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Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood HMSO ETC
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Good. collection includes headings: Area meters planimeters and other apparatus the direct measurement of both superficies digital data storage apparatus mechanical digital electric calculating such circuits and apparatus receipts checking recording and registering sorting classifying and collating digital data words represented by electric signals apparatus for statistics apparatus for compiling segregating or sorting and tabulating form perforated profiled magnetised and other representations of data on cards sheets and tapes analogue electric calculating and evaluating systems digital electric calculating circuits and apparatus receipts checking recording and registering sorting classifying and collating digital data words represented by electric signals apparatus for First editions unbound and disbound. Possibly high carriage cost (12,000 items).
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ISBN 10: 841853172XISBN 13: 9788418531729
Seller: Juanpebooks, MIAMI, FL, U.S.A.
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Published by OXFORD, 2012
ISBN 10: 0194442284ISBN 13: 9780194442282
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Published by FisicalBook, 2020
ISBN 10: 8417805540ISBN 13: 9788417805548
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Published by American Institute of Physics for the American Physical Society, [Lancaster, PA & New York, NY, 1939
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First edition. PRESENTATION OFFPRINT INSCRIBED BY FEYNMAN. First edition, extremely rare offprint, inscribed by Feynman, of Feynman's senior undergraduate thesis at MIT, a fundamental discovery "that has played an important role in theoretical chemistry and condensed matter physics" (Selected Papers, p. 1), published when he was just twenty-one. This is a remarkable paper, documenting the first steps in original research of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. "Feynman was one of the most creative and influential physicists of the twentieth century. A veteran of the Manhattan Project of World War II and a 1965 Nobel laureate in physics, he made lasting contributions across many domains, from electrodynamics and quantum theory to nuclear and particle physics, solid-state physics, and gravitation" (DSB). Feynman showed that "the force on an atom's nucleus is no more or less than the electrical force from the surrounding field of charged electrons - the electrostatic force. Once the distribution of charge has been calculated quantum mechanically, then from that point forward quantum mechanics disappears from the picture. The problem becomes classical; the nuclei can be treated as static points of mass and charge. Feynman's approach applies to all chemical bonds. If two nuclei act as though strongly attracted to each other, as the hydrogen nuclei do when they bond to form a water molecule, it is because the nuclei are each drawn toward the electrical charge concentrated quantum mechanically between them" (Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman). His discovery, now known as Feynman's theorem or the Feynman-Hellmann theorem, has endured as an efficient approach to the calculation of forces in molecules. "The importance of the forces on the atomic nuclei for molecular geometry, the theory of chemical binding, and for crystal structure is evident" (Selected Papers, p. 1). ABPC/RBH lists no copy of any offprint of any of Feynman's papers in Physical Review (where he published almost all of his most important work). Not on OCLC. Provenance: Signed 'R. P. Feynman' in pencil in top margin of first page. This offprint was signed by Feynman and given by him to Robert Kinsel Smith (1920-99), a classmate and personal friend of Feynman's at Princeton University, where both Feynman and Kinsel Smith studied for their PhDs (a letter from Kinsel Smith's son testifying to this provenance accompanies the offprint). Born in Far Rockaway in the Queens section of New York City, Feynman (1918-88) entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1935 to begin his undergraduate studies. Although he originally majored in mathematics, he later switched to electrical engineering, as he considered mathematics to be too abstract. Noticing that he 'had gone too far,' he then switched to physics, which he claimed was 'somewhere in between.' To complete their bachelor's degree, all physics majors at MIT were then (as now) required to write a 'senior thesis'. "Thirteen physics majors completed senior theses in 1939. The world of accumulated knowledge was still small enough that MIT could expect a thesis to represent original and possibly publishable work. The thesis should begin the scientist's normal career and meanwhile supply missing blocks in the wall of organized knowledge, by analyzing such minutiae as the spectra of singly ionized gadolinium or hydrated manganese chloride crystals . Seniors could devise new laboratory instruments or investigate crystals that produced electrical currents when squeezed. Feynman's thesis began as a circumscribed problem like these. It ended as a fundamental discovery about the forces acting within the molecules of any substance" (Gleick). Feynman recounted his work on the thesis in an interview with Charles Weiner in March, 1966. "I went to Slater [the renowned solid-state theorist John Clarke Slater (1900-76)], and he gave me a problem, which was . why does quartz have such a small coefficient of expansion? He thought that maybe the possibility was that the quartz crystal has moveable - see it's silicone dioxide, SiO2 so I think there are oxygen's clinging to silicones, and in the motion the oxygen can swing back and forth, and it's a bent angle, turning back and forth, like the bores on the governor of an old steam engine, and when it turns - when this is oscillating, it's the same idea - it pulls the heads of the steam engine together, the ends, because the bore goes out by centrifugal force. And so the bent bottom will be shortened - I mean, it will be pulled together by the motion - and this will compensate the ordinary effects which tend to make something expand, so that the expansion will be much less than usual. Can I work out any details or estimates or something to show that in fact that's the reason that quartz doesn't expand? All right, that was the problem. I was very interested in it. The first thing I did was, I looked up the forms, crystobalite A, crystobalite B, crystal forms, and so on, to get the idea of the bonds and the angles and so on. I got in the crystal business. Then I realized I'd have to figure out how a change in forces will change the dimensions of the crystal. So then I got involved . with the connection between the forces between the atoms, and the forces - all together. For example, if a crystal is compressed, what is the compressent strength? Supposing I assume certain spring constants between all the atoms and I want to know what the elastic constants of the whole crystal are. I realized that what I had to do there was an infinite bridge truss problem, like the guys in applied engineering with bridges with a lot of members. I had an infinite number of members. But, because of the periodicity, I had an advantage that I could work out. Then I gradually developed the theory of the connection between the elastic bonds . So I worked that out, and then discovered by fooling around that I could get it for a principle of energy.
