Search Results: Titles starting with B from Jeff Weber Rare Books

Princeton, NJ:: Princeton University Press, (1998)., 1998. 8vo. xv, 246 pp. 45 tables, 27 figures, indices. Navy blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0691011966

Paris:: Masson, (1929)., 1929. 243 x 160 mm. 8vo. 23 pp. Printed wrappers. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on top cover. Very good.

Jersey City:: St. Peter's College Press, 1939., 1939. Slim 8vo. xlvi, 133 pp. Red gilt-stamped cloth. Inscribed "compliments of [Hon.] David J. Walsh, August 5, 1939 (he is the dedicatee). RARE.

London:: C. W. Bacon, 1871., 1871. [89x71.5 cm]. Large folded pocket map with original linen backing, within original blind-stamped red cloth cover; spine torn at center (closed with kozo). Very rare British-published map of America. Bookseller's label [Westley] pasted inside front board. Very good copy. With both established railway routes and those proposed by the US government in 1871. The map shows the entire mid-west and eastern US and is highlighted in colors. Only a small portion of southern Canada is shown. A smaller inset shows the full United States & Territories, with "British Possessions" marked for Canada. There is also a table of the US population, given as 31,485,247 at the time, parsed by state, and a short table of relative distances in miles. No copy appears on WorldCat.

Amsterdam:: Elsevier, 1964., 1964. 8vo. XIII, [1], 293, [1] pp. Figs., index. Red cloth, dust-jacket; jacket a bit worn. Very good.

Boston:: Little, Brown, 1880., 1880. 8vo. 227 pp. 10 plates (including 6 heliotypes + 4 lithographs), index. Original green cloth; spine ends worn, top joint torn and mended, corners showing. Bookplates of Elie Metchnikoff Memorial Library and Indiana University, with their embossed stamp on title and rear pocket, spine call number. Good. RARE. FIRST EDITION in English. Garrison and Morton 2492 (first French edition of 1878). "As a pioneer in America, not only in bacteriological investigations, but in the publication of text-books on bacteriology, Dr. Sternberg deserves appreciation. In 1880 he translated . . . the work of Dr. Antoine Magnin, and enlarged it and brought it up to date in 1884." – Kelly & Burrage. Burns, American Medical Publications with Photographs, p. 1245 and fig. 11(reproducing plate 7 with 4 photomicrographs).

New York:: Paul B. Hoeber, 1939., 1939. Small 8vo. xv, [1], 207, [1] pp. Frontis. portrait, 7 figs., index. Red blind- and black-stamped textured cloth. Very good. Clio Medica series. "A much briefer history than Bulloch's but with a thorough and accurate bibliography." – Garrison and Morton 2581.

Ithaca (NY) & London:: Cornell University Press, (1974)., 1974. Large 8vo. xxi, 531 pp. Bibliog., index. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. ISBN: 0801405041

London:: Printed by W. Bulmer, 1809., 1809. 292 x 235 mm. 4to. Pages 39-104. [Entire issue: vi, [2], (1)-187, [1 blank], 26, [1], [1 blank] pp.] 4 figs. on 1 engraved plate. Original plain blue wrappers; spine heavily chipped. Very good. This is Davy's third Bakerian Lecture read to the Royal Society 15 December 1808 and printed in the Philosophical Transactions. The paper contains his report of the decomposition of boracic acid by heating with potassium and his conclusion that the basis of the acid is a metal which he named boracium. His other experiments led to his conclusions that a) nitrogen contains oxygen, b) sulphur and phosphorus contain small amounts of hydrogen and oxygen and c) plumbago, charcoal and the diamond differ in physical properties because of the differences in chemical composition and not because of the arrangement of parts. The plate depicts Davy's apparatus. Davy's work in the years 1806-1812 "did more for chemistry than the 60 [years] which followed them." Mottelay,… Read More

London:: Harrison and Sons, 1883., 1883. 304 x 242 mm. 4to. Pages 891-918. [Entire volume: iv, [8], (1)-271, [1 blank]; iv, [2], 459-549, [1 blank], 583-638, 645, 691, [1 blank]; 717-721, [1 blank], 817-863, [1 blank], 891-988 pp.] 1 fig., tables. Early green cloth (ca. 1909), printed paper spine label; lightly rubbed. Ex library bookplate of the Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, rubber stamps on edges. Very good. Beginning in the 1880s, Crookes occupied himself with the examination of the phosphorescent spectra produced by bombarding minerals with radiant matter, an effort which led him to speculate on the origin of the elements. Most substances gave continuous phosphorescent spectra, but the beautiful discontinuous spectra produced by rare earth minerals led him to suspect in 1881 that these ores contained many unknown elements. Crookes found that yttria could be separated by fractionation into five or more parts that were differentiated only by their slightly different… Read More

London:: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847., 1847. 302 x 240 mm. 4to. Pages (1)-16; 17-21. [Entire volume: x, [2], (1)-117, [1 blank]; [vi], (119)-229, [1 blank], 249-266, 12 pp.] 1 lithographic plate. Early green cloth (ca. 1909), printed paper spine label; lightly rubbed, foot of spine chipped. Bookplate of the Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, rubber stamps on edges. Very good. This paper contains remarks on the theory of Theodor Grotthus (1785-1722), the spheroidal state, and decomposition of water by white hot platinum. In 1847 Grove was awarded the Royal Medal for his paper "On the gas voltaic battery" and his Bakerian lecture "On certain phenomena of voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat." William Grove received the M.S. from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1835. Grove was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1840 and from 1841 to 1846 was professor of experimental philosophy at the London Institution. In 1853 Grove turned from his… Read More

