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188814450New York: Baker & Taylor. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1888. Hardcover. Rubbed corners light tone otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Abraham John Palmer physician Methodist minister and future Progessive Party state senator struggles with the late 19th-century changes in marriage relationships resulting from women's rights and the education of women. He identifies and offers advice on ten causes of disagreement in marraiges: "1. The ignorance of women in the conduct of households. 2. The lack of sympathy between men and women. 3. The lack of proper respect in both men and women for womanly employments. 4. The lack of business training in women. 5. The failure on the part of the husband to respect the wife's ownership of herself. 6. Habits of dissipation. 7. The undue idealism with which young people enter married life. 8. The interference of outsiders. 9. Finances. 10. The balance of power now resting in the hands of the husband." Interesting and revealing discussion of the impact of marital changes written by a man willing to understand and accept much of them. ; 85 pages . Baker & Taylor hardcover
1885788101885. NEW YORK REGIMENTAL. PALMER Abraham John. The History of the Forty-eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers in the War for the Union. 1861-1865. Brooklyn NY: Veteran Association of the Regiment 1885. 1st ed. xvi 314 2 pp. Frontis. illus. portraits maps. Orig. gilt pictorial cloth. Fine. Nevins I p.141. Dornbusch I NY-327. unknown
18851158993Veteran Association of the Regiment 1885. Handsomely rebound in blue cloth with bright gilt spine titles. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. Book. Veteran Association of the Regiment Hardcover
1882H21417Warsaw: R. Shmiuel Bar R. Chjaim Argelbrand 1882. Hardcover. Good. 9.25 x 8 inches bound in modern dark blue cloth title page is a photocopy appears to be complete but not sure if there are any pages lacking at the end. About 250 pp. Text good and clean in Hebrew withdrawn stamp from Hebrew Union College in NY. Ovadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro was a 15th century Italian rabbi. R. Shmiuel Bar R. Chjaim Argelbrand hardcover
184824809Boston: Published for the Purchaser 1848. Ninth edition. Hardcover. fair. Sm. 8vo. 160pp. Blind-stamped green cloth with title in gold on cover. Ex-libris of William P. Sheffield on inside of front board. Frontispiece engraving. Heavy staining and age wear on binding. Gold lettering faded. Two-inches of backstrip on head of spine missing tail of spine bumped. staining on endpapers sporadic foxing throughout. Slight rippling on pages. Some leaves slightly creased. Hinges starting. Binding in poor interior in overall good condition. Published for the Purchaser hardcover
18454416Wien: Edlen v. Schmid und Busch 1845 139 pp.; cover is worn; spine is missing; foxed; else n good- condition. Size: 21 cm Tall Edlen v. Schmid und Busch hardcover
1848002986Uppsala 1848 Hwasser Israel1790-1860 praeses. Part 1 and 2. Part two starts at page 17. Some light brownish stains on front page otherwise in very good condition. unknown
1842151189Hamilton: Printed at Ruthven's Book and Job Office 1842. First edition in Mohawk. Hardcover. Very good. viii 456 p. 22 cm. Full leather. Respined with gilt impressing 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered label. Hinges repaired internally. New England Corporation bookplate on front pastedown. Ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper: "Presented to James Powles by his friend & minister The Rev. A Nelles 19 June 1842." Signature spelled James Powlass above. Mohawk inscription and signature on next leaf. Occasional stains and thumbing. <br/><br/>Rev. Abraham or Abram Nelles 1805-1884 was a Church of England clergyman and missionary to the Six Nations. Nelles was principal of the Mohawk Institute a day-school operated by the New England Company for "Indian" students. Nelles first used his knowledge of the Mohawk language to publish in 1839 a hymnal entitled "A collection of psalms and hymns in the Mohawk language for the use of the Six Nations Indians." This translation project also published in Hamilton dates to a few years later. He is buried in the graveyard of the Mohawk Church. Interestingly two individuls named "Powless" are also buried there so James was probably one of his parishioners. Printed at Ruthven's Book and Job Office hardcover
184114100St.Gallen 1841. Erster Jahrgang Gr.-8°. Hldr. Helvetica unknown
1878100083532L. Van Nifterik 1878. Bon état général sous papier de soie rousseurs sur tranche pages non coupées sur presque tout le livre tampon au dos de la page titre. in8. 1878. Broché. L. Van Nifterik unknown
