SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Lots 61 - 119

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61 STOEFFLER, JOHANN Calendarium Romanum magnum. (Oppenheim: Jacobum Kobel, March 24, 1518).

138 leaves; *4, (2), A6, B8, C4, D6, E8, (18), 75 numbered on recto, *7. Folio, contemporary calf ruled in blind. First edition of Johann Stoeffler’s richly illustrated compendium of astronomical, cosmological, medical, and historical writings commissioned by the Lateran Council as a means of revising the Gregorian calendar.

The first section of the book is printed in red and black and consists of a gazetteer, giving correct geographical coordinates for 24 cities, each accompanied by a small woodcut view; a proposed calendar, with each month accompanied by corresponding Zodiacs and monthly labors; solar and lunar eclipse tables, accompanied by 63 diagrams of eclipses for the years 1518-1573; a table of moveable festivals, solar cycles, and lunar cycles, with small signs of the zodiac indicated, for the years 1518-1579; and illustrations of astronomical instruments. The tables and diagrams are followed by 41 propositions concerned with the astronomical basis of the ecclesiastical calendar. This is then followed by a section devoted to medical astrology, with a full-page venesection manikin engraving, within a woodcut border, showing when and where to let blood for certain diseases, accompanied by explanatory text and a table indicating the appropriate seasons and zodiac signs for phlebotomy.

Johann Stoeffler (1452-1531) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Tubingen, and strove in his Calendarium to bring the proposed Julien calendar in harmony with astronomical events. The work is also prized for its exquisite printing, accomplished by Oppenheim’s first printer, Jacob Kobel (1460-1533).

Binding carefully restored retaining large portion of the original binding; manuscript notations to verso of f.f.e.p.; repair to bottom of a few leaves; light toning to pages; brownspot to title page; some scattered fingerprints; chipping along fore edge of title page; some minor marginal holes; otherwise fine. Literature: Adams S1884 (without the 2 errata leaves); Fairfax Murray 403; Benzing, Koebel, 58; Houzeau and Lancaster I, 13730; Wellcome 6102; Zinner 1101; Stillwell 112. $10,000-15,000

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65 62 BAILLY, (JEAN SYLVAIN) Lettres sur l’origine des sciences, et sur celle des peuples de L’Asie. London: Chez Elmesly; Paris: Chez Debure, 1777.

8vo, bound in later 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers. First edition. Manuscript ex-libris to verso f.f.e.p.; inner hinges cracked; rubbing to boards; some browning to pages; otherwise fine. $200-400

63* BIOT, (JEAN BAPTISTE) Precis elementaire de physique experimentale. Paris: Chez Deterville, 1821.

2 vols. 8vo, full contemporary worn calf, red and black gilt-lettered leather spine labels, gilt tooling to spines, marbled endpapers, half-titles. Second edition. With 18 engraved plates, 11 of which are fold-out. Wear to boards with dark toning along top edges but no significant loss; intermittent foxing; occasional marginal dampstains; some light foxing to plates; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois $100-200

64* CHLADNI, (ERNST FLORENS FRIEDRICH) Entdeckungen uber dei theorie des klanges. Leipzig: ben Weidmann Erben & Reich, 1787.

Thin 8vo, marble paper covered boards. Ernst Chladni is credited as the founder of modern acoustic studies. This is first edition of Chladni’s first work, wherein he describes how to produce vibration patterns, called “Chladni Figures,” by spreading sand on plates made of metal and glass and recording the patterns produced in the sand. With 11 engraved fold-out plates by S. Capieux with 166 diagrams of Chaldni Figures.

Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; previous owner’s ex-libris stamp to f.f.e.p.; bottom half of f.f.e.p. partially detached; intermittent foxing and toning to text pages; some light foxing to plates; wear to boards with manuscript pastedown to spine; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois Literature: PMM 233 (a). Dibner 150. Sparrow 39. $2,000-4,000

65* GRAVESANDE, WILLEM JACOB Elemens de physique demontrez mathematiquement, et confirmez par des experiences; ou, introduction a la philosophie Newtonienne. Leiden: Chez Jean Arn. Langerak, Jean et Herman Verbeek, 1746.

