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1952S5007Rio de Janeiro:: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 1952. 1952. 271 x 186 mm. 4to. Pages 44-46. Entire volume: 71 pp. 1 tables. Printed wrappers; wrappers creased several leaves dog-eared. Very good. RARE. FIRST EDITION. "After his well known success in quantum electrodynamics Feynman was working on meson theory. He proposed to Leite Lopes that they investigate whether the pseudoscalar meson theory would give some results in the description of the deuteron which could be experimentally checked in spite of the difficulty of the 1/r3 singularity at the origin of the Yukawa potential. The results of this study were published in an article entitled 'On the pseudoscalar meson theory of the deuteron' in the proceedings of the Symposium on New Research Techniques in Physics 15-29 June 1952. Many physicists from Europe and the United States attended this symposium." Mehra. Among the contributors to this publication are Eugene Paul Wigner 1902-1995 with three papers among the total of 67. Gleick Genius p. 495; Mehra The beat of a different drum p. 334-335. Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 1952. unknown books
1961S4267In:: Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 33 No. 3 July 1961. 1961. 272 x 202 mm. 4to. Pages 493-497. Entire volume: iv 625 pp. Full orange buckram gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamps those on edges obscured spine label partially removed. Ownership name in gilt on top cover. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Abraham Pais and Murray Gell-Mann teamed together to work on the problem of strong and weak interactions. See: Pais Inward bound p. 520. Abraham Pais received the Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht in 1941 and was professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey from 1950-1963. Pais' research and publications were on the physics of fundamental particles high enery physics and field theory. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 33, No. 3, July, 1961. hardcover books
190243064Chicago: Unity Publishing Company 1902. 1st Edition. Brown quarter cloth with grey-brown boards tan title block to front board gilt lettering to spine. Ex university library with only a small one-line name stamp; no other library markings. Mild shelfwear short closed tear and minor soil to pg vi. Interior otherwise clean binding tight. VG. viii 127 7 blank pp plus 2 pp list of publications. Several unopened leaves throughout. 8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a Unitarian minister and the founder of All Souls Church in Chicago; he also founded the Abraham Lincoln Centre the church's community outreach program and to which this book is dedicated and became a prominent pacifist during WWI. Weston has compiled these selections of Jones writings under various themes -- Home Individual Church Love etc -- and notes that they "are taken chiefly from the two books in the Bits of Wayside Gospel series entitled 'Jess' and 'A Search for an Infidel.'" Unity Publishing Company hardcover books
2005180256Paris: Hazan 2005. Hardcover. VG. Pictorial dj; black boards white lettering on spine. 151 pages : illustrations some color. Catalog of an exhibition at the Musée Picasso Antibes 2 July -16 October 2005./ Includes bibliographical references pages 150-151. Hazan hardcover books
189186934London: Ward Lock and Co 1891. 1st Edition in English. Hardcover. Fair. frontis portrait illustrations index xviii 1 597p. Original reddish pictorial cloth. Rebacked with most of original worn backstrip mounted. 22cm. Covers faded worn and scuffed. Contents sound although lacking the folding map. Translated from the original German by H. W. Dulcken. A worn and mapless copy of a scarce work. Peters was a bit of an adventurer. It seems unclear whether his actions during this expedition were sanctioned by Germany. At any rate Germany and Great Britain concluded the second Anglo-German Agreement on July 1 1890 under which any claims to East African territory secured by Peters for Germany were casually abandoned by the Germans. Peters was later sent to Africa as a German colonial official but highhanded mistreatment of Africans led to his dismissal and forfeiture of his pension rights. Undaunted Peters moved to England and continued as an adventurer and promoter. <br/><br/> Ward, Lock, and Co hardcover books
192425776Milano: G. Ricordi & C. PN 119599 1924. Large folio. Full original publisher's stiff vellum boards illustrated in black highlighted in red and gold illustrated endpapers. 1f. blank i half-title i copyright notice 1f. limitation statement 1f. title 1f. table of contents 1f. cast list 1f. part-title within illustrated border by Gisari 1f. scene description 1f. second part-title with illustration of scenery for the first act 415 i blank pp. 1f. decorative device by Gisari. Uncut. <br/><br/>Publisher's blindstamp to lower margin of each leaf. Each act preceded by an unpaginated blank leaf scene description and two part-titles the second with a detailed illustration of the scenery. The second part "Lo spoliarum" is preceded by an unpaginated blank leaf and scene description.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn soiled and warped. Some leaves slightly browned or soiled. Deluxe Limited Edition this number 19 of 120 copies with "XIX" in careful manuscript to lower margin of limitation statement. On fine Pietro Miliani di Fabriano paper. Illuminated and illustrated by Giulio Cisari after sketches by Lodovico Pogliachi.<br/><br/>Begun in 1877 Nerone an opera in four acts to Boito's own libretto remained incomplete when Boito died in 1924. After its completion by Arturo Toscanini Vincenzo Tommasini and Antonio Smareglia it was posthumously premiered at the Teatro alla Scala on May 24 1924 with Toscanini conducting. Although its premiere was very well received it was not performed in the U.S. until April 12 1982.<br/><br/>An attractive copy. G. Ricordi & C. [PN 119599] unknown books