1809980Z39London: John Sharpe 1809. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None stated. The works of the seventeenth century English poet and author Abraham Cowley including Samuel Johnson's biography on the author bound in three volumes in modern half calf. A new edition pointing out the pieces selected by Richard Hurd and including his Lordship's notes and including Dr. Johnson's 'Life of the Author'. Bound in later half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Endpapers and blanks renewed.Illustrated with engraved title pages. A collection of works from the prominent seventeenth century English poet and essayist Abraham Cowley. This set includes his essays on topics such as liberty agriculture the danger of procrastination and his collections of love verses titled 'The Mistress' and other poetical works. A three volume complete set. Bound in later half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally lightly rubbed to the boards with corners of marbled paper lifting with small closed tears to the rear board of vol II. Hinges re-enforced. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with spotting to the fronts and rears otherwise generally clean. Small tidemark to the engraved title page to vol III. Very Good Indeed John Sharpe hardcover
1858040391Jersey: Publie Par Philippe Falle 1858. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 305 Pages Plus 48 Page Errata Corrigenda Et Addenda Contemporary Cloth With Binder Label " C. Le Feuvre Bookbinder Jersey ". Publie Par Philippe Falle Hardcover
1855272337Czernowitz: Gedruckt bei Johann Eckardt 1855. Boards. Good-. 228 pp. In Hebrew ex library with stamps and pocket taped spine with white titles boards worn Gedruckt bei Johann Eckardt hardcover
1886101012<p>New York May 12th and July 26th 1886. 1886. Very good. - Two autograph sentiments alternately penned on 4 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide and 4-7/8 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide paper mounted with glue from the verso onto both sides of sheet clipped from an autograph album. The first penned by the famous American actress reads "With much pleasure / Yours truly / Maggie Mitchell / May 12th - 1886". The second penned by the American character actor reads "Very Truly Yours / W.S. Daboll / N.Y. City / July 26th 1886". Both were once folded and are in very good condition.</p><p>Born in New York the American actress Maggie Mitchell 1832-1918 made her debut in 1851 as Julia in "The Soldier's Daughter". She earned much fame for her roles in Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Once a supporter of the Confederacy she was a close friend of John Wilkes Booth but she later moderated her views and was admired by Abraham Lincoln who enjoyed her performances at Ford's Theatre and had her over for tea in the Executive Mansion.</p><p>The prominent American actor W.S. Dobell d 1892 was known for his role as Ravennes in a popular comic opera "Erminie". At the age of 35 Daboll committed suicide by poison on August 23 1892 while in Boston engaged to appear in "Puritania" at the Tremont Theatre.</p> New York, May 12th and July 26th, 1886.
1857202086<p>Boston: Gould and Lincoln 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth boards with blindstamped decorations gilt lettering to spine yellow clay-coated endpapers frontis many in-text illustrations. Spine ends & joints repaired it is now a clean & sturdy copy. This particular copy has the ownership inscription of Joshua Fry Speed. Speed was Abraham Lincoln’s four-year roommate and close lifelong friend. The 2024 documentary film Lover of Men suggests that Lincoln and Speed had a gay relationship. For much of his life Speed was a lawyer in Louisville and from 1848-1850 he was a Representative in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Provenance: From the great-great-grandson of Edward Dorsey Hobbs who was Joshua Speed’s brother-in-law. One of Hobbs’ slaves married one of Speed’s slaves. Hobbs’ grandchild was taught to swim by one of Speed’s freed slaves.</p> Gould and Lincoln hardcover
1846ZB587641Washington: 1846. 29th Cong. 1st Sess. HD 112 15 pp. extracted from larger bound volume self wrappers good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington: unknown
189222436City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution 1892. First Separate Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. First Separate Edition. 1-24 pages plus 5 plates and original printed wrappers. Folio 9 3/4 x 13 inches. Top page edges uncut an unread copy. Wrappers have been professionally restored and reattached with missing paper filled in correcting a common failing of this title. The wrappers are often chipped and/or detached with large pieces missing due to the thin almost ephemeral nature of the binding. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge number 842. Wrappers. "Michelson was the first American citizen to win the Nobel prize for his 'precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations conducted therewith'.He was clearly recognized as one of the foremost experimental physicists of the nation." - DSB <br /> <br /> "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 was awarded to Albert A. Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid". Nobel Prize d o t org. The Smithsonian Institution unknown
