Search Results: Titles starting with O from Kuenzig Books

[Brooklyn, NY]: [Theo. Gaus' Sons], 1976. First Edition. Very Good. David Prosser. David Prosser. First Edition. We are pleased to offer the original artwork for the front cover of the book "Ancestors of Bantan" by Maurice B. Gardner. The artist is David Prosser, signed "Prosser '75" lower left. Offered here with the original black and white format., for publication, the title and surrounding portions of the cover image and artist name were colored red. Artist reworks, etc are clear to the naked eye. Dimensions of the frame are 17 3/4 inches wide by 25 inches high, with the original art extending almost to the margins. Not examined out of frame, but in nice condition with a few spots observed. The related Bantan book was published by Theo. Gaus' Sons, Brooklyn, NY in 1976. On the dust jacket flap, the author Maurice B. Gardner noted that three of the segments in this novel were from his previous work Bantan Incredible from 1960. Gardner was a Maine author, and some of his correspondence and books… Read More

New York: No 9. Murray Street: W. J. Johnston, Publisher, 1876. Later printing. Cloth. Good. Later printing. [6], [7]-188 pages. 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches. Publisher's mustard cloth with stamped decorations in black and gilt. Cancel author's name pasted on title page (the original author name was "John Oakum"). The frontispiece is an engraving with Facsimile signature of Walter P. Phillips below. This copy INSCRIBED by the author Phillips on second flyleaf "To William D. Tyler Esq. | With the cordial regards | of Walter P Phillips | New York April 8, 1890". Owner name "W. S. Tyler No 464" inked on recto of frontis. Cloth. A (presumably) later edition of this work, with the author properly identified. Another copy we've seen for sale has the author listed as "John Oakum" with title page date of 1876, and the frontis engraving identified as John Oakum. That edition has fewer pages (176) but has two pages of ads in rear and with a green binding. "Walter Polk Phillips (June 14, 1846 - January 31, 1920) was… Read More

[ London ]: np, 1775. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good. First Edition. [1]-4 pp. 8vo. Extracted from a bound volume, with offsetting on the last page indicating it was bound opposite the September 1770 issue title page of Gentleman's Magazine. Small marginal hole not affecting text. Disbound. Caption title from page one. English Short Title Catalog, N12918. Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.; p. 488 (both copies at NLM are extracts). While well represented in digital form, this title is only found at the National Library of Medicine from what we have been able to determine, which guesses that the publication date is 1775. Our copy, with the offsetting from a September 1770 title page may help in further scholarship on the date of publication.

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

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1877. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. First Edition. Complete title: The Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland Including Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children. A bound exlibrary volume including issues of this journal from April 1877 through March 1878, with American Supplements. 851 pages of the journals followed by 190 pages of the American Supplements. Half leather, bookplate of the John Crerar Library on front pastedown. Occasional perforated stamps of the Crerar Library as usual, spine number and Crerar label in gold gild lettering, otherwise clean. Original wraps bound in with some advertisements present. Although the original issues were bound together, this apparently happened later as the individual issues have soiling to their covers, occaisonal chipping at edges (not affecting text), and occasional tears. One page was torn (page 711), now repaired with archival tape. Sold as a bound periodical, and not collated though apparently complete.… Read More

London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio, pp. [viii]-x + 143 + blank + ff [24] + blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound, ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Huxley (1825-1895) collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia, New Guinea, and Palermo, Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships, Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to… Read More

Paris: Lefevre and Deterville, 1818. Hard Cover. Fair. 2 large foldout plates. Volume Dix-Neuvieme ONLY [ 19 nineteen]. Ex-library, 1/4 leather over paper boards, with lower half of the spine lacking. Front and rear hinges tender but still attached. Textblock tight and clean noting minor foxing to the plates. 448 pages. Full title: Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire nouvelle Edition Physique Tome Dix-Neuvieme [ 19 Nineteen ] ONLY. Hard Cover.

