HMS Beagle: Survey Ship Extraordinary.
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 128 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Science & Technology
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (EKG) FOUNDATION "Sur un phenomene physiologique produit par les muscles en contraction" (Annales de Chimie et de Physique 6 pp. 339-341, 1842).
Paris: Fortin, Masson, 1842. Wraps. First Edition. 257-384 pp. 8vo. Brown paper wraps with chipping at edges but remarkably clean and intact given the age. Interior clean with many sheets uncut. Encased in custom cloth and leather pamphlet case.
First published account in original wraps 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
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (EKG) FOUNDATION "Sur un phenomene physiologique produit par les muscles en contraction" (Annales de Chimie et de Physique 6 pp. 339-341, 1842).
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
A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions from the First to the End of the Seventieth Volume; A Continuation to the Alphabetical Index of the Matter Contained in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (2 Volumes).
London: Royal Society of London, 1787/1821/1833. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. Volume I: Vol. 1-70. 801 pp. 8vo. Volume II: Vol. 71-110 & 111-120. 225, 101 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, call number labels on each volume. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Complete printed indexes of Volumes 1-120 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Each index arranged in two formats, alphabetical by subject and alphabetical by author. Rare in having three complete indexes (in two volumes) covering the years 1665 to 1830, Vol I: 1665-1780; Vol. II 1781-1820 & 1821-1830. Very Good. More
The Figure of the Earth,Determined from Observations Made by Order of the French King, at the Polar Circle.
London: T. Cox, 1738. Full Leather. First Edition. First English Edition. Originally published in France. vii, 232 pp. 1 folding map and 9 folding engravings that illustrate the text at rear. Full leather binding with five raised bands at spine and hand lettered title that replaces original leather patch title that must have fallen off. Scuffing and wear overall and at corners, but quite tight given its age. Previous owner's signature in ink on first free endpaper. Clean within, Very Good. More
"The Bakerian Lecture: On the Viscosity or Internal Friction of Air and Other Gases" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 156 for the Year 1866, pp. 249-268).
London: Royal Society of London, 1866. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [4], 25, [1]-886 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 Arthur Cayley's "A Supplementary Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" (pp. 25-35). Very Good. More
MAXWELL'S GAS THEORY: “On the Dynamical Theory of Gases” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 157, pp. 49-88).
London: Royal Society of London, 1868. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, [5], iv, [4], 26, 672, [7], 32 [plates] 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 verso of title page, and occurring sporadically within. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
One of James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-1879) most important papers outlining his theory of a new derivation of the distribution law of gas velocities tied directly to molecular collisions. It corrected and extended his 1860 paper and greatly strengthened the theory that gases (and, by extension, all..... More
Cosmical Evolution: Critical and Constructive.
Corvallis, OR: Self Published/Gazette-Times Press, 1916. Hardcover. Second Edition. 490 pp. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards. Gold embossed sunning to spine has faded over time. Light wear and scuffing to edges. Small bookseller label at upper left corner of front pastedown, light age toning to endpapers, clean within.
Broad discussion of the history and nature of the universe. Very good. More
Boojums all the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxi, 309 pp. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
"A new Form of Gas Battery" (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; Vol. 52, No. 46, pp. 296-304).
London: Royal Society of London, 1890. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, 553, lv pp. 8vo. Light brown library binding with gold embossed titling to spine, call number on paper tag at foot of spine, minor wear and scuffing overall. Ex-library bookplate of The University College of Wales Aberystwyth on front pastedown. Clean within and no evidence of additional stamping.
German-English chemist and industrialist Ludwig Mond and English chemist Carl Langer built the first “useable” fuel cell in 1889 and came up with the term "fuel cell." The describe their invention for the first time in in this paper. Four illustrations of their fuel cell appear within the text. Very Good. More
Change and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. First US Edition. xiv, 199 pp. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, clear tape repair at head of spine, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Previous owner's name in pencil on first free endpaper as well as a small newspaper clipping that announced Dr. Monod's death.
Jacques Monod (1910-1976) was one of the three scientists awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for elucidating the replication mechanism of genetic material and the manner in which cells synthesize protein. Very Good / Good. More
"The Mechanism of Heredity as Indicated by the Inheritance of Linked Characters" (Popular Science Monthly Magazine, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 1; pp. 5-16 pp.).
New York: The Science Press, 1914. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 624 pp. 8vo. Dark burgundy three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Considerable scuffing and wear overall. Gold embossed tilting to spine. Interior clean.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. This article describes Morgan's theories about the pivotal roles of genese and chromosomes in the process of evolution, which he describes in more detail in his famous 1915 boopk, "The Mechanism of Mendelian Inheritance." Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1933. Good. More
The Scientific Basis of Evolution.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, 286 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards that have darkened slightly at spine due to sunning, titling faded. Clean and crisp within.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. This title collects a series of lectures that Morgan gave at Cornell University in 1931 on the topic of the biology of evolution. Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1933. Very Good. More
"On the Method of Determining, from the Real Probabilities of Life, the Value of a Contingent Reversion in Which Three Lives are Involved in the Survivorship. By Mr. William Morgan, Communicated by the Rev. Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.;" "An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium;" "Additional Experiments and Observations Relating to the Principle of Acidity, the Decomposition of Water, and Phlogiston." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXIX (79) for the Year 1789 Part I & Part II, pp. 40-54, 71-78, 289-299).
