1923. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). Zur Quantentheorie des Strahlungsgleichgewichts. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 19 (1923). 301-306pp. Original printed self-wrappers. 230 x 157 mm. Light toning but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1916, after publishing his great work on general relativity, Einstein returned to the... More
1922. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). Quantentheoretische Bemerkungen zum Experiment von Stern und Gerlach. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 11 (1922). 31-34pp. 229 x 155 mm. Original printed self-wrappers. Light toning but fine otherwise. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1922 the physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach conducted... More
1908. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Jakob Johann Laub (1884-1962). Über die elektromagnetischen Grundgleichungen für bewegter Körper. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4th series, 26 (1908). 532-540pp. 225 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Einstein’s first paper written jointly with a collaborator, on the relativistic electrodynamics..... More
London: 1860. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Portrait photograph of Taylor by Herbert Watkins (1828-1916). London, n.d. (dated “March 1860” in pencil on the verso). Oval image measuring 195 x 149 mm., mounted on card measuring 367 x 273 mm. Some dust-soiling to mount, a few spots, but very good. Watkins’s... More
1857. Hedde, Philippe (1801-80). (1) Revendication en faveur de Vaucanson de Grenoble de l’honneur de l’invention du mécanique qui porte aujourd’hui le nom de Jacquard de Lyon. Autograph manuscript signed (“par Mr. Ph. Hedde”). 10pp., on blue paper. N.p., n.d. 1857]. 266 x 208 mm. (2) Notes complementaires au mémoire..... More
London: 1858. Garrod, Alfred Baring (1819-1907). Autograph letter signed to Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-80). 12pp. [London] Harley Street, Cavendish Square, 10 December 1858. 178 x 105 mm. Minor soiling to first and last pages, creased along previous folds, but very good. Docketed in Taylor’s hand. Excellent and unusually long letter... More
1807. Rare engraved portrait of James Fraser, a well-known London bookbinder, alluding to his role as one of “The Prosecuting Masters” in a late eighteenth-century labor dispute between bookbinding masters and journeymen. It may be the only print relating to social conditions in the English bookbinding industry published during this..... More
1870-71. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Autograph medical report relating to the notorious Boulton and Park sodomy trial in Victorian London. 2 pages on one sheet. N.p., n.d. [London, 1870 or 1871]. 319 x 202pp. 2 lacunae along folds, affecting a few words, otherwise very good. Remarkable document in the hand... More
Cambridge: MIT, 1952. [Forrester, Jay Wright (1918-2016) and Charles W. Adams.] Digital computers and their applications. Lecture-notes summer session 1952. Mimeographed typescript. [123]ff., variously numbered. Text diagrams. Cambridge: Digital Computer Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952. 286 x 220 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit faded, in later cloth binder... More
St. Petersburg: 1832. Korsakov, Semyon Nikolaievich (1787-1853). Aperçu d’un procédé nouveau d’investigation au moyen de machines à comparer les idées. [2], 22pp. 2 folding plates. St. Petersburg: De l’imprimerie de la III-me section de la chancellerie privée de Sa Majesté Impériale, 1832. 213 x 135 mm. Original printed wrappers, vertically..... More
National Physical Laboratory, 1948-51. Wilkinson, James Hardy. (1) Confidential. Progress report on the Automatic Computing Engine. Mimeograph typescript. [1], 127ff. 12 plates. N.p.: National Physical Laboratory, April 1948. 324 x 202 mm. Original tan printed wrappers, green cloth spine, small tear in upper portion of backstrip, corners a bit worn... More
1898-1904. Curtis, Charles (1853-1928); Walter Fox (1858-1934). Archive of 21 autograph letters (18 by Curtis, 3 by Fox) signed to James Kortright Birch (1850-1927), plus a watercolor sketch of orchids and additional materials; list available on request. Penang Botanic Gardens (Malaysia), 12 December 1892 – 23 November 1904. Various sizes... More