Paris: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. XII, 408 pages. Original cloth boards with black and red stamped titles. Corners lightly bumped, minor soiling to boards. A nice copy. Light browning to internal paper as usual. Includes a card laid in from Perrin's son Francis: "Hommage du Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique et du Professeur Francis PERRIN", also near fine with one corner bumped at edge. Francis Perrin taught at Columbia University after he emigrated to the US from France in the 1940s. Cloth. Jean Perrin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 for "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium." This book collects a large portion of his works. See DSB (Vol X: pp 524-6) for more information on Perrin, who is perhaps best known for experimentally confirming Einstein's theory explaining Brownian motion.

London: Charles Griffin & Company, Limited, 1914. Cloth. Very Good. xiv, 328, [8-ads] pages. 8vo. Maroon pebbled cloth gilt. Light wear to the extremities. Faded to brown at spine, partially sunned front and rear. Inked signature of CC Crocket of Quincy MA on front flyleaf. Otherwise bright and clean internally. Includes tipped in note indicating the book was supplied to the trade on a non-discountable basis (perhaps a review copy?). Cloth.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1871. Cloth. Good. xvi, 279 pages plus addendum (1 page). 2 folding plates. Original green pebbled cloth with gold lettering on spine. Front and rear hinges cracked but still sound. Spine darkened but still readable. Corners bumped, minor wear overall to the binding. Bookplate of Sydney Ross on front pastedown. Occasional foxing, most prevalent on the first few and last few pages. Cloth. Airy was an astronomer who supplied all the major participants in the discovery of the planet Neptune with the observational data they requested. His efficiency in the observatory was noted by other government services and he rapidly became the prototype of the modern government scientist (Concise DSB). The first edition was issued in 1868. Dr. Sydney Ross cataloged the Herschel Library at Collingwood.

City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1892. First Separate Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. First Separate Edition. [1]-24 pages plus 5 plates and original printed wrappers. Folio (9 3/4 x 13 inches). Top page edges uncut, an unread copy. Wrappers have been professionally restored and reattached with missing paper filled in, correcting a common failing of this title. The wrappers are often chipped and/or detached with large pieces missing due to the thin, almost ephemeral nature of the binding. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge number 842. Wrappers. "Michelson was the first American citizen to win the Nobel prize for his 'precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations conducted therewith'....He was clearly recognized as one of the foremost experimental physicists of the nation..." - DSB "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 was awarded to Albert A. Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897. Boards. Good. 16 pages plus wrappers. 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). Original wrappers bound in marbled boards. Exlibrary (properly withdrawn) from Bowdoin College Library. Embossed library stamp on title page, inked number on verso. Original wrappers bound in, but front wrapper detached. Boards. An offprint of Stone's thesis originally published in the Physical Review, Vol VI, No. 30, January 1898. "Isabelle Stone (October 18, 1868 - 1966) was an American physicist and educator. She was one of the founders of the American Physical Society. She was among the first women to earn a PhD in physics in the United States...She completed a bachelor's degree at Wellesley College in 1890, and was among the first women to earn a PhD in physics in the United States, earning hers just two years after Caroline Willard Baldwin earned a Doctor of Science at Cornell University. Stone completed doctoral work at the University of Chicago. Her 1897 thesis, On the Electrical… Read More

[ London ]: [ John Joseph Griffin and Co ], 1848. Later printing. Cloth. Poor. Later printing. v-vii [1], [iii]-vii [1], 834 pages plus 86 (of 87) engraved plates. Roughly 9 x 11.25 inches. Disbound, with original but faded blind-stamped green cloth covers present but detached, and lacking the first 2 leaves of front matter including the title page. Blindstamped covers note "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana". Spine notes "Encyclopaedia of Manufactures and Machinery by Barlow and Babbage" with "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana" at base (all in worn gilt). Attribution of 1848 date and printer are based on the differences in pagination between the 1836 and 1848 printings by Barlow of this volume. Generally clean and lightly browned internally, noting a marginal hole in pages 315-317 (not affecting text), plates 40 and 45 badly foxed with (plate 40 bound in backwards), plate 83 torn into the image and foxed (no loss), and plate 86 chipped at the edges but with no loss. All constituting this single volume in… Read More

