Verlag: Alexander Strahan, 1866
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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Medium green cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Trimmed, slight grubby edges. Interior is secure, clean and clear save for some foxing.
Verlag: David Bogue, 1880
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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Blue covers, gilt title on spine, marble edges, internally clean.
374 pp., rouss. demi-bas. aubergine, dos lisse orné de fil. dor.
Verlag: Royal Society, London, 1827
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Disbound. Zustand: Good. A paper read at the Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions. With 4 pages read at the meeting February 22nd, 1827.
Zustand: Good. French text. weight: 0.6 lb. Good plus light wear to corners, light foxing and damp rippling to pages. 12mo., 16.2x11 cm. vii, 374 pp. Contemporary quarter black leather over green checkered boards. gilt spine title and bands.
Verlag: Longmans Green and Co, London, 1857
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Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. loose pages; clean text; age toned; light foxing; spine splitting; gilt text on spine;
Verlag: Paris.Paulin, 1834
Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. Un volume in12,reliure rigide,( 11,5x17,5 cm),VII,374,14 pages.
Verlag: Carey and Lea
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Zustand: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library book with usual stamps and stickers. Acceptable condition hardcover, front board present but detached. Front free end page and title page clipped at top fore edge corner. Foxing to text block edges. Some pencil notes to end papers. Contents clear. A suitable reading copy.
Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R260125732: 1854. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Livré sans Couverture, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 372 pages (manque 2 pages de la table). Manque dos et plats. Coiffes frottées. Mors fendus. Dos fané. Tampons de bibliothèque. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES.
Verlag: London printed by W. Bulmer and Co, 1824
Anbieter: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, Vereinigtes Königreich
4to. 35 pages. disbound from a volume of the Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London. good clean condition. unopened at top edge.
Verlag: London printed by W. Bulmer and Co, 1819
Anbieter: McLaren Books Ltd., ABA(associate), PBFA, Largs, Vereinigtes Königreich
4to. 56 pages + 1 engraved plate. disbound from a volume of the Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London. good clean condition. unopened at top edge.
Verlag: Paris, chez Paulin 1834, 1834
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar), Hasselt, Belgien
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vii + 374pp. + 14pp.catalogue d'éditeur, br.orig., 17cm., quelques rousseurs, non coupé, bon état, F80642.
Verlag: Cotta, Stuttgart Und Tubingen, 1831
Anbieter: M.POLLAK ANTIQUARIAT Est.1899, ABA, ILAB, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Modern Half Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First German Edition. 694pp+ 11 folding plates. Very well bound in elegant modern half leather with marbled boards. Light foxing on the first pages. Otherwise a very good copy.
Verlag: Stuttgart - Tübingen: J. G. Cotta 1831, 1831
Neuerer HLDr. (1890er Jahre), 693 Seiten, [1], 8°, mit Pappschildchen auf Rücken. Einband leicht berieben und abgegriffen. Mehrfach gestemeplt auf Titel; Signaturen; gestempelt auch verso auf Tafeln. Seiten stellenweise leicht altersgebräunt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: German.
Verlag: Stuttgart, Cotta, 1831., 1831
Anbieter: Antiquariat H. Carlsen, Kiel, Deutschland
Aus dem Englischen von Dr. J. C. Eduard Schmidt. Mit 11 lithographischen Tafeln, 693 Seiten, Halblederband mit reichster Rückenvergoldung, 21,5 x 13 cm, Einband etwas berieben, innen leicht gebräunt.
