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455 BESSON. Theatre des Instrvmens Mathematiques & Mechaniques de Iaques Besson.. avec l'interpretation des Figures. Par François Beroald. A. Lyon.. M.D.LXXIX. Folio, 60 plates of Machinery (each having a descriptive heading in Latin) and text; hf. bound

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1659 460 CAUTLEY (Col. Sir P. T.) Report of the Ganges Canal Works from their Commencement until the Opening of the Canal in 1854. Impl. folio, 66 large plans; hf. morocco

1860

461 CORNAGLIA (Paolo) Sul Regime delle Spiagge e sulla Regolazione dei
Porti. Roy. 8vo., pp. 569, with 9 plates; sd.
Torino, 1891
462 DIRCKS (H.) Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's familiar
friend; with bibliographical notices of works published by him; and
a Reprint of his Pamphlet, entitled "An Invention of Engines of
Motion." Post 8vo., cloth

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463 GARNIER (F.) Traité sur les Puits Artésiens ou sur les differentes Espèces
de Terrains dans lesquels on doit rechercher des Eaux Souterraines.
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464 RENNIE (Sir J.) THEORY, FORMATION, and CONSTRUCTION of BRITISH and
FOREIGN HARBOURS [Docks, and Naval Arsenals], 2 vols. impl. folio,
with 123 large and elaborate engravings of the Harbours, with all the
Engineering details, also the portrait of the Author, half morocco (pub.
£18.)
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This great work comprises plans and details of every description of the most
celebrated British and Foreign Docks. Harbours, etc., from the earliest periods,
including all recent improvements. The impression was limited to 250 copies.
4RINMAN. Grundritningar och Profiler uti Tabeller Hörande til Afhand-

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lingen, I. Kekaniken, författad af Swen Rinman. Impl. folio, 53 fine plates, containing many hundred figures, illustrating submarine Engineering, the manufacture of Cannon, etc., hf. bd. [Stockholm], about 1820 SMEATON (J.) Experimental Enquiry concerning the natural powers of Wind and Water to turn Mills and other Machines, with 4 plates of machines, 1794-Historical Report on Ramsgate Harbour, with plan of the harbour, 1791 in 1 vol., 8vo., hf. calf 1791-94

Narrative of the Building and Description of the Construction of the Eddystone Lighthouse with Stone, with some account of the Lighthouse on Spurn Point. Impl. folio, with 23 plates of plans and views; bds. uncut 1813

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449 REDWOOD (B.), G. T. HOLLOWAY, and others. PETROLEUM. 2 vols., 8vo., numerous maps, plates, and illustrations in the text; cloth. (pub. £2.5s)

1896 A treatise on the geographical distribution and geological occurrence of petroleum and natural gas; the physical and chemical properties, production, and refining of petroleum and ozokerite: etc.

449* ROSCOE (Sir H. E.) and C. SCHORLEMMER. Treatise on Chemistry. 3 vols. in 9, 8vo., many illustrations, cloth (pub. £8. 178)

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450 ROSCOE. The Chemistry of the Hydrocarbons and their Derivatives. 8vo., pp. x, 724, with illustrations; cloth (pub. 21s)

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Smee's Lecture on Electro-Metallurgy, 1851; On Voltaic Force, by the same, 1842 :
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Benzole; its nature, etc. by C. B. Mansfield, 1849; Nesbit on Peruvian Guano, 1852;
De la Rue on Cochineal; Graham, Hofman and Redwood upon "Original Gravities,"
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451*WATT. Correspondence of the late James Watt on his Discovery of the Theory of the Composition of Water. Edited by J. P. Muirhead. 8vo., with portrait, cloth

1846 452 WOOLRIDGE (L. C.) On the Chemistry of the Blood and other Scientific Papers. Arranged by V. Horsley and E. Starling. 8vo., with plates (pub. 16s); cloth

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Crustacea

453 BAIRD (W.). Natural History of the British Entomostraca. 8vo., with 36 coloured plates; half morocco gilt, uncut

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455 BESSON. Theatre des Instrvmens Mathematiques & Mechaniques de Iaques Besson. . avec l'interpretation des Figures.. Par François Beroald. A. Lyon. . M.D.LXXIX. Folio, 60 plates of Machinery (each having a descriptive heading in Latin) and text; hf. bound

1579

In the same volume: Di Alberto Dvrero. . della Simmetria de i Corpi Hvmani Libri Quattro.. Venetia, 1591, with plates; Les Proportions du Corps Humain mesurées sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquité, Paris, 1683, with 30 plates.

456 CAUS (SALOMON DE) Les Raisons des Forces movvantes, avec diverses
Machines tant utiles que plaisantes: ausquelles sont adjoints plusieurs
desseins de Grotes & Fontanes 3 books in 1 vol. folio, with

engraved titles, numerous woodcuts, and about 50 full-page copperplates
illustrating mechanics as applied to Fountains, Organs, Mills, etc.; old
calf, RARE

EXCESSIVELY RARK.

