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New York, Charles B. Norton, 1852. Large 4to. (33x27 cm.). Orig. full calf. Profusely gilt on spine and covers. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Some wear to spine and lacks 2 cm. of leather at top of spine. Both covers detached. (4),113,83 pp. + 14 pp. of announcements. With all 24 engraved plates under tissue-guards. Some brownspots throughout and a leaf with some foxing. The plates in general fine with some brownspots, mainly marginal. The first part deals with Granite Dry Docks, the second with Floating Dry Docks. "The smaller number of pages in the second edition is caused by the printing of the descriptions of the plates on both sides of the leaves, whereas they appear only on the recto in the first edition." (Sabin, 93148).

Roma, Stamperis della R. Cam. A., 1835. Large 8vo. Uncut with orig. blue blank wrappers. Backstrip tape-repaired an nearly gone. VI,56 pp. and 4 folded engraved maps and plans. Margins on 3 maps and on 1 leaf soiled. Internally clean, printed on good paper. The 4 plans: 1. Pianta d'una porzione Laziol. 2. Pianta del Porto antico e moderno d'Anzio. 3. Pianta del corse del Tevere da Roma al mare. 4. Pianta d'una porte delle Paludi Pontine verso Terracina.

Coloniae (Kölln), ex. Officina Eucharii Cervicorni (Impensis Magistri Godefridi Hitorpii), 1539. Small 8vo. Bound in an early 18th century modest hcalf. Some of the paper on froncover gone. Leaves unnumbered. Ca. 350 leaves. A dampstain to foot of the first ca. 100 leaves, decreasing towards end. A woodengraved illustration on titlepage. Titlepage somewhat soiled and with old owners names. Last leaf somewhat soiled.Some large initials. A few contemporary annotations. Not in Adams.

Brussel, Giovanni de Meerbeecq, 1632. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Portrait vignette on title in woodcut. (16),479,(14) pp. Some scattered old underlinings. A faint dampstain to lower corners on the first 10 leaves. Scarce early edition of Bentivoglio's "The History of the Wars of Flanders...." On 22 June 1633, Cardinal Bentivoglio was one of the signers of the papal condemnation of Galileo. An able writer and skilful diplomat, Bentivoglio was marked out as Urban's successor, but he died suddenly after the opening of the 1644 Papal conclave. He is buried in the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome.

Paris, L'Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1804. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf, gilt spines , blindtooled boders on covers. A tear to fronthinge on volume 1. VIII,514;(4),534 pp. and 75 fine engraved plates, 1 folded engraved map. Large paper copy 25x19,5 cm. Brunet III, 1077: "Belle édition de cet ouvrage estimé ; elle est ornée de 75 gravures assez jolies, faites d'après les principaux tableaux des trois écoles qui ont rapport au texte".

London, N.Y., Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 8vo. Uncut in orig. pictotial full cloth, richly gilt. XIII,(2),168 PP. + Publisher's Catalogue: 40 pp. 10 plates in photogravure (incl. frontispiece) and 1 lithographed plan in colour. Internally clean and fine, printed on heavy paper. On front free endpaper is mounted a printed paperlabel "From the Author" and also stamped in blind "Major E.S. Jackson..." A near mint copy. First edition. Schiötz 1063a.

