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Cathode Rays

Cathode Rays by THOMSON, Sir Joseph John

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
Cathode Rays
Author
THOMSON, Sir Joseph John
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
London: Taylor and Francis, 1897. Full Description: THOMSON, Sir Joseph John. Cathode Rays. [In]: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Being a Continuation of Tilloch's 'Philosophical Magazine,' Nicholson's 'Journal,' and Thomson's 'Annals of Philosophy.' Conducted by Lord Kelvin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. George Francis Fitzgerald, M.A. Sc.D. F.R.S. and William Francis, Ph.D. F.L.S. F.R.A.S. F.C.S. 'Fifth Series.No 269- October 1897. With one plate. Illustrative of Prof. D.B. Brace's paper on Oberservations on Light Propagated in a Dielectric Normal to the lines of Force. London: Taylor and Francis, October, 1897. First edition. Octavo (8 7/16 x 5 9/16 inches; 215 x 142 mm). 293-368 pp. Thomson's article on Cathode rays comprised pages 293-316 with six black and white line-drawings, some numerical charts and equations. Along this article are eight other articles and one engraved plate. Publisher's original blue printed wrappers, neatly rebacked to style. Edges speckled red. We could find no other copy in the original wrappers at auction. An about fine copy. This was the first of Thomson's papers on the discovery of sub-atomic particles. "It was reserved for J.J. Thomson (knighted in 1908) to discover the true nature of the cathode rays. In April 1897 he gave a public demonstration at one of the Friday evening discourses at the Royal Institute in which he declared that cathode rays are composed of particles of sub-atomic proportions. At this stage, he had been unable to calculate the weight of the particles, but he had measured their rate of charge to mass. The ratio was large, so they must either have a big charge or a small mass. Thomson gave reasons for preferring the latter-from experiments performed by Kenard in particular. If the charge could be calculated, then the mass could be found, since the ratio between the two was known, Thomson eventually succeeded in calculating the charge, by an ingenious adaptation of the 'dust counter' devised by C.T.R. Wilson. Thomson substituted for the dust particles counted by Wilson the cathode-ray particles. By observing variations in their fall in various electric fields he was able to calculate the electric charge of the particles. These experiments, later perfected by Millikan, led to the calculation of the mass of the electron as one eighteen-hundredth of a hydrogen atom, hitherto the lightest known object. Moreover the mass of these 'corpuscles', as Thomson called them, was constant, whatever their origin. That is to say that all forms of matter, no matter how varied their chemical composition, produced cathode rays of uniform make-up... Although he still preferred as late as 1907 'corpuscle' to 'electron' to describe this ultimate particle, Thomson has provided experimental proof of the theoretical speculation of Lorentz. In doing so he had revolutionized the science of physics. The 'indestructible' atom was no more and it began to seem likely that the common constituent of all matter was a form of energy. Thomson's discovery opened up new fields of investigation in almost every branch of physics..." (PMM 386). Printing and the Mind of Man 386. HBS 68815. $4,500.
The Peek-A-Boos In Winter

The Peek-A-Boos In Winter by Chloe Preston

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Seller: Swan's Fine Books
Title
The Peek-A-Boos In Winter
Author
Chloe Preston
Seller
Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, n.d.. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong folio, [80] pp. Information on Chloe Preston (1887-1969) seems a bit elusive; from various online sources we gleen that she was born in Britain in 1887, "in a gentrified English country environment". Her charming illustrations of the Peek-a-Boos have "clear simple outlines and bright colours, [and] her humorous images portray simple excursions and activities" (n.b., quotes from the web site of the Antique Print Club). Chloe Preston provided the illustrations for twelve "Peek-A-Boo" books (per Baumgarten). In this work, Preston follows the adventures of the Peek-A-Boos as they "winter" in the countryside, attending "shoots", riding horses to the "hunt", and more. ___DESCRIPTION: Paper-covered boards with red cloth spine, the front board with both the lettering and the colour illustration raised (bas-relief style), gold lettering stamped onto the spine, colour frontispiece one of eighteen full-page colour illustrations throughout printed on rectos only, all text also printed on rectos only; oblong folio size (13 1/4" wide by 8 5/8" tall), [80] pp., note that page count does not include the colour illustrations. ___CONDITION: Overall very good, with a strong square text block with solid hinges, the interior illustrations bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some minor soiling to the boards, the board edges and corners rubbed, offsetting to the free endpapers, the front pastedown shows the indentations from the front board having been debossed to create the bas-relief effect, we noted one leaf with a short closed tear (nicely repaired by a prior owner), and a few scattered spots of light foxing throughout. Even with its faults, a very good, solid copy. ___CITATION: For the true (published by H. Frowde) first, see Baumgarten, Artist, p. 160. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy volume and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
The Devil's Devices, or, Control versus Service

The Devil's Devices, or, Control versus Service by Pepler, Douglas; Gill, Eric (Artist)

