College Park, MD: The American Physical Society, 1998. Wraps. First Edition. 4533-4783, [4] pp. 4to. Green paper wraps, clean and crisp within.
Paper describes the use of an atomic force microscope to provide the first accurate measurement of the Casimir Force (to within 1% of predicted value). Fine. More
Paris: Chez Le Breton, 1760. Full-Leather. A wonderful set in very good condition (some scuffing). Tall 24mos. Tree calf leather, gilt-tooled spine with leather labels, marbled boards. Each vol. has finely engraved frontis and plates. Text in French. Very Good. More
Minneapolis, MN: The Physical Review, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 950 pp. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gold titling to spine, call number in small round label at base, marbled boards. Ex-library sticker on title page as well as perforated library identification stamp. Interior quite clean.
Mullikan develops Hund's molecular orbital theory into a useful model for which he receives the 1966 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Very Good. More
London: Privately Printed, 1904. Quarter Leather. First Edition. Unpaginated. Folio. Some 150 artists are represented from the schools of Giotto, Pollajuolo, Florentine 15th Century, Perugino, Lombard School 15th Century, Parmigiano, North Italian, Venetian School 18th Century, Rembrandt, the Dutch School, Flemish School, Early German, and more. Black & white and sepia-tone illustrations with no foxing. Green cloth cover has fine dark brown leather on corners and spine, set off with gilt rules. Spine has five raised bands with gilt rules and boxes. Gilt title reads "Murray Collection of Drawings 1905." There is a trace of shelfwear on back of spine at bands and upper and lower ends. Corners very lightly bumped, and light wear shows on bottom edge. Endpapers are glossy marbled paper in shades..... More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1947. Wraps. First Edition. 839-944, ix pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine.
Polykarp Kusch and Michael Foley measured the electron’s intrinsic magnetic moment for the first time in late 1946. Then, in 1947, Karp, Foley and a team of scientists from Columbia University discovered a small discrepancy (on the order of one part in 2000) between Dirac’s prediction and the actual size of the spin g-factor, implying the existence of an “anomalous magnetic moment.” Isador Rabi presented this discrepancy at the Shelter Island meeting in June 1947, and Kusch and Foley went on to confirm the g-factor discrepancy in other elements. This is the paper that first..... More
Washington DC: National Park Service, 1996. Softcover. 54 pgs. 8vo. Dark green paper covers. Crisp, clean copy. Very good. More
Adams, Ansel. Washington DC: National Park Service, 2006. Wraps. First Edition. 168 pp, 1164to. Small closed tear at base of front cover. Clean and crisp within.
Management handbook for an important agency in the United States Government. Very Good. More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009. Wraps. First Edition. 128 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Administrative listing of the National Park System's areas, revised biennially to included new congressional actions. Fine. More
Washington DC: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2004. Wraps. First Edition. Very light scuffing to covers. Previous owner's address label on front cover, typical for a periodical delivered by mail. Clean and crisp within. Housed in a custom folding case with gold embossed titling to spine.
"Watershed" paper in the discovery of Graphene, Nobel Physics 2010 for Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene" Fine. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. 166 pp. 8vo. Red cover with black letters is sunned on spine and along front edge of spine. Black and cream pictorial endpapers have bookplate of small library on inside front cover and pocket & circulation card on rear endpaper and pastedown. Small penciled number on foreword page is only other library indication.
The explorations of a 12-year-old boy whose father was the Superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park, and his study of the cliff-dweller ruins and Native American legends and habits. Very Good. More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hard Cover. First Edition. Wilderness Edition Frontispiece portrait of Eugene O'Neill. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth with gilt vingette on the front cover of each volume, top edge of text block also gilded. 12 volumes complete.
O'Neill has signed Volume 1. Set #179 of 770. Minor foxing to endpapers on some volumes. An exceptional set! Very Good. More
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2015. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 264 pp. Charcoal cloth covered boards with silver titling to spine. Housed in custom clipcase of the same cloth.
Important book on the husband and wife design team of Ernst and Esther Born that traces their lives and career from the East Coast to California. Produced in an edition of 300 copies, this is copy #175 and the 234th publication of The Book Club of California. Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1850. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [297]-844, 13 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.
William Parson's (1800-1867) paper first identifies the spiral nebulae. See also our #27509 by Parsons, credited as Lord Oxmantown, in his 1840 article "An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 130 for the Year 1840 Part II, pp. 503-527), which provided the technology enabling him to identify the spiral nebulae. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1840. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [xi]-[xii], [xi]-[xii], [iii]-viii, [2], [1]-14, [1]-620, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
William Parson's (1800-1867) article outlining his design and construction of the reflecting telescope that provided him with the technology to make his observations and first identification of the spiral nebulae disseminated by him in our #27507, "Observations on the Nebulae" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 140 for the Year 1850 Part II, pp. 499-514). Very Good... More
n.d. Wraps. As. 23 pp. 8vo. Muted yellow wraps with illustration of San Jose de Tumacacori on cover. Minor scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within and illustrated with numerous black & white photographs.
