Here are some New and Noteworthy Items from our Stock divided in two sections: maps and prints followed by books and pamphlets.

Maps and Prints

Great Map of the Early Frontier and Far West. 1837

(Mississippi River) Albert, J.J. / Washington Hood. 1837

Map Illustrating the plan of the defenses of the Western & North Western Frontier, as proposed by the Hon. J.R. Pointsett Sec. of War in his report of Dec. 30, 1837. Very good condition. $300.00

Mil. Aff. Vol. VII No.753-A. Bowen & Co. Lithographers. 15 1/4 x 21. Charts the region from the Mississippi River west to about 26 degrees latitude and south of about 46 degrees longitude to the Gulf of Mexico. This fine map notes the locations of forts and the various Indian tribes inhabiting the region, and was drawn to illustrate a bill to authorize the President to occupy the Oregon Territory

Elegant Chronological Ancient World History

From Adam to the Maccabees

Printed on 6 9x12” heavy sheets of paper by Wilkinson in London, 1808.

Very finely printed and very nicely colored by hand—both uncommonly so.

The sheets are entitled:

--Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the First Age of the World, or the Ante-Diluvian Patriarhs

--Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the Second Age of the World, or the Post-Diluvian Patriarches from the Deluge to the Call of Abraham, including the Foundation of Nations and the Origins of Languages

--Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the Third Age of the World from the Call of Abraham to the Exodus or the Israelites leaving Egypt.

--Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the Fourth Age of the World, from the Exodus from Egypt to the Dedicating the Temple by Solomon, including the Judges and High Priests

--Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the Fifth Age of the World…to the Babylonian Captivity, including the High Priests, with the Kings of Judah and Israel

--Chrono-Genealogical Chart of the Sixth Age of the World from the Babylonian Captivity to the Incarnation of the Messiah, including the Sovereigns of the Maccabees.

This is a beautiful chronology interspersed with both single-word and lengthy annotations of events, all elegantly displayed and presented. For example, the first entry: :”Cain, the First Man Born of Woman, he followed husbandry, he murdered his Brother, and went to live in the land of Nod, where he built the first city, and named it after his first son, Enoch: his posterity were called the Children of Man” (all this being printed in about 2-point in a 1.5” square).

Together these six engravings would make a spectacular impact.

6 engravings: $950

The Iconic American Log Cabin

“The American Log House”, being an engraving from the very rare atlas to accompany the Collot "Journey..." of 1826. Engraving. 14x9 inches Fine condition. $2500.

This is the first appearance in print of the iconic American log cabin.

Very rare print from: Georges Henri Victor Collot. A Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers; with Exact Observations on the Course and Soundings of These Rivers; and on the Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Farms of That Part of the New-World; Followed by Philosophical, Political, Military and Commercial Remarks and by a Projected Line of Frontiers and General Limits. Illustrated by 36 Maps, Plans, Views, and Divers Cuts.

Background: “In 1796 the French General George Henri Victor Collot undertook a secret reconnaissance of what was then the United States' frontier. This region, along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, had been claimed by France until it was ceded under the Treaty of Paris, 1763. The French government was anxious to know whether American frontier could be incited to rebel, and then rejoined to the French Empire. ”Collot traveled from Pittsburgh down the Ohio to the Mississippi, up the Mississippi to the Missouri and Illinois Rivers, and then back down the Mississippi to New Orleans. During his journey, he constructed a large number of exceptionally fine manuscript maps and views of the region that he traversed. Many of these were groundbreaking, containing never before recorded information about a wilderness that was just beginning to undergo settlement. ”Collot's maps were engraved in Paris in 1804, but publication was suppressed due to Napoleon's sale of Louisiana to the United States the previous year. The sale ended any possibility that these regions could be acquired by France. As a result the plates were not printed until 1826, when they were issued in a limited number as Voyage dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. Copies were published with both French and English text. "A nineteenth-century bookseller called this work 'one of the most famous, most important, and rarest of all books of Mid-Western Explorations.' Its rarity is due to the deliberate destruction of all but three hundred French and one hundred English copies by the publisher, who had purchased the edition from Collot's estate, hoping to increase its value" (Cohen.) SOURCES: Phillips, Maps of America, p. 327. See Phillips, Atlases, 1214 & 1215; Cohen, Mapping the West, pp. 68-70. And more: “Collot's work is one of the highpoints of post-Revolutionary War Americana. The maps, engraved by Tardieu, are among the earliest detailed depictions of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers along with large maps of the West Anticipating the reacquisition of Louisiana from Spain, France sent Collot to America in 1796 to gather intelligence about the western part of the continent. Because of the Louisiana Purchase, however, the work was printed … but not published at the time of Gen. Collot's death in 1805. More than 20 years afterwards, the whole impression came into the hands of M. Bertrand, … who reserved 100 copies of the English and 300 of the French edition, and made waste paper of the remainder. Siebert Sale 819. Collot’s survey was the most precise of the western interior performed up to that time. … The fine engraved plates included plans of Fort Erie, Fort Niagara, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Natchez, Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The Siebert of the atlas (36 maps and plans) and two volumes sold for $107,000.00 in 1999”

Crossing Virginia by Rail

Map of Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Rail Road. Virginia, 1872.

The Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad Company was incorporated under the provisions of an act of the general assembly of the state of Virginia, passed June 17, 1870, and entitled 'An act to authorize the formation of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. Very good. $350

Earlier History: The predecessor to Norfolk and Western Railway was created in 1838 by William Mahone. Called the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, it consisted of a single, 10-mile track connecting Petersburg and City Point, VA. After the Civil War, Mahone linked the N&P with two other railroads to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O).

The AM&O was renamed Norfolk & Western Railroad in 1881, when it was acquired by a Philadelphia banking firm. It subsequently merged with the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. In 1959, it acquired the Virginian Railway - the first in a rash of mergers throughout the industry. Five years later, in one of the most complicated acquisition deals of the era, N&W absorbed two more railways, giving the company a direct line between the Atlantic at one end and the Mississippi and Great Lakes Region on the other.

A Classic Account of the Headwaters of the Mississippi & an Inspiration for Lewis & Clark

A Plan of captain Carver’s Travels in the Interior Parts of North America in 1766 and 1767. Very good. $1250

From:: Carver, Jonathan: TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH-AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1766, 1767, AND 1768. London: Printed for the author, 1778. Carver went farther west than any British explorer before the Revolution. He was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but mainly explored tributaries of the Mississippi. His book, however, is often given credit for being a catalyst for further exploration, influencing Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark. "A Plan of Captain Carver's Travels in the Interior Parts of North America" shows the headwaters of the Mississippi, lakes Michigan and Superior, and the land as far west as the Dakotas. The text contains the first mention of the word, "Oregon." It also includes material relating to the languages of a number of Indian tribes.

A cornerstone early western travel narrative. HOWES C215. FIELD 251. STREETER SALE 1772. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 634. SABIN 11184. VAIL 670

Very Rare, Beautiful Color Military Lithographs

Views of the (Lower) Canada and the Papineau Rebellion of 1837

Title: 6 lithographic military views by Lord Beauclerk being the COMPLETE SET from his “Lithographic views of military operations in Canada under his excellency Sir John Colborne G.C.B. etc. during the late insurrection”.  Very good condition. $2,000.

These are the PLATES ONLY. Publishing data: London : M. Flint,; England; London. [6] leaves of plates. 1840.

Size: Each lithograph is 368x252 mm sheet with the image 275x178mm (plus caption/legend).

Rare—only 7 copies of the full, entire work are located in worldwide libraries according to WorldCat/OCLC/First Search.

Condition: All of the plates are printed on a somewhat heavy stock (say, the equivalent of 50- or 60-pound cover stock or so).

--The colors are vibrant and strong.

--There is some slight wear to the edges of all the prints; there are also two *very* short tears (about ¼ inch or so) in the right margins of four of the prints —mind you they are not by any means ragged.

--The images are also *virtually free* of foxing, though there is a very occasional spot here and there in the margins.

--There is some sort of old staining on the bottom right corner of the “Attack on St. Charles” print. This is an uneven, old stain which would fit inside a 5x2 inch triangle, and which may just very, very briefly touch the image (to the tune of a millimeter or so).

The suite of six lithographs, entitled as follows:

(1) “Attack on ST. Charles, 25^th Novr 1837”.

(2) “Back View of the Church of St. Eustache and Dispersion of the Insurgents, 14^th Decr 1837”.

(3) “A Fortified Pass. Colonell Wetherall Advancing to the Capture of St. Charles, 25^th Novr 1837”.

(4) “Passage of the Richlieu by Night, 22^nd Novr 1837”.

(5) “Front View of the Church of St. Eustache Occupied by the Insurgents. The artillery Forcing an Entrance, 14^th Decr 1837”.

(6) “Colonel Wetherall’s Bivouack at St. Hilaire de Rouville, 23^rd and 24^th Novr 1837”.

Additional Notes

The lithographs are drawn on stone by Nicolas Hartnell after the on-the-scene drawings by Beauclerk.

Beauclerk’s (1813-1861) eyewitness drawings of the events of the Papineau Rebellion are extraordinary, and according to Spendlove are “the most comprehensive sets of prints” on the Rebellion.

Comment on one of the Beauclerk views from Yale University “The Illustrating Traveler” online Exhibiton:

“ Beauclerk's view book is in the best tradition of British military plate books, combining a narrative of the expedition with plates that show both military operations and the locale. The series shows the British Army campaign to crush the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, while this plate shows the climactic encounter of the campaign”.

Yale University (http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/valor1.htm) “The Illustrating traveler online Exhibiton.

Bibliographic References: Gagnon II, 124; Lande 1559; Sabin 4164

One of the Great Images of Photo-Secession

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz. New York Central Yard.

Photogravure, ca. 1903.

