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Catalogue 03/14 - Physical Science 17th - 20th Centuries

Part 1 - More valuable items requiring an appointment to view if visiting Sedbergh

Babbage, Charles.The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment. Second Edition.London, Murray, 1838. pp. xix, 270, (4 adverts, works by the author). Inscribed "From the Author" on the title page. A light water stain to a few early pages, and some light spotting. Modern quarter leather. The second edition has considerable additions and is scarcer than the first edition of the previous year. £ 195 Book Ref. KS0001

Baker, Henry.The Microscope Made Easy; or, The Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of the Best Kinds of Microscopes Described, Calculated, and Explained; . . The Second Edition; With an additional plate of the Solar microscope, and some farther Accounts of the Polype. London, Dodsley, 1743. 8vo. (2), xvi, 311, (13 index)pp. 15 copper engraved plates, some folding. Folding table. Contemporary calf rebacked, corners worn. Internally very good and crisp. Bookplate of John Somers, Lord Somers. £ 285 Book Ref. KS0002

Brewster, Sir David.Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton.Edinburgh, Constable, 1855. Two volumes. xxii, 478; xi, 564pp., 2 frontispieces. First edition. Very good copies in full panelled calf by Alex. Banks Jnr. Brewster had published the first authoritative biography of Newton in 1831. After seeing the papers in the Portsmouth Collection he published these memoirs which contain a great amount of new material, much of it in the 46 appendices added to the book. For example the letters between Halley and Newton on the publication of the Principia are first published here. £ 345 Book Ref. KS0003

Brewster, Sir David.Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton.Second Edition. Edinburgh, Constable, 1860. Two volumes. xxiv, 430; xi, 434pp., Frontispieces and title pages foxed but otherwise very good copies in original cloth. Brewster had published the first authoritative biography of Newton in 1831. After seeing the papers in the Portsmouth Collection he published these memoirs which contain a great amount of new material, much of it in the 46 appendices added to the book. For example the letters between Halley and Newton on the publication of the Principia are first published here. £ 175 Book Ref. KS0004

Brown, Robert.A brief Account of Microscopical Observations . . . on the Particles contained in the Pollen of Plants; and on the general Existence of active Molecules in Organic and Inorganic Bodies.London, Richard Taylor, 1828. [IN]: Phil. Mag. Vol. IV (July-Dec 1828) pp 161-172. [with] Additional Remarks on Active Molecules. [IN] Phil. Mag. Vol. VI (July-Dec 1829) pp. 161-166. Two volumes, 8vo. 472; 472pp. Very good copies in contemporary half calf rebacked. First published edition, preceded only by the extremly rare privately-printed issue, Printing and the Mind of Man 290. Brown's description of the molecular phenomenon later became known as Brownian motion, and was in 1905 explained by Einstein in terms of the kinetic theory of heat. Einstein showed that the motion can be predicted directly from the kinetic model of thermal equilibrium. The importance of the theory lay in the fact that it confirmed the kinetic theory's account of the second law of thermodynamics as being an essentially statistical law. £ 2650 Book Ref. KS0005

Camus, M. deTraite Des Forces Mouvantes. Claude Jombert et Laurent Le Conte, Paris, 1722. 8vo. (16) , 535, (7)pp., 8 folding engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt. Some pages are slightly brown but a very good copy. First edition. Baillie: Clocks and watches, an historical bibliography 160. Camus (1699 - 1768) was the first mathematician to work the theory of gear teeth into a systematic and general theory of mechanism. Camus repeats much of La Hire's work, but adds many important elements of his own including detailed analysis of the teeth desirable for the combination of an spur and lantern gear. £ 645 Book Ref. KS0006

PRSENTATION COPY IN DUSTWRAPPERCudworth, William.Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp, the Yorkshire Mathematician and Astronomer, and Assistant of Flamsteed; with Memorials of his Family and associated families. London, Sampson Low, 1889. 4to. xvi, 342pp. Very good copy in original half-vellum over marbled boards. With dust wrapper, in remarkably good condition for its age. Presentation copy from the author inscribed "Mr. E.E. Gregory with the Author's Compliments June 1894". £ 165 Book Ref. KS0007

Curie, [Marie] Sklodowska.Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives. [3 papers in] Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Septieme Serie Tome XXX.Paris, Masson et Cie, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1903. Three papers pp. 99-144, 145-203, and 289-326 contained in the complete volume 576pp, bound in half-calf. Marie Curie's doctoral thesis giving a detailed critical presentation of her researches from 1897 to 1903, her most creative period, during which she had made the first measurement of radioactive radiation, demonstrated the radioactive properties of thorium, discovered polonium and radium, described the atomic nature of radioactivity,

prepared pure radium chloride, determined the atomic weight of radium, observed "induced radioactivity", characterized alpha-rays, demonstrated the negative charge of beta-rays, and developed the chemical aspects of radioactivity. The thesis includes a considerable amount of material published for the first time. The thesis had been published earlier that year in a very small edition. This journal edition is therefore the second edition which had been re-edited by Curie. Printing and the Mind of Man 394a; Horblit 19; Dibner 164; (all citing the very rare first edition). £ 785 Book Ref. KS0008

Davy, John.Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart.London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836. First Edition. Two volumes 8vo. xii, errata slip, 507; viii, 419, (1 errata)pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good set in handsome contemporary full calf, spines gilt, boards gold blocked. The corners are slightly knocked and the volume number labels are missing from the spine. First edition of the best early biography of Sir Humphry Davy, written by his brother John (1790- 1868), himself a chemist and physiologist £ 295 Book Ref. KS0009

GENERAL RELATIVITYEinstein, A.Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie.Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1916. 8vo 64pp. Original printed wrappers on rippled paper. First issue with printers mark ("Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig") on the verso of the title page, and rear wrapper listing seven items published by Barth and dated 1909 to 1916. Former owner's stamp on title page (Dr. med Otto Silberberg). Light waterstain on top and inner margins, not affecting text. First separate printing of the fundamental statement of the General theory of Relativity. Printing & the Mind of Man, 408; Weil, 80a. £ 2450 Book Ref. KS0010

Faraday, Michael & Thomas Martin [Editor].Faraday's Diary. Being the Various Philosophical Notes of Experimental Investigation made by Michael Faraday D.C.L., F.R.S. during the years 1820-1862 and bequeathed by him to the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Now, by order of the Managers, printed and published for the first time, under the editorial supervision of Thomas Martin, M.Sc. With a Foreword by Sir William H. Bragg.London, G. Bell, 1932-36. Large 8vo. 8 volumes including index volume. Good copies in original cloth spines slightly faded. £ 895 Book Ref. KS0011

Faraday, Michael.Experimental Researches in Electricity. Reprinted from the Phil. Trans. of 1831-1852. London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1849, 1844, 1855. 3 volumes 574pp. 8 plates; 302pp. 5

plates; 588pp. 4 plates. Volume I is second edition, and Volumes II & III are first editions. Original cloth, a little rubbed, spines faded, plates lightly foxed, but good clean copies. Printing and the Mind of Man 308. Sets are quite rare, particularly in original cloth. Quaritch did a facsimile reprint in 1878, but this set is original. Faraday's great work brought together the supposedly different types of electricity, described the principle of the dynamo, showed the effect of a magnetic field on polarized light, and provided the necessary basis for Maxwell's full electro-magnetic theory. £ 1250 Book Ref. KS0012

