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:-

2432 YOUNG (James; F.R.S., originator of the Scottish paraffin industry), and George FORBES, F.R.S.: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION of the VELOCITY of WHITE and of COLOURED LIGHT, with 5 diagrams, roy. 4to. (pp. 59), sewn, 7s 6d

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2434

2435

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1881

'In 1878 he began at Pitlochry a series of experiments with Prof. George Forbes on the velocity of light. The final observations, made by a modification of the method of Fizeau, were carried out in 1880-1 between Kelly House and a hill called the Tom, behind Innellan. Young and Forbes found the velocity of white light to be 301,382 kilometres per second, a value slightly higher than those previously obtained by Albert A. Michelson and by Cornu. They also found that blue light travelled at a rate 1.8 per cent. faster than red, a result not yet fully explained.'-D. N. B. v. OPTICAL PAPERS, ante.

YOUNG (Thomas, M.D., F.R.S.) MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, 4 vols.-v. Nos. 412-13.

ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. tree-calf, newly and neatly rebacked, £2. 2s

COURSE of LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY and the MECHANICAL ARTS, first edition, with 58 fine copperplates (2 coloured), 2 thick vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt, or, hf. russia (SCARCE), £1. 17s 6d 1807 The rare original edition, containing much matter left out in the edition of 1845, viz., Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy, deduced from Axiomatical Principles' (pp. 86), the valuable Catalogue of Works relating to Natural Philosophy, and the Mechanical Arts' (pp. 434), and Miscellaneous Papers, reprinted [from the Philosophical Transactions], with Corrections' (pp. 162), with 15 extra plates, which include his important Theory of Light and Colours', containing the discovery of the principle of interference. NEW EDITION, with References and Notes, by PHILIP KELLAND, pr., F.R.S., with 43 fine folding plates on copper (2 coloured), besides woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. cl. (SCARCE), £1. ls [1845] ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. in 1, calf gilt, g. e., Winchester prize to Mr. Justice North, F.R.S., £1. 2s 6d Containing the author's important investigations, giving his discovery of astigmatism, and of the doctrine of interference, which finally established the undulatory theory of light; his theory of the tides, explaining more tidal phenomena. than any other advanced before, his theory of capillary action, his researches in physiological optics, making him the founder of that science, etc. etc.

v. SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, No. 394. 2437 ZAHN (Johann, Ordinis Praemonstratensis Canonicus) OCULUS ARTIFICIALIS TELEDIOPTRICUS, sive TELESCOPIUM, ex abditis Rerum Naturalium et Artificialium Principiis protractum novâ Methodo, eâque solidâ explicatum a comprimis è triplici Fundamento Physico seu Naturali, Mathematico Dioptrico et Mechanico, seu Practico stabilitatum nova plurima abstrusa curiosa Technasmata recluduntur, ipsaque Ars Telescopiaria facillimè addiscenda, ac Sumptibus non adeò magnis in Praxin adducenda proponitur, adeoque Telescopium ex Tenebris in Lucem asseritur; editio princeps; with engraved title, fine portrait by B. Kilian (in duplicate), 71 engravings on copper (mostly full-page), and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 3 vols. folio, old vellum gilt (browned as usual); RARE, £2. 10s Herbipoli, 1685-6

2438

EDITIO SECUNDA, auctior; with engraved title, numerous engravings on copper (3 large and folding), woodcuts, and diagrams, thick folio, old white vellum (FINE COPY); RARE, £2. 2s Norimberga, 1702 Without giving original investigations of importance, this work is nevertheless valuable for containing a complete account of optics as known at the time, and especially for describing telescopes and microscopes, with full constructional details, and the machinery for grinding lenses and making the metal parts used in their manufacture. The author also describes a portable camera obscura having fixed lenses in a tube and an adjustable mirror. 2439 ZAMBONI (Abate Giuseppe) Della PILA ELETTRICA a SECCO: Dissertazione; with 3 folding plates, 8vo. boards (RARE), 15s Verona, 1812 2440 ZEEMAN (Pieter, Prof. Experimental Physics, Amsterdam, Nobel Laureate) RESEARCHES in MAGNETO-OPTICS, with special Reference to the Magnetic Resolution of Spectrum Lines, with 8 plates and 74 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 4s 6d (p. 6s nett)

The account of the author's invention of the DRY PILE.

