III. MATHEMATICS, continued :

1304 WEBER (Heinrich; Prof. Mathematics, Strasbourg) ELLIPTISCHE FUNCTIONEN und ALGEBRAISCHE ZAHLEN: akademische Vorlesungen, 8vo. buckram, 6s 6d (p. M. 13 sewn)

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ANOTHER COPY, hf. cl., 4s 6d

Braunschweig, 1891

LEHRBUCH der ALGEBRA; with diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 10s (p. M. 36 sewn) ibidem, 1895-6 Josef WELLSTEIN, und Rudolf H. WEBER: ANGEWANDTE ELEMENTAR-MATHEMATIK; with 358 illustrations, 8vo. cl., with Dr. Emil Reich's bookplate, 7s 6d (p. M. 14) Leipzig, 1907 1307 WEICHOLD (G.) LEHRBUCH der DETERMINANTEN und der Anwendungen, I. [einziger] Teil, roy. 8vo. buckram, 5s (p. M. 10 sewn) Bremerhaven [1893] 1308 Stuttgart, 1893 1309 WEITZEL (C. G.) UNTERRICHTSBRIFFE für die BUCHSTABENRECHNUNG und ALGEBRA, sowie für EBENE GEOMETRIE (Planimetrie) und Anwendung der Algebra auf Geometrie, in Gesprächsform zum SELBSTUNTERRICHTE, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. in 1, hf. black morocco neat, cl. sides, 9s (p. M. 15 sewn) Wien [1910] für die HÖHERE MATHEMATIK (Analysis, analytische Geometrie, Differentialund Integralrechnung) in Gesprächsform zum SELBSTUNTERRICHTE; with diagrams, roy. 8vo. hf. black morocco neat, cl. sides, 5s (p. M. 7.50 sewn) ibidem [1914] 1311 WELD (Laenas Gifford, Univ. Iowa) SHORT COURSE of the THEORY of DETERMINANTS, 3rd Edition, post 8vo. buckram, 4s 6d (p. 8s nett) New York, 1903 1312 WERTHEIM (Gustav) ANFANGSGRÜNDE der ZAHLENLEHRE; with portraits of Fermat, Lagrange, Euler, and Gauss, 8vo. hf. black morocco neat, cl. sides (fine copy), 7s 6d (p. M. 9 sewn) Braunschweig, 1902 ELEMENTE der ZAHLENSTHEORIE, 8vo. buckram, 4s 6d (p. M. 8.40 sewn) Leipzig, 1887 ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf, 5s v. DIOPHANTUS, ante.

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1315 WEST (Émile), EXPOSÉ des MÉTHODES GÉNÉRALES en MATHÉMATIQUES, Résolution et Intégration des Equations, Applications diverses, d'après HOËNÉ WRONSKI, large 4to. sewn (some ll. waterstained), 6s 6d (p. F. 13.20 nett)

1886 'Dans ce travail nous nous sommes proposé de faire connaître des procédés de calcul entièrement nouveaux applicables aux questions les plus difficiles de mathématiques.'-Préface. 1316 WHITTAKER (Edmund Taylor; F.R.S.; Prof. Mathematics, Edin.) COURSE of MODERN ANALYSIS: an Introduction to the General Theory of Infinite Series and of Analytic Functions with Account of the principal Transcendental Functions, large roy. 8vo. cl., 7s 6d (p. 12s 6d nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1902 TREATISE on the ANALYTICAL DYNAMICS of PARTICLES and RIGID BODIES, with Introduction to the PROBLEM of THREE BODIES, large roy. 8vo. cl., 7s (p. 12s 6d nett) apud eandem, ibidem, 1904 1318 WHITWORTH (William Allen, Vicar of All Saints', Margaret St.) CHOICE and CHANCE: an elementary Treatise on Permutations, Combinations, and Probability, with 640 Exercises; 4th Edition, enlarged, cr. 8vo. cl., 4s Cambridge, 1886

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Added is the Supplement: The Expectation of Parts into which a Magnitude is divided at Random, investigated mainly by Algebraical Methods', ibidem, 1898. DCC EXERCISES, including Hints for the Solution of all the Questions in 'CHOICE and CHANCE,' post 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 6s)

ibidem, 1897

Though Catholicminded people are intellectually wretched crétins, Prebendary Allen Whitworth must have had some brains once upon a time.

v. MESSENGER of MATHEMATICS, No. 138.