192433907Milano: G. Ricordi & C. 1924. Large octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory illustrated wrappers with titling in red. 1f. recto half-title verso copyright 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto cast list verso blank 9-88 pp. On laid paper with text within thin light green rule. With decorative headpieces by Cesari printed in light green. <br/><br/>Publisher's blindstamp to inner lower corner of first few leaves dated 4 April 1924. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; spine slightly split. Some light foxing. First Edition. <br/><br/>Nerone was first performed in Milan at La Scala on 1 May 1924. <br/><br/>"Nerone which had engaged Boito's attention irregularly for nearly 60 years was finally performed six years after his death on 1 May 1924 at La Scala in a version extensively revised by a committee consisting of Toscanini Antonio Smareglia and Vincenzo Tommasini . Nerone exists in two versions: in five acts as in the printed libretto of 1901 and in four acts as in the printed score. The excised fifth act for which Boito sketched music presents Nero playing Aeschylus's Orestes while Rome burns. The four-act version ends with the death of the Christian convert Rubria. All in all Nerone possesses great originality vividly contrasting pagan magic imperial corruption and Christian caritas. It is arguably Boito's finest achievement." William Ashbrook in Grove Music Online. G. Ricordi & C. unknown books
19701342605Philadelphia: Industrial Research Unit Wharton School of Finance and Commerce University of Pennsylvania 1970. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine blue with gold print call number label at bottom; Boards in blue cloth with gold print wear to spine caps and corners cloth puckering on front and rear shelfwear; Text block has library stamps on edges and front flyleaf library bookplate on front pastedown library pocket and labels on rear pastedown penciled call number on title page verso clean text; xvii 769 pages. 1342605. FP New Rockville Stock. Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania hardcover books
1911CA0100a3 volumes. Volume 1. vi314 with frontispiece and plates; volume 2. 372 pages with frontispiece and plates. volume 3. 518 pages with frontispiece and one plate. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x6 1/4" Bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine and raised spine bands; marbled boards. Preface par M. le Cte de MoüyFirst edition.<br /><br />Mémoires: L'Intervention Française au Mexique by Charles Blanchot. This very rare memoir by Charles Blanchot was aide-de-camp to General Bazaine Supreme Commander of French Forces in Mexico during Mexico's Second Empire. There is so much in here that has never seen light in either Spanish or English for instance: the powerful if behind-the-scenes role of Doña Juliana de Gómez Pedraza widow of Manuel Gómez Pedraza and the vicious if as Blanchot suggests unfounded rumors circulating in Mexico City about Bazaine in 1866-7. Blanchot who married an American of French origin in Mexico City also offers a detailed and lively portrait of Mexico City society at the time.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />First signature of volume one detached with some edge wear along the fore-edges title to volume two detached binding edges and hinges rubbed spines darkened. A good copy of a very rare and scarce work. Librairie Emile Nourry hardcover books
19571340728Asheville: Citizen-Times Publishing Company 1957. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/Poor; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine tan with black print; DJ in mylar tears at spine ends and flap corners portions torn away at top an bottom of spine and front top edge toning to spine peripheral toning moisture stains; Boards in green cloth with gold print mild wear to spine caps and corners else clean and strong; Text block has spotting to edges and endpapers name in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; Signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 259 pages illustrated b&w. 1340728. FP New Rockville Stock. Citizen-Times Publishing Company hardcover books
195913028Oslo: H. Ashehoug 1959. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Norwegian edition of Lerner's classic play adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion signed by the legendary American chef author and television personality. Text in Norwegian and with photos of cast members from a Norwegian production of the play. Signed by Julia Child on the front cover and further signed "P. And J. Child Oslo 19 Jan 60" on front free endpaper. This date corresponds with the time that the Childs lived in Oslo during Paul's waning years as an American diplomat. Amusingly the dialogue entries for Henry Higgins and Eliza pp. 49 - 58 have been "X"-marked in the margins beginning with the line "En perfekt siggarett gir sollid appetit" which corresponds to and here replaces the famous line in which Eliza mispronounces her vowels leading then to the celebrated song "Just you wait Henry Higgins." It is charming to imagine the Childs together hamming it up in this scene perhaps entertaining friends in their Norwegian home. <br>124 pp. Softcover with French flaps; covers lightly worn; overall in very good condition.<br><br>A fabulous item from the famous American cook author spy and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs including the series The French Chef which premiered in 1963.<br> H. Ashehoug paperback books
