Strutt Robert John Fourth Baron (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Revised Edition (1st ed., 1924). Frontispiece, xxvii, 439 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (unclipped). Prints the notes contained in Strutt's interleaved copy of the First Edition. Pp. vii-xix = Howard's Foreword. D.S.B. XIII: 107. [DF]. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG for age. 1st Edition. Brown cloth with gilt sp. lettering and sp. end lines, generally clean and minimally worn, half a dozen small light marks, mainly to back, and back joint intermittently slightly rubbed. F/piece with slightly detached and tanned tissue-guard + xi + 403 + 16 (pub.'s 1924 list), 4 photo-plates ex-pagination; round impressed ex-lib. stamp and 1908-dated sig. of eminent cardiologist Derek Gair Gibsom (1935 - 2021) to fr. end-paper which is faintly tanned, tanning spots to text-block edges, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. A very acceptable copy of good provenance. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, xi, 403 pp; 4 plates. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket. D.S.B. XIII: 107. [a.c.].

First Edition. vi, 1 leaf, 214 pp; 27 figs.; 3 plates; ads. Original cloth, 8vo. Spine very slightly sunned, else Near Fine. One of the first books on radioactivity, published in the same year as Ernest Rutherford's Radio-Activity and Soddy's Radio-Activity. "Ingenious experiments by R. J. Strutt. proved that the emanations given off by radioactive substances are not homogeneous but are of at least two different kinds, one of which will and another will not pass through tin-foil (Strutt, The Becquerel Rays. [giving an incorrect date]" (annotation to Printing and the Mind of Man 411). …