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1894DEMO000524IChicago: John E. Hoham & Co 1894. Official Edition. Hardcover. good. portraits. 4to 824 pages cloth <br/><br/> John E. Hoham & Co hardcover
18982091502135417982Seikyosha 1898. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Seikyosha paperback
18982090502130302277Kuroemon Nishimura 1898. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kuroemon Nishimura paperback
183442833London Richard Taylor 1834 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1834 - Part I. Pp. 123-126 a. pp. 127-141. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Lubbock's "Lunar-Theory""John Lubbock 1803-65 was an astronomer and mathematician. He made a special study of tides and of the lunar theory and developed a method for calculating the orbits of comets and planets. In mathematics he applied the theory of probability to life insurance problems." </em> unknown
18842090502130302290Nagata Shirabe Hyoe 1884. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Nagata Shirabe Hyoe paperback
18072111902160200451Book by Tokuan Kao 1807. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Book by Tokuan (Kao) paperback
185549133Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences" Vol 40 No 5 6. Pp. 205- 260 a. pp. 261- 324. 2 entire issue offered. Hermite's paper's: pp. 249-256 a. 304-309. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Hermite's importent paper in which he created the theory of transformations."Another topic on which Hermite worked and made important contributions was the theory of quadratic forms. This led him to study invariant theory and he found a reciprocity law relating to binary forms. With his understanding of quadratic forms and invariant theory he created a theory of transformations in 1855. His results on this topic provided connections between number theory theta functions and the transformations of abelian functions.""Hermite’s 1855 results became basic for the transformation theory of Abelian functions as well as for Camille Jordan’s theory of "Abelian" groups. They also led to Herrnite’s own theory of the fifth-degree equation and of the modular equations of elliptic functions."DSB. </em> unknown
1890001476London Printing & Publishing Company Approx 1890. 48 engraved plates - of the heroines - engraved in the style of art from drawings by Frith Egg Kenny Meadows Hayter Corbould and other eminent artists. Letter-press extracts from the text in English and French; and critical essays on each of the characters. Tooled and ornate gilt leather spine. Overall very good condition. Happy to answer any questions and will gladly email a scan of book. Half-Leather. Large format Hardback. <br /><br /> London Printing & Publishing Company, hardcover
188535224Kjøbenhavn Jacob Lund 1885. Orig. bogtrykt omslag. Løs i heftningen og omslaget med rifter og pletter. 491 pp. Indvendig pæn. <br/><br/><em>First edition. The most importent Danish work in psychology. It is a psychophysiological study on vasomotor disturbances and conditioned reflexes during period of emotional stress - known as the James-Lange-theory. </em> unknown
188980946Boston: The New Ideal Publishing Company 1889. Eleven pamphlets bound in a single volume with spine title "Evolution Essays vol.I." 12mo 19cm; half-morocco over brown cloth; variously paginated. Marginal water-stain to first nine and final dozen leaves; externally rubbed and worn; complete and Good. <br /> <br /> Essays by prominent lecturers applying Darwinian concepts to a wide variety of subjects including biological evolution but also planetary science geology social systems etc. The first two pamphlets are biographies of Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. OCLC cataloguing notes that fifteen pamphlets were issued in the series; the first eleven are here as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. THOMPSON Charles Greenleaf. Herbert Spencer. <br /> 2. CHADWICK John W. Charles Robert Darwin. <br /> 3. SERVISS Garrett P. Solar and Planetary Evolution. <br /> 4. JANES Lewis G. Evolution of the Earth. <br /> 5. POTTS William. Evolution of Vegetal Life. <br /> 6. RAYMOND Rossiter W. Evolution of Animal Life. <br /> 7. COPE E.D. The Descent of Man.<br /> 8. ECCLES Robert G. Evolution of the Mind.<br /> 9. SKILTON James A. Evolution of Society. <br /> 10. SAMPSON Z. Sidey. Evolution of Theology. <br /> 11. JANES Lewis G. Evolution of Morals. The New Ideal Publishing Company unknown
18717782London: Longmans and Co. 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 X 6 inches high. 135 pages. Full calf binding with black leather label with gilt lettering on spine gilt rules on covers 4 raised bands with gilt decoration on spine endpapers & edges of textblock marbled. Inscribed by author at top of title page "With the author's compliments 20th April 1872". Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Covers lightly scuffed & soiled otherwise excellent text is very clean binding is tight. Nature Rare RGR London: Longmans and Co. hardcover