188647697New York: The De Vinne Press 1886. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from Sampson to Theodore Watts dated 1887. Original publisher's quarter-vellum over grey paper wrapped boards; title stamped in blind to front board. Printed paper title label to spine. TEG. Wear & soiling to binding. Terminal flyleaf with short closed tear to bottom edge. Booklabel of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton. About Very Good. 72 pp. Errata leaf tipped-in after p. 72. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>Publication of "a paper read before the Association of Haverford Alumni in Alumni Hall Haverford College Pennsylvania on the Evening of the Twenty-First of June 1886 by Alden Sampson A. M. Haverford and Harvard." "Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne whom he rescued from alcoholism." Wiki The De Vinne Press hardcover books
1975140729002Galt CA:: The Laurel Hill Press 1975. Paperback. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies this is number 86 hand printed and hand bound by Baxter Sperry. Pamphlet. 9 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches. vi 24 pp. Half-title errata and addenda tipped in on the copyright page index bibliography; text clean unmarked. Printed blue wrappers yapp edges stapled; binding square and tight minor toning and wear to edges. Very Good if not near fine. This work tells the story of the origins of the Chabolla grant in southern Sacramento County and northern San Joaquin County and the ownership of the property. Baxter Sperry was married in 1931 and divorced her husband several years later. She took various degrees at Universities throughout California worked for the federal government as a teacher and writer and wrote extensively on Mexican settlement in Northern California. This is one of a series of books Sperry wrote about Mexican land grants in Sacramento County. 15 copies Worldcat. The Laurel Hill Press, paperback books
1969BL4157Cambridge:: MIT Press 1969. 1969. 8vo. xii 714 pp. Index. Cloth dust-jacket; jacket tears soiling on top edge. Very good. "The developing natural sciences were the causal lens through which he viewed and from which he wrote about the consequences on epistemology and the history of metaphysics. His book Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science." MIT Press, 1969. hardcover books
1972179972London: Thames and Hudson 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Grey slipcase and covers gold lettering on spine. 64 pp illustrations. Part of Series Walter Neurath memorial lectures. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
1968MMRM1355Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press 1968. 1968. 8vo. xvii 1 312 2 pp. Frontis. portrait illustrations Owsei Temkin complete bibliography. Brown blind -and gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket; jacket extremities a bit worn. Owner rubber stamp Russel C. Maulitz M.D. Very good. ISBN: 0801806151 19 essays by Erwin Ackerknecht Whitfield J. Bell John B. Blake Marshall Clagett Edwin Clarke George W. Corner Bentley Glass Saul Jarcho Kester S. King Janet B. Koudelka Fridolf Kudlien Victor A. McKusick Genevieve Miller Robert P. Multhauf C. D. O'Malley Walter Pagel F. N. L. Poynter George Rosen Richard H. Shryock Lloyd G. Stevenson William L. Strauss Jr. PROVENANCE: Russell C. Maulitz M.D. Ph.D. completed his M.D. and Ph.D. in History of Medicine at Duke University. He has served on the editorial boards of three major journals in the fields of medical history and technology and society. He is author of four books monographs and translations and over fifty articles in the fields of medical history and medical informatics. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968. hardcover books
189528383Paris: Louis Gregh PN L. G. 3125 1895. Large octavo. Half dark brown morocco with marbled boards raised bands on spine in ruled compartments gilt titling gilt marbled endpapers original publisher's gray decorative wrappers printed in dark brown bound in. 1f. recto title printed in blue verso blank 1f. recto dedication verso blank 1 notes on first performance and named cast list 2 contents 3-262 pp.<br/><br/>Named cast includes Dutrey Labis Boussa Darnaud Lacoume de Doncker Vernet Michelini de Léga and Leavington.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Uniform light browning; small oval bookseller's handstamp to lower margin of title. First Edition. Louis Gregh [PN L. G. 3125] unknown books
188768676San Francisco: The History Company Publicadores 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce Spanish language schoolbook with lessons modeled after those in early American primers. Bancroft 1832-1918 is best known for his monumental 39-volume history of the Pacific Coast region from Central America to Alaska. Numerous textual illustrations. Small octavo. Original printed brown paper-covered boards. Pencil marginalia to a few pages. Period previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf with a pencil inscription to the front pastedown. The corners are showing with some general shelfwer and minor spotting to the boards. The History Company, Publicadores hardcover books
