London: Royal Society of London, 1850. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [1]-296 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.
Important paper in which Joule refines his calculation on the amount of energy he determined as the "expenditure of a mechanical force represented by the fall of 772 lbs. through the space of one foot." (p.82). He established the mean number at 772.692. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188). Very Good. More about "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

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, 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...

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

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

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, 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, 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: 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 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...

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...

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...

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