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Solution of Equations of the higher orders.
Souter and Law,
1842
FIRST EDITION, pages xx,247, small 8vo, original cloth: a
little dusty, a little worn, with some light fingering, but a good,
sound copy of a scarce book.
Young (1799-1842), a largely self-taught mathematician, was
appointed professor of mathematics at Belfast College in 1833. In 1849,
on the opening of Queen’s College, the Presbyterian party which
controlled the professorial nominations prevented his reappointment as
professor in the new establishment. This sectarian rebuff spurred him
on to increased mathematical research including finishing his proof of
Newton’s rule for determining the number of imaginary roots in an
equation. During his career in mathematics he made several important
discoveries, published almost twenty books and contributed a number of
papers to the RIA and other scholarly journals. This work is not noted
in the list of titles ascribed to him in the DNB: NSTC notes five copies
- C, Dt, O, E and LC - COPAC adds UCL.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CREMONA (Luigi).
Graphical
Statics. Two treatises on the graphical calculus and reciprocal
figures in graphical statics. Translated by Thomas Hudson
Beare.
Oxford, at the Clarendon Press,
1890. FIRST EDITION IN
ENGLISH, with some 140 text diagrams, pages (15), 161 and
(2),56 advertisements), 8vo, original brown cloth: a bright, fresh
and attractive copy.
A key work. Cremona (1830-1903), originator of graphical statics (the
study of forces in equilibrium using graphical methods), Italian
mathematician, devoted his life to the study of higher geometry and
reforming the more advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. Known
particularly for his work in projective geometry and graphical statics, he
availed of this first English edition of his most important work to
make some revisions and has added a new preface to each of the two
treatises.
(2)
PARKES (Samuel).
The Chemical Catechism, with tables,
notes, illustrations, and experiments. The tenth edition,
carefully corrected, and adapted to the present state of chemical
science; with an enlarged dictionary of terms, and a very
copious and newly arranged index.
Printed for the Author …
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,
1822. With the attractive folding
engraved frontispiece of ‘a design for a general laboratory’ and
one other engraved plate (light old water stain on the latter),
pages xxxii, (2),586, (2, adverts), 8vo, near contemporary cloth:
a very good copy.
(3)
THOMSON (Jocelyn Home) & REDWOOD (Boverton).
The Petroleum Lamp, its choice and use. A guide to the safe
employment of mineral oil in what is commonly termed the
paraffin lamp.
Charles Griffin,
1902. FIRST EDITION, with 30
illustrs, 104-pp, small 8vo, original cloth: a very good copy.
(4)
VOGEL (Hermann).
The Chemistry of Light and
Photography in their application to Art, Science, and Industry.
Fifth edition.
Kegan Paul, International Scientific Series XV,
[1888].
With 6 plates (including 3 of actual mounted photographs) and
100 text illustrs, pp ix, 302, 8vo, strongly bound recent boards:
date erased from title-page, otherwise very good.
(5)
ROLAND (Arthur).
Tree-Planting for ornamention or
profit, suitable to every soil and situation. Edited by William H.
Ablett.
London: Chapman and Hall,
1887. Pages viii, 157, (3,
blank), 40 (adverts), original green cloth, gilt: a nice, fresh copy.
Though not so stated, this volume on arboriculure is complete in itself
and was issued as the third volume in “Farming for Pleasure & Profit”
series, This copy bears the neat name stamp of Lt. Col. H. Leslie Ellis
of Magherymore, Wicklow.
(6)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1422
.
YOUNGHUSBAND (Frank E.).
The Heart of a
Continent. A narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi
Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-
1894. Third edition.
John Murray,
1896
With 4 folding maps (1 in an end pocket) and 18 plates, pages
xvii, (2), 409, (3, blank), 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: a nice,
fresh copy.
Yakushi Y27. The classic work of Central Asian exploration, perhaps
the definitive work of its time. His journeys through the Pamirs
established his reputation as a Central Asian explorer of the first rank
and led to him being awarded the Founder’s medal of the Royal
Geographical Society.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1423
.
YOUNGHUSBAND (Sir Francis E.).
India and Tibet.
A history of the relations which have subsisted between the two
countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910; with a
particular account of the mission to Lhasa of 1904.
John
Murray,
1910
FIRST EDITION, with 26 plates and 2 folding coloured maps,
pp xvi, 455, 8(adverts), 8vo, original cloth, gilt, top edges gilt:
light marginal foxing, inside joints cracked, wanting a blank
flyleaf, slight wear to spine and headbands, but a sound and
very good copy.
Yakushi Y30a. Younghusband (1863–1942), explorer, geographer,
mystic, made his name as an exploring soldier and imperialist. In 1903
Curzon appointed him to lead a military mission to Tibet to establish
British political and commercial interest and to survey the region, a
focus of Anglo-Russian rivalry. In Verrier’s view (1991) Younghusband
was politically naïve, pursuing a chivalrous quest rather than a
strategic mission, and exceeded his brief even by advancing to Lhasa.
French (1994) presents the Tibet mission as the embodiment of empire
at its overstretched zenith … (ODNB).
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ELLIS (Wm.).
Madagascar
Revisited, describing the events of a new reign and the
revolution which followed; setting forth also the persecutions
endured by the christians, and their heroic sufferings, with
notices of the present state and prospects of the people.
John
Murray,
1867. FIRST EDITION, with the 13 plates but bound
without the plan of Antananarivo, pages xviii,
(1),502,2(adverts), 8vo, original brown cloth: a nice, fresh copy.
Ellis (1794-1872), chief foreign secretary to the London Missionary
Society, helped the government of Madagascar to checkmate French
interference during 1861-65.
(2)
MURRAY (Hugh).
History of British India. Continued to
the year 1856.
London: T. Nelson and Sons,
1867. With
frontispiece and folding map (short tear, no loss), pp xvi, 731,
(1, blank), (2, adverts), 8vo, original cloth, gilt, uncut, skillfully
repaired, new endpapers, a very good to nice copy. (3)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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