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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. ORIGINAL 1965 PUBLICATION; softcover; a couple of small light stains on wraps; light creasing of wraps; clipped fore-edge of approx. 6 leaves; o/w in good condition. Book.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research, this book serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. Excellent condition. An original antique portrait of William the First, decorative border.

Zustand: New. Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research, this book serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force, and a long-term guide for future s.

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over navy ground. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xx), 332 pp with 15 plates and 17 monochrome headpieces. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Thick octavo, [three volumes], 752pp; 736pp; 667pp. All first editions, first printings, with complete number lines. All hardcovers with cloth spines. Occasional pencil marks from Mr. Sapphire, with notes near passages pertaining to his time in the Nixon Administration. All three volumes in near fine condition, volume III with some separation at front hinge, not affecting the integrity of the text block. In near fine dust jackets, retail price on each volume, some toning to the spine of Volume II, light shelf wear to Volume I. Inscribed by Stephen Ambrose to Mr. William Safire in Volume I and Volume II. Inscription reads: "For Mr. Safire, from his fan, Stephen Ambrose." Second inscription reads: "For Bill Safire, With thanks for all the help (see acknowledgments and footnotes and index - w/o Safire, no book), Sincerely, Stephen Ambrose." William Safire was a Pulitzer Prize winning conservative columnist for the New York Times. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of "libertarian conservatives." Before joining the New York Times, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. The complete three volume set of Nixon by Stephen E. Ambrose, all first printings, inscribed by the author to William Safire. (illustrator). Signed.…

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Twelvemo, 88, [2]. Blue leatherette, title stamped in gold on cover. Stated "first printing" on title page. Includes frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Wear to covers, slight bow to cover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Brig. General Brougher and his wife, Frances. William E. Brougher (1889-1965) was commander of the 11th Division of the Philippine army, who unsuccessfully fought off a Japanese invasion in December, 1941. Brougher survived the Bataan Death March in 1942 and remained one of the highest ranking officers in Japanese captivity during World War II. In retirement he wrote his memoirs, titled South to Bataan, North to Mukden. Signed first edition of The Long Dark Road by Brig. General William E. Brougher, a high ranking prisoner of War during World War II. (illustrator). Signed.…

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Twelvemo, 88, [2]. Blue leatherette, title stamped in gold on cover. Stated "first printing" on title page. Includes frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Light wear to covers, bright gilt on front cover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Brig. General Brougher. William E. Brougher (1889-1965) was commander of the 11th Division of the Philippine army, who unsuccessfully fought off a Japanese invasion in December, 1941. Brougher survived the Bataan Death March in 1942 and remained one of the highest ranking officers in Japanese captivity during World War II. In retirement he wrote his memoirs, titled South to Bataan, North to Mukden. Signed first edition of The Long Dark Road by Brig. General William E. Brougher, a high ranking prisoner of War during World War II. (illustrator). Signed. …

Softcover. 4th printing. 126 p.; line illus. in text; 19.5 cm. (Unity library ; no. 36. August, 1894) Introduction by John Merritte Driver Good, edgeworn wrapper. Pages toned and brittle, p.12-13 stained.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 313, [1]; pictorial map endpapers; frontispiece of the crew, 4 facsimiles (1 double-page), 4 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 2 plates; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Cargo plane runs out of gas over Tibet in 1943 and 5 U.S. Air Force members parachute to safety - strangers in a strange land. Yakushi S520.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 253pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers. Solid text block, faint discoloration to covers, light wear to gilt, spine ends and corners bumped. With engraved frontispiece portrait and tissue guard and 6 folded facsimile letters, light offsetting to text. (Graff 4552) Signed "William Lamb / from the author July '82" on the front free endpaper. Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois, serving from 1853-1869. An ardent abolitionist, Washburne was a leader among the Radical Republicans in Congress. During the Civil War, he was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant was elected president in 1868, Washburne briefly served as Secretary of State, then was appointed Minister to France. In retirement, Washburne wrote a memoir of his time spent in France, titled Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. The work was published shortly before his death in 1887. First edition of Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois by Elihu B. Washburne, inscribed to Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Army officer and Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 253pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers. Solid binding, scattered discoloration to cloth, gilt tarnished on spine, faint foxing to top edge of text block, spine ends and upper corners bumped, slight bow to front cover. A few smudge marks to text pages, later ownership inscription written in ink on title page. Contains an engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and six folded facsimile letters, light offsetting to text. Handwritten letter by the author to Col. Lamb attached to front flyleaf. In addition to commenting on the book, Washburne writes: ".I shall always guard the most agreeable souvenirs of my visit to the Old Dominion and of the many marked courtesies I received at your hand. / Should you ever visit Chicago, I shall expect the pleasure of entertaining you at my house. / I am, very truly yours, E.B. Washburne." (Graff 4552). Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois, serving from 1853-1869. An ardent abolitionist, Washburne was a leader among the Radical Republicans in Congress. During the Civil War, he was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant was elected president in 1868, Washburne briefly served as Secretary of State, then was appointed Minister to France. In retirement, Washburne wrote a memoir of his time spent in France, titled Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. The work was published shortly before his death in 1887. First edition of Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois by Elihu B. Washburne, with a signed presentation letter from the author to Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Army officer and Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. (illustrator). Signed. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, vii, [1], 578pp, [9]. Stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Wear to tips of spine, fraying of cloth. Solid text block, internally clean. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by former President Grover Cleveland after leaving office for the first time. Inscription reads: "William E. Hoyt from Grover Cleveland / May 23, 1890." A scarce signed book from the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. This copy is inscribed to William E. Hoyt (1829-1900), who married President Cleveland's sister, Mary, in 1850. They resided in New York and moved to Nebraska in later life to be close to their two children. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) began his unlikely rise to the presidency as the Mayor of Buffalo. Within two years of taking office, he would be nominated for the governorship of New York. He would gain national recognition for fighting political corruption, specifically at Tammany Hall in New York City. President Cleveland would go on to serve the only nonconsecutive presidential terms in history, serving from 1885-1889, then again from 1893-1897. After leaving office, the former president indulged his lifelong passions for sports and writing. First edition of The Public Papers of Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second President of the United States, inscribed by President Grover Cleveland to his brother-in-law, William E. Hoyt. (illustrator). Signed.…

