London: [various], 1921-42. Twenty-two offprints. FIRST EDITIONS. Most with original printed wrappers. All stapled as issued. A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL OFFPRINTS BY SIR WILLIAM BRAGG. We are pleased to offer the following collection of original offprints by SIR WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG (1862-1942), pioneer British scientist in solid-state physics who was..... More
London: John Murray, 1831. 8vo. xvi, [i], 366 pp. including appendix. FIRST EDITION. With a frontispiece portrait of Newton by Sir G. Kneller and W. C. Edwards, an engraving of the birth-place of Newton on title by S. Williams, numerous text illustrations. Original printed boards, part of The Family Library..... More
London: John Murray, 1831. 8vo. xvi, [i], 366 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Newton, woodcut vignette on title, text illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary moire over boards with gilt floral design on corners, gilt edges; rebacked. Possibly from the library of Elizabeth Jones [Soyer], the English portrait artist, with..... More
London: Edward Dod, 1646. Folio. [xx], 386 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed. Imprimatur leaf repaired on fore-edge, occasional foxing and browning. Presented to the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Edward Wilson, with the Academy's bookplate on the front paste-down. First edition. In..... More
London: A. Miller for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650. 4to. [xvi], 329, [10] pp. SECOND EDITION. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Text within double-lined borders Contemporary calf, worn, author, title and date in gilt on spine; interior with some waterstaining. Signature of Lewis Fry, Bristol, 1854 and another signature..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1879. 8vo. lxvi, 454, plus 27-page publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. With 3 full-page plates of Cavendish's manuscript facsimiles, 8 other facsimilies of figures from Cavendish, numerous text diagrams. Original maroon cloth, head and tail of spine rubbed, otherwise a fine, uncut copy with the bookplate of B...... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villers, et fils, 1895. 8vo. Pages 289-405. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; a fine copy, uncut and unopened. The first printing following the author's defense of his thesis on 6 March 1895 presented to the Faculty of Science, University of Paris, for the degree of Docteur dés Sciences Physiques..... More
Frankfurt: [B.C. Wust], 1664. 2 parts in 1. 8vo. [154], 610; 246 pp. With allegorical frontispiece, several historiated headpieces and text diagrams. Contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges. Third Latin edition, translated by John Leyburn. Digby's famous book on the nature of bodies and the nature of man's soul, which first appeared..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. 8vo. viii, 1020 pp. FIRST EDITION. Line-block and halftone text illustrations, one folding table, 3 halftone plates, 1 collotype plate. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, title and date in gilt on spine; an excellent copy with the small stamp of the University of Basel on the..... More
Paris: Baudouin, Brumiere, 1800-1802. 11 vol. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. All half-titles, errata and publisher's advertisements present. Contemporary quarter-calf over boards, a few joints weakened. Some occasional light browning, still a very good set. First edition of Fourcroy's chief work, written for the advanced student, complete with the extensive index Table..... More
Berlin: Carl Habel, 1885. 8vo. 48 pp. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original printed boards, backed in black cloth, some light foxing, stamp of the library of the Lees-Museum in Amsterdam on title and front cover, bookplate of Dr. Charles A. Kofoid. First separate edition of the author's important treatise on the..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1873. 8vo. xvi, 397 pp., plus 2 pages publisher's ads. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With woodcut illustrations throughout. Original cloth, worn, hinges cracked; interior clean. First edition in English of the earliest collection of scientific and philosophical lectures by the celebrated nineteenth-century German scientist, Helmholtz..... More
Konigsberg & Leipzig: Grafe & Unzer; L. Voss, 1854 - 1855. 8vo. 2 vols. in one. 47, [1]; 42, [2] pp. I: SECOND EDITION II: FIRST EDITION. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; an excellent copy with browning to a few leaves. More
Edinburgh, Washington: 1913-30. 8vo. and 4to. FIRST EDITIONS. All in original printed wrappers. Titles are as follows: 1. "On the ‘kinetic theory' of star-clusters." Offprint from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. LXXIV, No. 2, December, 1913, pp. 109-12. 2. "On the theory of star-streaming and the structure of the..... More
London & Cambridge: Geo Strahan & G. Thurlbourn, 1741. 8vo. [xx], 291, [1] pp. Sixth edition. With 12 folding plates. Engraved title vignette. Contemporary calf; some light browning and foxing. Ownership inscription on first fly-leaf. Sixth edition (first published in 1701) of Keill’s lecture notes on Newtonian mechanics. Also included..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. [iv], viii, 379; [iv], iii, [i], 375 pp., including half-titles. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Contemporary half-polished calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges; a wonderful, exceptionally clean copy with the bookplate of A.P. Thompson on each paste-down. More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1895. 8vo. [iv], 138, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers pasted onto boards, a bit soiled; interior fine. An excellent copy preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. Two volumes. 8vo. xxix, [iii], 425, [5] (including a blank leaf); xxiii, [i], 444, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with both half-titles and all blanks. With 20 plates and 15 pages publisher’s advertisements (unopened). Rebound in modern cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; interior..... 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
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
London: S. Palmer, 1728. Royal 4to. [l], 407 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. Complete..... 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
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