2 vols. Folio, contemporary worn red cloth over marbled boards, manuscript title labels to spines, uncut. First French edition. With engraved title page vignettes and 127 folding plates illustrating many of the new instruments employed by Gravesande and invented by his contemporary, Jan van Musschenbroek. Wear to boards with some loss; spine labels chipped; bookplates and manuscript exlibris to front pastedowns; a manuscript marginalia; some light toning; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois Literature: Wallis 84. $1,500-2,500

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66* JALLABERT, JEAN Experiences sur l’electricite. Geneva: Chez Barrillot & Fils, 1748.

8vo, full contemporary calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins. First edition. With four fold-out plates. Library stamp to title page; some light brownspotting; a few pages with light creases to upper corners; rubbing to boards, with corners bumped; toning to plates; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois Literature: Garrison-Morton 1987.3. Gedeon, 110-11. Wheeler 349. Wellcome II, 342. $400-600

67* LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT Opuscules physiques et chymiques. Paris: Chez Durand, 1774.

2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo, contemporary paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine label. With engraved title page vignette, head-piece and three fold-out plates. Vol. 1, all published. First edition of Lavoisier’s first major work. The work is divided into two parts, the first being a historical survey of research on gases and the second being a discussion of Lavoisier’s own pneumatic experiments, with illustrations of instruments. Minor wear to board; library stamp to title page and verso of the final plate and evidence of call-number removal to spine; foxing to title page; some light brownspots; a few folds; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois $1,000-2,000 68* MUSSCHENBROEK, PETRUS VAN Essai de physique. Leiden: Chez Samuel Luchtmans, 1739.

2 vols. in 1. 4to, full contemporary tree calf, giltlettered red leather spine label, gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, two title pages printed in red and black. First French edition of Musschenbroek’s Beginsels der natuurkunde, published the same year, with 34 engraved plates (one map), including an eight-page priced catalogue of instruments made by Jan van Musschenbroek.

Lacking engraved portrait; manuscript ex-libris to title page; front inner hinge cracked; light intermittent foxing; some toning to fold-out plates; rubbing to boards with calf cracked slightly; light chipping to raised bands; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois Literature: Wellcome IV, 206. Blake 318. $1,000-2,000 69* MUSSCHENBROEK, PETRUS VAN Cours de physique experimentale, traduit par M. Sigaud de la Fond. Paris: Chez P. Fr. Didot, 1769.

3 vols. 4to, full contemporary tree calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels, gilt tooling to spine. With half-titles, 86 folding plates, of which six are laid into the rear of vol. 1. Wear to boards with some loss at scratched portions, corners and spine ends; library stamp to title pages on all vols.; edges curled on some plates; some scattered brownspots; light intermittent foxing; laid-in plates toned; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois $400-600

70* NOLLET, JEAN-ANTOINE Lecons de physique experimentale. Paris: Chez Les Freres Guerin, 1749.

Vols. 1-2 (of 6) only. 8vo, full calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels, gilt tooling to spines, marbled endpapers, page markers. Third edition, with halftitles, frontispiece to vol. 1, title page vignettes and 39 fold-out plates. Rubbing to boards; manuscript notation to half-title vol. 1; some light foxing; edges of some plates curled slightly; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois $100-200

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71 ZIEGLER, JAKOB Fermentatio generationis et corruptionis causa. Ein kurtzer bericht wie ein ding naturlich vergeben und ein anders daraus werden konne. Basel: Johan Jacob Genath, 1647.

(8), 64, (4). 8vo, rebound in later blind-stamped calf. Engraved title-page, head-pieces, initials, and 14 engraved plates, including two maps. Intermittent foxing; marginal dark stain to first few pages; renewed endpapers; some light scuffs to boards; otherwise fine. $1,500-2,500

71A* ADAMS, JOHN COUCH The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams. Edited by William Grylls Adams. Cambridge: The University Press, 1896.

2 vols. 4to, blue cloth-back boards, gilt-lettered spine, portrait frontispiece. First edition. Soiling to boards (mostly affecting vol. 1); intermittent foxing; browning to f.f.e.p. and bookplate tipped in front pastedown vol. 1; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400 72* AIRY, GEORGE On Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations with the Mathematical Elements of Music. London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1868.

