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3865 PLAT (Sir Hugh, of Lincoln's Inn) The JEWEL HOUSE of ART and NATURE: containing divers Rare and Profitable INVENTIONS, together with sundry new EXPERIMENTS in the Art of HUSBANDRY; with divers CHIMICAL CONCLUSIONS concerning the Art of DISTILLATION, and the rare practises and uses thereof; also a rare and excellent DISCOURSE of MINERALS, STONES, GUMS, and ROSINS, with the vertues and use thereof, by D. B., Gent. [ARNOLD DE BOATE], with numerous woodcuts, cr. 4to. old calf, newly rebacked (water-stained, otherwise a sound and large copy); RARE, £1. 12s 6d B. Alsop, 1653

Containing important recipes and notes on manures, brewing, mnemonics, moulding, and casting metals, distilling (especially of essential oils), fishing, etc., and a description of his mechanical inventions, which he first announced in a broadsheet in 1592. 'Not the least popular was his collection of recipes for preserving fruits, distilling, cooking, housewifery, cosmetics, and the dyeing of hair'.-D. N. B. The 'Discourse on Minerals' etc. is by the editor, and only contained in this, the last and best edition.

3866 POINSOT (Louis, de l'Institut) RÉFLEXIONS sur les PRINCIPES FONDAMENTAUX de la THÉORIE des NOMBRES (pp. 101), '45: RECHERCHES sur l'ANALYSE des SECTIONS ANGULAIRES (pp. 84), '25; with fourteen other Memoirs by Poncelet and Barré de St.-Venant (as under)-in all 16 parts in one vol. 4to. cl. (SCARCE), £1. 15s 1825-45

The first memoir is scarce, and 'présente des démonstrations nouvelles, qui me paraissent à la fois plus simples et plus directes.'-P. 1. The following are the Memoirs added :-PONCELET (Général Jean Victor, de l'Institut) Note relative au Calcul des Pressions dans le Cylindre des Machines à Vapeur (pp. 9), '43: Notes sur les Expériences de M. Pecqueur, relatives à l'Écoulement de l'Air dans les Tubes, etc. (pp. 22), '45: ST.-VENANT (Barré de; de l'Institut) Note sur les Relations entre les neuf Cosinus des Angles de deux Systèmes de trois Droites rectangulaires (pp. 8), '44: Note sur les Fléxions considérables des Verges élastiques (pp. 10), 44: Note sur la Pression dans l'Intérieur des Corps ou à leurs Surfaces de Séparatiou (pp. 4), '45: Mémoires sur la Résistance des Solides (pp. 13), '44; AND EIGHT OTHER MEMOIRS BY THE SAME, '43-5.

3867 RADIO ENGINEERS (INSTITUTE of), PROCEEDINGS of the, edited by ALFRED N. GOLDSMITH, Vol. IV, with plates and numerous text-illustrations, 6 parts 8vo. sewn, 15s (p. $6 nett) New York, 1916 3868 REGIOMONTANUS (Joannes) FUNDAMENTA OPERATIONUM, quae fiunt per Tabulam Generalem; vel, Apodixes et Demonstrationes earum, quæ in Tabulis Primi Mobilis, cum Tabulis Eclipsium BURBACHII [sic] Praeceptoris editis a [GEORGIO] TANSTETERO, præcepit, in communem omnium Mathematum studiosorum Utilitatem nunc primum editæ [ab ANDREA SCHONERO]; with bold title in red and black, woodcut arms of Otto Heinrich, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein on rev., and diagrams, folio, boards (VERY LARGE AND FINE COPY); VERY RARE, £3. 3s

Neuburgi ad Danubium, 1557 These astronomical tables superseded the Alphonsine ones (q. v. No. 3847), and were of importance in having promoted the voyages of discovery during the end of the XV. and the beginning of the XVI. Century. Both Columbus and Vasco da Gama are known to have used them.

3869 RÖNTGEN SOCIETY, The JOURNAL of the, for the Study and Discussion of X-Rays and allied Phenomena in their Relation to Medicine, the Arts, and Sciences, edited by J. H. GARDINER, F.C.S., with the Co-operation of the Council, complete from the Beginning in 1904 to July, 1917 (Vols. I—XIII, Part 3), with fine photogravure portraits of Presidents, etc., numerous radiographs and other plates, and text-illustrations, 12 vols. and 3 parts cr. 4to., vv. I—IX in 3 vols. art-cl., and the rest in parts as issued (wanting titles to vv. I and III); SCARCE, £10. 10s 1904-17