Faraday, Michael.Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics. reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1821- 1857; The Journal of the Royal Institution; The Philosophical Magazine, and other publications.London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1859. First edition. 8vo. viii, 496pp., 3 engraved plates. One section a little shaken, but otherwise a very good copy in original cloth. £ 585 Book Ref. KS0013

Ferguson, James.Lectures on select subjects, in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics and optics. With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of the new and full moons and eclipses. The fifth edition. London, Strahan & Rivington, 1776. 8vo. xii, (2 contents), 396, (6 index), 48pp. 23 folding copper engraving and a further 13 in the 48 page supplement. Some light foxing to some plates but a good copy in worn contemporary full calf, hinges cracked. Early bookplates of John Bell and Robt. Pick. £ 385 Book Ref. KS0014

Fourier, Joseph.The Analytical Theory of Heat. Translated, with Notes by Alexander Freeman.Cambridge University Press, 1878. First English edition. 466pp. Full calf prize binding with stain to top of spine. End papers, title page and a few other pages are foxed. Fourier's analysis provides the foundation for all problems in mathematical physics which are expressable as linear partial differential equations with fixed boundary conditions. £ 225 Book Ref. KS0015

Guillemin, Amedee & Glaisher, James.The World of Comets. Translated and edited by James Glaisher. Numerous woodcuts and chromolithographs.London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Large 8vo. xxxviii, 548pp. 10 plates. Many text illustrations. Good copy in original cloth, but spine is quite worn and darkened with ends slightly frayed. Inner front hinge just cracked. £ 285 Book Ref. KS0016

Kuhn, Thomas.The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.University of Chicago Press, 1962. Large 8vo. pp. xv, 172. Very good copy in original yellow paper wrappers. Title written in ink on spine. First edition, first printing of this seminal work. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, volume 2, number 2. £ 285 Book Ref. KS0017

Macquer, M.Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry. translated from the French. In Three Volumes. The Third Edition.Edinburgh, Alex. Donaldson, 1768. 3 volumes 12mo. xvi, 301, (2 advts); viii, 273; vi, 284pp. 6 copper engraved plates. £ 385 Book Ref. KS0018

PRECURSOR OF RELATIVITYMaxwell, J. Clerk.Matter and Motion. Manuals of Elementary Science. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1876. First edition. 16mo. 128, (4 adverts)pp. Original cloth, a little rubbed and bubbled in places. Scarce first edition of Maxwell's elementary textbook on dynamics. It has often been represented in the past as a largely non-mathematical summary of Newtonian dynamics but has increasingly been recognised as "a beautiful and elegant introduction to a new view of the physical world very different from Newton's" - Thomas K. Simpson, whose website thomasksimpson.com contains an excellent article on the significance and importance of this book. From the start Maxwell introduces two important themes, that of the wholeness of a system of bodies, the whole to be treated as an entity prior to the separate consideration of its parts; and that of the relativity of all of our accounts of physical systems. Article XVIII "Absolute Space" includes the statement "All our knowledge, both of time and place, is essentially relative." Later on Maxwell states that the discovery of an aether would not affect the laws of motion. The concepts of space and time are essentially relativistic. This "elementary" manual contains insights that are clear pre-cursors of twentieth century physics. £ 485 Book Ref. KS0019

Newton, Sir Isaac.The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. A New Edition to which is added a letter from the Right reverend Zachary Pearce . . . relating to the Publication of the Work in 1728. London, T. Cadell, 1770. 4to. xiv, (ii), 376, 14pp., 3 folding plates. Calf backed marbled boards. Library blind stamp on title page. The sheets of the first edition of 1728 were re-issued with a new title page and the added letter. This edition is scarcer than the first. This was Newton's last work, edited for publication by John Conduit shortly after Newton's death. Newton had worked on chronological problems for many years from 1680 at least. In 1725 a pirated edition of Short Chronicle was published in Paris, and this spurred the octogenarian Newton to prepare The Chronology for publication. Newton's purpose was 'to make Chronology suit with the course of Nature, with Astronomy, with Sacred History, with Herodotus . . . and with itself'. The six chapters are: Chronology of the Greeks; Of the Empire of Egypt; Of the Assyrian Empire; Of the two contemporary Empires of the Babylonians and the Medes; A description of the Temple of Solomon; Of the Empire of the Persians. £ 565 Book Ref. KS0020

Parkes, Samuel.Chemical Essays, principally relating to the Arts and Manufactures of the British Dominions. The Second Edition, greatly enlarged. London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823. Two volumes, xxxv, 648; xiv, 718pp. 24 copper engraved plates, some folding. Good crisp copies in contemporary full calf with new spine labels. Bookplates of Frederick Perkins. A few plates are a little foxed. Scarce. Not in Duveen which only has a one volume third edition of 1830. First published in 1815, this second edition is enlarged and contains much historical information. The plates show new manufacturing processes such as calico printing, cokemaking, sulphuric acid, citric acid, alkali furnace, bleaching, steel manufacture etc. £ 385 Book Ref. KS0021

Parnell, Edward Andrew.Applied Chemistry; in Manufactures, Arts, and Domestic Economy. [Volume I] Preliminary observations. Gas illumination. Preservation of wood. Dyeing and calico- printing. [Volume II] Manufacture of Glass. Starch. Tanning. Caoutchouc; its properties and applications. Borax and the boracic lagoons. Soap. Sulphur and sulphuric acid. Soda manufacture.London, Taylor and Walton, 1844. Two volumes 8vo. pp. xvi, 454; xi, 464. 23 mounted textile samples and text illustrations. Very good copies in contemporary full black morocco, panels glit, slightly rubbed. £ 285 Book Ref. KS0022

Pepper, Professor.Science Simplified. Light; Heat; Electricity; Magnetism; Pneumatics and Acoustics. London: Frederick Warne and Co., nd (ca 1870). Five separate books. Small 4to. pp. 126; 88; 146; 87. Very good copies in original cloth, corners slightly rubbed. Rare as separate books. These five works together with Chemistry form the 6 parts of Pepper's Cyclopaedic Science published as a single book in 1869. Of the six separate works the British Library only has Chemistry, and does not have any of these five works. John Henry Pepper was a celebrity populariser of Victorian science, whose Royal Polytechnic Institution lectures attracted large audiences to witness his amazing experimental demonstrations. He made the phaenomena of physics and chemistry visible and hence accessible, challenging the boundaries between laboratory science and theatrical spectacle. His most famous stage demonstration was "Pepper's Ghost" described in "Light", which made its debut at the Polytechnic in a Christmas performance of Charles Dickens's Haunted Man in 1862. £ 350 Book Ref. KS0023