Small 8vo, original green cloth-backed boards, giltlettered spine. With two fold-out plates. Rubbing and fading to boards; spine ends frayed; pages uncut; hinges starting; darkening to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

73* ARAGO, FRANCOIS Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857.

8vo, blue-green blind-stamped cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, advertisement endpapers, 12 pp. advertisement tipped into rear. Spine faded and ends bumped; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $300-500 74* (BRAHE, TYCHO) DREYER, J. L. E. Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1890.

8vo, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, portrait frontispiece, half-title, advertisement leaf at end. Illustrated. Minor edgewear; hinges starting but attached; 2-inch tear to inner-corner of f.f.e.p; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

75* BROWN, ERNEST W. AND HENRY HENDRICK Tables of the Motion of the Moon. Sections I and II (with III). New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1919.

2 vols. Folio, sewn in paper wraps and housed in custom cloth-backed clamshell case with pastedown spine label. Press edition. Ex-library copy with stickers to upper-corner of front wraps and bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; small marginal tears; section I-II lacking rear wrapper; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $400-600

76* BROWN, ERNEST An Introductoy Treatise on the Lunar Theory. By Ernest W. Brown. Cambridge: The University Press, 1896.

8vo, blue gilt-decorated cloth boards. Rubbing to boards with fraying to corners; some browning and intermittent foxing to interior; previous owner’s name penned to half-title; otherwise fine.

Together with 20 others including James Ferguson, In a Brief Autobiographical Account. By E. Henderson. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1867. 8vo, green cloth, giltlettered spine, frontispiece. With 115 in-text woodcut illustrations. Ex-library copy with stamp to rear of f.f.e.p.; offsetting from frontispiece not affecting title page; otherwise fine. (21) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

77* (CAVENDISH, HENRY) The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish. London: The Cavendish Society, 1851.

8vo, original green cloth blind-stamped gilt decorated boards. In-text illustrations. Minor rubbing to boards; ownership inscription to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. Together with A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1910. London: Longmans, Green, 1910. 8vo, grey cloth boards, title blind-stamped to spine, photographic frontispiece. Numerous in-text photographs. Some fading to boards; light edgewear; darkening to f.f.e.p. and endpapers; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400 78* (DALTON, JOHN) ROSCOE, HENRY E. A New View of the Origin of Dalton’s Atomic Theory. London: Macmillan, 1896. Together with John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry. By Sir Henry E. Roscoe. London: Cassell, 1901. Memoirs of the Life and Scientific Researches of John Dalton. By William Charles Henry. London: Printed for the Cavendish Society, 1854. English Men of Science: John Dalton. By J. P. Millington. London: J. M. Dent, 1906.

With four other books, comprising: The Life of Sir William Crookes. By E. E. Fournier D’Albe. London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1923). Fourcroy: Chemist and Revolutionary, 1755-1809. By W. A. Smeaton. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, (1962). Atomicity and Quanta. By J. H. Jeans. Cambridge: The University Press, 1926. The Life of Pasteur. By Rene ValleryRadot. London: Constable, 1919. (8) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

79* DIRCKS, HENRY The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester. London: Bernard Quartich, 1865.

8vo, purple cloth gilt-decorated boards. First edition. Numerous in-text illustrations. Soling and rubbing to boards; fading to spine; hinges starting; 2-inch dampstain to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200 80* EDDINGTON, ARTHUR S. Space Time and Gravitation. An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. Cambridge: The University Press, 1920. First edition. Together with nine other works by Eddington.

Comprising: Science and the Unseen World. New York: Macmillan, 1929. Science and the Unseen World. London: George Allen, (1929). Fundamental Theory. Cambridge: The University Press, 1946. The Nature of the Physical World. London: J. M. Dent, n.d. (c. 1947). Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons. New York: Macmillan, 1936. The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge: The University Press, 1957. New Pathways in Science. Cambridge: The University Press, 1935. Stars and Atoms. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927. The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge: The University Press, 1928. (10) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

81* ELSTER, PROF. DR. ERNST Heinrich Heines Samtliche Werke. Leipzig and Wien: Bibliographisches Institut, n.d.