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1803 - Part II. Pp. 383-508 and 8 engraved plates (3 folio size and folded, 1 map), depicting the apparatus for measuring. 4 plates with some marginal brownspots. First appearance of an importent paper, which contributed to the discussion of the dimension of the earth. William Mudge was appointed in 1791 to the ordnance trigonometrical survey, and became superintendent of the survey in 1798 and in that same year was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Shortly afterwards, he completed the first ever measurement of an arc of meridian stretching from Dunnose on the Isle of Wight to Clifton in Yorkshire. This was regarded as a very considerable advance in the scientific work of what had by then become the Ordnance Survey and contributed significantly to the international debate about the precise figure of the earth.…

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1803 - Part II. Pp. 383-508 and 8 engraved plates (3 folio size and folded, 1 map), depicting the apparatus for measuring. First appearance of an importent paper, which contributed to the discussion of the dimension of the earth. William Mudge was appointed in 1791 to the ordnance trigonometrical survey, and became superintendent of the survey in 1798 and in that same year was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Shortly afterwards, he completed the first ever measurement of an arc of meridian stretching from Dunnose on the Isle of Wight to Clifton in Yorkshire. This was regarded as a very considerable advance in the scientific work of what had by then become the Ordnance Survey and contributed significantly to the international debate about the precise figure of the earth.…

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1895 - Vol. 186 - Series A, Part I. Pp. 243-251 and 1 plate (The Spectra of Argon). Clean and fine. First appearance of a classic paper in which Crookes by his spectrographic methods confirms the discovery of argon by Ramsey and Rayleigh in 1895. The plate is the first to show the spectra of argon, the first of the inert gases to be discovered.The paper first describes the spectra obtained by passing an electric discharge through argon at very low pressures, Several specimens of argon (some containing traces of nitrogen) were invested. Crookes distinguished between the spectral lines attributable to argon and those of nitrogen and verified that the argon isolated by Lord rayleigh and William Ramsay was truly a new chemically inert element. (Neville I:p. 313).Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. he early attracted attentuion by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. he was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases. -(PMM: 386 describing J.J. Thomson's Cathode Rays). - Magee, Source Book in Physics p. 564 ff.…

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1847 - Part I. Pp. 1-16 a. pp. 17-21 and 1 lithographed plate First appearance of an importent paper in which Grove describes and depicts his invention - from 1839 - of the first FUEL CELL, which he named "The Gas Voltaic Battery", and where he applied his anticipation of the principle of "Conservation of Energy" to the decomposition of water. and to the ignition of the released gases.In 1846, Grove published "On The Correlation of Physical Forces" in which he anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy that was more famously put forward in Hermann von Helmholtz' Über die Erhaltung der Kraft (On the Conservation of Force) published the following year.His 1846 Bakerian lecture relied heavily on his theory.(The paper offered).During the early 1960s, General Electric produced the fuel-cell-based electrical power system for NASA's Gemini and Apollo space capsules. General Electric used the principles found in the "Bacon Cell" as the basis of its design. Today, the Space Shuttle's electricity is provided by fuel cells, and the same fuel cells provide drinking water for the crew.NASA decided that using nuclear reactors was too high a risk, and using batteries or solar power was too bulky to use in space vehicles. NASA has funded more than 200 research contracts exploring fuel-cell technology, bringing the technology to a level now viable for the private sector. …

