82 2844 Ornithology Pratt A 
82 2844 Ornithology Pratt A 
82 2844 Ornithology Pratt A 
- With schoolprize on first blank; occas. sl. foxed. Upper joint starting. Good copy. = Nissen, IVB 742.
82 2845 Ornithology Robermont Jos Fraiture 20th cent 
= "Né en 1926. Offert à Mr Jn Joway par la Ste l'Union Coop: de St. Nicolas. 1er prix (...) St. Denis 1927 (...)."
82 2846 Ornithology Robert L P 
82 2846 Ornithology Robert L P 
82 2846 Ornithology Robert L P 
- Some plates w. sl. offsetting/ sm. dam. spot on opposite leaf; 6 plates w. sm. dam. spot in image. Upper joint starting; extremities sl. worn.
= Rare bird book w. beautiful plates. Nissen, IVB 785.
82 2847 Ornithology Schubert G H 
82 2847 Ornithology Schubert G H 
82 2847 Ornithology Schubert G H 
82 2847 Ornithology Schubert G H 
- Slightly warped and a trifle/ sl. rubbed along extremities but otherwise a fine copy.
= Naturgeschichte des Tier-, Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs I: Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs vol. II. Bilderwelt 1214,2. Nissen IVB, 836.
82 2848 Ornithology Smith F 
82 2848 Ornithology Smith F 
82 2848 Ornithology Smith F 
- Section of lower blank margin of title-p. and first textleaf cut off; h-title browned. Spine-ends rubbed. A good copy.
82 2849 Ornithology Temminck J C and Werner J C 
- Without the 2 plate vols. Sl. foxed/ yellowed. Extremities sl. worn; 1 vol. upper joint starting.
= Nissen, IVB 979; Zimmer p.629 (Temminck) and p.668 (Werner). Rare.
- Covers sl. worn along extremities.
= Nice album with beautiful illustrations of birds for schoolteachers to illustrate their lessons on natural history.
82 2851 Ornithology Thorburn A 
82 2851 Ornithology Thorburn A 
82 2851 Ornithology Thorburn A 
82 2851 Ornithology Thorburn A 
- Textlvs. often (sl.) foxed; plates fine. Spines faded; spine-ends sl. worn.
= Nissen, IVB 938; Anker 509; Zimmer p.634. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
82 2852 Ornithology Wright M W and F von 
82 2852 Ornithology Wright M W and F von 
82 2852 Ornithology Wright M W and F von 
- First vol. backstrip dam.; bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Nissen, IVB 1026; Bradley Martin 240; Anker 544: "(...) the work contains figures of the majority of the birds found in Sweden, such forms as rarely appear, or have only appeared a few times in that country, not being represented."
AND 1 other: L.A. JÄGERSKIÖLD and G. KOLTHOFF, Nordens Fäglar (ibid., 1926, 2nd ed., 2 vols., num. col. plates, contemp. gilt dec. cl., folio).
82 2853 Palaeontology Genoways H H and Dawson M R ed 
- Bindings sl. affected by silverfish.
= The Geological Society of America Memoir 37/ 57. Facs. reprint of the ed. Berkeley 1949/ 1953.
AND 4 others, i.a. R.L. CARROLL, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution (Cambridge, 1997, ills., orig. wr.) and K. CARPENTER, Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs. A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Bloomington, 1999, col. plates, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
82 2854 Pavlov I P 
82 2854 Pavlov I P 
= Rare ed. printed in the UK, publ. together with the ed. New York, 1928.
82 2855 Pharmacy Husemann A and T 
- Slightly foxed. Binding rubbed along extremities.
Pharmacopoea Batava. Ed. S.J. Brugmans, P. Driessen, G. Vrolik and J.R. Deiman. Amst., J. Allart, 1805, (22),21,(1),L,302,33,(12)p., engr. title-p., 2 fold. engr. tables, contemp. hcalf w. orange mor. letterpiece.
- Slightly waterst. in upper inner margin, not affecting text. Corners worn.
= Wittop Koning, Compendium p.228-229; BMN I, p.382; Stoeder p.332-336. First edition of the first official Dutch pharmacopoeia. Important pharmacopoeia, also because of the application of new chemical theories and nomenclature (i.a. Lavoisier's theories).
