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A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919

A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919 by EDDINGTON, ARTHUR. [DYSON, F.W.; DAVIDSON, C.; EDDINGTON,. A.S.]

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Title
A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919
Author
EDDINGTON, ARTHUR. [DYSON, F.W.; DAVIDSON, C.; EDDINGTON,. A.S.]
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Printed and Published for the Royal Society, 1920. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ARTHUR EDDINGTON'S REPORT CONFIRMING EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY. "On November 7, 1919, the Einstein legend began," for on that day the London Times boldly reported in a triple-headline:

 REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE
 NEW THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE NEWTONIAN IDEAS OVERTHROWN What the Times was reporting were the results, delivered the previous day at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, of the expedition led by Englishman Arthur Eddington to prove the validity of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Einstein's theory (originally published in full in 1916) proposed that gravity resulted from the curvature of spacetime by mass. It predicted precisely how light rays would bend as they traveled along the curvature. Eddington tested Einstein's theory by measuring the deflection of starlight by the Sun's gravity during a total solar eclipse. He compared the apparent positions of stars near the Sun (visible in the daytime because of the eclipse) to their positions as determined at night (when their light does not pass by the Sun). Einstein's theory predicted that light would be deflected twice the amount predicted by Newton's law of universal gravitation. Eddington's measurements proved Einstein's prediction, not Newton's, to be correct. When the results were announced on November 7, 1919, Einstein became an instant international celebrity.

 The offered publication is Eddington's full report as presented to the Royal Society on November 6, 1919. Complete with a magnificent large half-tone reproduction of one of the negatives taken through the telescope of the eclipse.

 Note: The paper also appeared in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, but that is just a re-printing of the paper as printed here in the Philosophical Transactions. 

IN: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 220, pp.291-333. London: Printed and Published for the Royal Society, 1920. Complete with plate and rare errata slip; custom box. Tall quarto (approx. 9x11.5 in.) original wrappers rebacked. Label at top right of front cover (Jacques Alkan); otherwise fine. RARE.
Signed Neil Armstrong Photograph

Signed Neil Armstrong Photograph by ARMSTRONG, Neil

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Title
Signed Neil Armstrong Photograph
Author
ARMSTRONG, Neil
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Measures 8 x 10 inches. Inscribed "To Angela Lekas/ Best Wishes/ Neil Armstrong." Photograph in color of Neil Armstrong in his white spacesuit holding his helmut with a lunar backdrop. Fine. HBS 67287. $3,000.
California and the West

California and the West by Charis Wilson Weston and Edward Weston

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California and the West
Author
Charis Wilson Weston and Edward Weston
Seller
Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
slight wear and chipping to dust jacket primarily at edges. Rare copy of the first edition, first printing warmly inscribed by Charis and Edward in separate entries to William Holger. Holger met Weston through the f/64 group in the 1930s. He was an amateur photographer and a construction supervisor in San Francisco. Holger helped Weston build his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel. Laid in, formerly taped to inside front cover, is a photo postcard showing Ansel Adams photographing Edward Weston for the image used on the rear cover of the dust jacket for California and the West. Also included with this copy is a 20 page illustrated article discussing Weston's Guggenheim trips between 1937 and 1939. This article, most likely culled from an edition of U.S. Camera Annual is also inscribed to Holger from Weston.
General Life Style in Hong Kong

General Life Style in Hong Kong by YAMASHITA, Masahiko

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General Life Style in Hong Kong
Author
YAMASHITA, Masahiko
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Bottom front corner tapped, else fine in a fine jacket. OCLC locates a single copy at the BNF.
Description
Tokyo: Libro, 1993. Bottom front corner tapped, else fine in a fine jacket. OCLC locates a single copy at the BNF.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Poetic if bleak documentation of Hong Kong from 1989-1990, shot in the Japanese version of the New Topographics style, with emphasis on over saturation of grays. Broken into five sections: Sites of Construction, Labyrinth, Panorama, Interior, and New Territories. With several tri-folds. An arresting book, previously unknown to me. (Parr / WassinkLundgren, 353).
Lithographed portrait of Waterhouse by Maguire, from the rare portfolio "Portraits of honorary members of the Ipswich Museum.