1913 Containing in an enlarged form the author's classic researches on the effect of the magnetic field on the spectrum of gases (Zeeman Effect'), which enabled Prof. Lorentz to formulate the Electron Theory. At end is an important Bibliography, 1896-1912 (pp. 25). 2441 ZENNECK (Jonathan; Technische Hochschule, München) ELEKTROMAGNETISCHE SCHWINGUNGEN und DRAHTLOSE TELEGRAPHIE; with 802 illustrations, roy. 8vo. (pp. 1047), sewn, 16s 6d (p. M. 28) Stuttgart, 1905 2442 PRÉCIS de TÉLÉGRAPHIE sans FIL. Complément de l'Ouvrage : Les Oscillations Électromagnétiques et la Télégraphie sans Fil, traduit par P. BLANCHIN, G. GUÉRARD, et E. PICOT; with 333 illustrations, roy. 8vo. sewn, 7s (p. F. 12 nett)

1911 2443 ZEUNER (Gustav Anton; Prof. Mechanics, Zürich) THÉORIE MÉCANIQUE de la CHALEUR, avec ses Applications aux Machines, traduite par MAURICE ARNTHAL et ACHILLE CAZIN; 2e. [dernière] Edition, entièrement refondue; with 57 illustrations, 8vo. sewn, 4s (p. F. 11 nett) 1869 2444 ZIWET (Alexander, Univ. Michigan) ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THEORETICAL MECHANICS, with 218 diagrams, 3 vols. 8vo. cl., 12s 6d (p. £1. 5s 6d nett) New York, 1894

CONTENTS.-I. Kinematics: II. Dynamics and Statics: III. Kinetics. 2445 The ELEMENTS of THEORETICAL MECHANICS: revised Edition of Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics,' with 191 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 12s 6d (p. £1. Is nett) ibidem, 1904

VI. METEOROLOGY and PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

2446 ANDERSON (Tempest, M.D., F.G.S.) VOLCANIC STUDIES in many Lands, being Reproductions of Photographs by the Author of above 100 actual Objects, with explanatory Notices [ORIGINAL SERIES], with 105 plates, 4to. cl., uncut, t. e. g. (SCARCE), £1. ls

1903

2447

ANOTHER COPY, cl., with author's inscr. to Prof. Howes, F.R.S., £1. 2s

VI. METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, continued :2449 ABBE (Cleveland; U.S. Weather Bureau) The MECHANICS of the EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE: COLLECTION of TRANSLATIONS, THIRD COLLECTION, with plate and numerous diagrams, 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 7s 6d nett) Smithsonian Inst., Washington, 1910 2450 AIRY (Sir George Biddell, P.R.S., Astronomer Royal) ACCOUNT of PENDULUM EXPERIMENTS in the HARTON COLLIERY to DETERMINE the MEAN DENSITY of the EARTH, with vignette and 2 plates by Basire, 4to. (pp. 59), sewn, with author's inscr., 4s 6d 1856

The successful completion, after twenty-six years' waiting, of the experiments originally begun in the Harriet Shaft of the Dolcoath Mine in Cornwall. The present experiments in County Durham were made at a depth of 1,260 feet, and gave 6'56 for the mean density of the earth. 2451 [ALENCÉ (Joachim d')] TRAITTEZ des BAROMÉTRES, THERMOMÉTRES, et NOTIOMÉTRES, OU HYGROMÉTRES, par Mr D***, première édition; with frontispiece by Schoonebeek, and 35 fine copperplates, 12mo. contemporary vellum (FINE COPY); RARE, £1. 10s Amsterdam, 1688

2452

ANOTHER COPY, old calf (wanting one plate), with auto. of SIR JOHN LESLIE, Prof. Natural Philosophy, Edin., 15s

'Darin findet sich zu allererst das wahre Princip zur Entwerfung einer richtigen Thermometerskala aufgestellt.’— Poggendorff. A copy of this edition sold for £1. 16s at auction in 1912.

2453 [ -] NOUVELLE IMPRESSION; with frontispiece, and 35 copperplates, 12mo. old calf (RARE), £1. 2s 6d ibidem, 1708

The earliest account dealing exclusively with the subject, and especially valuable as the first work laying down rules for the graduation of the thermometer. The above work, which also describes an hygrometer of the author's invention, was unknown to Brunet, Graesse, and others.

The author was the first to start La Connaissance des Temps (now issued by the Bureau des Longitudes), the first 6 vols. of which he published between 1679 and 1684.

