Search Results: Authors starting with D from Kuenzig Books

( Firenze ): Sansoni, 1983. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. VII, 278 pages. Off white paper boards with printed blue and white dust jacket. Author presentation copy "To David Wilson that favored me with his friendliness, with sincerity, Antonia Dol Monte" and "PS a dream of all the scientist to have a book at the M.I.T." In excellent condition noting some rubbing to the dust jacket. Boards. Title translated roughly to: "The functional evaluation of the athlete" The inscription is to MIT Professor David Gordon Wilson who was a pioneer and lifelong devotee of studying human powered machines.

New York: G. W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1890. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. viii, [9]-399 pages. 4to. 8 x 9 1/4 inches. Three quarter leather over marbled boards. Page edges and endpapers also marbled. Leather binding rubbed at the extremities, and drying. Front joint started lower few inches. Still a readable copy as long as care is taken to support the spine. With 28 illustrations (all present), most small vignettes in the text, but some presented as full page illustrations, often after photographs. Boards. Often harshly viewed for his critical views of those in the theater, this book is quite interesting to read. Fans of celebrity interviews will relate to this 19th century equivalent. Lacking the visual presentation of television, Dale paints the canvas of personality either outright, or illuminated by some described event. Dale will comment on the appearance of the actress, their energy, his overall impression, and supplements with quotes throughout. Whether these are accurate… Read More

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Ellis Horwood, 1991. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. xiii, [1 blank], 268, [1] pages. Publisher's original printed color boards. Exlibrary copy, with stamps, pocket in rear, and spine label. Properly de-accessioned. Bright and clean otherwise internally, a great working copy. Boards.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. lv, 81 pages. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Large 8vo. Lower corners bumped. Occasional pencilled notes internally. Stamp of astronomer T.J.J. See on title page. 1 leaf with titles available from Cambridge University Press laid in. Cloth. Sir George Howard Darwin KCB FRS (9 July 1845 - 7 December 1912) was an English astronomer and mathematician. (wiki).

The Review of Scientific Instruments, 1951. First Separate Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine. First Separate Edition. 601-604 pages. 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. The four page offprint of this work, reprinted from the Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 22, No 8. August 1951. Bright and clean, with some minor creasing. Pamphlet. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 was divided, one half awarded to Norman F. Ramsey [ one author of this paper ] "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks", the other half jointly to Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul "for the development of the ion trap technique"." (nobel prize site) A cyclotron is a particle accelerator invented in 1934 by Ernest O. Lawrence [ for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939 ] in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the centre along a spiral path. (wiki) "The requirements that must be met by a satisfactory dee biasing system are outlined. A successful… Read More

Arlington, Massachusetts: Medicall History Publishing Associates I., 1986. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. viii, 448 pages. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Publisher's blue paper boards. A nice clean copy. Boards. An essential reference for those interested in the history of scientific instruments. Lists companies and the trade literature they created - far more complete in these genres than Romaine. We use it as a source book to look for resources when trying to research companies, instruments, and industries. And of course it is fun to find items not listed here. The best targeted reference in this area was are aware of.

Boston: Palmer and Hall (successors to Danel Davis, Jr.) Magnetical and Telegraphic Instrument Makers, 1857. Cloth. Good. [2-(advert)], [iii]-viii, 322, [5-(catalog)], [1-(blank)] pages. Plus two page engraved pages as "frontis" by Daniel Davis Jr. "Copied from the Galvanic Battery, from the Original Plate". Publisher's stamped brown cloth gilt. Insect damage (silverfish) to joints and surface of the binding, white spine label (blank). Great ticket of AMSLER & WIRZ, Mathematical and Philosophical instrument dealers in Philadelphia on front pastedown. Embossed stamp of Amsler on second flyleaf. Previous owner name (Samuel M Pea, Phila) penciled on front flyleaf. Cloth. This work was published over many years in many editions. In addition to being an instructional text, it is in essence a sales tool with a scientific instrument catalog in the rear. This particular copy is interesting for several reasons, having an excellent seller ticket from Optical importer and manufacturer Amsler & Wirz and similar… Read More

