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

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

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

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Wraps. First Edition. 64 pp. 8vo. Light brown paper wraps with mild spotting, lower right corner of cover and text block has a light stain through p. 7. Previous owner's signature in ink at upper right corner of title page. Quite clean overall. "Druck von Metzer & Wittig in Leipzig" on verso of title page as well as "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" on rear cover at base of ads that list publications only of 1916 and prior, unlike later printings.
The first separate edition of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which Einstein developed and revised between 1905 and 1915. Not an offprint of the article published in Annalen der Physik 49 which was often believed, but a separate publication with revisions... More

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

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

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

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1954. Wraps. First Edition. 242 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp. Spine tastefull repaired with all printing sharp and visible.
Yang–Mills theory that has been called “the most important cornerstone of theoretical physics.” Gauge theory was extended to non-Abelian groups by the seminal work of the American physicist Chen-Ning Yang. Very Good. More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1867. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. ix, [1], 553, xlvii pp. 8vo. Recent brown leather spine with five raised bands, gold embossed titling, marble insets to front boards. Ex-Library stamp on title page and throughout volume.
C. W. Siemens (1823-1883) and Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) announce their independent inventions of the dynamo in back-to-back papers. Also contains the abstract of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-1879) famous gas theory, published the year before his full paper on the topic, pp. 369-372. Very Good. More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1928. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. ix, 1272 pp. 8vo. 21 Plates. In original brown buckram full cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Only indication of ex-library status is a blind embossed library stamp on the title page and the checkout slip pasted to the last free endpaper. Very clean within.
“Hubble’s Law” is the linear relationship between the velocity with which distant celestial objects are receding from us and their distance from us. It is named Hubble’s law because American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was the first to convincingly demonstrate this law and illustrate it clearly with a chart. Hubble was not the first to consider a linear relationship between velocity and distance. A few others preceded him..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1898. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [1], 548 pp. 8vo. 24 Plates . Original brown leather spine with five raised bands, red and black leather patch titles with gold embossed titling, marbled paper insets to covers. Wear and scuffing to covers. Bookplate on front pastedown only indication of ex-library status, clean within.
George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911) proposes that x-rays are electromagnetic radiation. Volume also contains: “Measurements concerning Radiation-Phenomena in the Magnetic Field: I” by Pieter Zeeman (pp. 197–201, 1898), “Radiation Phenomena in the Magnetic Field” by Thomas Preston (pp. 325–339) and “Radiation in a Magnetic Field” by Albert Michelson (pp. 348-356). Fine. More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1937. Wraps. First Edition. 217-292 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp.
Fritz Zwicky's (1898-1974) prediction of the use of Nebulae as gravitational lenses (first paper on gravitational lensing). Very Good. More

Herriman, George. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Hardcover. As. xv, 477 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light chips and tears, spine is faded from sunning, beginning to split at lower left hinge along spine, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with gray printed title block on spine. Clean, crisp copy.
White wrote a 7-page introduction to this edition [HallB8], xxvii-xxiv, that is missing. Small typed note, laid in, signed by White "EBW," indicates that "My introduction has been clipped from this book. I probably used it as copy when I was putting together 'The Second Tree from the Corner.'" This would make sense in that "Second Tree was published in 1954, but in 1952 White also published "Charlotte's Web."... More