2454 ÅNGSTRÖM (Anders Jöns, Univ. Upsala) MÉMOIRE sur la TEMPÉRATURE de la TERRE à différentes PROFONDEURS, à Upsal; with 2 plates, 4to. (pp. 80), sewn, with notes by Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 7s 6d Upsal, 1851 2455 ARAGO (François Jean Dominique, de l'Institut; F.R.S.) METEOROLOGICAL ESSAYS, with Introduction by BARON ALEXANDER V. HUMBOLDT, translated under the Superintendence of SIR EDWARD SABINE, R.A., F.R.S., 8vo. cl., 6s 1855

'It contains, besides much interesting information in regard to the author's early views, a résumé of the results of his own magnetical observations between 1820 and 1835. The deductions from these observations are now for the first time made public.'-Preface.

It also contains a chapter on the aurora borealis, especially interesting as the author discovered its relation with magnetic variations; and his classification of lightning. 2456 ARISTOTELÉS: De NATURA, aut de Rerum Principiis; de CÆLO; de ORTU et INTERITU; METEOROLOGICA: de ANIMO, de SENSU, et de RESPIRATIONE LIBRI, JOACHIMO PERIONIO Interprete, et per NICOLAUM GROUCHIUM correcti et emendati; de MUNDO, GULIELMO BUDÆO Interprete; handsomely printed in italics, with vignette and diagrams, 6 vols. 4to. in 1, oaken boards covered with richly pressed leather, metal clasp (one wanting and 2 titles missing, but in FINE CONDITION), £1. 7s 6d Parisiis, T. Richardus, 1562-3

A very handsomely printed and uniform edition. It has on flyleaf an old auto. 'Carolus Scriban', undoubtedly that of CHARLES SCRIBANI, S.J., the celebrated controversialist, 1561-1629. 2457

-: COMMENTARII COLLEGII CONIMBRICENSIS, S.J., in IV Libros de COELO, METEOROLOGICOS et PARVA NATURALIA, ARISTOTELIS Stagiritæ, Graeci Contextus Latino è Regione respondentis Accessione auctiores, etc. etc., 4to. old calf, 9s Coloniæ, 1631

The original text, with parallel Latin translation, and a copious commentary.

'Aristotle was the first who collected, in his work 'On Meteors', the popular prognostics of the weather. A number of these were derived from the Egyptians, who had long studied the science as a branch of astronomy, while a large number were the fruit of his own observation, and bear the mark of his singularly acute and reflective mind.'-Alex. Buchan, F.R.S. 2458 BACON (Sir Francis, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN): The NATURALL and EXPERIMENTALL HISTORY of WINDS, &c. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, translated by R. G. Gent., first edition, 18mo. old calf, rebacked (portrait wanting and some corners water-stained); VERY RARE, £2. 2s Humphrey Moseley, 1653

Although Bacon's theory of winds is still based on Aristotelian conceptions, the work is important as collecting all the facts and theories then known on the subject, and especially as the first to point out the deflexion of winds caused by the earth's rotation.

Copies of the above edition fetched at auction £8. 15s in 1909, and £9. 10s in 1902. 2459 BARTHOLOMEW (John George, F.R.S.E.), and Andrew J. HERBERTSON: ATLAS of METEOROLOGY, edited by ALEXANDER BUCHAN, F.R.S., with over 400 fine COLOURED MAPS on 34 double plates, roy. folio, original hf. morocco (rubbed), t. e. g., £1. 10s (p. £2. 12s 6d nett) 1899

The finest meteorological atlas ever issued. It contains a copious text, Meteorological Services and their Publications, Meteorological Tables, a Bibliography (pp. 4), and a Glossary, and forms Vol. III of Bartholomew's 'Physical Atlas.' 2460 BEAUFOY (Col. Mark, F.R.S.) NAUTICAL and HYDRAULIC EXPERIMENTS, with numerous Scientific Miscellanies [edited with Introduction, etc., by his Son HENRY, F.R.S.], Vol. I (all published), with portrait, 2 fine vignettes by George Cooke, 16 copperplates, and woodcuts, thick roy. 4to. hf. calf, or, cl. (SCARCE), 12s 6d 1834

This was the only volume, printed at the author's private press, out of three proposed to be issued. The work was never published, but presented only to some public institutions and persons interested in naval architecture. 'His magnetic observations were superior in accuracy and extent to any earlier work of the kind. They served to determine more precisely the laws of the diurnal variation, as well as to fix the epoch and amount of maximum Westerly declination in England.. The data accumulated by Beaufoy enabled Lamont in 1851 to confirm his discovery of a decennial period in the amount of diurnal variation, by placing a maximum in 1817.'-D. N. B.

