Search Results: Titles starting with F from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Medicina Rara: Meriden Gravure for. fac.

Berlin: Hirschwald, 1891. iv, [2], 137pp. Half cloth, mottled boards ca. 1891, spine a bit faded, light wear at extremities. 212 x 141 mm. Very good.

Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1865. Möbius, Karl August (1825-1908) and Heinrich Adolph Meyer. Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Erster Band: Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia. Zweiter Band: Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia nebst einem Supplement zu den Opisthobranchia. Folio. xxx, 87, [11]; xxiv, 139pp. 50 lithograph plates (40 hand-colored). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1865-72. 356 x 257 mm. Original printed boards, cloth backstrips, slight wear and spotting, small split in front inner hinge of Vol. II. Some offsetting onto first and last leaves due to acidic endpapers, minor offsetting from plates, occasional soiling but a very good copy with clean plates. Presentation inscription on the front free endpaper of Vol. II: "Der Herrn Redacteuren des Journal de Conchyliologie, Herrn Crosse und Herrn Dr. Fischer hochachtungsfoll die Verfasser." First Edition. Möbius and Meyer's study of the environment and organisms of the Kieler Bucht (the Bay of Kiel in the southwestern Baltic Sea) is a pioneering work of… Read More

London: George Virtue. Margin: 200x129 mm. Some very faint soiling, very light foxing.

London, 1875. Royal Society. Fellows of the Royal Society. Autotype (carbon-process) composite photographic print by Herbert R. Barraud (1845-96), mounted on heavy paper. London, ca. 1875-80. Image measures 304 x 522 mm.; mount measures 405 x 600 mm. Minor dust-soiling, mount with a few marginal tears and a small crease in the lower margin. Very good. From the archive of Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-80), founder of forensic toxicology and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Unusual composite photographic print of the Fellows of the Royal Society, created by placing individual photographs against a painted background, then printing the resulting image. The print was made with the autotype process, a fade-resistant method that uses pigmented gelatin. Barraud, a noted Victorian portrait photographer with studios in London and Liverpool, produced a number of images using this method, including a similar photographic print of the Royal Society dated 1 July 1878. This copy is from the archive of Alfred Swaine… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.

La Jolla, Calif, 1990.

36x24 cm.. Faint soiling, small tear in bottom left corner Matted.

Berlin: Adolf Eckstein, 1910. 46.5x30cm.. Includes biographical cover page. Foxing in bottom left corner and margin, small tear in bottom margin of cover page.

San Francisco, 1957. Freud, Anna (1895-1982). Fine portrait photograph by Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), with Freud's signature ("Anna Freud") in ink on the mount. Signed and dated by the photographer in pencil on the mount. San Francisco, 1957. 192 x 162 mm. (image); 291 x 245 mm. (mount). Cunningham's San Francisco studio label on the verso, with "Neg. No. 12" in pencil; reproduction rights stamp. Fine. Freud's daughter and intellectual heir, as captured by one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. .

Paris, 1860. Original Portrait by Adam-Salomon Rayer, Pierre François Olive (1793-1867). Sepia-toned portrait photograph of Rayer in middle age, by Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon (1818-81). 275 x 212 mm. Paris, circa 1860. Minor damage at corners due to removal from mounting, traces of former mounting on verso. Excellent, rare , and good-sized portrait photograph by Adam-Salomon of the dermatologist and pathologist Rayer, author of the classic Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau (1826-27; G-M 3989). The photograph is typical of the work of Adam-Salomon, who originally worked as a sculptor, but turned to portrait photography under the influence of the Munich photographer Franz Hanfstaengel. Adam-Salomon's antique poses, making much use of light and shade to give painterly effects, were inspired by Classical sculpture and painting and incorporated expensive fabrics and settings. He also favoured heavy retouching of the negatives, for which he was criticized by some contemporaries. He… Read More

London, 1850. Foundation Work of Seismology-Author's Copy Mallet, Robert (1810-81). (1) First [-third] report of the facts of earthquake phaenomena. Offprints from Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1850 (1850), Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1851 (1852) and Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1852 [-54] (1852-55). [2], 87; [2], 273-320; [2], 176, [1], 118-212, 326pp. 6 plates, numbered 12-17. 218 x 135 mm. Three items in 2, bound in 19th century marbled boards rebacked and recornered in calf, slightly rubbed. Light toning, edges of some plates a little frayed, but very good. Mallet's copy, with his signature on the title of the first report; the first two reports interleaved with both autograph and printed corrections inserted throughout; autograph note on p. 153 of the third report. (2) [with John William Mallet.] The earthquake catalogue of the British Association, with the discussion, curves,… Read More