Containing original papers by Dr. C. G. Barkla, W. Dnddell, F.R.S., C. E. S. Phillips, F.R.S.E., Prof. A. W. Porter, F.R.S., C. W. Rafferty, F.R.A.S., Proff. Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., Wertheim Salamonson, Frederick Soddy, F.R.S., and the Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S,, A. A. C. Swinton, F.R.S., Proff. Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., and E. Wilson, and the Editor. 3870 SFORTUNATI (Giovanni, da Siena) Nvovo LUME. LIBRO di ARITHMETICA. Intitulato: Nuovo Lume imp[er]oche molte p[ro]positioni che per altri autori sono falsamête cõcluse: in questo si emedano: & castigano: con chiare: lucide: & aperte dimostrationi: molto bene discusse, & ventillate. Co vno breve TRATTATO di GEOMETRIA: per quãto à vno pratico Agrimensore si conuego, con TAUOLE da COMPORRE le CORDE; da misurare la tenuta da ciaschuna botte & etiam li staggiuoli da misurare gli scemi di quelle. Composto per lo acutissimo perscrutatore delle Archimediane & Euclidiane dottrine, príma edizione; with title within woodcut border, woodcutinitial with portrait (? of the author), vignette at end, and woodcuts and diagrams on margins, sm. 4to. contemporary limp vellum (a very fine and unusually tall copy); VERY RARE, [col.:] Vinegia per Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1534 ANOTHER COPY, old hf. vellum (a few corners water-stained, otherwise a FINE COPY), Consisting of 129 numbered 11., signatures a―p in fours, and q in 5, the last leaf being blank. The first copy contains at end a 4-page Italian Arithmetical MS. Questa prima edizione è rarissima Lo Sfortunati, il cui nome figura nella famosa quistione fra Cardano e Tartaglia, viene meritamente noverato tra i migliori autori aritmetici del principio del secolo XVI.'-Riccardi.

3871

3872

3873

3874

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[SECONDA EDIZIONE]; title within woodcut border, woodcuts and diagrams, and vignette at end, sm. 4to. old boards (FINE COPY), £1. 5s [title:] 1544. [col. :] Venegia, Bernardino de Bindoni, 1545

ANOTHER COPY, boards, uncut (title mended and some ll. stained), 17s 6d

A reprint of the first edition on 129 numbered 11. The spelling, woodcut border, and vignette however are different. ALTRA EDIZIONE; with woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. old limp vellum, £1. 1s [col. :] Venetia, Francesco de Leno, 1568 The third and last edition. All editions of this work are very rare, especially the first. The last, of 1568, was unknown to Brunet and Graesse, who mention however a reprint of the first edition, Siena, 1534.

Prof. de Morgan, who owned an imperfect copy of an edition which he was on this account unable to describe, states: 'I can find no mention of Sfortunati in catalogues.'

XIII. ADDENDA, continued :

3876 SCHRÖTER (Johann Hieronymus) APHRODITOGRAPHISCHE FRAGMENTE, zur genauern Kenntniss des PLANETEN VENUS; sammt beygefügter Beschreibung des Lilienthalischen 27 füssigen Telescops, mit practischen Bemerkungen und Beobachtungen über die Grösse der Schöpfung; with 10 copperplates, 4to. boards, 12s 6d Helmstedt, 1796

3877

All the author's works are rare, many copies having perished in the fire caused by the French during their occupation of Bremen in 1813. SELENOTOPOGRAPHISCHE FRAGMENTE zur genauern Kenntniss der Mondfläche, ihrer erlittenen Veränderungen und Atmosphäre; with 43 copperplates, thick 4to. hf. cl., 15s

Lilienthal, 1791 With dedication to George III. 'Schröter was the founder of descriptive astronomy in Germany, as Herschel was in England. With instruments of gradually increasing power, he studied during 34 years the topography of the moon and planets. The field was then almost untrodden and he has since had no equal in the sustained and concentrated patience of his hourly watchings He laid the foundation of the comparative study of the moon's surface, and the descriptive particulars of the planets laboriously collected by him constituted a store of more or less reliable information hardly added to during the ensuing half century.'-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

3878 TAPP [or TAP] (John) ARITHMETICKE [page 1:] The PATHWAY to KNOWLEDGE: a familiar Dialogue wherein Theodore teacheth, and very plainely layeth open to Junius his Scholler, the whole Art of Arithmeticke, first edition, 12mo., black letter; old calf (title and last [? blank] l. wanting, and one other slightly defective, otherwise a VERY SOUND COPY); excessively rare, £8. 8s [c. 1620]

3879

This very rare work is according to Prof. de Morgan a reprint of the author's translation of Valentijn Menheer van Kempten's work (published in 1596), with the text re-arranged and recast in dialogue form, but having, according to the author's preface, many original additions by him.

It is especially valuable for having at end two treatises on BOOK-KEEPING: The Jovrnall or Dayes Booke marked with the Letter A (pp. 15), and The Leager or Booke of Debitor and Creditor, marked with the Letter A (pp. 30).

