Celestral 

 [sic] Observation?.' 



14632 SAINT-LEON ( , chef de gare du Chemin de Fer de Paris a Rouen) MANUEL PRATIQUE des 

 CHEMINS DE FER, a 1' Usage des Voyageurs, des Industriels, des Administrations speciales, des 

 Practiciens, des Employes, et des Personnes qui se destinent k des Emplois actifs dans les nouvelles 

 Compagnies; with folding plate of carriage and. signal lamps, 12mo. sewn (scarce), 7s Qd 1845 



14633 STE. -MARIE MAGDELAINE (Pierre de, de la Congregation des Fueillans) TRAITTE 

 d'HoRLOGiOGRAPHiE, contenant plusieurs Manieres de constriiire sur TOUTES SURFACES, toutes 

 Sortes de LIGNES HORAIRES, et autres Cercles de la Sphere, avec quelques INSTRUMENS pour la 

 mesme Pratique, et pour connoistre les HEURES durant NUIT : 1'Heure de Flus et Reflus de la 

 Mer; plus la Methode de couper, en, Pierre on en Bois, les Corps Reguliers et autres Polyedres. 

 par le Cube et par le Cylindre ; 2 e Edition, augmentee de plusieurs Propositions ; with engraved 

 title, and 76 fine copperplates, 12mo. sound copy in contemporary vellum (RARE), 1. 10s 



Francois VAnglois, dit Chartres, 1645 



14634 TROISIEME EDITION, reueue, corrigee et augmentee de plusieurs Propositions et Figures ; 



with engraved title and 72 copperplates, 12mo. old calf (back damaged and somewhat browned), 

 17s Qd Jean Ditpuis, 1665 



This edition contains a number of new Propositions. 



14635 NOUVELLE EDITION [REIMPRESSION DE LA TROISIEME EDITION]; with 72 copperplates, 



12mo. old calf (back damaged ; wanting the engraved title and plate 33), 10s Qd 



Antoine Dezallier, 1680 



14636 QUATRIEME EDITION, revile et augmentee de plusieurs Remarques et Figures; with 



engraved title and 72 copperplates, 12mo. sound copy in old calf, 18s Qd Lyon, L. Plaignard, 1691 



14637 ANOTHER COPY, old calf (engraved title and Plates 37 and 69 wanting, and some others 



slightly soiled, 10s 



This edition contains a number of Tables, and 5 new Propositions. 



14638 NOUVELLE [CINQUIEME ET DERNIERE] EDITION ; with, engraved title, and 72 copper- 

 plates, 12mo. old calf, 15s A. Dezallier, 1701 



14639 ANOTHER COPY, old calf gilt (wanting engraved title and part of printed title, otherwise 



a sound copy), 8s Qd 



Unknown to Poggendorff, Graesse, Brunet, etc., while Querard only knows the editions of 1645, 1665, and 1701. It is 

 no. 11,455 in Houzeau-Lancaster. 



14640 SALVERTE (Anne Joseph Eusebe Baconniere) The PHILOSOPHY of MAGIC, PRODIGIES, 

 and APPARENT MIRACLES, translated, with Notes illustrative, explanatory, and critical, by 

 ANTHONY TODD THOMSON, M.D. [and Biographical Sketch by FRANCOIS ARAGO], 2 vols. 8vo. in 

 1, c.l. (o.p.), 10s Qd (p. 1. 4s) 1846 



' L'auteur pretend y expliquer par la physique et la chimie tous les actes attribuds par les religions anciennes et 

 modernes a une intervention surnaturelle.' Biographic Generale. He would find himself in a strangely inverted world 

 ineunte Sseculo Vigesimo, when all the prodigies' are swallowed whole and only Religion is disbelieve i 



