Studies in human biology.
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1924. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth. First edition. More
Science
Speeches delivered at a dinner held in University College, London In honour of Professor Karl Pearson, 23 April 1934.
Cambridge: University Press, 1934. 4to. 23, [1] pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Pearson. Original gilt-lettered cloth. Only edition of this delightful tribute to Karl Pearson on the celebration of his fiftieth year as a professor at Cambridge. The speeches here are delivered by many of his past..... More
De occulta parte numerorum, quam algebram vocant, libri duo
Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1560. 4to. [iv], 62, [6] ff. (61,62 misnumbered 56, 57), including the final errata leaf. Lovely printer's device on title, illustrated and decorated initials, text diagrams. Contemporary vellum; apart from a worm trail running through the lower blank inner margin and minor age browning, a generally good..... More
Thermodynamique
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
Annales celestes du dix-septieme siecle.
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
Calcul des probabilites
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
L'electricite.
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
Clavdii Ptolemaei liber de analemmate, a Federico Commandino vrbinate instauratus, & commentariis illustratus, qui nunc primum eius opera e tenebris in lucem prodit. Eiusdem Federici Commandini liber de horolo giorum descriptione.
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
"Deuxieme memoire sur l'application du calcul des probabilites aux mesures geodesiques." Offprint from Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences.
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
The gases of the atmosphere
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
Collection of 16 offprints from Trans. Roy. Inst. & 8 additional offprints
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
Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere.
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Folio. [iv], 43 pp. Text figures. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. More
Observationes anatomicae et microscopicae de systematis nervosi structura
Berlin: Reimer, 1838. 4to. vi, 41, [1] pp. Complete with errata and 2 full-page engraved plates. FIRST EDITION. Quarter-morocco on marbled boards; occasional interior spotting, lower blank fore-edge sporadically browned, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition. In this famous monograph, Remak describes his findings on the histological structure of the..... More
Considerations philosophiques de la gradation naturelle des forms de l’etre.
Paris: Charles Saillant, 1768. 8vo. [iv], 260 pp. FIRST EDITION. 10 full-page etched plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine and title label, red edges, green silk marker. A fine copy. More
Los estratos araucanos y sus fósiles
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
Essais sur l'hygrometrie; (with) Defense de l'hygrometre a cheveu, pour servir de supplement aux essais sur ll'hygrometrie.
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
The chemical essays of Charles-William Scheele. Translated from the transaction of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. With additions.
London: J. Murray, 1786. 8vo. xiii [1], ii, 406 pp. First English edition. Contemporary calf. From the library of Sir Lucius O’Brien, Bart. with bookplate. First English edition of a most important and now very rare book. “A collection of some of the author’s most important memoirs, edited by Thomas..... More
Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre.
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
Space and time in contemporary physics . . . rendered into English by Henry L. Brose with an introduction by F.A. Lindemann.; (together with) Raum und Zeit . . . Dritte Auflage.
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
The intellectual observer: review of natural history.
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
A general account of the development of methods of using atomic energy for military purposes. (together with) TLS (2) from Joseph Houghton.
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
Die Radioaktivität. . . .
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
The history of the Royal Society of London.
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
A discourse preparatory to the religious observance of the day of publick fasting and humiliation
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
Mathesis compendiaria...ed. by L. C. Sturm.
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