Published by Editorial Alma, 2018
ISBN 10: 8415618689ISBN 13: 9788415618683
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Published by [np], Vancouver, 1975
A detailed draft for a talk given to the Canadian Association of Physics Students, in Vancouver,on the contemporary state of subatomic particle physics, its current difficulties and possible future developments. Although a 'popular' talk, it is pitched at a high level, appropriate to postgraduate students in physics. Feynman manuscripts with scientific content are very rare on the market - this is one of a small collection of such manuscripts that was retained by Feynman's family until 2018 when it was consigned to auction. Widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in theoretical physics in the post-World War II era, Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles." Feynman refers briefly to a talk given to students in Vancouver in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! (p. 343): 'In Canada they have a big association of physics students. They have meetings; they give papers, and so on. One time the Vancouver chapter wanted to have me come and talk to them. The girl in charge of it arranged with my secretary to fly all the way to Los Angeles without telling me. She just walked into my office. She was really cute, a beautiful blonde. (That helped; it's not supposed to, but it did.) And I was impressed that the students in Vancouver had financed the whole thing. They treated me so nicely in Vancouver that now I know the secret of how to really be entertained and give talks: Wait for the students to ask you.' In fact, Feynman gave more than one talk to the Vancouver students, the offered notes probably referring to the second such talk, for in a letter to Mariela Johansen of April 1975, he writes: 'I often remember vividly my most enjoyable trip. Many things bring it to mind - like the dark blue T-shirt in my drawer at home - or the interference picture in my office - or just now when my secretary asked me if I wanted to talk to students at a nearby university (USC 20 miles) or high school. My answer was that I will talk to students anytime they are near enough to home, or are at Vancouver, B.C.' (The Quotable Feynman (2015), p. 296). That these notes probably refer to the second Vancouver talk is confirmed by the first sentence on p. 1, in which Feynman writes: 'Difference from last time . last year .' The slides for this talk, which Feynman refers to at one point in these notes, are preserved in the Feynman archives at Caltech. By 1975, what is now called the 'Standard Model' of particle physics was close to being established. It provides a 'unified' description of three of the four forces through which subatomic particles interact - the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces; the fourth force, gravity, has still not been unified with the other three. In this manuscript, Feynman summarizes the current understanding of the Standard Model in 1975, and discusses several significant 'loose ends'. Some of these were resolved in the years following his talk, while others are still open today. The first two of the three forces to be 'unified' were the weak and electromagnetic. In 1957 Julian Schwinger postulated that three different bosons (particles with whole number spin, that obey Bose-Einstein statistics) must be involved in transmitting the weak force to take account of all the possible different ways the nucleons can interact in the nucleus. Two of these bosons were required to exchange positive and negative charges, now called the W+ and W- (weak) bosons; a third neutral boson, the Z0 (which Feynman calls the W0) was required for reactions in which no charge was transferred. In 1973, 'neutral weak currents' (i.e., interactions between particles that involve the exchange of W0 bosons) were observed at CERN, and the electroweak theory became widely accepted. However, the W+, W- and W0 bosons themselves were not observed experimentally until 1983. The theory of the strong force, called quantum chromodynamics (QCD), acquired its modern form in 1973-74. In 1964, Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig (a student of Feynman) independently postulated that baryons (protons and neutrons) were composed of triplets of very small, strongly interacting, fundamental particles which Gell-Mann called 'quarks'. It was also predicted that mesons were similarly composed of these same fundamental particles but in the form of quark-antiquark pairs. The proposed quarks had very unusual properties in that their charge had fractional rather than integer values. At the time only three types (also known as flavours) of quarks were known: 'up, 'down' and 'strange' (u, d and s) with electric charges 2/3, -1/3, -1/3, respectively. The proton contains 2 up quarks and 1 down quark giving it a total charge of 1; the neutron contains 2 down quarks and 1 up quark giving it a total charge of 0; mesons could be composed of a variety of quark/antiquark pairs such as uu, dd, ud, du and others. Nobody has actually isolated or seen a single individual quark since they are permanently 'confined' within observable particles like the proton and neutron from which single quarks cannot escape due to the strong inter-quark (nuclear) force, which holds the particle together. In 1964 Oscar Greenberg pointed out that having two identical quarks in the hadron's triplet of quarks violated Pauli's exclusion principle, a basic rule of quantum physics which does not allow a particle to contain more than one quark in the same quantum state. To overcome this problem he suggested that quarks should have three new degrees of freedom. In 1965 Greenberg's idea was taken up by Moo-Young Han and Yoichiro Nambu who introduced the notion of a quantum 'colour charge' with three possible values, red, green or blue; colours can also be positive or negative. Analogous to the electromagnetic force, like-coloured charges repel each other and different-coloured cha.