Priestley, Joseph.A familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. The Third Edition.London, J. Johnson, 1777. 8vo. 85, (3 advts)pp. 5 folding copper plates. A very good uncut copy in original paper wrappers, rebacked. The 5 plates, which are correct and complete, are numbered II, III, VI, VII, VIII as they were taken from Priestley's larger History of Electricity. £ 245 Book Ref. KS0024

Sergeant, John.The Method to Science. By J.S.London: Printed by W. Redmayne for the Author, 1696. 8vo. [72], 173, 222-352, 351-429, [1] pp. (text continuous despite pagination). Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with new label. Lacks front endpaper. Marginal loss to A2 not affecting text, pages thumbed and some corners folded, but a good copy. Rare first edition of the first work by the Catholic philosopher and controversialist John Sergeant, (1623-1707). He criticises the new philosophy of Descartes, Bacon and Locke, and propounds his views based on Aristotelian logic. Three parts deal with notions, judgements, and discourse, as the three operations of the understanding, and of words, propositions, and syllogisms, as their respective logical equivalents. He opposes Descartes and Locke, "Ideists" whose distinction between ideas in the mind and external reality he rejects. He also rejects the experimental philosophers such as Bacon who proceed through induction. To Sergeant the superiority of his method lay in its being essentially mathematical in its basic procedures. £ 585 Book Ref. KS0025

Smith, Angus.Air and Rain: the Beginnings of a Chemical Climatology.London, Longmans Green, 1872. First edition. 8vo xiii, (2), 600pp. 8 plates and some text illustrations. Original cloth, spine repaired with original spine laid down, although this is faded. Ex-library with mark on spine and stamp on title page. Archibald Geikie's copy with his signature on the half-title. Scarce work by a pioneer environmentalist. Smith discovered acid rain and showed the relationship between it and atmospheric pollution. He was appointed the first Chief Inspector of the Alkali Inspectorate, a post he held until his death in 1884. He was thus the prototype of the scientific civil servant. £ 225 Book Ref. KS0026

Somerville, Mary.On Molecular and Microscopic Science. In Two Volumes - Vol. I [II].London, John Murray, 1869. First edition. Two volumes 8vo., viii, 320; xii, 432pp. 2 frontispieces and 7 other plates. Very good copies in original cloth, ends of spines slightly rubbed. Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. In 1831 her translation and expansion of Pierre Laplace's Celestial Mechanics won her acclaim and success. In 1833 Mary Somerville and Caroline Herschel were named honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society, the first time women had won that recognition. She wrote four major works, this being the last. £ 165 Book Ref. KS0027

Stewart, David & Minto, Walter.An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier of Merchiston. Perth: R. Morison, 1778. 4to. pp. vii, (1 blank), 3 (bibliography), (1 blank), 9-134. Portrait frontispiece and 5 copper engraved plates. Very good crisp copy bound in modern calf-backed marbled boards. Scarce first edition. A more common second edition was published in 1787. John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He was also the inventor of "Napier's bones". He also made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics.£ 435 Book Ref. KS0028

Tait, Peter Guthrie & William John Steele.A Treatise on the Dynamics of a Particle with Numerous Examples.Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1856. First edition. pp. (2), vi, (4), 304, (2 adverts), 16 (adverts dated October 1855). Original cloth, quite worn, recased and rebacked with original spine laid down. Very scarce. Tait's first book. Tait had been senior wrangler in 1852 while Steele the favourite came second. Tait commemorated Steele's early death by publishing under their joint names. £ 265 Book Ref. KS0029

Thomson, Sir. W., Joule, J.P., Maxwell, J. Clerk. & Jenkin, Fleming. Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards appointed by the British Association . . . with a Report to the Royal Society On Units of Electrical Resistance by Prof. F Jenkin and The Cantor Lectures delivered by Prof. Jenkin, Edited by Prof. Fleming Jenkin.London, Spon, 1873. 8vo. (4), 248pp. 2 folding tables, 7 plates, mainly folding. Good copy in original cloth, a little slightly rubbed, corners worn. £ 385 Book Ref. KS0030

Voelcker, Augustus.Contributions to Agricultural Chemistry.London, William Clowes, nd but ca 1870. Two volumes containing 68 separately paginated articles totally about 1250 pages. Very good copies in handsome half-calf, spines gilt. Very scarce, not in the British Library. World Cat lists only one copy in the UK, at Cambridge University. In 1849 Voelcker became the first professor of chemistry at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He studied many subjects including sewage, water and gas supply, river pollution, and agricultural economics and holdings. £ 185 Book Ref. KS0031

Whewell, William.The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences founded upon their History. a New Edition, with corrections . . . In Two Volumes.London, John W. Parker, 1847. xxxii, 708; xiv, 679pp. A handsome set in contemporary full calf, spines gilt. Bookplate of Gilbert Child. £ 385 Book Ref. KS0032

Wing, Vincent.Astronomia Instaurata: or, A new compendious Restauration of Astronomie. In four parts. Wherein is contained, 1. Logistica astronomica: ... 2. Doctrina sphaerica: ... 3. Doctrina theorica: ... 4. Tabulae astronomicae: ... Whereunto is added, a short catalogue of all the most accurate and remarkable coelestiall observations, that have been made by Tycho, Longomontanus, Gassendus, the landgrave of Hassia, and others. London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, 1656. Folio. pp. [20], 132, 104. Text illustrations, charts. Contemporary full calf, rebacked. Corners worn. A well-used but complete copy with early marginal annotations. Notes and a photograph inserted in the 1880's by a descendant of Wing. Very rare, the scarcest of Wing's three major astronomical books. Wing worked variously as a surveyor, astrologer, compiler of almanacs, and the author of popular textbooks of astronomy. He began as a traditional geocentrist but by 1651 he had been converted to the heliocentric views of Copernicus. £ 2750 Book Ref. KS0033

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Adams, John Couch.The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams. Edited by William Grylls Adams, with a memoir by J.W.L. Glaisher. Two volumes.Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1896/1900. First edition. Demy 8vo, liv, 502; xxxii, 646pp, 2 plates, 6 folding charts. Bookplate commemorating Adams on front endpaper. Some pages unopened. Some fading on sides. Adams lasting fame is as the co-discoverer of the planet Neptune which at the age of 24 he predicted from the perturbations of Uranus, having solved the difficult inverse perturbation problem. His papers cover astronomy, geo-magnetism and mathematics, the most interesting, apart from the Uranus papers, being his remarkable paper of 1853 on the secular attraction of the moon's mean motion. Adams' correction of Laplace's solution led to considerable controversy before Adams's result was shown to be correct. Adams had been senior wrangler at Cambridge and undertook the editing of Newton's mathematical papers from the Portsmouth collection. £ 165 Book Ref. SP0001

Airy, Sir George Biddell.Autobiography. Edited by Wilfrid Airy.Cambridge University Press, 1896. 8vo. xii, 414pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good in original cloth. £ 135 Book Ref. SP0002

Alexander, S.Space Time and Deity. The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow 1916-1918. In two volumes.London, Macmillan, 1927. Reprint. 347;437pp. VG hardbacks, slightly faded on spine. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0003

