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19170064001917. Full Morocco. Very Good. Oblong 21 by 30 cm. 92 numbered leaves with content with log entries more or less statistical on all the versos and pictures and/or original drawings mostly mounted on 58 rectos with some additional loose material. 129 numbered leaves in all. Several of the log pages have mounted photos obscuring the log as it is clear that this game book was at some point re-purposed to be a more general album with some emphasis on sports including also fishing foxhunting and sailing but also there are two pages of photos from South Africa with photos of native tribesmen ostriches a hut Cecil Rhodes house etc. 13 original works of art -- watercolored pencil pen and ink -- in addition to numerous painted fish hook and fly vignettes these sometimes done directly onto the page. Most charming are the comical illustrations of anthropomorphic foxes. Sepia photos are of the country estates their stately homes and rural settings of the hunts as well as the people involved -- the hosts and guests during these country weekends. Many but by no means all of the photos have captions helpfully identifying the participants or the locations. And the log proper provides the names of those participating in the shooting and often what would now be regarded as obscenely large kills. Among the many aristocrats and wealthy in the photographs and/or logs are Lady Randolph Churchill Jennie Churchill Arthur Balfour Lady Minto Mary the famous 4th Countess Henry Lascelles the 5th Earl of Harewood the 5th Earl of Carnavon of King Tut fame as well as the owner of the castle used in Downton Abbey Baron Rothschild Lord de Grey Lord Ashburton Prince Murat the Duke of Buccleuch Prince Duleep de Singh Lord Rosebery and on and on. Country homes include Longleat Greystoke Castle the Hirsel Highcliffe Castle etc. Alexander McDonnell was a son of the 5th Earl of Antrim and a clerk in the House of Lords. Obviously he was very well connected and surely very popular among the upper echelons of English society back then. And we would note that many of the most illustriously titled have frequent entries here; what we have here is a window into a cohesive social network it is our sense. Condition: morocco binding has moderate to heavy wear along edges some scuffs on the boards and spine. The leaves can have a waviness the result of the interaction of the mounted material upon the leaves. A few photos are loose. There is a little bit of a scrappy quality to the book as befitting a log book that was partially turned into something much more and this quality is part of its charm as well. unknown
172878892Paris: Chez Briasson 1728. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Text in French. 52pp. Bound in old but probably later unprinted wrappers. An ink blot on the inside of the front wrap slight foxing to the pages a near fine copy. An Italian-style comedy play. Very scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this edition and only three copies of a 1729 printing. Chez Briasson unknown
1797006602Keuth an der Crassen 1797. Full Blindstamped Calf. Good. A fine Folk Art manuscript prayer book from the late eighteenth century. 8vo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. 3 516 13 1 pp. With eight full page paintings plus vignette decoration throughout. Besides the ubiquitous floral ornamentation all pretty accents the vignettes include a serpent a basilisk a skull etc. Most writing is a neat now archaic cursive but headings and the like rendered in an easily readable ornamental Fraktur Gothic. The paintings are the highlight most will find. Their subject matter is quintessential -- Momento Mori Saint Michael slaying the dragon Saint John in the desert Saint Sebastien the Christ child King David playing a harp etc. But while the subject matter may not be unusual the execution is done with uncommon flair even though it is resolutely naive or Folk Art. And the artist who we assume is one or both of the writers may be illustrating popular subjects there are original elements in his/her imagery or imagining of the subject. The authorship is stated but also a tad confusing. Our interpretation is that a Konrad Mueller created the book for Margaretha Pfaden-Hauerin. Condition: moderate wear to contemporary full calf binding. Unusual is a 13 page "Register" or Table of Contents in the rear. By unusual we mean for such a manuscript prayer book. Also a page of handwritten genealogical notes written on a prior blank leaf and written much later in the mid to late 19th Century. Moderate sometimes heavy soiling to margins of leaves. Corner cut out of front endpaper. Some loose gatherings. unknown
