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1994. Wilkes, Maurice V. The EDSAC: Origins and design decisions. Offprint from K. Brunnstein and E. Raubold, eds., Information Processing '94: Proceedings of the IFIP 13th World Computer Congress 2 (Amsterdam: Noth-Holland, 1994). Without wrappers as issued. Fine. 301-306pp. Illustrated. 227 x 151 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. First edition, offprint issue. A history of the principal design decisions made during the construction of the first readily used stored-program computer, and the background against which the decisions were taken. Wilkes 1999, no. 153. Origins of Cyberspace 1059.

1947. Lilley, S. ENIAC, ASCC and ACE: Machines that solve complex mathematical problems. In Discovery 8 (1947): 23-32. Whole number. Original printed wrappers, vertically creased, slight wear. VG. 260 x 207 mm. Lilley's article, one of the earliest on electronic digital computers written for a British popular science magazine, discusses the function and purpose of the new large general-purpose computing machines, describes the ASCC (Harvard Mark I) and ENIAC computers, and ends with an account of the British ACE machine then under development. Origins of Cyberspace 769. .

Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1957. Fine copy in fine dust jacket.

New York: October House, 1967.

New York/Paris: Grossman/Trianon, 1971.

2014. Neave, Richard. Ecorché sculpture in bronze of a flayed male figure holding a Neanderthal skull, signed in the bronze "R. N. 2014." N.p., 2014. 420 mm. (16.5") high (excluding wooden plinth). No. 3 of 12 examples. With artist's signed authentication. Ecorché sculpture in the Renaissance tradition, reminiscent of the famous "musclemen" from Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica but showing much greater anatomical detail than was possible in the 16th century. Neave, a British expert in forensic facial reconstruction, has earned fame for his reconstructions of historical figures including Jesus, King Philip of Macedon and the Yde Girl, a bog body dating from ca. 54 B.C. He also collaborated with Pascale Pollier on the Vesalius monument unveiled at Zakynthos on September 4, 2014; the monument is a life-size ecorché similar to our smaller version, but holding a different skull. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Original cloth. x, 344pp. 232 x 150 mm. Light edgewear. Very good.

1909. Offprint from Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology 2 (1909). 389-400pp. Text illustrations. 258 x 176 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good.

1930. Gerschgorin, S. Ein Apparat zur mechanischen Ausführung der konformen Abbildung = 1/2 (z + r2/z). Offprint from Zeitschrift für Flugtechnik und Motorluftschiffart 15 (1930). Original pink printed wrappers. Very good. 7 [1]pp. Text illustrations. 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Theodore von Kármán, with his characteristic docketing . Describes an analog apparatus similar to a planimeter for calculating the equation cited in the title. Origins of Cyberspace 304. .

Rome: Accademia dei Lincei, 1909. Offprint from "Atti del IV Congresso internazionale dei Matematici" (1908), vol. 3. 116-124pp. Original printed wrappers. From the library of Theodore von Karman, with his characteristic docketing on the front wrapper.

1934. Klein, Oskar (1894-1977). Ein Rekursionsverfahrung zur Lösung der eindimensionalen Wellengleichung der Quantenmechanik. Offprint from Förhandlingar vid Attonde Skandinaviska Matemetikerkongressen i Stockholm 1934. Lund: Håkan Olsson, 1935. 243-248pp. 245 x 164 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit dust-soiled and creased. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. On a recursion method to solve the one-dimensional wave equation of quantum mechanics. .

1921. First edition. Stern, Otto (1888-1969). et al. (1) Ein Weg zur experimentellen Prüfung der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld. In Zeitschrift fur Physik 7 (1921): 249-253. (2) (with Walter Gerlach [1889-1979]). Der experimentelle Nachweis des magnetischen Moments des Silberatoms. In ibid. 8 (1921): 110-111. Together 2 whole volumes. [iii]-vi, 414; iv, 419pp. Braunschweig: Fried. Vieweg & Sohn; Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921-22. 224 x 149 mm. Vol. 7 in half morocco, cloth boards, a little rubbed; Vol. 8 in half cloth, marbled boards. Library stamps on titles. First Editions. Stern, whom Emilio Segrè considered "one of the major physicists of the century" (p. 138), developed Dunoyer's molecular beam method and used it to devise what is now known as the Stern-Gerlach experiment, which demonstrates the reality of space-quantization of atoms. This experiment had an enormous impact on modern physics, and has become a paradigm of quantum measurement. Spatial quantization had been introduced as a… Read More

