Antiquarian Scientist, The (462 results)

First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Small 8 vo. Orig. cloth. 51, (1) pp. Small stamp on title of General Electric Co. Library. Neat library pocket in back; a very good copy. Two lectures deliverd at Cavedish Laboratory in Dec. 1947 on elementary particles and superconductivity by the 1927 Nobel laureate, Werner Heisenberg (1901-76).

Seller Inventory # 000493

First Edition in English. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8 vo. Orig. cloth with dust jacket. xiv, 306 pp. A fine copy. The Austrian ethologist, Konrad Lorenz (1903-89), shared the 1973 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine with Tinbergen and von Frisch. P.J. Bowler, 'The environmental sciences,' 1993, pp. 487-490.

Seller Inventory # 000293

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth, gilt top edge. (4), 31, (1) pp. Frontisportrait of Mendel + 5 plates + text figs. Cloth bubbled, small library stamp in several places; otherwise, a very good copy. The plates include photographic portraits of Bateson and Punnett.

Seller Inventory # 000481

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut. x, 362 pp. A folding colored lithographed plate + text figs. Spine with wear and repairs; otherwise, a very good copy. Dr. Alfred Fischer, extraordinary professor of botany at Leipzig, subtitled his text on cytological methods - 'Critical investigations of the techniques and theory in the new cell research'. Hughes, 'Hist. cytology' (1959), p.116.

Seller Inventory # 000485

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. PLANCK, MAX (1858-1947). Neuebahnen der physikalischen erkenntnis. Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1914. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. printed wrappers. 28 pp. Front wrapper printed in large red and black type. A nearly very good copy on thick paper. Planck delivered this lecture on 15 Oct. 1913 at the Friedrich Wilhelm Universitaet in Berlin.

Seller Inventory # 672

First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Large 8 vo. Orig. cloth with dust-jacket. viii, 476 pp. Text figs. Some edge wear to the dust-jacket; a nearly fine copy. Hinshelwood (1897-1967) shared the 1956 Nobel prize in chemistry with N. Semenov "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions." ".I would like to write a book of moderate compass which. should lay emphasis on the structure and continuity of the whole subject and try to show the relation of its various parts to one another." (Preface).

Seller Inventory # 000495

First Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. (6), 95 pp. Title in red and black. Eight double-sided half-tone plates + text figs. Signature on title, dustjacket a bit worn; otherwise, a fine copy. A pioneering book: "In this volume, three outstanding scientists - two Nobel Prize winners and an American member of the Pontifical Academy of Science - present historical and contemporary concepts that will help to solve some of the most difficult problems in biology. The historical background is provided by Dr. Taylor in a brilliant account emphasizing the interdependence of physics, chemistry, and biology." Reynolds 2818.

Seller Inventory # 000504

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. xii, 465, (1) pp. Label removed from lower spine, old Univ. Leipzig Anatomy Dept. rubberstamp (cancelled) in lower margin of title; a good to very good copy. G-M 527. the German anatomist and embryologist, Wilhelm Roux (1850-1924), compiled a dictionary ".in collaboration with two botanists, Correns and Küster, and an anatomist, Fischel, (which) presented a valuable compendium of definitions and historical notes for the general area of experimental embryology." (D.S.B.).

Seller Inventory # 000114

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8 vo. Orig. cloth with orig. lea. spine label. xxx, 246 pp. Text figs. A very good copy. This is the first English translation of the Italian mathematician, G. Saccheri's (1667-1733), famous and rare geometric work, 'Euclid freed of every fleck' (Milan, 1733). Saccheri's ".attempt to apply his logic to prove the correctness of the fifth postulate (Euclid's parallel axiom). has become part of mathematical logic and non-Euclidean geometry." (D.S.B.).

Seller Inventory # 000117

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. printed cloth. xvi, 173, (1), (2, pub. ad), 56(pub. cat) pp. text figs. Ink mark on rear cover; a very good copy. Vilhelm Bjerknes' (1862-1951) second book on fields of force was published in 1909. Here ".he treated (the subject) in a simple, clear-cut fashion." while he was immersed in his hydrodynamic studies which ultimately would produce many fruitful results especially his formulation of the theory of physical hydrodynamics. D.S.B. 2: 167-169.

Seller Inventory # 000151

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. 13 pp. A very good, crisp copy. The Braggs were the founders of x-ray diffraction methods for determining crystal structures. They were the first to show using x-ray diffraction that in diamond every carbon atom is surrounded by four neighbors. W.H.Bragg shared the Nobel prize with his son in 1915.

