New York: Planthouse Press, 2014. Loose Leaf. Limited Edition. Elephant Folio. Loose sheets Six original prints by Simryn Gill, Florian Meisenberg, Katia Santibañez, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli and Anton Würth. Portfolio measures 15"x20" and is in a custom box.
An absolutely stunning production showcasing the work of six contemporary artists in a limited edition of 50 copies, this being copy 26. Each print signed by the artist, essay by Susan Orlean printed letterpress and signed and numbered by her at the base. Fine. More about The Floral Ghost

London: John Stockdale, 1800. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. xxxi, [1], 579, [2] pp. 8vo. Recent brown three quarter leather binding with four raised bands and green patch titles with gold titling; marbled paper insets to front and rear covers. Light toning to pages, 14 plates called for and present.
Early biography of Catharine the Great, translated from the French. Very Good. More about History of Catharine II. Empress of Russia

London: J. Bell, 1787. Full Leather. As. 502, 522, 511,482 pp. 24mo. Black & white frontispiece portrait. Each volume has a black & white title page vignette. Subtitle to Vol. 1: "From the text of Mr. Upton, etc. With the life of the author......Printed under the direction of J. Bell, British Library, Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." Brown calf covers have inside gilt dentelles, gilt bands and star design on spine with title blocks in red leather on spine. All volumes show some wear at hinges, but in no case is binding compromised. All have lightly bumped corners. Each has a bookplate pasted on front pastedown which has ghosted a bit to first free enedpaper. The armorial bookplates belonged to... More about The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Eight Volumes (4 Volumes Bound

Paris: Fortin, Masson, 1842. Wraps. First Edition. 512 pp. 8vo. Half leather binding with brown leather spine with gold embossed titling and paper patterned boards. Wear and losses to leather at head and foot of spine, losses at hinges. Marbled endpapers, clean within, slight darkening to folding plate of illustrations tipped in at rear.
First published account 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...

Berlin, Germany: Julius Springer, 1935. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. xix, 870, 12 pp. 4to. Three quarter leather binding with black corners and spine, gold embossed titling to spine, gray cloth inset into front and rear covers. Clean and crisp within.
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) proposed the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment in this paper. Schrödinger used the thought experiment to illustrate what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics when applied to everyday objects. In the course of developing this thought experiment, Schrödinger also coined the term “Verschränkung” (“entanglement”). Very Good. More about SCHRODINGER'S CAT “Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik” (Die...

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Pierre Mortier, 1737. Full Leather. As. Vol. I: [12], 136, [1]-323; Vol. II: [327]-696, [1]-124 pp. 16mo. Contemporary brown leather bindings with gold embossed decoration to spine, five raised bands, dark brown title patches with gold embossed titling. Wear and rubbing but quite supple for their age.
Milestone papers in the history of electricity. Through his four papers contained within Dufay explains his discovery of two kinds of electricity and the relation between them, attraction and repulsion, shocks and sparking, and the full recognition of electrostatic repulsion. Dufay formulates the two-fluid theory of electricity. He further showed that "not all bodies can become electrified themselves" (by friction) and went on to show, "that they can all acquire a considerable (electrical) virtue when the... More about EARLY HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY "Premier mémoire sur l’électricité, Histoire de...

New York: Armed Services, Inc., 1944. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing, 1946. 128 pp. 32mo. Light wear and scuffing to covers, sunning to spine. Armed Services Edition #1016.
E. B. White's third book, and one co-authored with James Thurber who also provided the illustrations. First published in 1929, this edition was reprinted on numerous occasions. This unabridged edition was published by the Armed Services in 1944 with the number identifier M-2 [Hall A3]. Armed Services, Inc. reprinted it again in 1946 but with the number identifier #1016. From the Estate of Joel (1930-1997) & Allene White. Very Good. More about Is Sex Necessary?

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. First Edition. 68 pp. 12mo. Light scuffing to dust jacket. Small tears at head and foot, browning to spine from sun, now in mylar cover. Red cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown, quite small. Clean within.
Discussion of causality in physics by the Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger. More about Science and Humanism: Physics in Our Time

Sauvage, Sylvain. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Limited Edition. First Limited Editions Club Edition. viii, 190 pp. 4to. Green cloth board with an illustration of two main characters on cover board, titling in gold to cover and spine. Clean and crisp within. Black paper covered slipcase in Good condition with some chipping and losses at spine and top joint, original paper label on spine.
Designed by Edward A. Miller and illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. Produced in an edition of 1500 copies, this is copy #1478 and signed by Sylvain Sauvage at the colophon. Very Good. More about The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Boston, MA: Time Magazine, 1945. Half Leather. First Edition. 144 pp. Folio. Light wear overall, clean and crisp within.
A condensed version of Vannevar Bush's (1890-1974) Atlantic Monthly article of July 1945 in which Bush describes his proposed "Memex" system for organizing, storing, retrieving and linking information - a collective memory machine based on the image of the mind. The original paper has been credited with originating the idea of hypertext and the World Wide Web. This publication would have reached an even broader audience than the Atlantic Monthly edition with Life Magazine being the highest circulation magazine at the time. Very Good. More about "As We May Think" (Life Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 11--September 10, 1945

London: Taylor and Francis, 1893. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 556 pp. 8vo. 9 plates, all folding. Original three quarter leather binding with gold lines and titling to spine, call number at base of spine in white ink indicates ex-library. Considerable wear and scuffing to the covers, losses at head and foot of spine and corners of boards, spine leather has separated from front board at hinge, cover still tight to text block.
Joseph J. Thomson's (1856-1940) paper describing the physics of droplet formation published three years before Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) published this first paper on the cloud chamber which he is credited with inventing and resulted in his 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics. Thomson's work on the conductivity of electricity... More about PHYSICS OF DROPLET FORMATION: “On the Effect of Electrification and Chemical Action on a...

London: Taylor and Francis, 1890. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 524 pp. 8vo. 10 plates, 8 folding. 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 ink stamps on the title page. Very clean within.
Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919) developed the first mathematical formula for the spectral lines of hydrogen atom (and other atoms or ions with only one electron). Rydberg’s insight came from using “wavenumber” (the inverse of the wavelength) in his calculations. He plotted the wavenumbers of the spectral lines against integers in different series and found that the resulting curves had similar... More about RYDBERG FORMULA: “On the Structure of the Line-Spectra of the Chemical Elements” (The London,...

Northfield, MN: Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1914. Wraps. First Edition. [6], [261]-330, [4]; [8][331]-390, [4] pp. Light gray paper wraps with minor browning to edges, fraying and chipping along spine, ink library stamp on cover of each volume. Clean within.
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (or H-R diagram) is a scatter diagram showing the relationship between the intrinsic luminosity (brightness) of stars and their temperatures (as indicated by their “spectral type” or color). The diagram presents stellar evolution--a star begins its life in one place on the chart and moves across the chart during its lifetime. The H-R relationship was discovered independently by Einer Herzsprung and Henry Norris Russell. This two part paper contains a presentation by Russell on his research and H-R diagram. Very Good. More about HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL (H-R) DIAGRAM: “Relations between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of...