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186223052301021st Maine Light Artillery; Union Army 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Union Army Order Book Large folio. 75 pages. Written by a fine hand 1862-1864. Also includes original typed orders from General Butler etc. Includes orders received by the unit from January 16 1862 through July 14 1864. Much of this period the battery was assigned to Louisiana Mississippi the Gulf of Mexico. <br> The battery was attached to 3rd Brigade Department of the Gulf until September 1862. It was attached to Weitzel's Reserve Brigade Department of the Gulf until January 1863. It was attached to Artillery 1st Division XIX Corps Department of the Gulf until January 1864 and the 2nd Division until April 1864. It then served at Camp Barry Defenses of Washington XXII Corps until July 1864. <br> The Battery notably served in the following engagements: Siege of Port Hudson; Battle of Fort Stevens; Third Battle of Winchester; Battle of Fisher's Hill; Battle of Cedar Creek. 1st Maine Light Artillery; Union Army hardcover
184751579Boston: Charles H. Peirce 1847. First Edition. 12mo 19cm. Publisher's brown decoratively embossed cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; portrait frontispiece Benjamin Franklin; 364 4pp ads. Mild external wear with spot of exposure to bottom fore-corner of front board; still a tight Very Good or better copy with contents fresh and unmarked. Postscript note pasted-in at end of Introduction states: "After the arrangements above alluded to were made for the continuance of this Magazine ill health long protracted on the part of the editor prevented its further issue. This volume therefore contains all the numbers published." Entire run comprising six bi-monthly issues of this short-lived magazine of moral hygiene instruction and literature aimed at adolescent boys and young men. The content is generally progressive with contributors such as Wendell Phillips Lyman Beecher George Tuckerman William Ellery Channing etc. well represented. The editor George Washington Light 1809-1868 was a Boston poet publisher and bookseller and a prominent broker of temperance and abolitionist periodicals. Not noted by Mott American Magazines. Charles H. Peirce unknown
1828001952Ipswich: J. Raw 1828. Single sided printed broadside approximately 235mm x 340mm in size. Creased from old folds browned to fore-edge with small amount of loss to bottom corner a few tiny tears with tissue repairs. Election figures on reverse in pen with light bleed through. Broadside showing the share-holders eligible to be elected on to the Ipswich Gas Light Company committee in February 1828 with those elected to the reverse in manuscript. According to the BBTI J. Raw traded between 1801 and 1834 and also owned a circulating library. The paper is watermarked 'Simmons 1827'. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. J. Raw Paperback
188332867Washington DC: Geo. Prince 1883. Photograph. Good. Photograph. 8" x 10" mounted albumen photograph. Light wear. Faint wooden sign in the photograph background reads "Indianapolis Light Infantry." "Indian Wars" written in pencil on the back of the photograph. Light edge wear to the photograph. Geo. Prince unknown
18601110280021London Virtue & Co 1860. Hardcover. Good. From the library of Joseph Harrison Brazier with his bookplate pasted to inner front cover. 4to. pp.iV 17 leaves of prints iii. Clean unmarked pages. Scattered foxing throughout though prints not noticeably affected. Some toning and tears to blank leaves at front and end. Blank leaves at front detached. Page edges gilt. Tissue guards between print leaves. Newspaper clippings pasted in to back of leaves provide context to prints. Hand bound in chocolate brown leather. Good binding and cover. Front hinge cracked. Some scuffs to cover moderate rubbing to extremities. Corners bumped and chipped. Gilt frame on front and back covers with edges gilt. Spine banded with floral gilt flourishes. Gilt title on spine partially rubbed off with "-ENGR- OF ART JOURN-" still visible. Spine chipped at top and bottom. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Ships daily.<br><br> The journal is a collection of prints from the late 19th century by various artists. Contains: Art Critics in Brittany --- A. Solomon pinxt H. Bourne sculpt;<br>Elaine --- Drawn by Gustave Dore Engraved by H. Robinson<br>The Fair Correspondent ---J. Sant A.R.A pinxt H. Bourne sculpt;<br>Scottish Lassies --- J. Phillip R.A. pinxt Professor Knolle sculpt;<br>The Sisters --- G. Smith pinxt C. Cousen sculpt;<br>Les Femmes Savantes --- C.R. Leslie R.A. pinxt P. Lightfoot sculpt;<br>The Novice --- J.C. Horsley R.A. pinxt H. Bourne sculpt;<br>L'INAMORATA --- H. O'Neil A.R.A. pinxt H. Bourne sculpt;<br>God's Acre --- Miss E. Osborn pinxt; H. Bourne sculpt;<br>The Signal --- J. Phillip R.A. pinxt J. Franck sculpt;<br>The Eft --- H. Le Juene A.R.A. pinxt J. Stancliffe and L. Stocks A.R.A. sculpt;<br>The Rejected Poet --- W.P. Frith R.A. pinxt C.W. Sharpe sculpt;<br>Lady Jane Grey and Roger Ascham --- J.C. Horsley R.A. pinxt L. Stocks A.R.A. Sculpt;<br>The Way-Side in Andalusia --- R. Ansdell A.R.A. and J. Phillip R.A. pinxt;<br>A King's Daughter --- E.M. Ward R.A. pinxt C.W. Sharpe sculpt;<br>Sancho Panza --- C.R. Leslie R.A. pinxt Robt C. Bell sculpt;<br>Waiting an Audience --- J.L.E. Meissonier pinxt C. Carey sculpt; London, Virtue & Co hardcover