18874021887. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST BRITISH PRINTING of a work haled both as the greatest failed experiment of all time AND as 'one of the greatest achievements in physics of all time' Lightman 130. 'What Michelson and Morley did. was undermine a longstanding belief in something called the luminiferous ether; a stable invisible weightless frictionless. medium that was thought to permeate the universe. Conceived by Descartes embraced by Newton and venerated by nearly everyone ever since the ether held a position of absolute centrality in nineteenth-century physics as a way of explaining how light traveled across the emptiness of space Bryson 117. Prevailing theories held that ether formed an absolute reference with respect to which the rest of the universe was stationary and that ether was a medium for the propagation of light as water waves must have a medium to move across: water. Given the speed of light designing an experiment to detect the presence of ether and its drift or hypothetical motion relative to earth was challenging. To do so Michelson designed an interferometer -- essentially a massive stone block with mirrors and crisscrossing light beams -- capable of measuring the velocity of light with great precision. The device enabled Michelson and Morley to measure the speed of light in different directions enabling them in theory to measure the speed or drift of the ether relative to Earth thus establishing its existence. Michelson and Morley expected to see their light beams shifted by the swift motion of the earth in space thus giving measure to different speeds of light in each direction but "none was observed showing that the earth's motion did not affect the light's speed" Dibner 161. "The failure of this experiment was a serious blow to classical scientific theories because it cast doubts on the existence of the universal ether which had been a basic principle of for example the Newtonian theories of the universe" PMM 401. The result discredited the ether theories "and opened the door to "new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry" ultimately leading to Einstein's 1905 proposal that the speed of light is a universal constant" Dibner; Lightman 130. The history of science records the 1887 ether-drift experiment of Albert Michelson and Edward Morley as the turning point at which the energetic "ether of space" was discarded by mainstream physics thereafter replaced with the postulate of "empty space." Michelson and Morley's work sounded the death knell of classical physics' beautifully simple belief in the idea of ether. CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Taylor & Francis. 8.5 x 5.5 inches; 213 x 138mm. Complete. viii 524 9 plates. Michelson & Morley paper: pp. 449-463. Ex-libris bearing a discreet stamp on the title page. Solidly and tightly bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards. Some scuffing and rubbing at the edge tips and along the spine. Five gilt-ruled raised bands at the spine; gilt armorial devices in the compartments. Gilt-lettered red and black morocco spine labels. Very slight age toning within; largely clean and bright. Very good condition. hardcover
188139061New Haven Conn. J.D. & E.S. Dana 1881. 8vo. Extracted from "The American Journal of Science" Third series vol. XXII Numb. CXXVIII pp. 87- 166. With title-page to the entire volume. Title-page with a faint rubberstamp. The Michelson-paper: pp. 120-129. Two leaves with small tear to the margin. <br/><br/><em>The seminal first edition of the first description of the first version of a series of experiments with the Interferometer which was built by Michelson and with which he planned to measure the relative speeds of light-waves moving at right angles to each other - an experiment that would ultimately lead to the special theory of relativity. The series of experiments ended with the so-called "Michelson-Morley experiment" the results of which were published 6 years after Michelson's first experiment the item offered here. The 1887 paper written together with Morley constituted an improved attempt of the 1881- version of the experiment. The experiments were designed to calculate the effect of the earth's motion on the passage of light rays through the "luminous ether" which was believed to surround the earth. The experiments were negative and as such led to the introduction of relativity."Michelson tried to determinate the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light effect of extremely minute values.no drift could be found and the "negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly through Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry an cosmometry."Dibner.In 1919 Einstein met Michelson in California. At a dinner given in honor of them both Einstein said in a speech "You Michelson uncovered an insidious defect in the ether theory of light as it existed and stimulated the ideas of H.A. Lorentz and Fitzgerald out of which the Special Theory of Relativity developed. Without your work this theory would today be scarcely more than an interesting speculation." In an interview in 1842 Einstein said: "It is no doubt that Michelson's experiment was of considerably influence upon my work insofar as it strengthened my conviction concerning the validity of the Principle of relativity.On the other side I was pretty much convinced of the validity of the principle before I did know this experiment and its result. In any case Michelson's experiment removed practically any doubt about the validity of the principle in optics and showed that a profound change of the basic concepts of physics was inevitable."Michelson was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize "for his optical precision instrument the inteferometer and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he has carried on."Dibner: Heralds of Science: 161 the 1887-experiment - Vide PMM: 378410408. </em> unknown
