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1818ref. 44121Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9, Cahier 1. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.
1818ref. 44121Paris Crochard 1818. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 9 Cahier 1. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate. The entire issue offered. Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth."In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light the paper offered.if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed."Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I pp. 108-9. unknown
1926ref. 129485Sydney: The Motor Press of Australia Limited 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Sydney The Motor Press of Australia Limited 1926. Octavo 232 pages with a facsimile letter plus 3 plates portraits of the Commanding Officers and 7 folding maps on 4 leaves in an end-pocket. Printed papered boards later rebacked in brown cloth lettered in gilt; original boards marked stained and worn at the extremities with a heavy bump to the leading edge of both covers; new endpapers and rear endpocket; edges foxed with scattered foxing throughout; small light tidemark to the top margin of the plates and a few leaves; folding maps tidemarked and worn with some chipped edges stabilized with archival tape; signs of age and use but overall a presentable copy of a very rare book. The retained original front flyleaf carries the contemporary ownership details of 'Staff Sergt U J Cunneen Late 5 L.H. 295' June 1926; two other family members have added their details later and one of them has put a relevant annotation on an early page. 'Saddler/Sergeant Urban James Cunneen' appears in the nominal roll see page 176. Dornbusch 404; Fielding and O'Neill page 232; Trigellis-Smith 276. The Motor Press of Australia Limited hardcover
1919ref. 8964A. C. McClurg Chicago 1919 illustrated thruout counted 14 total pics some full pg chapter head illustrations but there 2 missing glossy opposite pg 112 312 HBDJ Published March 1919 has W. F. Hall Printing Company at btm copyright pg stated 1st Edition 1st printing with publishers imprint on Spine Panel set in 3 lines GOOD/GOOD AS-IS 1919 on Title pg First state binding of orange cloth with black titles and three lines on the spine. Beautiful & Most Attractive DJ Colored with Green of Tarzan & Snake in Tree with Grey BackGround Lettered in Brown Picture on DJ doesnt match frontispiece picture Tiny Chips DJ & front inner Flap DJ part been cut off inside partially Original Orange Cloth Lettered in Black on Front & Spine pg 4 has small mended tearfew dogeared pgsCover some Soiling & Rub Small Spine Tear crosswise & Darkening Spine Some pgs some spotting approx 30 or so & slight soil 1 pg small chip marginOtherwise Nice Tight Clean Small crease Few Pages With 319 pages and four of the five full page plates by J. Allen St. John. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by J. Allen St. John . A. C. McClurg , Chicago hardcover
19538vo., First Edition, with plates and maps (a number folding); elegantly bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sutcliffe, p.365; White, p. 116.
1923ref. 12120Harrison NY: The Publicity Department Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Company 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good in original boards. Presentation copy to Mr. C. C. Lippincott with bookplate inside front cover. One-inch tear to base of last page of text. Text is clean and unmarked illustrated throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 189 pages pages. The Publicity Department, Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Company hardcover
2003ref. 021526-ZNew York: Alfred a Knopf Inc 2003. Book. Illus. by Various Photographers. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 2003 Hardcover with illustrated boards with the dust jacket 208 page book. A scarce signed copy by Michael Light on the title page.Illustrated with black & white and color images of the testing . Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963 nuclear testing went underground it became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground test with the last in 1992. This documents the era of visible nuclear testing. Condition : As New. Alfred a Knopf Inc Hardcover
2017ref. x-1138784923Routledge 2017. Hardcover. New. 826 pages. 9.01x5.98x1.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
1916ref. 24185Published By A.L. BURT Co NEW YORK 1916. Former OWNER STAMP back Blank Endpaper HBDJ 1916 1st Edition VG-/GOOD AS-IS Used hard-cover w/Dust-Jacket Jacket has soiling rips and tears on the spine and edging and hand writing with 2 Names on the front cover but Still Nice with Titles & Illustration Intact Boards are covered in a green cloth with the same picture that's on the jacket in Bright Red & Green & Black Cover light Rub Wear. Inside cover front and back have some soiling Outer-edge-pages have darkened and have some soiling. Sm. 8vo. Binding is tight spine and pages intact with no rips tears creases or marks other than what was described above. Interior nice tight light FOX Wear 251 Pages Ad's ending with Talbots Angels. Spine ends DJ small chips affecting word Company of Publ. Back DJ Fox tiny chips tears Extremities Lists This Series Thru of Florida Mended Tear on Front DJ at Bottom few inches. First Edition. Hard Cover. Published By A.L. BURT Co NEW YORK hardcover
1977ref. 836j2261New York: Unart Music Corporation / Jet Music Incorporated. Fair. 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Awesome vintage ELO songbook! Contains piano sheet music lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Above the Clouds; Do Ya; Livin' Thing; Mission A World Record; Rockaria!; Shangri-la; Telephone Line; Tightrope. 64 pages. Includes several pages of color and black and white photos. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A precious ELO collectible. ; 4to . Unart Music Corporation / Jet Music Incorporated paperback
