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1911145731Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch and printed by R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch and printed by R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1911 enlarged edition. Octavo viii 108 vi 84 pages printed on handmade paper plus 16 pages of plates 2 folding maps and 2 folding facsimile documents. Gilt-pictorial vellum top edge gilt others uncut and unopened; one opening slightly tanned from the ribbon marker; a fine copy in the original plain paper dustwrapper a little sunned and torn with the title added later in ink on the spine. Number 190 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the Proceedings of the RGSSA in the same year. The extra material includes text maps and facsimile documents. <p>We have only encountered the dustwrapper once before and the small oval label of the 'Government Printing Office Adelaide S.A.' gilt on red cloth mounted on the rear pastedown is uncommon in our experience. Loosely inserted are two interesting pieces of ephemera indicating that this was one of several copies offered for sale by ballot to members of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch in 1978. The Society was the original publisher and it purchased the author's collection after his death in 1923 so these retained copies - released nearly 70 years after the work was published - could have come from either source. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (and printed by R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer) hardcover
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
252 pages. Colour finder card in pocket inside back cover. "... Covers the essentials of colour practice and includes an international dictionary of colours with British Standard equivalents. A universal ready-reference for all whose jobs or recreations involve colour, it now includes names of colours used by British paint manufacturers and colours traditionally associated with the printing ink industry, thus shedding light on the whole field of colour in art and science." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Relatively few library markings. Front endpaper removed resulting in narrow opening along front hinge. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy. Book
197262978BBMünchen, Edition Heseler, 1972. 4°. 29 x 21,5 cm. 67 Seiten. 6 Tafeln. Original-Broschur mit einer Original-Farbserigrafie von Otto Piene und einem weiteren transparenten Original-Schutzumschlag mit aufgedrucktem Titel.
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
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.
19662082702114604140Shibundo 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shibundo paperback
2111902160200387Mohei Suharaya Sahei Yamashiroya Kashichi Okadaya and others N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Mohei Suharaya Sahei Yamashiroya Kashichi Okadaya and others paperback
198879554Aperture 1988. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed by Light and Rodriguez on the half-title page. Limited edition of 45 copies with two original silver prints also signed by Light. Copy #12. The first print is the cover photograph "Indocumentos discovered in the trunk of a car abandoned by their coyote San Ysidro" and the second is the frontispiece "Feet of the Campesino Oazaca Mexico."<br /> <br /> Jacket is lightly shelfworn but book itself is in excellent condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked. Aperture hardcover
196322195GROSSET & DUNLAP Publ NY 1963. Illustrated with 5 INTERNALS one of which is on 2 pages Frontispiece HBDJ wraparound Pictorial DustJacket 1963 1st Edition 1st Printing DJ light Rub wear & tiny Creases Tears few Tiny chips Extremities DJ NF/ NF Pre-Text Lists thru This Title 170 Pages Interior Nice Tight Clean Very Light FoXing Back DJ Lists Vicki Barr Thru Mystery of Flight 908 Back Inner Flap DJ list up TO This title ending with Secret Quest #9634 base spine DJ The book and dust jacket are in Near excellent condition. Book: Minor wear to edges and corners. No writing in book; pages clean; no tears binding intact. Dust Jacket: No tape; flaps not clipped; couple of small closed tears and wrinkles; small chips at top of spine; all lettering present at top and bottom of spine; spine not faded and colors clear not murky on covers with minimal surface wear. A very nice addition to your Judy Bolton collection. . with Her Friend Holly Potter they set out after the Green Car & Theft of Her Typewriter & the Voice from The Tree ETC !! First printing per Clarke's Guide to Margaret Sutton's Judy Bolton Mystery Stories by Laurie A. Clarke. This was the last Judy Bolton book to be published with a dust jacket and is very hard to find. First Edition. Hard Cover. GROSSET & DUNLAP Publ , NY hardcover
19362110502150412623Section 12 is Shochiku Co. Ltd. Osaka Branch 1936. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of copies: 14 copies Section 12 is Shochiku Co., Ltd. Osaka Branch paperback
182646535(London, 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.
184844100Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1848. Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsbd., Bd. II, Stück 2. Titlepage to Erg-Bd. 2. Pp. 193-368. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 304-331, textillustr. a. pp. 332-355, textillustr. A stamp on titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine.
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
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
185242292(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1852). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1852 - Part I. Pp. 25-56, textillustr. Clean and fine.
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
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.
