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1607.

4 pieces in 1 vol., sm. 4to., old calf, lettered MISCELL

TRACTS

1602-1612-1618-1607 36 Gilbert's famous book on the Magnet is described under No. 786 (see the first item-BLUNDEVILLE).

668 BOOLE (G.). An INVESTIGATION of the LAWS of THOUGHT, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. 8vo., cloth; scarce 1854 A TREATISE ON DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Second Edition, revised. 1865.-SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME. 1865.-together, 2 vols., post 8vo., cloth; VERY SCARCE

669

1865

670 BOYLE (R.). New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of Antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs's Doctrine about Cold. Whereunto is annexed an Account of Freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by the learned Dr. C. Merret, a Fellow of it. Together with an Appendix, containing some promiscuous Experiments and Observations relating to the precedent History of Cold . . . Sm. 4to., with copperplates; old calf 1683 671 BRITISH ASSOCIATION. THE CATALOGUE OF STARS of the BRITISH ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of SCIENCE; containing the Mean Right Ascensions and North Polar Distances of 8377 Fixed Stars, reduced to January 1, 1850: together with their Annual Precessions, Secular Variations and Proper Motions, as well as the Logarithmic Constants for computing Precession, Aberration and Nutation. With a Preface explanatory of their Construction and Application. By F. BALLY. 4to., bds.; VERY RARE

672

the same. 4to., half calf

673 BRÜNNOW (F.). Spherical Astronomy. 8vo., cloth; scarce

1845 4

1845

1865 0

n. d.

674 CAPRON (J. R.). A Plea for the Rainband and the Rainband vindicated. 8vo., with 5 plates; cloth; SCARCE

675 CALANDRI. (alb) Pictagoras arithmetrice intro
ductor (Then follows a large woodcut of Pythagoras and
his pupils.) (a2a, lines 1-2 | Philippi Calandri ad
nobilem et studiosuz Julia | num Laurentii Medice de
arithmethrica opusculu. | (Colophon :) | Im presso nella
excelsa cipta di Firenze per 3 | Lorenzo de Morgiani et
Giouanni Thedesco de Maganza finito a di primo di |
Gēnaio 1491 Sm. 8vo., 104 ll. with the woodcut of Pytha-
goras (mentioned above), 2 pp. of Manual Figure Signs,
a number of elegant woodcut borders, and numerous wood-
cuts of subjects principally connected with the Practical Arts;
vellum
Florence, 1491
EXTREMELY RARE. The first on De Morgan's chronological list
of arithmetical books. Of the Grenville copy
he says,

"This

book, which very few have mentioned at all, and fewer still from
inspection, is a part of the rich bequest of the late Mr. Grenville to the
nation. He [, the author,] explains the leading rules, except
divisions, for integers and for lire, soldi, and denari.
Division he puts
down in examples, and appears to have mistaken the mode of working,
or to have had an incorrect printer. His notion of a divisor is curious.
When he divides by 8 he calls his divisor seven; demanding, as it
were, that quotient which, with seven more like itself, will make the
dividend. He also describes the rules for fractions, and gives some
geometrical and other applications.'

scarce

676 CARMICHAEL (R.). A Treatise on the Calculus of Operations. 8vo., cloth; 1855 677 CARRINGTON (R. C.). Observations of the Spots on the Sun, from November 9th, 1853, to March 24th, 1861, made at Redhill. Roy. 4to., with 166 plates; cloth

678 CAUCHY (A. L.).

680

158)

EXERCICES de MATHÉMATIQUES.

0 18 0

3 16 0

076

1863 Vols. I-IV and the unfinished Vol. V, in 2 vols., 4to., all published; full calf gilt, gilt edges Paris, 1826-30 679 CAYLEY (A.). COLLECTED MATHEMATICAL PAPERS. 13 vols. --INDEX. 1 vol.-together, 14 vols., 4to., bds. ( pub. £16. 12s 6d) Cambridge, 1889-98 10 10 0 An Elementary Treatise on Elliptic Functions. 8vo., cloth (pub. 1876 681 CHASLES. APERÇU HISTORIQUE sur l'ORIGINE et le DÉVELOPPEMENT des MÉTHODES en GÉOMÉTRIE, particulièrement de celles qui se rapportent à la Géométrie moderne, suivi d'un Mémoire de Géométrie sur deux Principes généraux de la Science, la Dualité et l'Homographie. Seconde Edition. 4to., half brown morocco Paris, 1875 682 CHILDE (G. F.). Investigations in the Theory of reflected Ray-Surfaces, and their Relation to plane reflected Caustics. Also, in the Appendix, a Theory of plane caustic Curves, identified with the Evolute of the auxiliary Curve of equiangular Intersection. 8vo., presentation copy from the Author; bds.; scarce Cape Town, 1857 683 CLERKE (A. M.). A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Second Edition. 8vo., pp. xvi, 502, with frontispiece;

