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



15093 STOCKMAN (Bernardus, eertyts Fransoysche Schoolrn r - tot Dordrecht} ARITHMETICA, met 

 Tafelken om te rebatteren, door ABEL W. WASSENAER, van nieus oversien, gecorrigeert en 

 verbeetert; engraved title with portrait, 12mo. old vellum (rare), 12s 6d Amsterdam, 1648 



This work was unknown to Prof, de Morgan, Poggendorff, and other bibliographers. It contains much on commercial 

 arithmetic. 



15094 STOFFLER (Johann ; Univ. Tubingen) CALENDARIUM ROMANUM MAGNUM [in fine: 

 ABACUS REGIONUM, Principatuii, Ducatuu, Satrapiaru, MarchiarCi Comitatuum, Prouinciaru, 

 Insularfi, Peninsularu, et Oppidorum nobilioru, aut cognobilioru per tota ferme Europa ; title sur- 

 rounded by woodcut border of arms, and numerous fine ivoodcut initials ; the second part printed 

 in red and black, with beautiful woodcut vignettes representing the seasons, fortified towns, etc. 

 [col. :] Oppenheym per Jacobum Kobel, 1518 : RUDIMENTA MATHEMATICA, haec in duos digeruntur 

 Libros, quorum prior GEOMETRIC tradit Principia seu Prima Elementa, una cum Rerum et 

 uariarum Figuraru Dimensionibus. Posterior uer6 omnigenum HOROLOGIORUM docet DELINK- 

 ATIONES, autore Sebastiano Munstero; with folding plate, and numerous large and fine wood- 

 cuts and diagrams [col. :~\ Basilem in officina Henrichi Petri, 1551 2 vols. folio in 1, old calf gilt, 

 with arms on sides (binding rubbed and back damaged, but SOUND AND TALL COPIES) ; very rare, 

 7. Is 1518-51 



The above edition of the first work is according to Houzeau and Lancaster (Bibliographic de I' Astronomic) 'fort rare. 

 Ouvrage remarquable comrne execution typographique, irn prime en rouge et noir, orne danstoute son etenduede superbes 

 initiales et d'enjolivements. Les colonnes de la table des lieux se terminent par de charmantes vues de villes : il y en a 

 24. La seconde partie, contenant le calendrier proprement dit, oftre a cote de chaque mois ie signe du zodiaque, et au bas 

 les attributs propres aux difterentes epoqnes de 1'aunee ; il y en a egalement 24, graves sur bois par un mattre de 1'ecolede 

 Fraucfort. Vient ensuite le tableau des eclipses de Soleil et de Luue, depuis 1518 jusqu'en 1575, au nombre de 63, avec 

 diagrammes pour toutes. A la fin, une table de la Lune, le quadrant, le cadran solaire et 1'instrument pour determiner les 

 heures temporaires, fort bieti executes, dans toute la grandeur de la page '. 



The second work is valuable for its treatise on dialling (pp. 74-243), one of the earliest works on the subject. 



15095 - ELUCIDATIO FABRICS USUSQUE ASTROLABII, cui multa et diligens accessit Recognitio, 

 unk cum Schematum Negotio accommodatorum, exactissima Expressione, et Indice Rerum et 

 Verborum copiosissimo ; printed in italics, with numerous fine woodcuts, and folding tables, 12mo. 

 hf. calf gilt (nice copy) ; RARE, 1. 5s Lutetian, Gul. Cauellat, 1553 



' Ouvrage qui resume les precedes employes alors pour la construction des astrolabes ; une analyse a ete donnee dans 

 1'Histoire de 1' Astronomic de Delambre. Biogr. G6n. 



