London: Royal Society of London, 1878-1879. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], v, [2], [1]-826 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.
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) presents the “last experimental research of any magnitude that Joule undertook” and includes the results of Joule's final experiments by the direct method of friction. In this paper, Joule presents his final measurement of the mechanical equivalent of heat. It is well worth noting that Joule chose the number ‘772.55’ as an inscription for his gravestone. ‘772.55’ is Joule’s climacteric measurement of the mechanical equivalent of heat – the one arrived at in..... More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1937. Wraps. First Edition. 889-1005 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean. Ex-library with small black library stamp at lower right corner of front cover, no other markings.
Nicholas Kemmer (1911-1999) was the first, in this paper, to propose a theory for the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interactions. His theory involved a charged carrier particle. Very Good. More

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

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

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

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

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

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

Magee, Alan. New York, NY: Forum Gallery, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 222 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Magee on the second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More

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

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

Atchison, KS: Edwin D. McKee, 1936. Wraps. Third Edition. xi, 50 pp. 8vo. Green paper covers. Gift inscription in pencil on first free endpaper. Very Good. More

Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1995. Manuscript. First Edition. Archive includes a ten page computer printout of "The Writer and His Machine," which varies slightly from the published edition. The 17 page computer printout varies from all versions. Unsigned Michener note says about this second version ("This Fourth Version of the manuscript, the final version"): "We have indicated by bold face the new material..." His note covers several options for dealing with printing two such similar versions of the essay. Also included is a 12-page typescript fax corresponding to the first version of "My Advice to Young America." Printed on legal paper, folded to letter size, with the text written in hand where it ran off the bottom. Also includes typed note signed by..... More