1320 WIELEITNER (Heinrich) THEORIE der EBENEN ALGEBRAISCHEN KURVEN HÖHERER ORDNUNG; with 82 illustrations, large cr. 8vo. cl., 5s 6d (p. M. 10) Leipzig, 1905 1321 WIENER (Christian, Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe) LEHRBUCH der DARSTELLENDEN GEOMETRIE; with numerous illustrations, 2 vols. large 8vo. original hf. morocco (as good as new), 19s (p. M. 34) Leipzig, 1884 [fs. 1906]-1887 1322 WÏLLIAMSON (Benjamin, T.C.D., F.R.S.) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on the DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS, with numerous Examples, 3rd or 4th Ed., enlarged, with diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 10s 6d) 1877 or '80 SEVENTH EDITION, enlarged, with diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 4s 6d (p. 10s 6d) 1889 ELEMENTARY TREATISE on the INTEGRAL CALCULUS, with numerous Examples, 2nd Edition, enlarged, with diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 10s 6d)

1323 1324

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FOURTH EDITION, enlarged, with diagrams, post 8vo. cl., 4s 6d (p. 10s 6d)

1877 1884

and Francis Alexander TARLETON, T.C.D.: ELEMENTARY TREATISE on DYNAMICS, containing Applications to Thermodynamics, 2nd Edition, enlarged, post 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 10s 6d) 1889 WILLIAMSON (James, pr., Fellow Hertford Coll., Oxon.)-v. EUCLID, ante.

The writer's was the old Hertford College, which came to an end in 1818. 1327 WILLIS (John) EASY METHOD of CONSTRUCTING the various Types of MAGIC SQUARES and MAGIC CUBES, with Symmetric Designs founded thereon, with coloured illustrations and folding table, cr. 4to. cl., 8s Bradford, 1909 1328_WILSON (John Cook; Wykeham Prof. Logic, Oxon.) On the TRAVERSING of GEOMETRICAL FIGURES, with diagrams, with Addendum, 8vo. cl., and sewn, 4s (p. 6s 6d nett) Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1905

WRONSKI (Hoëné)—v. WEST (Émile), ante.

III. MATHEMATICS, continued :—

1330 WINGATE (Edmund) TABULÆ LOGARITHMICÆ, or Two Tables of Logarithmes: the first containing those of all Numbers from 1 to 100,000, contracted by NATHANIEL ROE; the other, those of the right Sines and Tangents; with the USE of LOGARITHMES, first edition, with diagrams, 12mo. contemporary calf (first l. of preface defective, one l. mended, and back of binding damaged); RARE, 15s M. Flesher, 1633 'C'est à Edmund Wingate que la France doit les premières tables logarithmiques dont elle a joui.'-Montucla. 1331 WOLSTENHOLME (Joseph, St. John's Coll., Cantab.; Math. Prof., Cooper's Hill) MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS on Subjects for the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos; 3rd [last] Edition, revised and corrected, 8vo. cl., 10s (p. 18s)

1891

'His fame rests chiefly on the wonderful series of original mathematical problems which he constructed upon practically all the subjects that entered into the course of training of students. They form a curious and almost unique monument of ability and industry.'-A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S.

1332 WOODHOUSE (Robert, Fellow of Caius; F.R.S.) The PRINCIPLES of ANALYTICAL CALCULATION, with diagrams, 4to. sewn (scarce), 7s 6d

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Cambridge, 1803 ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf, with Sandhurst College bookplate, 9s 'In this he explained the differential notation and strongly pressed the employment of it, but he severely criticized the methods used by Continental writers, and their constant assumption of non-evident principles.'-W. W. R. Ball. The work is important as having been the first to advocate for use in England the Continental differential notation. TREATISE on ISOPERIMETRICAL PROBLEMS, and the CALCULUS of VARIATIONS, with diagrams, 8vo. hf. calf, with Sandhurst College bookplate (SCARCE), 178 6d ibidem, 1810

ANOTHER COPY, boards, uncut, with auto. and problems by SAMUEL ROBERTS, F.R.S. (slightly stained), 18s

This work details the history of the calculus of variations from its origin until the close of the XVIII. Century, and has obtained a high reputation for accuracy and clearness.'-I. Todhunter, F.R.S.