London: William Nicol, 1823. First Edition. Disbound. Good. First Edition. [2], 21 pages. 4to. Disbound. Ex Libris stamp Edinensis Medicae Societatis in several places. Inscribed BY DAVY at head of title page "The Royal Medical Society from the author" and in pencil the number 2. Apparently extracted from a bound volume, this is the offprint issue from the Philosophical Transactions. Disbound. Davy was a doctor, amateur chemist, and brother of the noted chemisty Sir Humphrey Davy. Pneumato-Thorax (more often known as a collapsed lung) is a condition where air gets between the lung and the chest wall, often affecting breathing. Davy examined a patient postmortem, "Abraham Iredill", of the 7th regiment of Foot, aged 30, who was admitted into the General Military Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham and who died shortly after arrival. This is a report of his observations. On the rear of the title page is printed "Gentleman who are indulged with separate Copies of their Communications, are requested to use… Read More

Geneve, Paris, Bruxelles: L Held, L. Hachette et Cie, A. Lacroix van Mennen et Cie, 1860. Authorized French edition. Boards. Near Fine. Authorized French edition. XVI, 285 pages. 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches) Frontispiece is steel engraving of Humboldt. 1/4 leather over marbled boards w/gilt spine titles. Light overall wear to the binding. Uniformly tanned paper throughout. Speckled page edges. Originally issued in printed wrappers, here in a nice binding that can be read and handled. Occasional penciled line in the margins. Text in French. Boards. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 - 6 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (21 February 1785 in Düsseldorf - 10 October 1858 in Berlin) was a German biographer, diplomat and soldier who carried on an extensive correspondence with von Humboldt (wiki).

Holbek: Jordan's Forlag, 1853. Hard Cover. Very Good. 3 parts (deel) bound in one. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Part 1: 190 pages. Part 2: 228 pages. Part 3: 216 pages. Parts 2 and 3 were published in Copenhagen. Part 3 was published in 1854. 4 x 5.5 inches. Wear to the extremities of the leather. Clean internally, noting previous owner name on title page of Part 1. Scarce, with only one copy in OCLC as of this listing. Hard Cover.

New York, NY: Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1972. Later printing. Cloth. Fine. Later printing. xx, 485 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with black spine titles. A crisp clean uncirculated copy. Cloth. "This treatise was written for and published by the Grolier Club of the city of New York in February, 1901. Three hundred and twenty-five copies only were printed, not for public sale, but exclusively for the members of that club. In that edition, specially prepared for book lovers, the practical side of title-page making was curtly treated. To make this edition for printers' use more acceptable, the part on practice has been re-written and provided with illustrations and comments thereon that do not appear in the cllub copies....." (from the Preface).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Second Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Second Edition. xii, 207 pages. 8vo. Publisher's black boards with blue/green printed dj. Minor discoloration to the dj. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Otherwise bright and clean. Boards. The first printing of the Second edition. The first edition was published in 1980. "It is the purpose of this book to synthesize and explain the current theories of electron transfer between biological moledcules in language which is easily understandable by mathematically minded biologists and by physicists and chemists interested in biological systems. Most cases involve the quantum-mechanical phenomenon in which a particle (an electron or an entire atom) penetrates a potential-energy barrier. This behavior has become known as 'tunnelling'..." (front dj flap).

Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, ..: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Second Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Edition. xii, 207 pages. First printing of the second edition. Publisher's black boards and printed dj. Dj and book bright and clean with minor rubbing to the dj. Boards. "It is the purpose of this book to synthesize and explain the current theories of electron transfer between biological moledcules in language which is easily understandable by mathematically minded biologists and by physicists and chemists interested in biological systems. Most cases involve the quantum-mechanical phenomenon in which a particle (an electron or an entire atom) penetrates a potential-energy barrier. This behavior has become known as 'tunnelling'..." (front dj flap).

