New York: J. J. Augustin, 1945. Hardcover. First Edition. 148 pp. 4to. Beige cloth boards with black embossed titles to cover board and spine; light scuffing and wear, overall fading of cloth. Interior has minimal foxing, light musty smell.
Kersetz's documentation of a "typical" day in Paris. Many photographs accompanied by short text that is more speculative as to the image than factually descriptive. Very Good. More about Day of Paris
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1956. Wraps. First Edition. 299-592 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp, previous owner's name, "OPPENHEIM, A." stamped in red ink on cover center.
Donald Kerst (1911-1993) proposed a method for doubling the energy of impacts in particle accelerators by accelerating two beams of particles in opposite directions before allowing them to collide. This technique is called “beam stacking.” Prior to this, it was not possible to control two beams of particles circulating in opposite directions. Storage ring colliders use this technique to accelerate particles rotating in opposite directions until they collide. These techniques are now used in most particle accelerators, including the large hadron collider (LHC). Very Good. More about BEAM STACKING PROPOSED: “Attainment of Very High Energy by Means of Intersecting Beams of...
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 549-746 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out.
German astrophysicist Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer (1910-1975) proposed that synchrotron radiation eminates from strong magnetic fields in interstellar space rather than radio stars. Issue also contains Willis E. Lamb, Jr., and Robert C. Retherford's article, “Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom: I” (Physical Review: Volume 79 No. 4 pp. 549–572). Very Good. More about “Cosmic Rays as the Source of General Galactic Radio Emission” (Physical Review; Volume 79...
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1690. Full leather. First Edition. Instructions for Fruit and Vegetable Gardens. 4to. Volume I: 1, 6, 16, 522, 2 pp. Volume II: 566, 2 pp. Volume I begins with a 6 page dedication to the King of France, Louis XIV, followed by 16 pages of poems, the first an ode to Pomona by Santolius Victorinus, and a frontispiece engraving of La Quntinye followed by an ode to La Quntinye by Perrault. Volume I contains 3 plates: pp. 32/33 tri-fold plate of the Potager du Roy a Versailles (Kitchen Garden of the King at Versailles), older Japanese paper tape repair at verso width of plate where it was completely separated in half; pp. 304/305 tri-fold plate of 15 illustrations of pruning instructions; pp... More about Instruction Pour Les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers, Avec un Traité des Orangers, Suivy de...
Laman, Tim. Washington DC: National Geographic/The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 227 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Brand new.
A lush and stunning book of color photographs of the New Guinea's elusive birds-of-paradise. Signed by author & photographer Tim Laman on the title in year of publication. Scarce! Fine / fine. More about Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 549-746 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out.
Early report by Willis E. Lamb, Jr. (1913-2008) on what became know as the Lamb Shift and for which Lamb shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955. Issue also contains Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer's artcile, “Cosmic Rays as the Source of General Galactic Radio Emission” (Physical Review; Volume 79 No. 4, pp. 738-739). Very Good. More about LAMB SHIFT: “Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom: I” (Physical Review: Volume 79 No. 4 pp....
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1843-1847. Quarter Leather. First Edition. 4to. Marbled paper boards and endpapers, dark burgundy leather spines with four raised bands, gold embossed lines, decoration, and titling to spine. Light scuffing from shelf wear. Small stain to lower corner of Volume 7, dampstain to rear plate of Volume 4 which impacts figures. Very clean within.
The first compilation of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s (1749-1827) works, initiated by Laplace’s widow and subsidized by the state of France. The first five volumes contain a reprint of "Mécanique Céleste" in its entirety and the final two volumes contain his other major works: "Exposition du Système du Monde," "Theorie analytique des probabilites," and "Essai philosophique sur les probabilites." Very Good. More about Oeuvres de Laplace (7 Volumes
Paris: Cuchet, 1789. Wraps. Second Edition. xliv, 322, viii, 326, iv, 259, XIII [Plates] pp. 8vo. Original blue binder wraps, scuffed with fraying at edges. Head of some pages uncut. Very clean interiors, rare in original binder wraps.