Copenhagen, The National Museum, 1941-65. 10 volumes bound in 4 solid private hcloth. With orig. printed frontwrappers. Some volumes with dedication from the author. Comprising. Vol. I. Ethnographical Studies published on the Occasion ofthe centenary oftheEthnographical Department. Natuional Museum. 1941.251 pp. Illustrated. - II. C.G. feilberg. La Tente Noir. Contribution ethnographique a L'Histoire culturelle des Nomades. 1944. 254 pp. Maps. - III. Henny Harald Hansen. Mongol Costumes. Researches on the Garments collected by the first and second Danish Central Asian Expeditions under the Leadership of Henning Haslund-Christensen 1936-37 and 1938-39. 1950. 199 pp. Textillustr. - IV. C.G. Feilberg. Les Papis. Tribu Persane de Nomades Montagnards du Sud-Ouest de L'Iran. 1952. 166 pp. Textillustrated. - V. Martha Boyer. Mongol Jewellery. Reseraches on the Silver Jewellery collected by the first and second Danish Central Asian Expeditions under the Leadership of Henning Haslund-Christensen 1936-37 and 1938-39. 1952. 225 pp. Textillustrated. - VI. Kaj Birket-Smith. The Chugach Eskimo. 1953. 261 pp. Textillustrated. - VII. Henny Harald Hansen. The Kurdish Woman's Life. Field Research in a Muslim Society, Iraq. 1961. 214 pp. Textillustrated. - VIII. Niels Fock. Waiwai. Religion and Society of an Amazonian Tribe. 1963. 316 pp. Textillustrations and music. - IX. Johannes Nicolaisen. Ecology and Culture ofthe Pastoral Tuareg with particular Reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr. 1963. 548 pp., textillustrations. - X. Jens Yde. Material Culture of the Waiwái. 1965. 318 pp. Textillustrations and 1 map.

Halle, Officina Fritschiana, 1738. Contemp. full vellum. Minor spots to covers. Title in blind on spine. Engraved frontispiece and engraved titlevignette. (30),544,(32) pp. + 136 pp. Interleaved on which many notes in a contemporary hand. Title-page and a few of the first leaves with faint dampstaining.

Berlin, Johann Friedrich Unger, 1790. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Light wear at top of spine. (2),380 pp. and 30 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. First edition. - Poggendorff II, 1078.

Hafniæ (København), Salomonis Sartorÿ, 1623. 12mo. Samtidigt helpergamentbd. Lille revne ved ene fals, men falsen ikke itu. Titelbladet med træstukken smal ramme. (20),848 pp. + registre. Første danske udgave af forfatterens lærde forklaringer over Luther's katekismus. - Bibl. Danica I:262.

Erfurt, J.F. Weber, 1756. - Dessau, Cörnerischen Buchhandlung, 1755. Bound in one contemp. full vellum. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Backcover rubbed. Stamps on title-page. (16),119 pp. and 8 folded engraved plates. - 45 pp., one table. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 941.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1803. Unbound, but stitched. (2),XIV,296 pp. The map lacks. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...Hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel. 8. Bd.:1 Theil). Also having the series titlepage, this with a stamp.

Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1858. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 47, No 6 a. No 10. Pp. (245-) 279 a. pp. (393-) 431 (entire issues offered). Bernard's papers: pp. (245-) 253 a. pp. (393) -400. First appearance of these landmark papers in which Barnard explains his discovery of how the nerves controls the blood vessels. This is the "discovery of the vascoconstrictor and vasodilator nerves and description of their function of regulating the blood supply to the different parts of the body."(Garrison & Morton, No. 774)."In 1858 (the papers offered) Bernard demonstrated the existence of vasodilator nerves by finding an increased blood flow through the submaxillary gland, when the corda tympani is stimulated. He also observed that the venous blood became bright red. Since that time an enormous amount of research has been carried out on the vasomotor system."(R.J.S. Mcdowall).Garrison & Morton, No. 774.

Leipzig, Schwickertschen verlage, 1797 and 1803. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spinegilding weak, spine rubbed, a small tear at upper hinge. Corners renewed. XX,927;IV,183 pp. Internally clean.

(New York), American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1950. 8vo. Volume XXIX, July, No. 3, 1950 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of minor browning to extremities. Wrapper only attached to back hinge. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 343-359. [Entire issue: Pp. 295-468]. First edition of Shannon's influential paper on how to construct a telephone exchange network. "The problem of designing a good rearrangeable network was (probably first) considered in a paper of C. E. Shannon investigating memory requirements in a telephone exchange. On the networks that he considered he imposed the realistic "separate memory condition" to the effect that in operation a separate part of the memory can be signed to each call on progress. This means that completion of a new call or termination of an old call will not disturb the state of memory elements associated with any call in progress. [...] Shannon's separate memory condition is actually met by modern connecting networks [...]. (Benes, Vaclav Edward. Mathematical Theory of Connecting Networks and Telephone Traffic: 017, 1965, p. 119.) Claude Shannon is widely regarded as being the father of information theory and cryptography. Origins of Cyberspace 883.The present issue also includes:1. Southworth, George C. Principles and Applications of Waveguide Transmission. Pp. 295-342.2. Hartley, R.V.L. Matter, A Mode of Motion. Pp. 350-368.3. Hartley, R.V.L. The Reflection of Diverging Waves by a Gyrostatic Medium. Pp. 369-389.4. Pierce, J.R. Traveling-Wave Tubes (Third Installment). Pp. 390-460.