188824526A. L. Burt New York. 1888. HBDJ 1888 1st Edition THUS DJ in POOR Condition AS-IS with matching illustration on front FRONT in GOOD condition has 2.75 in. approx Chip front bottom Right Takes out Carr & Sage Rest DJ Almonst Intact with Small chip at top edge YellowTan Instrated in Red HARDBack Book in GOOD condition with Beautiful Color PasteOn Label duplicates DJ Illustration. YellowTan cloth boards with solid red lettering. Very bright paper pasteup illusTration on front in very good condition. Red lettering on spine. Some discoloring on front board but not on illustration. Some spine end edge and corner wear and tear. . . Some slight light page soilage and discoloring. BooK has SOME Minor looseness & Back Cover Edge Stains up & Down. Rear board has moldy discoloring. . Rest of DJ is discolored faded torn stained and creased but still quite together. ; 299 Pgs ADS end with boy chums in Gulf of Mexico Interior nice tight Clean light FOX Wear. First Thus. Hard Cover. A. L. Burt, New York. hardcover
182845872Paris Crochard 1828. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 39 Sec. Cahier With halftitle to vol. 39. pp. 113-224. Entire issue offered. Ampere's paper: pp. 113-145 a. 1 folded engrave plate. The plate with a few mostly marginal brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Ampere's mathematical treatment of Fresnel's ondulatory theory of light agreeing with Fresnel and opposed to Biot and Laplace who advocated a corpuscular theory. </em> unknown
184423359J. James Burns LONDON 1844. . Includes The Field of Terror Supernatural Wild Love and The Oak of the Idols. A RARE edition.Illustrated in B/W by Franklin title page and other illustrations HardBack NODUSTJACKET 1844 1ST EDition THUS Green Embossed Gold Gilt Cloth with with Cross Design in Center in Gilt Light Rub Wear Scuff Cover & Tiny Chips Extremities VG/VG NOJACKET Some Light Black Marks Top Cover Front Gold Gilt to Pages Edges 51 215 22 20 pages with publishers 4-page catalogue to rearPebble grain green cloth bevelled boards decoratively blocked in gilt to upper cover lettered in gilt to spine and blocked in blind to lower cover. All edges gilt. Light marking with wear to head and tail of spine edges and boards. Gilt bright. Generally a very good copy. First Thus. Hard Cover. J. ( James ) Burns LONDON hardcover
181947357Paris Crochard 1819. 8vo. No wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" Tome X 2. Series Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. X. Pp. 241-336 entire issue offered Cahier 3. Arago and Fresnel's paper: pp. 288-306. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this seminal paper in which Arago and Fresnel described the experiments which demonstrated that light vibrates transversely to its direction of forward movement."In a further letter to Arago dated 29 April 1818 Young recurred to the subject of transverse vibrations comparing light to the undulations of a cord agitated by one of its extremities. This letter was shown by Arago to Fresnel who at once saw that it presented the true explanation of the non-interference of beams polarised in perpendicular planes and that the latter effect could even be made the basis of a proof of the correctness of Young's hypothesis; for if the vibration of each beam be supposed resolved into three components one along the ray and the other two at right angles to it it is obvious from the Arago-Fresnel experiment that the components in the direction of the ray must vanish; in other words THAT THE VIBRATIONS WHICH CONSTITUTE LIGHT ARE EXECUTED IN THE WAVE-FRONT." Edmund Whittaker in "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I" p. 115. - Parkinson Breakthroughs 1819 P. - Magie "A Source Book in Physics p. 325 ff. </em> unknown
18731443Privately rebound in the late nineties in blue cloth with publisher's covers laid on. Ten c. 3 x 5 in photographs of Washington buildings Niagara Falls Seward Grant frontispiece and the Oil Fields of Western Pennsylvania tipped in throughout.; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 11 267 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Sampson Low, Low, Marston and Searle hardcover
