21. Humboldt, Alexander von / Oltmanns, Jabbo.

Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane in den verschiedenen Erdstrichen / [zusammen mit Jabbo Oltmanns:] Darstellung der Resultate, welche sich aus den am Vesuv, von Alexander von Humboldt und anderen Beobachtern angestellten Höhen – Messungen herleiten lassen. [dies ist gleichzeitig als ‘Ergänzung der Abhandlung von Alexander von Humboldt’s Schrift “Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane” zu verstehen und erschien im gleichen Jahrgangsband der Akademie an anderer Stelle].

Erste Ausgabe. 2 Abhandlungen (komplett). Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). Humboldt’s Schrift enthaelt: 8 Seiten (Seiten 137 – 155 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823) / Oltmanns’ Schrift enthaelt: 20 Seiten (Seiten 1 – 20 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundenen Originalabhandlungen. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltenen, originalen Erstausgaben der Publikationen. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Den originalen Publikationen wurde je eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

22. 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.

23. Ludlam, William.

The Rudiments of Mathematics: Designed for the Use of Students at the Universities. Containing an Introduction to Algebra, Remarks on the First Six Books of Euclid, the Elements of Plane Trigonometry.

The Fifth Edition, corrected and enlarged by M. Fryer. London, Printed for W. Baynes, 1809. Octavo. V, (1), 352 pages plus three folded plates. Original Hardcover / Full contemporary leather with gilt lettering on original, red spinelabel. Upper hinge with small defect. Binding rubbed but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

24. Lyle, Oliver.

The Efficient Use of Steam – Written for the Fuel Efficiency Committee of the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1947. Large Octavo (16 cm x 24 cm). 912 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

25. Mallet, Robert.

On the Dynamics of Earthquakes ; being an Attempt to reduce their observed Phenomena to the known Laws of Wave Motion in Solids and Fluids. [Read 9th February, 1846] AND: On the Objects, Construction, and Use of certain new Instruments for Self-registration of the Passage of Earthquake Shocks. [Read June 22,1846].

First Edition of both original papers. [Dublin], Royal Irish Academy, 1846. Quarto. 63 pages with 2 illustrations in the text (wood-engravings) and 3 plates: Plate I – Map of Earthquake Cotidal Lines (coloured) / Plate II – [″Seismic waves” and illustrations of a seaquake] / Plate III – [Seaquake and development of a Tsunami Wave] Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The very scarce original first edition of Mallet’s “groundbreaking” discovery. [From “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I].

26. McMillan, Edwin Mattison.

Clock Paradox of Relativity [Original, First Edition offprint from “SCIENCE, January 1958].

SCIENCE, 1958. Folio (21 cm x 28,5 cm). 3 pages. Original Offprint. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear and some fraying only. From the library of Percy Bridgman student, Gerald Holton.

27. [Michelson, Albert A. / Darwin, Charles / Maxwell, James Clerk] Macmillan, Alexander.

On the Velocity of Light – Small statement of Albert A. Michelson on the experiments of Young and Forbes. In: NATURE. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, Volume XXIV. May 1881 to October 1881. [The Volume also containing a contribution by Charles Darwin: “On the Work of Worms” / Howard Grubb’s “Great Vienna Telescope” / etc.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1881. 4°. XVI, 624 pages including an original full page potrtrait-engraving of scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Original Hardcover, recently beautifully rebacked with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Pages 559 to 564 with central tear. Few small library stamps (discarded). Also with a contribution by Darwin in the section “Letter to the editor” (Darwin responds to an article “Leaves injured at Night by free radiation”).

28. Müller, Johannes.

Über zwei verschiedene Typen in dem Bau der erectilen männlichen Geschlechtsorgane bei den straußartigen Vögeln und über die Entwicklungsformen dieser Organe unter den Wirbelthieren überhaupt.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 40 Seiten plus drei (3) grosse, lithographische Tafeln mit Illustrationen zum Text im Anhang (Seiten 137 – 177 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). 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 dem Jahre 1836].

29. Natural History Illustration of Monsters and Superstitions – Pouchet, F.A.

The Universe – Or, The Infinitely Great and The Infinitely Little. Illustrated by 270 Engravings on Wood, from Drawings by A. Paquet, Mesnel, and Emile Bayard.

Sixth Edition. London, Blackie & Son, 1882. Octavo. Frontispiece, XVI, 564 pages. Original, very decorative Prize-Binding for the “Hastings & St.Leonards-on-Sea Ladies College (English Prize for the Year 1885) / Full, dark green morocco with embossed ornament and gilt lettering on spine. Stunning, marbled endpapers with gilt ornament-border to pastedowns. Binding firm and besides some minor rubbing to spine and corners in very good+ condition.

30. [Naylor, David] / Moore-Lewy, Georg.

Zur Geochemie des Urans in metamorphen und anatektischen Gesteinen.

Berlin, 1967. Octavo. 197 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed / Signed by Georg Moore-Lewy to Professor David Naylor in 1978 / Extremely rare publication (original printed thesis).