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1812. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1812. With titlepage to the year 1812 - Part I. Pp. 370-377. Light yellowing to titlepage. First appearance of the paper in which Wollaston explains his invention and function of photography's first lens, the Wollaston Meniscus, invented more than 25 years before the first photography appeared."Wollaston developed the first lens specifically for camera lens called Wollaston's meniscus lens, or just meniscus lens, in 1812. The lens was designed to improve the image projected by the camera obscura. By changing the shape of the lens, Wollaston was able to project a flatter image, eliminating much of the distortion that was a problem with many of that day's biconvex lenses" (DSB).…

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 223-230. Light browning to first leaf. Wide-margined. First appearance of this fundamental paper in the history of organic chemistry in which Wollaston announced his discovery of "Cystine", the very first of the amino acids, the building blocks of protein, to be discovered.Wollaston "in 1812 (correct 1810) identified a new and rare type of stone, which he called "cystic oxide" since it occurred in the bladder. This was later renamed cystine, the first of the amino acids to be discovered. Fourcroy and Vauquelin reported similar investigations, but unaccountably gave no recognition to Wollaston. This led Alexander Marcet, a physician, to set matters right in a popular work dedicated to Wollaston."(DSB XIV, p. 492).Garrison & Morton: 668.1.…

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1800. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 6, Drittes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 3). Titlepage to vol. 6. Pp. 249-376. Nicholson's paper: pp. 340-359. Light browning. A faint dampstain to upper right corners on some leaves. First German edition of Nicholson's famous paper in which he, together with his friend Anthony Carlisle, succeeded in breaking up molecules into the constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen. They thus established the usefulness of the converse of the voltaic cell, by using electricity to produce chemical actions."On March 20 of that year (1820) Volta wrote to Banks, president ofthe Royal Society, informing him of his construction of an electric battery. Nicholson heard of this and with the aid of a friend built his own Voltaic pile by May 2. It was the first in England. Nicholson's great contribution was to place wires attached to the two ends of the pile in water. He found that with the current flowing, bubbles of gaz (hydrogen and oxygen) ere given off. He had "electolyzed" water, breaking up the molecules into the individual elements. He thus reversed the demonstration of Cavendish, that hydrogen and oxygen could unite to form water. This was the first demonstration that an electric current could bring about a chemical reaction - the reverse of olta's demonstration that a chemical action could bring about an electrical current."(Asimov). Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1800 C. - Magie "A Source Book in Physics", pp. 431 ff.…

(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1833 - Part I. Pp. 147-236, a few textillustr.,1 engraved plate and 2 large folded engraved maps (a general, representing the greater part of the world (42x93 cm) and Chart of the British Isles, drawn and engraved by J.& C. Walker.). A small tear to world map. Clean and fine. First appearance of this classic, pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena. It is the first in a series of 16 papers Whewell made for the Royal Society. It contains the first printed cotidal world-map."Whewell took over the subject of mapping cotidal lines from Lubbock with entusiasm.He exercised the pioneer's privilege of coining new words and phrases appropriate to his subject. Many failed to stick, some phrases of Whewell's origin still occasionally used are: 'age of the tides', 'luni-tidal interval', 'semi-menstrual inequality' etc, etc.Whewell's initial cotidal map for the world ocean was presented in his first paper of 1833 (the paper offered). By his own admission, it was entirely preliminary and tentative, what nowadays might be called a "strawman", to stimulate discussionm. He later (1836) suggested smll modifications, especially near the coast of North America" these were incorporated in an 'improved' world map by G.B. Airy in his celebrated tratise on "Tides and wave", (Cartwright in "Tides. A Scientific History", pp.110-112.).…

