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1959réf. S13319Amsterdam:: Annals of Physics 1959. 1959. Offprint. Original wrappers. Very good. "The energy dependence of scattering and reaction cross sections at the threshold of a new channel with Coulomb forces is investigated. In the case of opposite charges an anomaly is found in which the average over the Coulomb bound state resonances below the threshold energy is discontinuously different from the limit from above. The resolution and precision necessary however make it very difficult to measure the phenomenon." :: abstract. Worked at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton before taking a position at Indiana University where he stayed for the next 50 years. Author of a number of books including From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of Physics. Annals of Physics, 1959. unknown books
1740réf. S13116Lausannae & Geneva: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum 1740. 1740. 4to. iv xxxii 363 1 pp. Half-title engraved frontispiece portrait of Newton engr. Jean-Louis Daudet after Vanderbank title printed in red & black 12 engraved folding plates title vignette of 4 cherubs and a female figure each using an optical instrument representing learning optics/perspective drawn by Delamoncein and engraved by Daudet head & tail pieces and woodcut initial letters drawn by Papillon index; first 11 leaves browned. Contemporary full vellum green leather gilt-stamped spine label edges with decorative red freckling as designed by the binder; foot of spine with faint ink marking "11-". Paper unevenly browned. Verso of title with small ink annotation "=1135="; rear pastedown with another notation "a 20.Luglio 1801." Very good. Third Latin edition edited by Bousquet with a dedication to Joannes Bernoulli. This edition contains the full array of 31 querries. / "Newton's contributions to the science of optics :: his discovery of the unequal refractions of rays of different color his theory of color and his investigations of 'Newton's rings' to mention only a few of the most noteworthy :: place him among the premier contributors to that science. . . . Today we recognize that his work on optics offers unique rewards in its exciting innovative conjunction of physical theory experimental investigation and mathematics and in the revealing glimpse that it provides of a crucial period in the evolution of experimental science." :: Alan E. Shapiro The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1 1984 p. xi. / Jean-Louis Daudet 1695-1756 who made the frontispiece and title vignette was an engraver and print publisher active in Lyon inherited business from his father Etienne Joseph Daudet. He flourished from 1722 till his death in 1756. Thereafter the business continued by his widow in association with his son-in-law Louis Martin Roch Joubert until 1773. / "Newton famously declared that it is not the business of science to make hypotheses. However it's well to remember that this position was formulated in the midst of a bitter dispute with Robert Hooke who had criticized Newton's writings on optics when they were first communicated to the Royal Society in the early 1670's. The essence of Newton's thesis was that white light is composed of a mixture of light of different elementary colors ranging across the visible spectrum which he had demonstrated by decomposing white light into its separate colors and then reassembling those components to produce white light again. However in his description of the phenomena of color Newton originally included some remarks about his corpuscular conception of light perhaps akin to the cogs and flywheels in terms of which James Maxwell was later to conceive of the phenomena of electromagnetism. Hooke interpreted the whole of Newton's optical work as an attempt to legitimize this corpuscular hypothesis and countered with various objections." / "Newton quickly realized his mistake in attaching his theory of colors to any particular hypothesis on the fundamental nature of light and immediately back-tracked arguing that his intent had been only to describe the observable phenomena without regard to any hypotheses as to the cause of the phenomena. Hooke and others continued to criticize Newton's theory of colors by arguing against the corpuscular hypothesis causing Newton to respond more and more angrily that he was making no hypothesis he was describing the way things are and not claiming to explain why they are. This was a bitter lesson for Newton and in addition to initiating a life-long feud with Hooke went a long way toward shaping Newton's rhetoric about what science should be. . ." / "The first edition of The Opticks 1704 contained only 16 queries but when the Latin edition was published in 1706 Newton was emboldened to add seven more which ultimately became Queries 25 through 31 when in the second English edition he added Queries 17 through 24. Of all these one of the most intriguing is Query 28 which begins with the rhetorical question "Are not all Hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist of Pression or Motion propagated through a fluid medium" In this query Newton rejects the Cartesian idea of a material substance filling in and comprising the space between particles. Newton preferred an atomistic view believing that all substances were comprised of hard impenetrable particles moving and interacting via innate forces in an empty space as described further in Query 31." :: Newton's Cosmological Queries :: MathPages. / Grace K. Babson Sir Isaac Newton 1950 141; George J. Gray A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton 182; Wallis 182. See: Printing and the Mind of Man 172. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740. hardcover books
