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‎"The Sportsman":‎

‎Britsh Sports and Sportsmen: Hunting.‎

‎London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited no date c. 1932. Second edition hardback limited to 1000 copies of which this is copy number 893. 4to 38cm by 29cm xiii 522pp. 12 photogravure plates text illustrations. Finely bound in full red morocco gilt titling to the front board and the spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. The binding is lightly rubbed there is some light scuffing to the extremities of the binding and the endpapers are lightly foxed but the binding is bright and the contents are clean and tightly bound. Overall this copy is in good to very good condition. The book is undated; COPAC estimates a publication date of 1932. There was an earlier edition of this book which was published in 1913. London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited, no date [c. 1932]. hardcover‎

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‎"The Sportsman":‎

‎Britsh Sports and Sportsmen: The Story of Shipping.‎

‎London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited no date c. 1921. First edition hardback limited to 1000 copies of which this is copy number 893. 4to 38cm by 29cm xv 500pp. 10 photogravure plates 8 colour plates text illustrations. Finely bound in full red morocco gilt titling to the front board and the spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. The binding is lightly rubbed there is some light scuffing to the extremities of the binding and the endpapers are lightly foxed but the binding is bright and the contents are clean and tightly bound. Overall this copy is in good to very good condition. The book is undated; COPAC estimates a publication date of 1921. London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited, no date [c. 1921]. hardcover‎

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‎"The Sportsman":‎

‎Britsh Sports and Sportsmen: Modern Commerce Transport Motoring and Aviation.‎

‎London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited no date c. 1933. First edition hardback limited to 1000 copies of which this is copy number 893. 4to 38cm by 29cm xv 538pp. 15 photogravure plates text illustrations. Finely bound in full red morocco gilt titling to the front board and the spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. The binding is lightly rubbed there is some light scuffing to the extremities of the binding and the endpapers are lightly foxed but the binding is bright and the contents are clean and tightly bound. Overall this copy is in good to very good condition. The book is undated; COPAC estimates a publication date of 1933. London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited, no date [c. 1933]. hardcover‎

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‎"The Sportsman":‎

‎Britsh Sports and Sportsmen: Commerce & Industry.‎

‎London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited no date c. 1932. First edition hardback limited to 1000 copies of which this is copy number 893. 4to 38cm by 29cm xiii 584pp. 11 photogravure plates text illustrations. Finely bound in full red morocco gilt titling to the front board and the spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. The binding is lightly rubbed there is some light scuffing to the extremities of the binding and the endpapers are lightly foxed but the binding is bright and the contents are clean and tightly bound. Overall this copy is in good to very good condition. The book is undated; COPAC estimates a publication date of 1932. London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited, no date [c. 1932]. hardcover‎

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‎"The Studio""‎

‎"The Studio"" Volume 120 comprising the six monthly numbers from July to December 1940‎

‎London ; Paris ; New York : Offices of ""The Studio"" 1940. 1940 Edition. Hardcover. Very good library copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Subjects; Decoration and ornament ; Periodicals. Decorative arts ; Periodicals. Interior decoration ; Periodicals. Architecture Modern 20th century ; Periodicals. Architecture ; Periodicals. Interior decoration Yearbooks. Art industries and trade Yearbooks. Art Decorative Yearbooks. Art ; Periodicals. Decoration and ornament. Decorative arts. Interior decoration. London ; Paris ; New York : Offices of ""The Studio"" hardcover‎

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‎"The Studio""‎

‎"The Studio"" year book of decorative art 1912‎

‎London ; Paris ; New York : Offices of ""The Studio"" 1912. 1912 Edition. Hardcover. Very good library copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Issues are designated by year only and are not numbered. Subjects; Decoration and ornament ; Periodicals. Decorative arts ; Periodicals. Interior decoration ; Periodicals. Architecture Modern 20th century ; Periodicals. Architecture ; Periodicals. Interior decoration Yearbooks. Art industries and trade Yearbooks. Art Decorative Yearbooks. Art ; Periodicals. Decoration and ornament. Decorative arts. Interior decoration. London ; Paris ; New York : Offices of ""The Studio"" hardcover‎