Published by E. Atchley, Library of Fine Arts, London, 1848
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Letterpress titlepage, tinted lithographic additional titlepage and twenty-five tinted lithographic plates, printed by Day & Son, after Rider, Phillips, and others, each with an accompanying page of descriptive text in Spanish and English. Large folio. Publisher's three-quarter red morocco and red moiré cloth, spine and boards gilt, front board with gilt-stamped title and Mexican eagle; expertly rebacked with original leather and rehinged in order to comfortably lie flat. Cloth a bit soiled, leather worn along lower joints. Light scattered foxing, a few expert repairs to text leaves, not touching text. Plates very clean. A very good copy. A beautiful copy, here with lovely hand- coloring, of this fine and rare series of views, published almost concurrently with the end of the Mexican-American War. The work was clearly published both as a purely topographical work of the highest quality and as an attempt to capitalize on the interest that the war had generated in England as well as the United States. The plates derive from a fascinating number of sources, ranging from straight-forward eyewitness records by both John Phillips and Alfred Rider, to an adaptation of a 17th- century engraving first published by Arnoldus Montanus, to a number of views taken from the earlier work of Carl Nebel and Pedro Gualdi. The full details can be read in Roberto Mayer's article in the ANNALES DEL INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTETICAS. Of the group, a handful of plates display a direct connection to the War: the view of Vera Cruz (after an original painting by Rider) is accompanied by text which refers to Gen. Scott's siege and bombardment of the city (March 7 to 29, 1847); the view of Rio Frio includes the Mexican army in line of march; the plate of Chapultepec, which shows a column of troops and is accompanied by text which describes both the "brave defense" of the Mexican army and "irresistible gallantry of the American troops;" and the final plate of Matamoros includes a number of vessels flying the United States flag along with a note in the accompanying text which recalls the opening gambit of the war when the United States forces were ordered by President Polk to advance to the Rio Grande in January 1846. At that time, U.S. forces established a depot at Point Ysabel, and erected a fort in Texan territory commanding Matamoros, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. There are a number of fine views of Mexico City and its surroundings, but no mention is made of the final act of the war when Gen. Scott marched on the capital, stormed its defenses against greatly superior forces, and entered the city after severe fighting on September 13, 1847. A peace treaty was finally signed on February 2, 1848 in which Mexico ceded Texas, New Mexico, and Upper California to the United States in return for $15,000,000. The main thrust of the work is to offer a fine topographical overview of the country. The order of the plates leads the viewer on a tour of the country starting at Campeche on the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, along the coast to Vera Cruz, turning inland to Mexico City via Jalapa, Orizaba, and Puebla. After some time spent in the capital and its environs, the tour turns north up through the center of the country to San Luis Potosi and Monterey before finally heading east and returning to the Gulf at the mouth of the Rio Grande at Matamoros. The lithographs are the work of Day & Son, "Lithographers to the Queen." Day & Son was the foremost lithography firm in Britain for much of the 19th century, and continued in various forms until 1940. A handsome copy of this significant book of plates, with beautiful handcoloring and recased in order to lie flat for display. ABBEY 671. SABIN 62498. PALAU 224780. ALBERICH 1500. "Phillips, Rider y su album Mexico Illustrated Quienes fueron los autores de los dibujos originales?" in ANNALES DEL INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTETICAS (2000) 76, pp.291-306.
Publication Date: 1874
Seller: Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA, Calne, United Kingdom
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(1834-1902, Medical Scientist and Physician, for fifty years at St Thomas's Hospital, London), to Ord's second wife Jane, (née Youl), the Ords's daughter Christine and dog Tartar, with one or two by Caroline (Huskisson), known as Mrs Phillips, also humorous drawings and a title leaf for "Jane Ord's Album", the letters are full of energy, puns and literary allusions, nearly all with one or more extremely skilful and witty pen-drawings. Besides Phillips's own troubles, for Ord's care of which he is extremely grateful, Phillips refers to invitations to the Ords's home in Streatham, imagines their holidays in Northumberland and Swanage, adding his reminiscences of both districts, and talks of the pressure of keeping up his writing (see No. 38, showing him chained to an inkpot like Prometheus to his rock), with much more. With a Checklist. Together 58 items on 99 sides (including 4½ sides by Mrs Caroline Phillips), mostly 8vo, 45 Redcliffe Road (off the Fulham Road), West Brompton, London, 16th January - 31st December 1873 and circa February - April Watts Phillips began as an actor. He was then apprenticed to George Cruikshank (1792-1878), his lifelong friend, and who here comes to breakfast (see Nos. 8 and 10). Phillips studied art in Paris, and returned to work there, mainly as an illustrator. Separated from his wife, he met Caroline Huskisson, who became known as 'Mrs Phillips'. In a curious incident, it was claimed that Phillips's play The Dead Heart plagiarised A Tale of Two Cities, but it was proved that Dickens had been at a reading of the play in manuscript. (They were reconciled in 1865). In 1866 Phillips and Caroline returned to England. Of their four children, (May) Roland Watts-Phillips became an actress. Dr William Ord, besides St Thomas's, had consulting rooms at 11 Brook Street, off New Bond Street (see Nos. 23 and 41). He became eminent from his lectures and as an authority on thyroid. There are many references here to his skill with the microscope and his passion for collecting fossils and plants. He, Jane Ord and Caroline took Phillips's adoration of Jane in good part and the families were good friends. CHECKLIST (Letters are from Watts Phillips to Dr William Ord, unless stated otherwise) DATED (some approximately) 1. 16th January 1873. Self-portrait at work, seated on an egg, whisky on the table. A cock complaining to a hen about Phillips's six eggs a day. First side only 8vo. 2. 27th March 1873. Parody of Hood's The Song of the Shirt. Phillips at a treadmill. "I am very much better, but I really wanted to see you, to take a healthy tonic from the friendly grasp of your hand, and a mental inspiration from the jolly tone of your voice. I can't shake off that sluggard sleep.". A conundrum for Mrs Ord on William's name. Mrs Phillips "is far from well. biling over in fact!". 3 sides 8vo. 3. ?circa March 1873. 'Very unhappy!' Tartar sad, three-quarter face. "What are the red coals saying? Why, that they've gone up 2s/- a ton.". (Compare No. 55 dated 18th March, below). 1 side 8vo. 4. ?April 1873. The Tichborne Claimant as a spinning top. "Not a leg to Stand on!". ?At the opening of the case against Arthur Orton for perjury. 1 side 8vo. 5. 1st May 1873. Head of a clown. Has been called to Birmingham. about his play Amos Clarke "which Mr [George] Rignold is taking about the country. I am under bond to write a new piece. and sit on the points of my own jokes! I shall inflict myself on you next Saturday. The best fence against Care is a ha! ha!". Drawing of the Doctor (from behind) wresting secrets from nature. 