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

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

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 Interior clean with the only indication of ex-library being the "Withdrawn" stamp on the title page.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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