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‎"The Studio""‎

‎"The Studio"" Volume 123 comprising the six monthly numbers from January to June 1942‎

‎London ; Paris ; New York : Offices of ""The Studio"" 1942. 1942 Edition. Hardcover. Very good library copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Subjects; Decoration and ornament ; Periodicals. Decorative arts ; Periodicals. Interior decoration ; Periodicals. Architecture Modern 20th century ; Periodicals. Architecture ; Periodicals. Interior decoration Yearbooks. Art industries and trade Yearbooks. Art Decorative Yearbooks. Art ; Periodicals. Decoration and ornament. Decorative arts. Interior decoration. London ; Paris ; New York : Offices of ""The Studio"" hardcover‎

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‎"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS"‎

‎Vintage Original Photograph‎

‎not signed on a full length shot of Hebrew slaves and one Egyptian in a scene from the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments." Photograph is on single weight stock; 8" x 10"; very good minor signs of handling; 1956. Information slip on the back reads: "Hebrew slaves await the Egyptian Order to strike with heavy mallets in this scene from Cecil B. DeMille's production of 'The Ten Commandments.' The Paramount picture in Vista Vision and Technicolor is due at the Theatres.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown books‎

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‎"The Times" Bee-Master, [Cumming, John].‎

‎Bee-Keeping. By "The Times" Bee-Master‎

‎Bees Books Published Between 1801 1900 . 1st. Ed. Pub. Sampson Low Son and Marston. 1864. pp.xx 224 with b/w. illus. plus 16-page publisher’s catalogue to rear. 8vo. Hardback. Charming illus. small blind stamp to ffep. and further early signature in pencil. Internal hinges a little tender. Some spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original decorated green boards with gilt motif and lettering in thor. vg. condition. Harding 304. Comes with a copy of the Yorkshire Beekeepers’ Association printed flyer dated 1951 fot a weekend beekeeping school focussing on ‘Beekeeping in theory and practice’. Bees Books Published Between 1801 + 1900 hardcover‎

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‎"The Times" Bee-Master, [Cumming, John].‎

‎Bee-Keeping. By "The Times" Bee-Master‎

‎Bees Books Published Between 1801 1900 . 1st. Ed. Pub. Sampson Low Son and Marston. 1864. pp.xx 224 with b/w. illus. plus 24-page publisher’s catalogue to rear. 8vo. Hardback. Two early signatures one dated 1867. Contents nr. fine. Original decorated green boards with gilt motif and lettering in vg. plus condition. Harding 304. Bees Books Published Between 1801 + 1900 hardcover‎

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‎"The Usual Gang of Idiots""‎

‎1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die Crammed into 864 Actual Pages‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 1435122682.G ISBN : 1435122682 9781435122680

‎"The Usual Gang of Idiots""‎

‎Mad About the Seventies: The Best of the Decade‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 0316328022.G ISBN : 0316328022 9780316328029

‎"The Voice of Experience"‎

‎Stranger Than Fiction‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1934. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xiii 3 198. Spine tips and edges of boards very lightly rubbed; some very faint foxing along edges of text block nowhere infringing into margins or text itself. Dust jacket a bit scuffed along the edges; sunned along spine; tiny chips at spine tips and corners. Nineteen stories collected from the radio. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : JC9653

‎"TRONCHIN, (THEODORE) - ""THE POITOU-COLIC""‎

‎De Colica Pictonum.‎

‎Genevæ, Fratres Cramer, 1757. Cont. boards. Light staining to upper corner on frontcover. XII,82 pp. A few scattered brownspots. On good paper.‎

‎First edition. ""Tronchin, sometimes physician to Voltaire, showed that the so-called ""Poitou-colic"" was caused by drinking water which had passed through lead gutters. Tronchin introduced inoculation into Holland, France, and Switzerland"" he was Boerhaave's favourite pupil and became a very wealthy practioner."" (Garrison & Morton No. 2095). - Waller 9686.‎