186524193John C. Winston Company 1865. HBDJ 1865 EARLY Edition Book Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR- . AS-IS Reprint. DJ with Small piece missing front Left but Not Affect Title or Illustration on Front in mylar; ; Yellow Beige Cloth with Red of Boy in Coat on Red Horse Cover light Rub Wear Light small stain Spine Cover256 pages DJ wear Rub soil & small Pieces Ends of Spine DJ BACK DJ tiny Chip in Center Soil wear last title Listed bell haven Eleven Interior nice tight light wear FOX 256 PGS NO ADS IN Back. Hard Cover. John C. Winston Company hardcover
186726966Jones Brothers & Co Chicago Atlanta 1867 HARDBACK NO DJ 1867. First Edition NF-/GOOD- AS-IS NOJACKET BLUE HARDBOUND CVR WITH SLIGHTLY RUBBED GILT DESIGN ON FRONT CVR & ITS SAYS DEDICATED TO THE BOYS IN BLUE CLOTH OVER BOARDS Blue cloth binding rubbed at extremities & Spine cvr has TAPE Repair & Darkening; Many good b&w ils. some are fold-out 510 pgs GOOD- in original gold stamped blue cloth light Rub Wear Sound binding with Interior Light Wear Fox pgs very clean and tight with only a few light stains to top corner margin of last few pages. 1 B/W Fold-Out Illustration with TAPE RESIDUE Edges Light Darkening wear rub Spine cvr & its Edgesoriginal gold stamped blue cloth. Sound binding very clean and tight 8vo LIFE IN THE CAMP FIELD AND HOSPITAL ADVENTURES OF SPIES AND SCOUTS TOGETHER WITH THE SONGS BALLADS ANECDOTES AND HUMEROUS INCIDENTS OF THE WAR A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION WHILE THE THOUGHTS OF THE WAR WAS STILL FRESH. "DEDICATED TO THE BOYS IN BLUE" ETCHED ON THE FRONT COVER In GOLD Gilt Armies of the Union Many good b&w ils. some are fold-out 18 fold-out pages with portraits of Union officers including Meade Hancock Warren Sickles Butler Hooker Custer Sheridan etc and Confederate officers such as: Lee Jackson Longstreet Mosby Hood Forrest etc. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Jones Brothers & Co, Chicago Atlanta hardcover
1891574<p>Nims & Knight Troy NY 1891. HB NODJ 1891 1st edition THUS Interior nice tight Clean light wear Fox & few small tear chips edges pages Brown Tan Green decorated Cloth Gold Gilt cover lightning TO cover EDGES & light wear rub light Fox O/W very nice Some pages with light stain at inner hinge NF/NF AS-IS NODJ121 pages Back Cover small staining copyright page says Copyright 1888 By Samuel E. Cassino. First Thus. Hard Cover.</p> Nims & Knight Troy, NY hardcover
186010153Cleveland: Nevins' Print Plain Dealer Office 1860. Printed silk certificate 14 cm x 24 cm / 5.5" x 9.5" that shows some wear at extremities and minor staining. Certificate was printed for Peter Richings. <br /> <br /> 'Cleveland Light Guard. Independent. Honorary Member's Certificate. This is to certify that Mr. Peter Richings is an Honorary Member for life of Cleveland Light Guard. Cleveland O. May 25th 1860. J.R. Sanford Com. F.M. Thomas Sec'y.'. The Cleveland Light Guard militia unit which formed the nucleus of what became the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War the first regiment rendezvoused and organized in Cleveland. The 7th was one of the most experienced regiments of the Union armies. They saw action all across the eastern theater fighting in many of the major campaigns. The list of their battles includes Cedar Mountain Second Bull Run Antietam Chancellorsville Gettysburg Ringgold Gap and Resaca. Nevins' Print, Plain Dealer Office unknown
1861000615Chicago Illinois IL. Good. 1861. A wonderful archive of historically significant with detailed civil war content: 1 Two detailed Civil War diaries; 2 Ransom's first war letter home; 3 superb signed Ransom Civil War cartes des vistecdv; 4 Other photos: a tintype cdv gem photo and another hand colored cdv of his wife Louie Lucy Perham; 5 A book titled "Sacred Poems"; 6 Ransom's business card and property tag and lastly but of huge importance to genealogists; 7 Early name and address book of Dick Ransom mentioning many family members and Battery mates. Dick Ransom was from Chicago Illinois; enlisted on 8/7/1862 as a private. On 8/29/1862 he mustered into Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/24/1863. Specifics: Diary #1 1861 2.5 x 3.5 inches full year January 1st through December 31st 1861 120 pages of which approx. 250 days with entries recorded dark brown period ink very legible. Great war content and a number of remarks made in great excitement; Lincoln as President; death of Col. Ellsworth and Steven Douglas. Battle excitement and the rout of the federal army at the first battle of Bull Run at Manassas. Diary #2 1862 : 3 x 5 inches entries from Aug. 7th 1862 through Mar. 6th 1863. 