Santa Monica: Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc, 1946. Project RAND. (1) First quarterly report: World-circling space ship. RA-15001. Appendix II. Copy no. 67. 15pp. [Santa Monica:] Douglas Aircraft Company, June 1946. Mimeographed distribution list (6ff.) laid in. (2) Second quarterly report. RA-15004. Copy no. 115. 75pp. [Santa Monica:] Douglas Aircraft Company, September 1, 1946. (3) Third quarterly report. RA-15012. Copy no. 97. 34, 122pp. [Santa Monica:] Douglas Aircraft Company, December 1, 1946. (4) Whipple, Fred L. (1906-2004). Possible hazards to a satellite vehicle from meteorites. 61-68pp. [Santa Monica:] Douglas Aircraft Company, September 1, 1946. (5) Serber, Robert (1909-97). The use of atomic power for rockets. 69-70pp. [Santa Monica:] Douglas Aircraft Company, September 1, 1946. Together 5 items, in the original printed soft covers; boxed. 281 x 218 mm. A few minor chips and tears, but very good. From the library of Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963), with his characteristic docketing on… Read More

Woolwich, 1816. Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert (1774-1841). Five autograph letters signed, three to Robert Baldwin, of the publishing firm Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, and two to an unidentified officer of the Woolwich Institution for the Advancement of Literary, Scientific and Technical Knowledge. Woolwich, Sept. 28, 1816 - July 16, 1838. 11pp. total. Various sizes (the largest 251 x 203 mm.). One letter mounted with some fraying of the front edge (slightly affecting a few words), another with a small paper flaw, light soiling, but very good. From British mathematician and writer Olinthus Gregory, professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, author of works on mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, etc., and editor of both the Gentleman's Diary and Ladies' Diary. Gregory played a role in the controversy surrounding the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain, later known as the Ordnance Survey. The survey, which had begun in 1791, was opposed for political reasons by Royal Society President… Read More

Berlin, 1909. First Sales Brochure for a Wright Brothers Airplane [Wright Brothers.] Flugmaschine Wright G.m.b.H. Flugmaschine Wright G.m.b.H. 12pp. Text illustrations. Berlin: Vereinigte Verlagsanstalten G. Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Druckerei Aktiengesellschaft, 1909. 256 x 168 mm. Original wrappers printed in silver, light wear, fore-edge irregularly trimmed. Very good copy. Ownership stamp of Dutch chemical engineer and inventor F. W. Bakema on front wrapper and title. First Edition of the first sales brochure advertising a plane designed by the Wright Brothers. The Wrights chose to demonstrate their flyer for the first time in France from August to December 1908, and these demonstrations had dramatic impact on the European aviation industry. Flugmaschine Wright G.M.b.H., established in June 1909, acquired the Wright German patents and the exclusive right to manufacture Wright airplanes in Germany, as well as sales rights for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Luxemburg and Turkey (see Renstrom, p. 97).… Read More

London: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 1942. Jenkins, H. G. Fluorescent lighting. Reprint of an address given before the Royal Society of Arts on Wednesday, February 4, 1942. London: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 1942. 21pp. 250 x 155 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. From the library of Theodore von Karman (1881-1963), aerospace pioneer and aerodynamic theoretician, with his docketing to the front wrapper. 51065.

1936. Heisenberg, Werner (1901-76) and Hans Euler (1909-41). Folgerungen aus der Diracschen Theorie des Positrons. Offprint from Zeitschrift fur Physik 98 (1936). 714-732pp. 230 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers, small splits in spine. Very good. Numerous equations in pencil on the front wrapper, likely in the hand of H. A. Kramers (1894-1952), the former owner of several other offprints offered here. First Edition, Offprint Issue. "In 1935 Heisenberg and his assistant Hans Euler discovered that nonlinear interactions in positron theory, which yielded photon-photon scattering, could be represented by treating the electron as possessing a minimum size, below which the interferences predominated" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). In his 1993 review of the Heisenberg-Euler paper, Heinrich Mitter stated that "the result of the paper until today remains one of the few, in which the summation of perturbation theory contributions succeeded [fully]" (quoted in Mehra & Rechenberg, The Historical… Read More

Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1972. xvi, 687pp. Text illustrations. 254 x 178 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (sunned). Inscribed by Rowe Jr. on the front free endpaper. Very good.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1932. xi, [1], 17-442pp. 234 x 149 mm. Original cloth, light edgewear. Library stamps and shelfmark. Good+.