31. [Newton, Sir Isaac] Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] / Leibniz / Baker, David Erskine / [Berkeley, George].

The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the Frenm by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley’s Miscellaneous Tracts which also include “De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum” in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton’s absolute Space, Time and Motion. (″With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the “precursor of Mach and Einstein” – Karl Popper)].

First English Edition. London, Printed for R.Dodsley, 1747. Octavo. 72 pages. Modern cloth. The bookblock with signs of stitching to the inner margin (possibly used to be part of a Sammelband). Last three leaves with paper-restoration and manuscript inscription to last page (looks like a 18th century gift-inscription). With numerous manuscript – annotations in the tracts of George Berkeley, namely in “A Word to the Wise”, “Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water”, “The Querist”. From the library of Daniel Conner, Manch House, County Cork.

32. [Optician / Optiker / Optische Instrumente] – Tauber, Gottfried.

Small Collection of very rare original materials from the library german Mathematician and Inventor of Optical, Medical & Scientific Instruments, Dr. Gottfried Tauber. The collection includes: 1. A stunning, allegorical Painting of Gottfried Tauber by Daniel Caffe (pinxit 1808) which is beautifully framed, with a significant but repairable tear 2. Gottfried Tauber’s personal Manuscript-Notebook [which he obviously kept during his early studies at “Schola Altenburgensis”], titled: “Physic a Tauber – Penticoste’s Tempore – 1784” with Drawings and detailed scientific experiments, 3. An important, printed publication from Tauber’s Institute, titled: “Anweisung Anweisung für auswärtige Personen, wie dieselben aus dem Optisch-Oculistischen Institute zu Leipzig… mit Zuverlässigkeit solche Augengläser bekommen können”. The publication explains not only in detail Tauber’s ability to select the right eye glasses for different stages of loss of sight. The publication, printed in 1851, also advertises the optical and medical inventions of Tauber (Microscopes, Tattoo-Presses, Needles for Inoculation, Camera Lucida, Camera Obscura, Thermomoeters, Meteorological Instruments etc. etc.). Gottfried Tauber was the founder of the Optical – Oculistic Institute in Leipzig / Germany and became famous for the invention of Glasses and several scientific instruments in the fields of Optic and medicinal as well as meteorological instruments . The Manuscript Notebook in the collection includes Gottfried Tauber’s personal elaborations on significant scientific experiments, even mentioning Benjamin Franklin’s Kite-Experiment from 1752 (″Doct. Fränklin in Amerika gab 1752 die erste Nachricht im Dienst von Ableitern…”). Tauber’s many talents led to him being installed as teacher of mathematics already six years after starting his manuscript notebook in 1784. Many of the experiments Tauber noted down in his manuscript and embellished with drawings, would later lead to his own inventions of tools and instruments useful for medicince and science in the ever experimental 19th century.

Altenburg / Leipzig, Gottfried Tauber, 1784 – 1851. Octavo / Quarto. Pagination: Manuscript – 146 pages with numerous drawings (some in ink and some in watercolour) / Pagination: Pamphlet: Portrait: The Portrait is framed, a tear in the portrait is visible / Manuscript: Both Hardcover boards of the manuscript are cleanly detached and rubbed with some minor damages. Drawings and interior manuscript notations very good. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

33. Payne, John.

Volume I (of III) of the “Universal Geography” [Including Asia, Africa and Voyages of English Navigators] – formed into a new and entire system; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their subdivisions of Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics: the extent, boundaries, and remarkable appearances of each country; cities, towns, and curiosities of Nature and Art. Also giving a general account of the fossil and vegetable productions of the Earth, and of every species of animal: The History of Man, in all Climates, Regions and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments and Religions: The State of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures and Knowledge. Sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People to which is added, A Short View of Astronomy, as connected with Geography; of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; and of the Universe in General. With a set of Maps, drawn from the best Materials, every one of which is very neatly coloured; and a great Variety of Copper-Plates; descriptive of the most remarkable curiosities in the world. With an Appendix in two Parts, containing I. The History of the Voyages round the World, and toward the North and South Pole, which have been made since the year 1764 by English Navigators and II. A Digested and Geographical Account of the most considerable Islands and Countries which have been either discovered or explored during those Voyages, collected from every writer upon those subjects. Part I on the Appendix includes: 1. The First Voyage round the world, performed by Commodore Byron, in the Dolphin, accompanied by the Tamar Sloop / 2. Captain Wallis’s Voyage round the World, being the Second performed in the Dolphin / 3. Continuation of Captain Carteret’s Voyage round the World in the Swallow / 4. Lieutenant Cook’s Voyage round the World, in the Endeavour Bark (First Voyage, Second Voyage and Third Voyage including a stunning engraving of Cook, together with Portraits of inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands, Mangea and Ulietea) / The Appendix Part II contain a Geographical Account and Description of the Islands which have been lately discovered or visited in the South-Sea, proceeding from East to West (Easter Island / The Society Islands / The FRiendly Islands / The New Hebrides, Mallicolo and New Caledonia / New Zealand / New Holland / The Sandwich Islands //

