London: Taylor and Francis, 1892. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 533 pp. 8vo. 10 plates, all folding. Rebound in an exquisite three quarter leather binding with brown leather spine with four raised bands, gold embossed titling on black leather patch titles, marbled paper insets to cover boards. Only indication of ex-library status is Japanese ink stamp on the title page. Very clean within.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's (1845-1926) paper in which he descriubes the first systematic analysis of correlation in relation to the normal distribution. Herein he coins the term "coefficient of correlation." Fine. More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Wraps. First Edition. 64 pp. 8vo. Light brown paper wraps with mild spotting, lower right corner of cover and text block has a light stain through p. 7. Previous owner's signature in ink at upper right corner of title page. Quite clean overall. "Druck von Metzer & Wittig in Leipzig" on verso of title page as well as "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" on rear cover at base of ads that list publications only of 1916 and prior, unlike later printings.
The first separate edition of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which Einstein developed and revised between 1905 and 1915. Not an offprint of the article published in Annalen der Physik 49 which was often believed, but a separate publication with revisions... More

Leipzigh, Germany: S. Hirzel, 1917. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 604 pp. 4to. Black cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Ex-library stamp on title page, the only indication of its former life in an institution. Very clean within.
Albert Einstein's (1879-1955) derivation of Planck's law for thermal radiation. Einstein also introduces the possibility of stimulated emission of radiation, the principle behind the laser. Very Good. 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: 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, 1850. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [1]-296 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. Small 1" tear at head of article, p. 171.
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), #27503 which contains"Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Second Series" (pp. 171-188)... 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

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. 760 pp. 4to. Pages 721-760 are copies of the original but bound in at rear of library binding. Blue cloth board library binding with gold embossed titling, call numbers pasted to spine. Ink library stamp on title page of volume, clean within. Text in French.
Hippolyte Fizeau's (1819-1896) paper on what became knows as the "Fizeau Experiment" and the first description of the experiment measuring the speed of light in a moving medium, water. This experiment provided early support that light is a wave, not a particle. 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

College Park, MD: The American Physical Society, 2002. Wraps. First Edition. 230401-1 - 239602-1, xlv, [5] pp. 4to. Green paper wraps with some scuffing, ex-library with stamp on first free endpaper. Clean and crisp within.
This is the first experiment to produce a substantial number of antihydrogen atoms (~50,000) that lasted a relatively long time (a few seconds). Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [4], viii, 751-1419 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.
"Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of 'Gaskell's Nerves," the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia to the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements, which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle." (GARRISON-MORTON 829). Very Good. More