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



15205 TATHAM (William) NATIONAL IRRIGATION, or the various Methods of Watering Meadows 

 .... by an Agricultural, Commercial, and General Economy in the Use of Water, with copper- 

 plates, and 2 woodcuts, with author's inscr. : Anderson (James) PRACTICAL TREATISE on 

 DRAINING BOGS and SWAMPY GROUNDS ; with Remarks on the Originality of MR. ELKINGTON'S 

 Mode of Draining, also Directions for making a New Kind of Strong, Cheap, and Durable Fence, 

 for Rich Lands, at Little Expence, etc. etc., withSplates 2 vols. Svo.in 1, hf. calf, IQsQd 1801-1797 



15206 PLAN for IMPROVING the CITY of LONDON, by Means of NAVIGABLE CANALS and COM- 

 MERCIAL BASONS, with folding plan of London, 4to. (pp. 163), sewn, 7s Qd [1799J 



15207 - - REPORT on a VIEW and EXAMINATION of certain IMPEDIMENTS and OBSTRUCTIONS in 

 the NAVIGATION of the RIVER THAMES, made pursuant to a Resolution of the Navigation Com- 

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 8vo. hf. russia (binding damaged] , with old armorial bookplate of John Towneley, 6s 1803 



SPECIFICATIONS of sundry IMPROVEMENTS on the INCLINED PLANE SYSTEM of INLAND 



NAVIGATION and in MECHANICS, an original Manuscript (1798) v. SMEATON, No. 14927, ante. 



The author, a Cumbrian, went to America at the age of seventeen, served during the Revolutionary War under General 

 Charles Scott, fought at Yorktown, and afterwards settled iii Virginia. He came back to England in 1796. and obtained 

 the post of Superintendent of the London Docks at Wapping. In 1805 he went to America again, and became military 

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15208 TAYLOR (Brook, F.R.S.) CONTEMPLATIO PHILOSOPHICA : a Posthumous Work, with LIFE, by 

 his Grandson SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, F.R.S. , and Appendix of sundry ORIGINAL PAPERS, LETTERS 

 from the Count Raymond de Montmort, Lord Bolingbroke, Marcilly de Villette, Bernouilli [sic] , 

 and others, finely printed by Buhner, 8vo. sewn (portrait wanting) ; ONLY 100 COPIES PRIVATELY 

 PRINTED, 1. 5s 1793 



'The Contemplatlo Philosophica was printed at London in 1793 for private circulation and is now extremely rare.' 

 W. W. R. Ball. The life prefixed is the chief authority on the author. The letters also include Taylor's replies, containing 

 along unpublished one, a sarcastic answer to Jean Bernoulli, referring to the -Newton-Leibniz controversy, a letter on the 

 same controversy from the Abbe Conti, and one from BOSSUET. 



15209 LINEAR PERSPECTIVE: or a New Method of representing justly all Manner of Objects 



as they appear to the Eye in all Situations, first edition, with vignette, and 18 plates, 8vo. sound 

 copy in contemporary panelled calf, with old armorial bookplate of Oliver Acton (rare], 12s Qd 1715 



15210 - - NEW PRINCIPLES of LINEAR PEESPECTIVE : or the Art of Designing on a Plane the 

 Representations of all sorts of Objects in a more General and Simple Method that has been hitherto 

 done; 3rd Edition, revised and corrected by JOHN COLSON, F.R.S., with 13 folding plates, 8vo. 

 rough calf (damaged), ivith auto, of Sir John William Lubbock, F.R.S. (rare), 12s 6d 1749 



' Containing the earliest general enunciation of the principle of vanishing points '. W. W. R. Ball. 

 These were the first English works treating the subject of perspective scientifically. 



15211 TAYLOR (Frederick William), and Sanford Eleazer THOMPSON : TREATISE on 

 CONCRETE PLAIN and REINFORCED: Materials, Construction, and Design of Concrete and 

 Reinforced Concrete, with Chapters by R. FERET, WILLIAM B. FULLER, FRANK P. McKiBBEN, 

 and SPENCER B. NEWBERRY ; 2nd [latest] Edition [greatly enlarged], with frontispiece, 249 illus- 

 trations, and numerous folding charts, 8vo. cl., 12s (p. 1. Is nett) New York, 1909 



15212 TAYLOR (Joseph) The COMPLETE WEATHER GUIDE : a Collection of Practical Observations 

 for Prognosticating the Weather, including the SHEPHERD of BANBURY'S RULES, explained on 

 Philosophical Principles, with Miscellaneous Observations on Meteorology, and a curious Botanical 

 Clock, folding frontispiece, fcap. 8vo. boards, uncut, 5s 1814, or '20 



TAYLOR (Richard, F.S.A.) SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS (1837-53) v. Nos. 11744-5 and 14772 ante. 



15213 TAYLOR (Thomas ; ' Platonist ') THEORETIC ARITHMETIC, containing the Substance of all 

 written on this Subject by THEO of SMYRNA, NICOMACHUS, IAMBLICHUS and BOETIUS, with 

 some remarkable Particulars respecting PERFECT, AMICABLE, and other NUMBERS not to be found 

 in the Writings of any Ancient or Modern Mathematicians, likewise, a Specimen of the Manner 

 in which the PYTHAGOREANS philosophized about NUMBERS, and a Development of their Mystical 

 and Theological Arithmetic, 8vo. cl., uncut (SCARCE), 1. 5s printed for the Author, 1816 



15214 TAYLOR (Thomas Glanville, F.R.S., Astronomer to H.E.I. Co.) GENERAL CATALOGUE of 

 the PRINCIPAL FIXED STARS, from Observations made at the Hon. East India Co.'s Observatory 

 at MADRAS, 1830-43, with vignette of Madras Observatory on title, 4to. cl. (VERY SCARCE), with 

 auto, and MS. corrections by Dr. A. M. W. Downing, F.R'.S., 1. 10s Madras, 1844 



Containing 11,015 stars reduced to 1835.0. 



' The greatest catalogue of modern times. In the number of observations, and in the number and distribution of the 

 stars, and in the circumstance that the observations were made, reduced, combined, and printed at the same place, and 

 under the same superintendence, it bears the palm from all others." Sir George Airy, F.R.S. 



15215 TECHNICAL DICTIONARIES, The DEINHARDT-SCHLOMANN SERIES of, in Six LANGU- 

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 ELEMENTS and TOOLS for WORKING in METAL and WOOD, with Appendix edited by P. STULP- 

 NAGEL ; with 823 illustrations, large 12mo. cl., 3s (p. 5s nett) 1906 



15216 - - VOL. V : RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION and OPERATION, compiled by AUGUST 

 BOSHART ; with about 1900 illustrations, large 12mo. (pp. 883), cl., 7s 6d (p. 12s nett) 1909 



15217 . - VOL. VI: RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK, compiled by AUGUST BOSHART; with 



about 2100 illustrations, large 12mo. (pp. 809), cl., 6s (p. 10s Qd nett) ' 1909 



15218 VOL. X: MOTOR VEHICLES (Motor Cars, Motor Boats, Motor Airships, and 



Flying Machines), edited by RUDOLF URTEL, with very numerous illustrations, large 12mo. 



(pp. 1010), cl., 8s 6d (p. 12s nett) 1910 



15219 TECHNOLOGICAL DICTIONARY: ENGLISH, GERMAN, and FRENCH, edited by EGBERT 



v. HOYER and FRANZ KREUTER, 5th [latest and greatly enlarged] Edition, large roy. 8vo. hf. 



German morocco (fine copy), 9s (p. M. 14) Wiesbaden, 1903 