1675407229North & West Ridings Long Island New York 1675. Unbound. Good. Manuscript document. A single paragraph possibly removed from a larger document Signed at the conclusion by Matthias Nicolls. Approximately 8" x 3". Old fold some age-toning and small nicks and tears a little fragile but good. The document reads in full: "The above is a computacon made at a meeting of some of ye Councell & ye Justices of ye North & West Ridings in New York. Decembr. ye 30th 1675. Matthias Nicolls. secr." Matthias Nicholls 1626-1687 was the Provincial Secretary of New York. Born in Plymouth England he was selected to serve as secretary by Samuel Maverick who was one of the Royal Commissioners investigating conditions in New England. Accompanying the commission to New England which was headed by appointed Governor Richard Nicolls they were assigned the task of wresting the province of New York from the Dutch. Matthias held the position of provincial secretary continuously until 1680 except for the short period of 1674-75 when the Dutch briefly reoccupied New York. He was the Secretary of the Commission that accepted the Dutch surrender of New York. He served as the sixth Mayor of the city of New York in 1672-73. He is widely known as “the principal author of the legal code known as the 'Duke’s Laws'." He was at least partially responsibility for religious tolerance in New York and founded the town of Plandome around his estate of the same name. unknown
4876Six folding engraved plates. 1 p.l. xvi 322 pp.; 1 p.l. 238 pp. Two vols. 8vo cont. marbled boards orange & pale blue lettering pieces on spines. Lausanne: J. Mourer 1789.<br/> <br/> First edition. Razoumovsky 1759-1837 a wealthy Russian aristocrat spent most of his life in Switzerland Austria and Italy and wrote many noteworthy works on geological and mineralogical subjects see Zittel pp. 91 & 119. <br/> <br/> “Very scarce…First and only edition of an illustrated account of the fauna and geology of the Swiss Jura in the vicinity of Neuchâtel Murten and Biel northwest of Bern…The first volume describes the fauna according to the Linnean system. The second includes a geological description with notes on mining minerals fossils etc. The illustrations cover zoology especially reptiles entomology and geology including fossils.â€â€“Schuh Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography 1469 to 1920 4045. <br/> <br/> Fine and attractive set. <br/> <br/> ⧠Poggendorff II 578-79. unknown
4876Six folding engraved plates. 1 p.l. xvi 322 pp.; 1 p.l. 238 pp. Two vols. 8vo cont. marbled boards orange & pale blue lettering pieces on spines. Lausanne: J. Mourer 1789. First edition. Razoumovsky 1759-1837 a wealthy Russian aristocrat spent most of his life in Switzerland Austria and Italy and wrote many noteworthy works on geological and mineralogical subjects see Zittel pp. 91 & 119. "Very scarce.First and only edition of an illustrated account of the fauna and geology of the Swiss Jura in the vicinity of Neuchâtel Murten and Biel northwest of Bern.The first volume describes the fauna according to the Linnean system. The second includes a geological description with notes on mining minerals fossils etc. The illustrations cover zoology especially reptiles entomology and geology including fossils."-Schuh Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography 1469 to 1920 4045. Fine and attractive set. ❧ Poggendorff II 578-79. hardcover books
16-6340Versailles: circa 1675-1682. . Sanguine drawing with old manuscript text on attached sheet. 16.5 x 12.5cm. 17th Century watermarked paper : chalice on an urn."L’Afrique: StatueMR 1792;inv. 1850.9446;.:Inventaire de 1707 : « Une statue en pied de marbre blanc représentant l’Afrique sous la figure d’une femme la teste couverte d’une trompe d’éléphant ayant une draperie pendante au millieu du sein laquelle passe autour des deux bras et couvre une partie du bas de la figure qui a le bras droit levé tenant un bout de bâton dans sa main et la gauche baissée dont elle relève sa draperie. Au bas est un lion couché qui laiche le pied gauche de laditte statue qui a sept pieds un pouce de hauteur. Faite par Cornu en 1682. Le bras droit est raporté au-dessus du coude ». .Historique: Paiements mentionnés par les sources comptables à Georges Sibrayque pour une figure pour le parterre d’Eau d’avril 1675 à octobre 1682 travail explicitement mentionné en cours d’avril 1675 à août 1680.Parfait paiement à Jean Cornu le 6 juin 1694 pour deux figures dont l’une « commencée par Sibraique … représentant l’Afrique ».Modèle en plâtre représenté sur la gravure d’Israël Silvestre datée de 1682 disposé au bosquet de la Renommée avant décembre 1680 date d’approbation du guide de Combes et vraisemblablement retiré en 1683 afin d’être remplacé par la version en marbre."Provenance:Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. Versailles: circa 1675-1682. unknown