The author was a member of the well-known family of distillers at South Lambeth, and was the first Englishman to ascend Mont Blanc, six days later than Saussure.

2461_BORELLI (Giovanni Alfonso; Prof. Philosophy and Mathematics, Pisa) HISTORIA et METEOROLOGIA INCENDII AETNÆI Anni 1669, accessit RESPONSIO ad CENSURAS HONORATI FABRI contra Librum de VI PERCUSSIONIS; with folding view on copper, and woodcuts, 4to. old calf (RARE), 12s 6d

Regio Julio, 1670

VI. METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, continued:

2463 BLODGET (Lorin) CLIMATOLOGY of the UNITED STATES, and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent, embracing a full COMPARISON of these with the Climatology of the Temperate Latitudes of EUROPE and ASIA, and especially in Regard to Agriculture, Sanitary Investigations, and Engineering, with Isothermal and Rain Charts for each Season, the Extreme Months, and the Year, and summary Statistics of Meteorological Observations in the United States, condensed from recent Scientific and Official Publications, with numerous maps and charts (mostly folding), impl. 8vo. cl. (SCARCE), 12s Philadelphia, 1857

2464

ANOTHER COPY, calf gilt, 13s A standard work which was highly praised by Baron Humboldt and other eminent authorities. 2465 BOGUSLAWSKI (Georg Heinrich v., Hydrographisches Amt der kaiserl. Admiralität), und Otto KRÜMMEL; Prof. d. Geographie, Kiel: HANDBUCH der OZEANOGRAPHIE; with 75 illustrations and folding chart, 2 vols. large cr. 8vo. hf. German morocco gilt (nice copy), 16s (p. M. 23.50 sewn)

Stuttgart, 1884-7

Still a standard work. It is divided as follows: I. Räumliche, physikalische und chemische Beschaffenheit der Ozeane; II. Die Bewegungsformen des Meeres, mit Beitrag von PROF. K. ŻÖPPRITZ. 2466 BOHUN (Ralph; New Coll., Oxon.) DISCOURSE concerning the ORIGINE and PROPERTIES of WIND, with Historical Account of Hurricanes, and other Tempestuous Winds, with 3 engravings on copper, 12mo. contemporary calf (name and inscr. on title, but a large and sound copy); RARE, 18s 6d Oxford, W. Hall, 1671 2467

ANOTHER COPY, contemporary calf (back slightly damaged, but a tall copy), 15s 'Noteworthy as among, if not absolutely, the first in which the theories of the winds, as propounded by Aristotle and partly adopted by Bacon, are compared with details of the trade winds, monsoons, typhoons, and winds from other parts of the world, of which the classical authors know nothing. The preface shows that the author might almost rank as a Maury nearly two centuries before the great American promoted the Brussels Conference. I think that the reprint of the first paragraph of the preface is desirable.'-G. J. Symons, F.R.S.

The work was unknown to Lowndes, nor is the author noticed in D. N. B. 2468 BONNEY (Thomas George, pr., F.R.S.) The STORY of our PLANET, with coloured plates and maps, and 170 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl., uncut, t. e. g., 5s 6d (10s 6d) [1896] 2469 [BORRO (Girolamo, d'Arezzo)] DIALOGO del FLUSSO e REFLUSSO del MARE d'ALSEFORO TALASCOPIO, con un Ragionamento di Telifilo Filogenio della Perfettione delle Donne; prima edizione; with woodcut titles, 2 vols. sm. 4to. in 1, boards, £1. 5s Lucca, per il Busdragho, 1561 VERY RARE, especially in the above edition, which was unknown to Brunet, who only quotes those of 1567, 1577, and 1581. The second part has never been reprinted. The work is of great interest as one of the earliest treatises on the tides. 2470 [BOYLE (Hon. Robert, F.R.S; founder of the Boyle Lectures)] TRACTS consisting of OBSERVATIONS about the SALTNESS of the SEA; ACCOUNT of the STATICAL HYGROSCOPE and its Uses; the FORCE of the AIR'S MOISTURE; the Natural and Preternatural State of Bodies, and a Sceptical Dialogue about the POSITIVE or PRIVATIVE NATURE of COLD, with some Experiments, by a MEMBER of the ROYAL SOCIETY, first edition, sm. 8vo. sewn (rare), 10s E. Flesher, 1674 ANOTHER COPY, old sheep, newly rebacked, 12s 6d

2471

2472 [

-] SECOND EDITION, sm. 8vo. original sheep, 9s

S. Smith, 1690 Describing some of the author's most interesting investigations, and exploding the Aristolelian doctrine then held that the saltness of the sea was found only on its surface. He also explains the origin of the salts in the sea, shows how to make sea water drinkable by distillation and freezing, and ascertains its density.