From the Earl of Jersey's Library.

Paris, 1624 457 CAUS (Isaac de) Novvelle Invention de lever l'Eau plus havlt que sa source, avec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau et un discours de la conduite d'ycelle... Folio, woodcuts, and fine impressions of the 26 copperplates; old calf Londre, 1644 the same. Small folio, the second edition; vellum Londres, 1657 New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works, shewing the Easiest waies to raise water higher then the spring. By which Invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed . . . translated into English by John Leake... Sm. folio, woodcuts, and 26 copperplates; calf

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1659 460 CAUTLEY (Col. Sir P. T.) Report of the Ganges Canal Works from their Commencement until the Opening of the Canal in 1854. Impl. folio, 66 large plans; hf. morocco

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1860 461 CORNAGLIA (Paolo) Sul Regime delle Spiagge e sulla Regolazione dei Porti. Roy. 8vo., pp. 569, with 9 plates; sd. Torino, 1891 060 462 DIRCKS (H.) Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's familiar friend; with bibliographical notices of works published by him; and a Reprint of his Pamphlet, entitled "An Invention of Engines of Motion." Post 8vo., cloth

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463 GARNIER (F.) Traité sur les Puits Artésiens ou sur les differentes Espèces
de Terrains dans lesquels on doit rechercher des Eaux Souterraines.
4to., with 25 plates; hf. russia
Paris, 1826
464 RENNIE (Sir J.) THEORY, FORMATION, and CONSTRUCTION of BRITISH and
FOREIGN HARBOURS [Docks, and Naval Arsenals], 2 vols. impl. folio,
with 123 large and elaborate engravings of the Harbours, with all the
Engineering details, also the portrait of the Author, half morocco (pub.
£18.)

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Weale, 1851 10 10 0

This great work comprises plans and details of every description of the most celebrated British and Foreign Docks, Harbours, etc., from the earliest periods, including all recent improvements. The impression was limited to 250 copies.

465 RINMAN. Grundritningar och Profiler uti Tabeller Hörande til Afhandlingen, I. Kekaniken, författad af Swen Rinman. Impl. folio, 53 fine plates, containing many hundred figures, illustrating submarine Engineering, the manufacture of Cannon, etc., hf. bd. [Stockholm], about 1820 466 SMEATON (J.) Experimental Enquiry concerning the natural powers of Wind and Water to turn Mills and other Machines, with 4 plates of machines, 1794-Historical Report on Ramsgate Harbour, with plan of the harbour, 1791 in 1 vol., 8vo., hf. calf

467

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Narrative of the Building and Description of the Construction of the Eddystone Lighthouse with Stone, with some account of the Lighthouse on Spurn Point. Impl. folio, with 23 plates of plans and views; bds. uncut 1813

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469 SWITZER (Stephen) An Universal System of Water and Water-Works In Four Books. 2 vols. in 1, 4to., with front., and 60 fine folding copperplates; calf rebacked

1734 Interesting to Gardening Book Collectors on account of the Engravings of artificial Fountains.

470 TREVITHICK (F.) Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of his Inventions. 2 vols., 8vo., with portrait, plates and numerous woodcuts; cloth 1872 471 VAN DER HORST (T.), J. SCHENK, and J. POLLEY. Theatrum Machinarum Universale. 2 vols. in 1, impl. folio, with 49 fine folding plates of Sluices, Locks, Drawbridges, etc., hf. bd. Amsterdam, 1736 472 ENGINEERING: an Illustrated Weekly Journal, A COMPLETE SET from the beginning in January, 1866, to the end of 1882;-34 vols. impl. 4to. containing an immense number of plans and woodcuts, fourteen vols. half bound, the rest in cloth

1866-82 Vol. I lacks pp. 15-32, and the first fourteen vols. have the stamp of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the title-page.

473 TRANSACTIONS of the INSTITUTION of CIVIL ENGINEERS. 3 vols. 4to., with upwards of 70 plates; cloth, scarce 1836-42

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477 BALY (J. S.) Catalogue of Hispida in the British Museum, Part I (all published), 8vo., with 9 plates; cloth 1858 478 BOISDUVAL (J. A.) Essai sur une Monographie des Zygénides, with 8 coloured plates 1829-Europæorum Lepidopterorum Index Methodicus. Pars I (all published), 1829-2 vols. in 1, 8vo., hf. bd.

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486 CHARPENTIER (T. de) Orthoptera, descripta et depicta. Roy. 4to., with 60 coloured plates; half bound

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488 COTES (E. C.) and C. SWINHOE. Catalogue of the Moths of India. 7 pts.,
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492 ETUDES ENTOMOLOGIQUES, redigées par Victor de Motschulsky. Années
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