181949624Paris Crochard 1819. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on verso of title-page. "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome 12. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12 pp. 37-41 a. pp. 337-341. Scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>The paper on Capillarity is the last version of this theory in which he refined it to take account of the effect of heat in reducing the attractive force between the particles of a liquid. "The net attractive force was now taken as the difference between the innate attraction the only force considered in the supplement to the "Mecanique celeste" and a repulsive force that was supposed to be caused by the presence of heat."DSB. - Using the theory of Boscovich "who assumed that between every two ultimate particles and along the lines connecting them forces act which are attractive for some distances and repulsive for others. Using this theory with the added requirements that that the molecular forces diminish rapidly with increase of the distances between the molecules Laplace was able to develop his theory of capillarity referring to the offered paper."Timoshenko "History of the Strenghts of Material" p. 104.The 2 papers here offered on probability applied were both incorporated into the third edition of "Theoriques analytique des probabilities" 1820. </em> hardcover
189148777Harlem Les Heritieres Loosjes 1891. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosschar" Tome XXV 2me Livraison. Pp. 101- 226 entire issue offered. Lorentz's paper: pp. 107-130. A faint stamp to frontwrapper and to the first page. <br/><br/><em>First edition. In this paper Lorentz applies statistical methods to his molecular theory of dlute solutions discussing the phenomena of osmosis van't Hoff's law of pressure in this context and Boltzmann's theorem. </em> unknown
182844897Paris Crochard 1828. 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique' Series 2 - Volume 37 Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 entire issue offered. Poisson's paper:pp. 337-355. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of one of the founding papers in "The mathematical Theory of Elasticity" and Poisson's first on the subject. "The theory of elasticity based on the idea of a molecular structure attracted Poisson's interest and he did much to lay the foundations of that science."Timoshenko p. 111 ff."In the preface to the long "Mémoire sur I’équilibre et le movement des corps élastiques" 14 April 1828 the hints yield to explicit declaration. In applying mathematics to physics Poisson stated it was necessary at first to employ abstraction and "in this regard Lagrange has gone as far as possible in replacing physical ties by equations between coordinates." Now however "along with this admirable conception" it is necessary to "construct physical mechanics the principle of which is to reduce everything to molecular actions." In other words the death of Laplace the previous year enabled Poisson to move boldly ahead with his long range plans and to present himself as Laplace’s successor."DSBThe issue offered contains notable papers by Berzelius Gay-Lussac and others. </em> unknown
181943817Paris Crochard 1819. Contemp. hcalf richly gilt spine. Light wear to top of spine and a few minor scratches. "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome 12. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12 pp. 37-41 a. pp. 337-341. <br/><br/><em>The paper on Capillarity is the last version of this theory in which he refined it to take account of the effect of heat in reducing the attractive force between the particles of a liquid. "The net attractive force was now taken as the difference between the innate attraction the only force considered in the supplement to the "Mecanique celeste" and a repulsive force that was supposed to be caused by the presence of heat."DSB. - Using the theory of Boscovich "who assumed that between every two ultimate particles and along the lines connecting them forces act which are attractive for some distances and repulsive for others. Using this theory with the added requirements that that the molecular forces diminish rapidly with increase of the distances between the molecules Laplace was able to develop his theory of capillarity referring to the offered paper."Timoshenko "History of the Strenghts of Material" p. 104.The 2 papers here offered on probability applied were both incorporated into the third edition of "Theoriques analytique des probabilities" 1820. </em> unknown
180349442Halle Rengerschen Buchhandlung 1803. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 13 Viertes Stück. Pp. 385-504 a. 1 engraved plate. The entire issue offered. Dalton's paper: pp. 438-445. <br/><br/><em>First German version of one of the founding papers in which he formulated his famous gas laws and raised the foundation of the atomic theory in chemistry.Smyth "John Dalton. A Bibliography" No 29. </em> unknown
180549134Halle Rengerschen Buchhandlung 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt raised bands a few scratches to spine. In: "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 21. 8496 pp. and 5 engraved plates. Entire volume offered. Stamp to verso of titlepage and verso of plates. Internally clean and fine. The papers by Dalton Gough Henry: pp. 377-436. And pp. 458-461. <br/><br/><em>First German editions of these importent papers on Dalton's theory of gases. The year "1804 was notable chiefly for controversy over the mixed gases theory and particularly over its denial of weak chemical affinity forces. Continuing criticism of the theory - and the failure of particle weight studies to provide the hoped-for clinching evidence - caused Dalton to revise his ideas on mixed gases during the course of 1805." DSBSmyth "John Dalton. A Bibliography" Nos 33 34 35 a. 42. </em> hardcover