3 sides 8vo. 6. 7th June 1873. The sad case of a boy suicide, "vexed at the imperfect fitting of a new suit of clothes", with a newspaper clipping. First side only 8vo. 7. circa June 1873. Phillips to Christine Ord. A friendly giant handing Phillips's letter to Christine. Phillips bowling the world with his pen. He sends her a book on giants and fairies, the same as he had given her sister, "To look over them in her own pretty way and talk of them in her own sweet fashion!" 2 sides 8vo. 8. circa June 1873. Mrs Phillips to Mrs Ord. Christine's letter "has been an immense success. 'The person who drawed the book - and who is the best drawer who ever lived' was taking breakfast with us when her letter arrived. He begs me to give her George Cruikshank's love. With many many kisses from the man with the funny face and the big eyes and our united regards. As Christine would say - 'These pens are the worstest I've ever writ with'". 3 sides 8vo. 9. 30th June 1873. Phillips with two figures (one labelled 'Acid') preventing him working. Phillips astride a bicycle, speeding to the Doctor. Three feathers in a wine-glass. "[The Prince of] Wales and the Shah are still going it" [e.g. since the Wales's déjeuner in the garden at Chiswick House on 28th June]. 2 sides 8vo. 10. 1st July 1873. Coming out of a cold shower-bath. Will see the Ords on Friday 4th July before they go North, and asking the Doctor to get a new portrait photograph taken. Has "lots of Giants growing up" for Christine, and wants her to take tea with "my dear old child-hearted 'Crooked-shanks'". More on Chiswick - apparently Ord was at the Garden Party. 3 sides 8vo. The Ords in Northumberland: 11. 12th July 1873. The Doctor pulling Jane up a steep hillside, "one day scaling an eagle's nest, the next diving into the depths of a coal mine. while she brightens all the darkness around by her presence". A game of Chevy Chase. "Have you been to the top of Yeavering Bell?" (shown, as Caroline believes it to be, as a ship's bell). Hogg & Sir Walter Scott. "How I envy you!". Tailpiece of the Doctor, with his trousers and hat drying on his walking stick. 4 sides 8vo. 12. 12th July 1873. Cupid photographing, from behind, the Doctor giving a lecture at St Thomas's. Asks Mrs Ord to check portrait photos of the Doctor "against the original. The profile, when the face is made lightless, is admirable. please to remark the Philadelphian Fla.
Published by LondonE. Atchley Library of Fine Arts 106 Great Russell Street ., 1848
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
FIRST EDITION. Folio (63 x 45 cm). Bilingual (English & Spanish) text comprising printed title and 26 leaves between original red cloth backed yellow coated end-papers, together with the plates tipped in loosely within the restored original cloth portfolio, comprising original boards with yellow coated endpapers, original gilt lettered red morocco title label to upper cover, rebacked in matching red morocco, renewed cloth sides and silk ties. 26 (including title) tinted lithographs by Messrs Rider and Walker after drawings Phillips and Rider printed by Day & Son all with original hand-colour. Ex libris G. Toulmin Esq. with his old ownership inscription to title-page dated 28 May 1856. A very handsome copy of this book published almost concurrently with the end of the Mexican-American War. Originally published at £4.4s. plain and £10.10s. coloured, as here, from that furnace of bibliophilia at 106 Great Russell Street. The work was clearly published both as a purely topographical work of the highest quality and as an attempt to capitalise on the interest that the Mexican-American War had generated in England as well as the United States. The plates derive from a fascinating number of sources, ranging from straightforward eyewitness records by both John Phillips and Alfred Rider, to an adaptation of a 17th- century engraving first published by Arnoldus Montanus, to a number of views taken from the earlier work of Carl Nebel and Pedro Gualdi. The main thrust of the work is to offer a fine topographical overview of the country. The order of the plates leads the viewer on a tour of the country starting at Campeche on the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, along the coast to Vera Cruz, turning inland to Mexico City via Jalapa, Orizaba, and Puebla. After some time spent in the capital and its environs, the tour turns north up through the center of the country to San Luis Potosi and Monterey before finally heading east and returning to the Gulf at the mouth of the Rio Grande at Matamoros. The lithographs are the work of Day & Son, "Lithographers to the Queen." Day & Son was the foremost lithography firm in Britain for much of the 19th century, and continued in various forms until 1940. (Abbey Travel, 671; Sabin, 62498; Palau 224780).
Seller: L'Ancienne Librairie, Paris, France
Book Signed
Paris, De l'Imprimerie de la République, Régent et Bernard, Bachelier, Mallet-Bachelier, Gauthier-Villars, An III (1794) - 1881. 48 tomes (1 à 8 et 10 à 49) in-4 reliés en 27 volumes, 160 planches hors-texte, quelques figures dans le texte, reliure demi-basane ou veau à coins (reliure frottée, manques à quelques coiffes, quelques mors fendillés, manque la moitié du dos au tome 11, dos du tome 20 tabîmé, mors supérieur du tome 1 fendu, rousseurs éparses). Tampons humides ("Bibliothèque de l'Université de France", "Echange autorisé", "Dons n° 12961", "Ecole Polytechnique") et ex-libris : Citoyen Messier (manuscrit), Lefebure de Fourcy 1869 (impr.) et "Monsieur Lefebvre" (manuscrit), Paul Serret (d'après un certificat de la Librairie scientifique A. Hermann, daté 1884 et signé par le libraire, qui confirme qu'il s'agit d'une collection ayant fait l'objet d'un échange autorisé avec la Bibliothèque de l'Université - cf. cachets, et par exemple l'ex-dono manuscrit suivant, répété : "à Mr. Lefebvre, Elève de l 'Ecole Polytechnique, De la part du Conseil de la dite Ecole"). Rare tête de série de 48 Cahiers (1 à 49 ; manque le cahier 9) du Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique, une des plus anciennes revues scientifiques (au sens large, puisqu'elle contient aussi à l'origine, en sus de Mémoires de Mathématiques, Physique, Chimie, Géologie, Astronomie, etc., des cours de Beaux-Arts et de Belles-Lettres, par exemple). *** Contributions de Lagrange : Essai d'analyse numérique sur la transformation des fractions (Cahier 5), Solutions de quelques problèmes relatifs aux triangles sphériques [.] (Cahier 6), Leçons élémentaires sur les Mathématiques (Cahiers 7-8), Leçons sur le Calcul des Fonctions (qui occupe l'intégralité du Cahier 12 et de son Supplément), Eclaircissement d'une difficulté singulière qui se rencontre dans le Calcul de l'Attraction des Sphéroïdes très-peu différents d'une Sphère (Cahier 15). *** Contributions de Monge : Stéréotomie (Cahier 1), Sur les lignes de courbure de la surface de l'Ellipsoïde (Cahier 2), Mémoires sur la surface courbe, etc. (2 mémoires au Cahier 11, 2 au Cahier 13), Essai d'Application de l'Analyse à quelques questions de Géométrie élémentaire (Cahier 15), Construction de l'Equation des Cordes vibrantes (ibid.). *** Et de nombreuses contributions de scientifiques de premier plan, depuis Prony, Ampère, Berthollet, Laplace, Cauchy, Liouville, etc. jusqu'à Henri Poincaré. *** Le 3e Cahier contient l'Organisation de l'Ecole Polytechnique, le 4e Cahier diverses lois fondatrices la concernant (Examens, Ecoles du Service Public). *** Un quasi-centenaire, important, de l'histoire des sciences, en particulier mathématiques. * Voir photographies / See pictures. Livres.
