Paris: 1838, 1840. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine and titled "Recherches de Chimie Organique". Four extracts from proceedings published by L'Academie des Sciences in Paris. Papers are of two different sizes but have been bound in one uniform binding. The titles are as follows: "Mémoire sur les Éthers Composés" published by L'Academie in 1838, Volume XV, pp 457-494. "Mémoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Théorie des Types" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume X, pp 147-207, Dumas dissertation on pp. 149-178. "Recherches sur le Veritable Poids Atomique du Carbone" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume XI, pp 991-1020, "Reserches de Chimie Organique, Relatives a l'Action du Chlore sur l'Alcool loi des Substitions ou Métalepsie"..... More about Mémoire sur les Éthers Composés; Mémoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Théorie des...

Los Angeles, CA: General Publishing Group, Inc., 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 368 pp. Folio. Minor scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
Signed by Hef on a special Playboy bookplate pasted on the first free endpaper. Fine / very good. More about The Playboy Book: Forty Years

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 about THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE LASER: "Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung [On the Quantum Theory...

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 about A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in The Forests of Massachusetts

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 about "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (Philosophical...

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 about "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth, Twenty-Sixth, &...

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 about "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (Philosophical...

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 about MAGNECRYSTALLIC FORCE: "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Thirtieth Series"...

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 about COMPUTERS & MEDICAL STATISTICS: “On the Construction of Life-Tables, Illustrated by a New...

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 about FIZEAU EXPERIMENT: "Sur les hypothèses relatives à l’éther lumineux, et sur une...

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 about WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT: “Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière, où l’on examine...

New York: Viking Press, 1941. Hardcover. First Edition. xiii, [1], 242 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with futuristic celestial design embossed in gold on the upper right corner of the front board, gold embossed titling to spine that has faded slightly. Minor rubbing to edges of boards. Clean within.
Famous physicist and science popularizer Geroge Gamow describes the history of the earth from its formation through the origin of life. Very Good. More about Biography of the Earth: Its Past, Present, and Future

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 about CATHODE RAYS II: "On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges as Observed in...