185343123Paris Victor Masson Imprimerie de Bachelier 1853. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf raised bands gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Slightly rubbed. A small weakness to upper part of fronthinge. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plates. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 3me Series - Tome XXXVII. 512 pp. and 3 plates. The entire volume offered. Gerhardt's paper: pp. 285-342. Light scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of an importent paper in which Gerhardt introduced the concept of "type" in organic chemistry in order to understand all substitution reactions."Gerhardt adopted Laurent's nucleus or unitary theory and combined it with the theory of types and radicals. In 1852 he discovered the anhydrides of organic acids and explained their structure by an extension of the water type of Williamson. He further proposed that all organic compounds could be related to one of four inorganic types: water hydrogen hydrogen chloride and ammonia. These types could be used to explain most organic reactions as double decompositions. Since Gerhard felt that the formula of organic compounds never ecpressed the actual structure of the molecule but only its reactions he was satisfied with this theory and carried it no farther. However it was a great advance in systematization and helped to bring order into the confused field of organic reactions."Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900" p. 351."Gerhardt will occupy a permanent position in the history of Chemistry for his services to organic classification for his concept of homology for his preparation of acid anhydrides and for his reform of equivalents."DSB V p. 374.The volume contains further importent papers Marcelin Berthelot "Sur la Bichlorhydrate D'Essence de Térébenthine" pp. 223-230 by Arago Edmond Becquerel etc.etc. </em> hardcover
183549330Paris Crochard 1835. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." 2e Series tome 59. 4462 pp. Entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots. Laurent's papers: pp. 107-111 196-220376-397 a. 397-422. <br/><br/><em>First printing of these importent papers in the history of organic chemistry explaining the differences to Dumas' law of substitutions and introducing a "new type" and what he calls "fundamental and derived radicals". The introduction of the "Nucleus Theory" was the basis for the unitary theory formulated by Gerhardt."While studying the reactions of naphthalene and its compounds with the halogens and nitric acid Laurent was from the start characteristically concerned with the construction of an explanatory theory that would account for these phenomena. Like most creative scientists he generalized his solution to a specific problem through the imaginative use of analogy leading to the elaboration of the first comprehensive theory adequate for dealing with the whole domain of contemporaneous organic chemistry." DSB."A founder of modern organic chemistry Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century. He considered the behavior of matter to be a manifestation of its intimate internal structure which one cannot determine with certainty but which one has to investigate if one wants to understand. Laurent’s preoccupation was to construct a method that could guide the chemist forward along this path from facts to their causes. He was the first chemist to intimately associate crystallo-graphic data and chemical studies. Louis Pasteur and Charles Friedel later followed the way."DSB. </em> hardcover
183349628Paris Crochard 1833. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." 2 Séries Tome 55 Cahier 2. pp. 113-224. Entire issue offered. Liebig's paper: pp. 113-156. Scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in French - the paper was published at the same time in "Annalen der Pharmacie" and in"Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"- of an importent paper on Radicals in which he regards alcohol as a hydrate of the ethyl radical and ether as the oxide of the ethyl radical. The paper is also relevant for the discovery and development of ether as an anaesthesia. </em> unknown
185350167London Richard Taylor and William Francis 1853 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1853 Vol. 143. Pp. 397-406. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper by Adams - famous for his co-discovery with Le Verrier of Neptune in 1846 - in which he introduces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon raising a sharp scientific controversy and correcting Laplace's great memoir of 1788."He Adams was elected a fellow of Pembroke College in 1853 and shortly afterward he presented to the Royal Society a remarkable paper on the secular acceleration of the moon’s mean motion. This quantity was thought to have been definitively investigated by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1788 but Adams showed that Laplace’s solution was incorrect. In particular Laplace had ignored a variation in solar eccentricity that introduces into the differential equations for the moon’s motion a series of additional terms. Adams calculated the second term of the series on which the secular acceleration depends as 3771/64m4 the value computed from Laplace’s work was 2187/128 m4. The effect of the correction was to reduce the figure for the moon’s secular acceleration by about half from 10.58 to 5.70.This paper caused a sharp scientific controversy marked by angry chauvinism on the part of several French astronomers. Their attacks stimulated a number of independent investigations of the subject all of which confirmed Adams’ result. The matter was definitely settled in his favor by 1861 but not without hard feelings."DSB. </em> unknown
