Books, photos, autographs, etc. Some real goodies this time.
Hardcover. Large half leather album measures 16 x 13.5 inches, very good, some fading and uneven sunning to front cover, photos in excellent condition. Includes: photo of a painting of Burns, Avon River and Bridge (11.5 x 7.5 inches), Auld Alldy Kirk and Burial Place of the Burns Family, Ayr.....
Milan: Presso Guiseppe Marelli, 1808. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, bound in mid-20th century brown cloth, gilt titled on spine, original wraps bound in, contents very good (the original wraps a little used and soiled), contents very bright, 490 pp, 6 engraved plates at rear.
London: John Churchill, 1860. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo (7.25 x 5 inches), original brown cloth gilt, near fine crisp copy with just a touch of wear. 187 pp. Purports to show the effect of electrical, magnetic and gravitational forces on the functioning of the body's mechanics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, red cloth, very good, no jacket, light freckling to front cover, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, pages very good and clean. 119 pp.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark blue cloth gilt, very good, minor surface wear, spine a little mellowed, text very good, old bookplate on pastedown, 199 pp, illustrated.
London and Edinburgh: 1830s (?). Hardcover. Quarto (10.75 x 8.5 inches), half full grained morocco and cloth boards, very good, light wear, bookplate of a Frederick B. Turnbull with "FBT" stamped in gilt on front cover. Several hundred pages in all, with many engraved plates, texts very good with light.....
Paris: Hermann, 1940-1942. First printing. Paperback. 2 volumes, tall 8vo, printed wraps, very good, light wear and creasing to spines.
London: Printed for the author and published by Bernard Quaritch, 1866. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, very good, spine slightly mellowed, bookplate on pastedown must have had some adhesive along its edges which have caused a roughly rectangular abrasion on flyleaf (see pic). Statement inside that 100 copies have been.....
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, original printed yellow wraps, very good. The article by Einstein is 4 pp.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1834. Hardcover. 2nd edition, corrections and improvements. 8vo, cloth backed boards with paper spine label, about very good with light general wear and rubbing, bookplate from Johns Hopkins on pastedown (and their withdrawn stamp), small perforated JHU on title page, no other marks, some foxing to text.....
Chicago: Eisele, C. 1903. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth gilt, very good, 176 pp, illustrated including some whacky plates of quack medical instruments.
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1853. First printing. Hardcover. Thick 8vo, resewn and recased preserving original cloth, new endpapers, with half title, errata slip, contents very good and complete, many pages unopened and uncut along top edge of text block (see pic). [6], 736, [2] pp. Very important book in the.....
Leipzig: E. Ponicke & Sohn, (1844). First printing. Hardcover. Folio (18.25 x 12 inches) nicely rebound in late 20th century half red cloth and patterned paper covered boards, very good, text and plates very good, occasional foxing and with light waterstain tidemark to bottom outer corner of the text pages.....
Oxford and Lonon: John Henry and James Parker, 1860. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches, 3 volumes, 8vo, spectacularly bound in publisher's patterned cloth binding of decorated red and blue latticework with fleur-de-lis and lively gilt decorations -- one of the most handsome 1860s cloth bindings we've encountered. Very good, lightest.....
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, boards in dust jackets, all very good with light wear (front panel of the jacket of vol. 3 has some small tears and creases at bottom). First five volumes in this very informative series.
Bruxelles: F. Hayez, 1887. First printing. Paperback. Small 8vo, pale green wraps, very good, inscribed on cover by the author, 70 pp, small folding map of the world. Pages unopened and uncut.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1891. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, original dark sea-green cloth gilt, good to very good, some bubbling and light discoloration to rear board (see pic); contents very good, 115 pp, 10 double-page plates.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Insitution, 1911. First printing. Paperback. Large quarto, tan printed wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers, bookplate of Washington and Lee University and their blind stamp on title page, small paper label on spine, some tanning and edgewear to wraps. 312 pp, illustrated.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark red cloth gilt, very good, most minor wear, spine a tad mellowed, light foxing to fore-edge of text block, old owner's signature, J. W. Butterwell -- from our light research a contemporary mathematician from Scotland. 365 pp.
New Haven: New Haven: Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co., 1809. First edition. Hardcover. Originally published in the UK in 1806 and again in Philadelphia in 1806, but this seems to be an expanded edition that includes material, such as the Pneumatic Cistern at Yale College, not appearing in.....
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1897. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, good with light wear and loss to wraps and shadow from old tape to upper outer corner, inscribed to Jules Tannery, who was at the time Assistant Director of the Sciences Section at Ecole Normale Superieure, and therefore one of.....
London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo, gray cloth, good or better copy with some smudging, darkening and soil to covers, ownership signature and stamps of D. F. Comstock on flyleaf, and yellowing strip of tape on rear pastedown, text a little toned but clean and.....
Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard, 1728-1739. Hardcover. Volume 1: Jews, Roman Catholics (1739), Volume 2: Roman Catholics, Inquisition (1739), Volume 3: Greeks, Protestants (1733), Volume 4: Anglicans, Quakers, Fanatics, Anabaptists, Adamites, Mystical Sects, Quietism (1736), Volume 5: Islam (1737), Volume 6: America, East Indies (1735), Volume 7: Banians, Chinese, Persians, Africans.....
Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, good copy, light wear to inner hinges, a piece of white paper affixed to rear pastedown (we don't know what it's covering), contents very good but a little toned. 196 pp. Ownership signature of H. Rohmann, a scientist who published.....
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1894. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, early rebinding in vertically grained blue cloth with leather spine label, very good, light wear, pages a little tanned. 337 pp.
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1893. First printing. Hardcover. First edition in German. 8vo, contemporary quarter red cloth gilt over patterned boards, very good. 298 pp.
London: Charles Griffin, 1902. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, dark red cloth gilt, very good, with bookplate and ownership signature of Nobel winner in physics, William Lawrence Bragg (Nobel Prize, 1915, along with his father, for their work in x-ray crystallography); he has also made a couple light marginal notes.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth gilt, very good copy with minimal wear, ownership signature of a Charles F. Meyer from 1915. 612 pp. Richardson won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission which led to Richardson's Law.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth, very good with minor wear, with 25 x 21 inch folding partly colored world map of magnetic fields in pocket at rear. 179 pp, pages are mainly unopened and uncut along top edge.
New York: D. Appleton, 1872. First American edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, green cloth gilt, very good bright copy with minor rubbing and wear, old bookplate of a C. A. Plumer. 455 pp, illustrated, color frontispiece. Has a preface for the Second Edition, but no indication there is an earlier American.....
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth, good copy with some wear and light loss to spine ends, lighter general wear and soil, ownership signature of Joseph Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University [1903-1991, a major geophysicist, pioneer in the chemistry and physics of the stratosphere].
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - 1852. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, original dark sea-green cloth gilt, very good, light wear, old ink stamps on title pages of the Glasgow Philosophical Society and bookplates of William Edward May, possibly the Commander in the Royal Navy who worked as.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1911. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark red pebbled cloth gilt, very good. 149 pp. A Tesla level genius, he fostered the development of alternating current and made many other discoveries and theoretical formulations.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1915. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, dark red cloth gilt, very good, light wear and soil. 496 pp. The author was an Irish-British mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases (concerning the kinetics of electrons and ions) and directly measured the.....