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Paris, Pierre Didot, An XI (1803). Small 8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemporary full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs. 230,223 pp.

Leiden, 1958. 4to. 2 orig. full fabrikoid. LXVI, 1138, XXXIV, 227 pp.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1965. 8vo. Volume XLIV, Number 5, May-June 1965 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. With previous owner's name stamped to front wrapper. Sunning to spine and margins of front wrapper. An overall nice and clean copy. Pp. 871-898. [Entire volume: Pp. 731-935 + one folded diagram]. First publication of Sandberg's first paper on the properties of solutions of nonlinear functional equations in physical systems."With a few exceptions, however, the users of linear theory, when faced with the presence of a nonlinear element, were forced either to fall back on the classical technique of analyzing the stability of system only under small perturbations, or else to treat the nonlinearity itself as a small perturbation. In a SEMINAL SEQUENCE OF PAPERS beginning in 1963 [the present paper being the first publication], I. W. Sandberg at Bell Labs set forth a full analysis, not limited to small perturbations, of the stability of feedback systems containing nonlinear elements of a precisely specified kind." (Millman, S. A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 31).

Napoli, Designate dal Regio Disegnatore Gius. Abbate, 1854. 4to. Hcalf. Back defective and worn. Engraved and framed titlepage and 100 engraved plates. A handwritten Indice at end (1-100). A little brownspotted. Sometimes with a handwritten title in top of plate.

A Londres, 1800. Cont. blue papercovers. XVI,348 pp. - First edition. Barbier III:1098.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 10, No 16. Pp. (671-) 670. (Entire issue offered). Regnault's paper: pp. 658-663. A few small inkspots on first page. Regnault announced here that he has found experimental evidence for the approximate nature of Dulong & Petit's Law for both elements and compounds."His first results on the specific heat of solids were presented to the Academy of Sciences on April 3, 1840. One finds there the first experimental demonstration of the approximate law of Dulong and Petit, which had been ypothesized, rather than established, by these physicists. For 24 pure elements, Regnault demonstrated that this law was only partially true mostly because there was no accepted table of atomic weights at that time." (Laurie Dahlberg)

Paris, Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1890. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece. (4),212 pp. and 20 fine plates in woodengraving showing many types of military equipment from the factory Creusot. Fine and clean.

Paris, Bachelier, 1843. 4to. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 16, No 4. Pp. (151-) 214. (Entire issue offered). Matteucci's paper pp. 197-200. Clean and fine. First announcement of the discovery of the "rheoscopic frog" effect. It states that If the nerve or living muscle of a frog is suddenly dropped upon another living muscle so as to come in contact with its longitudinal and transverse sections, the first muscle will contract on account of the stimulation of its nerve due to the passage of a current derived from the second muscle (Ganot). The experiment goes under the above title.Garrison & Morton,608.

London, John Sharpe, 1825. 8vo. Bound in very nice, contemporary full green morrocco bindings with richly gilt spine, elaborate gilt borders to boards, inner gilt dentelles and gilt lines to edges of boards. Hindges with a bit of wear and light soiling to boards. Internally with light occassional brownspots. A fine copy. XII, 215 pp.

Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1833. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. and slightly rubbed. (4),518 pp. A few brownspots. First german edition.

(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). First printing of the paper in which he describes the 8 inch-telescope with the fluid lens - the so-called second Barlow-lens - required by the Royal Society for testing."Barlow’s next major contribution makes his name still well known by amateur astronomers today. He invented the Barlow lens, a telescope lens consisting of a colourless liquid between two pieces of glass. The "Barlow lens", a modification of this telescope lens, is a negative achromatic combination of flint glass and crown glass. It is a negative lens used to extend the effective focal length of a telescope objective.""His optical experiments began about 1827. There were several experiments to correct a single lens for chromatic aberration with concave lenses. These correctors were first placed near the first lens, but some opticians moved the concave lens further down the tube. This arrangement was described 1828 by Rogers in a paper to the Astronomical Society. By this a 3 inch concave flint lens was sufficient to correct a 9 inch crown glass. Smaller lenses near the focus would do the colour correction, but have to have steeper curves which would introduce spherical aberration."

Kiöbenhavn, 1756. 4to. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A few scratches to boards. Ex-libris to pasted down front end-paper. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. (6), 442 pp. + 12 folded tables and plates (the engraved title-page included in the pagination). A nice copy of volume two of Hans de Hofman’s valuable work, containing a wealth of Danish-Norwegian genealogical source material.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1856). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1856 - Vol. 146 - Part I. Pp. 287-295. Clean and fine. First appearance of a paper in which Joule measures connections between electrical currents and different kinds of magnets.Joule is well known for his discovery of Joule's Law, the connection between heat and mechanical work, where heat is a form of energy. "In December of 1840 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on the production of heat by the electric current. His course of thought led him to the consideration of the relatio between heat and and mechanical work. The results of his investigations were embodied in a series of papers which culminated in his great memoir on the mechanical equivalent of heat, published in 1850. Joule was one of the founders of the principle of the cosservation of energy. Some of his work was done in collaboration with Lord Kelvin."(Source Book in Physics p. 203).

