Message from the Pleiades, The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier, Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 by Meier, Eduard Billy; Edited by W. C. Stevens - 1988

Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co., 1950. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good + Book/Very Good + DJ. Photographs. First Edition, First Printing, Blue Cloth. Personally Inscribed " To ----------, Fine Son Of A Gifted Father Whose Brilliant Work On One Of My Problems Promises An Early Solution. With All Best Wishes For A Successful Life. Sincerely / Lee De Forest / First Edition". A Very Bright, Attractive Example, Dj With No Rubbing To Front Panel, Slight Rubbing Along Edges, And Slight Dampstaning Along Lower Two Inches Of Spine.

[1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946]: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Etc., 1940. Original Offprints . Red Cloth. Very Good. 39 Original Publisher's Offprints, Neatly Bound In Red Cloth With A Few Caltech Chemistry Library Markings, No Other Names Or Marks. Most Involve Pauling As Sole Author, Or Co-Author. The First 1940 Paper Is Reportedly The 9Th Most Cited Of All Pauling's Papers.

London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1884. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 1/4" Tall. Numerous Black and White Charts. Viii, 39 Pp + Clean And Bright Pages, With 16 Pages Of Publisher's Ads At The Rear, Dated 1884. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Black Endpapers. Illustrated With Numerous Charts Including Two Fold-Out Charts. "This Little Book Contains An Exact Reprint Of All The Papers On Relations Among The Atomic Weights, And On The Periodic Law (Provisionally Termed The 'Law Of Octaves'), Written By Myself (Newlands) And Printed In The 'Chemical News', Some Years Before M. Mendelejeff Had Published Anything On The Subject Of The Periodic Law." Covers Are Immaculate With Bright Gilt Lettering, An Exceptional Copy With No Wear But A Few Nicks To The Cloth, Otherwise Fine: Rear Spine Gutter Has 1/2" Loss Of Cloth And Two Circular 1/16" Areas With Loss Of Cloth. Rear Panel Fore Edge Has 1/4" Loss Of Cloth Near Bottom And Several Miniscule… Read More

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1934. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Fine/Very Good DJ. Xv, 502 Pp. Bue Cloth, Gilt. Scarce First Printing Of A Classic Work. This Book Was Reviewed By Einstein In The Journal "Science" In 1934. Fine, Gilt Very Bright, Although Edges Of Page Block Are Browned; Small Owner's Name Frank J. Steinebrey Jr., On Front Pastedown; He Was A Cal Tech Trained Physicist, Active In The Pacific Rocket Society Circa 1945-1946. In The Scarce Dj, Slightly Taller Than The Book, Browned, Light Wear, No Loss Of Lettering Except That Price Has Been Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap, Small Losses At Corners, With 1/4" Chips At Two Upper Corners Of Spine..

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

London: London: printed by M. Flesher, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1684. 1st Edition . Full leather. Near Fine. First edition, quarto; [12], 288, [52], 305-472, [12]pp., complete with imprimatur leaf preceding title-page and separate dated title-page to "An historical account of the College's proceedings against empiricks" on leaf 2P1 recto. In period style 20th century full leather by J.May of London (with only the lightest of wear), blind double fillets to board margins, five raised spine bands with gilt lettered spine label to second compartment, all page edges gilt, small single marginal wormhole to a few rear leaves not affecting text, first and last leaves marginally stained by leather turn-ins, occasional very feint spots and unobtrusive light paper browning, overall a clean copy of these important early accounts of the Royal College of Physicians undertaken, probably at the request of the College, by Charle Goodall, later to become its President. A… Read More

Raccolta unica di 62 pubblicazioni ed estratti di botanica appartenuti al celebre botanico Rodolfo PichiSermolli (Florence 1912-2005). Rodolfo Pichi Sermolli fu un grande botanico specializzato nelle felci Pterodofite. Viaggiò per tutto il mondo in cerca di campioni da utilizzare per il suo erbario: in Africa (Libia, Lagon Tana in Etiopia) Messico, Hawai, Nuova Zelanda, Polinesia ecc… Le più prestigiose istituzioni come il British Museum o il Smithsonian Institution di Washington cercarono di acquistare l'erbario ma lui decise di donarlo all'Università di Firenze. Le pubblicazioni sono per la gran parte studi di botanica, talvolta con descrizione dinuove scoperte di specie e riguardano numerose parti del mondo : Guinea, Mozambico, Canada, North America, Colombia, Quebec, Extremadura in Spain, Africa, Europe etc… Tutti i pezzi riportano ex libris di Sermolli con un numero consecutivo (le pubblicazioni numerate 5350, 5351, 5367, 5369, 5375, 5395 risultano… Read More

First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 25-348; 4 plates within text block, 8 folding charts depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts, winds and routes, and the gulf stream, and 1 folding table of a pilot's sheet - all in perfect condition barring one small tear(4 cm.) on Plate VIII; original navy blue cloth, corners rubbed and bumped, textblock bright and sound. Considered the first textbook of modern oceanography, this work was among the first to recognize the sea as a separate branch of science. Maury was a distinguished naval officer and a prolific writer on oceanography and naval subjects; he was instrumental in establishing an international system for recording oceanographic data, based on worldwide cooperation of naval vessels and the merchant marine. This work went through many editions; here on offer is the first printing of an enlarged and revised sixth edition - "An Entirely New Edition" - first published and entered on the Congressional Register… Read More

Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. / The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1960. Book. Very Good. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. First Edition First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good / good plus. Book: gray cloth hardcover with red lettering to spine; slight mottling around tail of spine; straight; hinges strong; name inside; slight toning to outer edges of text block. Jacket in new mylar protector; mild edge wear; tiny peel spot on spine. .

P(ierre) P(rosper) Boileau, Traité de la mesure des eaux courantes ou expériences, observations et méthodes. Concernant les lois des vitesses, le jaugeage et l'évaluation de la force mécanique des cours d'eau de toute grandeur; le débit des pertuis des usines, des fortifications et des canaux d'irrigation; et l'action dynamique des courants sur les corps en repos. Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1854. Quarto, 4+XIV+361 pp., 7 foldout plates. Marbled half calf with gilt titles on spine, 6 false bands. Very rare (we found no copies for sale since 2015) treatise on hydraulic engineering, in which the author (1811-1891) introduced many innovative methods and apparatuses for the measurement and gauging of tunning waters. A nice copy, spine and boards rubbed, some foxing to title and plates (text is clean and bright), no markings or creases. Complete with all 7 fouldouts, showing many diagrams of tubes, wheels and other hydraulic devices. Pictures available upon request. Ships by DHL or Fedex worldwide,… Read More