New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xxiv, 313 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A collective biography of five Budapest born physicists: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilad, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. Fine / Fine. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxi, 599 pp.4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xi, 322 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1875. Hardcover. First Edition. xviiii, 556 pp. 8vo. Terracotta colored cloth publsiher's binding with illustration of a golden rainbow over a mountainous landscape. Gold embossed titling to spine with light wear and scuffing from age, small losses at corners, fraying at head and foot of spine. Clean within. Very Good. More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xviii, 919 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, very minor chipping to edges, now in mylar cover. Yellow cloth boards with dark green endpapers, clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
Berlin, Germany: Julius Springer, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 948 pp, 8vo. Volume is ex-library with brown patterned paper boards, lighter brown cloth spines and corner tips; gold embossed titling to spine. Wear to edges of cover boards where cloth has worn to reveal board beneath, hinge cloth beginning to split at front and rear cover but still tight to boards. Library stamps within, including stamps on title page of each volume, very clean with card pocket remaining on the rear pastedown of each volume. All text in German.
“Über die Spektra von Atomsystemen mit zwei Elektronen” by Werner Heisenberg (pp. 499-518) outlines the experiment in which Heisenberg refined the principle of "exchange interaction" Very Good. More
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1923. Wraps. First Edition. 65 pp. Gray paper wraps with light chipping at edges, small tear beginning at top and bottom of covers front and rear, now in protective mylar dust jacket. Clean within. Very Good. More
Boston, MA: Thomas & Andrews, 1814. Full Leather. Third Edition. Third American Edition, from the Sixth English Edition. viii, 395, viii, 443 pp. 8vo. Full brown leather contemporary binding with 7 gold lines to spine, red leather patch title with gold embossing, volume number in gold at center. Wear and scuffing given it's age and that it was an instructional book/textbook. Library bookplate in each volume, library stamps within. First free endpaper in Volume 1 barely attached but present, foxing to pages, darkening from age. Good. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xx, 485 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1842. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], [1]-312, 16, [8] pp. 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. 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 Herschel (1792-1871) invented this form of photographic reproduction as a way to capture data that was beyond the limits of human vision. Although known in the scientific community, cyanotype photography did not come into commercial use until after Herschel's death when it was capitalized on commercially by..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Adam and Charles Black, 1861. Hardcover. First Edition. First Black Edition. vii, 288 pp. 3 Plates. 16mo. Green cloth publisher's binding shows considerable wear and scuffing, gold embossed titling to spine, small round library label on cover board, Ex-library with library stamp on title page. Slight darkening to pages due to age and quality of paper. Three folding plates at rear in Very Good condition. Good. More
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1886. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. xii, 450 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's binding with a blind embossed anchor front and rear, gold embossed titling to spine. Yellow endpapers, with ownership stamp on the front pastedown. Contains four plates, three folding. All in Very Good condition. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1792. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iii-vi, [1], [1]-195, [1]-26, [iii]-v, [1], [197]-460, [8] 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.
Herschel's further observations of Saturn, includes a folding plate engraved by Basire illustrating three views of Saturn during its rotation.
This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More
1845. Hardcover. First Edition. 370 pp. 8vo. Green marbled paper boards with black cloth spine and gold embossed titling, light scuffing from shelf wear. Interior pages have age toning, otherwise quite clean. Very Good. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. Tan publisher's binding with typical late 19th century decoration. Slight bumping to corners, clean within.
An important early work on bioluminescence. Very Good. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. Hardcover. First Edition. 396 pp. Dark red cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Light age toning to endpapers, previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper, bookseller label on lower right corner of front pastedown.
Early book on Eugenics by the American zoologist and eugenicist, Samuel Jackson Holmes. Very Good. More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Wraps. As. xvi, 37 pp. Clean, crisp copy.
Reprint of Howard's Third Edition, 1865. Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1880. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 419 pp.; iv, 421-1092 pp. 51 plates. 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 George H. Darwin's "Resonance Theory" of the creation of the Moon, "On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Tidally Distorted Planet." Very Good. More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 462 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Academic Press, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. First Scottish Academic Press edition. xii, 30 pp. 8vo. Blue and gray marbled paper boards with faux vellum spine. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. More
Darien, CT: Hafner Publishing Company, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiii, 203 pp. Brown cloth boards. Clean, crisp copy. A facsimile edition of three of Hutton's seminal works. Fine. More
London: Nature, 1954. First Edition. 599-1246 pp. viii, 1208. 8vo. Green buckram library bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Ex-library with library stamps and sticker on front paste-down, clean inside.
The 'sliding filament' theory of how muscles function; their theory is "the foundation of modern understanding of muscle mechanics" (Wikipedia). Hugh Huxley (1924-2013) and Jean Hanson's (1919-1973) work "uncovered the finer processes involved in muscle contraction and is regarded as revolutionary -- a milestone in muscle research." (BBC Health). More
London: Strahan & Co., Publishers, 1871. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 578 pp. 8vo. Dark brown three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Light wear and scuffing. Four raised bands to spine, gold embossed titling. Clean within.
The response to Darwin's critics by Thomas Henry Hudley (1825-1895), known as "Darwin's Bulldog." Very Good. More
Washington DC: National Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007. Wraps. First Edition. 897-1036 pp. 4to. Magazine with mailing label and light scuffing from shelf wear.
Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) made the first proposal for a delayed choice double-slit experiment in 1978. The experiment involved a removable detector screen behind the slits, and two telescopes behind the screen—one aimed at one slit and one at the other. The movable screen was far enough behind the slits so that it could be removed after the light passed through the slit(s) but before it arrived at the screen (hence the name “delayed choice”). Wheeler’s experiment was finally carried out in 2007 by Alain Aspect and his colleagues and it demonstrated the predicted result. Very Good. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First Edition. Third Printing. xiv, 224 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine, light sunning to spine has faded both the cloth and titling. Clean within.
Publication of the Christmas Lectures of 1933 on scientific subjects given at the Royal Institution by Sir James Jeans. More