London: Royal Society of London, 1874. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [4], [1]-818 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 Latimer Clark's “On a Standard Voltaic Battery” (pp. 1 - 14) and J. Norman Lockyer's: "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494 and 805-813). Very Good. More

Philadelphia, PA: The Franklin Institute, 1928. Wraps. As. 27 pp. 8vo. Blue paper wraps with three whole punch at spine. Clean within.
Reprint of Clinton Joseph Davisson's (1881-1958) lecture at The Franklin Institute describing the work he and L. H. Germer were doing that helped them confirm the de Broglie hypothesis which is the basis for quantum mechanics. Fine. More

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xv, 272 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Pristine. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More

Albuquerque, NM: The Book Stops Here, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 103 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

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

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

El Paso, TX: El Paso Public Library Association, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. 154 pp. Oblong Folio. Very light rubbing to corners of dust jacket and board corners. Dust jacket now in mylar cover.
Henry C. Trost (1860-1933) who practiced primarly in the Southwest, specifically Tucson (1899-1903) and El Paso (1903-1933). Trost's early work show's a definite influence of both the Chicago Style of architecture championed by Louis Sullivan and the Prairie School popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright. Trost was adept in many styles including Mission Revival and Art Moderne of the late 1920s and early 1930s. A pioneering and prolific architect of the early 20th century. Fine / Fine. More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 109 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the co-authors, brothers Armsand and Donald Feigenbaum, and signed by both of them. Inscribed to Dana Mead (1936-2018), former CEO of Tenneco (1992-2008) who was a great proponent of the Feignebaum's theories and used them as consultants at Tenneco. Fine / Fine. 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

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

Frank, Robert. Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc., 1976. Hardcover. First Edition. 95 pp. 8vo. Light soiling to cover from shelf wear. Darkened patch on first free endpaper and pastedown where newspaper clipping is laid in. Clean within. Very Good. More

Risbury, England: Whittington Press, 2010. Wraps. As. Offprint from Matrix 29. 10 pp. + 8 pp. color illustrations at center. 4to. Excellent copy in black paper wraps with terra cotta paper label. Fine. More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. Hardcover. First Edition. xiii, 325 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has scuffing and wear, losses at edges, closed tears and fraying at head and spine, now in mylar cover. Bright blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, minor bumping to corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within. Very Good / Good. More