29 pages brown period ink very legible. Cover reads " Dick Ransom mercantile Battery Chicago Artillary 100 Washington Street Chicago". Signed in ink in Dick Ransom's hand on first page; "Dick Ransom 100 Washington Street Chicago Ill." Also included: 3 wonderful cdv/tintype of Lucy Ransom. Dick speaks of his proposal for marriage to Lucy in his 1861 diary. First is a tintype/cdv format of Lucy backmark Chicago dated Aug 19th 1866 and signed on reverse in Dick's handin brown ink "Louie Perham 1866 Dick Ransom". Secondly mounted Gem Albuman photo of Lucy on cdv mount ca. 1865. Cdv is handcolored image of Lucy dated Jan 23rd 1868. The address book includes all of Dick's friends and family and many of Mercantile Battery mates including Sinclair Willard Gunlock and Medal of Honor winner James Dunne. 3 x 5 inches many pages of entries mouse chew on cover edges. The date of 1883 can be found on the fep. Brown ink inscriptions this book is an important genealogy record and helps to identify all the people referred to in the diaries. Here are some snippets: " January 9th "my Birthday 19 years old born at South Woodstock Vermont""march 4th Abe Lincoln President of the United States"" Mar 19th " wrote a long letter to Lucy . with a proposal for marrige which I am sure will be accepted.I am in great anxiety for an answer". tintype of Lucy included "rec'd an answer alright = O.K."" April 25th -Intense excitement about . voluteers companies forming and drilling constantly all over the North"." May 2nd - douglas was received here by republicans and Democrates unanimously " May 3 - great war excitement for some time - volunteerism all over the country - great excitement". " May 5th - volunteers drilling in the streets "" May 8th - Lucy went for me to get a flag for the volunteers ."" May 9th - great war excitement companies guarding and driling". " May 24th - war message regarding the good and efficient commanders." " may 25th - Scott and President Lincoln col. Ellsworth the Zouave huro of Chicago killed in Alexandrea yesterday for tearing down a secsession flag. " June 3rd - Stephen A Douglas died at the tremont house this A.m. at 48. The city draped very very heavily mourning. col. Ellesworth funeral yeaterday at Bryan hall". " May 4th - Douglas laid in state at Bryan Hall all day." " May 5th - Douglas still in Bryan Hall ". " May 5th - Douglas still lies in state at Bryan hall is to be burried at Cottage Grove tomorrow ". "May 7th- Douglas funeral stores all shut up largest funeral ever in Chicago ". " June 10th - War excitement continues usual small battles and skirmishes but no large ones some expected soon". " June 20th - war and rumors of war some great battles expected soon in vicinity of Washington Sucession." " June 25th - Great riot in Milwakee yesterday - Dutch Mob attacks." " June 25 - all state banks in iowa Indiana and Eastern Missiouri counterfeits so plenty now". " June 30th - went out to Cottage Grove to see the camp" " July 8 - Telegraphs forbidden by the War department to transmit any war news of the intentions of the united states "." July 16 - the federal forces are beginning to move toward Richmond knowing where they will stop Gen. Scott don't tell everydody". " July 22 - At noon good news from the war high hopes night news the entire rout of the Federal army . and retreat back to Washington". referring to the first battle of Bull Run at Manassas " July 23 - News from war not encouraging - 600 killed ". " July 25- breacking accounts the battle and rout of the Union army though better than at first suspected ". " Sept. 25- think of joining T.E.G. Ransoms 11th regiment at Cairo had a letter from him wants me". referring to Gen. Ransom. " Oct 6th - another letter from T.E. G. Ransom still urges me. " " Aug 7th 1862 I enlisted in the Mercantile Battery of the Artillary of the U.S. for three years unless sooner discharges"" Aug 9th I was sworn in by capt. christopher U.S. mustering officer of Chicago". " Mr Sutter pastor presented each of the young men who had enlisted with a teatament". " Aug 11th - picked up duds to go to camp tomorrow- at 9 o'clock". "Aug 12th- at 9 o'clock at our headquarters at corner of Lake and State streets at the .Mercantile Association - marched to court house and examined by surgeon and then recieved our $ 60 ". " Aug 13th - arranged our camp as best we could not being organized . was on guard . skirmishing ." " Aug 14th -rec'd news that we were accepted by the government and were to have a full battery . powder smooth Bores . the Coffeemill . orders to fill up the company to 156 men. some photographs taken ". " Aug 25 - we elected our officers and then were visited by Adjutant General