Determination of the Surface-Tension of Water by the Method of Jet Vibration
by Bohr, Niels
London: The Royal Society, 1909. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT, PRESENTATION COPY, of Bohr's first published scientific paper, written while he was a 20-year-old student at Copenhagen University. Inscribed by Bohr in Danish on front wrapper to Poul Heegaard, mathematician and professor at Copenhagen University. In original wrappers. In February 1905 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters announced a prize concerning Lord Rayleigh's 1879 theory that the surface tension of liquids could be... Read More
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![Über Quantenmechanik [On Quantum Mechanics]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/309/026/1041026309.0.l.jpg)
Über Quantenmechanik [On Quantum Mechanics]
by BORN, MAX
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1924. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF BORN'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF QUANTUM PHYSICS, INCLUDING THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM "QUANTUM MECHANICS." "An important paper by Born published in August 1924 took its starting point in the 'considerable progress' made with the BKS theory and Kramers' use of it to explain the dispersion of light. Born's paper, entitled 'Über Quantenmechanik,' merits attention not only because it introduced 'quantum mechanics'... Read More
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![Zur Quantenmechanik II [On Quantum Mechanics II]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/404/257/1595257404.0.l.jpg)
Zur Quantenmechanik II [On Quantum Mechanics II]
by BORN, MAX; HEISENBERG, WERNER; JORDAN, PASCUAL
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the famous "three-man paper," the first, complete, self-consistent description of quantum mechanics. "In 1925, after an extended visit to Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, Heisenberg tackled the problem of spectrum intensities of the electron taken as an anharmonic oscillator (a one-dimensional vibrating system). His position that the theory should be based only on observable quantities was central... Read More
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![Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese [Planck’s Law and Light Quantum Hypothesis]. WITH: Wärmegleichgewicht im Strahlungsfeld bei Anwesenheit von Materie](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/531/897/1639897531.0.l.jpg)
Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese [Planck’s Law and Light Quantum Hypothesis]. WITH: Wärmegleichgewicht im Strahlungsfeld bei Anwesenheit von Materie
by BOSE, SATYENDRA NATH. [EINSTEIN, ALBERT]
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1924. First edition. original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the presentation of "Bose-Einstein statistics." “In 1924 [Bose] found a way to derive Planck’s equation for black body radiation using a statistical approach based entirely on the idea that light is made up of tiny particles (photons). This echoed the statistical mechanics approach of Ludwig Boltzmann to the behaviour of gases, but using a different statistical rule; it derives black body radiation... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed (ALS)
by BOSWELL, JAMES
London: NP, 1791. First Edition. Letter. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE LETTER FROM JAMES BOSWELL TO CARETAKER ANDREW GIBB DATED "30 APRIL 1791" TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON. BOLDLY SIGNED WITH FULL SIGNATURE. Rarely at ease with himself, James Boswell was famously a man of contradictions, vacillating between different versions of his identity: Lecherous rake or doting husband? Sophisticated Londoner or Scottish farmer? Savvy businessman or indulgent landlord? Rebellious rogue or obedient son? If we were to... Read More
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Photograph Signed: 24 Hour Worker
by BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET
New York: np, 1930. First edition. Photograph framed. Fine. RARE, LARGE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH BY FEARLESS FEMALE PHOTOJOURNALIST MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE. Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White holds many crowns. Some have called her "one of photojournalism's most groundbreaking and memorable characters" ( Britannica ); the New York Times referred to her as "one of the world's pre-eminent photographers" and "the female gaze behind Life Magazine"; she held, above all else "the belief in an artist's duty to change the world." ( Connecticut... Read More
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Photograph: At the Circus, U.S.S.R.
by BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET
np: np, 1935. Framed. Fine. RARE OVER-SIZED PHOTOGRAPH BY MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE, THE FIRST FOREIGN PHOTOGRAPHER TO CAPTURE THE U.S.S.R. While American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White's first assignment in the Soviet Union was to capture the environment and effects of industrialization, what the photographer ended up paying close attention to was the people. She writes that, during that time, she had a dream in which the cars she was photographing turned on her--hoods snapping, as if to swallow her. From... Read More
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L'Immaculée Conception
by BRETON, ANDRÉ; ÉLUARD, PAUL
Paris: Surréalistes, 1930. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDRÉ BRETON. Written within the span of only three weeks during the summer of 1930, André Breton and Paul Éluard's L'Immaculée Conception is a quintessential example of the Surrealist practice of automatic writing. While Surrealism today may at first evoke painters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí, Surrealism was demarcated by its founders, namely Breton, as an experiment as much, if... Read More
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![La mécanique ondulatoire et la structure atomique de la matière et du rayonnement [Wave mechanics and the atomic structure of matter and of radiation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/312/391/1315391312.0.l.jpg)
La mécanique ondulatoire et la structure atomique de la matière et du rayonnement [Wave mechanics and the atomic structure of matter and of radiation]
by BROGLIE, LOUIS-VICTOR DE
Paris: Journal de Physique et le Radium, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the presentation of de Broglie's highly influential "pilot-wave" interpretation of quantum mechanics. "What we now know as pilot-wave theory first appears in a paper by de Broglie (1927) entitled 'Wave mechanics and the atomic structure of matter and of radiation', which was published in Journal de Physique in May 1927... In 'Structure', de Broglie presents a theory... Read More
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Le Radjah de Mazulipatam
by Brunelleschi, Umberto; Miomandre, Francis De
Paris: Mornay. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 468 numbered copies on Holland van Gelder (out of a total edition of 500 copies), with 14 full-page color pochoir plates and 54 color pochoir vignettes by Brunelleschi. One of the most highly regarded books illustrated by Brunelleschi. (Paris): Mornay, 1926. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers; glassine. A beautiful, fine copy. $1900.
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![Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/875/942/1239942875.0.l.jpg)
Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]
by [BUDDHISM]. OZERAY, MICHEL-JEAN-FRANÇOIS
Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe, 1817. First edition. contemporary morocco over marbled boards. Very Good. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. "Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches sur Buddou... Read More
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I Want to Take Picture
by Burke, Bill
Atlanta: Nexus Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980's. SIGNED BY BURKE INSIDE ORIGINAL DRAWING OF HIS HAND. One of only 1000 copies printed of the first edition. "Bill Burke has become known for his large-format portraits shot on Polaroid Land film, which have the formality and feel of nineteenth-century photographs whilst remaining acutely modern in their sensibilities. In his best book, I Want to Take Picture, this technique... Read More
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The Writings of John Burroughs
by BURROUGHS, JOHN
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company/Riverside Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Autograph edition, number 43 of 750 copies signed by Burroughs. Beautifully bound in publisher's morocco. Complete 23-volume set, profusely illustrated with engraved or photogravure frontispieces and other illustrations throughout on Japan paper. Note: A manuscript leaf is tipped in at the beginning of Volume I, but appears to be from Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphrey Ward and not... Read More
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The Land of Midian (Revisited)
by Burton, Richard F
London: Kegan Paul. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Burton's second expedition through Midian (northwest Arabia). Although Burton failed to unearth the vast amounts of gold he believed were in the region, the expedition, sponsored by the Egyptian Khedive Ismail I, was a major geographical and archaeological success. Complete with folding map, 6 colored plates, 10 uncolored plates, numerous illustrations in the text, and 32-page catalogue at end of vol. 2. Map and plates... Read More
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The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations
by BUSH, VANNEVAR
Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute, 1931. First edition. cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE OF THE FIRST REPORT ON VANNEVAR BUSH'S DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER, THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTING MACHINE PRIOR TO THE ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. "In 1930, an engineer named Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed the first modern analog computer. The Differential Analyzer, as he called it, was an analog calculator that could be used to solve certain classes of differential equations... Utilizing... Read More
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Photograph of Julia Jackson
by CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET
London: np, 1864. Framed. Very Good. STUNNING AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE LARGE VINTAGE ALBUMEN PRINT OF ARGUABLY CAMERON’S FAVORITE MODEL, HER NIECE JULIA JACKSON, THE MOTHER OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. When you look at a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph today, you don’t need to be aware of the profound influence she had on early photography to appreciate the beauty and emotional depth of the image. While many early photographers were striving for detail and fidelity to life in their work,... Read More
