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HOWARD, Luke. Essay on the Modification of Clouds.London, John Churchill and Sons, 1865 The 'student of clouds' or 'father of meteorology' Luke Howard (1772-1864) was by profession an industrial chemist, but his great interest in meteorology led to his studies on clouds, and his devising of the system of Latin cloud names which was adopted internationally and is still in use. He introduced the three basic cloud names: cirus, cumulus and stratus. As a young man Luke Howard was one of a circle who in March, 1796, formed themselves into an Association called the Askesian Society, for the discussion of scientific questions. Among the Members were William Allen, William Phillips, Alexander Tilloch, and H. Pepys. The Society was merged into the Geological Society in 1806. He possessed a registering clock by which the variations of the barometer were recorded on the outer portion of the dial, which made one revolution in the twelve months. These diagrams were afterwards published, at great expense, under the name of Barometrographia. In Barometrographia, he noted down the atmospheric pressure readings from 1815 to 1834 at his homes in Tottenham, London, and Ackworth, Yorkshire, alongside accounts of the weather. "Howard's contributions to meteorology over half a century were profound. He had not limited himself to clouds but had looked at radiation, urban heat islands and wind flow. Fifty years before, at a lecture in Tottenham, he had even suggested that the rotation of the earth might deflect winds off course. He had explained to an audience that as the air travels north or south the earth is forever 'slipping away under it'." Peter Moore, The Weather Experiment, Chatto and Windus, 2015. Alfred Waterhouse was an English architect, famous in particular for designing the Natural History Museum of London. Only five copies are known in public libraries, and none are of have been on the market. Third edition, folio (28.5 x 22.5 cm), xvi, 37 pp., 6 plates. Green cloth gilt. Provenance: Alfred Waterhouse (ex-libris)
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HOWARD, Luke. Papers on Meteorology, relating especially to the Climate of Britain, and to the Variations of the Barometer, Communicated to the Royal Society at Various Periods from 1821 to 1845. Being Part I. of the Appendix to Barometrographia. London, Richard & John E. Taylor, 1850-54. 2 volumes, being Part I & II (complete), folio (28.5 x 22.5 cm): Part I: [4], 76 pp., 6 diagram plates, 1 large folding sheet unbound; Part II: [4], 71 pp., 2 diagram plates, 1 folding table. Publisher's blind-tooled cloth lettered in gilt, second part lacking most of backstrip, first some fraying and minor splits. Inscription to both title pages: "The author to his friend Alfred Waterhouse. Ackworth, 26/ix-1854". Provenance: Alfred Waterhouse.
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Collection of first edition books, The Book Society and others, to include Louis Romfield, Night in Bombay, A P Wavell, Other Men's Flowers, Christine Weston, The World is Bridge, Mary Renault, The King Must Die, David Beaty The Wind of the Sea, Lin Yutang A Leaf in the Storm, C.S. Forester Ye Earthly Paradise, Trevor Roper, The Last Days of Hitler, C S Forester The Sky and the Forest, Herold, Bonaparte in Egypt, Joseph Kessel The Lion, Richard Llewllyn How Green Was My Vvalley, Hugh MacLemann, Barometer Rising, D'arcy Niland The Shiralee, Herold, Mistress to an Age, Heinemann Madame Solario, John Master Bugles and a Tiger, Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian, Elliot West The Night is a Time for Listening, C S Forester, Hornblower and the Hotspur, Lawrence Durrell Bitter Lemons, Norman Collins, London Belongs to Me, John Marquand, H.M. Pulham Esquire, Alan Moorhead, The Faith Impact and John Murray With an Eye to the Future (28)
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MIXED LOT OF VINTAGE COLLECTABLESincluding a Radiospares mahogany cased radio; a vintage leather surveyor's tape; two boxwood and brass folding rulers; a table lighter styled as a motor launch; a stirrup barometer; a cased Remington electric travelling razor; a cased keystone 390 calculator; a bakelite cased circular temperature gauge, etc.
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A George IV mahogany wheel barometer by A. Carioli of Sheffield, the boxwood and ebony strung case with ebonised broken arch pediment with gilt brass urn finial, over a silvered hygrometer dial, alchohol thermometer, mirror in reeded slip, main 8in. silvered dial and signed level, 39in. (99cm.) long.
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER the silvered rectangular register plate signed H Smith, Reading, with manually operated vernier, opposing spirit tube thermometer enclosed by a glazed door, the exposed tube chevron strung case with break arch pediment and flat turned cistern cover, 96cm high
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