2003réf. S6538New York:: Pantheon Books 2003. 2003. Small 8vo. xii 272 pp. Color frontis. port. figs. bibliog. index. Gray cloth gilt spine dust-jacket. New. Pantheon Books, (2003). hardcover books
1949réf. S1356New York:: Ronald Press 1949. 1949. Humanizing science series. 24 cm. xi 174 pp. 59 figs. and illus. index. Navy blue cloth. With Carnegie Mount Wilson Observatory blind-stamp. Ronald Press, (1949). hardcover books
1964réf. S2618New York:: Citadel 1964. 1964. Series: The Science Classics Library. Reprint. 209 x 141 mm. 8vo. 447 pp. Illus. tables. Printed wrappers. Fine. Citadel, (1964). unknown books
1960réf. S2628London etc.:: Abelard-Schuman 1960. 1960. FIRST EDITION. 223 x 145 mm. 8vo. 223 pp. Frontis. 4 plates bibliog. index. Original light green cloth dust-jacket. Fine. Abelard-Schuman, 1960. hardcover books
2002réf. S6135Boston:: Burndy Library 2002. 2002. 8vo. xxvii 95 pp. Frontis. port. figs. index. Gilt-stamped brick red cloth. NEW. First edition designed and printed by the Stinehour Press. Burndy Library, 2002. hardcover books
2001réf. S6536New York:: W. H. Freeman 2001. 2001. First printing. Small 8vo. xvi 188 pp. Bibliog. index. Quarter cloth gilt spine dust-jacket. Fine. W. H. Freeman, (2001). hardcover books
1950réf. S6657New York:: Herbert Reichner 1950. 1950. 258 x 177 mm. 8vo. xiv 228 pp. Frontis. illus. index. Brick-red cloth. Ownership signature of Martha Teach Gnudi. Fine. 606 items. Herbert Reichner, 1950. hardcover books
2001réf. 93043New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2001. Hardcover. 325p. illustrated with b&w photo section very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj showing some slight wear to edges. Arvin was stigmatized by the possession of 'mildly homoerotic materials' while teaching at Smith. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday hardcover books
1928réf. 339715Boston: Little Brown 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First trade edition second printing 410pp. Near fine in a very good age toned dustwrapper with the short tear at the spine in a poor slipcase missing the top and bottom edge. Little, Brown hardcover books
1976réf. 1370445Stonehill 1976. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Quarto unpaginated; In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket Spine blue and gray pictorial with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut: '$22.50.' Light shelfwear. Shelved in Erotica. Title was originally titled 'Women' before it was changed to 'White Women.'. 1370445. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Stonehill hardcover books
1873réf. 39795Sacramento: H.A. Weaver & Co. Steam Book and Job Printers 1873. 7 1 blank pp. Last page prints the People's Union Independent Anti-Monopoly Ticket for State Senate and Assemblymen. Very Good. Booth was elected Governor of California in 1871 campaigning as a Republican and with support from African Americans. In 1875 he resigned his office and with the help of the Anti-Monopoly Party was elected U.S. Senator from California. Booth had supported Lincoln in 1860. Felton also a Republican and the Mayor of Oakland had criticized Booth for an allegedly insufficient anti-monopoly stance. The offended Booth responded with this Open Letter accusing Felton of joining "hired assassins of character" of suffering from "mental obliquity" and failing to be "generous candid fair or truthful." Not in Rocq Cowan Drury. OCLC 21739281 3- Yale UC Berkeley Hayes Pres. Lib. 228685535 1- Huntington as of January 2024. H.A. Weaver & Co., Steam Book and Job Printers unknown books
1898réf. 34905New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press 1898. Original printed wrappers spine chipped. 2 ix 1 blank 78 2 blanks pp. Very Good. Richard Heber Newton was an Episcopal priest and Rector of All Souls' Church in New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press unknown books
2022réf. 628313New York: Random House 2022. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 378pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine slightly cocked else fine in fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1973réf. 28877New York N.Y.: Haskell House Publishers Ltd 1973. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Later printing. 3273 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. A fine copy noting light corner bumping. Cloth. Reprints the J.B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia 1925 edition which was originally issued in 1500 copies. This reprint is new old stock from the publisher. Haskell House Publishers Ltd unknown books
