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214pp VG/none First edition in English, printed at the request of the Ministry of Munitions. Editorial sturdy green cloth with bright gilt lettering on front board and spine, spine slightly faded and light foxing on pastedowns and endpapers otherwise a very good, nice copy, crisp and clean. Important work by the Italian scientist Galileo Ferraris, originally published in Italian as The Fundamental Properties of Dioptric Instruments, here translated into English by Oscar Faber. From the review which apperared in Nature, the scientific journal: "The original of this translation was published by Prof. Galileo Ferraris, of Turin, in 1876. As a copy of this original could apparently not be procured, the English translation was made from a German one by Lippich, which appeared in 1879. At the time of its appearance the book unquestionably marked a great advance in the treatment of its subject, and well deserved the extremely favourable review with which Abbe honoured the German translation in the first volume of the Zeitschrift für Instrumentenkunde."
8vo., Second Edition, with plates, illustrations and diagrams throughout, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, pencilled annotation on rear endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Volume 2, pages 305 - 536. Black and white illustrations.
220 p. + Frontis. Original blue cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Dr. John Alfred Brashear was born in 1840 at Brownsville, Fayette, County, Pa., southeast of Pittsburgh. He later moved to the Steel City, and despite the smoky skies so prevalent in his day, Brashear's love of the night sky never waned. Brashear built his first telescope in his South Side home in the early 1870s. His optical prowess is apparent even today - many of the telescopes he made still are in use around the world. Moreover, the one-time John Brashear Co. has evolved to become the Contraves Corp., an internationally known maker of superb optics. In its underground facility near Wampum, Pa., Contraves is working on the completion of the 8-meter mirror for the Subaru Telescope, to be installed in Hawaii. Brashear died April, 1920. His remains and those of his wife Phoebe are interned in the crypt beneath the Keeler Memorial Reflecting Telescope at Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh's Riverview Park. Brashear, a one-time director of Allegheny Observatory, is the man most responsible for its construction. The plaque in the observatory's crypt. reads: "We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." PA 48 x4
8vo, 19.3cm. Pp. viii,77, 1 fold. pl., 13 figs. in text, 1 stereogram on thin cardboard in rear pocket, notes & refs., index. Orig. cloth. Some light spotting to binding, contents very good. - Rare.
IX, (1bl), 714, (2)pp cartonnage moderne, couvertures originales imprimées rapportées sur les plats et au dos 1861, 1861, in-8, IX, (1bl), 714, (2)pp, cartonnage moderne, couvertures originales imprimées rapportées sur les plats et au dos, 114 figures dans le texte. ENVOI signé de l'auteur à Émile Combes (1835-1921), membre de l'Institut ; il entreprit des études de médecine à Paris et soutient une thèse sur les Considérations contre l'hérédité des maladies en 1868. Il s'illustra par la suite dans la carrière politique, sous les présidences de Loubet et de Poincaré. Rare édition originale de cet ouvrage très approfondi sur la vision binoculaire et les instruments d'optiques ; l'ophtalmoscope binoculaire, invention de l'auteur (p. 674 et suiv.), Marc-Antoine "Félix" Giraud-Teulon (1816-1887), y est décrit pour la première fois. L'ophtalmoscope de Giraud-Teulon, consistait en un un miroir concave de 45mm de diamètre, avec deux prismes à l'arrière se rencontrant sur leurs angles aigus et deux prismes variables fixés du côte de l'observateur, l'un ayant une surface plane, l'autre convexe. Nachet emprunta son principe pour la fabrication son propre ophtalmoscope binoculaire. De par son utilisation peu commode, l'objet rencontra peu de succès : il sera de nouveau envisagé plusieurs années après, par Charles Schepens ("Un nouvel ophtalmoscope binoculaire pour l'examen du décollement de la rétine", Bulletin de la Société belge d'ophtalmologie, 1945). Bon exemplaire, non rogné. Hirsch II, 759. Schett, The Ophtalmoscope, p. 172 et suiv
8vo, 20pp., 23 illustrs., in the text, one plate, orig. printed wrappers, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a couple of their neat library stamps. Only this copy located by JISC.