The pirated second edition, Volume I containing Antoine Lavoisier's (1743-1794) first detailed explanation of "chemical nomenclature" and the table of elements. Chemical nomenclature was the first step in establishing a system of rules for naming chemical compounds. Very Good. More about ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM OF CHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE: Traité élémentaire de Chimie, présenté...
Leipzig, Germany: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1901. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 876 pp. 8vo. Recent brown three quarter leather binding with dark leather spine and corners, four raised bands at spine with gold tilting. Interior clean with the only indication of ex-library being the "Withdrawn" stamp on the title page. Text in German.
Pyotr Lebedev (1866-1912) used a very sensitive experiment to confirm Maxwell’s prediction of the radiation pressure of light, and announced the finding at the World Physics Congress in Paris. Very Good. More about PRESSURE OF LIGHT: “Untersuchungen über die Druckkräfte des Lichtes” (Annalen der Physik:...
Cambridge, England: Royal Society of London, 1949. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, 140 pp. 8vo. Gray paper wraps with library stamp in red at upper right corner of cover, small note in pencil at foot of cover. Interior clean.
Sir John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954) showed how to use the “linear combination of atomic orbitals” (LCAO) approximation for molecular orbitals to derive the electronic structure of complex molecules such as fluorine and oxygen in addition to simpler molecules. Very Good. More about LINNEAR COMBINATION OF ATOMIC ORBITALS: "The Molecular Orbital Theory of Chemical Valency:...
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.
Joseph Lister's (1827-1912) articles investigate pigmentation in frogs and his explanation of inflammation. Although he did not develop the product, Lister's work in antisepsis led Joseph Lawrence to name the mouthwash Listerine after him in 1879 Also contains John P. Gassiot's "The Bakerian Lecture -- On the Stratifications and Dark Band in Electrical Discharges as observed in Torricellian Vacua" (Volume 148 pp. 1-16, 1858) and Arthur Cayley's "Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" & "A Memoir on the... More about INFLAMMATION: "An Inquiry Regarding the Parts of the Nervous System Which Regulate the...
London: Royal Society of London, 1869. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [4], [4], 28, [1]-812 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.
J. Norman Lockyer's (1836-1920) paper explaining his discovery of helium in the sun, a discovery that was made 25 years before helium was discovered on earth. Also contains Thomas Andrews' "The Bakerian Lecture: On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States of Matter" (pp. 575-590). Very Good. More about HELIUM IN THE SUN: "Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun. -- No. II" (Philosophical...
London: Royal Society of London, 1873. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], iv, [4], [1]-662 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. Very Good. More about "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. I & II"...
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 William Crookes' "On Attraction and Repulsion Resulting from Radiation" and Latimer Clark's “On a Standard Voltaic Battery” (pp. 1 - 14). Very Good. More about "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and...
London: Royal Society of London, 1882. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [2], [1]-922 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 #27565, Lockyer's "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494, 805-8130). Also contains George H. Darwin's "On the Tidal Friction of a Planet Attended by Several Satellites, and on the Evolution of the Solar System" (pp. 491-535). Very Good. More about "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. V"...
London: Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823-1834. Full leather. First Edition. 4to. Brown leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy and black leather patch titles to spine of each volume. Each binding has boards that are splitting at hinge, wear and chipping to edges. Three line gold border to front and rear covers, elaborate dentelles to front and rear pastedowns, marbled endpapers, previous owner's bookplate on pastedown of each volume. Light foxing throughout, almost all portraits have ghosted onto the tissue guard protecting each. Very Good. More about Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Full Leather. First Edition. xiii, [2], 403 pp. 8vo. Full red leather bindings with five raised bands at spine. Gold titling to spine, remaining compartments between bands decorated with gold embossed bridle and horseshoe illustrations. Three gold line borders surround front and rear boards with the same bridle image from the spine embossed in each corner, gold lines on board edges, creasing along hinge of front and rear boards that has lost a small amount of the leather's surface color ; gold line borders to pastedowns with two bridles embossed on foredge corner. Interiors have light staining in first pages, clean within and with original cloth covers bound in at rear. Illustrated with 10 color plates and 3 woodcuts... More about Annals of the Road or Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain To which are added Essays...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Full Leather. First Edition. xiii, [2], 403 pp. 8vo. Full red leather bindings with five raised bands at spine. Gold titling to spine, remaining compartments between bands decorated with gold embossed illustrations of a horse and rider jumping a gate, horseshoe, polo hat and mallet, hunting horn and fox head. Two gold line borders surround front and rear boards, gold lines on board edges, creasing along hinge of front and rear boards that has lost a small amount of the leather's surface color; gold line borders to pastedowns with horseshoes embossed on foredge corners. Interiors clean and crisp within and with original cloth covers bound in at rear. Illustrated with 10 color plates with tissue guards and 3 woodcuts... More about Annals of the Road or Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain To which are added Essays...