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Seller: Swan's Fine Books
Title
The Devil's Devices, or, Control versus Service
Author
Pepler, Douglas; Gill, Eric (Artist)
Seller
Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: The Hampshire House Workshops, 1915. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Gill, Eric. First printing, one of 1500 copies, octavo size, 136 pp. Eric Gill (1882-1940) and Douglas Pepler (1878-1951) worked together for many years, founding the St Dominic's Press and creating numerous splendid works of art and writing. This collection of essays takes a look at the society of the time, examining the relationships among people, situations of work, and the effects of the Industrial Revolution. Eric Gill provides woodcuts to illustrate the text, several full-page images and several in-text; with a simplistic approach to detail, Gill creates scenes of both acute observation and satire. ___DESCRIPTION: Custom binding in half-green leather with marbled paper over boards, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title page silhouette woodcut by Eric Gill with other cuts throughout the text; octavo size (8" x 5 1/4"), pagination: [i-vi] vii-viii, 1-123 [124-128], one of 1500 copies. ___CONDITION: Very good overall, the leather is smooth and supple, the marbled boards are clean and unrubbed, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the text pages clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; we are grading as very good due to soiling and a small area of old dampstaining on the half title, and the the text block edges (particularly the fore- and bottom edges which are uncut), show uniform soiling. ___CITATION: Bibliography of Eric Gill 259. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
A group of 5 scientific trade catalogues, all with numerous illustrations throughout, and all bound in their original illustrated bindings

A group of 5 scientific trade catalogues, all with numerous illustrations throughout, and all bound in their original illustrated bindings by SCIENTIFIC TRADE CATALOGUES

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
A group of 5 scientific trade catalogues, all with numerous illustrations throughout, and all bound in their original illustrated bindings
Author
SCIENTIFIC TRADE CATALOGUES
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
1. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog H-501. Chicago: Central Scientific Company, 1950. [iv], 516 pp. 2. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog C No. 227. Chicago: Central Scientific Company, 1917. 779 pp. 3. REDMAN SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog H-461. San Francisco: Redman Scientific Company, 1946. [viii], 492, [1] pp. Chemistry, chemicals, health and hygiene apparatus (bacteriology and blood testing), natural sciences (agriculture, biology, botany and zoology), chemical and atomic physics (radioactivity and luminescence), physics. 4. H.S. MARTIN & COMPANY Scientific glassware. Catalog 48. Evanston, Illinois: H.S. Martin & Company, 1946. [xii], 345, [1] pp. Glassware for all scientific endeavors, including burets, distillation, flasks, gas analysis, stopcocks and thermometers, among other items. 5. FISHER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY Fisher’s chemical index for chemical, biological metallurgical laboratories. Pittsburgh: Fisher Scientific Company, 1935. [iv], 235, [1] pp.
Engraved portrait of Bonet writing at his desk surrounded by books. French. 17th century. 32x18.5cm

Engraved portrait of Bonet writing at his desk surrounded by books. French. 17th century. 32x18.5cm by Bonet, Theophile

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Engraved portrait of Bonet writing at his desk surrounded by books. French. 17th century. 32x18.5cm
Author
Bonet, Theophile
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
1700. Light creasing around the edges, faint foxing, and light soiling. Matted.
[Trench Art] Ashtray shaped like an upside down officer's cap

[Trench Art] Ashtray shaped like an upside down officer's cap

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
[Trench Art] Ashtray shaped like an upside down officer's cap
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
1917. Very Good. True First World War Trench Art, made of salvaged pieces of metal found in the trenches. 9 cm diameter at its base, almost 5 cm tall at the tallest -- from the base to the peak of the visor. With two rounded pieces screwed in at opposite sides to act as a cigarette holder. Cigarettes were precious currency during the war, and soldiers generally smoked to ease the stress and tedium of the battlefield. This clever ashtray bears the date of September '17, and on its side incised is Cambrai, the location of bloddy battles in both 1917 and 1918, another name which we can't fully make out, and the date, 1919, the significance of which we do not know. We date the ashtray to 1917, but it certainly could have been done the following year, or conceivably after the Armistice, but there is no question it is "Folk Art" spawned by the Great War.
DJANIRA: PICTURING BRAZIL.; Edited by: Adrian Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura. Texts: Adriano Pedrosa [and 11 others]

DJANIRA: PICTURING BRAZIL.; Edited by: Adrian Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura. Texts: Adriano Pedrosa [and 11 others]

