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



15570 WILSON (Benjamin ; F.R.S., portrait painter) ESSAY towards an EXPLICATION of the 

 PHENOMENA of ELKCTRICITY, deduced from the ^Ether of Sir Isaac Newton, with folding copper- 

 plate nf electrical machine, etc., 8vo. (pp. 110), sewn, 7s Qd 1746 



15571 ANOTHER COPY, wanting the plate ; sewn, 4s 



Advancing a theory that 'the electric 'matter is in all bodies, in reciprocal proportion to their densities, luminous, 

 sulphureous, and unctuous bodies only excepted, that it issues from all bodies, electrified or not electrified', and 

 attempting an explanation of the cause of gravitation. 



15572 SERIES of EXPERIMENTS relating to PHOSPHORI and the Prismatic Colours they are 



found to exhibit in the Dark ; with Translation of Two MEMOIRS on the same, from the Bologna 

 Acts, by J. B. BECCARI [sic], 4to. boards, uncut, 9s 1775 



' This work was communicated to several foreign learned bodies, and was the subject of a memoir by Leonhard Euler, 

 read at the Academia Scientiarum Imperialis at St. Petersburg, and of a Letter from G. B. Beccaria '. D. N. B. 



15573 SHORT VIEW of ELECTRICITY, with plate, woodcuts, and diagrams, 4to. (pp. 37), sewn, 



6s 1180 



15574 - : SUNDRY PAPERS relative to an ACCIDENT from LIGHTNING at PURFLEET, with 4 



folding plates by B'tsire, including one of the Great Cylinder in the Pantheon, and etched portrait 



of Wilson by himself (inserted), 4to. (pp. 81), sewn (rare), 12s Qd [1777] 



Including 'New Experiments and Observations [made at the Pantheon] on the Nature and Use of Conductors,' by B. 

 WILSON (pp. 69). 



' He had a long controversy with Benjamin Franklin on the question whether lightning-conductors should be round or 

 pointed at the top [asserting that pointed conductors attracted the lightning], and was supported in his views by George 

 III., who declared his experiments were sufficient to convince the apple-women in Covent Garden.' D. N. B. The above 

 was the author's last effort in the advocacy of ball-shaped conductors, which in the above case gained strength from the 

 fact that the Purtteet Powder Magazine, which was provided with pointed conductors, was struck by the lightning. 



1 ooTo - TREATISE m ELECTRICITY, 2nd Edition, with fine etched portrait by the ARTIST HIMSELF, 



and 5 copperplates, 8vo. old calf (rare), 15s 1752 



The author was the first to use a conductor with the collector of his cylinder electrical machine. He also found that 



the electric property of tourmaline was shared by other crystals. He received the Royal Society's gold medal in 1760 for 



his electrical experiments. 



15576 WILSON (Eugene Benjamin) The CHLORINATION PROCESS, with 8 illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl., 

 3s Qd (p. 6s Qd nett) New York, 1901 



Chlorine is used in the civilised world to extract gold from the ore and to bleach fabrics : in Germany to torture men 

 to satisfy the hate of Encken and Harnack. 



15577 WILSON (George, Chymist) COMPLEAT COURSE of CHYMISTRY, containing near Three 

 Hundred Operations, several of which have not been Publish'd before ; also the Structure of 

 several Furnaces, with near 300 Characters, which are dispers'd in Chvmical Authors, and such 

 Instruments and Vessels as are necessary in a Compleat Elaboratory, first edition, with 8 plates 

 of chemical characters and apparatus, 8vo. old calf (sound copy) ; RARE, 16* Qd W. Turner, 1699 



15578 - THIRD EDITION, very much enlarged, with the Author's Experiments upon Metals, with 

 portrait cet. 78 by v. d. Gucht, and 8 copperplates of chemical characters and apparatus, 8vo. old 

 panelled calf (partly water -stained) ; rare, 10s Qd 1709 



The last 29 pp. contain experiments on the transmutation of metals, which are not included in the foregoing editions. 



15579 WILSON (Giffin; F.R.S.) ESSAY on the RESOLUTION of ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS : attempting 

 to distinguish particularly, the Real Principle of every Method, and the True Causes of the 

 Limitations to which it is subject, 4to. (pp. 40), sewn, 2s Qd [1799] 



15580 WILSON (Henry, late Mathematician to If .M.'s Navy) The DESCRIPTION and USE of that 

 most Excellent Invention, call'd the GLOBULAR CHART : shewing its Agreeableness to the Globe, 

 and the natural and easy Consequences thereof in the Practice of Navigation, with a Specimen of 

 a Sea-Chart in that Projection, and Trigonometrical Calculation to prove the Truth thereof . . . 

 also an Answer to Mr. Haselden's Letter to Dr. Halley, proving by Mathematical Demonstration, 

 that his Principal Argument is false by above Three in Five, the rest invalid, and the whole in- 

 coherent, and Appendix, containing an Answer to Mr. Collier, and proving that these two Authors 

 contradict themselves, and one another, with plate and folding map, 4to. (pp. 44), sewn (rare), 

 12s Qd J. Senex and T. Taylor, 1722 



This was published in connexion with the proposal to Parliament of John Senex, F.R.S., for the publication of a 

 complete Sea Atlas on the globular projection 



15581 - SURVEYING IMPROVED: or the Whole Art, both in Theory and Practice, fully demon- 

 strated ; 4th Edition, with Additions ; also GEODCESIA ACCURATA : or Surveying made Easy by 

 the Chain only, with a new Essay on Solids, by WILLIAM HUME, with numerous plates and 

 diagrams, 8vo. contemporary calf (fine copy), Is Qd 1755 



15582 WILSON (Herbert Michael ; U.S. Bureau of Mines) IRRIGATION ENGINEERING, 5th Edition, 

 with 41 plates and 148 other illustrations, large cr. 8vo. cl. (cover stained), 8s (p. 17s nett) 



New York, 1906 



15583 - - TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYING, including Geographic, Exploratory, and Military Mapping, 

 with Hints on Camping. Emergency Surgery, and Photography, ivith 4 plates and 205 other illus- 

 trations, 8vo. cl. (cover damaged), Qs Qd (p. 1 5s nett) ibidem, 1902 



15584 WINCHILSEA (Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of) : A TRUE and EXACT RELATION of the late 

 PRODIGIOUS EARTHQUAKE and ERUPTION of MOUNT ^ETNA, or Monte-Gibello ; as it came in a 

 Letter written to His Majesty from Naples by the Right Hon. the EARLE of WINCHILSEA, His 

 Majestie's late Ambassador at Constantinople, who in his Return from thence, visiting Catania 

 in the Island of Sicily, was an EY-WITNESS of that DREADFULL SPECTACLE. Together with a 

 more particular Narrative of the same, as it is collected out of severall Relations sent from 

 Catania, with folding copperplate, and another contemporary view on copper of the Eruption (added), 

 sm. 4to. (pp. 38), hf. roan (VERY RARE), 1. 5s T. Neivcomb in the Savoy, 1669 



The last 2 pp. contain ' a List of the most considerable Towns and Places Ruin'd and destroyed by the Dreadful 

 Earthquake and Eruptions.' 



