New York: William Sloane Associates, [1948]. First edition, first printing. 8vo. 127 pages. 2 leaves back-and-white photographs. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket designed by William Meek. Foreword by Albert Einstein.
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., [1960]. First edition. 8vo. Photographic illustrations, diagrams in text. Original black cloth; original printed dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Roy with best wishes from Louis Brinberg". Brinberg was a cardiologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in.....
Hartford: WM. JAS. Hamersley, 1851. 8vo. 168 pages. Original sheep, black morocco lettering-piece. Provenance: Richard Austin (inscription on front free endpaper, Peekskill Academy, Dec. 16th 1864). New Edition. Title continues to state: "Likewise, Rectangular Surveying; or, an Accurate Method of Calculating the Area of Any Field Arithmetically, Without the Necessity.....
London: John Murray, 1880. Second edition, inscribed by David Gill. 8vo. liv, 285 pp. with 32 pp. of ads dated September, 1888 bound in at rear. Frontispiece map and with tables and figures in the text.Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in black and in gilt. Inscribed by David Gill on half-title.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 1964. 8vo. 449 pages. Cloth; acetate; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies.
24 offprints authored or co-authored by Lederberg, co-winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can reproduce sexually and exchange genes. The collection includes a range of offprints from his career, from his first article in 1947 (culled from his dissertation) to the work.....
London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly for The Royal Society, 1787. First edition. Thick quarto. 801 pages. 20th-century black buckram, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION. Complete printed indexes of Volumes 1-70 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Each index arranged in two formats: alphabetically by subject.....
7 items, comprising: PERUTZ, M.F. "The Composition and Swelling Properties of Haemoglobin Crystals." Offprint from Transactions of the Faraday Society Vol XLIIB, 1946. 10 pp. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Ownership signature ("G. Wald?") to upper margin, hole punched at upper left. – PERUTZ. "An X-ray study of horse methaemoglobin. II." Offprint.....
Mexico City: Conaculta; Centro De La Imagen, 2008. 9 x 6.5 inches. 64 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [1902]. First edition. 8vo. 374pp. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Pemberton to Claude de la Roche Francis (the author of 'London: Historic and Social') in 1902.
Paris: The Author, 1588. Folio (375 x 252 mm). Text in French and Italian, in roman and italic types respectively. Engraved title within architectural frame, engraved portrait of the author on verso of title, title and portrait by Léonard Gaultier, 194 engravings, of which 174 full-page and 20 double-page [numbered.....
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. 139pp. Original green cloth. Cloth age-darkened. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of six papers by Schrödinger published in 1926, including the four papers (from the Annalen der Physik) with the general title 'Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem." The first contains "the first appearance in the literature.....
London: Nature, 1951. 8vo. 7pp. Original printed wrappers. Lightly age-darkened. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, SIGNED by Gosling on the front wrapper. This important paper is illustrated with electron microscope photographs of fibers of sodium thymonucleate (4 copies of two side-by-side prints). Wilkins' studies of sodium thymonucleate led him to Raymond.....