5 vols. Vols. 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 only. 8vo, 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards, t.e.g., green endpapers, gilt-decorated spines. Wear to boards; spine ends chipped; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

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82* FARADAY, MICHAEL The Life and Letters of Faraday. By Dr. Bence Jones. London: Longmans, Green, 1870. 2 vols. 8vo, original purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, frontispieces. Rubbing and light soiling to boards; chipping to spine ends; hinges starting; minor intermittent foxing; otherwise fine.

Together with another copy of the same and 10 vols. pertaining to Faraday, his life and works, comprising: Michael Faraday: His Life and Work. By Silvanus P. Thompson. London: Cassell, 1898. A Tribute to Michael Faraday. By Rollo Appleyard. London: Constable, 1931. The Journal of The Institution of Electrical Engineers. Vol. 69 No. 419, Nov. 1931. London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1931. Faraday as a Discoverer. By John Tyndall. London: Longmans, Green, 1868. Michael Faraday. By J. H. Gladstone. London: Macmillan, 1873. The Letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862. By Georg W. A. Kahlbaum. Bale: Benno Schwabe, 1899. Faraday’s Discovery of Electro-Magnetic Induction. By Thomas Martin. London: Edward Arnold, (1949). Michael Faraday. A List of His Lectures and Published Writings. By Alan E. Jeffreys. London: Chapman and Hall, (1960). Michael Faraday, (1791-1867). By Wilfrid L. Randell. London: Leonard Parsons, (1924). The First Fifty Years, 19031953. London: The Faraday Society, 1855. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

83* HADFIELD, SIR ROBERT A. Faraday and His Metallurgical Researches. London: Chapman & Hall, 1931.

8vo, blue blind-stamped cloth boards, tile in gilt to spine, photographic frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous plates. Light soiling to boards; previous owner’s presentation inscription to f.f.e.p.; ex-libris sticker tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200 84* FERREL, WILLIAM Professional Papers of the Signal Service. No. XIII. Temperature of the Atmosphere and Earth’s Surface. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884.

Together with 11 others pertaining to meteorology, comprising: Hydrodynamique physique. Avec applications a la meteorologie dynamique. By V. Bjerknes. Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1934. 3 vols. The Mechanics of the Earth’s Atmosphere. A Collection of Translations. By Cleveland Abbe. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1910. The Record of an Aeronaut. Being the Life of John M. Bacon. By Gertrude Bacon. London: John Long, 1907. Collected Scientific Papers of William Henry Dines. South Kensington: The Royal Meteorological Society, 1931. Admiralty Manual of Tides. By A. T. Dodson. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1941. Collected Scientific Papers of John Aitken. By Cargill G. Knott. Cambridge: University Press, 1923. Festskrift Tillagnad Vilhelm Bjerknes den 14 Mars 1942. By Vilhelm Bjerknes. Stockholm, 1942. In Memory of Vilhelm Bjerknes on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth. Oslo: Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, n.d. Transactions of the Meteorological Society. London: Smith, Elder, 1839. Vol. 1. (12) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

85* HEAP, MAJOR D. P. Ancient and Modern Light-Houses. Boston: Ticknor, 1889. 8vo, red cloth, title in gilt to spine, frontispiece. First edition with 21 plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Wear to boards; spine ends frayed; presentation inscription to f.f.e.p.; some foxing to endpapers; hinges starting; otherwise fine.

Together with Lightships and Lighthouses. By Frederick A. Talbot. London: William Heinemann, 1913. 8vo, red blind-stamped cloth boards, giltlettered spine, photographic frontispiece. Light edgewear; foxing to edges of leaves; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200 86* HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. London: Longmans, Green, 1895. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, numerous in-text tables and illustrations. Minor edgewear and soiling to boards; light intermittent foxing; otherwise fine.

Together Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects. London: Longmans, Green, 1896. 2 vols. 8vo, purple cloth gilt-decorated boards, decorative endpapers, in-text illustrations. Fading to spines; bookplate tipped in front pastedown, vol. 1; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

87* HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850-1859.