684

cloth

1887

The System of the Stars. 8vo., illustrated; cloth (pub. £1. 7s) 1890 685 COPERNICUS. (Fol. 1a, lines 1-4 :) NICOLAI CO- | PERNICI TORINENSIS | DE REVOLVTIONIBVS ORBI= | um cœleftium, Libri VI. (The same, lines 14-15 :) | Norimbergæ apud Ioh. Petreium, | Anno M. D. XLIII. |

686

4to., EDITIO PRINCEPS, with numerous diagrams; a fine and large copy, many ll. untouched by the knife, crimson morocco extra, gilt top, by Broca

1 17 6

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050 0 10 0

Nuremberg, 1543 52 10 0

EXTREMELY RARE. This world-famed book was placed on the
Index Librorum prohibitorum.

Amsterdam, 1617

The third Edition. The first appeared in 1543 (see ante) and the second in 1566. The above edition is the first with Muler's notes. It appeared again, with a new title-page, in 1640.

2 18 0

689 DE MORGAN (A.). The Differential and Integral Calculus.

687 CRESSWELL (D.). Maxima and Minima. Second Edition. 8vo., bds. (pub. 128) Cambridge, 1817 688 DAMOISEAUX (Le Baron de). Tables écliptiques des Satellites de Jupiter.

4to., bds.

cloth

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Paris, 1836

8vo.,

1842

690 690*

A BUDGET OF PARADOXES. 8vo., pp. vii, 511; cloth; RARE 1872 691 DESCARTES (R.). EUVRES, publiées par V. COUSIN. with portrait; half crimson morocco

11 vols., 8vo., Paris, 1824-26 692 EUCLID. (Fol. 1a, lines 1-3) | EVCLIDIS MEGARENSIS MATHEMATICI CLARISSIMI ELEMEN- torum Geometricorum. Lib. XV. (The same, lines 10-12) | BASILEÆ APVD JOHANNEM HERVAGIVM, MENSE AVGVSTO. ANNO | M.D.XXXVII.

VITELLIO. (Fol. 1a, lines 1-6) | VITELLIONIS MATHEMATICI | id
eft de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum uifus, lu minum,
colorum atq; formarum, quam uul | go Perfpectiuam uocant, libri x. ↑
(The same, line 20:) | Norimberge apud Io. Petreium, Anno MDXXXV. I
the two works in 1 vol., sm. folio, each with a great number of woodcut
diagrams; a noble volume in old stamped pigskin, with the inscription
BIBL HALL *1690*
Basel, 1537-Nuremberg, 1535

693 FARADAY (N.). On the Various Forces of Nature and their Relations to
each other. Cr. 8vo., pp. 200, illustrated; cloth
1894
694 FERMAT. (Fol. la:) | VARIA OPERA MATHEMATICA D. PETRI DE FERMAT, ¦
SENATORIS TOLOSANI. | Accefferunt felectæ quædam ejufdem Epiftolæ, vel
| ad ipfum à plerifque doctifsimis viris Gallicè, Latinè, vel Italicè, de
rebus ad Mathematicas difciplinas, aut Physicam pertinentibus
fcriptæ. | (Here a woodcut device.) | TOLOSÆ, | Ápud JOANNEM PECH,
Comitiorum Fuxenfium Typographum, juxta
juxta Collegium PP.
Societatis JESU | (Here a ruled line.) | M. DC. LXXIX,

695

Folio, with the rare portrait and 5 folding plates; a very fine copy in old French calf gilt Toulouse, 1679

The correspondence includes letters from and to eminent mathematicians such as Sir Kenelm Digby, Pascal, Mersenne, and Wallis. "Fermat est le véritable inventeur du calcul differentiel."-Laplace.

the same. Folio, without the portrait, but having a considerable number of annotations and additions by MONTUCLA both on separate sheets and the margins; old half calf gilt

1679 Montucla's own annotated copy and therefore of great interest to the collector. An early 19th century inscription on the fly-leaf reads as follows: "Cet exemplaire a été acheté à la vente des livres de M. Montucla, auteur de l'histoire des Mathématiques; les notes marginales font de sa main."