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‎"TSCHIRNHAUS, EHRENFRIED W. V. [FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE ""TSCHIRNHAUS TRANSFORMATION"".]‎

‎Methodus datae figurae, rectis lineis & curva Geometrica terminate, aut Quadraturam, aut impossibilitatem ejusdem Quadraturae determinandi. (+) Nova Methodus determinandi Maxima & Minima (+) Aufrendi omnes terminos intermedios ex data aequatione. - [FORCED LEIBNIZ TO PUBLISH THE CALCULUS]‎

‎Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Contemporary full vellum. Handwritten title on spine. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper and a small stamps on titlepage. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII"". As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Tschirnhaus' paper: pp. 122-124" Pp. 204-207" Pp. 433-437. [Entire volume: (8), 561, (7) pp + 13 plates].‎

‎First appearance of Tschirnhaus's three exceedingly important papers which were to to initiate one of the most famous mathematical discoveries. In the papers he used infinitisimal methods which were very close to Leibniz's method and where he tried to lay down criteria for rational quadratures in the case of conic, cubic and quadratic curves, papers that led Leibniz to publish his first paper on the differential calculus, the ""Nova Methoda"" in the Acta for 1684 in order to secure his priority over Tschirnhaus concerning the calculus. Leibniz discovered, when he read Tschirnhaus' papers, that Tschirnhaus had here published results showing similarity with Leibniz's invention of the calculus as he had confided to Tschirnhaus earlier, during their Parisian stay, and this without references to Leibniz.The present volume of Acta also contain the first edition of Tschirnhaus' ""Tschirnhaus Tranformation"". Tschirnhaus work intensively on finding a general method for solving equations of higher of higher degree. ""His transformations constituted the most promising contribution to the solution of equations during the seventeenth century" but his elimination of the second and third coefficients by means of such transformation was far from adequate for the solution of the quintic.(Boyer. A History of Mathematics, 1968, 472 p.).Tschirnhaus (1651-1708) , a Saxon nobleman, had as wide interest as acquaintances: He studied in Leyden, served in the Dutch army, visited England and Paris several times. He set up a glassworks in Italy and is said to have introduced Porcelain to Europe. He wrote about philosophy and mathematics and was a close friend of Leibniz.‎

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‎"TYNDALL, JOHN. - A FUNDAMENTALPAPER IN BACTEOROLOGY - THE FINAL BLOW TO ""SPONTANEOUS GENERATION"".‎

‎Further Researches on the Deportment and Vital Persistence of Putrefactive and Infective Organisms from a Physical Point of View. Received May 14, - Read May 17, 1877.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1877, Vol. 167 - Part I. Pp. 149-206. Illustrations in the text. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearnace of this important paper in which Tyndall announced his discovery of fractional sterilization ""Tyndallization"".""In my last paper I made some remarks upon this subject"" and in relation to our present experiments, the influence of drying and hardening was brought home to me by the fact that in all the foregoing cases the infusions which five minutes boiling proved sufficient to sterilize were, without exception, derived from fresh hay mowen in 1876, while the infusions which five minutes' boiling failed to sterilize were derived, without exception, from old hay mown either in 1875 or some previous year.""(p. 159 in the paper).""Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat lead him to the discovery in 1877 (the paper offered) of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization)....The reseraches of Tyndall, even more than those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation"" they were fundamental for the progress of bacteriology.""(Garrison & Morton 2495, listing his later book from 1881 ""Essays on the floating-matter of the air..."").During the 1870s Pasteur and Tyndall were in frequent communication.‎

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‎"TYNDALL, JOHN. - THE FOG-SIGNAL EXPERIMENTS.‎

‎On the Atmosphere as a Vehicle of Sound. Received February 5, - Read February 12, 1874.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 183-244. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of a classic paper on the theory of sound propagation, containing the famous fog signal experiments aiming at establishing fog-signals on the Coast of England. The investigations started from South Foreland near Dover at the signal-station.‎