15096 In PROCLI DIADOCHI, Authoris grauissimi SPH^RAM MUNDI, omnibus Numeris longe 



absolutissimus COMMENTARIUS, ante hac nunquam Typis excusus ; with numerous diagrams, 

 folio, sewn (RARE), 1. 5s (col.:) Tubingce, ex offic. Hulderrichi M orhart, 1534 



15097 STONE (Edmund, F.R.S.) ANALISE des INFINIMENT PETITS, comprenantle CALCUL INTEGRAL 

 dans toute son Etendue ; avec son Application aux Quadratures, Rectifications, Cubatures, Centres 

 de Gravite, de Percussion, et de toutes Sortes de Courbes, traduitpar M. RONDET; with 4 folding 

 plates : ANALYSE des INFINIMENT PETITS, pour 1'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes, par le 

 Marquis de FHospital, 2 Edition ; with II folding plates 2 vols. 4to. in 1, old hf. calf (back 

 damaged), with long presentation inscription by James Lockhart (well-known amateur mathema- 

 tician), 8s 1735-16 



L'Hpspital's work was the first published in French on the differential calculus. Stone's was originally published 

 with his English translation of the first work, and was later translated into French as the first work published in that 

 language on the integral calculus. 



15098 [ ] The DESCRIPTION, NATURE and GENERAL USE, of the SECTOR and PLAIN-SCALE, 



briefly and plainly laid down ; as also, a* Short Account of the USES of the LINES of NUMBERS, 

 ARTIFICIAL SINES and TANGENTS; 2nd Edition, with 3 folding plates, post 8vo. (pp. 44), sewn 

 (rare), Is 6d 1728 



The authorship of this brochure is not noticed in D. N. B., Allibone, or Poggendorff, and was unknown to Halkett 

 and Laing, but may be inferred from the preface being signed E. S. Stone also revised the new edition of Cunn's Treatise 

 of the Sector in 1729. 



15099 - NEW MATHEMATICAL DICTIONARY, wherein is contain'd, not only the Explanation of 



the bare Terms, but likewise an HISTORY of, with the Rise, Progress, State, Properties, etc. of 

 Things in PURE MATHEMATICKS and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, first edition, with numerous 

 woodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. contemporary calf gilt (rare), 6s 1726 



15100 SECOND [LAST] EDITION, with [Preface and] large Additions, with numerous woodcuts 

 and diagrams, 8vo. old calf, roughly rebacked (title and some II. soiled), 5s 1743 



15101 - Some REFLECTIONS on the UNCERTAINTY of many ASTRONOMICAL and GEOGRAPHICAL 

 POSITIONS, with Regard to the Figure and Magnitude of the EARTH, the finding the LONGITUDE 

 at SEA by WATCHES, and other Assertions of the most eminent Astronomers ; with some Hints 

 towards their Reformation and Emendation, post 8vo. (pp. 135), sewn, 6s 1766 



'Consisting of a series of propositions attacking the accuracy of the conclusions of astronomers concerning the shape 

 of the earth and other matters of a similar kind.' D. N. B. 



1 Exposing the weakness and insufficiency of the arguments and proofs of those who will have the figure of the earth 

 spherial or spheroidical, with some hints tending to shew the uncertainty of the truth of the Newtonian physical 

 part of astronomy.' p. 17. 



15102 STONE (Edward, pr., Wadham Coll.) The WHOLE DOCTRINE of PARALLAXES explained and 

 illustrated by an Arithmetical and Geometrical Construction of the TRANSIT of VENUS over the 

 Sun, June 6th, 1761 ; with a new and general Method of determining the Places where any Transit 

 of this Planet, and especially that which will be June 3d, 1769, may be best observed for the 

 Investigation of its Parallax, with numerous diagrams, post 8vo. (pp. 108), sewn, 4s Oxford, 1758 



15103 STORER (Frank Humphreys ; Mass. Insi. Technology) FIRST OUTLINES of a DICTIONARY 

 of SOLUBILITIES of CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, thick roy. 8vo. cl., with auto, of Alex. Scott, F.R.S. 

 (VERY SCARCE), 2. 10* Cambridge [Mass.], 1864 



The only dictionary of chemical solubilities ever attempted, and at the same time the first English alphabetical 

 catalogue of chemical substances. 