Allbutt, Thomas Clifford.Science and Medieval Thought. The Harvean Oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900.London, Clay, 1901. 116pp. Signed "With the author's best regards" on fly leaf. VG hardback. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0004

Arago, Francois.Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men. Translated by W. H. Smyth, Baden Powell and Robert Grant.London, Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857. 8vo. viii, 607pp. Very good copy in original cloth. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0005

Arrhenius, Svante.Worlds in the Making: The Evolution of the Universe.London & New York, Harper, 1908. 8vo. ix, 230. Original cloth, spine slightly rubbed and faded. Contains Arrhenius's panspermic theory of the origins of life on earth. £ 35 Book Ref. SP0006

Ball, Sir Robert Stawell.The Story of the Heavens.London: Cassell & Co., 1897. xix, 551. 16pp. adverts. Sixteen tissue-guarded coloured plates and text engravings. Presentation copy from Ball to Michael Tompkinson of Franche Hall. Presentation inscription by Ball on title page. Two letters from Ball to Tomkison are tipped in. Very good copy in original cloth. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0007

Barlow, William.New Theories of Matter and of Force.London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. First edition. 395pp. Very good, no jacket. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0008

Bergh, Augustus.An Essay on the Causes of Distant Alternate Periodic Inundations over the Low Lands of each Hemisphere, suggesting the means whereby the Earth's Surface is renovated and the continuous support of its Creatures provided for. To which is subjoined a table connecting the two sister sciences of astronomy and geology. With an appendix and notes, etc.London : James Ridgway, [1860]. 8vo. (4), vi, 46pp., 2 folding tables. A good copy in original cloth, spine faded and with small repair to bottom of spine. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0009

Bohr, Niels.Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature. I Four essays with an introductory survey. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1934. First edition. 119pp. Ownership inscriptions on endpapers. Some browning to paper. Near VG hardback, faded on spine. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0010

Bohr, Niels.The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution. Three Essays.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1922. 126pp. First English edition. Good ex-library, stamps on endpapers only. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0011

Boulting, William.Giordano Bruno. His life, thought and martyrdom.London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1914. First edition. 315pp. Ownership signature on endpaper. A very good copy in scarce dust wrapper which had been repaired but is largely intact with chips at foot of spine, and chips with small loss at head of spine. £ 60 Book Ref. SP0012

Brearley, H.Analytical Chemistry of Uranium.London, Longman, Green, 1903. 45, [40]pp. Printed card covers, spotted. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0013

Brewster, David.Optics. The Cabinet Cyclopaedia, conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner.London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1831. First edition. pp: x, 383pp. Additional engraved title "Treatise on Opitcs". Handsome copy in full calf, spine gilt. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0014

Brewster, David.The Life of Sir Isaac Newton.London; John Murray, 1831. Small 8vo. xv, 366pp. Handsome copy in contemporary half calf. The first authoritative biography of Newton. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0015

[Brougham, Henry]. [Hoppus, John]A Discourse of the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science.[by Brougham] [bound with] An account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon Scientiarum or, new method of studying the sciences. [by Hoppus].Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1827. Two works bound together in calf backed boards, spine damaged with piece lacking, hinges cracked. 48, 8(details of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge), 40 + 40pp. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0016

Brown, Basil.Astronomical Atlases, Maps & Charts. An Historical & General Guide.London, Search Publishing Company, 1932. 4to. 200 pp., plates. Very good copy in dust wrapper. £ 125 Book Ref. SP0017

Buchanan, J.Y.Accounts Rendered of Work Done and Things Seen.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1919. First edition. 435pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams and tables. University bookplate on pastedown, but no other ex library markings. VG hardback. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0018

Caro, E.Le Materialisme et La Science. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette, 1867. 290pp. Very good. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0019

Chadwick, J.Radioactivity and Radioactive Substances. An Introduction to the study of radioactive substances and their radiations. The nature of radioactivity and the bearing of radioactive transformations on the structure of the atom. With foreword by Sir Ernest Rutherford.London, Pitman, 1921. 16mo. xii, 111pp. Good copy in original cloth. Small ink stain on top edge and inscriptions on end papers. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0020

Clausius, R.The Mechanical Theory of Heat. Translated by Walter R. Browne.London: Macmillan, 1879. xvi, 376 pp. Very good copy in original cloth. Bookplate on front flyleaf. First English edition of "Die mechanische Warmetheorie" published the same year in German. As Clausis explains in his preface to the English edition a new edition was needed to bring together enlarge and revise his earlier work. This book became for many years the standard textbook on thermodynamics. £ 165 Book Ref. SP0021

Clerke, Agnes M.The System of the Stars. London, Longmans Green, 1890. First edition. 8vo. xx, 424pp. 6 plates including folding frontispiece. Inner hinges slightly cracked, but otherwise a very good copy in original cloth. Agnes Clerke (1842-1907) was born a generation too soon to have been eligible for the women's university colleges, and never worked in fundamental astronomical research in her own right, but by the time of her death she was one of the most respected interpreters of the new science of astrophysics. She showed how it had come into being and how the spectroscope had transformed cosmology almost beyond recognition between 1860 and 1880. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0022

Clifford, William Kingdom.The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences. With 100 figures.London, Kegan Paul, Trench, 1886. Second edition. xiii, 271, [44]pp. Decorative red cloth of the International Scientific Series, worn at ends of spine. Some foxing to text. 3 lines of ink underlining on final page. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0023

Compton, Arthur H.X-Rays and Electrons. An outline of recent X-ray theory.London, Macmillan, 1927. First British edition. 403pp. Cloth very slightly speckled otherwise very good, no dust wrapper. £ 45 Book Ref. SP0024

Croll, James.Stellar Evolution and its Relations to Geological Time.London: Edward Stanford, 1889. pp: xi, 118. Good copy in original cloth. Slight foxing on some pages, ownership inscription in margin of title page. £ 68 Book Ref. SP0025

Cunningham, E.Relativity and the Electron Theory. With diagrams.London, Longmans, Green, 1915. 96pp. Ownership inscription on fly. Covers rubbed and spine faded. £ 22 Book Ref. SP0026

Dircks, Henry.Inventors and Inventions, in Three Parts: I. The Philosophy of Invention. II. The Rights and Wrongs of Inventions. III. Early Inventors' Inventories of Secret Inventions. London, Spon, 1867. Engraved frontispiece. xii, 263, (16) (catalogue or works by the same author)pp. Good copy in original cloth of a scarce title. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0027

Dircks, Henry.The Life, Times and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester. To which is added, a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1662, with a commentary thereon. London, Quaritch, 1865. First edition. xxiv, 624pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding plan, plates. End pages foxed. Good copy in original red cloth with gilt emblem on front cover, outer edges of spine repaired at top. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0028

Eddington, A.S.The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Second Edition.Cambridge at the University Press, 1924. Large 8vo ix, 270pp. Very good copy in original cloth gilt stamped on spine and front cover with the coat of arms of Trinity College, Cambridge. Without dust wrapper. Einstein considered this book the finest presentation of the subject in any language. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0029