82 2856 Physics Bohr N 
- Owner's entry on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed. Spine sunned; top of spine sl. dam.
= First published in 1934, this collection contains four articles and an introductory survey. Originally written for various journals during the 1920s, the articles concern themselves with the epistemological significance of discoveries in quantum physics. Although aimed at physicists, they are generally non-technical, with only one using some elementary mathematics.
82 2857 Physics Curie M 
82 2857 Physics Curie M 
- Spines sl. worn; 2 vols. bookblock loose.
= Four articles publ. in Actualités scientifiques et industrielles. Ad 2: DSB VII, p.151-159: "The next year, in November 1935, Frédéric Joliot and Irène Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for "their synthesis of new radioactive elements.""
82 2858 Physics Eddington A 
- Owner's stamp on htitle. Upper outer corner sl. bumped.
= Rare copy of Eddington's fundamental work on theoretical astrophysics (1st ed. 1926). "[Eddington's] intuitive insight into the profound problems of nature, coupled with his mastery of the mathematical tools, led him to illuminating results in a wide range of problems: the motions and distribution of the stars, the internal constitution of the stars, the role of radiation pressure, the nature of white dwarfs, the dynamics of pulsating stars and of globular clusters, the sources of stellar energy, and the physical state of interstellar matter. In addition, he was the first interpreter of Einsteins relativity theory in English, and made his own contributions to its development; and he formulated relationships between all the principal constants of nature, attempting a vast synthesis in his provocative but uncompleted Fundamental Theory." (CDSB).
AND 3 other first editions written and publ. by the same: New Pathways in Science (1935), Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons (1936) and The Philosophy of Physical Science (1939).
82 2859 Physics Einstein A 
- From the library of chemistry professor H. Gerding (owner's entry on title-p.); unopened copy.
= Papers presented at Leiden University on 5 May 1920 and Berlin Academy of Sciences on 27 January 1921. Weil 111b and 115b.
AND 2 other French transl. of works by the same, i.a. La théorie de la relativité restreinte et généralisée (mise à la portée de tout le monde). Transl. J. Rouvière (ibid., 1921, orig. printed wr. Frontwr. loose).
82/2860 Physics Électrons et photons Rapports et discussions du cinquième Conseil de Physique tenu à Bruxelles du 24 au 29 octobre 1927 sous les auspices de l'Institut International de Physique So
82/2860 Physics Électrons et photons Rapports et discussions du cinquième Conseil de Physique tenu à Bruxelles du 24 au 29 octobre 1927 sous les auspices de l'Institut International de Physique So
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Good copy.
= Rare copy of the proceedings of the famous 5th international Solvay Conference on Physics in 1927, chaired by H.A. LORENTZ and attended by i.a. A. EINSTEIN, M. CURIE and M. PLANCK. Contains important contributions on quantum theory by W.L. BRAGG, A.H. COMPTON, L. DE BROGLIE, M. BORN, W. HEISENBERG, E. SCHRÖDINGER and N. BOHR.
82 2861 Physics Heisenberg W 
- Wrappers sl. sunned; frontwr. loosening and w. owner's entry.
= Rare offprint from: Mitteilungen des Universitätsbundes Göttingen, year 16, no. 1 (1934). Lecture on atomic theory by Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and a main scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons programme during WWII.
82 2862 Physics Lorentz H A 
- With owner's entry and 2 sm. annots. Spine-ends sl. rubbed. Good copy.
= Poggendorff V, p.763. DSB VIII, p.499: "The best introduction to Lorentz' electron theory in English is 'Theory of Electrons' (Leipzig, 1909), an expanded version of his 1906 Columbia University lectures".
AND 2 others, i.a. J.J. THOMSON, Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses (London etc., 1913, 1st ed., 5 plates, orig cl.).
82 2863 Physics Planck M 
- Wrappers sl. darkened at extremities; 1 sl. rubbed spot. Good copy.
= Very rare copy of the offprint from: K. SCHEEL (ed.), Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, year 8, no. 7. The first public defence of Einsteins theory of special relativity delivered by Max Planck on March 23, 1906.