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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Experiments on Air
Author: CAVENDISH Henry
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1784. First Edition. CAVENDISH, Henry. Experiments on Air. ISSUED WITH: Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on Air. In a Letter from Richard Kirwan. ISSUED WITH: An Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks. ISSUED WITH: Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer, by R. Kirwan. BOUND WITH: Experiments on Air [Part II]. Read June 2, 1785. EXCERPTED FROM: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Volume 74. [London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1784-85]. Small quarto, modern marbled wrappers; pp. 119-53, 154-69, 170-77, 178-80, 372-84. Housed in custom portfolio. $5000.First edition of Cavendish's experimental proof that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen and therefore not a separate element unto itself, with a folding plate. As issued in Philosophical Transactions for the year 1784.""Cavendish was the first to prove experimentally that hydrogen ('inflammable air') and oxygen ('dephlogisticated air'), when mixed in the proper proportions and fired, produce their own weight in water"" (Norman). This paper, along with the short supplement he published in Philosophical Transactions the following year, disclosed the compound nature of water and thereby destroyed the elemental status of ""water"" in the Aristotelian system. Norman 420. Garrison-Morton 925. Fine condition.

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: What a Widow! (Original photograph of Gloria Swanson from the 1930 film)
Author: Allan Dwan (director); Josephine Lovett (story); James Gleason, James Seymour (screenwriter); Gloria Swanson, Owen Moore, Lew Cody (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: Gloria Productions, 1930. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1930 film. Stamps on the verso reading: "Gloria Swanson in 'What a Widow' Directed by Allan Dwan United Artists Picture" and "United Artists Corporation." A young woman inherits a fortune from her late, elderly husband and is pursued by several high society suitors. Gloria Swanson's first picture originally filmed with sound, and the final film produced by her Gloria Productions studio. Now considered a lost film, its trailer is preserved at the Library of Congress and soundtrack is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Set in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

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Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA

Title: Coastline: Britain's Threatened Heritage (John Fowles' Copy)
Author: Kate Baillie
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780862722135
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Advance Copy; A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket with minor rubbing to the panel and board edges and some light age-spotting to the text block. This is John Fowles personal copy, with his bookplate affixed to the front free paper; laid in are 3 letters, 2 from the publishers thanking him for his contribution to the book (he wrote the introduction to the South Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset section), and one from Greenpeace again thanking him for his participation. A unique collectible for the Fowles fan! Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.