From the collection of a mad scientist: physics, astronomy, electricty, magnetism, general science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, quarto, dark blue cloth gilt, near fine set, touch of wear and soil, light foxing to fore-edge of text blocks, with bookplates "In Memoriam Johannis Couch Adams" -- which might imply these were gifted by someone associated with the Adams.....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, very good copy with minor tape residue stains to book and jacket. Author won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1970 for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. Bears small bookplate of the Oxford Printer's Library (and withdrawn.....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good with quite a bit of offsetting/tanning to endpapers, pen date and price on flyleaf, text clean and unmarked, dust jacket very good with minor tanning and wear. 237 pp.
New York: Published for the Author, 1816. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, modern wraps, text itself very good with light tanning, 79 pp, folding plate at end.
Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp. 1875-1877. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, royal 8vo, original wraps, bound into handsome black cloth bindings with paper spine labels. Very good, light wear and foxing. 7 folding plates, 2 folding tables. The father of electrophysiology's collected papers on the subject.
London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, nicely rebound in quarter calf over marbled boards, contents fine, 164 pp, 2 engraved plates.
Paris: De Just Rouvier et E. Le Bouvier, 1837. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, in slightly later quarter leather and patterned boards, very good, light rubbing to binding, text fine and bright. 496 pp, table, 3 plates at rear. Electro-therapy.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark blue cloth, very good. Very early book on relativity. 96 pp.
London: Smith, Elder, 1839-1840. First printing. Hardcover. First edition of the collected works. 9 volumes, 8vo, recently recased retaining original calf boards with Davy family crest featuring an elephant, recent spines, very tasteful, with Myron Davy stamped in gilt at bottoms of each spine, suggesting this was a family set.....
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, handsomely rebound in red leatherette with black leather spine label, very good. 353 (10) pp. The proceedings of the seventh Solvay conference, with important papers presented by Heisenberg, Dirac, Gamow, et al., all on the atomic nucleus. Rare in commerce and no recent.....
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1873. Hardcover. 2nd revised edition. Large 8vo, contemporary half leather, very good, light wear and rubbing, bookplate of Johns Hopkins, their withdrawn stamp, small perforated JHU stamp on title page, small paper label (probably removable) on bottom of spine, no other marks. 857 pp, illustrated.
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann, 1897-1899. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes containing all four volumes, large 8vo, bound in dark red cloth, gilt titled on spines, very good, contents a little tanned, ownership signatures of R. G. Van Name, who is best known for having been one of the editors.....
Paris: Bailliere, 1842-1843. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary green cloth gilt, two parts bound in one volume, each with its own title page, 238 & 182 pp, four folding plates total. Foxing to some pages else very good. The author is best known for having first described and named osmosis.....
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1831. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, older cloth, good with some wear and rubbing along outer joints and spine ends, contents very good, bookplate of the Janus Foundation in San Francisco, contents shows foxing throughout, xii, 260 pp, one plate.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1888-1890. First printing. Wraps. 2 large quarto volumes (11.25 x 9 inches), stiff wraps, fine set, some of the pages unopened and uncut along top edge. 563 & 636 pp.
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1880. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth backed patterned boards, very good, moderate rubbing to edges of boards, 2 x 3" loss to front pastedown, 197 pp, 6 lithograph plates. In the 1870s, Goldstein discovered and named cathode rays (Kathodenstrahlen). He was an early investigator of discharge tubes.....
Modena, Italy: Vincenzzi e Rossi, 1839. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, original pale green printed wraps, very good, 336 pp, one folding plate, faint waterstain to upper margin of first several leaves. The author (1802-78) was one of the pioneers in Italy of electrotherapeutics. He was also an early advocate for.....
London: Longmans, Green, 1875. First English language edition. Hardcover. Translated by Alexander J. Ellis from the Third German Edition. Large 8vo, dark terracotta cloth, gilt spine, very good, bookplate of William Libbrey and a smaller tag on pastedown as well, part of the Libbey Library of Physical Geography presented to.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, original pebbled brown cloth, very good, bookplate of William Libbey and smaller bookplate of the Libbey Library of Physical Geography at Clark University (and their release stamp), plus ink stamp of William Libbey Jr. on title page. William Libbey III.....
London: William Wesley, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, original red cloth gilt, very good, light wear to upper joint of front board, neat strengthening to rear inner hinge, text very good, 539 pp, illustrated. Chapters on astronomy and spectrascopy.
Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1886. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth, very good, with tipped in facsimile of a typed letter from Kedzie to front pastedown and stamp "Compliments of J. H. Kedzie" on first blank. Mounted to the rear pastedown is a Supplement to Solar Heat, Gravitation (etc.) with.....
London: Macmillan, 1873. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, very good clean copy with touch of wear, bookplate of Fletcher Durrell and his ownership signature at Princeton, 1882 (author of arithmetic texts in the early part of the 20th century), text unmarked but slightly toned, 227 pp.
Wien: Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1858. Hardcover. Zweite vermehrte Auflage. Cloth backed boards, very good, small Burndy Library bookplate /withdrawn stamp, light wear, tanning. 215 pp. Kreil discovered that terrestial magnetism was relatively unaffected by the moon. Uncommon book.
Paris: Selligue & Bechet, 1828. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark green contemporary calf gilt over patterned boards, a nearly fine copy. 438 pp. A translation of "On Galvanism: And Its Extraordinary Efficacy In The Cure Of Stomach, Liver, Nervous, And Other Disorders Of Long Continuance" with additional notes and texts.....
Munchen: Hubschmann'schen Buchdruckerei, 1858. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, plain dark charcoal cloth, with bookplate giving this copy to the Royal Philosophical Society of Edinburgh. 198, CXV pp, 13 lithographed plates at rear. Very good, light foxing to both text and fore-edge of text block. "His most important work was on.....