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‎"Union of Russian Legitimist Monarchists;" HIH. the Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich H. I.‎

‎Who Shall be the Emperor of Russia‎

‎Munich: R. Oldenbourg Ol'denburg 1924. Octavo 22 × 15 cm. Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 11 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of the Grand Duke on coated paper and one chart The male descendants of Emperor the Nikolai I sic!. Oxidation from staples; light wear to wrappers and lower left corner of text lightly scuffed; else about very good. Scarce English translation of this defence of the claims to the throne of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich which features a two-page preface signed "Kirill." From the preface: "The deliverance of Our perishing country emphatically demands the triumph of Right and Good and the reunion of all Russians--true to their Oath and loving their Country--around the same and only banner of legality under whose protection there can be neither quarrels nor dissension." A harbinger of the tragic disunity of the Russian aristocracy in emigration which would only intensify throughout the 1920s. Editions by the Union of Russian Legitimist Monarchists were published in French and English and were apparently aimed at a larger international audience. They are scarce with only two other titles recorded: "The head of the Romanoff Dynasty the Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich" and a French translation of the latter and a French translation of the present pamphlet. KVK OCLC show only two copies of the present title worldwide at the Bavarian State Library the International Labor Organization in Geneva and at Cambridge University. unknown books‎

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‎"VARIGNON, (PIERRE). - VARIGNON'S MANOMETER COINING THE WORD 'MANOMÉTRE'‎

‎Manometre, ou Machine pour trouver le raport des raretés ou raréfaction de l'Air naturel d'un même lieu en différens tems, ou de différens lieux en un même ou en différens tems, &c.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences"". Année 1705. Pp. 300-331, textillustrations.‎

‎First apperance of this importent paper in which Varignon describes the function and theory behing his invention of the manometer, a term which he coined in this paper. 'Manometre' from Greek (manos + metron) = sparce measure.Stitched together is another importent paper JOSEPH TOURNEFORT ""Observations sur les Maladies des Plantes"", pp. 332-345 in which he made the first classification of plant diseases.‎

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‎"VAUQUELIN, (NICOLAS) - THE DISCOVERY OF CHROMIUM.‎

‎Sur une nouvelle substance métallique contenue dans le plomb rouge de Sibérie, et qu'on propose d'appeler Chrôme, à cause de la propriété qu'il a de colorer les combinaisons ou il entre. Lu à la premiere classe de l'Institut national, le 11 Brumai...‎

‎Paris, Fuchs et Guillaume, An VIe. (1798). Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Very slightly rubbed. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 25. - 335,(3) pp., 2 engraved folded plates and 1 folded table..(the entire volume offered). Vauquelin's papers: pp. 21-32 a. pp. 194-204. Some brownspots to the first and last leaves, otherwise fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of the papers in which Vauquelin describes and announces his discovery of Chromium. The first paper was simultaneously printed in Mem.de l'Institut. Because of its many coloured compounds Fourcroy and Haüy suggested the name 'chromium' for the new metal. (Greek, chroma-colour).In 1797, Vauquelin began his own studies of Siberian red lead. He was convinced that the mineral contained a new element. None of the elements then known could account for his results. He reported ""a new metal, possessing properties entirely unlike those of any other metal."" A year later, Vauquelin was able to isolate a small sample of the metal itself. He heated charcoal (nearly pure carbon ) with a compound of chromium, chromium trioxide (Cr 2 O 3 ). When the reaction was complete, he found tiny metallic needles of chromium metal. DSB XIII, p. 597 - Parkinson ""Breakthrough"" 1798 C.The volume contains other importent papers in the history of chemistry, Guyton ""Examen de quelques propriétés du Platine"" a. ""Examen de quelques critiques de la nomenclature de chimistes francais"", Chaptal ""Observations sur la fabrication de l'acétite de cuivre (verd-de-gris) etc.‎