1675371490London: Printed by J. Darby for Robert Morden . and William Berry 1675. Second issue with the added Postscript. 26 2 blank 4pp. Tables. 4to. Disbound. Trimmed close minor soiling. Second issue with the added Postscript. 26 2 blank 4pp. Tables. 4to. This second issue with the added Postscript dated 1675 in which the author defends himself from criticism by John Flamsteed. The work is an early use of the term "planetary system" in the title and includes a 12-line poem on the solar system on the final page.<br /> <br /> Streete 1621-1689 Irish-born astronomer is best known for his 1661 work Astronomia Carolina a new theorie of Coelestial Motions which was read and praised by Halley Newton Flamsteed and others. A follower of Kepler Streete argued that the Earth's velocity in its annual revolution around the sun was not uniform and increases in velocity as it approaches the Sun and decreased as it moves away. ESTC calls for a plate but we find no reference to one in other extant copies. Scarce. ESTC R606; cf. Wing S5955 Printed by J. Darby, for Robert Morden ... and William Berry unknown
682128 folding engraved plates. 74; 86; 60; 35 folding leaves. Four vols. Oblong 8vo orig. patterned wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Tokyo: Government Publication issued under the Author's name Yosoda Masayoshi a pen name for Tanabe 1869. First edition in Japanese translated from an unidentified French text which according to the Preface was issued in 1863 with a sequel in 1867. Tanabe also states that this work includes information gained from the French military mission of 17 men four officers ten non-commissioned officers and two soldiers led by staff captain Charles Sulpice Jules Chanoine who came to Japan in early 1867 at the request of the Japanese Shogunate for training in Western warfare. Several of these men became deeply involved in Japanese politics unsuccessfully fighting on the side of the Shogunate. Tanabe wrote several works on military subjects including military formations 1865 a glossary of French military terms with Japanese translations 1867 military gymnastics and training exercises 1868 and our work. This is a complete work on infantry drills and tactics including training of new soldiers how to form tactical units and deploy them effectively how to operate a variety of weapons etc. The fine copper-engraved plates depict military formations tactical positions military stances etc. Fine set. unknown books
682128 folding engraved plates. 74; 86; 60; 35 folding leaves. Four vols. Oblong 8vo orig. patterned wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Tokyo: Government Publication issued under the Author’s name Yosoda Masayoshi a pen name for Tanabe 1869.<br/> <br/> First edition in Japanese translated from an unidentified French text which according to the Preface was issued in 1863 with a sequel in 1867. Tanabe also states that this work includes information gained from the French military mission of 17 men four officers ten non-commissioned officers and two soldiers led by staff captain Charles Sulpice Jules Chanoine who came to Japan in early 1867 at the request of the Japanese Shogunate for training in Western warfare. Several of these men became deeply involved in Japanese politics unsuccessfully fighting on the side of the Shogunate.<br/> <br/> Tanabe wrote several works on military subjects including military formations 1865 a glossary of French military terms with Japanese translations 1867 military gymnastics and training exercises 1868 and our work.<br/> <br/> This is a complete work on infantry drills and tactics including training of new soldiers how to form tactical units and deploy them effectively how to operate a variety of weapons etc.<br/> <br/> The fine copper-engraved plates depict military formations tactical positions military stances etc.<br/> <br/> Fine set. unknown
7194164 stories in six series bound in 18 vols. Small 8vo orig. wrappers new stitching. China: Bian shan lou cang ban 1806. An early edition of Tang Dynasty 618-907 fiction containing 164 stories some of which are concerned with gastronomy medicine calligraphy and tea. Others concern extraordinary events and strange spirits. Nice set. Scarce. unknown books
198933763Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Villard Books. As New. 1989. Hardcover. 0394571800 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- 323 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: Anxiety. Whether it manifests itself in panic attacks phobias or chronic worry it's the number-one mental health disorder in America today. But for the twenty to thirty million people whose lives are being disrupted and destroyed by crippling fear there is new hope. In The Good News About Panic Anxiety And Phobias renowned medical authority Mark. S. Gold M. D. author of the landmark book The Good News About Depression explores the emerging science of biopsychiatry and the latest breakthrough in the diagnosis and treatment of these devastating disorders. -- with a bonus offer-- . Villard Books hardcover