6 vols. 8vo, original red cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt and blind, advertisement endpapers, frontispiece portrait. Wear to boards; minor intermittent foxing; bookplate tipped in front pastedowns; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

88* JOULE, JAMES PRESCOTT The Scientific Papers. London: The Physical Society of London, 1884.

2 vols. 8vo, green cloth-backed boards. First edition. Inscribed by Joule and dated December 15, 1896. Together with a second copy of vol. 1. Light wear to cloth with spine ends bumped and hinges starting; some light offsetting from plates; a few repaired tears; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $1,000-2,000

89* KELVIN, LORD (WILLIAM THOMSON) Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism. London: Macmillan, 1884.

8vo, green cloth-backed boards, title in gilt to spine. Illustrated with two folding-plates and intext illustrations. Spine ends chipped; minor soiling to boards; intermittent foxing; hinges starting; otherwise fine. Together with 18 other books pertaining to the life and work of Kelvin. (19) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

90* LA PLACE, PIERRE SIMON Oeuvres completes de La Place. Paris: GauthierVillars, 1878.

4 (of 14) vols. only. 4to, blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Minor soiling to boards; light offsetting from frontispiece; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

91* LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT Professional Papers of the Signal Service, No. XV. Researches on Solar Heat and Its Absorption by the Earth’s Atmosphere. A Report of the Mount Whitney Expedition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884.

4to, brown cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards, frontispiece. Numerous tables and graphs, some fold-out. Minor rubbing to boards; light scratch marks to front board; offsetting from frontispiece; otherwise fine. Together with two other works by Langley, comprising: The Internal Work of the Wind. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1893. 4to, green cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards. Rubbing to boards; minor foxing to endpapers; otherwise fine. Experiments with the Langley Aerodrome. s.p.: s.l., 1904. In archival folder. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400 92* (MANN, ROBERT JAMES) The Atlantic Telegraph. A History of Preliminary Experimental Proceedings, and a Descriptive Account of the Present State & Prospects of the Undertaking. Published by Order of the Directors of the Company. London: Jarrold and Sons, July, 1857.

Thin 8vo, gilt-stamped cloth rebacked. Folding color chart detached with some tears at the folds; exlibrary copy; wear to edges of pages; backstrip and upper board detached; rebacked; otherwise sound. Property from the University of Chicago Literature: Sterling and Shiers 6-171. Wheeler Gift I-1396. $200-400

93* (MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK) Report of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Held at Cheltenham in August 1856. London: John Murray, 1857.

2 vols. 8vo, contemporary grey paper boards, spine label. With 33 plates, some fold-out. Minor soiling to interior; pages uncut; otherwise fine. Together with Report of the Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Held at Liverpool in September 1837. Vol. VI. London: John Murray, 1838. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With fold-out plates. Front board detached but present; wear to boards; light foxing throughout; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $400-600 94* (MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK) A group of five books pertaining to the life and work of James Clerk Maxwell.

The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. By Lewis Campbell and William Garnett. London: Macmillan, 1882. James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics. By R. T. Glazebrook. London: Cassell, 1901. James Clerk Maxwell. A Commemoration Volume, 1831-1931. By Sir J. J. Thompson. Cambridge: The University Press, 1931. Origins of Clerk Maxwell’s Electric Ideas, as Described in Familiar Letters to William Thomson. Edited by Sir Joseph Larmor. Cambridge: University Press, 1937. Maxwell’s Theory and Wireless Telegraphy. By H. Poincare and Frederick K. Vreeland. London: Archibald Constable, 1905. (5) Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

95* NERNST, WALTER S. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro’s Rule & Thermodynamics. London: Macmillan, 1895.

8vo, original green cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine. First edition in English, advertisement leaf at end. Light wear to boards; minor intermittent foxing; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

96* NEWTON, SIR ISAAC Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes including letters of other eminent men. London: John W. Parker, 1850.