The author's 'statical hygroscope' consisted of a sponge soaked in water, the rate of evaporation, calculated by its loss of weight, indicating the amount of moisture in the air.

2473 [BRAŃCAS-VILLENEUVE (Abbé André François de)] EXPLICATION du FLUX et REFLUX, dans leurs veritables Circonstances, qui manifeste avec leur exacte Exposition d'après les MÉMOIRES ACADÉMIQUES, combien ce Phénoméne, dans tout autre Système Cosmographique et Physique que le moderne, en prouve l'Exactitude et l'Universalité; with vignettes on copper, 4to. contemporary French olive morocco extra, finely tooled back and sides, with arms in gold on sides, g. e. (one joint slightly rubbed, otherwise a FINE COPY); RARE, £2. 2s

1749 Interesting as an early work on the Tides, summing up the theories and facts then known. 2474 BRAVAIS (Auguste; de l'Institut) MÉMOIRE sur les HALOS et les PHÉNOMÈNES OPTIQUES qui les accompagnent [avec Note sur la Théorie des Solutions Singulières, par E. CATALAN]; with 4 folding plates, 4to. (pp. 280), cl. (SCARCE), £1. ls

Containing important investigations, which made the author one of the founders of meteorological optics.

1847

'Dans son Mémoire sur les halos, il emploie les notations et les formules qui représentent le système cristallin de la glace, en homme qui les connaît parfaitement et qui en comprend à fond le principe.'-Elie de Beaumont. 2475 BRILLOUIN (Marcel) MÉMOIRES ORIGINAUX sur la CIRCULATION GÉNÉRALE de l'ATMOSPHERE: Halley, Hadley, Maury, Ferrel, W. Siemens, Möller, Oberbeck, v. Helmoltz [sic], annotés et commentés; with 20 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. F. 6 nett) 1900

2476 BROOK (Abraham; bookseller at Norwich) MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS and REMARKS on ELECTRICITY, the AIR PUMP, and the BAROMETER, with Description of an ELECTROMETER of a New Construction, 3 copperplates (1 folding), 4to. boards, uncut (rare), 9s Norwich, 1789 'I cannot conclude this paper without acknowledging my obligations to the ingenious Mr. Brook of Norwich, who, by communicating to me his method of boiling mercury, has been the chief cause of my success in these [electrical] experiments.'-William Morgan, F.R.S. (in Phil. Trans.).

2477 BROUN (John Allan, director of the observatory; F.R.S.) OBSERVATIONS in MAGNETISM and METEOROLOGY, made at MAKERSTOUN in Scotland, in the OBSERVATORY of GEN. SIR T. M. BRISBANE, 1845-6, with view of the observatory, and 12 folding charts, 4to. calf, neatly rebacked, Edin., 1849

9s

Presented to His old Friend, Relative & Schoolfellow William Cuninghame Esq. of Lairshaw by Tho: Makdougall Brisbane. Brisbane, 26th October 1849.'--Inscr. on half-title.

The preparation of the results for the press cost him much ungrateful toil in developing and testing new methods of correction, which have been generally adopted, and entitle him to a place among the founders of the new observational sciences of terrestrial magnetism. The data thus laboriously provided were of permanent and standard value.'-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

VI. METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, continued:—

2479 BUCHAN (Alexander, Sec. Scot. Meteor. Soc.; F.R.S.) HANDY BOOK of METEOROLOGY; 2nd [last] Edition, greatly enlarged, with numerous woodcuts, and 8 charts (6 folding), thick post 8vo. cl., uncut (SCARCE), 12s 6d

Edin., 1868 Still one of the best works on meteorology in the language, and containing valuable original information. CALANDRELLI (Abbate Giuseppe, Collegio Romano) METEOROLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE with JOHANN JAKOB HEMMER, S.J., from 1780 to 1787--v. HEMMER, post.

