2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Entry in pen and ink on title; w. blindst. mark of the Sunderland Library on first fold. plate; bookblock broken. Rebacked w. cloth; cloth over edges partly worn off, incl. corners.
= Freeman 800, publisher's advertisements dated December 1861.
- Table bound upside down. = Freeman 660. The 6th French language edition.
- Partly foxed.
= Freeman 661. The 7th French language edition and the 1st in translation by E. Barbier. "There were also difficulties with the first French [translation]. (...) He [Darwin] was not really happy until the third translation by Édouard Barbier appeared in 1876" (Freeman p.84).
- Sm. bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown; owner's entry in pen and ink on title; hinges broken; bookblock broken. Spine-ends and corners rubbed.
= Freeman 1325, publisher's advertisements dated May 1878. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Final two text lvs. vol. 1. loose. Corners showing.
= John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Volume 1 and 2 reissues from eds. 1736 and 1746. All vols. w. owner's entry in pen and ink on first blank. Binding worn, joints occas. starting/ splitting.
= John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Double-p. plates are counted as 2 plates. Lacks 5 plates (from the drawing section). Vol. 5 partly (water)stained in upper mostly outer corner. All vols. binding worn and dam. along extremities (corners showing).
= PMM 200; Graesse II, p.389. The plates to the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, first published 1751-1765, covering all aspects of science, industries and arts. Contains plates of i.a. the following series: "Chymie", "Chirurgie", "Chasses", "Arts mechaniques", "Machines hydrauliques", "Pêches", "Potier de Terre" and "Sculpture en tous genres".
- Sm. bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown. Cloth sl. rubbed at spine-ends.
- Occas. sl. foxed (incl. endpapers). Covers sl. rubbed; spine sunned. Good/ fine copy.
= Thiébaud p.142.
- Trifle foxed. Backstrip dam. at foot; joints splitting. = Thiébaud p.201; Souhart p.626.
- Sl. foxed; some scattered stamps and pencil annots. Rebacked w. cloth.
= Very rare. No copy traced.
- A few quires at the beginning misbound, but complete. Joints rubbed. = Very rare.
Champion, P. La dynamite et la nitroglycérine. Ibid., J. Baudry, 1872, VIII,249,(3)p., woodengr. ills., contemp. gilt hmor. - BOUND WITH: Catalogue de J. Baudry éditeur. Ibid., idem, 1871, XII,59p.
- Trifle foxed. Two paper tickets on frontcover.
- Some lvs. occas. sl. soiled/ creased; a few sl. frayed, overall in good condition; w. occas. annots./ remarks in pencil by former owner L. Reerink. Backstrips of 5 vols. loosening/ sl. dam.
= ''Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) (...) studied theoretical physics at Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1904 for a dissertation on the extension of Hertz's mechanics to problems in hydrodynamics. (...) In 1912, when Ehrenfest was appointed to the chair of theoretical physics at Leiden as the successor to H.A. Lorentz, to whom he became deeply attached. (...). As a teacher Ehrenfest was unique. Albert Einstein described him as ''peerless'' and ''the best teacher in our profession whom I have ever known''. (...) Ehrenfes's special gift as a theoretical physicist was his critical ability, rather than his creative power or his calculational skill. (...) The critical approach also led Ehrenfest to his greatest positive contribution to physics: the adiabatic principle. Ehrenfest was one of the first to try to understand the significance of the strange new concept of energy quanta that Max Planck had introduced into physics in 1900 in his theory of blackbody radiation'' (DSB 3/4, p. 292-294). The lot contains i.a. the following titles:
H.A. LORENTZ, Theorie der magneto-optischen Phänomene (n.d. (1909), (1),200-281p.); Idem, Le partage de l'énergie entre la matière pondérable et l'éther (n.d. (1909), (1),146-165p.); Idem, De aberratie theorie van Stokes in de onderstelling van een aether, die niet overal dezelfde dichtheid heeft (1899, 7p.); Idem, On the theory of the Zeeman-effect in a direction inclined to the lines of force (n.d. (1909), 321-340p.); Idem, Over de zichtbaarheid van kleine deeltjes (1910, 7p.); Idem, The Theory of Radiation and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (1901, 436-450p.); Idem, Considerations of gravitation (1900, 559-574p.); Idem, The Motion of Electrons in metallic Bodies I-III (1905, 438-453; 585-593; 684-691p.).
A. SOMMERFELD, Die Willkürlichen Functionen in Der Mathematischen Physik, no.8 (n.d. (1906), 75,(5)p.); Idem, Die Drudesche Dispersionstheorie vom Standpunkte des Bohrschen Modelles und die Konstitution (1917, 498-550p.); Idem, Über die Bewegung der Elektronen (n.d., 155-171p.); Idem, Über die Zusammenstezung der Geschwindigkeiten in der Relativtheorie (1909, 577-582p.); Idem, Über die Beugung der Röntgenstrahlen (1912, 473-506p.); Idem, Die allgemeine Dispersionsformel nach dem Bohrschen Modell (n.d. (1910), 549-584p.).