Seller Inventory # 000237

First Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. vi, (2), 168 pp. Eight plates + text figs. Spine and front cover with splotchy loss of cloth color, but a very good copy internally.

Seller Inventory # 000238

First American Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth with gilt microscope on cover. xii, 480 pp. Numerous text woodcuts. Ends of spine slightly chipped, uniformly lightly browned; a very good copy. The first edition appeared at London in 1859 of this long popular work on microscopic objects.

Seller Inventory # 000311

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. half cloth. (2), 24, (2, ads) pp. Six plates + text figs. Cellophane tape remnants on spine; a nearly very good copy. An early general survey of electron micrography published as a Quekett Microscopical Club monograph. Bound with two other such Q.M.C. monographs: Ockenden, F.E.J. 'Illuminants and illumination for microscopical work' (1947); and, Baker, John R., 'The discovery of the uses of colouring agents in biological micro-technique', (1945). This valuable historical work by Baker is noted by Bracegirdle, page 58.

Seller Inventory # 000315

Third Edition. THIRD EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. 179, (8, ads) pp. Illus. A very good copy. A standard basic work of the period in English on photomicrography. The ads include illustrated ones by Watson & Sons, and Ross, both of London. R.M.S. Lib. Cat., p.107 - other editions.

Seller Inventory # 000316

First Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Disbound. 4, (46) pp. A good to very good copy. "The following tables were arranged by a private gentleman for his own amusement; but as they seemed likely to be useful to every person possessed of a circular or a transit instrument, he has been induced to publish them.".

Seller Inventory # 000354

First Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. (2), 144 pp. Errata slip at p.105. Large folding table. A fine copy. Introduction: "The purpose of this paper is to suggest a simple working hypothesis whereby the amount of chemical energy stored within a body may be estimated. .The idea originated several years ago from a mathematical study of the periodic curves of the atomic volumes and melting-points." Roller & Goodman I.141 - Sir Wm. Crookes copy.

Seller Inventory # 000399

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 vo. Orig. wrappers, stitched. t.p., (3)-54 pp. Two engraved plates, one folding. Some upper margins creased; but, a very good copy. Brooke Hindle in his 'Technology in early America' (1966) comments on his accomplishments: "At the Franklin Institute, Walter R. Johnson (1794-1852) wrote a number of pieces that are almost like recent engineers' reports. Johnson, who practiced as a civil and mining engineer, served as professor of mechanics and natural philosophy at the Institute and later as professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania; he spent his life trying to apply science to practical purposes." Johnson's experiments on the action between a heated surface and water of different temperatures were aided by the use of his steam pyrometer illlustrated in the plate. On Johnson, see: G.H. Daniels, 'Amer. sci. in the age of Jackson', pp.214-15; Biblio. mechanica, p.176.

Seller Inventory # 000527

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Author: Warner, Deborah J. - curator at the Smithsonian. Introductory essay and complete annotated inventory of antique American globes,in four parts. Volume 2 is a total of 152 pages (illustrated).

Seller Inventory # 705

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. half cloth with marbled boards. vi, (2), 182, (2) pp. Text figs. Ex-library, internally very good. "Borel's work on divergent series in 1899 filled the gap between convergent and divergent series. .(This work) won a grand prize of the Academy and led to over 200 papapers by others during the following two decades." (D.S.B.). Borel's 1899-1900 course on the subject at the École Normale was published in 1901.

Seller Inventory # 000235

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. xiv, 158 pp. PRESENTATION COPY from the editor to Rev. O. Shipley with his inscription dated Nov. 21, 1864. Rubberstamp on verso of title of the British Gynecological Soc. Library. Lower cover with minor adherence and binding a bit worn; otherwise, a very good copy. Georges Pouchet (1833-94) dedicated his controversial work to Richard Owen. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 000339

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Large 8 vo. Orig. cloth. 21 pp. Twelve heliographic plates by Hart & Von Arx, N.Y. Small snag to cloth on spine; a very good, crisp copy. The Sheldons of Deerfield, Massachusetts illustrate and describe the pink clay formations in Deerfield, a consequence of late glacier activity in the Connecticut River Valley. Not in Roller & Goodman.