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‎"VENEL, (GABRIEL FRANCOIS). - THE ANALYSIS OF SELTZER-WATER.‎

‎Mémoire sur L'Analyse des Eaux de Selters ou de Seltz. Première - (Seconde) Partie. (2 Mai 1750).‎

‎(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1755). 4to. Extracts from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome II. Pp. 53-112. Clean and fine, wide-margined.‎

‎In these two memoirs Venel attempted to prove that effervescent mineral waters contain a quantity of common air in solution, thus seperating carbon dioxyde (he called it air surabondante) without knowing what it really was, thus beeing ""so close to making a discovery without actually making it..."" (Fourcroy). ""In 1750 Venel described his analysis of the effervescent mineral water of Selz, in Germany. Evaporation yielded only common salt and a little lime, and he was more interested in the effervescence, which was, he thought, caused by the escape of common air. All water contained a small amount of dissolved air, but Selzer and other effervescent waters contained superabundant air, as Venel called it. He made artificial Selzer water by adding the correct amounts of marine (hydrochloric) acid and soda to pure water, and he called the product aerated water, a term that is still in use. Stephen Hales had thought that effervescent mineral waters contained “sulphurous spirit"""" Venel’s experiments proved the absence of the gas now called sulfur dioxide, but he failed to notice that the ""superabundant air"" differed in any way from common air. It was, of course, carbon dioxide, characterized in 1754 by Joseph Black, who called it fixed air. Fourcroy later commented that no one had ever been so close to making a discovery without actually making it as was Venel.""(DSB).‎

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‎"VILLARD, P. (PAUL ULRICH). - THE DISCOVERY OF GAMMA RAYS AND GAMMA RADIATION.‎

‎Sur la réflexion et la réfraction des rayons cathodiques et des rayons déviables du radium. (+) Sur le rayonnement du radium.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 130, No 15 a. No 18. Pp. (962-) 1044 a. pp. (1145-) 1220. Entire issues offered. Villard's papers: pp. 1010-1012 a. 1178-1182, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of Villard's two papers in which he announced and described the discovery of a new type of radiation more powerfull and penetrating than alpha-and beta rays. The new type of rays was named by Rutherford as gammarays.‎

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‎"VOLTA, (ALEXANDRO). - ESTABLISHING THE ""ELECTRIC CURRENT"" - THE PRECURSOR OF THE VOLTAIC CELL.‎

‎Extrait D'une lettre de M. Volta à M. Gren, sur l'électricité dite animale. Par Van Mons"" Traduit de L'Allemand. (+) Seconde lettre. (+) Addition a la Lettre précédente.‎

‎Paris, Guillaume/Fuchs, An VI, ou 1797, AN VII (1799). Without wrappers..In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 23, 4. Cahier. Titlepage to vol. 23. + Tome 29, Cahier 1, Titlepage to tome 29. Stamp to verso of titlepages. Pp. (225-) 336 + pp. (1-) 112. (2 entire issues offered). Volta's letters: pp. 276-315, 1 folded engraved plate with 22 figs. + pp. 91-93.‎

‎First French edition of these 3 letters to Gren in which Volta described his last steps towards his groundbreaking construction of his famous ""Pile"". In the letters he established the first law governing an electrical fluid and he anticipated both Davy and Faraday.""In 1796 Volta wrote three letters to Gren (published in German in Gren's N.J. der Physik). In THE FIRST he describes 'a very remarkable experiment'. A tin cup filled with soapy water, milk of lime, or better fairly strong alkaline ley, was held with one or both hands moistened witn ater, and the tip of the tongue dipped into the liquid. A sour taste was at once perceived by the tongue in contact with the alkaline liquid, which soon, changed into a salty and finally into a sharp alkaline taste. The acid taste was 'produced by the current of the electric fluid passing from the tin to thee alkaline liquer, from there to the tongue, then through the body to the layer of water and from there to the tin in a continous current..... In his SECOND LETTER Volta repeats this 'law' of the combination of three conductors. The mutual contact of silver and tin, for example, produces 'an action, a force, by means of which the first gives the electric fluid and the second receives it. If the circuit is completed by a humid concustor, a current or continous circulation of this fluid is set up in the direction indicated in the table (depicted on the attached plate)... In his THIRD LETTER Volta describes experiments in which plates of silver and zinc so smooth that they adhered on contact, polished, dry, and insulated, were brought in close contact, and separated by pulling them perpendicularly apart. They gave small deflections when applied directly to the electrometer...."" (Partington ""A History of Chemistry"", Vol. IV, pp. 10-12).‎

