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Zustand: Good. Good condition. Rebound in blue wrappers. (Batteries, Electricity) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

8vo. Pp. iv,187-320,[14]. Orig. cloth. - With a new index compiled by P.J. Whitehead. We hold the very small remaining publisher's stock.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Blue cloth on boards. Embossed design on both covers. Corners bumped and slightly worn. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Fairly tightly bound. Pages age-toned. Internally clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN.…

Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Fair. Sixth Edition. Worn condition. Lacking front cover, front endpapers and spine - retaining rear board. Contents tightly bound. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). viii, lxxvi, 263pp, xxxii, 111pp, [x]. 4 [of 5] plates and vignettes.

18pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Number of copies in libraries.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A Report on the Progress of the Vegetable Physiology during the year 1837, written by F. J. F. Meyen, professor of Botany in the University of Berlin. Translated from the German by William Francis, associate of the Linnean Society. In original publishers paper wraps. Externally, a trifle rubbed with some general marks and spotting. Internally, firmly bound, bright and lightly foxed throughout with many sections remaining uncut. Good. None (illustrator). book. …

Zustand: Used-Like New. Octavo, xx [2] 176 pp. Rebound on full deep navy leather; spine in 6 compartments with elaborate gilt stamped decoration; spine label gilt stamped on light brown leather; boards gilt tooled; marbled endpapers. There is some very minor bumping to corners. Otherwise, this is a very bright and attractive rebinding that although unsigned is very much in a Zaehnsdorf style.…

Half leather hardcover. Red title label with gilt text. cxl,534 pp.; 25.x17 cm. Text in French / Français. - (leather sl. rubbed, edges covers sl. dam., paper sl. browned, some spots, few pages slightly damaged at edges) Although still very good, see picture, more pictures on request. 1240g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 8vo (small). Contemporary calf. Speckled edges. [8], 147, 66, vi. Engraved frontis. portrait of Tillotson. Joints cracked, rubbing to extremities, soiling to front board, chipping to spine ends.

N. I. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Good copy professionally recased. Scattered foxing. Physical description; 444 pages, 20 cm. Subjects; Poets, English ; Biography ; Early works to 1800. English poetry ; Bio-bibliography. English drama ; Bio-bibliography. Dramatists, English. English drama. English poetry. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Good. Sixth Edition. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. Slight foxing. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). viii, lxxii, 262pp,xxxii, 111pp, [x] + plates. 5 b/w plates + vignettes. Hardback marbled boards with brown leather spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Color Illustrations; xv, 287; 288-604 pages; One of Them which originally appeared in parts in 1860 and published in book form in 1861. This consists of 2 only volumes with original waterclours, hand colored plates, extra illustrated, very ornate tooled leather. The final set onsisted of 37 volumes. Green morocco leather faded to olive on spines. All gilt is bright, binding is quite striking. Inner covers are also full leather with green frames surrounding a red morocco blank [back and a tooled story related drawing 4.5 x 7.5". Volumes are 6 x 9. Double end papers consist of silk and also watercolor marbling. Binding by Becourt stamped in gilt inside front cover. Possibly this was done in collaboration with Zahnsdorf as Z bound editions in 1902 and 1911. Limited to 10 special copies of which this is the Publisher's proof copy especially prepared for D C Goodwin. No autographed letter so this is probably not the first volume. Illustrated by Various (illustrator).…

The rare offprint, with presentation inscription at the head of the title page, 'Rev. Dr. Robinson, from the author'. As early as the 1823 Faraday had done important work showing that gases such as chlorine and carbon dioxide could be liquified by exposing them to high pressure and low temperatures, a major contribution to modern theories of the nature of matter. Here he returns to the subject, experimenting with substances such as ethylene (olefiant gas), hydriodic acid, cyanogen, and nitrous oxide. The recipient of this copy, astronomer the Rev. Thomas Romney Robinson (1793-1882) was a child prodigy who enrolled in Trinity College, Dublin at age twelve, becoming a fellow in 1814. In 1823 he was appointed astronomy at Armagh Observatory, where he established a rigourous routine of positional observations' with 'a determination unusual in observatories of the time, and quite exceptional in one so small, isolated, and poorly situated for observing'. He 'published a great many papers on a wide range of topics across physics and astronomy. He was in great demand as an erudite and entertaining public speaker on scientific subjects, having made his name at the early meetings of the BAAS' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Robinson was president of the Royal Irish Academy, a fellow of the Royal Society, and received honorary degrees from Dublin, Oxford, and Cambridge. 13-leaf offprint, author's presentation inscription to the title, ownership inscription to the upper wrapper, horizontal crease from folding throughout, contents faintly toned in the margins; original plan wrappers bound with string, wrappers rubbed and partially tanned and spotted, old repair to cracked spine, very good condition. Norman Library of Science and Medicine 760. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fourth Edition. 15-volume set (complete). A well-preserved set of George Steevens' 1793 15-Volume edition of Shakespeare's works, in original full calf. The leather has become dry and cracked with age, and there is some chipping and rubbing to the corners of the boards and heads and feet of the spines, but the binding remains fully intact. The hinges and joints of several volumes are cracked, but holding well. The front board of Volume 3 has been neatly re-attached with linen hinges. Book pages have normal age related wear with some foxing, mainly around endpapers, but overall are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. The front pastedown of each volume has the bookplate of Edward King, with coat of arms and the motto 'Kings Ay to Kin Kindlie'. Volume One has handwritten note, with initials "E.K", on front free endpaper "This is known as 'Steevens' Own Edition' and is by many considered the most accurate and desirable edition published." Overall, very sound and presentable. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: 750; Add. Inventory No: 201005PHB5-01.…

