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
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
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
Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1858. 8vo. xvi, 440 pp. THIRD EDITION. Half-title and 144 text woodcuts. Contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards, minor wear on edges and corners; an excellent copy. PMM 307c. More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1907. 8vo. xiii, [iii], 360 pp., plus 4 pages publisher's advertisements. First edition. With 114 illustrations. Original cloth; pencil annotations in English and possibly Chinese, heavier in the first half of the book. With the bookplate of Arnold Thackray. First edition of de Vries'..... More
London: Printed for the author, 1802. 4to. xvi, 354; iv, 251, [25] pp., including index, plus leaf of publisher’s advertisements. SECOND EDITION. Illustrated with 49 folding copperplates. Contemporary calf, worn and rubbed; scattered browning, spotting and offsetting from plates, some waterstains. From the library of Arnold Thackray with his bookplate..... More
Vitemberg: Georg. Marcum Knochium, 1725. 8vo. [xvi], 876, [20], 32 pp. SECOND EDITION. Title in red and black. With 48 leaves of plates. In a contemporary full calf binding dated 1729 in blind on the back cover. Overall in excellent condition, with only minor wear. Second edition, greatly enlarged with..... More
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1814. 8vo. [iv], 146 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary boards, rebacked; an uncut copy, with a presentation inscription from the author to James Johnston, Esq. on the title. THE PIONEER WORK ON THE RADIATION BALANCE OF THE ATMOSPHERE -- A PRESENTATION COPY. First edition of this classic..... More
London: John W. Parker, 1837. 3 vols. 8vo. xxxvi, 437, [2]; xi, [1], i-vii, 8-534, [2]; xii, 624 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and spine labels. Signature of Humphry House (possibly the British literary scholar, 1908-1955) on the fly-leaf. More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1931. 8vo. 13 pp. FIRST EDITION. The author's original offprint in the original printed wrappers. First announcement of the Wiener-Hopf equation, or the integral equation for (x). This equation occurs commonly in many applications. In its solution a study of the Fourier transform in the complex..... More