8vo, original brown blind-stamped cloth. Ex-library copy, with call numbers to spine; spine and upper board detached from backstrip. Together with Atoms and Rays. By Sir Oliver Lodge. London: Ernest Benn, 1924. Meteorological Essays. By Francois Arago. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. First few pages detached. (3) Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

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97* (NEWTON, ISAAC) A group of 20 vols. pertaining to the works of Sir Isaac Newton, including Commentary on Newton’s Principia. With A Supplementary Volume. By J. M. F. Wright. London: Printed for T. T. & J. Griffin, 1833. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

98* RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM A group of four works written by or pertaining to Sir William Ramsay.

The Gases of The Atmosphere. The History of Their Discovery. London: Macmillan, 1915. 8vo, blue cloth. Fourth edition. Essays Biographical and Chemical. London: Archibald Constable, 1908. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt-lettered boards. Sir William Ramsay. Memorials of His Life and Work. By William A. Tilden. London: Macmillan, 1918. 8vo, red cloth. A Life of Sir William Ramsay. By Morris W. Travers. London: Edward Arnold, (1956). Large 8vo, pictorial paper wrappers over blue cloth boards. Property from the University of Chicago $50-100 99* RAYLEIGH, JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT The Theory of Sound. London: Macmillan, 1877-1878. 2 vols. 8vo, brown cloth-backed boards, title in gilt to spine, half-title. First edition. Wear to boards at edges; hinges starting; minor intermittent foxing; otherwise fine.

Together with another copy of the same, second edition. Also together with nine other vols. written by or pertaining to Raleigh, comprising: Lord Balfour in His Relation to Science. By Lord Rayleigh. Cambridge: The University Press, 1930. Scientific Papers. By John William Strutt. Cambridge: The University Press, 1899-1919. 6 vols. Life of John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh. By Robert John Strutt. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh. By Robert John Strutt. New York, 1924. (13) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

100* (REISS, PHILIPP) THOMPSON, SILVANUS Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone. A Biographical Sketch. London: E & F. N. Spon, 1883.

8vo, original green cloth gilt-lettered boards, frontispiece. First edition. Numerous in-text illustrations. Light soiling to boards; chipping to spine ends; f.f.e.p. detached but present; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200 101* ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Printed For William & Charles Tait and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1823. Vol. IX.

4to, 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards, title in gilt to black leather spine label, raised bands, illustrated with engraved plates including some fold-out and some color. Some scuffing to boards; offsetting from plates; foxing; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

102* (ROYAL SOCIETY) A group of 10 books pertaining to the history of the Royal Society.

The Record of the Royal Society of London. London: Oxford University Press, 1912. 3rd edition. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London: The Royal Society, 1955-1956. 2 vols. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, 1965. Volume II. London: The Royal Society, 1965. Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society, 1954. Volume 9. London: The Royal Society, 1954. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-1983. The First Two Hundred Years. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1983. A Brief History of The Royal Society. By E. N. Da C. Andrade. London: The Royal Society, 1960. The Royal Society - Its Origins and Founders. Edited by Sir Harold Hartley. London: The Royal Society, (1960). Signatures in the First JournalBook and the Charter-Book of the Royal Society. London: Oxford University Press, 1912. Signatures in the Charter-Book of the Royal Society of Fellows Admitted from 1936-1949. Second Supplementary Index. London: Oxford University Press, 1950. (10) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

103* RUTHERFORD, ERNEST LORD Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations. Cambridge: The University Press, 1913.

8vo, original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Numerous in-text illustrations. Light wear to boards at edges; chipping to spine ends; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. Together with three other works pertaining to the life of Lord Rutherford and radioactivity, comprising: Rutherford By Those Who Knew Him. Being the Collection of the First Five Rutherford Lectures of the Physical Society. s.l.: The Physical Society, 1954. Rutherford. Being the Life and Letters of the Rt Hon. Lord Rutherford, O. M. By A. S. Eve. Cambridge: The University Press, 1939. Madame Curie. A Biography. By Eve Curie. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. (4) Property from the University of Chicago $300-500 104* SHAW, W. N. AND LEMPFERT, R. G. K. The Life History of Surface Air Currents. A Study of The Surface Trajectories of Moving Air. London: Printed For His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1906.