1849. Hardcover. First Edition. 372 pp. 8vo. Green marbled paper boards with black leather spine and gold embossed titling that has chipped and faded, light scuffing from shelf wear. Interior pages have age toning, otherwise quite clean. Very Good. More about BENZENE PRODUCTON FROM COAL TAR: "Untersuchung des Steinkohlentheers" (Annalen der...
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], [1]-10, [1]-312, [12] 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.
See also our #27502 "On the Structure of the Jaws and Teeth of the Iguanodon" (pp. 183-202). Also contains William Bowman's "Additional Note on the Contraction of Voluntary Muscle in the Living Body" (pp. 69-74). Very Good. More about STUDY OF DINOSAURS BEGINS: "Memoir On a Portion of the Lower Jaw of the Iguanodon, and on...
London: Royal Society of London, 1848. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [8], [1]-10, [1]-284, 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.
Includes numerous plates illustrating Mantell's paper. See also our #27492 "Memoir On a Portion of the Lower Jaw of the Iguanodon, and on the Remains of the Hylæosaurus and other Saurians, Discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 131 for the Year 1841 Part I & Part II, pp. 131-151). Very Good. More about STUDY OF DINOSAURS CONTINUES: "On the Structure of the Jaws and Teeth of the Iguanodon"...
Paris: Fortin, Masson, 1842. Wraps. First Edition. 257-384 pp. 8vo. Brown paper wraps with chipping at edges but remarkably clean and intact given the age. Interior clean with many sheets uncut. Encased in custom cloth and leather pamphlet case.
First published account in original wraps of Carlo Matteucci's (1811-1868) experiment in which he discovers that each heartbeat of a frog is accompanied by an electrical signal. This discovery eventually forms the basis for electrocardiography (EKG). Figures 1 & 2 of dissected frog legs on folding plate at rear help to illustrate the theory. Very Good. More about ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (EKG) FOUNDATION "Sur un phenomene physiologique produit par les muscles...
London: Royal Society of London, 1866. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [4], 25, [1]-886 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 Arthur Cayley's "A Supplementary Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" (pp. 25-35). Very Good. More about "The Bakerian Lecture: On the Viscosity or Internal Friction of Air and Other Gases"...
Covarrubias, Miguel. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Limited Edition. First Limited Editions Club Edition. xxviii, 409, pp. 4to. Textured beige cloth boards that resebles south pacific tapa cloth with green and brown printed titling to spine. Clean and crisp within. Paper covered slipcase in Very Good condition with very little wear, South Pacific influenced graphic design that complements book's spine title.
Designed by John S. Fass and illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Produced in an edition of 1500 copies, this is copy #1478 and signed by Miguel Covarrubias at the colophon. Very Good. More about TYPEE: A Romance of the South Seas
London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 924 pp. 8vo. 13 Plates. 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 a small red ink stamp on verso of title page and verso of last folding plate. Very clean within.
Robert Millikan (1868-1953), in his first "balanced droplet" experiment using water (before his use of oil), provided the first definitive proof that electric charge is made up of elementary indivisible quantities, and that the charge is not a statistically averaged quantity. From his experiment, the value of e, the electron charge, could be readily... More about FIRST PRECISE MEASUREMENTOF ELECTRON CHARGE: "A New Modification of the Cloud Method of...