1972réf. 19153New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. The first edition first printing of A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck a fine example. Octavo 8 150pp 2. Maroon cloth title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Red topstain. This copy appears unread. In the publisher's fine dust jacket $4.95 retail price on front flap bright illustrations. An exceptional copy of Peck's first novel. Peck's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in rural Vermont centered on a Shaker farm boy his father and the difficult lessons of work loss and responsibility. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1936réf. 17980New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1936. First Edition Second Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative by William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton signed by President Herbert Hoover. Octavo viii 2 553pp 1. Blue cloth title stamped in black. The second printing without the Scribner's A on the copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers wear to blue cloth on the spine. Even toning to leaves throughout. Includes a laid-in compliments card from the author Walter H. Newton. In the publisher's dust jacket $3.50 on the front flap a few closed tears pink hue to rear panel light soiling to covers and verso a very good example. Tracey 46 Burns 0469 Signed on the front free endpaper: "The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover." From Burns: "This authorized account tries to vindicate Hoover's actions in dealing with the depression. He was presented with a unique challenge that has to be appreciated in a more reflective and sober manner than has been assumed by past historians. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1666réf. 3781520/11/1666. A very rare document from his his miracle year Annus Mirabilis mentioning Woolsthorpe where he made some of his most famous discoveries This is the earliest document from Newton we found reaching the public market in generations and the only from this great and historic year <img class=""alignnone wp-image-37824 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20260904221035/Newton-November-20-1666-J-1-1600x711.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""711"" /> Isaac Newton was a pioneering mathematician physicist and astronomer widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history. His key contributions were the Laws of Motion that describe how objects move and interact with forces which formed the foundation of classical mechanics; Universal Gravitation proposing that the same force pulling an apple to the ground also governs the motion of planets and moons - the law of universal gravitation; Optics where he showed that white light is made up of a spectrum of colors by passing it through a prism and he built the first practical reflecting telescope; and Principia Mathematica his 1687 book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica laid out his laws of motion and gravitation and is considered one of the most important scientific works ever published. Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor on Christmas Day in 1642. In 1665. When the Great Plague closed Cambridge University as a precaution against spreading the illness Newton returned to the manor. During his 18-month retreat there he worked in his bedroom on calculus optics and his early ideas of gravity. Newton later ascribed many of his most important scientific discoveries to these years including gravitation and subsequent accounts have placed the story of his seeing the apple fall from the tree in the garden at Woolsthorpe 1666. Historian and scientist William Stukeley records having dinner with Newton later in his life and afterward — the weather being warm — the two went out into the garden and drank tea under some apple trees. It was there that Newton told him he'd been in that very same situation once before when the idea of gravitation first came to him: watching an apple fall and wondering to himself why it should always descend straight down to the ground rather than sideways or upward — the observation that set him thinking about whether the same force might reach as far as the Moon. The year was 1666. The “marvelous year” Annus Mirabilis of 1666 may surely be taken as symbolic of a decisive turning point in the history of human thought. Document signed an indenture for the lease of a property in Belton-in-Rutland 20 November 1666. It is In English on vellum and signed on the fold-up by Newton his mother Hannah Smith and Thomas Pilkington; signed as witnesses on the verso by Newton's half-sister Hannah Smith his half-brother Benjamin Smith his uncle William Ayscough and others. This is an early property transaction signed by Newton during his ‘1665-1666 stay at Woolsthorpe Manor. The document is an agreement between Thomas Pilkington the fiance of Newton's half-sister Marie Smith Newton's mother Hannah Smith and Newton himself described as 'Isaac Newton of Trinitye Colledge in the university of Cambridge gentleman' for a lease of one year on the house and grounds in Belton-in-Rutland occupied by Pilkington. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-37825 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20260904221210/Newton-November-20-1666-F-1-1600x848.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""848"" /> ""This Indenture made the Twentieth day of November Anno Diu 1666 and in the Eighteenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second etc. Betweene Thomas Pilkington of Belton in the County of Rutland Esq. of the one part Hannah Smyth of Woolestrop alias Woolstrope in the Parish of Coulsterworth in the County of Lincoln Widowe and Isaac Newton of Trinitye Colledge in the University of Cambridge gentleman of the other parte Witnesseth that the said Thomas Pilkington as well for and in consideration of the sume of five shillings of lawfull money of England to him in hand paid by the said Hannah Smyth and Isaac Newton. Hath demised granted leased bargained and sold. unto the said Hannah Smyth and Isaac Newton. all that capitall mesuage or Tenement or house situate and being in Belton aforesaid in the said County or Rutland and now or late in the tenure use or occupation of the said Thomas Pilkington. Together with all houses edifices buildings barnes stables outhouses courtyards foulyards orchards garden yards and backsides to the said Capitall Mesuage or tenement or house."" <img class=""alignnone wp-image-37847 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20260905130528/Newton-November-20-1666-C-1-1600x594.