Seller Inventory # 000360

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. x, 298, (1) pp. The COPY of Clark L. Hull (1884-1952) with his ownership signature, bookplate, annotations and underlining in the text. Hull was a distinguished Yale psychologist, who published in 1933 a classical experimental volume on hypnosis and suggestibility, and then turned to the problems of conditioned reflexes and learning, publishing in the 1940's important works on methodology. See: Boring (2nd ed.), pp. 651-653 and Alexander & Selesnick, 'Hist. psychiatry', p.313. A very good copy. Gustav Störring (1860-1947), a student of Wundt, the dedicatee of this book, is best known to psychologists for his psychopathology, but much more of a philosopher than anything else." [Boring (2nd ed.), p.429].

Seller Inventory # 000370

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. 48 pp. Nearly a fine copy. Warren (1778-1856), the distinguished surgeon who was president of the Society, was unable to deliver the address "owing to the indisposition of the Author," consequently the address was "published for the use of the Society." Appended is a list of officiers and members of the Society. Reynolds 4255. Blocker Coll., p.413.

Seller Inventory # 000388

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. viii, 13-316 pp. Folding table. Library rubberstamps, inner hinges cracked; a good copy. G-M 712. With Novy, Vaughan (1851-1929) established the first laboratory course in bacteriology in an American university (1888). Vaughan became renowned as a medico-legal expert in toxicology, and with Novy, made important biochemical investigations of food poisons. This is the first of his major studies on toxic products obtainable from nonpathogenic, as well as pathogenic bacteria. See: P.F. Clark, 'Pioneer microbiologists of America', 1961, pp. 237-246. Reynolds 4138. Cordasco 80-6471. Not in Blocker Coll.

Seller Inventory # 000446

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. printed wrappers. 104 pp. Text half-tones and figs. A very good copy. Dennis Gabor (1900-79), the 1971 Nobel laureate in physics for his invention of holography, was an early contributor to the development of the electron microscope.

Seller Inventory # 000310

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. cloth. xvi, 352, (12, pub.cat.) pp. Engraved frontisportrait of the author by A.H. Ritchie after a painting by Anelli. Woodcuts in the text. Top of spine slightly worn, spine faded; otherwise, a very good copy. Dr. Banning (b. 1810) dedicated his text on 'mechanical pathology and therapeutics' (spine title) to Dr. John H. Griscom, known for his important role in organizing a public health program in N.Y.C. The woodcuts illustrate a number of orthopedic devices of Banning's design. Cordasco 60-0076, but otherwise not found in the usual medical bibliographies and collections.

Seller Inventory # 000045

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. gilt cloth. iv, title, 296, 16(pub. cat., dated April 1895) pp. Text figs. With the J.D. Whitney gift bookplate to the Whitney Library, Harvard. The American geologist, J.D. Whitney (1819-96), Sturgis Hooper Professor at Harvard, was the discoverer of the Calaveras skull (1886). Mt. Whitney in California was named in his honor. Old paper label of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Library on spine and their embossed stamp on the title. A very good copy. Meunier (1843-1925), professor of geology at Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Paris and an expert on meteorites, traces the history of the discipline of comparative geology from the coining of the term in 1867, its first publication in 1870, to 89 (listed) major publications by the time of the present book. Meunier's approach here is astronomical; the book is devoted not to the earth but to the comparative geological analysis of celestial bodies - the planets, stars, satellites, meteors, comets, the sun, etc. In addition to his work with meteorites, Meunier's hypothesis on the double canals of Mars attracted attention.

Seller Inventory # 000095

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. cloth. iv, (2, errata), 310 pp. Numerous text figs. A very good copy. Up until the end of World War I, Friedel (1865-1933) taught geology and mineralogy in the School of Mines at Saint-Etienne. In 1907 he became its director. The present volume, derived from his course in crystallography at Saint-Etienne, includes much on the law of Bravais (Friedel completed the theory and stated the general law). See: D.S.B.5: 185-87.

Seller Inventory # 000259

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (from Amer. J. Sci. & Arts, 1856). 8 vo. Orig. printed wrappers. 15 pp. Folding engraved map. Removed from a folder binding; a very good copy. "J.D. Dana (1813-95) in an article 'On the Plan of Development in the Geological History of North America' (the running title of this paper), called attention to the fact that the greater mountain ranges border on the greater oceans in both Americas, also to the apparent fact that volcanic activity, or at least the evidence of the action of heat, was greatest along the coasts bordering on the greater oceans. .he showed that the extent and position of oceanic depressions have in a great degree determined the features of the land. The original V-shaped character of the North American continent he showed to be due to the forces acting from the two oceans." (Merrill, 1904, p.464).

Seller Inventory # 000476