Eddington, Sir A.S.Fundamental Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1953. Reprint. 292pp. Some foxing to endpapers and last page of index, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper with a repaired tear. £ 35 Book Ref. SP0030

Eddington, Sir A.S.Fundamental Theory. Cambridge, Cambridge University press, 1946. 292pp. VG hardback in VG price clipped dust wrapper. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0031

Faraday, Michael.A Course Of Six Lectures On The Various Forces Of Matter And Their Relations To Each Other. Edited by William Crookes. With numerous illustrations. Second edition. London, Richard Griffin. 1860. vi, 179, (11)pp. Small 8vo. Ownership inscription on fly. Blind stamped cloth. No dustwrapper. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0032

Faraday, Michael.Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students of Chemistry on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration or Research, with Accuracy and Success. London: John Murray, 1842. pp: xiv, 664, 16 (adverts ). Third edition enlarged. Good clean copy rebound in modern half-calf. Bookplate of Willam B. Shaw. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0033

Ferguson, James & Brewster, David.Lectures on Select Subjectsin Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics,Geography, Astronomy, & Dialling. With notes, and an additional volume containing the most recent discoveries in the arts and sciences by David Brewster. Two volumes. With 27 plates. Stirling & Slade, and Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1823. Third edition. xxiv, 335; 400pp. Uncut in original paper boards, rebacked with new labels. Small stains to some blank fore edges in Volume I. In this edition Brewster extended the work substantially with technical additions to fill Volume II. £ 120 Book Ref. SP0034

Fleming, J. A.The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy.London: Longmans Green, 1906. First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, (i), 672. Plates. Very good copy in original cloth. £ 148 Book Ref. SP0035

Fournier D'Albe, E.E.Two New Worlds. I. The infra-world. II. The supra-world.London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1907. First edition. 157pp. Frontispiece. Maroon cloth, corners and ends of spine worn, no dust wrapper. Ownership inscription on fly. £ 45 Book Ref. SP0036

Gebler, Karl von.Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia. From authentic sources. Translated, with the sanction of the author, by Mrs George Sturge.London, Kegan Paul, 1879. First UK edition. xxxii,356,(32)pp. Ex library, usual markings, olive cloth bumped at ends of spine. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0037

Gibbs, J. Willard.Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics Developed With Special Reference to the Rational Foundation of Thermodynamics.Yale University Press, 1902 reprinted 1914. xviii, 207pp. Good copy in original cloth, ends of spine and corners slightly worn. Former owners inscription on end paper. 1914 reprint of the very scarce 1902 edition. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0038

Glazebrook, R.T.James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics.London, Cassell, 1896. First edition. 224pp. Bookplate on pastedown. Ex-library, paper label on spine but no internal stamps. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0039

Gore, G.Electro-Chemistry. Inorganic. Second edition.London, "The Electrician" Printing & Publishing Co.Ltd., 1888. Second edition. viii, 134, (15)pp. Original cloth, a little worn on sides of spine. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0040

Gore, G.The Art Of Scientific Discovery. Or the general conditions and methods of research in physics and chemistry. London, Longman, Green, 1878. First edition. 648pp. Bookplate on pastedown. Slight foxing to prelims, a little light underlining. Original cloth, rubbed. Gore was a chemist who discovered amorphous antimony and electrolytic sounds. He became head of the Institute of Scientific Research in Birmingham, and wrote this pioneering work on scientific method. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0041

Goudsmit, Samuel A.Alsos. The Failure in German Science.London, Sigma, 1947. First UK edition. 259pp. Very good, no dust wrapper. Godsmit was in charge of Project ALSOS to follow directly behind advancing Allied forces to uncover information on German scientific research, especially nuclear physics. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0042

Gunther, R.T.A History of the Daubeny Laboratory, Magdalen College Oxford. To which is appended a list of the Writings of Dr. Daubeny, and a register of the names of the persons who have attended the chemical lectures of Dr. Daubeny from 1822 to 1867 as well as those of who have received instructions in the laboratory up to the present time. With a preface by the President of Magdalen.London, Oxford University Press, 1904. First edition. 137pp. Portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Some pages un-opened. Very good hardback in chipped dust wrapper. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0043

Herschel, J.F.W.A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy. A New Edition. London:Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1835. pp: vii, 372. With engraved title dated 1830. Very good in original cloth, spine faded. The first work in English concerned with the philosophy of science written by an eminent scientist. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0044

Herschel, Mrs. John.Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel. With Portraits. Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1879. 8vo. xii, 355pp. 3 plates including portrait frontispiece. Good copy in original cloth, slightly rubbed. Corner cut from front free end paper. £ 75 Book Ref. SP0045

Hertz, Heinrich.Electric Waves. Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity through Space. Authorised English Translation by D. E. Jones. With a Preface by Lord Kelvin.London, Macmillan, 1900. Second edition. 8vo. xv, (3), 278pp. Recased in original cloth with new endpapers. £ 185 Book Ref. SP0046

Hess, Victor S,The Electrical Conductivity of the Atmosphere and its Causes. Translated from the German by L.W.Codd.London, Constable, 1928. First English edition. 204pp. A little foxing to prelims & edges otherwise a very good copy. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0047

Higgins, W. Mullinger.Alphabet of Electricity for the Use of Beginners.London: Orr and Smith, 1834. Small 8vo. pp viii, 116. Good copy in original cloth, spine worn, paper label on front cover. £ 26 Book Ref. SP0048

Hinton, C.H.Scientific Romances, First Series.London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1886. Small 8vo. 229pp. Original maroon cloth, front panel gold stamped. Spine a little faded and marked, but otherwise a very good copy. Pioneering science fiction by Charles Hinton, mathematician and bigamist. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0049

Hogg, Jabez.Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy: being a familiar and easy introduction to the study of the physical sciences; embracing animal mechanics, pneumatics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, acoustics, optics, caloric, electricity, voltaism, and magnetism. Illustrated with nearly four hundred woodcuts.London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861. First edition. xvi, 560pp. Ends of spine a little worn. Inner hinges cracked, and text browned. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0050

Hopkins, Thomas.On The Atmospheric Changes Which Produce The Rain And Wind, And The Fluctuations Of The Barometer. Second edition, with additional essays and diagrams.London, John Weale, 1854. viii, 400pp. Original blind stamped cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. New endpapers. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0051

Hopkinson, John.Original Papers by the Late John Hopkinson. Vol 1. Technical Papers with a memoir by B. Hopkinson. Vol II Scientific Papers.Cambridge University Press, 1901. lxvi,204; 393pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good hardbacks, no jackets. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0052

Institute of Physics and the Physical Society.Handbook of Scientific Instruments and Apparatus 1962. Published in connection with the 46th annual exhibition of the Institute of Physics and The Physical Society.London, The Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, 1962. 294, (79)pp. Illustrations. Original printed papers wrappers in VG condition. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0053

Jevons, W. Stanley.Studies in Deductive Logic. A Manual for Students.London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. First edition. xxviii, 304, 38pp (adverts dated Feb 1881). Very good copy in original cloth slightly rubbed. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0054

