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



14925 SMEATON (John, F.B.S., builder of the third Eddystone Lighthouse] REPORT concerning the 

 DRAINAGE of the NORTH LEVEL of the FENS, and the OUTFALL of the WISBEACH RIVER, with 

 large folding map, 4to. (pp. 24), sewn, 15s [c. 1769] 



Together with the REPORTS of JOHN GOLBORNE, Engineer, with folding map (pp. 11) ; THOMAS YEOMAN, Engineer, with 

 folding map, (pp. 12) : and JAMES BRINDLEY, a broadsheet, 1770 : Queries relating to the Reports of James Brindley and 

 John Golborne (pp. S), Lynn, 1770 : Attempt to answer the Queries relating to the Reports of Messrs Golborne and 

 Briudley (pp. 4), 1771. 



14926 - REPORT on the HARBOUR of KING'S LYNN, in Norfolk, 4to. (pp. 14), sewn, 3s Qd 1767 



14927 REPORT on the NEW-MAKING and COMPLETING the NAVIGATION of the RIVER LEE 



[LEA], from the River THAMES, through Stanstead and Ware, to the Town of HERTFORD, with 

 2 large folding maps (pp. 12), 1767 ; further : An ACT for IMPROVING the NAVIGATION of the 

 RIVER LEE from the Town of Hertford to the River Thames ; and for Extending the said Naviga- 

 tion to the Flood-gates belonging to the Town Mill in Hertford (pp. 54), '67: PROSPECTUS d'uu 

 PONT de FER d'une SUELE [sic] ARCIIE, a Manuscript on 17 pp., with auto, of Sir John 

 Rennie, F.R.S., '83 : TATHAM (William) SPECIFICATION of sundry IMPROVEMENTS on the 

 INCLINED PLANE SYSTEM of INLAND NAVIGATION, and in MECHANICS, with 2 large folding plates 

 finely handcoloured, the original Manuscript on 9 pp., signed by the Author, with Sworn 

 Information signed by him and Sir John William Anderson, Lord Mayor of London, and certified 

 by Bufus King-, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at the Court of 

 Great Britain, with SEAL of the U.S. Legation, '98 : MEMOIRE sur les ROUES a AUGETS et sur les 

 Moyens de les perfectionner ; with 3 finely handcoloured folding plates, a Manuscript (? original) 

 on 12 pp., n.d. in 1 vol. folio, hf. calf, '5. 5s 1767-98 



14928 REPORTS made on VARIOUS OCCASIONS, in the COURSE of his EMPLOYMENT as a CIVIL 



ENGINEER [with LIFE], with 70 copperplates^ and maps by W. Lowry, 3 vols. 4to. boards ( portrait 

 wanting), 1 5s 1812 



14929 - ANOTHER COPY, with fine portrait by W. Bromley after W. Brown, 3 v. ; also 

 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS forming Vol. IV), with-it copperplates and maps, 4 vols. 4to. hf. russia 

 (joints cracked), 1. 5s ' 1812-14 



14930 - - THE SAME, wanting vol. II, 3 vols. 4to. in 2, hf. calf (binding rubbed), 14s 



Published by the Society of Engineers, and containing all the author's important works, including his improvement of 

 Savery's steam-engine, accounts of his noble bridges at Perth, Banff, Coldstream, Hexham, and the North Bridge, Edin- 

 burgh (the last two now destroyed), his canal and harbour works, etc. etc. etc. 



14931 REVIEW of several MATTERS relative to the FORTH and CLYDE NAVIGATION, as now 



settled by the Act of Parliament, with some Observations on the Reports of MESS. BRINDLEY, 

 YEOMAN, and GOLBURNE [sic], 4to. (pp. 34), sewn, with auto, of John Rennie, C.E., F.R.S., 5s 1768 



14932 SMEE (Alfred, F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England; author of ' My Garden') ELEMENTS 

 of ELECTRO-METALLURGY, or the Art of Working in Metals by the Galvanic Fluid, first edition, 

 with plate, large post 8vo. cl., g. e., 5s 1841 



Containing at end : Palmer's New Catalogue, with 300 Engravings of Apparatus, illustrative of Chemistry, Pneumatics, 

 Electricity, Optics, etc., with prices (pp. 65), 1840. 



14933 SECOND EDITION, considerably enlarged, with 5 specimens of electrotype, and 37 woodcuts, 



8vo. cl. (scarce), 8s Qd 1843 



' An important work, dealing with the laws regulating the reduction of metals in different states, as well as a description 

 of the processes for platinating and palladiating, so that reliefs and intaglios in gold can be readily obtained. Smee was 

 also the first to discover the means by which perfect reverses in plaster could be made by rendering the plaster non- 

 absorbent. 1 D. N. B. 



14934 - On the GALVANIC PROPERTIES of the principal ELEMENTARY BODIES, with Description 

 of a NEW CHEMICO-MECHANICAL BATTERY, 8vo. (pp. 11), sewn, with inscr. to Gen. Sir C. W. 

 Pasley, F.R.S. (scarce), 4s 1840 



Containing the account of the author's invention of the galvanic battery known by his name (zinc and silver in sulphuric 

 acid), for which he received the Isis medal of the Society of Arts. 



14935 LECTURE on ELECTRO-METALLURGY, 15 woodcuts, 8vo. (pp. 24), sewn, with inscr. to 



Edward Solly, F.R.S. , 2s 1851 



14936 The PROCESS of THOUGHT adapted to Words and Language, with Description of the 



RELATIONAL and DIFFERENTIAL MACHINES, with frontispiece, 8vo. cl., 5s 1851 



This work is not noticed by and was apparently unknown to Smee's biographer in D. N. B. 



14937 , MEMOIR of, by his DAUGHTER [ELIZABETH MARY ODLING], with Selection from his 

 MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, steel portrait by Jeens, 3 plates, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. cl. 

 (o. p.), Qs Qd 1878 



The Miscellaneous Writings include many of his scientific papers. 



14938 SMITH (Albert William, Cornell Univ.), and Guido Hugo MARX, Stanford Univ. : 

 MACHINE DESIGN, with 278 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 12s Qdnett) New York, 1905 



14939 SMITH (Alexander, Univ. Chicago) INTRODUCTION to GENERAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 

 with 106 woodcuts and diagrams, cr. 8vo. cl., 4s Qd (p 7s Qd nett) New York, 1906 



14940 SMITH (C. A. M., Univ. Hong Kong), and A. G. WARREN : The NEW STEAM TABLES, 

 with their DERIVATION and APPLICATION, with Introduction by SIR JAMES ALFRED EWING, F.R.S., 

 with folding chart in pocket, 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 4* nett) 



14941 SMITH (David Eug-ene, Columbia Univ.), and Yoshio MIKAMI : HISTORY of JAPANESE 

 MATHEMATICS, with numerous illustrations, 8vo. cl., Ss Qd (p. 12s nett) Chicago, 1914 



The first account in English of Japanese mathematics, which are of interest for having developed quite independently 

 of European influence a form of infinitesimal calculus, known as 'circle principle', and for having anticipated the 

 discovery of determinants. 



14942 SMITH (George) DISSERTATION on the GENERAL PROPERTIES of ECLIPSES, and particularly 

 on the ensuing Eclipse of 1748, considered through all its Periods, with folding map of the Eclipse 

 of 1748, and table of 12 Solar Eclipses at London to happen in 800 years, 8vo. (pp. 19), sewn, 

 3s Qd 1748 