Broch?. 40 pages ron?ot?es. Annot?. 21x27 cm. Rousseurs.
Paris, Chez Debray et chez l'Auteur, 1805, 25 x 19 cm., cartoné, portada + 22 págs. (Primera edición muy rara de la Memoria sobre cristales acromáticos hechos de un nuevo tipo de cristal desarrollado por Lançon y el óptico Kruines junto con el Informe del "Institut National des Sciences Physiques & Mathématiques" firmado por Gay Lussac y otros. Contiene mucha información sobre los instrumentos ópticos de la época).
180pp VG/none modern reprint of the celebrated work by Huygens published in French in 1690. Original brown editorial cloth, few light spots at the back otherwise in excellent conditions throughout.
Paris, Puf 1979. In-12 broché de 127 pages. Collection que sais-je. Parfait état
In-8°; pp. 796, mancano le ultime due carte, legatura in mezza pelle con tassello al dorso, più tarda. Con molti legni e diagrammi nel testo. Seconda edizione, la prima del 1538, le Lucubrationes dell’umanista fiammingo rappresentano un’opera “enciclopedica” nel senso che raccolgono trattati nei diversi campi del sapere, di particolare interesse la sezione scientifica dedicata all’ottica, alla prospettiva, astronomia, geometria e matematica, anche per le molte illustrazioni. Sembra le la parola “enciclopedi” si trovi per la prima volta proprio sul frontespizio di quest’opera, sotto la forma di kiklopedia.
Albert Blanchard 1975, In-8 broché, 240 pages, plus de 100 figures dans le texte. Bon état
423pp + 390pp + 374pp + 396pp + 382pp VG/none vols 1 and 4 with small patches of slight discoloration on boards, minimal remains of paper label from dealer on endpapers, small and discreet stamps on title and content pages, last two pages in vol.1 (table of content) slightly creased not affecting text. Overall a very nice set. A cumulative index for the 5 volumes is included in vol. 5. Thorough and comprehensive work on optics and optical engineering and instruments with chapters written by specialists in the field. Content includes filters, optical materials, electro-optical devices, television optics, infrared detectors, microscopes, photographic objectives, still cameras, high-speed photography, astronomical telescopes etc.
In-4°, XX, pp.210, tavola fuori testo legatura in cartonato. Christian Kramp fu un astronomo, fisico e matematico francese, scrisse di vari argomenti e molti trattati di matematica pura. La sua opera principale benché di carattere astronomico è - Analyse des refractions astronomiques et terrestres - In questa opera affronta il problema della elasticità dell'aria in relazione alla sua densità ma soprattutto presenta una dettagliata tavola numerica delle funzioni trascendentali che cosi divenne importante nel CALCOLO DELLE PROBALITA' da essere chiamata " Kramp's trascendental", introdusse anche la funzione "n". Come Bessel, Legendre e Gauss egli estese la nozione di fattoriale ai sistemi di numeri non interi (non-whole). DSB ad vocem. In-4°, XX, pp.210, plate, cardboard binding Christian Kramp was a French astronomer, physicist and mathematician, he wrote of various and many subjects treatises on pure mathematics. His main work although of an astronomical nature is - Analyze des refractions astronomiques et terrestres - In this work he addresses the problem of air elasticity in relation to its density but above all it presents a detailed numerical table of transcendental functions which thus became important in the CALCULATION OF PROBALITIES to be called "Kramp's transcendental", also introduced the function "n". Like Bessel, Legendre and Gauss he extended the notion of factorial to non-whole number systems. (See DSB)
grand in-8°, x-212 pages, illustrations et figures, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [MI-4]
SL SD (vers 1900), plaquette In-8 brochée, 21 pages. Bon état.
