London: Taylor & Francis, 1860. 4to. iv, [viii], 184 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 6 engraved plates, many folding. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Maxwell first lays out the history of the theory of compound colours, noting contributions of Newton, Helmholtz, Brewster, and others. He describes the instruments he built and... More
Breslau: Maruschke & Berendt, 1877. 8vo. xv, [1], 338, [2] pp., including half-title and errata. FIRST EDITION. Calf-backed marbled boards. First edition of the author's classic treatise on the kinetic theory of gases. Meyer's historical introduction traces the evolution of the theory, providing critical expositions from the works of Boyle... More
Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co, 1858. 8vo. xii, 500, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE (24th Thousand). Including frontispiece, 152 text illustrations, and engraving on final leaf of Parka Decipiens, “one of the fossil floras of the Old Red Sandstone” discussed in the book. Award binding of green polished cloth... More
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1908. 8vo. xvii, 272 pp., plus 16 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. With numerous drawings and photographic plates. Original cloth; an excellent copy with the ownership signature of Richard Moreland dated March, 1914 on paste-down. First edition of the first history of radio-telephony. Even at... More
1901-1911. FIRST EDITIONS. Bound together in black buckram. Ex-library (Scripps Institution for Biological Research). A compendium of Montgomery’s papers on cytology and zoology. Montgomery (1873-1912) was a distinguished professor and chairman of the Department of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania. Although he only lived to age thirty-nine, he was..... More
Kiel: Joachim Reuman, 1672. 4to. [lii] pp., including errata leaf. FIRST EDITION. Title with woodcut device. Disbound; with slight browning, but generally an excellent copy. First edition of this unusual letter from Morhof to medical colleague Johann Daniel Major, recounting how an Amsterdam wine merchant had figured out how to... More
Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1867. 8vo. viii, 72 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco over marbled boards. An excellent copy from the library of Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen, with his signature on the title page and his presentation bookplate to the Mount Wilson Observatory. First edition of one of Neumann's most important... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1922. 8vo. viii, 228 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 39 text diagrams. Original printed wrappers. First edition of a series of lectures in two parts, comprising 20 essays in all. The first part gives the background to the theory of relativity and leads on to Einstein, Maxwell, Lorentz... More
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. 4to. [xxviii], 484, [8] pp. FIRST AMSTERDAM EDITION. With folding engraved plate of cometary orbit facing p. 465, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Title printed in red and black with an engraved device. Contemporary vellum over boards; a few wormholes in the spine, preliminary and... More
London: S. Palmer, 1728. Royal 4to. [l], 407, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved title-vignette of an observatory within a border of instruments, 12 folding plates, and historiated initials, all engraved by J. Pine after J. Grison, including the arms of Sir Robert Walpole, to whom the work is dedicated... More
London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1792. 8vo. xxxi, [i], 546, [4] pp. SECOND EDITION. With folding engraved plate of apparatus and appendix of tables and index. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards; waterstain to pp. 335-368, minor foxing. Second edition, with improvements. Nicholson states that new discoveries have been inserted, “and... More
Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1929 & 1935. 8vo. viii, 251; [vi], 437 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. Both works in original printed wrappers; fine copies, uncut and partially unopened. I: First edition of this study of scientists, especially mathematicians, during the French revolution. Bailly. Carnot, Condorcet, Delambre, Courier, Hassenfratz, Laplace, Monge, and... More
Leipzig: Von Vei, 1902. 4to. xiv, 457 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half calf and marbled boards, worn at edges and corners, spine label; marbled endpapers, first fly-leaf nearly detached, else a very good copy with an ownership signature dated January 1902 on the title page. First edition of a group of... More
[Various]: [Various], [Various]. 4to. FIRST EDITIONS. An important collection of botanical and paleontology papers put together by John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell of Whatcombe, one of the founders and presidents of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. He is well known for his philanthropic commitments for the furtherance of natural... More
Washington D.C: Government Printing Office, 1934. Small 4to. 307 pp. Fourth edition. With 33 text illustrations (26 photographic) and 10 folding diagrams. Original printed wrappers, some slight chipping to head and foot of spine, otherwise very good. With the stamp of the Technical Records Library of the Nova Scotia Department... More
London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1773; 1774; 1776; 1778; 1781; 1790. 8 works. 4to. [ii], pp. 1455-1474, 1 blank; [ii], pp. 1487-1496; [ii], pp. 591-614; [ii], pp. 539-547; [ii], pp. 1303-1320; [ii], 1331-1340; [. FIRST EDITIONS. Disbound, and laid into a half morocco clamshell box. 1. 1773: To pay... More
Paris: Jean du Bray & Pierre Variquet, 1663. 4to. [xx], 122, [6] pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved vignette on title and the famous portrait of “Monsieur Charles Patin” by Claude Lefebvre, French painter and etcher. Contemporary full calf, slightly warped and somewhat worn; first and last leaves browned around the... More
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1924. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth. First edition. More
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
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
London: Taylor & Francis, 1857. 4to. [x], 312 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 14 engraved plates (many folding). Original printed wrappers. First edition, first printing of the author's Bakerian Lecture, his last contribution to the Royal Society. Here Faraday describes optical investigations on very thin films of gold and on ruby-coloured... 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: 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