2480 CASATI (Paolo, S.J.) TERRA MACHINIS MOTA : Dissertationes Geometricæ, Mechanicæ, Physicæ, Hydrostaticæ, in quibus Machinarum conjugatarum Vires inter se comparantur; multiplici nova Methodo Terræ Magnitudo et Gravitas investigatur: ARCHIMEDES Terræ Motionem spondens ab Arrogantiæ Suspicione vindicatur; with folding plate, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. fine and large copy in boards (RARE), 18s

Romæ, 1658

'His work, in which several methods are explained in order to ascertain the true dimensions and weight of the whole earth, is full of curious experiments. For instance, from experiment the weight of water, which was previously supposed to be 400 times that of the air, is here stated to be 1200 times. The work is under the form of a dialogue between Galileo, Guldin, and Mersenne, who are much praised by the author.'-Libri Catalogue.

2481 CLARIDGE (John, shepherd): The SHEPHERD of BANBURY'S RULES to judge of the CHANGES of the WEATHER, grounded on 40 Years' Experience, with a Rational Account of their CAUSES, the Nature of Wind, Rain, Snow, etc., on the Principals [sic] of the Newtonian Philosophy, 8vo. sewn (RARE), £1. ls W. Bickerton, 1744 ANOTHER COPY, leather (title in neat MS., and Index in the same contemporary hand ADDED), 16s

2482

2483

2484

FIRST EDITION of the recast of this popular folk-book, which was originally published in 1670 SECOND EDITION, corrected, with 2 fine engravings of Herschel's Table of the Weather, ADDED, 8vo. boards (rare), 15s

1748 1827

NEW [THIRD and LAST] EDITION, corrected, 8vo. hf. cl., uncut (scarce), 10s 6d TO JOHN CAMPBELL [LL.D., friend of Dr. Johnson, 1708-75], has been generally ascribed the recast of 'The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules'. It is soine what noticeable as an attempt to base on quasi-scientific principles the weather forecasts of the alleged Banbury shepherd.'-D. N. B. See also Notes and Queries, I. Ser., v. VII, 373. 2485 COSMOGONY, CONTRIBUTIONS to, and the FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS of GEOLOGY: TIDAL and other PROBLEMS, by T. C. CHAMBERLIN, F. R. MOULTON, C. S. SLICHTER, W. D. MACMILLAN, ARTHUR C. LUNN, and JULIUS STIEGLITZ, with chart and text-illustrations, roy. 8vo. sewn, 6s Carnegie Inst., Washington, 1909 2486 CROLL (James, Geol. Survey Scots.; F.R.S.) CLIMATE and TIME in their GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS: a Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate, LIBRARY EDITION, with 8 plates and maps, and woodcuts, thick 8vo. cl., uncut, 10s 6d (p. £1. 4s) 1875 "His most important book Croll maintained that the low temperature occurred when the eccentricity of the earth's orbit had a high value, but was modified by the precessional movement of the earth's axis.'-Prof. Bonney, pr., F.R.S. 2487 DALTON (John, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at the New College, Manchester; F.R.S.) METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS and ESSAYS, first edition, with diagrams, 8vo. original boards, UNCUT (very rare), £2. 2s W. Richardson, 1793 ANOTHER COPY, contemporary tree-calf gilt (FINE AND TALL COPY), £1. 18s 6d ANOTHER ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, with diagrams, 8vo. original boards, uncut, £2. T. Ostell [1793]

2488

2489

2490

JOHN DALTON's first published work, and EXCESSIVELY RARE in either issue of the above edition.

The only difference between the above two issues lies in the title-page, which in the case of Ostell's edition has been pasted on to the sheet. A clear inference may therefore be drawn that Richardson's issue was the earlier one. The curious fact of two issues existing of the first edition has hitherto been unknown, and probably points to the slow sale of a new and unknown writer.

'They contained, as the author remarked 40 years later, the germs of most of the ideas afterwards expanded by him into discoveries. A prominent section comprised the result of six years' auroral observations. He had detected independently the magnetic relations of the phenomenon, and concluded thence auroral light to be of purely electric origin, and auroral arches and streamers to be composed of an elastic fluid of a ferruginous nature existing above our atmosphere. This hypothesis was further developed by Biot in 1820. From simultaneous observations at Kendal and Keswick Dalton derived from the aurora of 15 Feb. 1793 a height of 150 miles. . . The essay in the same volume was remarkable for the then novel assertion that aqueous vapour exists in the air as an independent elastic fluid, not chemically combined, but mechanically mixed with the other atmospheric gases.'-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

SECOND EDITION, with woodcuts, 8vo. boards, uncut (SCARCE), 17s 6d Manchester, 1834 'This second edition is printed verbatim from the first, both text and notes; and I have only added a few notes at the end under the head of Appendix; and some observations on clouds, on thunder, and on meteors, particularly the aurora borealis. I have been the more anxious to preserve the first edition unchanged, as I apprehend it contains the germs of most of the ideas which I have since expanded more at large in different Essays, and which have been considered as discoveries of some importance.'-Preface.