Both Prof. de Morgan and Mr. R. Brown (History of Accounting '), who apparently had never seen a perfect copy of it, give the date as 1613. This is evidently a mistake, as the work is dedicated to Sir Thomas Smith, Trading the EastIndies and the Moscouie company, as also the Company of Discouerers of the North-West Passage, and Treasurer for the Plantation in VIRGINIA.' As he did not become treasurer of the Virginia Co. until 1620, and as moreover the two tracts on book-keeping begin the entries with Jan. 1st 1621, it may be reasonably inferred that the date is 1620.

The work, as mentioned before, is excessively rare, there being no copy in the British Museum, and none, save the above, has been sold at auction within the last 30 years. It was quite unknown to Lowndes, Watt, and Allibone, of whom the latter two only mention the author's name, but give only his Art of Navigation and Seaman's Kalendar.

SECOND EDITION: TAP'S ARITHMETICK, or, the PATH-WAY to the KNOWLEDGE of the GROUND of ARTS; containing the whole Art of Arithmetick in whole-Numbers and Fractions, with the Extraction of Roots; also, most compendious and useful TABLES of INTEREST at any Rate. Tables of Interest upon Interest, of Rebate, and Tables for purchasing of Annuities, Reversions, Leases, Fee Simples; 2nd Edition, revised, amended, and amplified with many rare and useful Examples, by PETER RAY, 12mo. contemporary sheep (a few ll. very slightly wormed, otherwise a VERY SOUND COPY); rare, £2. 10s J. Streater, for J. Wright, 1658

This edition is wholly remodelled, and does not contain the treatises on book-keeping, although the title mentions: 'whereunto is added a brief way for keeping Marchants Books of Accounts.' The last chapter of the work (as also indicated in the Table) is 'A Table of Kings, fit for those that purchase or deale in Leases.' 3880 VALERIO (Luca) De CENTRO GRAVITATIS SOLIDORUM Libri III; with numerous diagrams: QUADRATURA PARABOLAE per Simplex Falsum, et altera quàm secunda Archimedis expeditior; with diagrams-2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, old Italian vellum (RARE), £1. ls

Romæ, 1604-6

FIRST EDITIONS of both works. They were reprinted in 1660 and 1661 respectively. The first gained the admiration of Galileo, who found it so much superior to his own researches in Discorsi e Demostrazioni, that he decided not to continue his investigations on the subject.

Valerio was a member of the Accademia de' Lincei, but expelled from it in 1616 for publicly declaring Galileo a follower of Copernicus.

Raro et pregiato. E opera assai interessante, avvegnachè l'autore abbia in essa pel primo data la risoluzione dei problemi relativi alla determinazione del centro di gravità dei conoidi e sferoidi, e dei loro segmenti determinati da piani paralleli.'-Riccardi. 3881 [VISCONTI, Latine] VICECOMES (Antonio Maria, Piacentino) PRACTICA NUMERORUm, et MENSURARUM, ac Alluvionis Partitionem, investigandi, et ut in Indice sequenti; with arms of Octavio Farnese Duke of Parma on title, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, and printer's device on last l., sm. 4to. fine copy in contemporary limp vellum (VERY RARE), £1. 12s 6d Brixiæ, 1581 3882 ANOTHER COPY, contemporary limp vellum (name cut off blank top of title, otherwise a large and fine copy), with bookplate of MICHEL CHASLES, £1. 10s

"A book of mixed arithmetic and algebra, in which the modern method of division is used. It would, I think, repay an examination, particularly on the part which relates to the extraction of roots.'-Prof. de Morgan. This work of Visconti is very scarce.'-M. Libri. It was unknown to Brunet, Graesse, Poggendorff, and others. 'Rarissimo.'-Riccardi.

3883 W[ELLS] (J[ohn]; Gresham College) SCIOGRAPHIA, or the ART of SHADOWES, plainly demonstrating, out of the Sphere, how to project both great and small Circles, upon any Plane whatsoever with a NEW CONCEIT of REFLECTING the SUNNE BEAMES upon a DIALL, contrived on a Plane, which the direct Beames never shine upon. Together with the Manner of Cutting, the five Regular Platonicall Bodies; and two other, the one of 12, the other of 30 Rhombes, NEVER DISCOVERED HERETOFORE; also the finding of their Declinations, and Reclinations, and adorning them with Variety of Dials. All performed by the DOCTRINE of TRIANGLES; and for Ease, and Delight Sake by Helpe of the late invented and worthily admired Numbers, called by the first Inventor LOGARITHMES, with folding plates and very numerous woodcuts and diagrams, thick sm. 8vo. hf. calf neat, partly water-stained (1 l. slightly defective and bookstamp on title, otherwise a sound copy); RARE, £1. 5s T. Harper, 1635

"This tract of Dyalling was written for mine owne private delight end exercise My two late worthy friends Master Henry Briggs and Master Edmund Gunter desired to peruse it; and finding that the Arithmeticall part was performed by Logarithmes of both kinds, and therefore might serve instead of uses for the Chiliads and Canon, compiled by them; did earnestly sollicite mee to print the same.'-Preface.

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