Fuller.Cooley Wilson Swan Bickford ". " Aug 29 - The Battery was mustered into service by lt. Knox ". "Sept. 1st- went to town to get more photographs". " Sept 23 - lient Wilson had a sword to be presented him ". " Oct. 3- went to camp and found that the Guns and all accoutrements and ammunition had come". . guns 2 .from riffle james cannon 2 to 8 ditto rebel guns -one made in Memphis and one in orleans which had been captured". " Oct 4th Seargents knights and Whitney Thomas and Throop drew cuts for the 4 bronze guns -knight & Thomas got the U.S. & Throop 7 Whit the rebels.". " Oct 5- had a great deal of company to look at the guns ." the Mercantile Association presented Crego with a sword . the accoutrements are being distributed and guns. today there was a sword Pistols presented to Capt. Cooley by the Mercantile Association." "Oct 15th " last evening the Asociation presented the Battery a splendid set of Colors. . to ft. Wayne.after the horses for the Battery ". " Oct 26th - we drill about 4 hours daily with our horses and guns on the prarie and five blank cartriges to break in the horses - we are almost ready mow for the field and fight". We are now likely to get our Captain Cooley to resign and have Morgan in his place. we have no guard around the camp now only on the horses guns ammunitionstores & officers tents and the boys go down town when they choose". " Dec. 25th - Vicksburg measels" "jan 2nd 1863. left Yazoo country- & Walnut Hills & c bluffs - Sherman's big retreat" . " Feb 14 - Arkansas Post- Sherman deserted - then back to Youngs Point". " Mar 6th Left Youngs Point for Hospital in Memphis on steame "City of Memphis". " April 1st 1863 - Mrs. Livermore brought me my discharge from the service- to Washington Hosptal Memphis.". " April 2 - left Memphis on Bostona -- homeward bound a free man". Remarkable archive.; Manuscript; 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF DICK RANSOM ALS CDV AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA Civil War War Between the States VICKSBURG MANASSASS BULL RUN LINCOLN ILLINOIS MERCHANTILE ILLINOIS INFANTRY Zouave . unknown
1890000615bChicago Illinois IL. Good. 1890. Important archive of post Civil War GAR letters of the Chicago Mercantile Battery Light Infantry Chicago Illinois including two Medals of Honor winner's autographs Kretsinger and Stevens. This archive comes from the Dick Ransom estate from his former Civil War comrades specific to the GAR activities for the "Battery Boys." 1 Letter written on behalf of battery mate Dick Ransom by Gardner Willard and signed by 8 additional Chicago Mercantile Battery boys. Two of these signatures belong to Medal of Honor winners William Stevens and George Kretsinger. Other signatures include David Crego Orin Nash W. Brown Richard Powel Florus D. Meachem. Dated 1891. 2. Hand written letter in support of Dick Ransom and signed by battery mate J. H. Swan. 1891. 3. Dec. 15th 1890 carbon-type copy of a letter Ransom had sent to fellow battery comrade George Kretsinger. 4. great personal letter from fellow Battery comrade Henry C. Gray .single page ink dated Feb. 13 1888. 5. Wonderful period civil war letter from Battery Comrad to Ransom from Gardner G. Willard single sheet and dated during the civil war April 18th 1863. 6 wonderful 4 page letter from former Battery mate Chapin. Letter in ink dated Jan. 1876 being sent to Dick Ransom sharing Chapin's heart felt concern over the recent loss of Ransom's wife. 7. typed letter by Battery Mate James H. Swan in support of Dick Ransom. BIO NOTES: Dick Ransom; Residence Chicago IL; Enlisted on 8/7/1862 as a Private. On 8/29/1862 he mustered into Illinois Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/24/1863. David R. Crego; First Lieutenant 8/29/62 through 2/6/63. Orrin Nash: 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. William L. Brown : 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. Richard Powel; On 10/5/1863 he mustered into IL Chicago Merc He was discharged for disability on 6/17/1864. Florrus D. Meachem; Served 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. James H. Swan; Enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. George Kretsinger; Entered service at: Chicago Ill. Birth: Herkimer County N.Y. Date of issue: 20 July 1897. Citation: Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works. Medal of Honor Winner. Henry C. Gray; Enlisted on 8/15/1862 as a Private. Gardner G. Williard; Enlisted on 8/5/1862 as a Private. James H. Swan; Enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. Generally very good though a stain has affected a few items none touching signatures.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA Civil War War Between the States VICKSBURG MANASSASS BULL RUN LINCOLN ILLINOIS MERCHANTILE ILLINOIS INFANTRY GAR GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC VETERANS . unknown