'Woodhouse was the first in England to explain and advocate the notation and methods of the calculus.'-D. N. B. 1336_YOUNG (Jacob William Albert, Chicago Univ.) The TEACHING of MATHEMATICS in the ELEMENTARY and the SECONDARY SCHOOL, large cr. 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 6s nett) 1908

1337 YOUNG (John Radford, Prof. Mathematics, Belfast College) THEORY and SOLUTION of ALGEBRAICAL EQUATIONS of the HIGHER ORDERS; 2nd Edition, enlarged, 8vo. cl., with auto., notes, and 4 sheets of exercises by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., 6s 1843

'Young rendered important service to English mathematical study by familiarising students with continental methods of analysis. In 1849, on the opening of Queen's College, the Presbyterian party which controlled the professorial nominations prevented Young's reappointment as professor in the new establishment. From that time he devoted himself more completely to the study of mathematical analysis, and made several original discoveries'.-D. N. B. 1338 ZEUTHEN (Hieronymus Georg; Univ. Copenhagen) GESCHICHTE der MATHEMATIK im XVI. und XVII. JAHRHUNDERT. Deutsche Ausgabe, unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers besorgt von RAPHAEL MEYER; with 32 illustrations, large 8vo. sewn, 10s 6d (p. M. 16) Leipzig, 1903 1339 ZIMMERMANN (Hermann) CALCULATING TABLES, and Collection of Frequently Used Numerals, translated by L. DESCROIX, roy. 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 6s nett) Berlin, 1904 1340 ZINDLER (Konrad, Univ. Innsbruck) LINIENGEOMETRIE mit ANWENDUNGEN; with 111 diagrams, 2 vols. large cr. 8vo. cl., 12s (p. M. 20) Leipzig, 1902-6 1341_ZORETTI (Ludovic, Univ. Caen) LEÇONS de MATHÉMATIQUES GÉNÉRALES, avec Préface de PAUL APPELL; with 206 diagrams, 8vo. (pp. 769), hf. black morocco neat, cl. sides (fine copy), 128 6d (p. F. 22 nett in cl.) 1914

IV. ASTRONOMY and GEODESY.

1342 ABBOT (Charles Greeley, Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) The SUN, with 28 plates and 72 text-illustrations, thick cr. 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 7s 6d nett) 1912 1313 ADAMS (John Couch, F.R.S., Lowndean Prof. Astronomy and Geometry, Cantab.; discoverer of Neptune) SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, edited by WILLIAM GRYLLS ADAMS, F.R.S., and RALPH ALLEN SAMPSON, F.R.A.S., with Memoir by JAMES WHITBREAD LEE GLAISHER, F.R.S., with fine portrait on India paper, fs. of 4 p. MS., and diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. cl., uncut (o. p.), £1. 1s (p. £2. 10s) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1896-1900 Including his Results of Calculations of the Elements of an Exterior Planet', and 'Explanation of the observed Irregularities in the Motion of Uranus', two memoirs on which is based his co-discovery (with Leverrier and Galle) of Neptune, and his 'Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion', demonstrating the incompleteness of Laplace's explanation of the phenomenon. LECTURES on the LUNAR THEORY, edited by Ralph Allen SAMPSON, F.R.S., cr. 8vo. cl. (0. p.), 3s 6d apud eandem, ibidem, 1900 1345 AIRY (Sir George Biddell, P.R.S., Astronomer Royal) ACCOUNT of OBSERVATIONS of the TRANSIT of VENUS, 1874, Dec. 8, made under the Authority of the British Government; and of the Reduction of the Observations, with plates, plans and diagrams, 4to. cl., 7s 6d (p. £1. nett) 1881 The most important account of the Transit of 1874, containing the expedition to the Hawaiian Islands, led by COL. G. L. TUPMAN (pp. 1-256), the Egyptian expedition under CAPT. C. ORDE BROWNE (pp. 256-346), the one to the Island of Rodriguez under LT. CHARLES B. NEATE, R.N. (pp. 347-400), that to Kerguelen Island under S. J. PERRY, pr., F.R.s. (pp. 401-80), and the New Zealand one under MAJOR H. S. PALMER, R.E. (pp. 481-512).

1344

1346

1347

GRAVITATION; an Elementary Explanation of the principal Perturbations of the Solar System; 2nd [latest] Edition, with 50 diagrams, post 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 7s 6d

First published in 1834.