1978ref. 848G0020USA: United Artists Music/Big 3 1978. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 80 pages. Includes several pages of great illustrations of the musicians. Songs include: Turn to Stone; It's Over; Sweet Talkin' Woman; Across the Border; Night in the City; Starlight; Jungle; Believe Me Now; Steppin' OUt; Standin' in the Rain; Big Wheels; Summer and Lightning; Mr. Blue Sky; Sweet is the Night; The Whale; Birmingham Blues; Wild West Hero. A very heavily-worn copy. Unmarked. All pages present but some loose. What this copy lacks in condition it more than makes up for in magical musical content from the late 1970s. Guaranteed to take you back in time!. United Artists Music/Big 3 Paperback
1914ref. 53706Cleveland & Warren OH: Sterling Division National Lamp Works General Electric Corporation 1914. Oblong folio. 14.25 x 11.25 in. 19 leaves unnumbered. composed of thick gray paper stock. With 19 tipped-in original silver gelatin photographs sized 7.5 x 9.5 in. Original gray softcovers punch sewn at gutter margin w/ gray silk braid yapp edges silver & black lettering on front cover minor edgewear rubbing some soiling to fore-edge front cover still VG- exemplar. First edition of this lavishly produced souvenir album filled with original photographs of the engineering and lighting exhibition retreat held by Sterling at General Electric’s Camp Nela one of the first industrial research parks in the nation. A small plateau above a picturesque ravine this rustic setting would eventually contain a large lamp laboratory and a 72 foot bell tower. The large photos in this souvenir album portray the engineering conferences families playing in the pool lavishly appointed dining hall and the other camp assets. Of special interest are the many lighting displays and product displays prepared by this division of GE for the retreat showing many styles of lighting sconces types of Mazda light bulbs the Arts & Crafts furniture at the time product displays advertising and the available fittings from the Company.The National Electric Lamp Association was founded at the end of the 19th century during a great deal of turmoil in the incandescent lamp industry and a number of small lamp manufacturers needed to pool their resources in order to compete with General Electric. Ironically Franklin Terry Burton & Henry Tremaine John & Robert Crouse founded the Company in 1901 with 75% of the needed capital from GE who was to remain a silent partner. Sterling Electric was one of the original founders of the organization and in 1911 when the U.S. Government brought an anti-trust suit against the N.E.L.A. GE exercised their option to buy the remaining 25% and they officially all divisions became part of General Electric forming the National Quality Lamp Division. See: Association Island’s History 2015; Nela Park: A brief early history -- Terry Management Style and Incandescent Lamp Advances. Sterling Division, National Lamp Works, General Electric Corporation], paperback
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1980ref. 01100210Leisure 1980. Signed by Dorothy Yuen Leuba the subject of this biography on title page. Scarce in any condition rare in this state signed by the subject. Original owner's note on inside front cover. Faint reading crease on fore edge. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Leisure Paperback
1924ref. 27713New York: Boni & Liveright. Modern Library Btm Spine Cvr 1924 HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET 1924 on copyright pg 1st Modern Library Edition 1ST PRINTING BONI & LIVERIGHT LETTERS on Front Green FLEXIBLE Leather Cvr & on title pg CHAPTER 2 HAS ALICE'S LONG NECK OMITTED FROM OTHER EDITIONS suggestion of mushroom imbibing. GOOD condition Light wear Wrinkling to some pages & Foxing in green flexible boards WITH GOLD GILT ON FRONT CVR & SPINE Light Fox Wear Thruout 351 pgs NO ADS in Back 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 IN. LIGHT WATER STAIN BLANK Margin few pgs This edition has strong dark printing illustrations BONI & LIVERIGHT LETTERS B&L on Front Green FLEXIBLE Leather Cvr & on title pg CHAPTER 2 HAS ALICE LONG NECK OMITTED FROM OTHER EDITIONS suggestion of mushroom imbibing. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Tenniel. New York: Boni & Liveright. Modern Library Btm Spine Cvr hardcover
1797ref. AQ23156London: Printed for the Corps by Bunney thompson and Co. 1797. vii 1 232 5 238-264 8 277-281pp 1. With six leaves partially misbound blank but comprehended in the pagination. Contemporary gilt-ruled dark green calf A.E.G. Rubbed marked and bumped. Marbled endpapers very occasional inked corrections to text. A scare late-eighteenth century edition of the standing orders of one of the most exclusive military organisations in Georgian England; the Light Horse Volunteers or L.H.V. Revived in 1794 in response to a growing invasion threat from Revolutionary France along with numerous Mounted and infantry Volunteer Corps across England the L.H.V. was composed almost exclusively of wealthy and titled men of the capital. As this volume details the corps were very well provisioned and membership was secured by recommendation and election. Corps rules established that mounts were stabled at Worship St. or Gray's Inn Lane and uniforms were to be secured from specified retailers such as Hawkes Piccadilly for helmets. All early editions are uncommon and presumably printed in small runs for members. ESTC records copies of this second revised edition at two locations in the British Isles Bishopsgate Institute and BL and none elsewhere. ESTC T130561. Second edition with alterations and additions. 24mo. Printed for the Corps, by Bunney, thompson, and Co. unknown
1891ref. 84315Alphonse Picard, Libraire-éditeur, impr. Philippe Mouillot, Paris 1891 Fort in-folio. Reliure postérieure pleine toile écrue, couvertures et dos conservée, 3 ff.-VI-702 pp.-1ff, 500 gravures dans le texte et 80 grandes planches hors texte imprimées en deux teintes. Très bon exemplaire.