696 FLAMMARION (C.). La Planète Mars et ses Conditions d'Habitabilité. Synthèse générale de toutes les Observations. Climatologie, Météorologie, Aréographie, Continents, Mers et Rivages, Eaux et Neiges, Saisons, Variations observées. Impl. 8vo., with 23 charts and 580 illustrations in the text; cloth

...

Paris, 1892

697 GALILEI Galilæi. Systema cosmicum . . . Sm. 4to., with portrait, engraved title, and numerous woodcuts; old calf

The treatise De Motu is included in this edition.

Leyden, 1699

698 GANOT. Elementary Treatise on Physics, experimental and applied. Translated and edited from Ganot's Éléments de Physique by E. Atkinson. Fifteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Post 8vo., pp. xi, 1142, with 9 coloured plates and maps and 1057 woodcuts; cloth (pub. 158)

1898

699 GRANT (R.). History of Physical Astronomy, from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. 8vo., with woodents;

cloth

10 1

1852 0

00 GUNTER. (Letterpress title:) | THE VVORKS OF EDMUND GUNTER: | Conteining The defcription and ufe of the Sector, Crofs-ftaff, | and othur Instruments, | With a Canon of artificiall Signes and Tangents, to a Radius of 10000,0000 parts, and the uie thereof | in Astronomie, Navigation, Dialling, &c. | Much enlarged by the Author through the whole work in his life time, together with a new Treatife of | FORTI FICATION. Whereunto is now added | The further ufe of the Quadrant fitted for daily practife, with | new Lines ferving the former ufes and many other purposes more accurately, (Here a ruled line.) | By SAMUEL FOSTER, late Profeffor of Astronomie, in Grefham Colledge, London. | (Here a ruled line). | THE THIRD EDITION | Diligently perused, corrected and amended by Henry Bond, Pra- | ctitioner in the Mathe maticks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower. | (Here a ruled line.) | LONDON, | Printed by F. N. for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be fold at the Mary-gold in S. Paul's Church-yard. 1653. |

Sm. 4to., with engraved title, copperplate, and numerous woodcuts; a fine copy in the original calf

1653

Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) did for sines and tangents what his colleague, Henry Briggs, did for natural numbers. Both of these distinguished mathematicians were professors at Gresham College. Gunter's scale and Gunter's chain are well known, the latter being constantly used in land-surveying.

In 1622 Gunter discovered by experiments that the declination of the magnetic needle had varied five degrees in forty-two years (see Cross-Staffe, bk. 2, chap. 5). He suspected an error and dropped his investigations. His successor at Gresham College, Henry Gellibrand, confirmed and established Gunter's results. Gunter when drawing the lines upon the dials in Whitehall Gardens made allowance for this variation. These dials were destroyed in 1697.

701 GYLDEN (H.). Traité analytique des Orbites absolues des huit Planètes principales. Tome I. Théorie générale des Orbites absolues. 4to., pp. viii, 577; sd. (pub. 35 fr.) Stockholm, 1893 702 HAGEN (J. G.). Arithmetische und algebraische Analyse. Roy. 4to., pp. viii, 399 (pub. 30 m.); cloth Berlin, 1891 603 HARRIS (J.). The Description and Use of the Globes and the Orrery. 8vo., with folding plates; old calf

1731

704 HOOD. (Title :) THE MAKING and vie of the Geometri- call Inftrument,
called a SECTOR. Whereby many neceffarie Geometri- call conclufions
concerning the proportio- nall defcription, and diuifion of lines, and
fi-gures, the drawing of a plot of ground, the tranflating of it from
one quantitie to another, and the cafting of it vp Geometrically, the
measuring of heights, lengths and breadths may be mechanically
perfor- med with great expedition, eafe, and delight to all those, which
com- monly follow the practife of the Mathematicall Arts, either in
Suraaying of Land, or o-therwife. Written by Thomas Hood, Doctor
in Phyficke. 1598. The Inftrument is made by Charles Whitwell,
dwelling without Temple Barre against S. Clements Church. LONDON
Printed by Ichn Windet, and are to folde at the great North dore of
Paules Church by Samuel Shorter.

Sm. 4to., with copperplates and woodcuts; a large and fine copy in
polished red morocco extra, rough gilt edges, by Riviere
COLLATION: A, 2 ll.; B—O, in fours; P, 2 ll. ; 2 unnumbered engravings on

copper.

