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 about The testimony of the rocks; or, Geology in its bearings on the two theologies, natural and revealed

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 about Collection of 13 offprints

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 about Theorie der Bessel'schen functionen. Ein analogon zur theorie der Kugelfunctionen

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 about Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

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 about The first principles of chemistry

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 about Vorlesungen uber naturphilosophie

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 about Self-Contained oxygen breathing apparatus A Handbook for Miners

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 about Traité des tourbes combustibles

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 about Speeches delivered at a dinner held in University College, London In honour of Professor Karl...

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 about "Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light." In: Philosophical...

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 about L'electricite

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 about "Deuxieme memoire sur l'application du calcul des probabilites aux mesures...

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 about Collection of 16 offprints from Trans. Roy. Inst. & 8 additional offprints