19220002248KAMPONG INDONESIA SINGAPORE 1922. On offer is a super original 1922 manuscript diary of a woman who we believe is named Margaret or Mary Discon. While she has not identified herself she does seem to refer to herself at some point in the third person. The diary describes her time spent in Kampong Singapore near Saribue Dolok. Using 8½ x 14 inch sheets of paper folded but loose she describes her time over 17 pages with some photos as titled: "A Day at _____gale." While the first part of the place name is difficult to read we are sure that local researchers and historians will no doubt uncover the location especially given the detailed clues leading up to the spot. Here are some snippets: "It was with gay hearts that we sat in the lamplight making the best breakfast we could with nerves thrilling in anticipation of the days jaunt while the boy and his wife saw to the storing of baskets of provisions; lemons soda waters etc. etc. We stepped into the car as the sun was lighting the east and a cool breeze making coats very necessary. Our days outing had been looked forward to for weeks and the visit of a fellow passenger brought the journey to completion. The jungle sounds were ceasing and domestic animals of all specimens were beginning to stir. First we went through rubber then a long street of palm shaded road through a struggling and picturesque Kampong ." Their car gets stuck in the mud and they have to have the village people dig them out: " .we reached Saribue Dolok which seemed to consist solely of a large store and a missionary's house but they usually have been native Kampong's hidden in the hollows here and there for we saw numerous parties of Balaks silently following each other to the market in Indian file ." They are now on their way to a volcano. Also describes the natives clothing. Back to Kampong. "The Kampong of Harring all lies just above the shore guarded by banyan trees. The rest house is a pleasant little bungalow provided by the Dutch government for visiting officials and lent for a small fee to any traveler. Here we found contrary to repost that a well supplied table was provided .We crossed a small stream the stream was small but gully was broad by a bridge consisting of two thin tree trunks on one side of which was a low rattan rope which gave us help and hardly any confidence ." They finally board a boat and she mentions how the crowds of people started gathering to watch them and has a photo showing just this scene. They finally return to the rest house. The diary pages were folded actually misfolded and the edges of the pages are a bit brittle and chipped with some little loss but overall Fair. . Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Manuscript. hardcover
52173<p>London printed for J. Johnson 1784 reprinted and published by Sanders Cones and Co. Mission Row Calcutta 1848. TITLE CONTINUED: General of ten thousand men in the army of the Mogul Empire and formerly Commander-in Chief the artillery of Hyder Ali and of a body of European troops in the service of that Prince. English edition translated from the French. 1848 first published in 1784. Tall 8vo approximately 240 x 160 mm 9¾ x 6½ inches 3 hand coloured portraits and 1 black and white engraving of the Throne of the late Tippoo Sultaun pages: vi 1-388 4 extra pages 253-256 marked with an asterisk no duplication of text and 4 extra leaves in the Appendix unnumbered between pages 376 & 377 making a total of 400 pages bound in full Victorian morocco gilt lettering and decoration to spine and gilt decoration to covers marbled endpapers narrow gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Binding rubbed and rebacked using original spine shelf wear to edges of covers thin black stain to lower cover top margin of title page repaired with the loss of one word "THE" pale stains and spotting to Hyder Shah colour plate and pale offset to facing text page thin pale stain to outer edge of the colour plate of Tippoo Sultaun and final 2 leaves minor foxing to endpapers front and rear and first few pages pale browning to pages 136-137 all text legible and small brown stain to the inner margins of pages 268-269 not affecting text otherwise a very good copy. See: Early Writings on India edited by H. K. Kaul page 273 No. 3183 listing a variant edition dated 1848 our edition with the colour plates is not listed. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed for J. Johnson, 1784, reprinted and published by Sanders Cones and Co., Mission Row Calcutta, 1848.