London:: Printed by W. Bulmer, 1810., 1810. 292 x 235 mm. 4to. Pages 16-74. [Entire issue: [iv], [2], 147, [1 blank], 26 pp.] Original plain blue wrappers; top cover off and water-stained, spine heavily chipped. Very good. First appearance of Davy's discovery of hydrogen telluride, being delivered as part of the Bakerian Lecture series for 1809. / Davy's fourth Bakerian lecture, read to the Royal Society November 16, 1809. "Contains the discovery of hydrogen telluride, further investigations on ammonium, and some hasty speculations on the supposed composition of the elements". Partington. Arguments are given for considering potassium and sodium elementary bodies. "Gave further proofs of the elementary nature of potassium, and described the properties of telluretted hydrogen.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. / "Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lectures". – Wheeler. / "Mr. Davy having from the commencement of… Read More

London:: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1839., 1839. Third Series. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXIX, Part II. 305 x 241 mm. 4to. Pages (215)-241. [Entire volume: [vi], (215)-438, 12, [4] pp.] 6 tables. Original navy cloth, black leather spine label, gilt spine; joints reinforced with kozo. Very good. FIRST EDITION of William Harris' Bakerian Lecture. Harris contributed papers on the elementary laws of electricity in 1834, 1836, and 1839, and they are described in the DNB as "his best work." Sir William Snow Harris was an electrician who was knighted in 1847 for his improved lightning conductor. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831. In 1835 Harris received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society for his papers on the laws of electricity of high tension. "The two great authorities on electrical distribution and its consequences are Coulomb and Sir William Harris. . . on repeating the experiments, [Harris] found Coulomb's results only… Read More

London:: Harrison and Sons, 1881., 1881. 296 x 229 mm. 4to. Pages 653-667. 1 fig.; LACKS 3 PLATES. Dis-bound. Abney was one of the first to utilize photographic techniques in the study of spectroscopy. DSB, I, pp. 21-22.

London:: Printed by W. Bulmer, 1810., 1810. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCX, Part I. 292 x 235 mm. 4to. Pages 16-74. [Entire issue: [iv], [2], 147, [1 blank], 26 pp.] Original plain blue wrappers; top cover off and water-stained, spine heavily chipped. Very good. Davy's fourth Bakerian lecture, read to the Royal Society November 16, 1809. "Contains the discovery of hydrogen telluride, further investigations on ammonium, and some hasty speculations on the supposed composition of the elements." Partington. Arguments are given for considering potassium and sodium elementary bodies. "Gave further proofs of the elementary nature of potassium, and described the properties of telluretted hydrogen." Encyclopaedia Britannica. DNB, V, p. 640; DSB, III, p. 602; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., VII, p. 872; Fullmer, Sir Humphry Davy's published works, p. 57; Mottelay, Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism, p. 343; Partington, A history of… Read More

Cleveland:: World Publishing Company, 1942., 1942. Tower Books edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 207, [1] pp. Figs., index. Brick-red cloth; rubbed. Very good.

New York:: [N. P., no date].. 7 pp. Self-wraps.

Paris:: Honore Champion, 1912., 1912. Sm. 8vo. 269 pp. Frontis. port., index. Maroon buckram. Very good.

Braunschweig:: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1930., 1930. 8vo. vi, 122, [1] pp. 62 figs.; shot tear to page 6 upper margin Original black cloth, gilt spine. Embossed ownership stamp. Very clean copy. Scarce. This work is on band spectra, also published in the March 15, 1930 issue of Nature. "This [monograph] appears at a time when rapid progress is being made both on the theoretical side by Hund, Mulliken, and others, and on the experimental side by a large number of workers in many countries." [Nature]. Richard Ruedy was associated with the University of Toronto. Ruedy was interested in the theory of dispersion and absorbing energy for optical properties of different metals.

Romae:: apud Iacobum Mascardum, 1625., 1625. Volume 2 of 2. 16mo. 472 pp. First 4 leaves wormed, with some loss. Original full blind-stamped pig skin over boards (including portrait impressions), with paper backing and manuscript title applied, two brass clasps, edges faintly blue. With manuscript and stamp of Soc. Jesu. Brig. - Bibl. Coll. S.J. Brigae, 1825; "Collegii Societatis Jesu Moguntiae". Being a pocket collection of verses in praise of every saint whose celebration is celebrated by the church during every day of the year [here July-December]. An additional volume was issued in 1622 containing the January-June segment. "Gualfreducci, gesuita, nato nel 1565 a Pistoia, su ammesso nella societa di diciannove anni, professò per qualche tempo rettorica, e su in appresso domandato del P. generale per segretario delle lettere latine. Negli ultimi giorni della vita tirirossi nella casa del suoordine a Roma, e vi mori il 5 marzo 1627. Si hanno di esso: I. Heiromenia seu sacri menses, Roma, 1622,… Read More