NUMERICAL LUNAR THEORY, with folding tables, roy. 4to. cl., 6s (p. 15s nett)

1884

1886

An examination of the Lunar Theory, as tested by the substitution of numbers for symbols, or for the results of long and complicated operations conducted exclusively by use of symbols.'-Preface.

v. SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, No. 394.

IV. ASTRONOMY AND GEODESY, continued :

1349 ALBRECHT (Theodor; Geodätisches Institut, Berlin), und B. WANACH: RESULTATE des INTERNATIONALEN BREITENDIENSTES, Bd. I-II; with 14 plates, 2 vols. 4to. sewn, 10s 6d (p. M. 24 nett) Berlin, 1903-6 1350 ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond d', de l'Institut; F.R.S., Encyclopédiste) RECHERCHES sur la PRÉCESSION des EQUINOXES, et sur la Nutation de l'Axe de la Terre, dans le Système Newtonien; with 4 plates, 4to. nice copy in contemporary calf gilt (rare), 10s 6d 1749

The first work correctly ascertaining and proving the nutation of the earth's axis, and containing investigations on those forces that have a disturbing effect on its parallelism. 1351 ALLIAUME (Maurice; Belgian Navy) ÉLÉMENTS d'ASTRONOMIE; with diagrams, 8vo. buckram, uncut, t. e. g., 3s 6d LOUVAIN, 1913 1352_AMBRONN (Leopold; Prof. Astronomy, Göttingen) HANDBUCH der ASTRONOMISCHEN INSTRUMENTENKUNDE: eine Beschreibung der bei astronomischen Beobachtungen benutzten Instrumente, sowie Erläuterung der ihrem Bau, ihrer Anwendung und Aufstellung zu Grunde liegenden Principien; with 1185 illustrations, 2 vols. impl. 8vo. (pp. 1286), cl. (fresh_copy), £2. (p. M. 60) Berlin, 1899

The most important and copious work ever written on astronomical instruments. Pp. 1221-76 treat of the erection of observatories.

AMERICAN EPHEMERIS–
-v. No. 2.

1353 APIANUS [Germanice BIENEWITZĮ (Peter; Prof. Mathematics, Ingolstadt; teacher of the Emperor Charles V.): FOLIUM POPULI: Instrumentum hoc a PETRO APIANO iam recens inventum, et in Figuram Folii Populi redactum per Radios Solis toto Orbe Horas comunes ostendit, ex quibus Horæ ab Ortu et Occasu Solis, deinde etiam Horae Ludeorum, quæ in sacrarum Literarum Lectione per Virum q3 Testamentum cognitu admodum sunt necessariæ, deprehendi facilime possunt [LATINE et GERMANICE]; with beautiful wood-engraving on title by JACOB BINK, fine and large woodcut of arms, and 2 diagrams, folio (pp. 21), FINE COPY in hf. roan (VERY RARE), £3. 3s [colophon:] Ingolstadii, 1533

1354

1355

: INSTRUMENT BUCH, durch PETRUM APIANUM erst von new beschriben. I. darinne begriffen ein newer QUADRANT, dardurch Tag und Nacht, bei der Sonnen, Mon, unnd andern Planeten, auch durch ettliche Gestirn, die Stunden, und ander nutzung, gefunden werden. II. Wie man die höch der Thürn, und anderer gebew, desgleichen die weyt, brayt, und tieffe durch die Spigel und Instrument, messen soll. III. Wie man das wasser absehen oder abwegen soll. . . IV. Drey Instrument, die mögen in der gantzen welt bey Tag und bey Nacht gebraucht werden. V. Wie man künstlich durch die Finger der Hände die Stund in der Nacht, ohne alle Instrument erkhennen soll. VI. Ein newer Messstab, desgleichen man nendt den Jacobsstab, dadurch auch die höch, brayt, weyt, und tieffe, auff newe art gefunden wirt; with numerous large and fine woodcuts, folio, FINE AND VERY LARGE COPY in hf. vellum (VERY RARE), £4. 10s ibidem, 1533 Containing the author's chief inventions to solve astronomical and geodetic problems by mechanical means. v. MATHEMATICS, Nos. 433-4.