4to, blue printed paper wraps, housed in archival folder. Numerous color and black and white plates, some fold-out. Soiling and chipping to edges of wraps and spine; soiling to endpapers and extremities of some leaves; otherwise fine.

Together with three others pertaining to meteorology, comprising: Selected Meteorological Papers of Sir Napier Shaw, F. R. S. London: MacDonald, (1955). Proceedings of the InterAmerican Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources. s.l.: The Department of State, n.d. Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. On the General Circulation of the Atmosphere in Middle and High Latitudes. By W. N. Shaw. Washington: Weather Bureau, 1904. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200 105* SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM Conferences Held in Connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 1876. Physics and Mechanics. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876.

8vo, original green cloth-backed decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine. Numerous in-text illustrations. James Clerk Maxwell copy, with his bookplate tipped in front pastedown, tipped to South Kensington Museum presentation copy. Rubbing to boards; spine ends bumped; ex-library copy with stamp to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago Provenance: James Clerk Maxwell, bookplate. $600-800

106* (STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS) STEVENSON, DAVID Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London and New York: E. and F.N. Spon, 1878.

4to, brown cloth-backed boards, title in gilt to spine, frontispiece. Illustrated with 12 plates. Rubbing to spine; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; hinges starting; minor offsetting from frontispiece; otherwise fine. Together with Records of a Family of Engineers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1912. Small 8vo, navy cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine. Wear to boards wth rubbing at edges; chipping to corners of some leaves; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

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107* THOMSON, J. J. A group of eight works written by or pertaining to J. J. Thomson.

Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Conduction of Electricity Through Gases. Cambridge: The University Press, 1906. The Electron in Chemistry, Being Five Lectures Delivered at The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute, 1923. The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson. Cambridge: The University Press, 1942. With another copy of the same, 1943. Collected Papers in Physics and Engineering. Cambridge: The University Press, 1912. Recollections and Reflections. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1936. And another copy of the same. (8) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

108* TYNDALL, JOHN Lessons in Electricity at the Royal Institution, 1875-6. New York: D. Appleton, 1882.

Together with Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. London: Longmans, Green, 1892. 2 vols. And nine other works pertaining to the physics and electricity, comprising: The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. By Sir James Jeans. Fifth edition. Cambridge: The University Press, n.d. A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies; With an Introduction to the Problem of Three Bodies. By E. T. Whittaker. Cambridge: The University Press, 1904. The Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Being Lectures on Mathematical Physics. By Arthur Gordon Webster. London: Macmillan, 1897. Electricity. By W. L. Bragg. New York: Macmillan, 1936. A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. By Sir Edmund Whittaker. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1951). 2 vols. Life and Work of John Tyndall. By A. S. Eve and C. H. Creasey. London: Macmillan, 1945. Oersted and the Discovery of Electromagnetism. By Bern Dibner. Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library,1961. A Record of the Scientific Work of John Tyndall. London: The Chiswick Press, 1935. (12) Property from the University of Chicago $300-500

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109* (WATT, JAMES) MUIRHEAD, JAMES PATRICK The Life of James Watt, with Selections from his Correspondence. London: John Murray, 1859.

Together with Lives of Boulton and Watt. By Samuel Smiles. London: John Murray, 1865. And 17 others pertaining to Watt and his contemporaries. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

110* WHEATSTONE, CHARLES The Scientific Papers. London: Taylor and Francis, 1879.

8vo, original green gilt-stamped cloth. First edition. With 21 lithographic plates, three of which are foldout. Minor wear to boards; offsetting from some plates; darkening to some leaves; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

111 (MEDICINE) COCCHI, ANTONIO, ed. Graecorum chirurgici libri sorani unus de fracturarum signis oribasii duo de fractis et de luxatis e collectione nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino ... Florence: Typographio Imperiali, 1754.

xix, 173. Folio, contemporary vellum, title printed in red and black, text in Greek and Latin, engraved initials and one plate of facsimile script. First edition. 2-inch split to top right upper board vellum; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; minor soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $500-700 112 (MEDICINE) HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science. With Other Addresses and Essays. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861.