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![L'Étranger [The Stranger]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/975/397/1620397975.0.l.jpg)
L'Étranger [The Stranger]
by CAMUS, ALBERT
Paris: Gallimard, 1942. First edition. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE DEFINING NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. "From its cold opening lines, 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure,' to its bleak concluding image of a public execution set to take place beneath the 'benign indifference of the universe,' Camus's first and most famous novel takes the form of a terse, flat, first-person narrative by its main character Meursault, a very ordinary young man of... Read More
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![La Peste [The Plague]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/554/972/1662972554.0.l.jpg)
La Peste [The Plague]
by CAMUS, ALBERT
Paris: Gallimard, 1947. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION; A MAGNIFICENT COPY. "The longest and most ambitious of his fictions, Albert Camus's novel The Plague is widely regarded as his masterpiece. It is certainly an artistic tour de force: a vividly realistic account of a harrowing imaginary event" (Murray Sachs). “When The Plague was first published in 1947, the majority of French critics greeted it as an allegorical presentation, not only of la condition humaine in general,... Read More
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![L’Homme Révolte [The Rebel]; L’Exil et Le Royaume [Exile and the Kingdom]; Actuelles II: Chroniques 1948-1953 [Current Chronicles]; La Chute. [The Fall]. L’Été. [Summer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/607/1666607492.0.l.jpg)
L’Homme Révolte [The Rebel]; L’Exil et Le Royaume [Exile and the Kingdom]; Actuelles II: Chroniques 1948-1953 [Current Chronicles]; La Chute. [The Fall]. L’Été. [Summer]
by CAMUS, ALBERT
Paris: Gallimard, 1957. First edition. original wrappers. Fine. FIVE PRESENTATION COPIES, ALL SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CAMUS TO ALAIN GHEERBRANT. Alain Gheerbrant (1920-2013) was an influential French writer, publisher, and explorer. As the founder of the avant-garde publishing house K Éditeur, Gheerbrant was highly influential in French literary circles in the 1940s, publishing works by (among others) Antonin Artaud, Benjamin Péret, and Georges Bataille. He later became famous as an explorer - traveling along the Amazon river and being the... Read More
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Capote, Truman
New York: Random House, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Truman Capote's first novel. Published in 1948, when Capote was only 23 years old, "Other Voices almost immeditaely jumped onto the New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for nine weeks. It sold more than 26,000 copies... Although many other novels of 1948, including Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, outsold it several times over, no other... Read More
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Pépa Bonafé
by Carlu, Jean
Paris: Marcel Picard. No Binding. Very Good. 1928 COLOR LITHOGRAPH, one of Carlu's most celebrated posters. A classic Art Deco poster, showing cubist influences, by Jean Carlu, one of the early twentieth-century's preeminent poster designers. On his famous image of the comedienne Pépa Bonafé, Carlu explained: "The Pépa Bonafé agent asked me to create a poster but I was not, like Loupot, a posterist of women. I did not feel comfortable. However, by stylizing... Read More
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![De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/025/1243025499.0.l.jpg)
De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]
by LUCRETIUS. [TITI LUCRETII CARIl; TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS]
London: Jacob Tonson, 1712. First Tonson edition. contemporary calf. Very Good. THE MAGNIFICENT FIRST TONSON EDITION OF LUCRETIUS'S CLASSIC; COMPLETE WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS (ONE A LARGE FOLD-OUT). "Lucretius' literary influence has been long-lasting and widespread, especially among poets with epic ambitions or cosmological interests, from Virgil and Milton to Whitman and Wordsworth. Not surprisingly, as one of the main proponents and principal sources of Epicurean thought, his philosophical influence has also been considerable... "It... Read More
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
by CHAUCER, GEOFFREY [URRY, JOHN (ED.)]
London: Bernard Lintot, 1721. First edition. Contemporary speckled calf. Very Good. LANDMARK EARLY MODERN EDITION OF CHAUCER'S WORKS. The Canterbury Tales, the most culturally productive of Chaucer's works, has existed in a state of flux since its earliest manuscript traces. No manuscript surviving from the Middle Ages contains all of the known tales, and, in exemplars which do witness the same episodes, the sequence often varies-in addition to containing more commonplace textual variations in language and presentation. Thus,... Read More
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State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill; Ceremonial to be Observed at the Funeral; The Order of Service for the Funeral
by CHURCHILL, WINSTON
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. SCARCE PRESS RELEASE for the State Funeral of Winston Churchill, WITH FINE COPIES of "The Order of Service" and the "Ceremonial to be Observed". Churchill died on 24 January, 1965. "The funeral was six days later, the coffin having lain in state in Westminster Hall for the preceding three days. It was the first time since Gladstone in 1898 that any non-royal personage had been so treated"... Read More
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General Orders, Containing General Order No. 139, the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
by [CIVIL WAR; EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION]. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
Washington, D.C.: War Department, 1862. Calf, marbled boards. Very Good. FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING OF THE PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, setting a date for the freedom of more than three million enslaved in the United States and reframing the Civil War as a fight against slavery. Issued by the War Department to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in the week after the completion of President Lincoln’s official manuscript version. Contained is a set of three volumes... Read More
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