160152944<p>Imprinted at London by Peter Short dwelling at the signe of the Starre on Bredstreet hill 1601. SECOND EDITION 1601 first edition published in 1600 divided into 8 chapters the running title: The new found arte of setting corne printed signature H. Plat Esquire on final page. Small 4to approximately 175 x 130 mm 7 x 5 inches woodcut vignette on title headpiece and large initial to first page 32 unnumbered pages signatures: A-D4 plus 70 blank cream pages as padding at rear modern full speckled calf green gilt lettered title label to spine authors name in gilt an hilt rules and date to spine new brown endpapers. All inner margins have strip of tape for some reason as there appears to me no damage to paper brown stain to leaves A2 and D3 all text readable tips of top corners of 4 leaves neatly repaired nowhere near text. Fair copy only. Another issue of STC 19993.5 according to ESTC quires A and C reset. See: ESTC S114898; Luborsky & Ingram English Illustrated Books 1536-1603 page 633 No. 19993; Mary S. Aslin Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture 1471-1840 page 103; G. E. Fussell Old English Farming Books Volume 1 page 15; Blanche Henrey Volume 1 British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 page 155: "New and admirable arte of setting of corne a treatise in which this author advocates growing corn by setting the seed at regular distances apart the usual method of sowing corn at that time being by broadcast. On the title-page is a woodcut of a growing plant of corn over which is a spade lying in a scroll bearing the words 'Adam's toole revived'; Donald McDonald Agricultural Writers 1200-1800 page 58 with illustration opposite. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.</p> Imprinted at London, by Peter Short, dwelling at the signe of the Starre on Bredstreet hill, 1601. hardcover
1938047122Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Vi 463-504 Ii 36 Pp Ads At Rear. Two Issues. Original Green Wrappers Lettered In Black. Light Wear; Ownership Signature Of Aeronautical Engineer John Stack Part 1 And Aeronautical Engineer Richard Q. Bourn Part 2; John Stack 1906-1972 Won The Collier Trophy In 1947 And 1951 He Worked At Langley Research Center From 1928 To 1962 And Republic Aircraft Corporation From 1962 To 1971. He Gave The Eighth Wright Brothers Lecture "Compressible Flows In Aeronautics" 1945. Quotation: "Let's Try The Damn Thing And See If We Can Make It Work." He Worked On Transonic Flight. He Was Part Of The Bell X-1 Team. He Worked With The Variable Density Tunnel On Compressible Airflow. Qian Xuesen Or Hsue-Shen Tsien Chinese: ; 11 December 1911 - 31 October 2009 Was A Chinese Mathematician Cyberneticist Aerospace Engineer And Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions To The Field Of Aerodynamics And Established Engineering Cybernetics. Recruited From Mit He Joined Theodore Von Kármán's Group At Caltech. During Wwii He Was Involved In The Manhattan Project Which Ultimately Led To The Successful Development Of The First Atomic Bomb In America. Later On Under The Pressure Of Deportation For Suspicions Of Association With Communists He Would Eventually Return To China Where He Would Make Important Contributions To China's Missile And Space Program. During The Second Red Scare In The 1950S The Us Federal Government Accused Him Of Communist Sympathies. In 1950 Despite Protests By His Colleagues He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance. He Decided To Return To China But He Was Detained At Terminal Island Near Los Angeles. After Spending Five Years Under House Arrest He Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Who Had Been Captured During The Korean War. He Left The United States In September 1955 On The American President Lines Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland Arriving In China Via Hong Kong. Upon His Return He Helped Lead The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program. This Effort Ultimately Led To China's First Successful Atomic Bomb Test And Hydrogen Bomb Test Making China The Fifth Nuclear Weapons State And Achieving The Fastest Fission-To-Fusion Development In History. Additionally Qian's Work Led To The Development Of The Dongfeng Ballistic Missile And The Chinese Space Program. For His Contributions He Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry" Nicknamed The "King Of Rocketry". He Is Recognized As One Of The Founding Fathers Of Two Bombs One Satellite. In 1957 Qian Was Elected An Academician Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences. He Served As A Vice Chairman Of The National Committee Of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference From 1987 To 1998. He Was The Cousin Of Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien Who Was Involved In The Aerospace Industries Of China And The United States; His Nephew Is Roger Y. Tsien The 2008 Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Chemistry. Introductory Material From Wikipedia Prefacing The Full Article. <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences paperback
