New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. 208 pp. 4to. Minor scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover.Red Cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine. Clean and crisp within with small stain at head of text block near the foredge.
When the series of over 240 paintings and drawings of Helga Testorf by the American master, Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) came to the light the art world sprang back in surprise. It was also believed that Wyeth's closest confidant, his wife, Betsy James Wyeth, was unaware of the artist-model relationship and the work he produced between 1971 and 1985. The works were considered controversial and toured to six venues between 1987 and 1989... More about Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures (Inscribed by Helga

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...

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: 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 about Annals of the Road or Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain To which are added Essays...

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 about TYPEE: A Romance of the South Seas

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 about YANG-MILLS THEORY: “Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance” (Physical...

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 about INVENTION OF THE DYNAMO: “On the Conversion of Dynamical Into Electrical Force Without the Aid...

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...

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.
Two articles on the Zeeman Effect and Anomolous Zeeman Effect. Volume also contains “Evidence that Röntgen Rays are Ordinary Light” by George Johnstone Stoney pp. 532-536, 1898) and “Radiation in a Magnetic Field” by Albert Michelson (pp. 348-356). Fine. More about ZEEMAN EFFECT & ANOMALOUS ZEEMAN EFFECT: “Measurements Concerning Radiation-Phenomena in...