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 about FIRST PRECISE MEASUREMENTOF ELECTRON CHARGE: "A New Modification of the Cloud Method of...

Sarg, Tony. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1930. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Dust jacket has light chipping at the edges, minor soiling, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. The story of two little dolls, Annabel and Frances. Extremely, crisp and vibrant illustrations within. Fine / Very Good. More about The Talking Dolls

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 about FIRST ACCURAGE MEASUREMENT OF CASIMIR FORCE: “Precision Measurement of the Casimir Force from...

San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 2004. Hard Cover. First Edition. 107 pp. Bound in a shimmering purple silk book cloth with "Tartuffe" pressed in gold in lower left corner of front cover boards. Clear plastic dust jacket. Drawings by William Hamilton, a regular New Yorker contributor, illustrate the text. Set in Van Dijk type with Fontanesi for display on French Arches paper. 326 copies produced, 300 for sale and 26 lettered copies hors de commerce. This is copy "S" of the hors de commerce copies. Signed by Williams and Hamilton at the colophon A beautiful production. The sixty-eighth publication of the Arion Press.
Signed by Artist. Fine / Fine. More about Tartuffe

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 about HUND'S MOLECULAR ORBITAL THEORY EXPANSION: “Electronic States and Band Spectrum Structure in...

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1861. Hardcover. First Edition. 1332 pp. 4to. Original brown paper wraps. Clean and crisp within. Text in French.
Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor (1805-1870) noted during work in the darkroom that certain metal salts would expose photographic emulsions. Radioactivity wouldn't be indentified and named until 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Very Good. More about ALMOST DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY: "Cinquième Mémoire sur une action de la lumière...

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 about "Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films " Discovery of Graphene. ...

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 about FIRST SPIRAL NEBULAE OBSERVATION: "Observations on the Nebulae" (Philosophical...

Sea Cliff, NY: The Absolute Sound, 1973-2005. Wraps. First Edition. 147 issues, missing #5, 133, 140, & 144. Issues progressed over time from stapled 8vo size to its fourth size iteration in 1999 as a standard magazine 4to. This run of 147 issues is in Very Good to Fine condition overall with a few tears to issues here and there are losses to the front of issue #56 and rear of issue #57, as well as the front of that same issue and rear of issue #58 where they stuck together in storage. Issue #151 has a permanent "Courtesy of..." sticker on the front cover. Interiors clean and crisp. Will require additional postage due to weight of set.
The premiere magazine for audiophiles, still in... More about The Absolute Sound (32 Year Run, Issue #1-151

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 about EDISON EFFECT: “On a peculiar behaviour of glow lamps when raised to high incandescence”...

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 about FIRST DESCRIPTION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS: "Observations on Different Kind of Air."...

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 about The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire

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 about PERCEPTION OF SOUND: "On the Amplitude of Sound-waves" (Proceedings of the Royal...