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Zachariah Jackson (Great Ship-Street), 1792. Quarto. XV, 894 pages with a list of subscribers and eight fantastic full-page copper engravings (NO MAPS in this Volume) / Frontispiece (The beautiful Frontispiece-plate is cleanly detached and now comes with this beautifully restored book framed): Plates included are: 1. Frontispiece: Vegetable Productions constituting important Articles of Commerce: Nutmeg Tree / Bohea Tea Plant or Thea Bohea / The Cotton Shrub / The Nutmeg enclosed in the Mace and Nutmeg Kernel / Flower of Tea / The Cotton Shrub – This plate is hand-coloured ! / 2. The Artificial Sphere (Globe) with the Solar System and Divisions of the Earth / 3. [Kamtschatka] – A Kamtscadale Travelling in Winter / An inside View of a Winter-Hut of the Kamtschadales / 4. Animals in the Southern Parts of Africa (The Rhinoceros Bicornis / The Buffalo / The Hippopotamus, called by the Hottentots the Seacow) / 5. The Country contiguous to the Cape of Good Hope – Hottentots and their Huts &c. &c. / 6. Portrait – Collection on one plate of Captain James Cook – Killed on the Island of Owhyhee – 14th of February 1779 (From a painting by Dance in the possession of Sir Joshua Banks) – other portraits on that page include A woman and a man of the Sandwich Islands / A Man of the Magea – Omai or Omia , a Native of Ulietea / 7. Portrait – Collection on one plate of: Poulaho – King of the Friendly Islands / A Man of van Diemen’s Land / A Woman from van Diemen’s Land / A Woman of Prince William’s Sound / A Man of Prince William’s Sound / 8. Portrait-Collection on one plate of: A woman of Otaheite Island (Tahiti) bringing a present / A Woman of Otaheite (Tahiti) dancing / An Otahetian (Tahiti) in the Dress of his Country / A New Zealand Warrior completely armed (Maori) // Hardcover / Professionally restored original 18th-century leather with original gilt ornament and new labels on spine. Binding rubbed but after the masterful restoration in very good condition. Some of the plates slightly loose but not detached. Very few minor wormhole damage to the last 250 pages. Rare with the plates ! From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, with his original bookplate to the pastedown. One of the early accounts of english Navigation and Discovery.

34. Rose, Heinrich.

Über das Verhalten der wasserfreien Schwefelsäure gegen einige Chlormetalle und Salze, und über eine Verbindung derselben mit der wasserfreien schweflichen Säure.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 14 Seiten (Seiten 315 – 330 des Jahrgangsbandes der Akademie). 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 dem Jahre 1836].

35. [Russell, Bertrand / Einstein, Albert / Oppenheimer, Robert / and other] Boyko, Hugo.

Science and the Future of Mankind [Including Essays by: Bertrand Russell – “Per Aspera ad Astra” / Albert Einstein – “Die Internationale Wissenschaft” / Robert Oppenheimer – “Thoughts on Art and Science: 1.Science and our Times – 2. Prospects in the Art and Sciences”].

First Edition. Den Haag, Uitgeverij Dr. W. Junk, 1961. Size. VIII, 380 (4) pages. Original Hardcover. Gilt lettering spine and frontboard. Former library copy with all usual signs and stamps. (Withdrawn from Simmons College Library). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

36. Sagan, Carl.

Murmurs of Earth. The Voyager Interstellar Record. Carl Sagan … [et al.].

First edition. New York, Random House, 1978. 25 cm. 273 pages.16 pages of of plate. 118 illustrations in colour and black and white with facsimiles, maps, and portraits. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in Protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

37. Schonland, B.F.J.

The Flight of Thunderbolts.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1950. 22cm x 14.5cm. (8) 152 pages. Original Hardcover in original illustrated price-clipped dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pastedown signed by preowner.

38. Seebeck, Thomas Johann.

Magnetische Polarisation der Metalle und Erze durch Temperatur-Differenz.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 108 Seiten (Seiten 265 – 373 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823) plus zwei Tabellen und zwei Tafeln mit Abbildungen zu Magnetismus und Temperatur-Differenz im Anhang. 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].

39. Siegel, Carl Ludwig.

Gesammelte Abhandlungen. Band I. Herausgegeben von K. Chandrasekharan und H. Maaß.

Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, Springer-Verlag, 1966. Gr.-8°. 548 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Leinenband ohne Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Namensstempel des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatzblatt. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

40. Sikes, [Bartholomew].

Sikes’ Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits, with directions for the use of the Hydrometer. Established Throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirituous Liquors. To which is added, Tables of Specific Gravity adapted for the use of the Hydrometer.

Revised. No place, No publisher, No year (c.1865). 14 cm x 21.8 cm. VIII, 102 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on front board with blind tooling. Good- condition. Soiled boards. Stained. Foxing to textblock edge and throughout interior.