Lithographed portrait of Waterhouse by Maguire, from the rare portfolio "Portraits of honorary members of the Ipswich Museum. by Waterhouse, George R.; Thomas Herbert Maguire

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Lithographed portrait of Waterhouse by Maguire, from the rare portfolio "Portraits of honorary members of the Ipswich Museum.
Author
Waterhouse, George R.; Thomas Herbert Maguire
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Ipswich: George Ransome; M. & N. Hanhart, 1851. 598 x 438 mm. (sheet); 290 x 242 mm. (image without facsimile signature). Signed in the stone by the artist; Waterhouse's facsimile signature beneath the portrait. Minor foxing. Portrait of British naturalist George R. Waterhouse, author of Part II (Mammalia) of Darwin's "Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle," and Keeper of the British Museum of Natural History's mineralogical department. From the rare portfolio titled "Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum", a series of scientific portraits lithographed by Thomas Herbert Maguire that featured prominent naturalists like Richard Owen, Murchison, Yarrell, and Gould, published to support the Ipswich Museum's scientific endeavors in Ipswich, UK.
ONE MAN'S MEAT

ONE MAN'S MEAT by White, E.B.

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ONE MAN'S MEAT
Author
White, E.B.
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Fine in very good jacket.
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. First edition (stated). Fine in very good jacket.. First edition of one of White's greatest and most important books, including much of White's best essays like "Once More to the Lake." "No one has written more consistently graceful, thoughtful essays in twentieth-century American language than White" (Phillip Lopate, quoted in Root 2) ONE MAN'S MEAT was the book that caused HERALD TRIBUTE reviewer Irwin Edman to famously declare White, "one of our finest essayists, perhaps our only one" (quoted in Root 2). An unusually scarce book in its first edition (and uncommon even in later printings), issued during wartime production and consequently difficult to find in any kind of collectible condition. 8'' x 5.5''. Original green cloth. In original unclipped ($2.50 pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 346 pages. Book is sharp and bright with just trace shelfwear at spine tips and a bit of shelf-soil to top edge of text block. Jacket with two shallow chips and faint dampstaining (visible mainly from reverse, not affecting book). Scarce thus.
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The Art of Preserving. A Poem. Humbly inscribed to the Confectioner in Chief of the B---t---sh C--v--l--y

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The Art of Preserving. A Poem. Humbly inscribed to the Confectioner in Chief of the B---t---sh C--v--l--y
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Savoy Books (United States)
Description
London: For Joseph Burd, 1759. Book. Folio, cropped and disbound. Pp. 12. First edition. A rare satire on the failures of command of the British cavalry by Sackville and Granby at the Battle of Minden. Though cropped and folded for probable inclusion in an 8vo nonce volume, this copy is nonetheless complete. Not in Foxon; NSTC locates 4 copies, BL only in UK; Houghton, NYPL and Univ of Cincinnati in US..
Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater

Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
n.p.: n.p., 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Two volumes. Limited to 300 copies. Good. Red and blue wraps with paste-down labels on the front wrap, a few stains to the wraps, lightly rubbed and creased at the spines and corners. Square and firmly bound, some stains on the preliminaries, clean otherwise. A set of unauthorized reprints of these earlier Burroughs stories. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
Le premier Livre des Cachets, Marques et monogrammes dessine's

Le premier Livre des Cachets, Marques et monogrammes dessine's by Auriol,George

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Le premier Livre des Cachets, Marques et monogrammes dessine's
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Auriol,George
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L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
2 volumes.
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A Statement of the Frauds on the Elective Franchise in the City of New York, In the Fall of the Year 1838 and Spring of 1839 by Glentworth, James B.