1871

1356 ARAGO (François Jean Dominique, de l'Institut) ASTRONOMIE POPULAIRE, nouvelle Édition, mise au Courant des Progrès de la Science, par J. A. BARRAL; with 27 plates and numerous woodcuts, 4 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco gilt, 12s 6d (p. F. 30 sewn) 1357 ARGELANDER (Friedrich Wilhelm August, Direktor der Sternwarte; F.R.S.) BONNER STERNVERZEICHNISS, unter Mitwirkung von PROF. Eduard SCHÖNFELD und Dr. A. KRÜGER auf der STERNWARTE zu BONN beobachtet und berechnet, mit SUPPLEMENT-BAND von E. SCHÖNFELD; original edition, 4 vols. 4to. hf. brown calf neat (nice copy); VERY SCARCE, £3. 15s Bonn, 1859-86 'The great Bonner Durchmusterung, in which 324,198 stars visible in the northern hemisphere are enumerated, constitutes a picture of our sidereal surroundings of heretofore unapproached completeness.'-Miss Agnes M. Clerke. The above original edition is very scarce, the work generally happening in the inferior anastatic reprint. DLX STELLARUM FIXARUM POSITIONES MEDIAE ineunte Anno 1830, ex Observationibus Aboæ habitis deductæ, aliorumque Astronomorum Positionibus comparatæ subsidiaque ad supputandos Locos apparentes Inservientia adjectæ, 4to. hf. russia, with author's inscr. to Henry Beaufoy, F.R.S., and the latter's bookplate (scarce), 10s 6d Helsingforsice, 1835 URANOMETRIA NOVA: Stellæ per Mediam Europam solis Oculis conspicuæ secundum veras Lucis Magnitudines e Cœlo ipso descriptæ ; 17 star-maps, oblong folio, cl. (no text), 10s 6d Berolini [1843]

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'All stars visible to the naked eye in Europe are inserted, the magnitude being given with great care and precision from original observations. Altogether a highly valuable work.'-G. F. Chambers. 1360 ARISTARCHUS Samius: De MAGNITUDINIBUS et DISTANTIS SOLIS et LUNA Liber, cum PAPPI ALEXANDRINI Explicationibus, à FRED. COMMANDINO in Latinum conversus, ac Commentariis illustratus ; numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. boards (lower part water-stained, and a few wormholes on blank margin, otherwise a sound and large copy); RARE, 17s 6d Pisauri, 1572 Aristarchus of Samos anticipated the Copernican system by asserting that the sun was the centre of the universe. In the above work he shows the method of estimating the relative distances of the sun and moon from the earth by the angle formed by the two bodies at the observer's eye at that moment when the moon is exactly half-luminous.

v. WALLIS, No. 1297.

1361 ARRHENIUS (Svante August, Director Physico-Chemical Dept., Nobel Inst., Stockholm) WORLDS in the MAKING: the Evolution of the Universe, translated by H. BORNS, with 60 illustrations, large post 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 6s nett) New York, 1908 1362 AUTOLYCUS: De SPHAERA quae movetur Liber. De ORTIBUS et OCCASIBUS Libri II, una cum Scholiis antiquis e Libris MSS. edidit, LATINA INTERPRETATIONE et Commentariis instruxit FRIDERICUS HULTZSCH; with diagrams, 12mo. sewn, 2s 6d (p. M. 3.60) Lipsiae, 1885

IV. ASTRONOMY AND GEODESY, continued:

ASTRONOMICAL REGISTER-v. Nos. 12-14.

ASTRONOMISCHE GESELLSCHAFT: VIERTELJAHRSSCHRIFT-v. No. 19.

1361 AUWERS (Arthur v.) NEUE REDUCTION der BRADLEY'SCHEN BEOBACHTUNGEN aus den Jahren 1750 bis 1762, I. Band, die Begründung des Sterncatalogs, die Reduction der Sonnen- und Planeten beobachtungen und die Bearbeitung der Sectorbeobachtungen von WANSTEAD and GREENWICH enthaltend, impl. 4to. boards, 18s 6d (p. M. 27 nett) St. Petersburg [Petrograd], 1903 'A splendid piece of work, for which the author received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, reducing afresh, with the aid of the most refined modern data, Bradley's original stars, and comparing their places thus obtained for the year 1755 with those assigned to them from observations made at Greenwich after the lapse of 90 years.' -Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

Vols. II and III were published in 1882 and 1888.