Published by [Cambridge, Ma, 1915
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
[2],203pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Light wear to spine and edges; small, marginal closed tears to two interior leaves. Otherwise clean and bright internally. Very good. Untrimmed, partially unopened. John C. Phillips was a noted American naturalist who published numerous books and articles on various topics, including hunting, animal husbandry, ornithology, and conservation. This privately printed, charming, and very rare account of his most important childhood experiences in nature was printed directly from his youthful journals (even including spelling and grammatical errors). The diary entries are from the first half of 1887 and summers from 1889 to 1891, spent by Phillips at Wenham Lake in Massachusetts, where there is now a nature preserve named for him. Phillips grew up in Essex County, Massachusetts, and was the great-grandson of the first mayor of Boston, also John Phillips, and a grandnephew of abolitionist Wendell Phillips. The experiences recounted here in the printed version of his diaries were clearly formative, as he spent most of his adult life exploring and collecting as a hunter and naturalist. Among his many accomplishments, he accompanied Robert Peary on his voyages to Greenland, he named many of the features of Glacier National Park, he published work on western wildlife, and he described numerous species of birds new to science. His expeditions to Ethiopia and Palestine both produced large collections of animal specimens that now reside at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. An extremely rare work. Heller notes: "Only 250 were printed and all but 50 were destroyed." OCLC locates only four copies, at Harvard, Duke, the University of Massachusetts, and the National Sporting Library. HELLER 592. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.294.
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1985581485ISBN 13: 9781985581487
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by John Lane, 1900
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, 5 further plates, head-piece and tail-piece, all hand-coloured, a few tiny nicks to page edges, title-page with presentation inscription in ink, 'E.S.W. from J.S.W. Santa Barbara Feb 14th 1909', pp. 48, small 4to, bound at the Hampstead Bindery (front free endpaper signed) in russet morocco, the boards with multiple onlays of dark green, fawn and chestnut-brown, with repeated tooled leaf motif arranged in central concentric circles punctuated with dots and paired small circles, on ground of massed gilt dots, board corner sections repeat the tools and onlays of the central design, richly gilt backstrip decorated with the same tools, the gilt title lettered vertically, green morocco doublures with spaced gilt small circle triads and crimson morocco onlaid small circles within border of gilt-tooled apricot and crimson convolvulus flowers linked by design of winding tendrils, with massed gilt dots at outer edges, corners of endpapers with small gilt-tooled hearts, gilt gauffered edges, doublure edges slightly faded, corners and joints a little rubbed, upper joint neatly repaired, very good. An exquisite binding, the onlay tones and leaf tool design characteristic of the Hampstead bindery's renowned 'finisher', Pietro A. Savoldelli, responsible for the much-copied 'firework' binding (no. 230, Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, II) and the purely concentric example in Maggs' catalogue 1212, p. 174. Savoldelli was among the original staff employed by Frank Karslake in 1898 when he established the bindery, was part of the cohort who helped to train members of the Guild of Women-Binders and was one of the last to leave the short-lived, but highly influential establishment, which closed in 1902. He was recognized as a particular expert in tooling, having worked in Italy and France, and learnt the practical techniques of the Parisien binders, notably in the brilliance and permanence of the tooled gilt. This example repays close examination: while the description above covers the main characteristics, there are unexpected details - the fawn leaves of the corner-pieces encroaching on the dotted ground, the board-edge green leaves cut in half, as if continuing beyond the board- - which lend a natural air to the symmetrical intensity of the composition. (Ainslie Waller, The Guild of Women-Binders, The Private Library, 3rd series, 6:3.).
Privately printed, no place, 1915, inscribed on endpaper "Dr. J.H.C. from J.C.P." - the inscription is to John Henry Cunningham, Jr. Not illustrated. 6.5" x 9.75". 203 pp. Bound in three-quarter dark blue-green leather, hubbed spine, marbled paper covered boards and endpapers, rubbed on all edges, printed on watermarked rag paper, unopened. The book is made up of journals kept by Phillips from the age of 10 to 15, supplemented by two additional chapters about Wenham Lake and wildfowling, written in 1914. Detailed accounts of his daily life, school, friends, vacations, fishing, sailing, fireworks, swimming, shooting, etc. "Privately printed 250 copies, of which all except about 50 have been destroyed.Most of the following journals were saved from the rubbish heap by my mother." (Phillips). The number of copies that were actually bound was certainly less than 50 - this is an exceedingly scarce book, almost never offered for sale. "Contains a chapter on shooting, early recollections" (Phillips). Internally very fine, covers rubbed but very good +.