2491 DARWIN (Sir George Howard, F.R.S.; Plumian Prof. Astronomy, Cantab.) PAPERS in the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, as under, with plates and text-illustrations 8 parts in one vol. 4to. cl., with MS. List of Contents by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., £1. 5s 1877-89

2492

CONTENTS:-Influence of Geological Changes on the Earth's Axis of Rotation, '77: Bodily Tides of viscous and Semielastic Spheroids, '79: Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, '80: Problems connected with the Tides of a Viscous Spheroid, SO: Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite, '80: Tidal Friction of a Planet attended by several Satellites, '81: Stresses caused by the Weight of Continents and Mountains, '82: Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm Meteorites, '89.

The TIDES, and kindred Phenomena in the Solar System, with 3 plates, and 43 other illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl., with references by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., 3s 6d (p. 7s 6d) 1898 The best semi-popular work on the subject, giving the results of the author's own important researches. v. PHYSICAL PAPERS (PHYSICS), ante.

2493 DAVIS (William Morris, Harvard Univ.) Die ERKLÄRENDE BESCHREIBUNG der LANDFORMEN, deutsch bearbeitet von A. RÜHL; with 13 plates and 212 text-illustrations, thick 8vo. hf. black morocco neat, cl. sides, t. e. g. (nice copy), 7s 6d (p. M. 11 sewn)

Leipzig, 1912

VI. METEOROLogy and Physical GeograpHY, continued :—

2495 DANIEL (Hermann Adalbert, Halle) HANDBUCH der GEOGRAPHIE; 6. [neueste] vielfach verbesserte Auflage von BERTHOLD VOLZ, 4 thick vols. 8vo. hf. German morocco neat, £1. 5s (p. M. 40 sewn) Leipzig, 1895 Latest edition of the standard German work on geography. 2496 DANIELL (John Frederic, F. R.S.) METEOROLOGICAL ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS [PART I], first edition, with front., woodcuts, and folding charts and tables, 8vo. boards, or, sewn, 5s 1823 ANOTHER COPY, with Part II, with folding charts, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, hf. calf extra (scarce), 98

2497

2498

1823-7 • Discussing in a masterly manner the hygrometry of the atmosphere, solar and terrestrial radiation, the barometric measurement of heights, the trade-winds, evaporation, and natural and artificial climates', etc. etc. etc.-Alex. Buchan. SECOND EDITION, enlarged and revised, with plate, woodcuts, and folding charts and tables, 8vo. boards, uncut, 7s 1827

2499 THIRD [LAST] EDITION, revised and enlarged, entitled: ELEMENTS of METEOROLOGY, with woodcuts, 2 plates, and 7 folding charts, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., uncut (scarce), 12s 6d

2500

1845

'The first attempt to collect scattered facts on the subject, and to explain the main phenomena of the atmosphere by physical laws. He insisted on the paramount importance of extreme accuracy in meteorological observations, and himself kept a model record of atmospheric changes. He organized the plan ... which became the model from which the Greenwich meteorological reports were developed.'-D. Ñ. B.

On a NEW HYGROMETER, which measures the Force and Weight of Aqueous Vapour in the Atmosphere, and the corresponding DEGREE of EVAPORATION, with frontispiece and 2 folding charts, 8vo. (pp. 40), sewn (scarce), 5s

1820

The first account of the invention of the author's hygrometer, 'the first giving precision to the means of ascertaining the moisture of the atmosphere.'-D. N. B.

v. SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, No. 394.

2501 DAUBENY (Charles Giles Bridle, M.D., F.R.S.) DESCRIPTION of ACTIVE and EXTINCT VOLCANOS, with their Origin, Chemical Phenomena, and the Character of their Products, as determined by the Condition of the Earth during their Formation, first edition, with etched frontispiece by G. Hollis, woodcuts, and 2 maps, 8vo. old calf gilt (scarce), 9s 1826

'The careful collection of facts and the interest of the theory which he put forward to account for volcanic phenomena, namely, the admission of water to the uncombined basis of the alkalis and earths supposed to exist beneath the crust of the earth, made his work of considerable value.'-G. T. Bettany.