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. [3], 120 pages. 8vo. Red cloth gilt. Printed blue and black dust jacket. Sun fading to spine panel, a touch of wear elsewhere. A bright clean copy. Cloth.

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, 1996. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. First Edition. Pgs 33-64 . 8vo. Wraps. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Where did X-Ray Astronomy Come From? by DAVID DEVORKIN. That Magnetic Moment: The Birth of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Absorption by BRANDON SHACKELFORD. Precise Levels in Surveys of North America by RANDALL C. BROOKS and HEATHER BAJDIK. Keith's American Heliostat by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut and Washington, D.C.: Published on behalf of Burndy Library and Smithsonian Institution by N. Watson Academic Publications, 1980. First Printing. Boards. Fine. First Printing. xiii,[1-blank],96 pages. Publisher's original blue boards with blind stamped decoration on front panel and copper colored title lettering on the spine. No dj as issued. Boards. Also published as a cream colored softcover edition, this is the HARDCOVER edition of the second revised and enlarged edition, published on the 25th anniversary of the 1955 original. 'The books described here were selected by Bern Dibner from a large collection of scientific and technical works assembled by him over a period of nearly fifty years, as representative of landmarks in the history of science and technology. They are part of about 10,000 books which he presented in 1976 to the Smithsonian Institition, with a few to the establishment of a national center for research in these fields.' (from the original introduction) Here… Read More

[ Boston, MA ]: [ F. D. Dickinson ], 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Two volumes. 290 pages ; [291]-525 pages. Small 8v. Publisher's red cloth gilt. With previous owner names on endpapers and page edges. Pencilled notation with Dickinson's name and address in rear of volume 1 [hence publication location inference]. Spines faded, overall minor wear to Vol. 1. Vol 2 appears to have a white substance on the boards previously (paint?) not mostly removed. Clean internally. Cloth. Complete in two volumes. Vol 1 contains Part I, covering boilers, pumps, and heating and ventilating machinery. Vol 2 contains Part II covering engines, turbines and condensors. Highly pragmatic, these books use a question and answer format to get to proper operational procedures for the machinery covered. Part II has a note as well indicating that "this book is intended to fit a person for any examination for a license to have charge and operate the different plants operated by steam." Had I been an engineer in… Read More

Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1972. First Edition. cloth. Good. First Edition. XI, [1], 164 pages. Publisher's original green cloth gilt. Ex-library (Franklin Institute ("Review copy from the Journal"). Clean internally, binding sound. Preface in English and German, book printed almost entirely in English. Notations cheat sheet on front pastedown endpaper. cloth. Volume 6 in the new series Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technolog,y Group 1: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

Mainz: C.G. Kunze, 1885. Boards. Very Good. viii, 120 pages plus frontis. 16 x 22 cm. Cloth spine with purple marbled boards. Foxing and browning throughout. Page 1 has small patch of paper in the middle of the page crinkled but still attached, no loss of text or meaning. Binding solid with mild wear, front hinge paper starting. Minor wear to binding and corners. Boards. Frontispiece "Mutterliebe" is an engraving drawn and engraved by J.B. Scholl. In the engraving is "I.B.Scholl MDCCCLIX" (ie J B Scholl 1859), probably when Scholl did the image. This work went through a number of editions, but the only edition noted in OCLC in Mainz by C. G. Kunze is the second edition in 1873 with 114 pages. The current edition is probably later, with more pages although one German bookseller dates it to 1854. A collection of 104 children's song lyrics without musical notation. Text in German script. Dated before 1885 based on Kunze's successor Jacoby.

New York and London: Academic Press, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. viii, 85 pages. 8vo. Original brown cloth with black titles. Bright and clean internally. Cloth.