Published by The Talfourd Press/Richard Minsky, London/New York, 1990
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This book is based on Tom Phillips' 1988 collage work 'The Class of 47', as exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery. "Tom Phillips sent copies of the 31 images to American poet Heather McHugh, who wrote poems about them. Tom then took these poems and transformed them by painting out some of the words. His new text sometimes reaffirms and other times contradicts the poet's interpretation of the pictures. Each page of handmade paper contains the image, expanded and revised both by hand and computer, and hand painted in watercolour following the artist's prototype." "[P]rinted on Richard de Bas handmade paper with a Canon BJ-130 inkjet printer. The images and treatments were painted by hand in watercolours. The edition is limited to forty-seven copies bound in cloth, numbered 1-47, and an edition de tete of ten copies I-X, bound in leather with three additional pages coloured by Tom Phillips, containing his notes to the colourist. The Portrait Works (1989), p. 14-15." [publisher's statement] "No litany will ever stick as fast as the class register at primary school, those thirty names of serried figures in a gaslit room, who, benched together like tiny galley-slaves on a five year odyssey, will forever haunt each other's dreams. They provide us with our first typology (so little needing later extension) of bully, hero, creep, flirt, swot, saint and belle dame sans merci. A teacher could inflect this list with cunning insinuation: I used to await my own name to find out what the score was (as one can tell from readers of football results, before they get to the goals, whether a team has triumphed or been crushed or has squeezed a draw) waiting to hear if it was to be thrown away like a hiccup, indicating that I was for the while a safe cypher, or leaned upon with some dangerous almost decodable emphasis (meaning, watch out). Comic capital has often been made of such a recital, most recently in a sinister review sketch by Rowan Atkinson. More notably one remembers Sir Michael Redgrave's hypnotic readings from Beachcomber's List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen and Giles Cooper's radio play Unman Wittering and Zygo. the corresponding names in my own class were Whiting, Whittlesea and Zorn. Oh God!, wrote Swift, How I remember names! The list of faces is not so ordered. Though from many the labels of name have peeled off with time, they will as images bubble up unbidden from the depths of sleep, or will suddenly be brought to mind when a head turns in a bus queue or crush bar (them? not them?). Just once or twice the terrible truth of mortality is presented in a face whose new, augmented, lineaments startle, when encountered all at once without that gently gradual breaking of news one gets from one's own day by day mirrored self. Can that be Flinchecombe there whose features have been pumped up to fill a vast pneumatic head from the top of which the hair has rushed away without so much as a farewell wave? Yes it can, for he is saying to himself. I'm sure I know that fat and grizzled fellow shambling along there. yes. it's Phillips. never did think he'd come to much. As I played with scraps of collage for Curriculum Vitae IV, whose border is a forest of faces, the conjunction of random fragments of heads from various printed sources consistently threw up such darkly half-recognised physiognomies. To exorcise them, to lay their ghosts somehow (on paper at least) I made face-fetishes of each of the thirty. Pete Morris. yes. Fred Emmett, Daphne Blackwood, yes. Sylvia Daniels, yes. and, ah yes, Isabel. one by one (and one of them myself) fixed by paste and hustled out into the daylight of art. Where are they now? Now in part, here. It seemed appropriate only to use pieces of the Boy's Own or the Girl's Own Paper (my constant Human Documents of engraved vocabulary) whose hatchings and cross-hatchings in pre-1900 copies I got to know in those same early years of childhood from bound sets collected for war-salvage. Allen, Arkwright, Atwell, Beard, Bloomfield, Bussey, Callow. let us rest here in this rare reunion." Tight, bright, and unmarred; suite of prints bright and clean. Full black leather binding, inlaid color print, gilt lettering; suite of prints in portfolio with printed label. Oblong 4to. np. Illus. (colored plates). Limited number edition, this being X of X of the deluxe subset.
Published by Brilliance Audio, 2010
ISBN 10: 142335222XISBN 13: 9781423352228
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.
Published by Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, Providence, RI, 1845
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. [5]-148 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored ribbed cloth, original yellow endpapers. A Good copy with staining to cloth, cloth chipped at head and tail, bumped corners, foxing to cloth and edges, hinges starting, top edge of front free endpaper torn off, contemporary bookseller's label to paste down. Rare in commerce. A collection of abolitionist essays, stories, and poems. Perhaps most significant is the long story "The Slave-Wife" by Frances Harriet Green née Whipple (Eleanor Eldredge's ghostwriter), which was a predecessor to Uncle Tom's Cabin by seven years. Includes a letter from John Brown, an essay on "Reform" by Wendell Phillips and another by Christian anarchist Adin Ballou, the poem "The Contrast" by James Russell Lowell, the poems "Lines Written in November" and "The Golden Ball" by Sarah Helen Whitman (Edgar Allan Poe's fiancé); a long letter on slavery in Texas by Ahmed el Korah; and more.
Published by Harvest House Pub, 2003
ISBN 10: 0736910972ISBN 13: 9780736910972
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by Trafford Publishing, 2008
ISBN 10: 1425156088ISBN 13: 9781425156084
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by FriesenPress, 2012
ISBN 10: 1770978887ISBN 13: 9781770978881
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by FriesenPress, 2012
ISBN 10: 1770978887ISBN 13: 9781770978881
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Seller: L'Ancienne Librairie, Paris, France
Book Signed
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1864-1884. 20 tomes in-4 reliés en 17 volumes, 39 planches dépliantes hors-texte (certaines en couleurs), quelques figures dans le texte, reliure de l'époque demi-basane, dos ornés (dos frottés, manques à quelques coiffes, rousseurs). Exemplaire du mathématicien Victor Puiseux (1820-1883), un des membres du comité de rédaction de la revue (notes de relieur). Rare ensemble des 20 premières années (de 1864 à 1884 ; interruption de la revue en 1871) des Annales scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, revue fondée par Louis Pasteur, qui préside le comité de rédaction pendant toute la première série. * Trois articles de Pasteur : Mémoire sur la fermentation acétique (série I, tome 1), Note historique sur les recherches de MM. Gernez et Viollette relatives à la cristallisation des dissolutions sursaturées (I, 3), Note sur l'application de la méthode de M. Pasteur pour vaincre la pébrine (co-signé par Raulin, II, 1). Un article de Sadi Carnot : Réflexion sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance (II, 1). Un article d'Edouard Branly : Etude des phénomènes électrostatiques dans les piles (II, 2). * Mathématiques, Physique, Biologie, Géologie, Météorologie, Astronomie. Eclipses. * Voir photographies / See pictures. Livres.