Jevons, W. Stanley. The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method. Sedond editioned, Revised. London, Macmillan, 1877. xliv, 786pp. Frontispiece. Inner hinges just cracked, but otherwise a very good copy in original cloth. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0055

Joyce, Rev J.Scientific Dialogues. Intended for the instruction and entertainment of young people: in which the first principles of natural and experimental philosophy are explained. New edition, complete in one volume, with 185 engravings on wood. London, Knight and Sons, 1852. 362pp. Original cloth, ends of spine frayed. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0056

Kekule, August & Liebig, Justus.Experimental Chemie.[Darmstadt : Ernst- Ludwig-Hochschulgesellschaft, 1927] Facsimile manuscript of the lecture notes taken by Kekule at Liebig's 1848 lectures at the University of Giessen, which possessed the world's first major school of chemistry. Very good copy in paper covered boards. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0057

Kelvin, Lord & Tait, Peter Guthrie.Treatise on Natural Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1912. Two volumes. xvii, 508; xxv, 527pp. Very good set in original cloth. £ 120 Book Ref. SP0058

King, Henry C.The History of the Telescope. With a foreword by Sir Harold Spencer Jones. London, Charles Griffin. 1955. First edition. 456pp. Figures. Original cloth, faded spine. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0059

Koenigsberger, Leo.Herman von Helmholtz. Translated by Frances A. Welby with a preface by Lord Kelvin. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906. First UK edition. 440pp. Portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Prelims foxed. Ends of spine a little worn, otherwise a good hardback. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0060

Lardner, Dionysius.The Museum of Science and Art.London, Walton & Maberly, 1859. Twelve volumes complete bound in four volumes. Approx 2500 pages and numerous woodcut illustrations. Very good copies in contemporary half-calf. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0061

Lewes, G.H.Science and Speculation. London, Watts, 1904. First edition. 64pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good in original cloth. £ 15 Book Ref. SP0062

Lindemann, F.A.The Physical Significance of the Quantum Theory.Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1932. First edition. 148pp. Very good, dust wrapper is edgeworn and darkened on spine. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0063

Liveing, G.D.Chemical Equilibrium the Result of the Dissipation of Energy.Deighton, Bell & Co.: Cambridge, 1885. Small 8vo. pp. viii, 97. Two plates, one double page lithographic plate, the other a mounted photograph of a spectrum. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0064

Lorentz, H.A.Lectures on Theoretical Physics. Authorised translation by L. Silberstein and A.P.H. Trivelli. Volume I: Aether Theories and Aether Models; Kinetical Problems. London, Macmillan, 1927. Volume I only, but complete in itself. ix, 195pp. Very good copy in original cloth with chipped dust wrapper. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0065

Lowe, W.R.Lectures On Popular And Scientific Subjects Delivered At Various Literary Institutions, and a few poetical remains by the late William Robinson Lowe of Wolverhampton. Edited by his sister. With a brief introductory memoir by the Rev. J.B. Owen. Wolverhampton, T.Simpson, 1857. iv, 437pp. Original blind stamped cloth. Some pages unopened. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0066

Lubbock, Constance A. [Editor].The Herschel Chronicle. The life-story of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel. Edited by his granddaughter.Cambridge University Press, 1933. First edition. 388pp. Portrait frontispiece, plates. Slightly soiled blue cloth, endpapers a little foxed otherwise a very good copy of a scarce book. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0067

Mach, Ernst.The Principles of Physical Optics. An Historical and Philosophical Treatment.London, Methuen, 1926. First English edition. 324pp. Very good copy. Dust wrapper is damaged with two small pieces missing at top edge. £ 75 Book Ref. SP0068

Makower W. & Geiger, H.Practical Measurements in Radio-Activity.London, Longmans, 1912. First edition. 151pp. Ownership inscription. Original cloth, ends of spine bumped. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0069

[Marcet, Jane]Conversations on Chemistry; in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments. Vol. I. On Simple Bodies. [Vol. II. On Compound Bodies]. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1828. Two volumes, eleventh edition. 12mo: xvi, 367; ix, 345. 12pp. catalogue at front of Volume I. 18 engraved plates. Very good copies uncut and partly unopened in original boards with slight wear to spines. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0070

Marcet, Mrs.Conversations for Children; On Land and Water. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Longman, Brown, Greene, and Longman, 1843. Small 8vo. pp. viii, 248. 32pp. catalogue. Folding hand-coloured frontispiece. Very good copy in original cloth. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0071

Martin, B.Philosophia Britannica: Or, A New and Comprehensive System of the Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy and Geography, in a Course of Twelve Lectures, With Notes; . . . The Third Edition. London, W. Strahan etc, 1771. Volume II only of 3 volumes. 8vo. xvi, 390, (2 advts)pp. 25 folding engraved copper plates numbered 18 to 42. Contemporary full calf, worn particularly on spine and hinges cracked though boards still attached. Internally a good copy. £ 125 Book Ref. SP0072

Martin, Benj.The Philosophical Grammar; being a view of the present state of Experimented Physiology, or, Natural Philosophy. In Four Parts. Part I: Somatology. Part II: Cosmology. Part III: Aerology. Part IV: Geology. The Eighteenth Edition. Rivington, London, 1778. (8), 362, (6)pp., 26 folding copper engraved plates, 2 tables. Good copy internally. Contemporary full calf quite rubbed on the spine, hinges cracked but boards secure. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0073

Maty, Paul Henry.A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, from the first to the end of the seventieth volume. London, Davis and Elmsly, 1787. 4to, 801 pp. First edition. Very good copy in contemporary half calf. Gives references to both the full Transactions and the Abridged editions. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0074

Maunder, E. Walter. [Editor].The Indian Eclipse 1898. Report of the expeditions organized by the British Astronomical Association to observe the total solar eclipse of 1898, January 22. London, Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1899. First edition. 172pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Original cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Very slight fading to edge of spine otherwise very good. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0075

Meyer, Dr Oskar Emil.The Kinetic Theory of Gases. Elementary treatise with mathematical appendices. Translated from the second revised edition by Robert E. Baynes.London, Longman, Green, 1899. First English edition. xvi,472,(32)pp. Ownership signature on half title. Original cloth with Cheltenham Training College emblem in gilt on front cover. Very good hardback. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0076

Mivart, St George.Nature and Thought. An introduction to a natural philosophy. Second edition.London, Burns and Oates. 1885. iv, 236pp. Small 8vo. Ex library, mark on spine. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0077

Newton, Isaac,Principia Mathematica: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. A Guide to the Principia Mathematica by I Bernard Cohen.The Folio Society, London, 2008. Two volumes in slipcase in like new condition. pp: 494, 385. £ 135 Book Ref. SP0078

Newton, Isaac. & [Evans, J.H. (editor)]The first three Sections of Newton's Principia. [second title] The ninth and eleventh Sections of Newton's Principia. Cambridge: T. Stevenson, 1834. 8vo. (4), 63, (3 blank), (2 second title dated 1835), 65-95pp. BVery good copy in contemporary cloth backed boards. First edition. Not in BL, their earliest edition being the 3rd edition of 1843. £ 135 Book Ref. SP0079