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""594"" /> On the verso is an Autograph document signed by Newton in the third person. “Sealed and delivered by the within named Isaac Newton in the presence of us” and then is signed by Hannah Smith Jeffery Adamson and William Cottam. Provenance: The Fairfax Library sold in 1993. Although the present document is ostensibly a lease under the conventions of property transactions at this date the actual undertaking is likely a sale of the freehold by Thomas Pilkington to Newton and his mother: the 'lease' would have been followed by a 'release' the following day which would have completed the transfer of title. Thus this document is signed twice in full by Newton and contains a additional paragraph in his hand. Newton’s autograph or manuscript material is elusive especially anything relating his miracle years at Woolsthorpe Manor. This is our first example. Pilkington married Marie Newton's half sister and Hannah's daughter just two days after this document was signed. So it seems likely that this was part of the marriage agreement with Hannah and Isaac serving in official capacity. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt=""historical memorabilia dealer"" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> hardcover books
1784réf. 9007Dublin: Joseph Hill 1784. First Edition. Full contemporary calf. Near fine with some abrasions or shallow gouge to the front cover; front joint partially cracked near the head. 8vo 6 1 - 203 1 - blank pp. 2 engraved plates. Young was educated at Trinity College Dublin where he taught natural philosophy. he spent years working on a commentary to Newton's Principia. The book offered here is his work elucidating only one of the propositions i.e. the nature and propagation of sound. He also examined the nature of the vibration in elastic fibers and accounts for some of the observed phenomena of musical strings. The result is a book that is perhaps the best non-mathematical account of the physics of a vibrating body and elasticity in general. An important book. Kassler 1085 - `87; absent from Babson and Wallis. Joseph Hill unknown books
réf. 2351562Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Loss from spine head and foot and along joints fore edge corners exposed front matter foxed light stain to fore edge margin of last few pages pencil name and page notes on front endpaper pencil underlining in first and last few sections. xxxvi 37-494 pp. Brown cloth gilt titles. Letters by slaver-turned-abolitionist who wrote the hymns Amazing Grace and Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken. These letters were originally written to friends who returned them to the author to accommodate their publication. Includes an introductory essay by David Russell. Presbyterian Board of Publication hardcover books
1947réf. 2344933London: Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co. Ltd 1947. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. An excellent copy. 1947 Soft Cover. 27 pp. Brief account of Samuel Johnson's time at his house on Gough Square with a brief biographical sketch of A. Edward Newton. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., Ltd paperback books
1933réf. 2332598New Haven: The Class Secretaries Bureau 1933. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Kirk W.B.G.; Morris. Minor scuffs to boards edges slightly faded ink name and date Christine Costiga 6/83 on front flyleaf. 1933 Hard Cover. 637 4 pp. Navy blue cloth spine over paper-covered boards gilt titles illustrated endpapers from a sketch of the campus by W.B.G. Kirk chapter header illustrations by an artist credited only as 'Morris' panoramic photograph of class follows text. A collection of biographical sketches of students at Yale College from the class of 1933. The Class Secretaries Bureau hardcover books
1928réf. 2328410Boston: Little Brown and Company 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x5x1. Signed by author. Limited edition #482 of 990 copies 950 of which were offered for sale. Signed by author and hand-numbered on limitation page. Lacks slipcase. Spine a bit toned a few minor scuffs to boards. 1928 Hard Cover. 410 pp. Includes color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations. Includes: Preliminary Canter; This Book-Collecting Game; The Books of My Boyhood; "When We Were Very Young"; The Book Itself; The Binding; The Auction Room; Caveat Emptor; "Abuses Stript and Whipt"; What to Collect--and Why; American Literature; Conversation in the Library at "Oak Knoll"; Humor and Pathos of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; The Format of the English Novel; One Hundred Good Novels; Index. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2004réf. 22684Rome: Contrasto. Near Fine with no dj. First Italian Edition. Hardcover. laminated boards; no dust jacket nice clean book virtually as new with just a tiny dent at top of the rear cover. B&W photographs Autobiography of the noted and notorious photographer -- "maestro della provocazione" as the rear-cover blurb puts it. The text is in Italian; the models are in mostly nothing. . c.2004. Contrasto hardcover books