Verlag: Stuttgart, Cotta., 1831
Anbieter: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Deutschland
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8°. [2], 693, [1] S. mit 11 lithogr. u. gefalt. Tafeln. Pbd. d. Zt. mit handschr. Rückenschild. Darmstädter 377. Poggendorff I, 1090. - Erste deutsche Ausgabe des bedeutenden Werks. - "Das Buch behandelt die sphärische Aberration des Lichtes bei der Reflexion an spiegelnden Flächen" (Darmstädter). - Außerdem über "Photometrie und Photometer, Camera obscura, Lichtbrechung, Vom Bau des Auges und vom Sehen, Vom achromatischen Fernrohr, Von der Beugung des Lichts, Farben der Körper, Objectivglas, prismatisches Spectrum, Strahlung des Lichts" etc. - "Herschels photographische Untersuchungen wurden hauptsächlich in den ersten Jahren der Photographie durchgeführt. Die Genialität und die Energie, die er dabei offenbarte, waren überwältigend. Es wäre ein leichtes für ihn gewesen, schon früher ein photographisches Verfahren zu erfinden, wenn er, wie Niépce, den entsprechenden Drang verspürt oder wenn er, wie Daguerre, Talbot oder Reade, gedacht hätte, daß es seine Arbeit fördern würde. Bereits 1819 entdeckte Herschel die Eigenschaft von Natriumthiosulfat, Silbersalze zu lösen, während andere Experimentatoren lange Zeit nicht weiterkamen, weil ihnen diese Tatsache verborgen blieb. Herschel besaß in der Tat derart umfangreiche Kenntnisse, daß er, als am 22. Februar 1839 von Kapitän Beaufort, dem späteren Admiral, die bloße Nachricht von Daguerres Entdeckung eintraf, "sich sofort eine ganze Reihe von Verfahren vorstellen konnte." Bereits eine Woche später gelang ihm die Herstellung seiner ersten Photographie" (H. Gernsheim, Geschichte der Photographie S. 90 f.). - Exlibris, stellenweise etwas braunfleckig, gutes Exemplar aus der bedeutenden Sammlung Prof. J. Büttner (1931-2019). Sprache: deutsch.
Verlag: London, 1840
Anbieter: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, USA
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1st edition. "Positive" & "Negative" Herschel, John F. W. (1792-1871). On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes. In: Philosophical Transactions (1840),part 1, pp. 1-59; 2 plates (nos. I-II). 4to. xii, 224 [4]pp. 6 plates numbered I-V, VII. London: Richard & John E. Taylor, 1840. 297 x 234 mm. (uncut & unopened). Original printed wrappers, a little soiled & chipped. Fine copy. First Edition. Herschel's classic paper contains the first use of the terms "positive" and "negative" in connection with photography, as well as a detailed account of the use of hyposulfite of soda as a fixative, his observation of the superior light-sensitivity of bromide of silver, a description of his first experiments with photography in solar spectroscopy, his process (anticipating Bayard) for obtaining direct positive proofs on paper, the necessity of using achromatic lenses for correct delineation, etc. Herschel's paper represents "a densely packed comprehensive summary" (Schaaf, p. 94) of the intensive researches in photography that had occupied him during 1839 and 1840, when he and his friend Henry Fox Talbot were striving to steal a march on Daguerre and the French by perfecting the process of making and fixing photographic images on paper that Talbot had begun developing some seven years before (see Schaaf, Out of the Shadows, chs. 3-5 for a detailed discussion of Herschel's photographic researches, including excerpts from his unpublished scientific notebooks and his lengthy correspondence with Talbot).>/p> This paper marks Herschel's first major contribution to photography; it was preceded only by his "Note on the art of photography or the application of the chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation" (1839), the precursor to a paper that Herschel later withdrew from publication. The paper is included in anattractive issue of the Philosophical Transactions, which also contains the sixteenth and seventeenth series of Faraday's "Experimental researches in electricity" (see Horblit 29; PMM 308), and Sabine's "Contributions to terrestrial magnetism." Gernsheim, History of Photography, pp. 96-98 ("abounds in important statements and observations which had a great bearing on the future of photography"); Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 1068. Boni, p. 127. .
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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London, George Barclay, 1847. Contemporary half cloth. Sm. 8vo. 16 pp. Library stamps on titlepage. First edition. Offprint from the Annual Report of the Royal Astronomical Society. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 - 17 March 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and astronomer. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named in his honour.
Bruxelles, Louis Hauman, 1835. 12mo (15.3 x 9.8 cm). iv, 599 pp.; several text illustrations, three engraved plates on one folding leaf. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Speckled edges. = An excellent - first French - edition, corrected and enlarged by the famous French mathematician and economist Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-1877). Three year after this translation was published, Cournot published a masterpiece in economics, the Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses (1838). "Cournot begins with some preliminary remarks on the role of mathematics applied to the social sciences. His announces that his purpose in using mathematics is merely to guide his reasoning and illustrate his argument rather than lead to any numerical calculations" (web archive org). Provenance: simple stamp of Ecole des Mines on the front pastedown, label mounted on spine top. Light wear to board edges, otherwise very good, clean. Not in Houzeau & Lancaster.
