Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1897. 8vo. [ii], 312, [1] pp., including errata. FIRST EDITION. With 50 text figures. Half-cloth and marbled boards, author and title in gilt on spine. Presented to the library of the Mount Wilson Observatory by Adriaan van Maanen with a small presentation bookplate and van Maanen’s signature on..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901. 4to. xi, [1], 628 pp., including half-title and index. With hundreds of astronomers referenced. Original printed wrappers, rebacked; very lightly browned, but generally an excellent copy, uncut and mostly unopened. First edition of one of the most important astronomical histories of the seventeenth century. In 1786 Pingre's..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1896. 8vo. [iv], 274 , [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With numerous text diagrams. Contemporary half-morocco and cloth. From the library of George E. Hale with a small presentation bookplate to the Mount Wilson Observatory Library from Adriaan van Maanen and the blind-stamp of the library on the fly-leaf..... More
Paris: Earnest Flammarion, 1907. 12mo. [2], 297pp. FIRST EDITION. Original half-calf over boards; some browning along edges, but an excellent copy. First edition of a scarce work on electricity by Lucien Poincaré (1862-1920), nephew of the famed mathematician Henri Poincaré. The author describes the developments in electricity and their impact..... More
Rome: Paulum Manutius, 1562. 4to. [iv], 93, [3] leaves, including index and errata. FIRST EDITION. Dolphin and anchor device on title, Greek and Roman types, numerous woodcut diagrams. Modern full calf in an antique style, gilt fleurons on covers; an exceptionally clean copy from the library of a Jesuit college..... More
Paris: l’Academie Royale des Sciences, 1831. 4to. 36 pp. FIRST EDITION. 4to. 36 pp., including half-title and line of errata on last leaf. Sewn wrappers with "Puissant" written in contemporary manuscript on upper cover; occasional minor foxing, light water stain to lower inner margin. Uncut and a few leaves unopened..... More
London: McMillan & Co., 1896. 8vo. viii, 240 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Stephen Hales plus 7 additional portraits. Original cloth, spine somewhat faded; from the Norman library with his bookplate; another bookplate on front paste-down presumably removed. First edition. Ramsay wrote this popular history at the request of..... More
London: [n.p.], 1878-1914. List provided upon request. The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded in 1799 and has had a long and fruitful role both in scientific research and scientific communications. Some of the scientists from the Royal Institution include Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday in the first half..... More
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Folio. [iv], 43 pp. Text figures. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. More
Buenos Aires: 1914. 8vo. [v], 247, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With text illustrations and 31 folding plates, tissue guards present. Original printed wrappers, bound into calf-backed marbled boards; some slight foxing. First edition of this report on a paleontological exploration of regions in Argentina, such as the Valle de Santa..... More
Neuchatel; Geneva: Samuel Fauche; Barde, Manget & Co., 1783; 1788. 2 vols. 8vo. xii, 524 pp., including half-title; [4], 84 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. I: With folding tables and engravings, title vignette, headpieces. Library stamp on title; II: marbled paper, foxing throughout. First editions of both works. Saussure (1740-99) conducted extensive..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1918. 8vo. ix, [1], 346, [4] (ads) pp. FIRST EDITION. Cloth-backed marbled boards; contemporary signature of Correa Morlan Wall (?) on the front flyleaf. First edition of the author's most important work in which he presents his general philosophy of science, a comprehensive and valuable treatment of..... More
Oxford; Berlin: Clarendon Press; J. Springer, 1920. 8vo. x, [2], 88, [2]; v, [1], 89, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION & THIRD REVISED EDITION. Original wrappers. I: First edition of this excellent commentary on the theory of relativity. II: Third revised edition. More
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1862; 1864; 1865; 1865. 4 vols. 8vo. Frontispieces in colour, 44 plates (mostly coloured, tinted, and silver), numerous text woodcuts and indexes. Contemporary violet cloth with gilt-ornamented spines, Volume VII bound in darker half-calf over textured cloth; extremities worn. This popular Victorian journal of science and..... More
Washington: Dept. of Army, 1945. 4to. [100] leaves. With 2 title pages and 1 duplicate leaf. Original cream-coloured textured wrappers, stapled as issued, dated August 12, 1945. A fine copy from the library of Joseph Houghton, with 2 letters laid in. THE “FULL AND CANDID ACCOUNT”. Original advanced lithoprint issue..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8vo. xii, 216 pp., including index. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. With 1 plate (containing 2 photographic illustrations) and numerous text illustrations. Original publisher's cloth; from the library of Adriaan van Maanen, with his presentation book-label to the library of the Mount Wilson Observatory..... More
London: Rob. Scot, Ri. Chiswell, Tho. Chapman, and Geo. Sawbridge, 1702. 4to. [xvi], 438 pp. SECOND EDITION. Includes the imprimatur leaf with arms of the Royal Society on the verso, dedication to the King, poem to the Royal Society, and advertisement to the Reader. With 2 engraved plates. Modern calf..... More
London: E. Owens, 1756. 8vo. 30 pp. FIRST EDITION. Disbound. First edition of this discourse on the occasion of the earthquake in Lisbon on February 6, 1756. Stebbing (1687-1763) was a well-know, albeit controversial, champion of the Church of England. He here sets aside a day for contemplation and pious..... More
Coburg: Pauli Gunther Pfotenhaver, 1714. Folio. 79, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION THUS. With 24 full-page engraved plates, text tables and diagrams. Recent wrappers; title lightly soiled, a few edges repaired. More
Marseille: 1740. Folio. 335 x 220 mm. [vi], [2 bl] pp. Manuscript in brown ink on paper in one neat cursive hand, 26 lines to a full page. The four full sheets are folded into one quire and gathered by two green silk ties. Ownership inscription on the verso of..... More
Venice: Ex Typographia Hertziana, 1736. Folio (340 x 245 mm). [xxviii] (including half-title), 660, [34] pp. Title in red and black. With woodcut initials and ornamental head- and tailpieces. Vellum-backed marbled boards; leaves slightly browned due to paper stock. An excellent copy. Later edition of the author's collected works, first..... More
London: Wiliam Trounce, 1883. 8vo. 54 pp. FIRST EDITION. First 2 leaves detached. Double columns. Text illustrations and engravings. First edition of a series of lectures, delivered before the Society of Arts in December, 1882, which became the basis for the author's famous work on dynamo-electric machinery. More
London: Longmans, Green, 1881. 8vo. xix, [i], 338 pp., plus 2 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original plum cloth, worn, hinges starting; other than some soiling to first few leaves, interior clean, uncut. First edition of this significant medical commentary on bacteriology, especially concerning surgical practices. Tyndall (1820-93) discusses the..... More
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und sohn, 1906. 8vo. viii, 119 pp., plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. An excellent copy from the Mount Wilson Observatory, with a presentation bookplate to the Observatory by the Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen (1884-1946), and..... More
Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1865. 8vo. 112 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; an excellent copy. First edition of the famous eulogy by Virchow, summing up his great teacher's scientific abilities. Schönlein himself wrote very little; however, under his influence, Virchow became exposed to the experimental laboratory, and to physical diagnostic..... More
