Washington DC: Army Medical Department, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 50 pp. 8vo. Wraps. Scuffing and wear to covers, tear at upper left corner of front panel which has resulted in multiple creases. Some soiling and abrasions.
Important early review of the basis of nuclear energy and the impact on humans, how it might be treated, and the extent of fallout should a bomb be detonated in a populated area. A sobering piece of infromation produced for the general public early in the atomic age. Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1773, 1774. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [2], v-viii, 218, v-vii, 221-507, [1] 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.
Franklin and company's proposal for protecting the magazines at Purfleet, Wilson's dissent, and the group's letter saying they stand by their original assertions. Lengthty report on Deluc's development of a new hygrometer that used mercury instead of alcohol as the indicator fluid. Deluc's two folding plate with two separate illustrations was engraved by Basire. Also contains papers by numerous other authors on a variety of..... More

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.
Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and Frances Cranmer Penrose (1817-1903) acccurately predict the date of Stonehenge (1680 BC) by measuring the difference between its orientation and the direction of sunrise at the summer solstice (1 degree and 12 arc seconds) and calculating how many years ago this would have been given changes in the Earth's rotation..... More

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

Edinburgh, Scotland: Abernathy & Walker, 1808. Full Leather. First Edition. xvi, 403, vii, 406 pp. 8vo. Beautifully bound dark blue leather boards with both a gold and blind embossed border to cover boards; gold tooling, blind embossing to spines. Slight wear to boards due to age, two scuffs on spine, head and foot, of Volume I. Marbled endpapers, very clean within.
Both volumes inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper. Very Good. More