Full Calf. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Part 1, all published? Book measures 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches. Collation, xxvi,[2],108pp, half title. Bound in full calf. Rebacked retaining the original panelled boards. raised bands, gilt lettering. Calf lightly rubbed, stain marking to bottom board. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice well bound copy. Size: 8vo. …

4to. [ii], 225-273 pp. 5 figs., tables, 8 plates (5 folding). Dis-bound. Very good. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of James Forbes' study of the effects of the atmosphere on solar radiation. As early as 1830 Forbes had begun to investigate radiant heat phenomena without significant results. After learning of Melloni's successful detection of the refraction of thermal radiation, he visited Paris in 1833 to confirm Melloni's results, whereupon he requested Melloni to supervise the manufacture of a thermopile for use in his own investigations. With this instrument Forbes, in November 1834, discovered the polarization of radiant heat by transmission through tourmaline and thin mica plates and by reflection through the latter. Using mica for dipolarization, he was successful in demonstrating the double refraction of thermal radiation, and in 1836 he found that heat could be circularly polarized by two reflections in a Fresnel rhomb of rock salt. He received the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1838 for these discoveries and in 1845 was granted a royal pension for his scientific work. James Forbes was professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh and was Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1840 to 1851. DSB, V, 68-69; Houzeau & Lancaster, II, col. 865; Poggendorff, I, col. 771.…

First Edition. Large octavo (23cm). Cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 92,[12]pp; illus. Cloth lifting slightly on front and rear boards, else a tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear. Essentially a trade catalog for the firm of John & Edwin Wright, proprietors of the "Universe Works" at Birmingham. Illustrated throughout with both halftone text-illustrations and unusual (in this context) colored lithographic plates demonstrating the design and use of the product; includes Index and 10-pp price list. The author was the Managing Director of the company. …

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. iv, [1], 14-172; folding frontispiece facsimile plus 2 other facsimile plates (1 folding); original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; label rubbed, crack in the bottom third of the front joint; all else very good and sound. Halkett & Laing attribute this to Madamoiselle R. d' Ancemont, likely a pseudonym and the text is likely a fabrication.…

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Hardcover. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HERSCHEL TO CHEVREUL. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of this seminal early work of photography, the invention of the world's first photocopying process, 'cyanotype,' later called 'blue-printing'; this remained by far the most important reprographic process for more than a century after the publication of Herschel's paper. This is an extraordinary presentation copy, inscribed by Herschel to the great French colour theorist Michel-Eugène Chevreul. "Photography in Prussian blue was discovered in 1842 by Sir John Herschel just three years after Louis Daguerre and Henry Talbot had announced their independent inventions of photography in silver, using metal and paper substrates, respectively. Their successes in finally securing silver photographs represented the fruition of an idea that had been gestating for more than a century in the minds and laboratories of many noted natural philosophers. In contrast, the birth of cyanotype came, literally and metaphorically, 'out of the blue', to a single parent . As one of the leading physical scientists of his day, Herschel was driven by the urge to understand photochemical phenomena, and to harness them as tools for probing the electromagnetic spectrum beyond the narrow optical limits imposed by human vision. Using light-sensitive coatings on paper, he sought to venture below the shortwave end of the visible spectrum, into the region of the ultra-violet or 'actinic' rays discovered in 1801 by Johann Ritter; and above the longwave visible limit, into the region of the infra-red or 'thermic' rays, which had been discovered in 1800 by his father, Sir William Herschel . There is no compelling evidence to suggest that he was in pursuit of commercially useful methods of reprography, unlike Talbot, whose clear aim was to multiply his photographic images in printer's ink. It is therefore a happy irony that Herschel should have been responsible for inventing the first process for photocopying" (Ware, Cyanotype: the history, science and art of photographic printing in Prussian blue (1999), p. 11). "Only in 1872, one year after Herschel died, was the cyanotype revived, when the Paris-based Marion and Company renamed his invention 'ferro-prussiate paper' and began marketing it for the replication of architectural plans. (Previously, they had been copied by hand, which was expensive and prone to human error.) At the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the process reached American shores, where it finally met success as the blueprint, the first inexpensive means of duplicating documents. All that was required was a drawing traced on translucent paper. Pressed against a second sheet coated with Herschel's chemical under glass, the drawing was exposed to sunlight, then washed in water. The blueprint paper recorded the drawing in reverse, black lines appearing white against a cyan background" (Keats, 'The Blueprint,' Scientific American 301 (2009), p. 90. ABPC/RBH list only a copy offered by Goldschmidt in 1936 (not a presentation copy). We have located only one other copy in commerce, offered by Ernst Weil in his Catalogue 7 (ca. 1946). Provenance: Michel-Eugène Chevreul (inscribed by Herschel on title 'M. Chevreul with the authors respects' and on original front wrapper 'M. Chevreul Membre de l'Inst[itut] &c &c. Paris'). "As a scientist Sir John Herschel was naturally more interested in the theory of photography than in its practice. Photography is indebted to him for a wealth of ideas, but those who developed them often neglected to acknowledge their originator. Herschel was of a retiring disposition and never pushed forward his claims; indeed, we marvel at the restraint with which he bore the incorrect behaviour of Talbot who, thwarted in his desire for public acclaim, hastened to the Patent Office with more than one idea which Herschel had freely published. "Herschel's photographic researches are concentrated within the first few years after the discovery of photography, and.…

Zustand: Gut. 8vo. (8), 240, 108, (12) S. Pergament-Einband der Zeit. Rücken stark beschabt, Titelblatt mit repar. Ausschnitt (mit geringem Textverlust). Insgesamt schönes Exemplar. Mit 2 ganzseitigen Stichen (Demosthenes und Aischines), beide Bilder etwas beschabt; vorderer Vorsatz mit kleinem Fehlstück. Sprache: Griechisch / Lateinisch.…