Paris: A. Falaise, 1832. Wraps. First Edition. 118 pp. 48mo. White paper wraps are foxed, a bit soiled and edgeworn, but marvelous for their age. The tiny book has a fold-out map inserted first, with maps of both France and Europe on one side; the world and the solar system on the reverse. A second t.p. reads: "Cadeau des Muses, ou Almanach Universel, Etrennes Utiles et Agreables. Annee bissextile 1832." A fascinating little tome in French. Very Good. More

Briarcliff Manor, NY: Self Published, 1912. First Edition. Photographs measures 4-7/8" x 6-7/8" and is a later copy of a photograph taken in 1909 at Briarcliff Lodge. Photograph very clean.
The photograph of Thomas Edison (1847-1931) and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923) has the following note on the back: "Edison and Steinmetz, Edison Convention, Briarcliff Lodge, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Sept 1909." Steinmetz was a mathematician and engineer who was also a proponent of alternating current which was in opposition to the direct current route that Edison took in the development of the electrical power industry. Steinmetz suffered from hip dysplasia, dwarfism, and was a hunchback, as is evident from this photograph. A rare photograph of two electric pioneers. Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], vii, [1]-842 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.
First photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared. "Extending his interests to spectroscopy, Abney was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra - an idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887)." "Abney... More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1959/1982. Wraps. First Edition. 485-764, 1443-1506 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp. First volume has a red ink library stamp on the cover. Housed in a custom black cloth folio with gold embossed tilting to spine.
The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the quantum mechanical phenomenon that allows a charged particle to be affected by an electromagnetic field that does not exist in the vicinity of the particle, one of the stranger manifestations of quantum mechanics. This set contains the paper that predicted and described this phenomenon (first paper, 1959) and the paper that described the verification of the Aharonov-Bohm effect through the use of electron holography (second paper, 1982). Very Good. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [1], 206, [2] pp ads. Green cloth covered boards with gold and dark red embossed tilting and decoration to spine and front cover board. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and second free endpaper, clean within.
Part of the "English Worthies" Series edited by Andrew Lang. Very Good. More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1949. Wraps. First Edition. 995-1113 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine, small chips at head and foot.
In this paper, Alpher and Herman predict the temperature of what is now known as the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) to be 5 degrees K. Sixteen years later the CMB was discovered with a temperature of 2.7 degrees K. Very Good. More

Paris: 1816, 1816. Hardcover. First Edition. 452, 440, 448 pp. 8vo. Volumes I & II have blue paper boards with a brown tape spine; Volume III has the same brown paper spine, but with brown leather covers, also has marbled endpapers. Light scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Numerous plates and illustrations, some folding. Text in French.
André Ampère (1775–1836) classified the 48 known elements into three major families (gaxolytes, leucolytes and chriocolytes) that he further divided into 15 “genres,” based on “analogies” between the elements, chemical properties that seemed related to one another. He did this in three papers in this multi-volume set:     Also contains Augustin Fresnel's “Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière, où l’on examine particulièrement le phénomènes des franges... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [3], v, [1]-951 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.
Thomas Andrews (1813-1885) shows that ozone is oxygen in allotropic form. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); G. B. Airy's "Account of Pendulum Experiments Undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the Purpose of Determining the Mean Density of the Earth" (Volume 146 pp. 297-355, 1856); and William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751). Very Good. More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899. Hardcover. First Edition. 1341 pp. 4to. Blue cloth board library binding with gold embossed titling, call numbers pasted to spine. Ink library stamp on title page of volume, clean within. Text in French.
The Gibbs–Appell equations of motion, developed independently by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) and French mathematician Paul Appell (1855–1930), greatly improve upon the Lagrangian differential equations of motion for systems with multiple constraints and degrees of freedom. Very Good. More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1920. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], 832 pp. 8vo. 17 Plates . Original brown library bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Blind embossed library stamp on first free endpaper along with an ink WITHDRAWN stamp, blind embossed library stamp on title page; due date sheet tipped onto last page of volume, very clean within.
The second part of Aston's description of his early experiments demonstrating the "whole number rule" and Chadwick's confirmation that the atomic number corresponds to the charge of the nucleus. Fine. More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1907. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 792 pp. 8vo. 17 Plates tipped in at rear. Original brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy and black title patches with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, marbled paper insets to front and rear boards. Scuffing and wear to leather. Blind embossed library stamp on first free endpaper along with an ink WITHDRAWN stamp, blind embossed library stamp on title page, center missing resulting in round hole in page; due date sheet tipped onto last page of volume, very clean within.
Barkla & Sadler's experiment investigated the excitation of secondary x-rays which led to the underlying theories supporting the isotope theory. Barkla was awarded the 1917... More

London: Watts & Co., 1953. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 131 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket, soiling and sunning to spine, short closed tear at base of front panel, small loss at head and foot of spine, now in mylar cover. Very Good / good. More