185342763London Richard Taylor and William Francis 1853 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1853 Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 397-406. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper by Adams - famous for his co-discovery with Le Verrier of Neptune in 1846 - in which he introduces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon raising a sharp scientific controversy and correcting Laplace's great memoir of 1788."He Adams was elected fellow of Pembroke College in 1853 and shortly afterwards he presented to the Royal Society a remarkable paper the paper offered on the secular accleration of the moon's mean motion. This quantity was thought to have been definitively investigated by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1788 but Adams showed that Laplace's solution was incorrect. In particular Laplace had ignored a variation in solar eccentricity that introduces into the diffrential equations for the moon's motion a series of additional terms. Adams calculated the second term of series on which the secular acceleartion depends.This paper caused a sharp scientific controversy marked by angry chauvinism on the part of several French astronomers. Their attack stimulated a number of independent investigations of the subject all of which confirmed Adams' results. The matter was definitely settles in his favor by 1861 but not without hard feelings."DSB I p. 54b. </em> unknown
186243530Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1862. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" 115. Bd. 1. issue "Heft" No 1 1862. Titlepage to vol. 115. Pp. 1-176 a. 1 folded engraved plate. The entire issue offereed "Heft" 1. Clausius' paper: pp. 1-56. Some brownspots to right marginon some leaves. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this importent paper the seciond of C's papers in the working out of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. In the paper he states that he found an error in Maxwell's theory of gases an error Maxwell was to admit as far more serious. "In his initial approach to the conduction of heat in gases Maxwell drew a brilliant analogy between diffusion a transfer of mass and conduction a transfer of kinetic energy thereby making it possible to use the form of his diffusion equation to represent conduction simply replacing the mass of a molecule with its kinetic energy. Clausius critized this adoption of the diffusion equation because given the assumptions mass transfer would accompany the heat conduction and the process would not be one of energy transfer alone. He then offered a revised theory of conduction. "DSB III p. 308."Clausius was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases and of the science of thermodynamics. He and Lord Kelvin at about the same time and independently announced the Second Law of thermodynamics. Clausius particularly developed the theory of thermodynamics by applying it to the study of gases and vapors."Magie in "A Source Book in Physics" p. 228. </em> unknown
184045032Paris Fortin Masson et Cie 1840. 8vo. Without wrappers. Extracted from 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique' 2e Series tome 73. Pp. 73-103 incl. Note de Liebig pp. 100-103 and pp. 113-166. Some scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>This paper which was published at the same year in "Comptes Rendues" 3 Fevrier is the most importent on the theory of structural types and the nomenclature of organic compounds refuting the electrochemical theory of Berzelius. "The development of this idea type organique into what is sometimes called the "Older Type Theory" as distinguished from Gerhardt's Type heory is contained in Dumas' importent memoir on the substitution and the theory of types presented on 3 febriary 1840."Partington IV p. 365. In the second paper Stas and Dumas record the first use of 'potash-lime' the precursor of soda-lime an invaluable reagent in organic chemistry."Jean Baptiste Dumas advances a theory that the chemical properties of an organic compound are determined by its structure and not as seems to be the case with inorganic compounds by its electrical properties. he illustrates the concept with the example that the basic qualitative properties of acetic acid are retained even after replacing three fourths of the hydrogen by chlorine. As a consequence he calls for a revision of chemical nomenclature for organic compounds basing terms on common features not on elemental composition."Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1840 C. </em> unknown
183959127Paris Crochard 1839. Entire October-issue with original printed yellow wrappers wrappers loose. In:"Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 72 Series 2. Entire volume octobre-issue offered. Pp. 113-222. Gerhardt's paper: pp. 184-214.Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a classic paper in organic chemistry in which Gerhardt breaks with the conceptions of dualism and pre-existing radicals and sets forth his "Theory of Residues". The October-issue also contains Gerhards paper "Recherches chimiques sur l'Hellénine" pp. 163-183. A subject for his doctoral thesis in 1840. "A new aspect was given to the substitution-type theory by Gerhardt who explained the formation of organic compounds as due to "pairing" or "copulation" of residues."Findlay "A Hundred years of Chemistry" p. 30 ff. </em> unknown