1. Bray, Lieutenant R. J.

Pivots and Caps in Compasses.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1917. 16 x 25cm. 78 pages, with 88 illustrations. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Mild signs of wear to boards and spine, outer margins of pastedowns and endpapers slightly waterstained. Otherwise in very good condition. Very Rare !

2. Cole, K.C.

The Universe and the Tea Cup – The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty.

First Edition. New York / San Diego / London, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. X, 214 pages. A few illustrations and tables throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. Now out of print.

3. Crookes, William.

Diamonds [Kimberley and Its Diamond Mines]. With 24 Illustrations.

London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1909. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 145 pages. 24 monchrome photographs on 24 plates, including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Blindstamped design to front board. Blind stamp of ‘Harper’s Library of Living Thought’ embossed on back board. Deckled edging. Gilt top-edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Staining to front board. Interior bright and clean. [Harper’s Library of Living Thought].

4. Davies, P.C.W.

The Search for Gravity Waves.

First Edition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980. 14 x 21 cm. VIII, 144 pages. Original Hardcover / Cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. In original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. [Einstein, Albert] / Lorentz, H.A. / [Holton, Gerard].

H.A.Lorentz – His Creative Genius and His Personality.

First Edition. Leiden, Rijksmuseum, 1953. Small Octavo. 8 pages including a reproduction of a photograph, showing Einstein and Lorentz by P. Ehrenfest in 1921. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Small note in red ink by former owner of this pamphlet, american physicist Gerald Holton: “translation seen by AE [Albert Einstein]”

6. [Feynman, Richard] Mehra, Jagdish.

The Beat of a Different Drum – The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece (black and white photograph of Feynman playing the bongo drums), XXXII, 630 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre of book. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex-library copy with associated label on spine and stamps on endpapers.

7. Fischer, Ernst Gottfried.

[Monochord] Versuche über die Schwingungen gespannter Saiten, besonders zur Bestimmung eines sichern Maßstabes für die Stimmung .

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 28 Seiten (Seiten 187 – 215 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823), plus ein grossformatiger, gefalteter Kupferstich, welcher ein “Monochord” [Kanon / Sonometer] von zwei Seiten darstellt (Untertitel: “Monochord – zu genauen Versuchen über die Schwingungen der Saiten”). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

8. Holton, Gerald James.

Einstein, history, and other passions.

Woodbury, N.Y., The American Institute of Physics, [1995]. 24 cm. XIII, 312 pages with illustrations, facsimiles, portraits. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Former library copy in excellent (close to new) condition with some very minor signs of external wear. Decent library signs to lower spine of dustjacket and the volume itself. [Masters of modern physics].

9. Jeffreys, Sir Harold / [Norman Robert Campbell].

Original Offprint – Review by British Mathematician and Astronomer, Sir Harold Jeffreys, on two books on Relativity and Physics by Norman Robert Campbell: “Physics, the Elements” and “Modern Electrical Theory – Chapter XVI: “Relativity”.

Philosophical Magazine, 1923, Octavo. 4 pages. Original Offprint. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear. From the library of Percy Bridgman student, Gerald Holton.

10. Mach, Ernst.

Die Mechanik in Ihrer Entwicklung – Historisch-kritisch dargestellt. Mit einem Vorwort zum Nachdruck 1988 von Gereon Wolters.

Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgeselschaft, 1988. 12 cm x 18 cm. XXXIV, 493 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.