1937047127Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1937 1938 1937. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Complete Volume Numbers 1-12 Bound Without Wrappers But With The Complete Index To Volume 5 Bound In At Front. Black Cloth Spine Gilt Over Boards Ownership Stamps Of Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau; M. O. D. Adastral Library; And Central School Of Aircraft Recognition / 11 Jan 1955 / Royal Air Force Ownership Paper Label Of British Air Staff Intelligence Headquarters. Includes Two Articles By Von Karman Including One Co-Authored With Tsien One Co-Authored With W. R. Sears And Von Karman's Letter To The Editor On Aerodynamics; One Article By Frank J Malina Coauthored With A. M. O. Smith "Flight Analysis Of The Sounding Rocket"; One Article By Tsien "Supersonic Flow Over An Inclined Body Of Revolution" And Another Co-Authored With Von Karman "Boundary Layer In Compressible Fluids". <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1937 1938 paperback
1946047124Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1946. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Ii 623- Pp. Original Green Wrappers Lettered In Black. Light Wear; Ownership Signature Of Aeronautical Engineer Raymond J. Comenzo. Per Wikipedia Qian Xuesen Or Hsue-Shen Tsien Chinese: ; 11 December 1911 - 31 October 2009 Was A Chinese Mathematician Cyberneticist Aerospace Engineer And Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions To The Field Of Aerodynamics And Established Engineering Cybernetics. Recruited From Mit He Joined Theodore Von Kármán's Group At Caltech. During Wwii He Was Involved In The Manhattan Project Which Ultimately Led To The Successful Development Of The First Atomic Bomb In America. Later On Under The Pressure Of Deportation For Suspicions Of Association With Communists He Would Eventually Return To China Where He Would Make Important Contributions To China's Missile And Space Program. During The Second Red Scare In The 1950S The Us Federal Government Accused Him Of Communist Sympathies. In 1950 Despite Protests By His Colleagues He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance. He Decided To Return To China But He Was Detained At Terminal Island Near Los Angeles. After Spending Five Years Under House Arrest He Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Who Had Been Captured During The Korean War. He Left The United States In September 1955 On The American President Lines Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland Arriving In China Via Hong Kong. Upon His Return He Helped Lead The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program. This Effort Ultimately Led To China's First Successful Atomic Bomb Test And Hydrogen Bomb Test Making China The Fifth Nuclear Weapons State And Achieving The Fastest Fission-To-Fusion Development In History. Additionally Qian's Work Led To The Development Of The Dongfeng Ballistic Missile And The Chinese Space Program. For His Contributions He Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry" Nicknamed The "King Of Rocketry". He Is Recognized As One Of The Founding Fathers Of Two Bombs One Satellite. In 1957 Qian Was Elected An Academician Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences. He Served As A Vice Chairman Of The National Committee Of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference From 1987 To 1998. He Was The Cousin Of Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien Who Was Involved In The Aerospace Industries Of China And The United States; His Nephew Is Roger Y. Tsien The 2008 Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Chemistry. Introductory Material From Wikipedia Prefacing The Full Article. <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences paperback
193238836London Nature 1932 a.1939. 4to. Blank wrappers. All 4 extracted from "Nature" Nos. 3252 Febr. 1932 3615 Febr.1939 3616 Febr. 1939 and 3620 March 1939. <br/><br/><em>All four papers in first edition. In 1932 James Chadwich proved the existence of th atomic particles carrying no electric charge which for this reason he called 'neutrons' the first item offered here. "In 1934 Senator Corbino head of the physics department at the University of Rome urged Enrico Fermi and his collaborators among whom was Brune Pontecorvo to patent a proces they had perfected for the production of artificial radio-activity by slow neutron bombardement. This process was a by-product of repetitions and enlargements of a discovery by Irene Curie and her husband Fredeic Joliot that the bombardment of certain light elements with alpha particles induced radio-activity. Further experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassmann were reported by Lise Meitner.She and her nephew O.R. Frisch working with Niels Bohr's laboratory found the true explanation of these phenomena. The interpolation of a neutron into the nucleus of a uranium atom caused it to divide into two parts and to release energy amounting to about 200000000 electron volts. This process bore such a close similarity to the division of a living cell that Frisch suggested the use of the term 'fission' to describe it.Halban Jolio and Kowarski established the theoretical possibility of a self-perpetuating reaction." Carter/Muir. - Printing and the Mind of Man No. 422bc and d. </em> unknown