Berlin, Springer, 1935. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 95, 1936. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 752-62. [Entire volume: VIII, 818 pp.]. First appearance of this important paper which constitute the first description of the fundamental principles behind modern high power linear beam microwave electron tubes."They described a transit-time tube in which the three characteristic features; velocity modulation, phase focusing, and energy transfer were designed to occur in three separate regions, an arrangement which is also characteristic of a klystron. Further they demonstrated, in my opinion for the first time, that it is necessary, in order to achieve high RF power output, to use a linear electron beam, and that the beam must be positioned in such a way as to prevent the electrons from landing on RF electrodes - they must only be allowed to penetrate the fringe field of the RF electrodes, finally landing on a separate electrode, now called the collector. This arrangement made it possible to separate high frequency from beam guiding electrodes, thus permitting the use of high power electron beams" (Sarkar, History of Wireless). "which outlined the fundamental working principles of the klystron tube, a high power microwave oscillator, used to provide the transmitter power in the newly developed radar equipment. Leaving Arsenjeva in Russia, he later moved to the UK to continue development work on the klystron with Standard Telephones and Cables (STC), the UK arm of ITT. The day before England went to war with Germany Heil slipped out of the country returning to Germany to continue his work at Standard Electric Lorentz (SEL), ITT's German arm in Berlin. Heil's klystrons, known as "Heil's Generators", became key components in Germany's World War II radars.""After the war Heil's name appeared on an FBI list of Germans accused of war crimes. He was brought to the US by the military and worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Subsequently he formed his own company and carried out intensive research the physiology of the human ear and sound generation by small animals which he applied to the design of sound transducers. His 1973 patent for the Heil Air Motion Transformer (AMT) made him well known to HiFi buffs."

