Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1960. wraps. Limited Edition. ix pp. 4to. Loose signatures in brown wraps. Clean and crisp within. Housed in original manila envelope with printer's return address printed on front, small tears at flap.
Printed by Claude Fredericks in an edition of 220 copies. Fine. More
Braunschweig, Germany: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. Hardcover. First Edition. 568-1072 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth covers with wear and scuffing, 1-3/4" tear along upper front hinge, adhesive label at upper right corner of front cover. Endpapers starting to tear at gutter, text block slightly loose in boards, internally clean and crisp. Ex-library with stamp and notations in pencil on title page. Text in German.
Albert Einstein's (1879-1955) introduction of the quantum hypothesis. Good. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1947. Wraps. First Edition. 839-944, ix pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine. Light waffling to top edge of pages from moisture at an earlier date. Does not afffect text or overall condition.
Frank R. Elder and his team's seminal paper on the discovery of synchrotron radiation which is the radiation that results from the radial acceleration of charged particles. Very Good. More
New York: Adams Press Print, 1923. Hardcover. First Edition. 322, [2], [6] ads pp. 8vo. Includes the 2 page "Editorial Addendum" bound in at rear, 6 pages of ads. Red cloth boards with black titling embossed to cover boards and spine. Volume has been expertly rebacked using the original spine and preserving the first free endpaper with "Dunninger Enterprises" stamp intact. Interior clean with pencil marks on tricks that interested and earlier reader. Very Good. More
Chicago, IL: Kelmscott Gallery, 1986. Wraps. First Edition. 85 pp. Oblong 4to. Light scuffing to covers from shelf wear. 120 illustrations of plans, photographs of houses, studies, interiors by the architects and designers included in the exhibition of the same name that was shown at The Armstrong Gallery in New York, March 12-April 5; The Tartt Gallery in Washington, DC, April 12-May 3; and Lunn Ltd. in Chicago, May 8-13, 1984. Fine. More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1846. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. xv, 547 pp. 4to. Brown leather spine and corners, with five raised bands to spine, gold embossed titling, marbled paper insets front and rear, matching endpapers. Small tear to upper right corner of second free endpaper. Light foxing within but clean overall. 17 plates at rear of volume very clean. Very Good. More
London: H. Murray, 1795. Half Leather. First Edition. First English Edition. lxiii, vi, 515, viii, xxviii, 520 pp. 8vo. 6 plates in Volume I, 14 plates in Volume II. Brown leather spines with gold incised bands, dark brown leather patch title with gold embossed titling. Marbled paper boards with faux-vellume corners. Clean within, light foxing to both text and plates.
At the invitation of King Frederick the Great of Prussia, Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) tutored the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, the king's niece. Over the next several years, Euler wrote more than 200 letters to her on a broad range of subjects relating to physics and mathematics, as well as offering insights into Euler's personality and religious beliefs. Very Good. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xx, 538 pp. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Wear to covers, ex-lirbary with call numbers at base of spine. Front endpapers illustrated by a map of Kansas keyed to tours described within; library stamps throughout. Large folding map in Very Good condition in pocket tipped in at rear.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1839. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [5], [1]-12, [1]-438, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, # 27495 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), & #27500 with Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), our #27503 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Second Series" (pp. 1-41), our #27505 which contains"Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1843. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-336, [2] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Crumpling and tears to p. 37/38, does not impact this article.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27500 with Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), our #27503 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Second Series" (pp. 1-41), our #27505 which contains "Experimental Researches..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [1], [1]-331, [1], clvii pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27513 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1849. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-523, 15 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), & #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), our #27505 which contains"Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental Researches in Electricity..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1852. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental Researches in Electricity --..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [3], v, [1]-951 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental Researches in Electricity --..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1859. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [4], 16, [1]-930 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
The first printing of William Farr's (1807-1883) preliminary report describing the use of the Scheutz calculator to prepare life tables, published five years before his English Life Tables, representing the very earliest application of computers to medical statistics.. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "A Sixth Memoir Upon Quantics" (pp. 61-90) and John Gassiot's "On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges, as Observed in Torricellian and other Vacua.- Second Communication" (pp. 137-160). Very Good... More
Galena, IL: Community Development Fund of Galena, 1937. Wraps. As. Later Printing, n.d.. 79 pp. 8vo. Slightly lighter blue wraps that than the true first edition of this publication. Clean and crisp within, 15 pages (unpaginated) of black and white photos at rear, Large, color folding map in Fine condition tipped into rear of book.