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A Statement of the Frauds on the Elective Franchise in the City of New York, In the Fall of the Year 1838 and Spring of 1839
Author
Glentworth, James B.
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
octavo, 75 page pamphlet, ex-library, hand-stamps on title-page, titlepage loose but present, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, text foxed, else good. Concerns election fraud which occurred in the Presidential election of 1838. American Imprints 41-2125, 5 locations
Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809
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Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809 by CORNWELL, Bernard

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Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809
Author
CORNWELL, Bernard
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780670639441
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: Viking,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0670639443 . The first Sharpe novel. First American edition. Upper corners slightly bumped, else about fine in like dust jacket.; 270 pages .
Exposure: Volume XI, Number 3 - Journal of the Society for Photographic Education

Exposure: Volume XI, Number 3 - Journal of the Society for Photographic Education by ALINDER, Jim (editor)

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Exposure: Volume XI, Number 3 - Journal of the Society for Photographic Education
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ALINDER, Jim (editor)
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Lincoln, NE: Society for Photographic Education, 1973. First edition. Softcover. Features Jim Enyeart writing on Marion Palfi with two of her black and white images. Also a few black and white photographs of Imogen Cunningham when she was celebrating her 90th birthday. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers.
Electric Toy Making for Amateurs, including batteries, magnets, motors, miscellaneous toys and dynamo construction. T. O'Conor Sloane Norman W. Henley & Co New York

Electric Toy Making for Amateurs, including batteries, magnets, motors, miscellaneous toys and dynamo construction. T. O'Conor Sloane Norman W. Henley & Co New York by T. O'Conor Sloane

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Electric Toy Making for Amateurs, including batteries, magnets, motors, miscellaneous toys and dynamo construction. T. O'Conor Sloane Norman W. Henley & Co New York
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T. O'Conor Sloane
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Eclectibles (United States)
Description
New York: Norman W. Henley & Co, 1892. 140 pp. blue cover with silver gilt, fully illustrated. The book describes how to create electric toys. Contains 14 chapters including Permanent Magnets, Electric Bells, and Miscellaneous Receipts and Formulae. Has a preface by author and advertising at end. 7" x 5 1/2" slight wear on cover, tear on inside cove, slight discoloration, inscribed and pencil marks by previous owner.
El Libro de Villard de Honnecourt: Manuscrito de Siglp XIII

El Libro de Villard de Honnecourt: Manuscrito de Siglp XIII

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El Libro de Villard de Honnecourt: Manuscrito de Siglp XIII
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Churubusco, Mexico: Escuela Nacional de Conservacion, Retauracion Y Museografia, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Large Octavo; pp 284; G-/no-DJ; black spine without text; covers show slight rubbing to exterior; noticeable rubbing to edges, mostly to spine edges; light creasing to fore edges; chip to tail spine edge; text block has slight age toning to exterior edges; interior clean; profusely illustrated; Spanish text; arts - Spanish;. 1317603. FP New Rockville Stock.
Carthage

Carthage by WORMSER, Baron

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Title
Carthage
Author
WORMSER, Baron
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780976131113
Condition
Fine
Description
Belfast, Maine: The Illuminated Sea Press, 2005. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Peter CUSACK. First edition. 8vo; [32pp]; pale grey wrapper with title and author on front with an illustration; rear wrapper with a blurb from Stephen Dunn, an American Pulitzer Prize winning poet; fine. Baron Wormser (b. 1948) is an award winning American poet and was the Poet Laureate of Maine from 2000-2006. Now residing in Cabot, Vermont, he was a librarian for 25 years in Madison, Maine, and taught at the University of Maine, Farmington.
Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood

Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood by Birchard, Robert S.

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Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood
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Birchard, Robert S.
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ReadInk (United States)
ISBN
9780813123240
Condition
Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.2004). First Edition. Hardcover. 0813123240 . (price-clipped) [gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, otherwise like new; jacket similarly nice with just a touch of surface wear, slightly downgraded due only to the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) A deeply-researched film-by-film examination of the career of "one of the giants of twentieth-century Hollywood." .
Birth Control Choices

Birth Control Choices

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Birth Control Choices
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n.pl: ETR Associates, 2003. Pamphlet. Sixteen-panel brochure comparing birth control options and disease prevention, illus., in very good condition.

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