192022042Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1920. 1st edition BAL 43. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. VG spine dull/shelfwear/bpt. Bpt of Arthur A. Milhaupt Jr designed by Rockwell Kent. 8 134 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1950S13412Paris:: Annales de Physique 1950. 1950. Series: Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Contributions de l'Institut d'astrophysique de Paris serie A n° 64. 8vo. ii 115 1 pp. 4 plates figs. Plain wrapper; pink wrapper partly extant. Very good. Annales de Physique, 1950. unknown books
187228381Paris: G. Brandus & S. Dufour PN B. et D. 11744 1872. Large octavo. Full red cloth with "Library of Sigmund Romberg" gilt to upper titling gilt to spine. 1f. recto title illustrated title by Jannin & Denis verso blank 1f. recto notes on first performance named cast list and contents verso blank 245 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Named cast for the first performance in Brussels on March 16 1872 at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes includes Mario Widmer Jolly Charlier Nardin Durieu Haly Ernotte Rineval Achille Goitte Gentien Delorme Dubouchet Guénin Debeer O. Vallot and Camille; and for the first performance in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés on May 13 1872 Berthelier Kopp Hittemans Léonce Blondelet Alex. Michel D. Bac Bordier Duval Millaux Van-Ghell G. Gauthier A. Regnault Bessy A. Schneider Argème and Schweska.<br/><br/>Ex-library with The Library of The Universioty of California Los Angeles bookplate and "withdrawn" stamp etc. to front pastedown. Binding very slightly rubbed and bumped; spine slightly faded with remnant of label to foot. Minor to moderate foxing; several pages trimmed just touching pagination; small tears to inner margin of title with tape repairs publisher's facsimile signature handstamp to lower margin. First Edition later issue.<br/><br/>Les cent vierges to a libretto by Clairville Chivot and Duru was first performed in Brussels at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes on March 16 or 17 1872.<br/><br/>"In Brussels where Lecocq lived for several years from 1870 the popular acclaim accorded his operettas Les cent vierges 1872 La fille de Madame Angot 1872 and Giroflé-Girofla 1874 all of which were later produced with great success in Paris and abroad established him as a natural successor to Offenbach."<br/><br/>"Much of Lecocq's music is characterized by a light touch but he could also adopt a more lyrical and elevated style than Offenbach and termed several of his operettas opéras comiques. His greatest popular triumph La fille de Madame Angot has remained a classic among operettas and demonstrates Lecocq's abundant flow of pleasing melodies his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect impressive building up of extended numbers and typically French shaping of phrases." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Romberg 1887-1951 a Hungarian-born American composer and conductor known particularly for the original operettas he created during the 1920s "worked with such legendary librettists as Oscar Hammerstein II and Dorothy Fields is an important link between Viennese operetta and the mature American musical theatre. Romberg was also an avid collector of musical scores and his personal music library purchased by the University of California after his death contained over 4500 items. Archives of his manuscripts performance materials and orchestral materials are held at the Library of Congress the New York Public Library the Shubert Archive and the University of California." William A. Everett in Grove Music Online. G. Brandus & S. Dufour [PN B. et D. 11744] unknown books
3641907. Woodcut. Curtis 63; BN inv 522. Image: Signed. 12 x 6½. Margins: 11 x 15 . RARE. unknown books
1913M5318Jena:: Gustav Fischer 1913-1914. 1913. Three volumes. 25 cm. Illus. some color index. Tan buckram; inner hinges cracked inner hinge broken vol. III mild shelf wear spine slightly stained vol. III. Good. FOURTH EDITION. Well-illustrated showing instruments and numerous amazing patients in need of surgical care. For Wilms see: Garrison and Morton three entries. "Wilm's tumor" is named after Wilms. Gustav Fischer, 1913-1914. hardcover books
1917SS11589Paris:: Gauthier-Villars et cie 1917. 1917. Series: Collection de monographies sur la theorie des fonctions. 8vo. vi 118 pp. Later full lime green cloth hand-typed title on paper mounted on spine. Bookplate of G Polya. First edition. Maxime Bocher was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations series and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bocher's theorem Bocher's equation and the Bocher Memorial Prize are named after him. Bocher was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1908 to 1910. PROVENANCE: George Polya 1887-1985 was a Hungarian mathematician and professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zurich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics number theory numerical analysis and probability theory. Harold Levine was also at Stanford's mathematics dept. and thus acquired some of Polya's personal library. Gauthier-Villars et cie, 1917. hardcover books
1998180195Paris: fayard 1998. Softcover. VG. Pictorial glossy covers. 335 pages : illustrations some color. Text in French. Includes bibliographical references pages 285-320 and index. fayard unknown books