A reprint of one of the earliest city guides produced as part of the WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1937. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 436 pp. 8vo. Green buckram library binding with white printed titling and call numbers on spine. Borrower card pocket and call numbers in ink on front pastedown. Call numbers in ink and pencil on title page along with blind embossed library stamp. Tear 1/2 way up folding History map, p. 17. Minor soiling wihin from use. Missing: 1/2 of Relief map, p. 73; Resources map, p. 165, Highway map following Index.
The first, and rarest volume of the WPA American Guide Series. Although a second printing, retains the larger format that was sized down and consistent in subsequent state volumes. Although ex-library and missing 2-1/2 maps, still scarce. Good... More
London: John Murray, 1884. Hardcover. First Edition. lxxx, 700, 103, 32 pp. 8vo. Terracotta cloth binding with blind embossed border on front and rear covers, gold embossed titling to spine. Previious owner's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within.
George Francis FitzGerald (1851–1901) proposed testing Maxwell’s theory by producing electromagnetic waves with an oscillating circuit that would alternately charge and discharge a capacitor. Fitzgerald had calculated that the power of the electromagnetic waves generated in this way would increase with the fourth power of frequency, and this led him to propose a frequency of several million cycles per second and a design of a transmitting antenna. This was the method used by Heinrich Hertz to create and measure electromagnetic waves for the first time. Fitzgerald’s first..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. xix, 536, 4 [ads] pp. 8vo. Blue/green cloth boards with gold embossed illustration on cover, gold embossed titling to spine. Light wear to head and foot of spine, minor bumping to corners. Original brown endpapers with gutter starting to split, paper only, at front pastedown, binding is tight. Clean within, heavily illustrated with six maps, four folding. Beautiful chromolithographed frontispiece of "Mrs. Forbes' Honey-Eater" with tissue guard. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1852. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued), (pp. 1-17)" James Prescott Joule's "On the Air Engine" (pp. 65-82); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). Very Good. More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1816. Hardcover. First Edition. 452, 440, 448 pp. 8vo. Volumes I & II have blue paper boards with a brown tape spine; Volume III has the same brown paper spine, but with brown leather covers, also has marbled endpapers. Light scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Numerous plates and illustrations, some folding. Text in French.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel's (1788-1827) first published paper on light. In it he repeated with more precision the diffraction experiment first performed by Thomas Young, thus supporting the wave theory of light. He also provided the basis for determining the wavelength of light by establishing the algebraic relationship between the wavelength and the spacing of diffraction fringes and made the first tentative speculation about the transverse nature of light waves. ..... More
New Haven, CT: The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 1988/1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. 353, 316 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar covers. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1859. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [4], 16, [1]-930 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Gassiot's (1797-1877) second paper describing an early observation of cathode rays, continuing article in our #27535. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "A Sixth Memoir Upon Quantics" (pp. 61-90) and William Farr's “On the Construction of Life-Tables, Illustrated by a New Life-Table of the Healthy Districts of England” (pp. 837-878). Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1858. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [8], 21, [1]-909 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Gassiot (1797-1877) describes an early observation of cathode rays. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" & "A Memoir on the Automorphic Linear Transformation of Bipartite Quadric Function" (pp. 17-37, 39-52) and Joseph Lister's "An Inquiry Regarding the Parts of the Nervous System Which Regulate the Contractions of the Arteries," "On the Cutaneous Pigmentary System of the Frog," & "On the Early Stages of Inflammation" (pp. 607-625, 627-643, 645-702). Very Good... More
New York, NY: R. H. Russell, Publisher, 1899. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Unpag. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with minor scuffing to the covers. Fourth in Gibson's series of publications of his drawings.
Produced in an edition of 250 copies, this is #100 and signed by Charles Dana Gibson and the publisher on the limitation page. Very Good. More