London: Royal Society of London, 1789. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iii-vi, [1], [1]-138, v-vi, [139]-333 pp. 8vo. 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.
An actuarial paper, an article on the development of the fetus, and a piece on phlogiston theory (the belief there was an element called phlogiston that was released during combustion).
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
Principles of Physics and Meteorology.
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, Publisher, 1947. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. x, 537 pp. 8vo. Three quarter leather bindings with marlbe paper inset in covers, matching endpapers, and matching marbling to edgs of text block. Top hinge leather beginning to split at top, both front and rear, chipping and small losses at head of spine. Five raised bands to spine, brown leather patch title with gold embossed titling. Bumping and wear to corners, general scuffing overall. Previouw owner's bookplate on front pastedown, signature on second free endpaper. Clean within. Numerous engravings illustrate the text, color frontispiece with tissue guard. Very Good. More
Chips from a German Workshop (4 Volumes).
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867, 1870, Hardcover. First Edition. xxxiii, 379, 24 (ads); 356, 4 (ads); 520; viii, 581, 43 (ads) pp. 8vo. Green cloth publsiher's binding with gold embossed tooling to spine. Minor scuffing overall, bumping to corners of each volume. Each volume has dark brown endpapers, clean within.
Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion; Volume II: Essays on Mythology, Traditions, and Customs; Volume III: Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities; Volume IV: Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language. Very Good. More
Pen, Ink, & Evidence: A Study of Wrtiting and Writing Materials for the Penman, Collector, and Document Detective.
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, 228 pp. 4o. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
"Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films " Discovery of Graphene. (Science 306 No. 5696 pp. 666-669, 22 October 2004).
Washington DC: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2004. Wraps. First Edition. Very light scuffing to covers. Previous owner's address label on front cover, typical for a periodical delivered by mail. Clean and crisp within. Housed in a custom folding case with gold embossed titling to spine.
"Watershed" paper in the discovery of Graphene, Nobel Physics 2010 for Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene" Fine. More
Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of The Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature.
London: R. Faulder, 1802. Full Leather. Second Edition. xii, 586, [2] pp. 8vo. Full leather binding with considerable chipping, wear, losses at corners, front board loose at top hinge, split 2/3 of the way from top to bottom. Gold embossed titling to spine, loss at head and foot of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within. Good. More
Paley's Natural Theology (2 Volumes).
London: Charles Knight & Co., 1845. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, 230 pp., iv, 294 pp. Three quarter leather with brown leather at spine and corners, four raised bands with gold embossed titling that has faded, volume numbers still somewhat bright. Wear and chipping to covers, losses at corners, marble paper insets on each volume scuffed as well. Front pastedown of each volume split at gutter, text block still attached to cover board by cords.
William Paley's famous and influential work, Natural Theology, with significant commentary. Published in four volumes, bound as two. Good. More
Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 36.
Berlin, Germany: Julius Springer, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, 951 pp, 8vo. Volume is ex-library with brown patterned paper boards, lighter brown cloth spines and corner tips; gold embossed titling to spine. 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 dass Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik” by Wolfgang Pauli (pp. 336-363) in which Pauli outlines his theory of the hydrogen spectrum which contributed to the study of quantum mechanics; “Zur Deutung einiger Erscheinungen in den Molekelspektren” by Freidrich Hund (pp. 657-674) is his early paper on Molecular Orbital Theory; “Zur Quantelung des Idealen Einatomigen Gases” by Enrico Fermi (pp. 902-912) outlines what became..... More
CHI-SQUARED TEST: "On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated System of Variables is such that it Can Reasonably Be Supposed to have Arisen from Random Sampling" (The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science [Fifth Series], Vol. 50, pp. 157-175).
London: Taylor and Francis, 1900. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vi, [1], 624 pp. 8vo. Published with 5 plates, Plate 3 Missing, does not impact Pearson's article. Recent 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. Clean within.
Karl Pearson’s work introducing the “chi-squared” test of goodness of fit. Very Good. More
KARL PEARSON ON INTELLIGENCE: “On the Inheritance of the Mental Characters in Man;" "On the Influence of Natural Selection on the Variability and Correlation of Organs;" and "On the Correlation of Intellectual Ability with the Size and Shape of the Head” (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69, pp. 153--155, 330-333, 333-342).
London: Royal Society of London, 1902. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [1], 501 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and corners with marbled paper insets to covers. Five raised bands with gold titling to spine, call number handwritten in white ink at base of spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
Three papers by Karl Pearson (1857-1936) on inherited intelligence and the correlation of intelligance and physical features. Pearson was also a proponent of eugenics. Also contains Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and Frances Cranmer Penrose's (1817-1903) article, “An Attempt to Ascertain the Date of the Original Construction of Stonehenge from its Orientation” that acccurately predicted the..... More
“Origin of the Microwave Radio Background” (Nature 211, pp. 574-575).
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.
An early paper by James Peebles (b. 1935) who was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
Volume also contains J. Tuzo William's article, "Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?” (pp. 676-681) where Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift." Very Good. More
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Second Printing. xvi, 509 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More