Minneapolis, MN: The Physical Review, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 843 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.
First two (of 3) papers by Millikan in which he conclusively demonstrated that cosmic rays come from outside the solar system. See our inventory #27408 for the third article in the series. Very Good. More about COSMIC RAYS: “High Frequency Rays of Cosmic Origin: I. Sounding Balloon Observations at...

London: T. Cadell, 1822. Full leather. First Edition. Brown leather covered boards with five raised bands at spine of each volume, black title patch, burgundy volume number patch, elaborate gold tooling in corresponding compartments. Gold single line border to front and rear board of each volume. Scuffing and wear to each volume. Title patches missing on all volumes except Volume I, volume # patch present on all volumes. All cover boards tight to text block and very clean within. Previous owner's bookplate on both pastedown and first free endpaper of each volume. Very Good. More about The History of Greece (10 Volumes

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 about Oeuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition (8 Volumes

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, 553, lv pp. 8vo. Light brown library binding with gold embossed titling to spine, call number on paper tag at foot of spine, minor wear and scuffing overall. Ex-library bookplate of The University College of Wales Aberystwyth on front pastedown. Clean within and no evidence of additional stamping.
German-English chemist and industrialist Ludwig Mond and English chemist Carl Langer built the first “useable” fuel cell in 1889 and came up with the term "fuel cell." The describe their invention for the first time in in this paper. Four illustrations of their fuel cell appear within the text. Very Good. More about "A new Form of Gas Battery" (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; Vol. 52, No....

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 about G-FACTOR DISCREPANCY: “The Hyperfine Structure of Atomic Hydrogen and Deuterium” (Physical...

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1937. Wraps. First Edition. 1079-1200 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.
Article by the three authors confirms the discovery of the muon. Issue also contains “On the Mathematical Description of Light Nuclei by the Method of Resonating Group Structure" (Physical Review; Volume 52 No. 11, pp. 1107-1122) by John Wheeler proposing the scattering matrix (or S-Matrix), the starting point for string theory. Very Good. More about "On the Nature of Cosmic-Ray Particles" (Physical Review; Volume 52 No. 11, pp. 1198-1199

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 about The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (12 Volumes

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...