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Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC
Title
DJANIRA: PICTURING BRAZIL.; Edited by: Adrian Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura. Texts: Adriano Pedrosa [and 11 others]
Seller
Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN
9788531000652
Description
São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP, 2019. b/w and color plates, ports., facs., cat., bibliographical references (pages 300-[303]), illus. endpapers, color pict. boards. [PRE-ORDER] Published on the occsion of the retrospective held March 1 - May 19, 2019 at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP and in June 28 - October 27, 2019 at the Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho, in Rio de Janeiro. Most comprehensive monograph dedicated to Djanira da Motta e Silva (Avaré, São Paulo, 1914 - Rio de Janeiro, 1979) since her death forty years ago. The title "Djanira: The Memory of Her People" - borrowed from a 1970s story by Mary Ventura - refers to the artist's trajectory, her life story and her many trips through Brazil, as well as her painting based on daily life, landscapes and Brazilian popular culture, around subjects often marginalized by elites. This exhibition includes works from all periods of Djanira's production, from the early 1940s to the late 1970s, and follows a chronological order while bringing together works from the artist's main themes: portraits and self-portraits, popular fun and celebrations, work and workers, Afro-Brazilian and Catholic religiosity, the indigenous Canela do Maranhão, among diverse Brazilian peoples and landscapes. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXTS. CONTENTS: Djanira at Casa Roberto Marinho / Laura Cavalcanti -- Djanira at MASP / Heito Martins and Adriano Pedrosa -- Djanira: the memory of her people / Rodrigo Moura -- Chronicle of a self-made woman / Isabella Rjeille -- Indigenous Djanira / Adriano Pedrosa -- Reproduction of the works -- Woman at the window / Luiza Interlenghi -- Painting's countenance / Kaira M. Cabañas -- A gamble / Carlos Eduardo Riccioppo -- Djanira and art criticism / Frederico Morais -- Djanira's exhibition / Marc Berkowitz, 1948 -- Djanira / Adriano Pedrosa, 1958 -- Djanira's human world / Flávio de Aquino, 1962 -- The retrospective view of Djanira's work / Clarival do Prado Valladares, 1976 -- Painting and labor in Djanira's works / Lélia Coelho Frota, 2001 -- Documents Arquivo Djanira -- List of works in the exhibition -- Exhibition history / Mário Pedrosa. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION IS NOW OUT-OF-PRINT. PORTUGUESE EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE. SEE 102637.
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Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies. A flower from the Golden Land.; Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna by Salvator, Ludwig Louis

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Title
Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies. A flower from the Golden Land.; Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna
Author
Salvator, Ludwig Louis
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister - Jake Zeitlin, 1929. Cloth backed boards, leather spine label scuffed, else fine. 900 copies printed by Bruce McCallister for Jake Zeitlin.
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Terry Fox by Richardson, Brenda

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Title
Terry Fox
Author
Richardson, Brenda
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1973. Wrappers, fine.
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Practical Aerodynamics and the Theory of the Aeroplane. A Resume of the Principles Evolved by Past Experiments. by Baden-Powell, Major B.

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Title
Practical Aerodynamics and the Theory of the Aeroplane. A Resume of the Principles Evolved by Past Experiments.
Author
Baden-Powell, Major B.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Aeronautics Office, n.d. First Edition. Flexible red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, illus. Good+, with sunning and edgewear to spine & edges. Contents: General Principles; Resistance to a Plane Surface Moving through the Air; Variation of Pressure Due to Size and Shape of Plane; The Pressure of the Air on Inclined Planes; Langley’s Law; The Lee Side of a Plane; Superposed Planes; Compound Planes and Aerocurves; Friction of the Air; The Resistance of Various Shaped Bodies.
HOUSES

HOUSES by Stern, Robert A. M.

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Title
HOUSES
Author
Stern, Robert A. M.
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9781885254689
Condition
Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Description
New York: The Monacelli Press, 1997. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this hefty monograph on the first 30 years of the residential designs of the Robert A. M. Stern firm, whose designs blend tradition and innovation. 12'' x 9.75''. Original light yellow boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 608 pages. Jacket with light sunning to spine and edges, some edgewear with a bit of laminate peeling to rear lower edge; barcode label to rear. Binding with mild edgewear. Interior clean and bright.
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HANDBUCH FÜR DIE ANWENDUNG DER REINEN MATHEMATIK : EINE SYSTEMATISCHE SAMMLUNG DER FORMELN, AUSDRÜCKE UND HÜLFSZAHLEN. ERSTER BAND: DIE FORMELN DER GEOMETRIE UND TRIGONOMETRIE

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HANDBUCH FÜR DIE ANWENDUNG DER REINEN MATHEMATIK : EINE SYSTEMATISCHE SAMMLUNG DER FORMELN, AUSDRÜCKE UND HÜLFSZAHLEN. ERSTER BAND: DIE FORMELN DER GEOMETRIE UND TRIGONOMETRIE
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1827. Hardcover. Octavo, xx, 369 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with gold print on brown banner. Boards in marbled paper; tattering to spine caps and corners, tearing to hinges, chipping to paper on spine, rubbing/shelf wear to boards. Text block has red-speckled edges; name in ink on front flyleaf, cracked hinges, penciled notes on front and rear flyleaves, damp stain to top edge of initial pages, foxing throughout. Text in German. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1397989. FP New Rockville Stock.
METALLURGY A GENERAL TREATISE FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING

METALLURGY A GENERAL TREATISE FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING by Wysor, Henry

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Title
METALLURGY A GENERAL TREATISE FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING
Author
Wysor, Henry
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1927. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xii, 433, (5) pages. Third edition. Preface by the author, table of contents, list of illustrations, index. List of other works by the publisher follows text. Black and white illustrations. Light tanning near edges of text.
Clapton; The Autobiography

Clapton; The Autobiography by Eric Clapton

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Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Title
Clapton; The Autobiography
Author
Eric Clapton
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780385518512
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only slight shelf wear, else as new and unread, An excellent copy of Clapton's autobiography. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

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