1365 BAEYER (General Joseph Jacob) ASTRONOMISCHE BESTIMMUNGEN für die EUROPÄISCHE GRADMESSUNG, 1857-66, 4to. hf. cl., 5s (p. M. 9 sewn)

Leipzig, 1873

The author was the first to propose a geodetic survey comprising the whole of Central Europe, the results of which are embodied in the above volume. 1366 BAILLY (Jean Sylvain) HISTOIRE de l'ASTRONOMIE; with plates, COMPLETE in 5 vols. 4to. uniformly bound in contemporary French caif gilt (RARE), £1. 12s 6d 1779-87 CONTENU:-HISTOIRE de l'ASTRONOMIE ANCIENNE depuis son origine jusqu'à l'établissement de l'École d'Alexandrie, 2o éd.; with plates, '81: HISTOIRE de l'ASTRONOMIE MODERNE depuis la fondation de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie jusqu'en 1730; with plates, 3 v., '79-82: TRAITÉ de l'ASTRONOMIE INDIENNE et ORIENTALE, '87.

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Although of little value now as a history of the science, the work is still in much demand for the large amount of valuable original information it contains.

TRAITÉ de l'ASTRONOMIE INDIENNE et ORIENTALE, 4to. contemporary mottled French calf extra (FINE COPY); RARE, 17s 6d 1787

ANOTHER COPY, contemporary hf. calf gilt (RARE), 16s

'Rempli de recherches d'érudition fort instructives, et qu'un astronome seul pouvait faire.'-Biogr. Univ.

The author played an important part in the French Revolution; he was elected President of the National Assembly on June 17th, 1789, and Mayor of Paris the same year, but finally fell a victim to the mob, and was guillotined in 1793, after the usual Jacobin insults, which made Carlyle exclaim: Crueller end had no mortal.' 1369 BAILY (Francis, F.R.S.) NEW TABLES for FACILITATING the COMPUTATION of PRECESSION, ABERRATION and NUTATION of 2,881 PRINCIPAL STARS; with Catalogue of the same reduced to Jan. 1, 1830, computed at the Expense and under the Direction of the ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of LONDON; with Introduction on their Construction and Application, 4to. hf. bound (SCARCE), £1. 12s 6d

1370

1827

ANOTHER COPY, as published with the Astronomical Society's Memoirs (without General Title), 4to. hf. calf gilt, £1. 10s

The ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY'S STAR CATALOGUE, which, according to Sir John Herschel, 'put the astronomical world in possession of a power which may be said, without exaggeration, to have changed the face of sidereal astronomy.'

'In 1827 the Astronomical Society of London rendered an important service to practical astronomy, by the publication of a general catalogue of stars, founded upon the most celebrated catalogues that have been executed since the middle of the XVIII. century. This catalogue contains the places of 2,881 stars, reduced upon a uniform system to Jan. 1st, 1830. In addition to the mean place of each star, the constants for computing its apparent place, according to Bessel's method, are also inserted. The introductory explanation is by Francis Baily, to whom was assigned the important task of selecting the most trustworthy values of the uranographical corrections. The calculations were executed under the superintendence of Lieut. Stratford.'-Prof. R. Grant.

v. FLAMSTEED, post, and SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, No. 394.

1371 BAUERNFEIND (Carl Max v.; Munich) ELEMENTE der VERMESSUNGSKUNDE: ein Lehrbuch der praktischen Geometrie, 7. [neueste] vermehrte Auflage; with 714 illustrations, 2 vols. large 8vo. cl., 12s (p. M. 18 unbound)

Stuttgart, 1890

Last edition of this well-known standard work on surveying. The author was the discoverer of two geodetic instruments, the prismatic cross and the prism of distances. BERLINER ASTRONOMISCHES JAHRBUCH-v. No. 20.

