‎Abraham‎

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001 & Robert SERBER b. 1909.‎

‎"Interaction between K-particles and nucleons."‎

‎Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 99 No. 5 September 1 1955. 1955. 267 x 199 mm. 4to. 1551-1555 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. "Soon after my arrival at Columbia I began a collaboration with Robert Serber another Columbia professor. Our first project was an analysis of 'K-fragments' possible bound states of K-particles to ordinary nuclear matter. A paper on that subject appeared that September." Pais A tale of two continents p. 343. The Physical Review, Vol. 99, No. 5, September 1, 1955. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4357

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001.‎

‎"Source of stability of the new particles."‎

‎no place:: Mimeograph copy of a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the Rochester Conference 1955. 1955. 280 x 217 mm. 4to. 16 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. Mimeograph copy of a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the Rochester Conference, 1955. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4359

‎CASE Kenneth M. b. 1923 & Abraham PAIS 1918 2001.‎

‎"On high-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering."‎

‎Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 79 No. 1 July 1 1950. 1950. 268 x 119 mm. 4to. Page 185. 1 leaf. Fine. "My . . . collaborator and squash partner Kenneth Case is a member of my own generation. In 1950 we published work on nuclear forces." Pais A tale of two continents p. 252. The Physical Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, July 1, 1950. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : S4346

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001 & Sam B. TREIMAN b. 1925.‎

‎"Charmed-meson lifetime rations and production in e-e- collisions."‎

‎Offprint from:: Physical Review D Vol. 15 No. 9 1 May 1977. 1977. 279 x 217 mm. 4to. 2529-2532 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. Physical Review D, Vol. 15, No. 9, 1 May 1977. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4412

‎LLEWELLYN SMITH C. H. b. 1942 & Abraham PAIS 1918 2001.‎

‎"Some new isospin bounds in multipion production."‎

‎Offprint from:: Physical Review D Vol. 6 No. 9 1 November 1972. 1972. 267 x 201 mm. 4to. 2625-2636 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. Physical Review D, Vol. 6, No. 9, 1 November 1972. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4391

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001 & Sam B. TREIMAN b. 1925.‎

‎"Possibility of hyperfragment formation in K--d reactions."‎

‎Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 107 No. 5 September 1 1957. 1957. 267 x 199 mm. 4to. 1396-1400 pp. 1 fig. 2 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine. Pais and Treiman's "hyperfragments" are hyperons bound to nuclear matter. Pais A tale of two continents p. 362. The Physical Review, Vol. 107, No. 5, September 1, 1957. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : S4363

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001.‎

‎"Spherical spinors in a Euclidean 4-space."‎

‎Offprint from:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 40 No. 9 September 1954. 1954. 258 x 176 mm. 8vo. 836-841 pp. With ink ms. corrections at page 840. Printed wrappers. Very good. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 9, September 1954. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : S4354

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001.‎

‎"O4 treatment of the electromagnetic-weak synthesis."‎

‎Offprint from:: Physical Review Letters Vol. 29 No. 25 18 December 1972. 1972. 268 x 201 mm. 4to. 1712-1715 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 29, No. 25, 18 December 1972. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4392

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001.‎

‎"Zwei ratselhafte Fragen aus der Fruhzeit der Radioaktivitat Aus dem Englischen ubersetzt von Anita Ehlers."‎

‎Offprint from:: Physik und Didaktik 4 1980. 1980. 236 x 165 mm. 8vo. 300-324 pp. References. Printed wrappers. Fine. German-language edition of Pais' "Radioactivity's two early puzzles" originally published in Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 49 No. 4 1977. Physik und Didaktik, 4, 1980. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : S4419

‎NACHTMANN Otto b. 1942 & Abraham PAIS 1918 2001.‎

‎"Energy bounds for charm and for heavy lepton production in ee- annihilation."‎

‎Offprint from:: Physics Letters Vol. 65B No. 1 25 October 1976. 1976. 263 x 194 mm. 8vo. 59-63 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. Physics Letters, Vol. 65B, No. 1, 25 October 1976. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4411

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001.‎

‎"Vertices with partial SU6 6 structure."‎

‎no place:: Submitted June 3 1965. 1965. 280 x 217 mm. 4to. i 15 ff. Mimeographed sheets. Self-wraps. Fine. Submitted June 3, 1965. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4456

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001 & Sam B. TREIMAN b. 1925.‎

‎"Three-pion decay modes of neutral K mesons."‎

‎Offprint from:: The Physical Review Vol. 106 No. 5 June 1 1957. 1957. 268 x 200 mm. 4to. 1106-1107 pp. Self-wraps. Fine. "Treiman and I were the first to note that the switch from C to CP importantly affects the 3p-decay modes of neutral K's however. Before long experiment confirmed our findings." Pais A tale of two continents p. 360. Mimeograph version at $ 4. The Physical Review, Vol. 106, No. 5, June 1, 1957. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4362

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2001.‎

‎"Invited speech by Professor Pais." with: "Discussions 1 2 and 4. Chairman: Professor A. Pais."‎

‎Offprints from: Recent developments in particle symmetries. New York:: Academic Press 1966. 1966. 235 x 152 mm. 8vo. 11-46; 399-408; 409-414; 424-426 pp. Self-wraps. Very good. This paper on the theory of SU6 is based on a lecture given by Abraham Pais in Dubna in the Soviet Union in 1965. Pais A tale of two continents p. 395. Academic Press, 1966. paperback books‎