199914 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Chris Collingwood and (some later volumes) Robert Papp. The sequence comprises: A Close Run Thing (1999); The Nizam's Daughters (2000); A Regimental Affair (2001); A Call to Arms (2002); The Sabre's Edge (2003); Rumours of War (2004); An Act of Courage (2005); Company of Spears (2006); Man of War (2007); Warrior (2008); On His Majesty's Service (2011); Words of Command (2015); The Passage to India (2018); The Tigress of Mysore (2020). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
ref. 26028Par J. F. Lamp. A Paris : Chez F. G. Levrault libraire rue de la Harpe no. 81 ; Strasbourg : rue des Juifs no. 33 1833. Troisième édition. Duodecimo 165 x 105 mm original pink paper-covered boards printed in black the upper board with vignette illustration of a globe lower board with publisher's advertisements spine lettered in black; front pastedown with original ownership inscription of Antoine Kintz clearly a young scholar 3 1 blank 92 pp with seven lithographic folding maps including a mappe-monde in two hemispheres France and its regions and Palestine; a small marginal stain at top edges of last twenty or so leaves otherwise the contents are immaculate and the boards fresh and unrubbed; an exceptional copy. The first edition of Strasbourg geographer Jean-Frédéric Lamp's work for students Abrégé de Géographie pour les Écoles was published in 1828. The third edition appears virtually unrevised and begins with a short introduction to geography and an explanation of key terms and concepts before covering individual countries and regions. Europe is discussed first the greater part of the text is devoted to France then Asia Africa Palestine and North and Central America; a section titled 'Australie' pp 82-4 deals with Oceania providing brief summaries of the physical geography and facts relevant to European discovery for each region. OCLC locates no copies of the third edition. hardcover
1843ref. 149222London: William Nicol Shakspeare Press 1843. with the Muster Rolls from the first formation of the Regiment MDCCLXXIX to the relodgement of the Standards in the Tower MDCCCXXIX. Pp. iivi280last blank108Rollxx frontispiece and 6 coloured lithographed plates 2 coloured plans 2 black & white engravings one heavily foxed all with tissue guards Muster Roll appendix; tan cloth lettered and decorated in gilt & blind the backstrip and hinges expertly reinforced edges of boards lightly worn with slight fraying at fore-corners; uncut; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown some light foxing; William Nicol Shakespeare Press/Wright London 1843. First edition. White p. 198. William Nicol, Shakspeare Press unknown
1818ref. 49072Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9, Cahier 1 a. 3. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 225-336. (The entire issues offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66 a. pp. 286-287.
1801ref. 43492Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1801. Without wrappers as published in ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 7, Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 4). Pp. 387-528. Ritter's announcement p. 525. With titlepage to volume 7. Clean and fine. Titlepage a bit shavedin inner margin.
1867ref. 43497Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1867. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 99. (Entire volume offered). (2),X,652 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Weber & Kohlrausch's paper:pp. 10-25.
1818ref. 49072Paris Crochard 1818. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 9 Cahier 1 a. 3. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate pp. 225-336. The entire issues offered. Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66 a. pp. 286-287. First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth."In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light the paper offered.if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed."Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I pp. 108-9. unknown
1801ref. 43492Halle Rengerschen Buchhandlung 1801. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 7 Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered =Heft 4. Pp. 387-528. Ritter's announcement p. 525. With titlepage to volume 7. Clean and fine. Titlepage a bit shavedin inner margin. First printing of Ritter's announcement of his discovery of ultraviolet light in a halfpage letter addressed to Gilbert's Annalen. With that discovery it became clear that visible light represents no more than a fraction of a continous spectrum.A year earlier in 1800 William Herschel discovered infrared light. This was the first time that a form of light beyond visible light had been detected. After hearing about Herschel's discovery of an invisible form of light beyond the red portion of the spectrum Ritter decided to conduct experiments to determine if invisible light existed beyond the violet end of the spectrum as well. He had heard that blue light caused a greater reaction in silver chloride than red light did. Ritter decided to measure the rate at which silver chloride reacted to the different colors of light. He directed sunlight through a glass prism to create a spectrum. He then placed silver chloride in each color of the spectrum and found that it showed little change in the red part of the spectrum but darkened toward the violet end of the spectrum. Johann Ritter then decided to place silver chloride in the area just beyond the violet end of the spectrum in a region where no sunlight was visible. To his amazement this region showed the most intense reaction of all. This showed for the first time that an invisible form of light existed beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum. This new type of light which Ritter called Chemical Rays later became known as ultraviolet light or ultraviolet radiation the word ultra means beyond. - Parkinson Breakthroughs: 1801 P. unknown