Paris, Devambez, n.d. (ca 1920). Folio. Orig. portfolio, clothbacked, but spine gone. Internally clean. (4), 27, (5) pp + 44 heliotyped plates, textillustr. The present collection depicts the architecture and interior designs of Château de Malmaison situated in the French commune Rueil-Malmaison west of Paris. In 1799 Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the house for herself and her husband General Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon I of France. At the time the house was bought Napoléon Bonaparte was campaigning in Egypt and Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the house for expected money he would bring back. At first Napoléon was furious over the great sum spent on the castle but eventually Château de Malmaison would bring great happiness to the Bonapartes.

(Paris, Crochard, 1828). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 39 (Sec. Cahier), With halftitle to vol. 39. pp. 113-224. (Entire issue offered). Ampere's paper: pp. 113-145 a. 1 folded engrave plate. The plate with a few, mostly marginal brownspots. First appearance of Ampere's mathematical treatment of Fresnel's ondulatory theory of light, agreeing with Fresnel and opposed to Biot and Laplace who advocated a corpuscular theory.

Halae Magdeburgicae (Halle), Salfeldianis, (1707). 4to. As issued without wrappers. (2),60 pp.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957 8vo. In the original full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Library stamps to front free end-paper, half title and title page. Miscolouring to spine. Internally fine and clean. XIV, 166 pp. First printing of one of Popper's most influential works: "The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies, his most impassioned and brilliant social works, are as a consequence a powerful defence of democratic liberalism as a social and political philosophy, and a devastating critique of the principal philosophical presuppositions underpinning all forms of totalitarianism" (SEP)Popper argues, it is logically demonstrable by a consideration of the implications of the fact that no scientific predictor, human or otherwise, can possibly predict, by scientific methods, its own future results. From this it follows, he holds, that 'no society can predict, scientifically, its own future states of knowledge'(The present work, P vii)

(Paris, Bachelier, 1851). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 33, No 22. Pp. (589-) 632 (entire issue offered). Talbot's paper: pp. 623-627. First printing of the paper in which Talbot describes how he worked out the method of instant photography. He patented it in 1852 and 1858. "The beginning of high speed photography might be considered to be William Henry Fox Talbot's experiment in 1851. He attached a page of the London Times newspaper to a wheel, which was rotated in front of his wet plate camera in a darkened room. As the wheel rotated, Talbot exposed a few square inches of the newspaper page for about 1/2000th of a second, using spark illumination from Leyden jars. This experiment resulted in a readable image."

Kjöbenhavn, Steen & Sön, (1851). Lille 8vo. Originalt graveret rosa glanspapir-omslag. Helt guldsnit. Med 8 håndkolorerede illustrationer af Ley. Ganske udsædvanligt velbevaret eksemplar.

København, Schultz, 1916. Orig. helshirtbd med guldtryk på ryg og forperm. (4),157,373 pp., 8 tabeller, 3 diagrammer, 1 foldekort. Frisk eksemplar.

Carlstad, 1852-(66). 4 samt.hshirtbd. St.o.t.

Leipzig, Barth, 1828. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Minor scratches to spine. Bd. 89 der ganzen Folge. VI,632 pp., 7 folded engraved plates, 1 handcoloured. Clean and fine Contributions by Liebig, Köhler, Rose, Fourier, Poisson, Gay- Lussac, Becquerel and others.

London, Temple Press, 1948. January 1, 15, 22, 29. - February 5, 12, 19, 26. - March 4, 11, 18, 25.- April 1, 8, 15. 4to. Richly illustr. A few issues with slight wear. Motor Cycling was one of the first UK motorcycle magazines. Launched in 1903, its green cover led to it being called "The Green 'un" to distinguish it from its rival publication The Motor Cycle. The editor, Graham Walker, was a dispatch rider in the First World War and had a successful racing career with Rudge, Sunbeam and Norton, winning the Ulster Grand Prix in 1928.[1]. He rode many times in the Isle of Man TT, winning the lightweight (250cc) class in 1931[2], and became president of the TT Riders Association[3]. He was also the father of racing commentator Murray Walker.Many issues throughout the 1940s and 1950s had the strapline "Read wherever motorcycles are ridden!"

(Metz ?), Lithographie de l'Ecole d'Application de l'Artillerie et du Génie, 1889. Small 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. (4),XXXII,377 pp., many textillustrations, plates and 12 lithographed plates in colour. Text throughout lithographed.

Paris, J. Rouam, 1884. Large 4to. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. (1),289 pp., 3 engraved plates and many textillustrations in woodcut.