Referencia librero : S4381

‎PAIS Abraham 1918 2000.‎

‎The particle jungle.‎

‎In:: The Rockefeller University Review January - February 1966. 1966. 279 x 214 mm. 8vo. Pages 1-3. Entire issue:24 pp. 5 figs. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. The Rockefeller University Review, January - February 1966. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : S5326

‎OPPENHEIMER J. Robert PAIS Abraham.‎

‎J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life . . . With Supplemental Material by Robert P. Crease.‎

‎Oxford:: Oxford University Press 2006. 2006. 8vo. xxii 353 pp. Photos index. Boards dust-jacket. NEW. FIRST EDITION. Illuminating biography of the charismatic physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos. This work reevaluates the events of Oppenheimer's life. ISBN: 0195166736. Oxford University Press, 2006. hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : S8373 ISBN : 0195166736 9780195166736

‎RATTNER Abraham.‎

‎Abraham Rattner‎

‎NY: Kennedy Galleries 1969. First edition. 47 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by Frank Getlein. Twelve color reproductions. NY: Kennedy Galleries unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 47551

‎Burstein Abraham‎

‎West Of The Nile. A Story Of Saadia Gaon‎

‎NY: Hebrew Publishing. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's inscription otherwise near fine in very good chipped dust jacket. Young adult title. . Hebrew Publishing hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 018465

‎Arias Larreta Abraham‎

‎Literaturas Aborigenes de America: Azteca Incaica Maya-Quiche‎

‎Buenos Aires: Editorial Indoamerica 1968. Novena edicion. Paperback. Very Good. errata slip laid in 304p. Wrapper. 23cm. Backstrip browned. INSCRIBED by Arias-Larreta. Spanish text. <br/><br/> Editorial Indoamerica paperback books‎

Referencia librero : 63431

‎Walkowitz Abraham‎

‎Isadora Duncan in her dances‎

‎Girard Kansas: Halderman-Julius 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Signed on cover by author. 20pp of drawings; articles by Carl Van Vechten Arnold Genthe et. al. Special section on Fascism & anti-war. <br/><br/>Walkowitz is known for his drawings of Isadora Duncan. They have been collected in various institutions. Halderman-Julius paperback books‎

Referencia librero : 1895

‎Lincoln Abraham; Nicolay John G.; Hay John; Hill John Wesley; et al‎

‎The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln in Twelve Volumes Sponsors Edition‎

‎Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red full leather gilt titles & decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 2311448

‎Simon Henry W.; Veinus Abraham‎

‎The Pocket Book of Great Operas Collector's Edition‎

‎New York: Pocket Books 1949. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Glanzman Louis. Collector's Edition with publisher's pamphlet laid in. Boards lightly toned. 1949 Hard Cover. x 374 pp. CONTENTS: Aida Verdi; The Barber of Seville Rossini; La Boheme Puccii; Carmen Bizet; Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni; Don Giovanni Mozart; Faust Gounod; Lohengrin Wagner; Lucia Di Lammermoor Donizetti; Madame Butterfly Puccini; The Marriage of Figaro Mozart; Pagliacci Leoncavallo; Rigoletto Verdi; The Ring of the Nibelungs Wagner: The Rhinegold - The Valkyrie - Siegfried - The Twilight of the Gods; Tannhauser Wagner; Tosca Puccini; La Traviata Verdi; Tristan and Isolde Wagner; Il Trovatore Verdi. Pocket Books hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 2312544

‎Lincoln Abraham‎

‎Presidential Ticket 1864‎

‎16th President of the United States. Original Lincoln Union Presidential Ticket dated November 8 1864. A Morgan County Ohio Union Presidential Ticket for the 1864 election listing Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President together with state electors and local candidates 3 "x 7". Patriotic motif depicts Columbia with a sword labeled "Union." In excellent condition. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 15662

‎Duncan Isdaora Walkowitz Abraham‎

‎Isadora Duncan in Her Dances. With an Introduction by Maria-Theresa Carl Van Vechten Mary Fanton Roberts Shaemas O'Sheel and Arnold Genthe‎

‎Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. Illus. 4to. Green printed wrappers. Front cover off and chipped. Illus. 4to. Inscribed on the title-page "With my compliments to Percy Mackay from Abraham Wolkowitz April 19 1948." Signed also on the front cover and with a note with Wolkowitz's address on it. Haldeman-Julius Publications unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 319762

‎Anscher Abraham‎

‎Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant‎

‎1884. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. <br/> <br/>Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere.<br/> <br/>Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancé offers an apology for the presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago.<br/> <br/>This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. <br/> <br/>His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife:<br/> <br/>"The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows."<br/> <br/>The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport:<br/> <br/>"When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion." Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere."<br/> <br/>As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye:<br/> <br/>"The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country."<br/> <br/>Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home:<br/> <br/>"Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." <br/> <br/>Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: <br/> <br/>"Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco."<br/> <br/>When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement:<br/> <br/>"On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." <br/> <br/>The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar.<br/> <br/>Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 319545

‎Lincoln Abraham Littlefield John‎

‎Death-Bed of Lincoln April 15 1865‎

‎Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. Soiling to image vertical crease large chips to bottom of mount not affecting image or legend; good. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Chalres Leale and Mrs. Lincoln. "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. Provenance: Harper Family John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 238120