184844100Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1848. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" Ergänzungsbd. Bd. II Stück 2. Titlepage to Erg-Bd. 2. Pp. 193-368. The entire issue offered. Fresnel's papers: pp. 304-331 textillustr. a. pp. 332-355 textillustr. A stamp on titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First German editions of two importent memoirs on polarization and reflexion of light by "the founder of the new optics". The French versions of the papers appeared in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique"1846.The first paper takes on a central role in Fresnel's dealing with polarization in general and specially with chromatioc polarization and the explaining the phenomena that arises when light travels through crystals. The paper was read at the Academy on march 30 was not printed at the time as it disappeared and only turned up many years later around 1845 when it was found in the papers of Fresnel's brother. "On croyait ou Mémoire perdu. Il a été retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Léonor Fresnel frère de l'illustre académicien." Thus the offered paper is here PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN ITS FULL LENGHT in the German version.The second paper deals with reflection and explains the different phenomena seen when light is reflected from glassplates having two surfaces parallel or with curvature interference of reflected waves and the measure of their different wavelenghts all explained according to the wave theory of light. The paper offered is for the FIRST TIME PRINTED IN ITS FULL LENGHT in the German version as it only appeared in the résumé-form in 1820 "Résumé d'un Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la lumière" Annales de Chimie et de Physique tome 15 pp. 379-386."As it was Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shiftedin favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insight of Maxwell. In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." DSB V p. 171. </em> unknown
159Ensemble de 52 photographies originales d'époque N&B contrecollées sur 46 planches cartonnées (27 x 21 cm). Présenté dans un classeur moderne. - Etat : Très bon état.
322 pages including index and references. "An exploration into the acquisition and use of knowledge for human purposes.... Elaborates on the theme - not novel to our critical age - that rational knowledge cast into the form of internally consistent, logically constructed and closed models of science constitutes a useful, but by no means sufficient, tool for dealing with matters of human design for a human world." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else clean and unmarked with very light wear. Attractive maroon cloth boards with brilliant silver lettering upon spine. Dust jacket price-clipped with moderate wear and closed quarter-inch tear at bottom of front fore-edge. Overall a nice copy. Book
1921122313Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Alexander McCubbin 1921. Octavo 343 1 colophon pages plus 3 maps 2 folding 86 plates and 7 folding maps in a rear endpocket. Decorated cloth a little stained on the rear cover and lightly stained and sunned on the spine; endpapers offset; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: 'Lieut.-Colonel Olden is well qualified to undertake the work as joining the Regiment on its inception he served with it throughout the War and though twice wounded was never long away from duty. He temporarily commanded it during the absence wounded of Colonel Todd on more than one occasion notably during the 2nd Battle of Gaza and finally succeeded to the command after the death of Colonel Todd'. He was awarded the DSO. <p>Dornbusch 399; Fielding and O'Neill page 233; Trigellis-Smith 280. Alexander McCubbin hardcover
1942129472Brisbane: William Brooks and Co 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Brisbane William Brooks and Co. 1942. Octavo xvi 186 pages with an illustration and 4 maps plus 67 pages of plates containing 108 plates in all; the regimental colour patch is printed in three colours on the title page. Maroon sand-grain cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth a little stained and rubbed with two small worm holes to the spine and front cover with some short tracks visible on the front pastedown; edges marked; binding a little shaken and cracked between some gatherings; trifling remnants of the original tipped-in plain opaque paper dustwrapper on the leading edges of the pastedowns as often; minimal adhesive residue to one page from an old insert; paper a little tanned; some scattered foxing; overall a decent copy. This is a rare item with provenance from two light horsemen. An inscription on the front free endpaper reads: 'Originally owned by the late 868 Corporal Jack Ledlie but given to me by his widow Olive. Clive Kynaston. 512 - 12th ALH'. A second inscription in the same hand at the head of one of the contents pages indicates that he later presented the book to '2/14 QMI' Queensland Mounted Infantry. <p>The author was Signal Sergeant of the Regiment. <p>Dornbusch 393; Fielding and O'Neill page 233; Trigellis-Smith 282. William Brooks and Co hardcover
192323467REILLY & LEE Chicago 1923. . frOnT endpaper removed ANd frontISpiece has been glued to small piece remaining of front endpaper facing oUT. Shaken but otherwise sound. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1923 1st Edition VG/VG- NOJACKET . AS-IS First Edition of a Very Scarce Period Piece of that time. Light Scuff wear Along Cover Edges & Back Bound Blue Decorated Cloth Cover with Black Lettering Interior Nice tight Clean few pg edge Tears Light FoX stains Wear 224 pgs Light Sun Spine front endpaper removed and frontispiece has been glued to small piece remaining of front endpaper facing out. Shaken but otherwise sound. First Edition. Hard Cover. REILLY & LEE , Chicago hardcover
196322237GROSSET & DUNLAP Publ NY 1963. HBDJ wraparound Pictorial DustJacket 1963 1st Edition 1st Printing DJ light Rub wear & tiny Creases Tears few SMALL chips DJ spine top & bottom NF/VG Pre-Text Lists thru This Title 170 Pages Interior Nice Tight Clean Very Light FoXing & some small dogeared pages & Small corner creases Back DJ Lists Vicki Barr Thru Mystery of Flight 908 Back Inner Flap DJ list up TO This title ending with Secret Quest #9634 base spine DJ The book and dust jacket are in Pretty Nice condition. Book: Minor wear to edges and corners. No writing in book; pages clean; no tears binding intact. Dust Jacket: No tape; flaps not clipped; small chips at top of spine; A very nice addition to your Judy Bolton collection. . with Her Friend Holly Potter they set out after the Green Car & Theft of Her Typewriter & the Voice from The Tree ETC !! First printing per Clarke's Guide to Margaret Sutton's Judy Bolton Mystery Stories by Laurie A. Clarke. This was the last Judy Bolton book to be published with a dust jacket and is very hard to find. First Edition. Hard Cover. GROSSET & DUNLAP Publ , NY hardcover