1372 BERNOULLI (Jean [III]) LETTRES ASTRONOMIQUES; où l'on donne une Idée de l'État actuel de l'Astronomie Pratique dans plusieurs Villes de l'Europe; with 2 plates, sm. 8vo. old hf. calf (binding damaged), with bookplate of T. S. Evans, 12s 6d chez l'auteur, Berlin, 1771

F.R.S.,

This copy contains numerous and very interesting MS. notes, with some neat illustrations, by THOMAS SIMPSON EVANS, mathematical master at Woolwich (1777-1818). The copy afterwards passed into the possession of GEORGE PEACOCK, Dean of Ely, and was bought at his sale by the late LORD JUSTICE STIRLING, F.R.S. 1373 BERRY (Arthur, King's Coll., Cantab.) SHORT HISTORY of ASTRONOMY, with 105 plates and text-illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 6s nett)

1898 1374_BERTHOUD (Ferdinand; de l'Institut; F.R.S.) L'ART de CONDUIRE et de RÉGLER les PENDULES et les MONTRES, à l'Usage de ceux qui n'ont aucune Connaissance d'Horlogerie, avec les Règles, Observations et Calculs pour l'Usage des MONTRES ASTRONOMIQUES, etc., 4e [dernière] Edition, augmentée; with 5 folding copperplates, 12mo. sewn (rare), 10s

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ESSAI sur l'HORLOGERIE; dans lequel on traite de cet Art, relativement à l'Usage Civil, à l'Astronomie, et à la Navigation, en établissant des Principes confirmés par l'Expérience, 2o Edition; with 38 folding plates by Choffard, 2 vols. 4to. contemporary tree-calf gilt (joints mended, but a FINE COPY); RARE, £1. 10s

ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. hf. calf, £1. 7s 6d

1786 LAST AND BEST EDITION of the author's most important work, 'un des plus estimés ouvrages que l'on ait sur cet art.'-Brunet. HISTOIRE de la MESURE du TEMPS par les HORLOGES; with 23 folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt (RARE), £1. 10s Imprimerie de la République, 1802 De la MESURE du TEMPS, contenant les Principes de Construction, d'Exécution et d'Épreuves de petites Horloges à Longitude, et ses Applications aux Montres de Poche, HORLOGES ASTRONOMIQUES, etc.; with 11 folding plates, 4to. sewn, uncut, 15s

1787 Intended as a supplement to the Essai sur l'Horlogerie' (q. v. supra), and the 'Traité des Horloges Marines (v. NAVIGATION, post).

1905

1380 BALL (Sir Robert, F.R.S., Royal Astronomer, Ireland) POPULAR GUIDE to the HEAVENS, 83 plates (mostly coloured or tinted), with explanatory Text and Index, cr. 4to. cl. gilt, t. e. g., 8s (p. 15s nett) 1381 BIOT (Jean Baptiste, de l'Institut) TRAITÉ ÉLÉMENTAIRE d'ASTRONOMIE PHYSIQUE, 3e [dernière] Edition, corrigée et augmentée, 5 vols. 8vo., and ATLAS, containing 94 plates, oblong 4to.-together 6 vols. hf. calf gilt, £1. 1s 1841-57

'Biot in his Astronomie Physique has considered the subject of the motion of the solar system in space. An investigation, based on the proper motions of several stars, induced him to conclude that there did not exist sufficient grounds for believing that the solar system is advancing towards any determinate point of the heavens'.-Robert Grant.

v. NEWTON, No. 1046.

1382 BOHLIN (Karl Petrus Teodor; Director, Stockholm Observatory) FORMELN und TAFELN zur GRUPPENWEISE BERECHNUNG der allgemeinen STÖRUNGEN benachbarter PLANETEN, large 4to. sewn, 7s 6d Upsala, 1896 1383 BOSS (Lewis, Carnegie Inst., Washington) PRELIMINARY GENERAL CATALOGUE of 6188 STARS for the Epoch 1900, including those visible to the naked Eye and other well-determined Stars, prepared at the Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y., roy. 4to. sewn, 14s (p. $7.)

Carnegie Inst., Washington, 1910 1384 BOUGUER (Pierre, de l'Académie Royale; F.R.S.) La FIGURE de la TERRE, determinée par les Observations de MM. BOUGUER et DE LA CONDAMINE, envoyés au PÉROU pour observer aux Environs de l'Equateur, avec une Relation abregée de ce Voyage; with 9 folding plates, 4to. old calf (joints cracked), with auto. and fine armorial bookplate of the [? 8th] Earl of Lauderdale (Philosophus '); RARE, £1. 5s 1749 'Both on practical and theoretical grounds it may be justly considered the most important work of all which the Peruvian expedition occasioned, and as that which should be selected by a student who desires to confine himself to one of the original accounts.'-Isaac Todhunter.