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1767S13771Heilbronn:: Franciscus Josephus Eckebrecht 1767. 1767. Tall 4to. 335 x 211 mm 228 4 pp. 47 plates; text with some foxing. Original paper over boards. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Rare. FINE. An extensive work on the morphology of boned fish cartilaginous fish sharks rays skates and cetaceans. This work is illustrated with forty-seven full-page engraved plates that are executed in superb form. Plate XLII shows a beached baleen whale and its enormous size compared to the men in the engraving. A bit fanciful plate XL shows a pair of Mermen; a fish on plate XXVII has the features of a human face whilst a 'shark' on plate VII has semi-human fore-limbs. Except for these anomalies the zoological drawings are quite dramatic and relatively accurate. Jonston's works were frequently re-edited and translated into German Latin Dutch and English. Born in Poland but of Scottish origin Jonston was educated and traveled extensively. He attended St. Andrews 1623-5 studying botany and medicine at Cambridge Leiden and Frankfurt Universities. He earned degrees from Cambridge and in Leiden his M. D. in 1632 where he later practiced medicine and gained a great reputation. In 1642 he briefly taught at Frankfurt as professor of medicine. He retired to his private estate in Silesia in 1655. His "four dictionary-style works on fish birds quadrupeds and insects -- published between 1650 and 1653 with excellent illustrations -- were widely read and translated." DSB. BM Readex Vol. 13 p. 765; DNB Vol. X pp. 968-9; DSB Vol. VII p. 164-5; Nissen 2133. See Garrison and Morton 287. Franciscus Josephus Eckebrecht, 1767. hardcover books
1767S13771Heilbronn:: Franciscus Josephus Eckebrecht 1767. 1767. Tall 4to. 335 x 211 mm 228 4 pp. 47 plates; text with some foxing. Original paper over boards. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Rare. FINE. An extensive work on the morphology of boned fish cartilaginous fish sharks rays skates and cetaceans. This work is illustrated with forty-seven full-page engraved plates that are executed in superb form. Plate XLII shows a beached baleen whale and its enormous size compared to the men in the engraving. A bit fanciful plate XL shows a pair of Mermen; a fish on plate XXVII has the features of a human face whilst a 'shark' on plate VII has semi-human fore-limbs. Except for these anomalies the zoological drawings are quite dramatic and relatively accurate. Jonston's works were frequently re-edited and translated into German Latin Dutch and English. Born in Poland but of Scottish origin Jonston was educated and traveled extensively. He attended St. Andrews 1623-5 studying botany and medicine at Cambridge Leiden and Frankfurt Universities. He earned degrees from Cambridge and in Leiden his M. D. in 1632 where he later practiced medicine and gained a great reputation. In 1642 he briefly taught at Frankfurt as professor of medicine. He retired to his private estate in Silesia in 1655. His "four dictionary-style works on fish birds quadrupeds and insects -- published between 1650 and 1653 with excellent illustrations -- were widely read and translated." DSB. BM Readex Vol. 13 p. 765; DNB Vol. X pp. 968-9; DSB Vol. VII p. 164-5; Nissen 2133. See Garrison and Morton 287. Franciscus Josephus Eckebrecht, 1767. hardcover
17094788Amsterdam Leeuwarden 1709. Small 8vo. Jan ten Hoorn Pieter Ruirds Contemporary vellum title in ink in manuscript on spine. With fine engraved frontispiece by J. Luyken. 2 parts in one volume. 8 320; 196 20 pp. Rare 3rd edition of the Dutch translation of a popular work on medicinal herbs plants minerals etc. with recipes. It starts with the Theatrum sympateticum divided into two parts by the English diplomat and philosopher Kenelm Digby 1603-1665. The first contains notes on medicinal herbs and plants curing everyday ailments the second explains how to make the "powder of sympathy" "a potion which allowed the healing of the wound by treating the weapon which caused it" MacDonald and includes extracts from works by Papinius and Sylvester Rattrat. The powder of sympathy could also be put on a bandage that had been in contact with the wound without ever touching the wound. Digbys work is followed by 't Groote licht der natuurkunde by Athanasius Kircher 1602-1680 a work on magnetic forces and the influence of the moon sun and planets on the earth. The book closes with extracts from Digby's memoirs containing recipes for "new" medicines including mostly household and cosmetic recipes like face powder for women and water to whiten teeth. The first Dutch edition was published in 1681.With bookplate of Kenneth Garth Huston 1926-1987 physician book collector and bibliographer of Digby on the front paste-down. Hinges weak with a very small wormhole in the outer margin of pp. 127-320 of the first part and the entire second part not affecting the text with some wormholes in the upper-outer corner of the leaves of the bladwyser and the index of the second part affecting the text and in some leaves repared with paper.l Caillet 10601; DNB V 970; DSB IV 95-6 ; Ferguson Bib. chem. I pp. 212-213; cf: Duveen pp. 172-173 & 574; Muller Pop. proza 763 2nd ed. 1697; De Vries Pop. proza 473 idem. hardcover
