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David Wenner Consignment I Science & Technology I Artisan Books & Bindery Craig R. Olson 111 Derby Road Islesboro, Maine 04848-4904 Telephone: 207.734.6852 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.artisanbooksandbindery.com "Helping clients build and maintain their libraries." DESCRIPTIONS: All books are hard cover unless otherwise indicated. TERMS: All items are offered subject to prior sale. Any book may be returned within 10 days. Photographs are available upon request. SHIPPING: In the United States Media Mail Shipping is Free. Shipping is by USPS/Priority/Insured at $17.50 for the first book, $2.50 for each additional book. Overseas shipping is via Air only with parcels insured and will be billed at cost. PAYMENT: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, VISA, PayPal, and Checks. Maine residents subject to 5% State Sales Tax. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1. Allen, Grant. Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. First Edition. vi, [1], 206, [2] pp ads. Green cloth covered boads with gold and dark red embossed tilting and decoration to spine and front cover board. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and second free endpaper, clean within. Very Good. Hardcover. Part of the "English Worthies" Series edited by Andrew Lang. (#24449) $55.00 2. Archimedes; Heath, Thomas L. (Editor). The Works of Archimedes: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductory Chapters & The Method of Archimedes Recently Discovered by Heiberg (2 Volumes). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1897/1912. First Edition. Vol. I: clxxxvi, 326 pp. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed tilting top spine. Light bump to top edge of front board at center, as well as center of right side of front board, clean within. Vol II: 51 pp. 8vo. Gray paper wraps with some chipping and loss along the spine, previous owner's bookplate on verso of front cover, gift inscription in ink on first free endpaper, clean within. Two volumes: The first (The Works of Archimedes, 1897) is a translation of Archimedes' greatest works with a long explanatory introduction. The second (The Method of Archimedes, a supplement to the former written in 1912) provides an English translation of a long lost treatise of Archimedes only discovered in 1906. (#24487) $450.00 3. Bethe, H. A. [Hans]; Bowen, I. S. [Ira Sprague]; Livingston, M. Stanley “BETHE”S BIBLE” Reviews of Modern Physics: Forbidden Lines (Volume 8, Number 2, April 1936) by I. S. Bowen; Nuclear Physics, B. Nuclear Dynamics, Theoretical (Volume 9, Number 2, April 1937) by H. A. Bethe; Nuclear Physics, C. Nuclear Dynamics, Experimental (Volume 9, Number 3, July 1937) by M. Stanley Livingston and H. A. Bethe. American Institute of Physics, 1936-1937. First Edition. A bound volume of what was originally publised in wraps. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine as well as previous owner's name embossed in green at base of spine. Light age toning to pages due to quality of paper. Clean within. Very Good. Hardcover. A significantseries of 3 in Reviews of Modern Physics by Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe that pulled together and added to the theory of nuclear physics at the time.Previous owner, Ellis P. Steinberg, was a chemist who worked between 1943 and 1946 at the University of Chicago's secret laboratory where Enrico Fermi produced the first nuclean chain reaction in 1942. In addition to his name embossed on the spine, Steinberg's name is written neatly in ink at the top of each paper's title page. (#24575) $400.00 4. Bettany, G. T. Life of Charles Darwin. London: Walter Scott, Limited, 1887. First Edition. 175, xxxi, [16] ads. 12mo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Light sunning to spine, gold still bright, minor bumping to corners. Minor age toning to endpapers, clean within. Very Good. Hardcover. (#24473) $30.00 5. Bohr, Niels. On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra, Part I-III. Copenhagen, Denmark: Hovedkommissionær: Andr. Fred. Host & Son, 1928. First Edition. First Reprint Edition. Light tan paper wraps with light scuffing, tny tears, ballpoint pen mark at lower right corner of front cover. Clean within, top edge of pages uncut. Housed in custom brown cloth clamshell box with gold titling at spine. Text in English. Very Good. Hardcover. 1928 reprint of Bohr's first three papers on the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra, the fourth was never published. (#24541) $175.00 6. Brewster, David. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton. London: John Murray, 1831. First Edition. xv, 366 pp. 16mo. Printed paper boards, part of The Family Library Series. Scuffing to covers, wear at head and foot of spine, cover has separated from text bock, entire cover has come off but has not separated from spine, which is unusual. Previous owner's name and date May 4th 1876 in ink on first free endpaper. Clean within. Good. Hardcover. Brewster's first biography of Newton. The Family Library Series No. XXIV. (#24469) $25.00 7. Brewster, David. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (2 Volumes). Edinburgh, Scotland: Thomas Constable and Co., 1855. First Edition. xxii, [1], 478 pp. xi, 564 pp. Brown cloth covered boards with blind embossed decorative borders to front and rear boards and spine, gold embossed titling to spine. Previous private library bookplate on front pastedown of each cover board, the only indication of their life in a library. Interiors clean and crisp, top edges of both volume uncut. Fine. Hardcover. Scientific biography of Isaac Newton by the famous English scientist, David Brewster. (#24582) $600.00 8. Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder. The Origin of the Earth. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1916. First Edition. x, 271, [1] pp ads. 8vo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold embossed titing to cover board and spine. Light sunning to spine, minor fraying at head and foot. Previous owner, Herbert N. McCoy's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within. Very Good. Hardcover. Describes the famous geologist's "planetesimal theory." Inscribed by Chamberlin to Herbert N. McCoy on first free endpaper. (#24447) $75.00 9. Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder. The Two Solar Families: The Sun's Children. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1928. First Edition. xxii, 311 pp. 8vo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold embossed titing to cover board and spine. Minor darkening to spine. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. Hardcover. Describes the famous geologist's "planetesimal theory" as introduced earlier in his work "The Origin of the Earth". (#24472) $55.00 10. Clarke, Arthur C. Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography. The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. viii, 226 pp. 4to. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scientific autobiography with reprints of most important scientific contributions of the famous author Arthur C. Clarke. (#24525) $25.00 11. Dirac, P.A.M.; Oliphant, Mark (Foreword); Hora, H. (Editor); Shepanski, J.R. (Editor). Directions in Physics: Lectures Delivered During a Visit to Australia and New Zealand, August/September 1975. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. ix, 95 pp. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small closed tear head of rear panel, color losses from creasing, now in mylar cover. Brown cloth covered boards with silver embossed titling to cover and spine. Clean and crisp within. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. (#24441) $55.00 12. Draper, John William. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. xxiii, 373 pp. Second Printing, originally published in 1874. Brown leather spine and cover board corners, marbled paper insets on front and rear boards, top edge of text block gilded. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. Three Quarter Leather. First published in 1874, that was the first book to describe the negative impact of religion on the practice of science. The book was banned by the Catholic Church. (#24486) $55.00 13. Dumas, Jean-Baptiste. Mémoire sur les Éthers Composés; Mémoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Théorie des Types; Recherches sur le Veritable Poids Atomique du Carbone; Relatives a l'Action du Chlore sur l'Alcool loi des Substitutions ou Métalepsie Recherches de Chimie Organique. Paris, 1838, 1840. First Edition. 4to. Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine and titled "Recherches de Chimie Organique". Four extracts from proceedings published by L'Academie des Sciences in Paris. Papers are of two different sizes but have been bound in one uniform binding. The titles are as follows: "Mémoire sur les Éthers Composés" published by L'Academie in 1838, Volume XV, pp 457-494. "Mémoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Théorie des Types" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume X, pp 147-207, Dumas dissertation on pp. 149-178. "Recherches sur le Veritable Poids Atomique du Carbone" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume XI, pp 991-1020, "Reserches de Chimie Organique, Relatives a l'Action du Chlore sur l'Alcool loi des Substitions ou Métalepsie" published by L'Academie in 1838, Volume XV, pp 519-556. Very light toning to paper from age, some pages uncut at head of text block. Very Good. Hardcover. Unusual to find a collection of of Dumas' work from a scientific journal of the period compiled in one volume. (#24578) $1,200.00 14. Eddington, A. S. The Internal Constitution of the Stars. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1926. First Edition. viii, 407 pp. 4to. Leather spine with five raised bands, black leather patch title with gold embossed titling.
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