'Still interesting, and containing notes of many little known volcanoes.'-Dr. Tempest Anderson. The last 14 pp. contain a copious bibliography of English and foreign works on vulcanology. 2502 DAVY (Hippolyte Marié ; Directeur de l'Observatoire de Montsouris) MÉTÉOROLOGIE: les MOUVEMENTS de l'ATMOSPHÈRE et des MERS, considérés au Point de Vue de la PRÉVISION du TEMPS; with 24 plates and 88 woodcuts, roy. 8vo. hf. crushed crimson morocco neat, uncut (nice copy); o. p., 12s 6d 1866 2503 DOVE (Heinrich Wilhelm; Prof. Physics, Berlin; F.R.S.) De BAROMETRI MUTATIONIBUS: Dissertatio Inauguralis, 12mo. (pp. 50), sewn (scarce), 6s Berolini, 1826 The author's first published work.

2504

2505

Das GESETZ der STÜRME in seiner Beziehung zu den allgemeinen Bewegungen der Atmosphäre, 4. [letzte] vermehrte Auflage; with woodcuts and 2 folding plates, 8vo. hf. German calf (0. p.), 5s ibidem, 1873

2506

6s

The LAW of STORMS considered in Connexion with the Ordinary Movements of the Atmosphere; 2nd [last] Edition, wholly revised and considerably enlarged, translated by ROBERT HENRY SCOTT, F. R.S., with diagrams and 6 charts, 8vo. cl., or, hf. calf (scarce), 8s 1862 One of the classic works on meteorology, containing the author's investigation into the laws of gyration and the rotary movement of storms, named after him. KLIMATOLOGISCHE BEITRÄGE; with diagrams and 2 folding maps, 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, Berlin, 1857-69 METEOROLOGISCHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN; with 2 folding plates, 8vo. hf. bound, or, boards ib., 1837 The author's chief work, containing his theory of weather anomalies, and the germ of all his meteorological discoveries. But German meteorology came to grief on the English declaration of war through the cessation of cable communication, and zepps and airplanes have to murder as best they can by the light of the moon. 2508 Die VERBREITUNG der WÄRME auf der ÖBERFLÄCHE der ERDE, erläutert durch Isothermen, thermische Isanomalen und Temperaturcurven; with 9 charts and maps (5 coloured and folding), impl. 4to. boards, 7s 6d ib., 1852

2507

(scarce), 7s 6d

2509 EARTH'S CRUST, PAPERS on the PHYSICS of the, from the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, as under, with plates and woodcuts, 12 parts in 1 vol. 4to. cl., with MS. List of Contents by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., 17s 6d

1839-75 CONTENTS:-AIRY (8ir G. B., F.R S.) On the Computation of the Effect of the Attraction of Mountain Masses, '55: HENNESSY (Henry) Researches in Terrestrial Physics, 2 parts, '46-9: HOPKINS (William, F.R.S.) Researches in Physical Geology, 3 parts, '39-42: MALLET (Robert, F. R.S.) Volcanic Energy, 2 parts, '72-4 [laying the foundation of the shrinking and wrinkling theory of the crust]: PRATT (John Henry, F.R.S., Archdn. of Calcutta) On the Attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, '54:- On the Deflexion of the Plumb-Line in India, '58: On the Influence of the Ocean on the Plumb-Line in India, '59:- On the Constitution of the Solid Crust of the Earth, '71. 2510 FERREL (William, assistant, American Nautical Almanack) The MOTIONS of FLUIDS and SOLIDS relative to the EARTH'S SURFACE, comprising Applications to the Winds and the Currents of the Ocean, with diagrams, impl. 8vo. (pp. 72), sewn, 4s New York, 1860 Giving also a complete but concise treatise on projectiles, taking into account the earth's rotation.'- Introduction. 2511 FORSTER (Thomas Ignatius Maria, M.D., F.R.A.S.; friend of Shelley and Sir William Herschel) RESEARCHES about ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA; 3rd [last] Edition, corrected and enlarged, with the CALENDAR of NATURE, with 6 fine tinted plates by F. C. LEWIS, illustrating various types of clouds, 8vo. calf gilt (nice copy), 10s

Still valuable as an elaboration of Luke Howard's nomenclature of clouds.

1823