Published by BROOKLYN TO CONSTANTINOPLE TO PARIS, 1917
Seller: Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc., Cochrane, AB, Canada
Condition: Good+. On offer are two [2] absolutely super, original, World War I and post-War manuscript diaries handwritten by American Foreign Service agent and Central Intelligence Agency operative Grace Phillips Cogswell. A woman of many talents and accomplishments living a life one usually reads about in fiction. The diaries date from 1917 - 1926 [No.1, 1917-1920, 800+ entries; No.2, 1923-1926, 475+ entries] covering the World War I years and then while she was working for the O.S.S. and American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). [It should also be noted that she was married to the famed naval commander, Captain Francis Cogswell whose diary we list separately.] She traveled abroad extensively and writes of being in many different countries / cities, including Venice, Constantinople, Rome, Edinburgh, Paris and many, many more. From the mundane daily activities to super expamples of her sparkling personality and keen eyed observations. Here are some snippets: "Annapolis - Dined at The McNairs, disgraced myself by eating too much. F. teasing me, Brklyn - Fleet due today minus destroyers. Went to Governors Island and watched the fleet come in. Mr. Blairs to watch land parade with Miss Hunt. Brklyn - celebrated today with a parade and welcome home cards in every window and all sorts of parties for Soldiers Francis home from Lisbon, brought me much laces and embroideries for my birthday. Regent Palace. Got military permit. Met Ambassador Davis. Saw the King drive out of the Palace Grounds on his way to the memorial services of the Princess of Denmark at Winchester . Chandler sailed at 1 p.m. Mrs Chandler and I left on 5:40 train for Paris London - Went to headquarters with Capt. Hellweg and Bones. Sat in Comdr. Brooks office and waited for dope. Met Mrs. Schuyler. Mr. Copehard and Brooke had our money changed for us at Guarantee Trust Co., took Capt. Hellweg and Brooke to lunch at Ritz Edwinburgh - Went aboard to sew on F's blouse. Mrs. Chandler came down for tea. Capt. Hellweg aboard most of time as his dog Spottie lives on board. In route Rome. Changed at Modane and had all my clothes stripped off by a horny handed female, she had the time of her life. Found 3 gold pieces of 5 ea. and was wild when the French official let me thru with them. Magnificent scenery, Mts. and scroll painted houses. Rome. Hotel Flora, saw bones of monks made into fanciful designs in vault of church. Constantinople Pera Palace - Mrs. Day birthday. Mrs Wetherby gave large dinner, Embassy crowd at Russian Club. Most remarkable violinist I've ever heard there, food perfect. Danced at Pera Palace later with Ital. officer and will never be the same after trying to dance with him Lunch at Harvid Beys house in Asia Minor. Met the Princess, his wife, who is a daughter of last Sultan and niece of present __ (?). She did not appear at lunch but rec'd the ladies upstairs afterwards. Remarkably carved easle birds supporting mirror. She gave me a rose heavy course rug, pred. cream color Constantinople - We are to lunch on the Scorpion with Capt. McCulloulgh and go for climb up mountain. Mr. Smith assoc. press man came with us . Venice - Mrs. J___, wife of Ambassador of Rome called at 10:30 and we took her to the Ital. ship Scills (?) to see the war orphans . Comdr. Bryant told me that Francis is a hero. When a Calif. plane nose dived into the ocean near them, they swung out of column at a snappy speed and picked it up, it having turned bottom up and the aviators crawled around and sat on the keel. F. was afraid it would sink and wanted to back down to it, but the Capt. voted for a boat to be lowered which picked them off. The W. VA. crew cheered, the ___ cheered Francis, so Mr. Bryant said. Think he stretched that a bit." BIOGRAPHY: GRACE PHILLIPS COGSWELL (b. June 7, 1887, d. Dec. 21, 1971) was born Grace Woodman Phillips, the daughter of Lee Phillips and Clara Cushing. She married Lieutenant Henry Burnet Post (b. June 15, 1885, d. Feb 9, 1914, San Diego, CA) on 25 Jan 1907, at St.
Published by The Vision Forum, Inc., 2003
ISBN 10: 1929241712ISBN 13: 9781929241712
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition and ready to ship - Guaranteed to play!!.
Published by Printed for the Author by Thomas Wilson and Sons, York, Yorkshire, UK, 1829
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (a second part, published by John Murray, followed in 1835/6). xvi, 192pp plus ten maps and charts, all but one of which are hand-coloured, and 14 further plates of monochrome line drawings. Slip bound in giving additional subscribers. In a later library binding of green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Rubbed spine ends, cloth worn in at edges in places. General shelf wear to boards. Corners gently rubbed and rounded. Library reference label on front paste down endpaper, pocket on rear paste down. Some page toning and very light foxing. Some light staining, mostly not affecting images, on plates. Stamp on last page. Containing a geological map, sections and plates of the fossil plants and animals, this is the scarce first edition of John Philipp's important study of the geology of Yorkshire, the first detailed geological examination of the Yorkshire coastline between Saltburn and Holderness. Orphaned aged seven, John Phillips went to live with his uncle William Smith, "the father of English geology". After training as a surveyor he helped Smith with the preparation of his celebrated geological map. In 1825 he was appointed keeper of York Museum. With the publication of this work "he showed himself as a creative and not slavish pupil of his uncle [and] as the leading expert on the subject" (ODNB). 4to.