2 vols. 8vo, original maroon cloth stamped. Fading to boards; otherwise fine. Together with Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 8vo, original maroon cloth stamped. Front inner hinge cracked; bookplate and bookseller’s sticker tipped in front pastedown; wear and fading to boards. $100-200

113* (MEDICINE) KETHAM, JOHANNES DE The Fasciculus Medicinae. Translated by Charles Singer. Milan: R. Lier, 1924.

Folio, 3/4 cloth over plain boards. Facsimile reprint of the first (Venetian) edition of 1491. Illustrated throughout with 13 tipped in plates of facsimile illustrations accompanied by tissue guards. Ex-library copy with stamps to title page and endpapers, bookplate tipped in front pastedown and call numbers to front board; some minor soiling to boards and leaves; wear to cloth-backed spine; reinforced hinges; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

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114* (MEDICINE) SHARPE, SAMUEL A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, with a Description and Representation of the Instruments Used in Performing them. London: Printed for Robinson and Roberts, 1769.

8vo, full calf. Front board detached. Together with The Diseases of Females: Including Those of Pregnancy and Childbed. By Fleetwood Churchill, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847. Fourth American edition, with illustrations. Wear to boards on both books; browning to pages with hinges starting; otherwise sound. Property from the Collection of Robert J. Jedlick, Darien, Illinois $100-200

115* (MEDICINE) SMITH, ROBERT Cours complet d’optique. Avignon, Paris: Chez La Veuve Girard & Francois Seguin and Charles Antoine Jombert, 1767.

2 vols. 8vo, contemporary paper-covered boards, pastedown spine labels with manuscript titles, pages uncut, half-titles. First edition in French. Complete with half-titles and 73 engraved folding plates. Some wear to boards and fading to spine; very light foxing, mainly concentrated to the last few pages; otherwise a very fine set. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum, Urbana, Illinois $400-600 116 (MATH) KEYNES, J. M. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. Together with A Treatise on Money. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1930 and 1936.

3 vols. 8vo, original navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First editions, first printings. Spines faded slightly with ends slightly bumped; otherwise a fine set. $800-1,200

117* (MATH) STOKES, GEORGE GABRIEL Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge: The University Press, 1880. 5 vols. Together with Nature Series. Burnett Lectures. On Light. In Three Courses. London: Macmillan, 1892. Memoirs Presented to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on the Occasion of the Jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Cambridge: The University Press, 1900. Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Selected by Joseph Larmor. Cambridge: The University Press, 1907. 2 vols.

Also together with three books written by and pertaining to William Herschel and James Gregory, comprising Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects. By Sir John F. W. Herschel. London: Alexander Strahan, 1868. Sir William Herschel. His Life and Works. By Edward S. Holden. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881. William Herschel. By Angus Armitage. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1962). James Gregory. Tercentenary Memorial Volume. Edited by Herbert Westren Turnbull. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1939. (13) Property from the University of Chicago $200-400 118* (MATH) HALL, W. W. ROUSE A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge. By W. W. Rouse Ball. Cambridge: The University Press, 1889.

Small 8vo, blue-green cloth gilt-decorated boards, green endpapers. Soiling and rubbing to boards (esp. at spine); presentation inscription to half-title; chipping to edges of some leaves; otherwise fine.

Together with four other vols. pertaining to or authored by significant Cambridge mathematicians: Mathematical Papers, Chiefly Connected with The q-Series in Elliptic Functions, 1883-1885. By J. W. L. Glaisher. Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe and Son, 1885. (scarce collective edition of 21 papers published between 1883-85). Methods of Mathematical Physics. By Sir Harold Jeffreys and Bertha Swirles. Cambridge: The University Press, 1956. Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford. Lectures and Essays. By the Late William Kingdon Clifford. London: Macmillan, 1901. Vol. 1 (of 2) only. The Evolution of Mathematical Physics. By Horace Lamb. Cambridge: The University Press, 1924. (5) Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

119* (MATH) LARMOR, JOSEPH Mathematical and Physical Papers. Cambridge: The University Press, 1929.

2 vols. 8vo, maroon cloth, spines gilt-lettered. Rubbing and some soiling to boards; spine ends slightly chipped; ex-library copy with sticker and bookplate to front board and front pastedown, vol. 2; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200