London: Logmans, Green, and Co., 1872. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 446 pp. 8vo. Rebound in utilitarian brown cloth with gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within. Illustrated with two foldinig plates in Fine condition. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1876. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. x, 741 pp. 99 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. The occasional library stamp as it is an ex-library volume, rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) described his experiments with a hermetically sealed chamber in which the atmospheric dust had been allowed to settle; sterilized infusions protected within this chamber remained uninfected for months, while similar infusions exposed to air all showed bacterial growth. Tyndall's researches, along with those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1876. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. x, 741 pp. 99 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) described his experiments with a hermetically sealed chamber in which the atmospheric dust had been allowed to settle; sterilized infusions protected within this chamber remained uninfected for months, while similar infusions exposed to air all showed bacterial growth. Tyndall's researches, along with those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation and advanced the understanding of Germ Theory. Very Good..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) found that increasing temperature on objects killed or reduced the number of endospores produced by bacteria that lead to infection. The autoclave was developed out of this research and Tyndall's work, along with Louis Pasteur..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. Hardcover. First Edition. 277 pp. 8vo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with blind embossed border to front and rear board, gold embossed tilting spine. Cover cloth has split along hinge on front board, tear across spine 1-3/4" from foot of spine, flapping but now in protective mylar cover. Small losses at head and foot of spine. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper, clean within.
Published form of lectures on science given by Tyndall in the United States. Good. More
New York: The Century Co., 1883. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 960 pp. 4to. Brown three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Considerable scuffing and wear overall. Black title patches to spine with gold embossed tilting. Interior clean. Good. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Half Leather. First Edition. vxxvi, 400, 401-729 pp. 8 color plates (2 in VOlume I, 6 in Volume II). 8vo. Ex-library with brown leather spines with gold embossed titling and call numbers at base, brown cloth cover boards with "City of Sheffield Public Libraries" blind stamped in circle on each cover board. Card pocket on front pastedown of each volume. Blue library stamp throughout each volume. Very Good. More
Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1891/1892. Hardcover. Second Edition/First Edition. Volume I: Second Edition, 1891, xv, 471, 8 (ads) pp.; Volume II: First Edition, 1892, v, [5], 226, 76 (ads) pp. 8vo. Blue cloth publisher bindings that have sharp gold embossed titling to the spines. Very minor scuffing to covers, minor fraying at head of spines, now in mylar dust jackets. Black endpapers with the gutters just beginning to show wear. Previous owner's name on front pastedown of each volume with a hand inked call number, which is the only indication of being ex-library. Many pages in Volume II uncut at top of of pages.
Volume II contains an English translation of Weismann's "Amphixis", Garrison-Morton 234 (citing 1st German ed, 1891); "By 'amphiximis' Weismann meant..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. 71 pp. 8vo. Brown pebbled faux-leather boards with gold titling to spine, original volume has been rebound. Light foxing within, text block has been trimmed when it was rebound.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was a physician and physicist who conducted numerous experiments on friost and dew. Wells first believed that dew and frost were the causes of air that was a few degrees colder than the ground. He began to experiment and changed his theory when he realized that a combination of temperature, temperature change, and heat being conducted by various materials on the ground caused the condensate that resulted in dew or frost. Very Good. More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866. Hardcover. As. vi, 152 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with blind embossed borders, brown leather spine with five raised bands from earlier rebinding, gold embossed titling to spine. Slight darkening of pages due to quality of paper, quite clean overall. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper and title page. 23 pp.of Casella catalog of meteorological instruments at rear.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was a physician and physicist who conducted numerous experiments on friost and dew. Wells first believed that dew and frost were the causes of air that was a few degrees colder than the ground. He began to experiment and changed his theory when he realized that a combination of temperature, temperature change, and..... More
London: Allen Lane, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 376 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Light penciled notes within.
This book was sent to Eric Homberger with the request from The Economist to write a review of the book. Also laid in is a handwritten note from the author to Eric Homberger thanking him for providing a citation for an article Weskey found helpful. Very Good / Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] 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.
Also contains J. Frederic Daniell's article, "Fourth Letter on Voltaic Combinations, with Reference to the Mutual Relations of the Generating and Conducting Surfaces." (pp. 41-56). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-336, [2] 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. Crumpling and tears to p. 37/38, does not impact this article.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32)
Also contains William Robert Grove's “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (pp. 91-112). Very Good. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1955. Wraps. First Edition. 255-570 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp.
In 1955, American theoretical physicist John Wheeler (1911–2008) coined the term “wormhole” and developed the now-familiar wormhole diagram and also used the term "quantum foam" for the first time. Very Good. More
New York: Arno Press, 1978. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. [2], 388, [5], [2] ads. 8vo. Brown boards with blue embossed titling to spine and cover board. Light stain along foredge of text block, interior clean and crisp.
A very nicely done facsimile reprint of Whiston's famous work on the origin and evolution of the earth. Fine. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiii, 415, xiii, 474 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Top edges of text block gilt. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1951. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Second Printing, 1958. xiv, 434, xi, 319 pp. 8vo. Dark red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's name in ink on the pastedown of each volume, otherwise very clean copies. Fine. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. 1434, LV pp. 4to. Green library binding, ex-library with stamp of "Technical Library, U.S. Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Maryland" on first free endpaper, title page, and final free endpaper. No other library markings present Clean within.
Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift."
Also contains James Peeble's “Origin of the Microwave Radio Background” (pp. 574-575) Peebles was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. Very Good. More
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896. Wraps. As. 95, [2] pp. 12mo. Light wear and scuffing to covers, some chipping at edges, encased in custom mylar dust jacket. Folding plate illustration at rear. Text in German. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1824. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, 498, 10 [19] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. 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 Hyde Wallston indicates at the outset of his article that "portrait painting is not altogether a fit subject to be brought before the Royal Society..." but goes on to explain that his paper looks at the rules of perspective which is purely mathematical. Five plates follow the paper, with two having movable sheets to show shift in perspective. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1801. Wraps. First Edition. Extract. 427-434 pp. 8vo. Toning from age, slight chipping to spine.
English chemist William Hyde Wollaston (1766 - 1828) conducted experiments in 1801 that led him to propose that Volta’s pile created electricity through a chemical reaction, the correct answer and contrary to the Volta's contact theory. Very Good. More
New York: Macmillan Magazines, 1992. Wraps. First Edition. Typical magazine format. Ex-Library with two library stickers affixed to front cover. Light scuffing. Clean within. Housed in a custom folding case with gold embossed titling to spine.
First published results of the discovery of first confirmed extra-solar planet. Very Good. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. 68 pp. Light scuffing to dust jacket closed tear at head and foot of spine. Previous owner's name in ink on second free endpaper. Very Good / very good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], viii, [1]-749 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.
Another determination of the speed of light using an improved version of Fizeau-Foucault Apparatus. Very Good. More