705 HOPTON (A.).

1598

Glasse. Containing the Vse of the

With

Plain Table, and
Circumferentor.

many Rules of Geometry, Astronomy, Topogra-phy Perspectiue, and Hydrography... 1611. 1 vol., with woodcuts and folding diagrams KEPLER (J.). EPHEMERIDES MOTVVM COELESTIVM ad Annos vulgaris æræ 1633. 1634. 1635. & 1636 ... Govdæ

M. DC. XXXII.

1 vol.

ROSSE (A.). THE NEW PLANET NO PLANET: or the Earth no wandring
Star; except in the wandring Heads of Galileans
and Co-
pernicus his Opinion, as erroneous, ridiculous, and impious, fully
refuted. . . In Answer to a Discourse, that the Earth may be
a Planet
1646. 1 vol.

3 works in 1 vol., sm. 4to., fine copies in old calf

706 HUYGENS. Cristiani Hugenii . . . Systema Satvrnivm

1611-46 Sm. 4to.,

with copperplates and woodcuts; old calf, rebacked The Hague, 1659 707 JOURDANET (D.). Influence de la Pression de l'Air sur la Vie de l'Homme. Climats d'Altitude et Climats de Montagne. 2 vols., impl. 8vo., pp. iii, 391, 427, profusely illustrated; half green morocco, gilt tops Paris, 1875 708 KEPLER. NOVA STEREOMETRIA DOLIORUM VINARIORUM, in pri-mis Austriaci, figuræ omnium aptissima; et Usus in es Virge Cubi-ca compendiosissimus & pla-ne singularis. Accessit Stereometriæ Archime-deæ Supplementum. Authore Ioanne Kepplero... Sm. folio, with diagrams; limp binding

Linz, 1615 709 LEDGER (E.). The Sun: its Planets and their Satellites. Svo., with chart, 8 plates, and 94 woodcuts; cloth (pub. 10s 6d) 1882 710 LEWIS (Sir G. C.). An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients. 8vo., cloth; scarce 1862 711 LEYBOURN. (Title, lines 1-10:) The ART of DIALLING, Performed | GEOMETRICALLY, | By Scale and Compaffes: | ARITHMETICALLY, | By the Canons of Sines and Tangents: | INSTRUMENTALLY, By a Trigonal Instrument, accommodated with | Lines for that purpose: | (The same, lines 16-19) By WILLIAM LEYBOURN, Philomath. | (Here a ruled line.) | LONDON, | Printed by S. G. and B. G. for Benjamin Tooke and Thomas Sawbridge next to the Anchor in Ducklane. 1669. |

Sm. 4to., with portrait, copper engravings, and woodcuts, H3 defective; old calf, repaired

1669

712 LLOYD (H.). Elementary Treatise on the Wave-Theory of Light. Second Edition. 8vo., with woodcuts; cloth 1857 PROCEEDINGS. A con

713 LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY.

secutive Series from November 1878 to November 1901 inclusive, forming Vols. X-XXXIII and XXXIV pts. 1-3; together, 24 vols. and 3 parts 8vo., four vols. in 2, half calf neat, the rest in pts. as issued (published at upwards of £28) 1878-1901 714 LOVE (J.). Geodesia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring of Land, made easie. Shewing, by plain and practical Rules, how to survey, protract, cast up, reduce or divide any Piece of Land whatsoever; with new Tables for the ease of the Surveyor in reducing the Measures of Land. Moreover, a more facile and sure Way of surveying by the Chain, than has hitherto been taught. As also, how to lay-out new Lands in America . . . Sm. 4to., with woodcuts; a large and fine copy in old calf 1688

715 MANILIUS (Fol. 1 blank. Fol. 2a, lines 1-3) | MARCI

MANLII POETAE CLARISSIMI ASTRONOMICON AD CAESAREM

AVGVST | VM LIBER PRIMVS. §. | (Fol. 88b, lines 8-11:) |

BONONIAE IMPRESSVM PER ME VGONEM RVGERIVM. ET
DONINVM BERTOCHVM | ANNO DOMINI. M.CCCCLXXIIII. DIE

£ 8.

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Sm. folio, 88 . (1 blank), unnumbered; a very fine and large copy in brown morocco, gilt edges Bologna, 1474 31 The first edition with a date, and the first edition, absolutely, according to Dibdin, Maittaire, and Fossi. Brunet assigns the undated edition printed in Nuremberg to circa 1472.

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