Published by 0, London
Seller: William Allen Word & Image, London, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book. Complete set of Stephen Willats' seminal periodical 'Control'. First 5 issues: 310 x 225 mm with screenprinted wrappers. Later issues have printed pictorial wrappers and are slightly smaller in format. Since 1965, this pioneering conceptual art magazine has published original artwork and writing from over 150 artists, alongside collectives and collaboratives such as Artists Placement Group. Issue 13 features an original work by Anish Kapoor of an insect-object sprayed blue; together with a photocopy collage intervention by Glenys Johnson entitled Agent Orange. Issue 3 comes complete with inserts: Poem-Blanc by John Sharkey and Peter Upward's untitled painting. This seminal publication is significant for its community-based approach, and its theories based on cybernetics and social science. Its content rejected a traditional mode of criticism and instead concentrated on theoretical ideas, technical models and artistic methods: Control is purely a magazine of art theory, in the sense that it presented text by artists looking at the thinking behind their work (Willats, Publishing Interventions, 2 in In Numbers: Serial Publications by artists since 1955, PPP Editions, Zurich, 1999, p. 129). While within the remit of the art magazine, Control is notable for its interdisciplinary reach. As the artist has commented, the magazine's origins were a reaction to a very strong inheritance from previous decades that constrained the artists into very set roles of painting, sculpture and traditional mediums (ibid). Contents - Issue 1, 1965, contributors (C): Loggie Barrow, Roy Ascot, Stephen Willats, Mark Boyle et al/No.2, 66, C: Stroud Cornock, Adrian Berg, Willats, Tom Phillips et al/ No.3, 67, C: Joe Tilson, Noel Forster, Peter Cook-Archigram Group, John Latham (Noit for Control), Willats, an original painted insert by Peter Upward, John Sharkey (Poem-Blanc) et al. Comes with a tipped-in envelope containing Three Light Modulators/No.4, 68, C: Victor Burgin, Norman Toynton, Sharkey, Willats, Douglas Sandle, et al/No.5, 69, C: Laurie Burt, Don Mason, Sharkey, Rick Oginz, Willats (on APG) et al/No.6, 71, C: Jan Kopinski, Willats, Sharkey, Ernest Edmonds, David Budgen et al/No.7, 73, C: Kevin Lole, Peter Smith, Willats, Howard O' Conner, John Stezaker/No.8, 74, C: Lole, Joe Wilson, Andrew Ironside, Willats, Gerald Laing, Stezaker et al/No.9, 75, C: Peter Smith, Dan Graham, Herve Fischer, Willats, Alan Sondheim et al / No.10, 77, C: Jon Bird, Peter Dunn & Loraine Leeson, Jane Kelly, Mary Kelly et al/ No.11, 79, C: Tony Rickaby, Willats, Ray Barrie, Kelly, Fern Tiger, Graham et al/No.12, 81, C: Lili Fisch, Willats, Helen Chadwick, Michael Peel, Bernhard Sandfort, Fred Forest et al/No.13, '82, C: Bill Woodrow (TV Blind), Glenys Johnson (Agent Orange), Jenny Holzer, Kate Blacker, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Willats, Sue Arrowsmith, Tony Bevan, Tony Cragg and a blue sprayed insect work by Anish Kapoor: I once saw an insect in a pile of colour, it seemed to me that this was almost a work. (p32)/No.14, 90, C: Andrew Wilson, Lawrence Weiner, Rita Pacquee, Andreas Seltzer, Dennis Adams, Stephen Bann & Bob Chaplin, Martha Rosler, Willats, Michael Gibbs, Endre Tot, Simon Cutts & Colin Sackett et al/No.15, 96, C: Poster Studio, Alan Murray, Denise Hawrysio, Oliver Whitehead, Alan Kane & Jeremy Deller, Oliver Cieslik & Barbara Schenk, Les Levine, Liam Gillick, Willats et al/No.16, 01, C: Jakob Jakobsen, David Goldenberg, Art Lab, Nils Norman, Elinor Jansz, Christabel Stewart & Emily Pethick, Hamish Fulton, Sarah Staton, David Beech, Willats, et al / No.17, 07, C: French Mottershead, Jakobsen, Dan Kidner, Langlands & Bell, Nils Norman, Miriam Steinhauser, Willats, Chris Hammond et al/No.18, 09, C: Vito Acconci, Karolin Meunier, Willats, Erwin van Doorn, Dan Mitchell, Annette Krauss, Thomas Hirschhorn, Harmen de Hoop et al. / No.19, 14, C: Christian Nyampeta, Rosalie Schweiker, Ricardo Basbaum, Andrea Francke, Emma Smith, Willats, Eva Weinmayr, Taylor & Zaharia et al / No.20, 17, C: Merlin Carpenter, Bedfellows, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Radio Anti, Willats, Eliana Otta et al / No.21, C: Helen Walker & Harun Morrison, Pete Clarke, Lucie Kolb, Gary Bratchford & Robin Parkinson, Rebecca Davies & Eva Sajovic, Elina Otta, Stephen Willats, Javier Calderon, Chalton Gallery. Collated and correct. Near fine.
Published by Evergreen Press (AL), 2006
ISBN 10: 1581692226ISBN 13: 9781581692228
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Daniels, Norm (illustrator). Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by Philadelphia, [early 1880s?], 1880
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.
Photograph
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Albumen print (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in 13 x 8.5 cm.). Framed with a large, bold signature of Whitman removed from an album or some other document. A beloved Whitman photograph, framed with a large, bold signature of the poet. This famous portrait was one of Whitman s favorite photographs. He joked, Yes that was an actual moth, the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends: I had quite the in-and-out of taming, or fraternizing with, some of the insects, animals. Whitman told the historian William Roscoe Thayer, I ve always had the knack of attracting birds and butterflies and other wild critters. What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860 and 1881 editions of Leaves: a hand with a butterfly/perched on a finger. Dr. R. M. Bucke read the image symbolically: The butterfly represents, of course, Psyche, his soul, his fixed contemplation of which accords with his declaration: I need no assurances; I am a man who is preoccupied of his own soul (Folsom). The original prop paper butterfly was found among Whitman s notebooks at the Library of Congress. Whitman selected this photograph as the frontispiece of the 1889 birthday edition of Leaves of Grass. Folsom, Notes on Photographs, 1880s, no. 18.