182343352Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1823. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 74 Drittes Stück. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 engraved plate the entire issue offered Heft 3. Döbereiner's paper: pp. 269-273. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of an importent paper in the history of chemistry spurring the study of catalysis by this invention of an automatic lighter in which a strip of platinum foil serves as an instigator causing a jet of hydrogen to react with oxygen and catch fire. Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1823 C.In the same issue are also his small paper on "Eine natürliche Glühlampe: ind Darstellung des Rinmann'schen Gruns unter flemmender Verpuffung" pp. 274-275 Berzelius's "Untersuchungen der Mineralwasser von Karlsbad Teplitz un Königswart in Böhmen. Zweite Hälfte" Hausmann "Kurze Schilderung der geognostischen Beschaffenheit der Appenninen-Kette" pp. 307-24 etc. </em> unknown
182646535London W.Nicol 1826. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 324-337 and 1 engraved plate. A faint dampstain to top of plate. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Drummond's paper in which he described his and Goldsworthy Gurney's invention and coined the word 'limelight'. His apparatus demonstrated on the plate was originally used for surveying as the title of the paper shows. Drummond claimed the light to be 83 times brighter than any previous artificial light.The Scottish engineer Thomas Drummond 1797-1840 saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working version in 1826 and the device is sometimes called the Drummond Light after him. Limelight was first used in public in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots spotlights. Limelight was replaced by electric arc lighting in the late 19th century. Wikipedia."John Hersehel describes the impression produced when the light was first exhibited in the Tower: "The common Argand burner and parabolic reflector of a British lighthouse were first exhibited the room being darkened and with considerable effect. Fresnel’s superb lamp was next disclosed at whose superior effect the other seemed to dwindle and showed in a manner quite subordinate. But when the gas began to play the lime being brought now to its full ignition and the screen suddenly removed a glare shone forth overpowering and as it were annihilating both its predecessors which appeared by its side the one as a feeble gleam which it required attention to see the other like a mere plate of heated metal. A shout of triumph and of admiration burst from all present."’ DNB.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1825 C </em> unknown
188330043HARDBACK NO DUSTJACKET ISSUED 1883 ON COPYRIGHT PG NO DATE ON TITLE PG 1st edition THUS First PRINTING Octavo. Unpaginated. VG/NF NO JACKET ISSUED Original brown cloth binding with mulit-colour image SILVER BIRD PALLAS and gilt lettering. Gilt foredges top side bottom. Very dark brown endpapers. Heavy buff stock. Seventeen illustrations by W. L.Taylor. Book in very good to near fine condition with slight wear to head and foot of spine. First thus. TINY NICK ON SPINE CVR It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The lover often identified as being a student is lamenting the loss of his love Lenore. The raven sitting on a bust of Pallas the goddess of wisdom seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically. His intention was to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes<br /><br /> e. p. Dutton NY hardcover
185242292London Richard Taylor and William Francis 1852. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1852 - Part I. Pp. 25-56 textillustr. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a historical paper in electromagnetical theory. Faraday in this paper defines his key concept "lines of force" and summarizes in what connections he used it and he shows how it explains the pehenomena of magnetism and electricity. His insistance of the importence of the electromagnetic fields of force was the historical starting point of the electrical side of modern theories of field physics. Maxwell later translated these ideas into mathematical form and developed them into his theory of electromagnetic waves.Especially notable in this paper is: As all space is permeated by lines of force Faraday suggests that light and radiant heat might be tranverse vibrations propagated along these lines of force. In this way he proposed to "dismiss the aether" and to replace it by lines of force between centres the centres together with their lines of force constituting the particles of material substance. If the existance of a luminiferous aether were to be admitted he suggests that it might be the vehicle of magnetic force "for it is not at all unlikely that if there be an aether it should have other uses than simply the conveyance of radiations" section 3075 in this paper offered. This sentece may be regarded as THE ORIGIN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF LIGHT Whittaker in: A History of the theories of the Aether and Electricity I: pp. 194-95.