London: The Patent Office, May 26, 1954. ENIAC. Patent specification 709,407 . . . Electronic numerical integrator and computer. 188pp. 65 diagrams (all but 1 folding). London: The Patent Office, 26 May 1954. 275 x 191 mm. Library buckram. First edition. First Printed Edition of the Patent for the the... More
1828. Morton, Samuel George (1799-1851). Description of two new species of fossil shells of the genera Scaphites and Crepidula: With some observations on the ferruginous sand, plastic clay, and Upper Marine formations of the United States. Offprint from Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6 (1829). 16... More
London: 1867. Lombe, Thomas (1685-1739). A.D. 1718. No. 422. Specification of Thomas Lombe. Engines to wind, spin, and twist silk. 5pp. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867. 266 x 173 mm. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Fore-margin a bit trimmed, marginal tear on front wrapper, traces of glue from... More
1964. Mathematical Theory behind the CT Scanner-Beginnings of Digital Image Processing. Cormack, Allan M. (1924-98). (1) Representation of a function by its line integrals, with some radiological applications. In J. Applied Physics 34 (1963): 2722-27. Whole number. 2535-2922pp. Text illustrations. (2) Representation of a function by its line integrals, with... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1890. James, William (1843-1910). The principles of psychology. 2 vols. [2], xii, 689; [2], vi, 704, 8 (adverts.)pp. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. 218 x 142 mm. Original olive cloth, gilt-lettered spines, light wear, a few tiny splits in spinal extremities. Light toning, minor... More
1953. Watson, James D. (1928- ) and Francis H. C. Crick (1916-2004). Molecular structure of nucleic acids. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. With: Wilkins, Maurice (1916-2004); A. R. Stokes; H. R. Wilson. Molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids. With: Franklin, Rosalind (1920-58) and R. G. Gosling. Molecular configuration in... More
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1921. Osler, William (1859-1919). The evolution of modern medicine: A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913. xiv, [2], 243pp. Text illustrations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. Original cloth, light wear at extremities and corners. Very good... More
Halle: Carl Marhold, 1909. Magnus-Levy, Adolf (1865-1955). Das Koma diabeticum und seine Behandlung. 54, [10, adverts.]pp. Halle: Carl Marhold, 1909. 233 x 151 mm. (unopened). Without wrappers. Light spotting but very good. First Edition. Magnus-Levy pioneered the study of human metabolism and its relation to such diseases as diabetes, goiter... More
Chicago: 1924. Libman, Emanuel (1872-1946) and Benjamin Sacks (1896-1939). A hitherto undescribed form of valvular and mural endocarditis. Offprint from Archives of Internal Medicine 33 (1924). 39pp. Text illustrations. 256 x 174 mm. Original gray printed wrappers, slight wear and spotting. Very good. From the library of Herbert M. Evans... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903. Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig (1857-1927). Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien. [6], 68pp. Text diagrams. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903. 242 x 165 mm. (unopened and uncut). Original orange printed wrappers. Fine. The Haskell F. Norman copy. First Edition in German. With his pure line theory... More
Berlin: Springer, 1926. Pick, Ludwig (1868-1935). Der Morbus Gaucher und die ihm ähnlichen Erkrankungen. Offprint from Ergebnisse der inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde 29 (1926). 519-627pp. Text illustrations. 247 x 166 mm. Original buff printed wrappers, spine chipped, light soiling. Upper corners a bit creased but very good. Presentation Copy, with... More
Bonn: Emil Strauss, 1878. Pflüger, Eduard F. W. (1820-1910). Ueber Wärme und Oxydation der lebendigen Materie. Offprint from Pflüger’s Archiv für die gesammte Physiologie 18 (1878). 247-380pp. 231 x 156 mm. Original printed wrappers, small piece torn from front wrapper, slight soiling. Some discoloration from acidic wrappers, but very good..... More
Paris: Bachelier, 1835. Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796-1874). Sur l’homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou essai de physique sociale . . . 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. [4], xii, 327; [4], viii, 327pp. 5 (of 6) plates; lacking Plate 1. Paris: Bachelier, 1835. 202 x 127 mm. Quarter... More