1916. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Ein einfaches Experiment zum Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme. Offprint from Verhandlung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 18 (1916). 173-177pp. 230 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine copy. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1915 Einstein and Dutch physicist Wander Johannes de Haas conducted gyromagnetic experiments leading to the discovery of the Einstein-de Haas effect, which corresponds to the mechanical rotation induced in a ferromagnetic cylinder suspended inside a coil when an impulse of electric current is sent through the coil. Einstein was very enthusiastic about the experimental results, stating that he and de Haas had "given firm proof of the existence of Ampère's molecular currents" (quoted in Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 245-246). After his collaboration with de Haas ended, Einstein published the present paper on the Einstein-de Haas effect, proposing a new experimental method for determining gyromagnetism. The Einstein-de… Read More

1911. Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936). Ein neues Laboratorium zur Erforschung der bedingten Reflexe. Offprint from Ergebnisse der Physiologie 11 (1911). 8vo. 357-371pp. 250 x 168 mm. Original printed wrappers, creased vertically, holes punched in left margin. Inscribed by Pavlov to physiologist Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927) as follows: "Dem Prof. E. H. Starling mit vielen Grüssen vom Verfasser." First Edition Offprint Issue. Pavlov received the 1904 Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine for his studies of the physiology of digestion, which revealed the part that the nervous system plays in controlling digestive secretions. In conducting his physiological researches, Pavlov introduced the method of long-term or continuous experimentation, which—in contrast with traditional vivisectional methods—allowed him to study the operation of physiological processes in healthy animals under normal conditions over extended periods of time. His investigations of the nervous system's role in digestion… Read More

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1914. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. viii, 668pp. Frontispiece portrait. 257 x 173 mm. Original orange printed wrappers. Fine copy, uncut and unopened, of this festschrift prepared for Ehrlich's 60th birthday, which covers all the major areas of Ehrlich's research. Included is a bibliography of Ehrlich's writings to 1914, prepared by Hans Sachs.

1928. Hahn, Otto (1879-1968). Eine Methode zur Bestimmung der absoluten Grösse von Oberflächen. Offprint from Annalen der Chimie 462 (1928). 174-185pp. 218 x 145 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. On a method for determining the absolute size of surfaces. .

1936. Klein, Oskar (1894-1977). Eine Verallgemeinerung der Diracschen relativistischen Wellengleichung. Offprint from Arkiv för Matematik, Astronomi och Fysik 25A (1936). 19pp. 219 x 142 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly sunned. Very good to fine. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Klein to H. A. Kramers (1894-1952) on the front wrapper: "Hans Kramers med hjärtliga hälsningar O. K." First Edition, Offprint Issue. On a generalization of Dirac's relativistic wave equation. .

1921. Offprint from "Der Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften zu ihrem 10jährigen Jubiläum" (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921). 50-52pp. 260 x 175 mm. Original printed wrappers, a little chipped. Very good. First separate edition. Title translation: A simple application of Newton's law of gravitation to globular clusters. Weil, Albert Einstein Bibliography, 117.

Wurzburg, 1896. Röntgen, Wilhelm Konrad (1845-1923). 1. Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.) Offprint from Sitzb. Würzb. Phys.-med. Gesells. (1895), no. 9, 132-41. 8vo. 10pp. Würzburg: Stahl, 1895. 229 x 151 mm. Original wrappers, a little stained and chipped, expertly restored. Slight foxing. 2. Eine neue Art von Strahlen. II. Mittheilung. Offprint from Sitzb. Würzb. Phys.-med. Gesells. (1896) nos. 1-2, 11-19. 8vo. 9, [3]pp. (adverts.). 218 x 152 mm. Original wrappers, somewhat chipped, expertly repaired. Text a little browned & chipped. Ibid., 1896. Together 2 offprints, in a cloth case. Very good. 1895-96. 1. First Separate Edition of Röntgen's original communication of the discovery of the X-ray. G-M 2683. Dibner 162. Horblit 90. PMM 380. The most important contribution to medical diagnosis in a century, and the key to modern physics, Röntgen's paper was in immediate demand; there were five separate printings, in six issues, in the space of two months. 2. First and… Read More

Leipzig, 1906. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). (1) Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen. In Ann. d. Physik, 4th series, 19 (1906): 289-306. (2) Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung. In ibid.:371-381. Whole volume, 8vo. viii, 1080pp. 5 plates. 213 x 143 mm. Original cloth, spine faded, split in upper half of spine, inner hinge cracking. Very good. (1) First Edition in Journal Form, Revised, of Einstein's doctoral thesis, ranked by his biographer as being on the same level as his 1905 papers on relativity, the light quanta and Brownian motion. In his thesis, Einstein presented a new theoretical method for determining molecular radii and Avogadro's number (the number of atoms or molecules needed to make up a mass equal to a substance's atomic or molecular weight, in grams). The thesis appeared in print in the spring of 1905; in the journal version, published at the beginning of 1906, Einstein added a brief appendix containing an improved value of Avogadro's number. Einstein's biographer, Abraham… Read More