Newton, Isaac.Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosphy.Dawson, 1968. Two volumes cloth, no jackets, spines slightly rubbed. £ 78 Book Ref. SP0080

Odling, William.A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical Changes of Carbon.London, Longmans, Green, 1869. First edition. 162pp. Ex library copy bound in green library binding together with a 1938 work in French. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0081

Oliver, Charles P.Comets. London, Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1930. 246pp. Illustrations. Very good, no dust wrapper. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0082

Patent Office, Great Britain.Patents for Inventions. Abridgements of Specifications Relating to Electricity and Magnetism, their Generation and Applications. Printed by Order of the Commissioner of Patents. [Part I. 1766-1857]. Part II. 1858-1866.London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1859/1870. Two volumes small octavo, first editions. pp: xciii, [3], 769; xxiv, 863, [1 errata], [15 adverts]. Contemporary half calf, a little rubbed. £ 195 Book Ref. SP0083

Perrin, Jean.Atoms. Authorised translation by D.Ll. Hammick.London, Constable, 1916. First English translation. 211pp. 16 Figures. Vey good copy, but no dust wrapper. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0084

Perrin, Jean.Atoms. Authorised translation by D.Ll. Hammick. Second English edition revised. London, Constable, 1923. 231pp. Good copy in original cloth, ends of spine slightly worn. £ 20 Book Ref. SP0085

Perrin, Jean.Brownian Movement and Molecular Reality. Translated from the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 8me Series, September 1909, by F. Soddy.London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. 93pp., 2 photographic plates. Original cloth, very good internally, but covers a little marked. First edition in book form in any language. This famous paper combined Perrin's experimental results with the molecular kinetic theory. It provided an experimental proof of Einstein's theory and also contains a historical account of Brownian motion. Perrin received the 1926 Nobel Prize for Physics. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0086

Phillips, Montagu Lyon. Worlds beyond the Earth.London, Richard Bentley, 1855. Small 8vo, viii, 274pp. Frontispiece. Original cloth, worn, top of spine repaired, book block skewed. A scarce title. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0087

Planck, Max. The Philosophy of Physics. Translated by W.H. Johnstone.London, Allen & Unwin, 1936. First edition in slightly worn dustwrapper. Some light foxing. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0088

Powell, C.F. & Occhialini, G.Nuclear Physics in Photographs. Tracks of charged particles in photographic emulsions. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1947. First edition, xii, 124pp., figs., plates. No dust wrapper. Powell received the 1950 Nobel Prize for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes. Powell's 1947 discovery of the pi-meson by exposing plates at high altitude is described in this book.. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0089

Poynting, J.H.The Mean Density of the Earth. An Essay to which was judged the Adams Prize in 1893 in the University of Cambridge.London, Charles Griffin, 1894. pp. xix, 156, 68 (catalogue). 6 folding plates. Very good copy in original cloth. Describes Poynting's innovative method of measuring Newton's gravitational constant. Poynting is best known for Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow. £ 135 Book Ref. SP0090

Rankine, W.J. Macquorn.Miscellaneous Scientific Papers. From the transactions and proceedings of The Royal and Other Scientific Societies, and the Scientific Journals. With a memoir of the author by W.J. Tait. Edited by W.J. Millar. With portraits, plates, and diagrams. London, Charles Griffin, 1881. First edition. xxxvi, 567, (12)pp. Portrait frontispiece. VG original blind stamped pebbled cloth, small repair to top of spine. £ 150 Book Ref. SP0091

Reid, Lt. Col. William.The Progress of the Development of the Law of Storms and of the Variable Winds with the Practical Application of the Subject to Navigation.London, John Weale, 1849. Large 8vo. iv, (2), 424, (3), (295-315)pp. 6 plates, Very good copy in original blind-stamped cloth. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0092

Reynolds, Osborne.On an Inversion of Ideas as to the Structure of the Universe. (The Rede Lecture, June 10, 1902). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1902. 44pp. Very good hardback. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0093

Reynolds, Osborne.Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects: Volume III, The Sub-Mechanics of the Universe. Cambridge University Press, 1903. First Edition. 4to. pp: xvii, 254pp. Very good copy in original cloth. In 1868 Reynolds was appointed professor of engineering at Owens College in Manchester (now the University of Manchester), becoming in that year one of the first professors in UK university history to hold the title of "Professor of Engineering". He tried to generalise the mechanics of granular materials to be "capable of accounting for all the physical evidence, as we know it, in the Universe. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0094

Richardson, O.W.The Emmission of Electricity from Hot Bodies. With diagrams.London, Longmans, Green, 1916. 304pp. Very good in original cloth, no dust wrapper. Richardson's second book giving the results of his researches into thermionics. He was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize for his work on thermionic phenomena, and particularly for Richardson's law. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0095

Rosanoff, Martin Andre.The Collected Works of Martin Andre Rosanoff. With a foreword by Lillian Rosanoff Lieber. Long Island, Galois Institute Mathematics, nd. Small nick on outer front hinge otherwise a very good hardback. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0096

Russell, Bertrand.The ABC of Relativity. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925. First edition. Original cloth, faded and stained at bottom, no dust wrapper. Inscribed "Russell 1925". The copy of Bertand Russell's elder brother Frank, Earl Russell who died in 1931 when Bertand Russell succeeded to the title. £ 58 Book Ref. SP0097

Rutherford, E.Radio-Activity. Cambridge University Press, 1904. Good ex-library copy in original cloth. Spine slightly marked, library bookplate with withdrawn stamp, blind stamps in some margins. First edition of the first textbook on radioactivity, surveying contemporary knowledge of the entire field. Rutherford proposed his new theory of atomic disintegration. £ 165 Book Ref. SP0098

Rutherford, Lord.The Newer Alchemy. Based on the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture delivered at Newnham College Cambridge, November 1936.Cambridge, The University Press, 1937. 67pp., plates. Very good in good dust wrapper. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0099

[Sael & Co. - publisher]First Elements of Astronomy and of other branches of Natural Philosophy; wherein The Knowledge of those Sciences is rendered simple, and the Solar System is described in a familiar manner; Also the Powers of Electricity, Thunder, Lightening, Meteors, Winds, Heat, Cold, &c. with suitable Reflections on the Works of Providence. Fifth edition corrected; with considerable additions.London, S. Sael & Co, 1803. 12mo. xii, 156pp. Very good copy in contemporary calf backed boards, ends of spine a little worn. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0100

Scheerer, Dr.Theodore.An Introduction to the Use of the Blowpipe. For Chemists, Mineralogists, Metallurgists, and Workers in Metals. A revised reprint from the Annals of Pharmacy and Practical Chemistry.London, W. Freeman, 1853. 44pp. 9 woodcuts. Covers slightly marked and faded. Mark on title-page. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0101

Schmidt, Dr. Harry.Relativity and the Universe. A popular introduction into Einstein's theory of space and time. Authorised translation by Karl Wichmann. With five diagrams. London, Methuen, 1921. First English translation. xiii, 135pp. Slightly rubbed on spine, no jacket. With signature on half-title of A. Whitten-Brown, who with J. Alcock made the first Atlantic crossing by air in 1919. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0102