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' the Farday current the electronic state of matter the identity of electricity from different sources equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition electrostatic induction hydro-electricity diamagnetism relation of gravity to electricity atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. </em> unknown
184649069Paris Bachelier 1846. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 22 No 3. Pp. 92- 134. Entire issue offered. Faraday's letter: pp. 113-115. <br/><br/><em>First printing of an interesting paper where faraday explicitly but in an embryonic form set forth the electro-magnetic theory of light as he here describes the magnetic rotation of light disclosing relations between magnetism electricity and light. </em> unknown
185147033Paris Bachelier 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 33 No 13. With htitle and titlepage to tome 33. Pp. 329-360 entire issue offered. Fizeau's paper: pp. 349-355. A stamp on erso of titlepage. Titlepage with faint brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this paper the first announcment of Fizeau's results of his experiments with the velocity of light."It the paper is less famous for some reason than the failure of Michelson and Morley to detect the aether drag but NO LESS SIGNIFICANT. For it showed that the velocity of light increases in a medium according to the formula v 1 - 1/n2 where v is the velocity of the medium and n is the refractive index"Gillespie in "The Edge of Objecticity" p. 427. Fizeau shows that the velocity of light is higher in water flowing in the direction of the beam than that of light propagating in the direction opposite the direction of flow. The paper offered is the shorter announcement of the research the paper in full was published later in 1859 in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique". Albert Einstein later pointed out the IMPORTENCE OF THE EXPERIMENT FOR SPECIAL RELATIVITY.Fizeau's result was replicated by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1886 repeated the experiment on a larger scale and confirmed Fizeau's results. and in 1914 it was confirmed by Pieter Zeeman. It was Arago in 1838 who suggested this "crucial experiment" to decide between the corpuscular and undulatory theories of light by comparing the speed of light in water and in air. It vindicated the undulatory position.It was shown by Hendrik Lorentz 1892 1895 that the experiment can be explained by the reaction of the moving water upon the interfering waves without the need of any aether entrainment. On this occasion Lorentz introduced a different time coordinate for moving bodies within the aether the so called Local time an early form of the Lorentz transformation for small velocities compared to the speed of light. In 1895 Lorentz went a step further and explained the coefficient by local time alone and without mentioning any interaction of light and matter. </em> unknown
185149596Paris Bachelier 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 33 No 13. With htitle and titlepage to tome 33. Pp. 329- 360 entire issue offered. Fizeau's paper: pp. 349-355. A stamp on upper right corner of title-page and a perforated stamp in lower margin of title-page. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this paper the first announcment of Fizeau's results of his experiments with the velocity of light."It the paper is less famous for some reason than the failure of Michelson and Morley to detect the aether drag but NO LESS SIGNIFICANT. For it showed that the velocity of light increases in a medium according to the formula v 1 - 1/n2 where v is the velocity of the medium and n is the refractive index"Gillespie in "The Edge of Objecticity" p. 427. Fizeau shows that the velocity of light is higher in water flowing in the direction of the beam than that of light propagating in the direction opposite the direction of flow. The paper offered is the shorter announcement of the research the paper in full was published later in 1859 in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique". Albert Einstein later pointed out the IMPORTENCE OF THE EXPERIMENT