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ANOTHER COPY, contemporary French mottled calf gilt, £1. 7s 6d

1386 BOULLIAU [Latine BULLIALDUS (Ismaël) ASTRONOMIA PHILOLAICA: Opus novum, in quo Motus Planetarum per novam et veram Hypothesim demonstrantur, editio princeps; with woodcuts, thick folio, hf. calf gilt (large and clean copy); RARE, £1. 5s Parisiis, 1645

This important work first mentions, according to Newton, that the sun's attraction decreases inversely to its distance. 'Ouvrage savant et estimable.'-Montucla. 1387 BRAHE (Tyge, Latine Tycho) OPERA OMNIA, sive ASTRONOMIÆ INSTAURATE PROGYMNASMATA, in II Partes distributa, quarum I. de RESTITUTIONE MOTUUM SOLIS et LUNE, Stellarumque Inerrantium tractat. II. de MUNDI ÆTHEREI recentioribus Phænomensis [sic] agit; with plate, and numerous diagrams, 4to. old Italian vellum (browned, but sound copy), with Prof. Riccardi's booklabel (RARE), £1. 15s Francofurti, Godofredus Schönwetterus, 1648 Containing observations on the comet of 1577, the right ascension and declination of 100 stars, and lunar and solar theories, but above all noteworthy for explaining the peculiar planetary system invented by the author, which for some time found many followers, and among them Sir Francis Bacon. It also includes a reprint of the author's 'De Nova Stella'. 1388 : GASSENDI (Pierre) TYCHONIS BRAHEI, Equitis Dani, Astronomorum Coryphæi VITA, accessit NICOLAI COPERNICI, GEORGII PEURBACHII, et JOANNIS REGIOMONTANI, Astronomorum celebrium Vitae, Editio Secunda auctior et correctior; with fine portraits of Brahe and Copernicus by J. v. Meurs, and 2 woodcuts, sm. 4to. old vellum (RARE), £1. İs Haga-Com., A. Vlacq, 1655 ANOTHER COPY, contemporary white vellum (FINE AND LARGE COPY), £1. 5s

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' Giving not only a masterly account of the lives of these men, but likewise a complete history of astronomy down to his own time.' 1390 BRENNAND (W.) HINDU ASTRONOMY, with 12 plates and numerous text-illustrations, large roy. Evo. cl., uncut (o. p.), 15s (p. £1. 1s) 1896

A conviction formed many years ago that the Hindus have not received the credit due to their literature and mathematical science from Europeans, which has been strengthened by a renewal of my study of those materials, and has led me also to a desire to put before the public their system of astronomy in as simple a manner as possible.' -Preface.

BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOURNAL and MEMOIRS-v. No. 23. 1391 BROWN (Ernest William, F.R.S.; Prof. Mathematics, Yale Univ.) INTRODUCTORY TREATISE on the LUNAR THEORY, with diagrams, impl. 8vo. cl., with sheet of references by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., 10s (p. 15s nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1896 1392 BRYANT (Walter William, F.R.A.S., Greenwich Observatory) HISTORY of ASTRONOMY, with 35 portraits and plates, many from old prints, 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 7s 6d nett) [1907] 1393 BURNHAM (Sherburne Wesley; F.R.A.S., Yerkes Observatory) DOUBLE-STAR OBSERVATIONS, 1877-80, with the 18-inch Refractor of the Dearborn Observatory, comprising Catalogues of New Double Stars with Measures, and Micrometrical Measures, 2 vols. 4to. sewn, 8s R. A. S. [1881]-3

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GENERAL CATALOGUE of DOUBLE STARS, within 121o of the North Pole, with Notes to the Catalogue, diagrams, 2 vols. roy. 4to. (pp. 1086), cl., £2. 2s (p. $28) Carnegie Inst., Washington, 1906 The only catalogue published of all known double stars visible in the Northern Hemisphere, including 1,274 new ones discovered by the author himself.

'A record of unprecedented interest.'-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

v. YERKES OBSERVATORY, No. 211.

1395 CARRINGTON (Richard Christopher, F.R.S.) OBSERVATIONS of the SPOTS on the SUN from Nov. 9, 1853, to March 24, 1861, made at Redhill, with 166 plates, roy. 4to. cl. (scarce), 178 6d 1863

The most important work on the subject. 'From a series of 5,290 observations and a great number of accurate drawings, Carrington derived conclusions of great importance on the law of the sun's rotation, the existence and direction of systematic currents, and the distribution of spots on the solar surface.'-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.