President Theodore Roosevelt designated Mission of San Jose de Tumacácori a National Monument in 1908, in 1990 it became part of the newly established Tumacácori National Historical Park. Likely dates to the 1930s, Frank Pinkley died in 1940. Very Good. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1993. Trade paperback. As. Four Volume Set that chronicles the life and impact of General George C. Mashall on United State and World History. Published as a complete 4 volume set by Penguin, the culmination of a multi-decade project by Forrest Pogue. Rare as a set. Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1], 506 pp. 8vo. Green cloth bindings with burgundy title patch and gold titling to spine of each volume, call number handwritten in white ink at base of each spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
William Henry Preece (1834–1913) confirmed Thomas Edison's experiments demonstrating thermionic emission and coined the term, "Edison effect." Very Good. More
London: Harrison & Sons, 1885. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. ix, [1], 506, xl pp. 8vo. Black leather spine with five raised bands, green leather patch title with gold embossed titling, library call number in white ink at base, marbled paper insets to boards. Ex-Library bookplate on front pastedown. Very clean within.
William Henry Preece (1834–1913), confirmed Thomas Edison's experiments demonstrating thermionic emission, and coined the term "Edison Effect." Very Good. More
London: J. Johnson, 1775. Full Leather. Second Edition. xxiii, [4], 324, [4] pp. 8vo. Recent full leather binding in 18th century style. Brown leather with five raised bands at spine, burgundy patch title with gold lettering. Light age toning to interior. Previous owner's name in ink and dated 1777 on title page, second small ownership signature on third page with date 1902. Underlining in faded blue ink on pages 133, 178, & 179. Very clean overall. Two folding plates illustrating the apparatus used in the experiments, one tipped in opposite title page, second at end of Appendix at rear.
The first volume in Priestley's three volume work on the study of gases. This volume expands upon his observations reported in Volume 62 (1772) of the..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1772. Full Leather. First Edition. xiv, 494, [3] pp. 8vo. Full brown leather binding which has been re-backed with the original boards. Gold decoration to spine with burgundy patch title. Minor scuffing to boards from age. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound, quite clean within.
A very important publication in which Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) presents the first description of photosynthesis along with his discovery of "nitrous air" (nitric oxide) and "vapor of spirit of salt," later called "acid air" or "maritime air" (hydrochloric acid). Folding plate at page 254 illustrates the equipment used in Priestley's experiments. Priestley was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1773 for this work. Very Good... More
San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 2002. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Blue paper wraps, pamphlet sewn at spine. A Keepsake produced in an edition of 400 copies sent to Arion Press subscribers and friends. Laid in is the cover letter from publisher Andrew Hoyem that accompanied the pamphlet. Fine. More
Pyle, Howard. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. First Issue. xx, 296 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth covered-boards with intricate Pyle design on the cover and spine stamped in black and orange with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Considerable fraying to cloth at head and spine, losses at base. Corners of boards have bumping and small losses. Small bookseller label at base of first free endpaper at gutter, previous owner's signature on second free endpaper. The signature gathering of pages 99-110 loose but holding to text block by top thread. Custom mylar dust jacket protects cloth.
Interior meets all points outlined in BAL 16378, title page in red and black, laid paper, brown coated endpapers, etc. except for the fact..... More
Moab, UT: Friends of Arches and Canyonlands Parks, 2014. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xi, [1], 171, [1] pp. 4to. Green cloth spine with gold embossed tilting, gray cloth boards with blind embossed symbol of the National Park Service, the ranger hat superimposed over the trademark arrowhead. Clean and crisp within, no dust jacket as issued, matching green cloth slipcase with a photograph of Bates Wilson inset on front board. Signed on the title page by the author.
Heavily illustrated biography of Bates Wilson (1912-1983) that also documents the history of Canyonlands Region of Utah. Wilson was an early Superintendent at Arches and Natural Bridges National Monument taking on the role in 1949. He was instrumental in the founding of Canyonlands National Park and was appointed its..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1877. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, v, 569 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine.
Rayleigh's seminal analysis of the perception of sound. Basis for his famous book on the topic "The Theory of Sound" (1877/1878). Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1884. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], viii, [1]-988 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.
Osborne Reynolds' (1842-1912) paper explaining what became known as "Reynolds Number," the ratio of inertial to viscous forces which he determined through his experiments of liquid through pipes. Very Good. More