196pp. avec illustrations, 25cm., dans la série "Université de Louvain. Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie. 3e série" fasc.31, brochure originale, non coupé, bel état, W74095
From the personal library of prominent optical lens designer Professor Charles Gorrie Wynne, FRS, who had this large work bound into two black buckram volumes in 1953, per bookbinder's receipt laid-in. Bookplates affixed by Dr. Wynne's family inside each front board further evince this provenance. [3], 6 (errata), xvii, 213 + 188, iii, 38 (supp. 1), 7 (appendix I), 6 (appendix II), 22 (supp. 2), 8 (supp. 3), 9 (supp. 4) pp. "These notes cover a course in Optics given at Brown University in the summer of 1944." - from Acknowledgement. Supplementary note on Electron Optics provided by Mr. Blank. Three supplementary notes provided by Dr. Herzberger. "The author's idea of treating geometrical optics as a special limiting case of wave optics has never before been carried out in so much detail. His treatment of diffraction optics is an important step forward. Highly recommended as a source of valuable information. Herzberger's first supplement is probably the best succinct presentation of electronic optics so far published in any language." - Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol 51, #11. Bindings intact. Light exterior wear. Glossy buckram finish has faded unevenly resulting in a moderately mottled finish. Bit of ink writing atop front free endpaper of each volume. Minor insect damage to fore-edge of last few pages in Volume 1. One-inch tape repair to bottom of last page in Volume 2. Mimeographed contents moderately age-toned. Minor foxing to endpapers. Book
401pp + add. G/none First edition. Strong blue buckram hardback with gilt lettering on spine, cover slightly worn and rubbed with traces of a couple of stickers, ex-lib label and “withdrawn” stamp on pastedown, small stamp and traces of label on rear pastedown, no other stamps noted inside, tear of about 6cm on the lower margin of pp.14-18 of the Supplement II (no loss), paper lightly age-yellowed, overall a good copy. Content and pagination: Main body xvii+401pp Appendix I Vector analysis: definitions and theorems 7pp Appendix II Tracing of light rays in a system of plane reflecting or refracting surfaces 6pp Suppl. Note I Electron Optics (N Chako and A A Blank) iii+38pp Suppl. Note II Optical Qualities of Glass (M Herzberger) 22pp Suppl. Note III Mathematical and Geometrical Optics (M Herzberger) 8pp Suppl. Note IV Simmetry and Asymmetry in Optical Images (M Herzberger) 9pp Errata 6pp. Classic and important treatise by the German/American physicist Rudolf Karl Lüneburg, based on the course given in the Summer 1944 at the Brown University Advanced Instruction and Research in Mechanics. Mimeographed pages, including two appendixes plus the supplementary notes mainly by Max Herzberger (Kodak Research Laboratories). The lens named after the author that has found several applications in microwave and millimeter-wave technology is for the first time described here. Luneburg published very little of his researches and this work had a restricted circulation at that time; it was published twenty years later by the University of California Press and reprinted more recently, recognised as one of the most important work in mathematical optics of the XX century.
français Paris, Gauthier-Villars Et Fils - G. Masson, 1889. In-8 de VIII-638 pp.; demi-chagrin vert, dos à cinq nerfs bordés d'un filet doré (reliure de l'époque). Avec 199 figures et 2 planches dépliantes hors-texte. Très bon état. Tome premier seul.
With 387 illustrations including 31 plates, with 95 colored figures.
13pp. + 4 diagrammes, 29cm., dans la série "Académie royale de Belgique. Classe des sciences, mémoires, collection in-4o, deuxième série" tome XI fascicule 3, br.orig., bel état
Softcover in-12, 255 pages et 9 ff. roses de publicites, nombreuses fig. in-t., tableau depliant (verres colores), broche, couv. Bon etat (couverture et dos salis). [SC-1]
Soft cover in a good condition with wear to corners and edges. Ex-library usual stamps and stickers. Contents very good and clean, text and illustrations bright and tight throughout. Ex-Library
