Dahlgren, Virginia and White Oak, Maryland: Naval Surface Weapons Center, 1981. Hardcover. Quarto size, 1115 pp. This symposium is one of a series which began in 1951 as an Office of Naval Research sponsored "Conference on Detonation". Sponsorship has expanded during the years and now includes Army, Air Force, Department..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1925. Hardcover. All volumes bound into one book, quarto size, 191 pp. "The Lick Observatory Bulletins assembled in this volume (Volume I only) represent contributions by the members of the Staff and by Graduate Students of the Berkeley Astronomical Department of the University of..... More
(Oxford): (Oxford University Press), (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the OUP publication, four volumes (complete), large octavo size, total of approximately 2000 pp. One could spend a lifetime studying the life and work of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). An ordained Catholic priest as well as a scholar, philosopher and..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 352 pp. First English edition of this work on enzymes. The author, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin (1873-1964) was a Swedish biochemist, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929. Chapters include Special Chemistry of the..... More
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Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche, ca. 1854. Maull, Henry. No binding. Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" was still five years in the future when this photograph was taken, with Charles Darwin being 45 years of age. This item an albumen photograph, the first photograph of Darwin to be printed on paper;..... More
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, quarto size, 150 pp., with prospectus, in a custom binding. The fifty-first publication of The Allen Press, being the first translation from Latin into English of "The Poeticon Astronomicon," the earliest printed book to show the figures..... More
New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press, 1976. Hardcover. Octavo size, 293 pp. Second volume published by this author in the area of Molecular Spectroscopy; per the Preface, "this volume offers reviews of new experimental and theoretical developments in molecular spectroscopy and is intended to serve as a useful resource..... More
New York and London: Academic Press, 1972. Hardcover. Octavo size, 435 pp. Contains reviews of then-current advances in several phases of research in high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, with particular emphasis on electronic, infrared, and microwave studies of molecular species in gas phase and in matrices (from dust jacket flap). ***Professor K...... More
London: Academic Press / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. Octavo size, 258 pp. Seven presentations by noted scientists all having to do with silicon geochemistry. As an essential nutrient, and the basis of the skeletal material of certain organisms, silicon occupies a dominant position in biogeochemistry; and this book..... More
Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, large octavo size, 434 pp. William Marshall Smart (1889-1975) was a Scottish astronomer and the author of sixteen books on the subject of astronomy. Highly regarded, he taught, published, and was the winner of several awards..... More
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London and Worcester: S. Crowder and S. Gamidge (1765, 1766, 1765), 1765. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in one, first edition of the first and third titles, second edition of "A View of the Earth", quarto size, [160] pp., illustrated with maps and globes. Following his matriculation from Magdalen Hall, Oxford..... More