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‎"WESSEL, CASPAR. - THE FIRST SYSTEMATICAL THREATMENT OF COMPLEX NUMBERS.‎

‎Om Directionens analytiske Betegning, et forsøg, anvendt fornemmelig til plane og sphæriske Polygoners Opløsning. (Essai sur la représentation analytique de la direction, avec des applications, en particular à la détermination des polygones plans et d...‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Johan Rudolph Thiele, (1797) 1799. 4to. Uncut and unopened in original blue boards. Published in: ""Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter."" Vol. V. Wessel's paper: pp.469-518 and 3 folded engraved plates (the last plate inserted at p. 463). The whole volume V offered in its original binding. Engraved titlevignette. XII,670 pp., 15 engraved plates. 4 leaves with upper right corners gone, not affecting Wessel's paper.‎

‎First edition of this important first systematical treatment of the theory of complex numbers and at the same time, the first work to add vectors in three-dimensional space.""Wessel’s fame as a mathematician is based entirely on one paper, written in Danish and published in the Mémoires of the Royal Danish Academy, that established his priority in publication of the geometric representation of complex numbers. John Wallis had given a geometric representation of the complex roots of quadratic equations in 1685"" Gauss had had the idea as early as 1799 but did not explicitly publish it until 1831. Robert Argand’s independent publication in 1806 must be credited as the source of this concept in modern mathematics because Wessel’s work remained essentially unknown until 1895, when its significance was pointed out by Christian Juel. The title of Wessel’s treatise calls it an ""attempt"" to give an analytic representation of both distance and direction that could be used to solve plane and spherical polygons. The connection of this goal with Wessel’s work as a surveyor and cartographer is obvious. The statement of the problem also suggests that Wessel should be credited with an early formulation of vector addition. In fact, Michael J. Crowe, in A History of Vector Analysis (University of Notre Dame Press, 1967), defines the first period in that history as that of a search for hypercomplex numbers to be used in space analysis and dates it from the time of Wessel, whom he calls the first to add vectors in three-dimensional space."" (DSB).‎

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‎"WHEWELL, WILLIAM - A PIONEER-WORK ON TIDES WITH THE FIRST COTIDAL WORLD-MAP.‎

‎Essay towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines. Read May 2, 1833.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part I. Pp. 147-236, a few textillustr.,1 engraved plate and 2 large folded engraved maps (a general, representing the greater part of the world (42x93 cm) and Chart of the British Isles, drawn and engraved by J.& C. Walker.). A small tear to world map. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this classic, pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena. It is the first in a series of 16 papers Whewell made for the Royal Society. It contains the first printed cotidal world-map.""Whewell took over the subject of mapping cotidal lines from Lubbock with entusiasm....He exercised the pioneer's privilege of coining new words and phrases appropriate to his subject. Many failed to stick, some phrases of Whewell's origin still occasionally used are: 'age of the tides', 'luni-tidal interval', 'semi-menstrual inequality' etc, etc....Whewell's initial cotidal map for the world ocean was presented in his first paper of 1833 (the paper offered). By his own admission, it was entirely preliminary and tentative, what nowadays might be called a ""strawman"", to stimulate discussionm. He later (1836) suggested smll modifications, especially near the coast of North America"" these were incorporated in an 'improved' world map by G.B. Airy in his celebrated tratise on ""Tides and wave"", (Cartwright in ""Tides. A Scientific History"", pp.110-112.)‎

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