P. HERTZ, Untersuchungen über unstetige Bewegungen eines Elektrons (1904, (6),80,(2)p.); Idem, Die Bewegung eines Elektrons unter dem Einflusse einer Longitudinal wirkenden Kraft (1906, 229-268p.); Idem, Ueber die kanonische Gesamtheit (1911, 824-848p.).
M. BORN, Untersuchungen Über Die Stabilität Der Elastischen Linie in Ebene Und Raum: Unter Verschiedenen Grenzbedingungen (1906, 101p., 13 tables, 7 photogr. ills.); Idem and E. Oettinger, Variationsprinzipe der Wärmetheorie (1907, 9p.); Idem, Die träge Masse und das Relativitätsprinzip (1909, 571-584p.); Idem, Dem Andenken Hermann Minkowski's Gewidmet (1909, 56p.); Idem, Zur Kinematik des starren Körpers im System des Relativitätsprinzips (1910, 19p.); Idem und R. Ladenburg, Über das Verhältnis von Emissions- und Absorptionsvermögen bei stark absorbierenden Körpern (1911, 5p.); Idem und Th. v. Kárman, Über Schwingungen im Raumgittern (1912, 13p.).
M. VON LAUE, Die Einsteinschen Energieschwankungen (1915, 198-202p.); Idem, Ein Satz der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und seine Anwendung auf die Strahlungstheorie (1915, 853-878p.); Idem, Über die Symmetrie der Kristall-Röntgenogramme (1916, 433-446p.); Idem, Mathematische Betrachtungen über die Beugungserscheinungen an vielen unregelmäßig verstreuten Teilchen (1916, 91-102p.); Idem, Die Nordströmische Gravitationstheorie (Bericht) (1917, 264-313p., w. AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION); Idem, Bandenspektrum und molekulare Quantendrehungen. Sonderabdruck aus den Verhandlung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (1918, 130-138p.); Idem, Interferenzerscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen (1912, 304-322p.); Idem, Die interferenzerscheinungen an Rontgenstrahlen hervorgerufen durch das Raumgitter der Kristalle (1914, 43p.); Idem and J. Steph van der Lingen, Experimentelle Untersuchungen über den Debyeeffekt (1914, 2p.).
K. GLITSCHER, Über die Intensitätsverteilung im Viellinenspektrum des Wasserstoffs (1916, 125-130p.); Idem, Spektroskopischer Vergleich zwischen den Theorien des starren und des deformierbaren Elektrons (1917, 32p.).
F. PAUER, Magnetische Drehung der Polarisationsebene des Lichtes in einem Gase Bohrscher Moleküle (1918, 64p.).
W. PAULI Jr., Theoretische Bemerkungen über den Diamagnetismus einatomiger Gase (1920, 201-205p.).
Complete list of titles available on request. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Lacks title-p.; contents loose. Covers loose/ sl. frayed/ chipped.
= Early reprint edition of the first separate edition, published before in Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, vol. 49, p.769-822. Imprint on backwrapper is "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig. 285" and some of the books advertised on backwrapper have the date "1919". Boni 78.1; Weil 80a; PMM 408; Norman Library 696 and cf. 695: "The theory's impact upon twentieth-century science and thought can hardly be overstated."
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Dustwr. occas. chipped and w. marginal tears.
= First edition of a collection of essays on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and economics.
- Owner's stamp and entry on title-p. Owner's stamp on frontcover; covers sl. browned and w. one sm. tear; backwr. reattached.
= First edition. Weil 124; Norman 697.
- Wrappers and first 2 lvs. detached. = Weil 124; Norman 697.
Idem. L'Éther et la théorie de la relativité. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1921, 1st French ed., 15,(1)p., orig. wr.
- Wrappers detached and dam.
- Occas. trifle foxed; errata leaf present in facsimile and loosely inserted. Frontcover and first 2 lvs. detached; covers soiled.
= Mottelay p.438; Bakken p. 292: "Reports the invention of the first electric telegraph as well as other electrical devices." Ronalds is not listed in the DSB. Rare.
- Partly (sl.) yellowed/ browned; all vols. w. old owner's entry ("Jean de Brignoli") on title-p. Bindings w. minor imperfections and sm. restored spots.
= Nissen, ZBI 3315; Hagen II, p.64; Horn/ Schenkling p.975. Main work by de Réaumur, depicting in great detail all kinds of insects. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.