Meadows, Kenney. London: The Punch Office, 1847. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. Second Printing. 183 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume and matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Original front & rear cover cloth and spine bound in at rear of each volume. Red silk ribbon markers. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Kenney Meadows. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-659, [1], 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.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued)" (pp. 1-17); Edward Frankland's “On a New Series of Organic Bodies Containing Metals” (pp. 417-444); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). Very Good. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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