Savur, Srinivasa Rao. The median as a statistic. Offprint from Current Science, 5(8): 419-[420], 1937. 244 x 176 mm. Single unbound sheet, without wrappers. The right-hand margin is chipped and frayed. Good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. From the library of Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980). More
Savur, Srinivasa Rao. A general coefficient for statistical relationship. Offprint from Current Science, 6(1): 18-19, 1937. 246 x 187 mm. Original printed wrappers. Good+. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980) inside the front wrapper. 51305. More
Savur, Srinivasa Rao. The use of the median in tests of significance. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 5(6): 564-576, 1937. 250 x 187 mm. Original printed wrappers. Good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. From the library of Raymond Thayer Birge (1887-1980) with his annotations. 51304. More
Savur, Srinivasa Rao. A new solution of a problem in inverse probability. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 5(3), Sect. A: 222-234, 1937. 250 x 185 mm. Original printed wrappers. Edges are a little faded, some creasing to the corners, but the text is clean and..... More
London: Taylor & Walton, 1836. Quain, Jones (1796-1865). The muscles of the human body, in a series of plates. Folio. [6], 112pp. 50 hand-colored lithographed plates drawn by J. Walsh, plus a splendid lithographed frontispiece in black & white on India-paper, by Wm. Fairland after Michelangelo. London: Taylor & Walton..... More
Washington DC: NAS, 1948. Murnaghan, Francis Dominic (1893-1978). NAS Biographical memoir of Harry Bateman 1882-1946. Washington DC: NAS, 1948. Offprint from the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 54(1): 88-103, presented to the Academy at the Autumn meeting, 1948. Original printed wrappers. 226 x 150 mm. Pages numbered 241-256 [15pp]..... More
Rose, Allen. Lightning strikes mathematics: equations that spell progress are solved by electronics. Article in “Popular Science Monthly”, 148 (4): 83-87. Whole number, pp. 65-216, plus a student’s supplement pamphlet [16pp]. April 1964. 235 x 165 mm. Original printed wrappers, but they are rather faded. Pages slightly toned, front wrapper..... More
Rose, Allen. Lightning strikes mathematics: equations that spell progress are solved by electronics. Article in “Popular Science Monthly”, 148 (4): 83-87. Whole number, pp. 65-216, plus a student’s supplement pamphlet [16pp]. April 1964. 235 x 165 mm. Original printed wrappers, but they are rather faded. Pages slightly toned, front wrapper..... More
Second edition. Mullard Technical Service Dept. Mullard. The master valve guide 1933-4. 175 x 125 mm. Original soft covers. Very good. Second edition. More
Pierce, John Robinson (1910-2011). Communication theory. Offprint from Physics Today, 4 (5), pp. 6-12. May 1951. Without wrappers as issued. Pages slightly toned, creasing around the edges and one through the middle. Very good. First Edition Offprint Issue. More
Prinz, D. G. and R. G. Mitchell. Class C Telegraphy: the graphical determination of optimum operating conditions for transmitting valves. Offprint from the Wireless Engineer, pp. 401-407. September 1942. 245 x 185 mm. Original printed wrappers with Theodore von Karman’s stamp to the front wrapper. Very good. First Edition. From..... More
Nekrassoff, V. A. (1881-) Nomography in applications of statistics. Offprint from the Bell System Technical Journal. pp. 95-99 [7pp.] 230 x 150 mm. 28 February 1930. Original blue printed wrappers. Faded around the margins of the wrappers, otherwise a Very good copy. First Edition, offprint issue. Raymond T. Birge’s (1887-1980)..... More
Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1812. Salvage, Jean Galbert (1772-1813). Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux arts . . . Folio. [6], iv, 64pp. (2 cols.). Frontispiece & 21 plates, mostly printed in red & black, mostly engraved by Bosq after the author. Paris: the author, 1812. 582 x 422 mm..... More
1866. Pasteur, Louis (1822-95). Autograph draft of a letter to Frédéric Cazalis, editor of Le messager agricole. Bifolium. 3+ pages. Paris, 24 September 1866. 172 x 109 mm. Lightly creased where previously folded, but fine otherwise. Pasteur’s draft letter to Frédéric Cazalis, editor of the agricultural magazine Le messager agricole..... More
London: BBC Publications, 1972. First edition. Pawley, Edward Lewis Ellman. BBC Engineering 1922-1972. London: BBC Publications, 1972. xiv, 569pp. 245 x 175 mm. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust-jacket. Corners slightly bent. Very good. First Edition. 51115. More
Boulder, Colorado: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986. Snyder, Wilbert F., Charles L. Bragaw, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Achievement in radio: seventy years of radio science, technology, standards, and measurement at the National Bureau of Standards. Special Publication 555. Boulder, Colorado: National Bureau of Standards..... More
Washington DC: Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept. 1944. United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships. Radar system fundamentals, NAVSHIPS 900, 017. Washington DC: Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept., 1944. VI, 394pp. 235 x 150 mm. Library stamp to front wrapper. Confidential classification status. Stamp of the “Inspector of Naval Material”..... More
Washington DC: United States GPO, 1943. United States. War Department Technical Manual. Radar electronic fundamentals (TM 11-466). Restricted classification. Washington DC: United States GPO, 1943. 459pp. 215 x 140 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Ownership signature to top of front wrapper; laid in is a sheet of paper with..... More
London: Capella, 1988. First edition. Wander, Tim. 2MT Writtle. The birth of British broadcasting. London: Capella, 1988. 179pp. 210 x 140 mm. Brown cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket. Very good. First Edition, Signed by the Author. Below the signature is an inscription written in a different hand, which reads: “I worked..... More
London: Century Publishing, 1985. Wheen, Francis. Television: A history. Editorial consultant: Peter Fiddick. London: Century Publishing, 1985. 252 [4]pp. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. 260 x 190 mm. Dust-jacket. Near fine copy. First Edition. 51083. More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & co., Ltd., [1924]. Risdon, Philip James (1879-). Wireless. Introduction by J. A. Fleming, ..., with many diagrams and illustrations. London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & co., Ltd., [1924]. 384pp., frontispiece. Monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. 205 x 150 mm. Publisher’s original olive-green cloth covers..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1926. Seabury, William Marston (1878-1949). The public and the motion picture industry. New York: Macmillan, 1926. xiv, 340pp. 190 x 125 mm. Red cloth, gilt spine, line blocked bordering to front. Front & spine a little soiled, edges rubbed. Library stamps to title page, front free end..... More
Warwick: Printed at the Shakespeare Printing Press, 1863. Willughby, Percivall (1596-1685). Observations in midwifery. As also the countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum. Edited from the original ms. by Henry Blenkinsop, F.R.C.S.E. [2], xii, 345pp. Frontispiece. Warwick: Printed at the Shakespeare Printing Press . . . by H. T. Cooke..... More
Pavia: Tipografia degli eredi Bizzoni, 1860. Sangalli, Giacomo (1821-97). Storia clinica ed anatomica dei tumore Vol. I [II]. 2 vols. in 1. 125; [4], 600pp. 7 plates. Pavia: Tipografia degli eredi Bizzoni, 1860. 218 x 142 mm. 19th-century quarter calf, marbled boards, some wear, a few small gouges on spine..... More
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 2001. Tarnished Idol is the first serious, scholarly biography of William T. G. Morton, the self-trained Boston dentist who is credited with demonstrating to the medical profession in 1846 the efficacy of sulfuric ether in allaying the pain of surgery. It is also the first detailed..... More