Berlin, Springer, 1935. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 96, 1935. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 431-458. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp]. First printing of Weizsäcker's exceedingly important paper containing the first appearance of Bethe-Weizsäcker formula, or Semi-Empirical Mass Formula (SEMF), a theoretical formula relating the curve of nuclear binding energy, nuclear masses, and certain other nuclear properties.In nuclear physics, the semi-empirical mass formula (SEMF) (sometimes also called Weizsäcker's formula, the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula, or the Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula to distinguish it from the Bethe-Weizsäcker process) is used to approximate the mass and various other properties of an atomic nucleus. As the name suggests, it is based partly on theory and partly on empirical measurements. The theory is based on the liquid drop model proposed by George Gamow, which can account for most of the terms in the formula and gives rough estimates for the values of the coefficients. Although refinements have been made to the coefficients over the years, the structure of the formula remains the same today.The present volume also contain conttributions by Wener Heisenberg: Die Struktur der leichten Atomkerne.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1957. 8vo. Volume 36, 1957 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Sunning to spine, and very minor spotting to wrappers. Internally near mint. 348 pp. First edition of the first technical description of the TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. The 2,240-mile cable was laid by the cableship Monarch and ran from Gallanach Bay, near Oban in Argyll, to Clarenville, Canada."The papers that follow describe the design, manufacture and installation of the first transatlantic telephone cable system with all its component parts, including the connection microwave radio-relay system in Nova Scotia." (From the introduction to the present volume)."Years of development led up to 1956 when the first transatlantic telephone cable system started carrying calls; this is an interesting story in itself. Two coaxial cables about 20 miles apart carried 36 two-way circuits. Nearly 50 sophisticated repeaters were spaced from 10 to 40 miles along the way. Each vacuum tube repeater contained 5,000 parts and cost almost $100,000." (Petruzzellis, Thomas. Telephone Projects for the Evil Genius, 2008, p. 4). The electronic repeaters, the devices that held together the many separate cables, were designed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. In terms of reliable operation, the most critical component of the system was the repeater. These devices, spaced at intervals of 37.5 nautical miles along the cable, compensated for loss. The repeaters were of a unique flexible design, which allowed them to be handled in the same manner as cable.TAT-1 carried the Moscow-Washington hotline between the American and Soviet heads of state.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:1. Kelly, Dr. Mervin J.; Radley, Sir Gordon. Transatlantic Communications - An Historical Resume. Pp. 1-5.2. Mottram, E.T.; Halsey, R.J.; Emling, J.W.; Griffith, R.G. Transatlantic Telephone Cable System - Planning and Over-All Performance. Pp. 7-27.3. Lewis, H.A.; Tucker, R.S.; Lovell, G.H.; Fraser, J. M. System Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 29-68.4. Gleichmann, T.F.; Lince, A.H.; Wooley, M.C.; Braga, F.J. Repeater Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 69-101. 5. Lamb, H.A.; Heffner, W.W. Repeater Production for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 103-138. 6. Meszaros, G.W.; Spencer, H.H. Power Feed Equipment for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 139-162.7. McNally, J.O.; Metson, G.H.; Veazie, E.A.; Holmes, M.F. Electron Tubes for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 163-188.8. Lebert, A.W.; Fischer, H.B.; Biskeborn, M.C. Cable Design and Manufacture for the Transatlantic Submarine Cable System. Pp. 189-216.9. Halsey, R.J.; Bampton, J.F. System Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 217-244.10. Brockbank, R.A.; Walker, D.C.; Welsby, V.G. Repeater Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 245-276.11. Thomas, J.F.P.; Kelly, R. Power-Feed System for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 277-292.12. Jack, J.S.; Leech, Capt. W.H.; Lewis, H.A. Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 293-326.

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London, J. Nichols, 1791. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Joints cracked, back defective. VIII,137 pp. and 9 engraved plates (the last plate misnumbered). Apart from a few brownspots and a few underlinings in the text, internally clean and printed on good paper. - First edition. The study of the changes in Greek lettering is based on the authors own impressive collection of coins etc., now in the British Museum.

Paris, Corréard Jeune, 1840. Folio. (45,5 x 31 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. (4) pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates (double-folio). Faint scattered brownspots and some brownin to foot of a few plates.

Hafniæ, J. Hög og J. Schmetgen (Appendix), 1702-14. Lille 4to. Samt. hldrbd. over træ. Ryg defekt. Marmoreret sidepapir delvist bortslidt. Med 2 kobberstukne titelvignetter. (14),167,(5);(4),75,(3) pp. Svag skjold i indre margin på de første blade, et bladhjørne repareret med tab af nogle få bogstaver. Her og der brunplettet. Eksemplaret har tilhørt: Kalkar, H.F. Rørdam og Th. Hauch-Fausbøll. Originaludgaven. Sjælden med Appendix'et sammenbundet, idet dette først udkom 12 år senere.

Stokholm, Wiborg, 1817. 8vo. Bound in a magnificent contemporary half calf binding, presumably a gift binding, with richly gilt spine. Gilt borders to boards. All edges gilt. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Few scattered brownspots, otherwise clean. (8),168 pp. + 1 plate. A beautiful copy of the first edition of Rask's 'Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue', which constitutes the founding of the scientific study of Old English. Hjelmslev I, 23.

Lindon, Harrison and Sons, 1890-91. Bound together in recent marbled boards. With both titlepages to vols 48 and 49 (both 1891) in "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" pp. 455-459 (in vol. 48) and pp. 540-548. "The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks" is an early 'abstract' read to the Royal Society. The full paper paper appeared later the same year. "Methods of indexing Finger Mark" being the first appearance. These two paper constitute the very first appearance of the anthropometric classification of fingerprint."Galtons establisment of fingerprinting as an easy and almost infallible means of human identification transformed a difficult subject, and his taxonomy of prints is basically that used today".(DSB).