London, Richard and John Taylor, 1840. Contemp. hcalf. A nic to spine at upper hinge. Hinges weakening (not loose). Gilt lettering to spine "Philosophical Magazine" - Vol.XVII. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Conducted by David Brewster et al.". Vol. XVII. A stamp to titlepage and a few other pages. Entire volume offered. VIII,552 pp. Draper'spaper: pp. 217-225. First printing of the famous paper in which Draper relates how he was able to made the first photographic portrait on a daguerreotype plate, giving an ennormously long exposure. The subject of the portrait, Draper's assistant, powdered his face with flour and sat in front of the camera for a half hour facing the sunlight.Draper stated that it is possible to make portraits in full sunlight, using mirrors as light reflectors. "But in the reflected sunshine, the eye cannot support the effulgence of the rays. It is therefore necessary to pass them through some blue medium, which shall abstract from them their heat and take away their offensive brilliancy. Ihave used for this purpose blue glass, and also ammoniaco-sulphate of copper, contained in a large trough of plate glass, the interstice being about an inch thick." (p. 217 in the paper offerd)."Draper first achieved wide celebrity for his pioneering work in photography. As early as 1837, while still in Virginia, he had followed the example of Wedgwood and Davy in making temporary copies of objects by the action of light on sensitized surfaces. When the details of Daguerre?s process for fixing camera images were published in various New York newspapers on 20 September 1839, Draper was ready for the greatest remaining challenge, to take a photographic portrait. A New York mechanic, Alexander S. Wolcott, apparently won the race by 7 October. But if Draper knew of this, he persisted in his own experiments and succeeded in taking a portrait not later than December 1839. His communication to the Philosophical Magazine, dated 31 March 1840, was the first report received in Europe of any photographer?s success in portraiture. The superb likeness of his sister Dorothy Catharine, taken not later than July 1840, with an exposure of sixty-five seconds, seems to be the oldest surviving photographic portrait."(DSB).The volume contains also Michael Faraday's importent letter to Gay-Lussac on induction in the first English version. "On Magneto-electric induction.", pp. 281-89 a. pp.356-366. (Originally published in French in "Annales de Chimie et Physique" in 1832. …

London, Taylor and Francis, 1876-79. Witout wrappers as three issues from "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", Vol. 24, No. 167+ Vol. 27, No.187+ Vol. 28, No. 191. Pp. 250-344, pp. 284-408 a. pp. 103-232. Papers: In No. 167:pp. 262-265 (James Thomson), pp. 266-68, pp. 269-271, pp. 271-275. In No. 187: pp. 371-373. In No. 191: pp. 111-113 (W. Thomson). Titlepages to vols. 24, 27 a. 28 present. 2 papers with textillustrations. First appearance of all the 6 founding papers around the invention of the "Harmonic Analyzer" and with the mathematical theory for the differential analyzor, containing both the mathematical theories and the practical descriptions of the analyzer and further also having the paper by Lord Kelvin's brother (the first paper offered) in which the machinery is shown for the first time."A ball and disk integrator was the vital invention needed to build the FIRST AUTOMATIC ANALOG COMPUTING MACHINES. Lord kelvin used this integrator -devised for a planimeter in the 1860s by his brother, James Thomson - on two new kinds of analog computers: a harmonic analyzer and a tide predictor. he later specified a more general machine - a differential analyzer."(Eames in "A Computer Perspective")."The harmonic analyzer was used in conjunction with Thomson's tide predictor.The present paper ("Harmonic Analyzer") contains the first full description of the harmoniz analyzer, which was "designed rudimentally" (p. 371) in Thomson's "On an integrating machine having a new kinematic principle"(also offered here),James Thomson's integrator - "one of the first really workable integrating devices" (Williams 1985, 207) - served as the basis for other analog machines designed by William Thomson for solving simultaneous linear equations and integrating differential equations. Thomson first described such a machine, composed of several Thomson integrators connedted together, in his paper on "Mechanical integration of the linear differentialequations of the decond order." (also offred here)" however the "idea could then hardly be carried out, forone reason because an integrator, which is simply a variable- speed drive, could not then be buitl both accurate and capable of carrying sufficient load to move numerous mechanical parts" (Bush 193, 450). The full realization of Thomson's idea did not come until fifty years later, when Vannevar Bush invented the torque amplifier for use in his differential analyzer."(Hook and Norman). …

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1868). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 158 - Part II, pp. 529-564 and 1 lithographed plate. Clean and fine. First appearence of this milestone paper, announcing the very first determination of the movement and velocity of a star. (Sirius). This discovery of the motion in the line of sight, the radial velocity, is of exceeding importence in astronomy, for it can be determined by shifts in the position of the spectral lines, without regard tothe distance of the star.In this paper Huggins applied to spectroscopic astronomy the principle enunciated by Doppler in 1841 that the positions of spectrum lines change as the object moves to or from the spectator. After consulting,in 1867 with James Clerk Maxwell, but wholly independent of him, Huggins presented to the Ropyal Society early in 1868, this paper with the observation on the spectrum of Sirius, from which a motion from the earth could be deduced of ab. 25 miles pr. second."William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae" he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy). …