[ Lancaster, PA ]: The Physical Review, 1947. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 1139-1146 pages. 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (8vo). Original green printed wrappers. Offprint from The Physical Review, Vol 72, No 12, pp. 1139-1146, December 15, 1947. A touch of fading to the edges, otherwise a fine copy. Wraps. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 was awarded to Enrico Fermi "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons". (Nobel site) "The possible existence of a potential interaction between neutron and electron has been investigated by examining the asymmetry of thermal neutron scattering from xenon..." (abstract) "When the neutron experiments were at the end of their obvious and interesting extension, Leona Marshall and Fermi sat down and discussed the various possible neutron interactions. Mrs. Marshall recalls that her suggestion and urging led to the… Read More

1914. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 127-149 pages. Stapled wrappers. 8vo. The offprint issue, reprinted from Studies in Psychiatry, Vol II. Some creasing and minor soiling - one inked mark front cover. Wraps. "Charles Macfie Campbell (1876-1943) was a psychiatrist in the United States. He was President of the American Psychiatric Association." (wiki).

London: H. W. Martin & Co., Bartlett's Buildings, 1841. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. [2], 16 pages. 8vo. Disbound from a previous volume. Few pencil marks on front wrapper. Wraps. W. H. White was secretary to the Meteorological Society. This paper was read at the "Meteorological Soiree, Given at the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor's. ... on Friday 2nd of April 1841". White notes that the "chief aspirants for predictive fame are, Murphy, Zadkiel, Simmonite, and Hind". White discusses each (Murphy who is unintelligible and non-scientific, Zadkiel and Simmonite who promote the Astral Theory which he finds scientific and quite beautiful, etc). Newton, Airy, Herschel and others enter his analysis along the way. Scarce, with only 4 copies in OCLC as of this writing.

London: Taylor and Francis, 1860. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. [12],1-184 pages + 6 plates in rear, some folding. 4to (9 x 11 3/4 inches). Printed paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. Some scuffing and soiling to the wrappers, front wrapper starting to separate. Spine browned. The entire Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCLX Vol. 150. - Part I (as issued). Maxwell's paper is found on pages 57-84. Wraps. "Maxwell's place in the history of physics is fixed by his revolutionary investigations in electromagnetism and the kinetic theory of gases, along with substantial contributions in several other theoretical and experimental fields: (1) color vision, (2) the theory of Saturn's rings ...Maxwell created the science of quantitative colorimetry. He proved that all colors may be matched by mixtures of three spectral stimuli, provided subtraction as well as addition of stimuli is allowed." An extended discussion of Maxwell's work in color theory is… Read More

Eastgate Row, Chester: Phillipson & Golder, 1909. Stiff Wrappers. Near Fine. 36 pages, unpaginated. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. Maroon publisher's binding in stiff pressed paper boards with small diamond pattern, and gold gilt decorations. Printers imprint (?) embossed at base of rear panel but difficult to read as it was pressed over top of the diamond pattern (possibly Rock's series??). Wear at the extremities, clean internally. Pencilled date of 1909 on first page. Great full size advertisement for Phillipson & Golder(bookseller/stationers) pasted to front pastedown endpaper. Stiff Wrappers. Contains 110 photographic views of the Chester district, some one per page, some pages with as many as 5 images on the page. A scarce survival, especially in this condition.

London, England and chicago, Illinois: Microscope Publications Ltd. Hard Cover. Very Good. Full title: The Optical Performance of the Light Microscope, parts 1 and 2 : Geometrical Optical Aspects of Image Formation and Physical Aspects of Image Formation (Volumes 14 and 15 in the Microscope Series). Original paper boards with gold lettering. Volume 1 original light green paper boards, with minor wear at the extremities. Chapters include refraction and reflection of light, formation of images by lenses, image formation by the microscope, the illumination system, optical defects of images and their correction, performace characteristics of objectives oculars and condensors, and conclusion and index. Part 2 is in the original paper covers boards, with spine slanted, and several shallow puncture marks in the front cover (sharp object punched hole in the cover, doesn't extend to the inside of the book). Also several minor soiled spots. Chapters include the Physical Nature of Light, Image formation of… Read More

New York and London: Academic Press, 1983. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. ix, [1], 323, [1] pages. Publisher's brown cloth. A sound clean copy noting previous owner name stamped in several places. Boards.