Schrodinger, E.Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics. Translated from the second German edition.London, Blackie & Son, 1929. Second impression. 146pp. Figures. Bumped at ends of spine. £ 45 Book Ref. SP0103

Schrodinger, Erwin. Space-time Structure. Cambridge University Press, 1950. First edition. 119pp. Spine a bit faded but otherwise a very good copy, but without dust wrapper. £ 28 Book Ref. SP0104

Schrodinger, Erwin.Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, March, 1928.London, Blackie & Son. 1928. 53pp. Slight bumping to corners and top/bottom edge of spine. Foxing to title page. Near very good hardback. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0105

Sharp, Evelyn.Hertha Ayrton 1854-1923. A Memoir.London, Edward Arnold, 1926. xvi, 304pp. 5 plates. Hertha Ayrton was the first woman elected to the Institute of Electrical Engineers and in 1906 was the first woman to be awarded a medal by the Royal Society when she received the Hughes Medal. Her scientific work included the electric arc lighting and the movement of waves and sand ripples. During WW1 she invented the Ayrton Fan for dispelling poisonous gas. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0106

Silberstein, L. Report on the Quantum Theory of Spectra.London, Adam Hilger, 1920. First edition. 42pp. Original cloth, rubbed, no dust wrapper. Ownership inscription. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0107

Slater, Noel B.The Development and Meaning of Eddington's 'Fundamental Theory'. Including a compilation from Edington's unpublished manuscripts. Cambridge University Press, 1957. First edition. 299pp. Very good but no dust wrapper. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0108 ISBN: 0521064864

Smith, Charlotte Fell. John Dee (1527- 1608).London: Constable, 1909. pp: xvi, 342. Plates. Very good in original cloth. Light foxing on title page from tissue guard as is usual with this book. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0109

Soddy, Frederick.Radio-Activity. An elementary treatise, from the standpoint of the disintegration theory. With Forty Illustrations.London, "The Electrician" Printing & Publishing, 1904. First edition. 214pp. (21) adverts. Original cloth, with cover bubbled in places. "Soddy developed with Lord Rutherford during 1901 - 03 the disintegration theory of radioactivity and confirmed with Sir William Ramsay in 1903 the production of helium from radium". - DSB. £ 95 Book Ref. SP0110

Sommerfeld, Arnold.Three Lectures on Atomic Physics. Translated by Dr. Henry L. Brose. With eight diagrams. London, Methuen, 1926. 70pp. Very good, but no jacket. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0111

Stallo, J.B.The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics. Second edition.London, Kegan Paul, 1885. International Scientific Series Very good in original cloth, ends of spine very slightly rubbed. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0112

Stokes, George Gabriel.Burnett Lectures. On Light - Third Course - On the Beneficial Effects of Light - Delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885.MacMillan, 1887. 100pp. Good ex- library copy in original cloth. £ 20 Book Ref. SP0113

Stokes, George Gabriel.Mathematical and Physical Papers. Reprinted from the Original Journals and Transactions with Additional Notes by the Author.Cambridge, University Press, 1880/83. Two volumes. x, 328; viii, 366. Handsome copies in contemporary full calf, spines gilt. Further volumes were published in later years. £ 145 Book Ref. SP0114

Strutt, R.J.The Becquerel Rays and the Properties of Radium.London, Edward Arnold, 1906. 210pp. Second edition. Original cloth, ends of spine & corners bumped. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0115

Thompson, G.P.The Wave Mechanics of Free Electrons. The George Fisher Baker non-resident lectureship in chemistry at Cornell University. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1930. First edition. 172pp. Portrait frontispiece. Ends of spine slightly rubbed. Thomson shared the 1937 Nobel Prize for the experimental discovery of interference phenomena in crystals irradiated by electrons. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0116

Thomson, J.J.Conduction of Electricity through Gases.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1903. First edition. 566pp. Figures. Ex-library, spine rubbed. Library stamp on title page and elsewhere. Printing and the Mind of Man 386d. Dibner Heralds of Science 165. Thomson, the discoverer of the electron, found that gases exposed to X-rays became conductors of electricity due to ionisation. Thomson and his students, including Rutherford and Townsend, carried out the coordinated research recorded in this book. £ 85 Book Ref. SP0117

Thomson, J.J.The Corpuscular Theory of Matter.London, Archibald Constable. 1907. Second impression. 172pp. Some foxing and ownership stamp on free endpaper, but otherwise a good copy in original cloth. £ 38 Book Ref. SP0118

Thomson, Sir W. & Tait, P.Elements of Natural Philosophy. Part I.Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1873. First edition. vi, (2), 279, 15(adverts)pp. Fair copy in original cloth, rebacked with some of the original faded spine laid down. £ 45 Book Ref. SP0119

Torpolaeus, Nathaniel.Diclides Coelometricae Seu Valuae Astronimcae Universales.Alburgh, Archival Facsimiles, 1987. 146; 111pp. Facsimile of 1602 edition, a copy owned by Henry Prince of Wales. Very good hardback, no dust wrapper. £ 24 Book Ref. SP0120

Townsend, John S.The Theory of Ionization of Gases by Collision.London, Constable, 1910. 88pp. Figures, tables. Original cloth, faded spine and some spotting. Ex library, remains of label and shelf mark on spine £ 24 Book Ref. SP0121

Travers, Morris W.The Experimental Study of Gases. An account of the experimental methods involved in the determination of the properties of gases, and of the more important researches connected with

the subject. With an introductory Preface by Professor William Ramsay. London, Macmillan, 1901. 323pp. Figures, folding chart. Inscribed and signed on the front end paper by Travers. ''Theories come and go, but the facts remain alive. This book was written with the object of assisting fellow chemists to ascertain facts in such a manner . . . ''. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0122

Whewell, William.History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. The Third Edition. In two Volumes.London, Parker, 1858. Two volumes. xvi, 386, (2 advt); xv, 324, 32pp. (adverts dated March 1866). Very good copies in original cloth. £ 65 Book Ref. SP0123

Whewell, William.The Mechanics of Engineering: Intended for Use in Universities and in Colleges of Engineers. Cambridge University Press, 1841. First edition. xii, 216pp. A goo copy in contemporary full calf, spine repaired, label missing. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0124

Whitehead, A.N.An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge.Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1919. First edition. 200pp. Ownership inscription on fly. Top of spine nicked, cloth just slightly rubbed, no dust wrapper. £ 48 Book Ref. SP0125

Whitehead, A.N.The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science.Cambridge University Press, 1922. First edition. xii, 190pp. Some pages spotted. Ends of spine slightly rubbed but otherwise a good copy in original cloth. £ 36 Book Ref. SP0126

Zeeman, P.Researches in Magneto-Optics. With special reference to the magnetic resolution in spectrum lines. London, Macmillan, 1913. First edition. 219pp. Ex library, usual markings, cloth rubbed, particularly on edges of spine. £ 18 Book Ref. SP0127