Search Results: Science from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

London: Longmans, Green , and Co., 1874. Seventh Thousand; With Additions. Octavo, original purple cloth, pp. xxxvi, 83; + 44 page publisher's catalogue dated November 1874. New preface (to the seventh thousand) is twenty-eight pages. With Tyndall's initialled presentation inscription to John Amory Lowell, and with Lowell's bookplate. Fading and small stain to covers, lower front corner bumped and frayed, else very good..

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1995). First edition. Octavo, black boards, pp. 288; profusely illustrated. Memoirs of the chemist, art collector, and benefactor to Queen's University and elsewhere. Inscribed by the author to Canadian philosopher, George Grant. Slight foxing to top page edge, else about fine in dust jacket. .

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1924. First edition. 24 cm x 16 cm, maroon cloth, pp. ix, [x], 11- 208. With the bookplate of Walter Ambrose Harding, Madingley. Also with Harding's pencil signature and a date of 1925. Madingley Hall is now part of Cambridge University. Endpapers are darkened, 1" split in rear hinge paper, light spatter to spine, lower corners of covers are bumped, else near fine and bright..

(Toronto): Viking, (2000). First edition. 23.5 cm x 16.2 cm, slate grey boards, pp. [ix], 291. Signed by Grady. Science writer Wayne Grady accompanies paleontologist Phil Currie to major dinosaur digs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. xviii, 431; with 54 illustrations. Kippax's calling card is paper-clipped to endpaper. Signature of George Wedlake (1856-1922), mayor of the city of Brantford Ontario, Canada. Large chip to margin of one plate not affecting image, previous owner's rubber-stamp on endpaper, hinge paper a bit cracked although hinges are firm, light wear to cloth, corners a little worn and bumped, small divit out of cloth at fore-edge, of upper board, else very good. No dust jacket. [Oversize*].

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., (1922). "New and Revised Edition". Aprroximately 18 cm x 12.5 cm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 152; illustrated with 57 diagrams and renderings. A volume in Cassell's "Work" Handbooks. Cover pictures a dapper 1920's electrician examining a device. Previous owner's name on title page, neat repairs to spine ends, else very good..

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. Second printing. 22 cm x 14.5 cm, black cloth stamped in black and silver, pp. [iii], 68, + folding table. The author was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1957. This copy bears the bookplate of Arthur E. Covington, distinguished astrophysicist and the originator of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Previous owner's name on title page, otherwise fine in a very good dust jacket, with a couple of small tears and with the remnants of a label affixed near head of the spine..

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1997). First edition., 1997. Octavo, green boards backed in black cloth, pp. xv, 364. Near fine in dust jacket..

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1991). First edition. 24 cm x 16.5 cm, beige cloth, pp. xv, 370; illustrated. Canadian astrophysicist Arthur E. Covington's copy with his brief notes on the front endpaper. Covington was the pioneer of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Also with a small sheet of his notes and some paper ephemera laid in. Near fine in dust jacket, with a tiny crease to the front flap, and sunning to the spine..

London: Harrap, (1989). First edition. Octavo, red boards, pp. 239; illustrated. Near fine in dust jacket..

New Haven: Yale University Press, (1985). First edition. 21.5 cm x 14.5 cm, light brown cloth, pp. xi, 129. Soviet atomic physicist, Pyotr Leonidovick Kapitsa, spent several years in Britain as a valued colleague of Ernest Rutherford. This copy with a typed slip of paper which reads: "On Permanent Loan to the library of Arthur E. Covington". Covington was a distinguished astro-physicist, and the originator of radio astronomy in Canada. Also with a few brief notes regarding another publication in Covington's hand, tipped to the endpaper, and a few more sparse notations on the rear free endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket..

os Alomos, N.M: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, (March 1965). Circa 8 1/2" x 5 1/4", printed stapled wrappers, 16 pp.; illustrated. Former owner’s rubber-stamped name and Nigeria address on covers and first page of text. Some moderate creasing to covers, else good..

Toronto: Stoddart, (1987). Second printing. 23.5 cm x 16 cm, dark blue boards, pp. [304]; illustrated. Inscribed by Suzuki. Fine in dust jacket..

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1878. 21.5 cm x 14.5 cm, rebound in red cloth, pp. [vii) 363, + 36 pages of publisher's ads, dated October 1877; one plate and two diagrams in the text. With the bookplate of Canadian astrophysicist Arthur E. Covington, the pioneer of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Two old library stamps, foxing early and late, otherwise near fine. [Oversize*].

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. Revised edition. 25 cm x 17 cm, black cloth, pp. [v], 350; illustrated. Canadian astrophysicist Arthur E. Covington's copy with his signature and brief notes on the front endpaper. Covington was the pioneer of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Covington has signed his name beneath one diagram, signifying that the research was his work. Near fine copy. No dust jacket..

New York: The Macmillan Company, (1968). First edition. 24 cm x 16 cm, indigo cloth, pp. xxiii, 255. Collected writings by the great Soviet atomic physicist, Pyotr Leonidovick Kapitsa. With the bookplate of Arthur E. Covington, distinguished Canadian astro-physicist, and the originator of radio astronomy in Canada. With a few brief notes in Covington's hand on the front free endpaper. Ink remainder dot on bottom page edge, else near fine in dust jacket..

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1991). First edition. 8vo., gray cloth, pp. xviii, 488. Olesko reconstructs in fine detail the evolution, across the nineteenth century, of Franz Neumann's physics seminar at Konigsberh University in East Prussia. Fine in dust jacket..

Department of Biology, Queen's University at Kingston, (1991). First edition. Octavo, tan boards, pp. xiv, 215; illustrated. Near fine copy; no dust jacket - possibly so issued..

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, (1994). First edition. Near fine in dust jacket..

Kingston: Queen's Universirty, 1989. Quarto, library-style cloth, pp. xii, 198; diagrams throughout. A thesis submitted to the Department of Geological Sciences." The study recorded in this thesis is an error analysis of three geomagnetic "events" recoded at the Ottawa Geomagnetic Observatory in May 1984 by 30 Gough-Reitzel three-component variometers. Fine. May require extra postage..