Verlag: Edinburgh A and Ch Black, 1861
Anbieter: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Deutschland
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7, (1), 288 S. m. einigen Textfig., 3 lithograph. Falttafeln. OLwd (berieben, begriffen u. etwas bestoßen, Papier etwas gebräunt). Verbesserter Separatdruck des Essays aus der "Encyclopaedia Britannica", den John Herschel auf Wunsch der Lexikon-Herausgeber anfertigte und in den er noch neuere Forschungsergebnisse einarbeitete. 1870 erschien eine zweite Auflage.- Mit einem "Catalogue of meteorological authorities".- Poggendorff III,622. Sprache: Englisch.
London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1820. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1820 - Part I. Pp. 45-100 a. 1 engraved plate. First printing of one of herschel's importent investigations on polarization and the wave theory of light. He designed a new instrument to project the colored rings onto a screen about three inches behind the analyzer. This method allowed Herschel to examine the details of the tints.
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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Paris, De Malher et Cie, 1829. Nice contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. (8),508 pp. a. 10 folded engraved plates. First French edition and the first in bookform.
Verlag: Collingwood 14 Feb, 1860
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
One page, 12mo, good condition. A difficult hand. "I send by book post some more Copy for Part 1 of 'Light' in Good Words & to morrow or next day you shall have the rest - which [will make?] somewhere about 12 or 13 more Columns more of letterpress. | The figures are [?][open?] so that they may be put into the wood-engravers hand without the MS. | Be so good reduce the MS & let me have proofs in duplicate." Note: These articles on "Light" did not appear in "Good Words" until 1865. This leeter is presumably to the Editor, Norman Macleod.
Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. 344-90pp. 2pl. dépliantes Paris, Roret, 1837, in-12, 344-90pp. 2pl. dépliantes, exemplaire broché, Nouvelle édition, rare, qui remplace avec avantage la précédente portant le nom de Bailly (selon l'éditeur). Traduite par Vergnaud, orné de 3 planches dépliantes. Dos fendu.
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1821 - Part I. With titlepage to Part I. Pp. 222-267 a. 1 engraved plate. Verso of titlepage with 2 stamps. First appearance of this importent paper in optical theory in which Herschel described how to free lenses from the aberration for two axis points, one of which is infinitely distant. It is known as Herschel's condition. "Sir John Herschel gave the condition which must be satisfied in order that a symmetrical optical system, free from spherical aberration for two conjugate axial points, may also be free from spherical aberration for two neighbouring and conjugate points upon the axis of the system" but Herschel's condition applies only to first order aberration, i.e. to aberration depending upon the cube of the inclination of the ray to the axis. Abbe shewed, later, that this condition could be included in a wider result, viz. that the spherical aberration, supposed zero, is stationary for axial variations provided that the incident and emergent rays for two conjugate axial points, associated with modified magnification m, satisfy the relation. (G.C. Stewart).
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Stuttgart und Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1831. Cont. boards. A little wear to spines, corners bumped. 693,(1) pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. First German edition.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1833. 4to. As extracted, in "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", volume 4. Fine and clean. Pp. (425)-440 + 1 plates. First appearance of Herschel's paper on transcendental equations.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1833. 4to. As extracted, in "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", volume 4. Fine and clean. Pp. (21)-87. First edition.
Erste deutsche Ausgabe.- John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) war der Sohn des Astronomen Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel.- "Das Buch behandelt die sphärische Aberration des Lichtes bei der Reflexion an spiegelnden Flächen" (Darmstädter 377). Mit Kapitel u.a. über: Photometrie, Lichtbrechung, Vom Bau des Auges und vom Sehen, Vom achromatischen Fernrohr, Von der Beugung des Lichts, Von den Farben etc.- Titelei, einige Textblätter und Tafeln (verso) gestempelt, tlw. etwas stockfleckig und gebräunt, Ebd. etwas beschabt und bestoßen.