FOR SPECIAL RELATIVITY.Fizeau's result was replicated by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1886 repeated the experiment on a larger scale and confirmed Fizeau's results. and in 1914 it was confirmed by Pieter Zeeman. It was Arago in 1838 who suggested this "crucial experiment" to decide between the corpuscular and undulatory theories of light by comparing the speed of light in water and in air. It vindicated the undulatory position.It was shown by Hendrik Lorentz 1892 1895 that the experiment can be explained by the reaction of the moving water upon the interfering waves without the need of any aether entrainment. On this occasion Lorentz introduced a different time coordinate for moving bodies within the aether the so called Local time an early form of the Lorentz transformation for small velocities compared to the speed of light. In 1895 Lorentz went a step further and explained the coefficient by local time alone and without mentioning any interaction of light and matter. </em> unknown
185943122Paris Victor Masson Imprimerie de Bachelier 1859. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf raised bands gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plates. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 3me Series - Tome LVII. 512 pp. and 4 plates. The entire volume offered. Fizeau's paper: pp. 385-404. Some scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a highly importent paper in the history of physics "It is less famous for some reason than the failure of Michelson and Morley to detect the aether drag but NO LESS SIGNIFICANT. For it showed that the velocity of light increases in a medium according to the formula v 1 - 1/n2 where v is the velocity of the medium and n is the refractive index"Gillespie in "The Edge of Objecticity" p. 427. Fizeau shows that the velocity of light is higher in water flowing in the direction of the beam than that of light propagating in the direction opposite the direction of flow. The paper offered is the full text of the research there appeared an extract of it in Comptes Rendus in 1851. Albert Einstein later pointed out the IMPORTENCE OF THE EXPERIMENT FOR SPECIAL RELATIVITY.Fizeau's result was replicated by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1886 repeated the experiment on a larger scale and confirmed Fizeau's results. and in 1914 it was confirmed by Pieter Zeeman. It was Arago in 1838 who suggested this "crucial experiment" to decide between the corpuscular and undulatory theories of light by comparingthe speed of light in water and in air. It vindicated the undulatory position.It was shown by Hendrik Lorentz 1892 1895 that the experiment can be explained by the reaction of the moving water upon the interfering waves without the need of any aether entrainment. On this occasion Lorentz introduced a different time coordinate for moving bodies within the aether the so called Local time an early form of the Lorentz transformation for small velocities compared to the speed of light. In 1895 Lorentz went a step further and explained the coefficient by local time alone and without mentioning any interaction of light and matter. </em> hardcover
184943827Paris Victor Masson Imprimerie de Bachelier 1849-50. No wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 3me Series - Tome XXVI a. XXX. Juin 1849 a. Octobre 1850. The entire issues offered. Titlepages to vol. 26 a. 30. Pp. 129-256 a. pp. 129-256. Fizeau & Foucault's paper: pp. 138-148 a. pp. 146-159 2 folded engraved plates. Some scattred brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of thispaper in which the authors demonstrated importent similarities between sound - and lightwaves and that interference takes place between rays of light of different wavelenghts thus giving considerably evidence for the wave theory of light."By analyzing the white light source into simpler constituents by means of a spectroscope Fizeau and Foucault were able to observe fringes produced by interfering light rays with a difference of travel equal to more than 7000 wavelenghts thus showing hat light waves like sound waves remain geometrically constant over a large number of periods. But light waves because of their transverse vibrations are more complex than sound waves. Light can assume different forms of planes of vibration as well as different intensities. Using the same spectroscopic apparatus as in the preceeding experiment Fizeau and Foucault observed the interaction of two rays produced by passing a single polarized ray through a birefringent crystal. In this case instead of obtaining alternating bands of light and dark they obtained bands of light periodcally polarized in different planes of vibration."DSB V p. 19. </em> unknown