Image size 12x9.5 cm.

Very good condition. A nice, smaller image of this famous photograph. $1000.

What is a photogravure?

A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph. In essence, the production of a photogravure consists of three steps: taking the picture; producing a printing plate of the image; and printing the image on paper.

The basic process, also called photogravure, was developed in the 1850s. After taking a picture, a glass transparency is made from the negative. Next, a copper engraving plate is dusted with grains of bitumen and heated so that the bitumen becomes attached to the plate. A carbon print which has been exposed beneath the transparency is then transferred to the plate. The plate is then bathed in warm water which causes the unexposed gelatin of the carbon print to be washed away, leaving the image in relief. Ferric chloride is then applied to the plate and eats into the copper in proportion to the highlights and shadows of the gelatin relief. The result is an etched copper plate of the original photographic image.

The final step, printing, involves spreading ink evenly across the plate and then pressing the plate onto the paper. The combination of the chemical and mechanical process produces an image both warm and precise. A photogravure looks like a photograph but is a series of connected lines, rather than unconnected dots as in a photograph.

Heaven Judges the Loyalty of the Confederate Soldier (?)

Judgment Day and a New Meaning to “Southern Claims”

This provocative image by the redoubtable Thomas Nast (Harper’s Weekly, 15 February 1879) shows St. Peter (with his keys to Heaven’s fortress gates dangling at his side) reading the Congressional Record’s report of Louisiana Congressman (Ezekiel John) Ellis. Ellis, a New Orleans native who served in the Confederate Army and was Congressman from 1875-1885, wrote that the Confederate soldier served in loyalty to his country and to his God. The Northern and German-born Nast seems to have taken exception to that, giving St. Peter the inclination to judge these soldiers once they actually tried to get into Heaven…

ELLIS, Ezekiel John, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, La., October 15, 1840; attended private schools in Covington and Clinton, La., and Centenary College, Jackson, La., 1855-1858; was graduated from the law department of the Louisiana State University at Pineville (now at Baton Rouge), La., in 1861; during the Civil War joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned a first lieutenant; was promoted to captain in the Sixteenth Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, and served two years, when he was captured and held as a prisoner of war on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie until the end of the war; was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1866 and commenced practice in Covington, La.; member of the State senate 1866-1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Mississippi Levees (Forty-fourth Congress); declined to be a candidate for re-nomination in 1884; resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., where he died April 25, 1889; interment in the Ellis family cemetery at “Ingleside,” near Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, La.

Fine & Unusual Child’s handicraft, ca. 1872-1880.

Unique paper construction, ca. 1880 (detail, below).

This is the work of what we assume to be a child and is one of a series of efforts illustrating different parts of a house. This segment features what may have been the library or parlor. The wall is decorated with an original mid-19^th century wallpaper fragment while the other objects in the room are paper cutouts—the chairs, window, bookcase and books, for example, have all been chosen and removed from another paper source. The books in the bookcase, we should point out, are all removable.

Overall, this is a rare and unusual item, and speaks volumes of a quiet effort by a young American 130 years ago. $500

Fine & Unusual Child’s handicraft, ca. 1872-1880.

Unique paper construction, ca. 1880 (detail, below)

This is the work of what we assume to be a child and is one of a series of efforts illustrating different parts of a house. This segment features what must have been the dining room. The wall is decorated with original mid-19^th century wallpaper fragments while the other objects in the room are paper cutouts—the table, window, aquarium, for example, have all been chosen and removed from another paper source. We should point out the fine little work done around the floral “painting” and the overhead light—the gold around these objects is a very thin, very fine fabric and were not simply painted on.

Overall, this is a rare and unusual item, and speaks volumes of a quiet effort by a young American 130 years ago. $450

Fine & Unusual Child’s handicraft, ca. 1872-1880.

Unique paper construction, ca. 1880.

This is the work of what we assume to be a child and is one of a series of efforts illustrating different parts of a house. This segment features what may have been either a formal garden for the house or a public park. There is just something here in the simplicity of the construction and the arrangements of its elements that seems sort of perfect in a naïve way. Fine children’s art from th e19th century is quite uncommon.

Overall, this is a rare and unusual item, and speaks volumes of a quiet effort by a young American 130 years ago. $450

Fine Hand Decorated Photographs, ca. 1870

14 x 14 inches. $250

(detail, left).

We have several images like the one presented here (the remainder will be offered in our regular on-line catalogue under “photography”). These silver gelatin images were produced ca. 1870 (rather ca. 1865-1875) and almost all are very finely decorated in pen and ink. The sample presented here is a very refined example, the seven photos being placed together on a hand drawn pond-side background. We have not encountered a collection of photos with this amount of hand detailing before.

Enormous, Wall-size 4-sheet Geologic Map United States, 1912

This is the monumental four sheet geological map of the US, Mexico and Canada made by Bailey Willis and George W. Stose. This map replaced the Hitchcock of 1884 and stood as the benchmark American geologic map until 1932. $400

“When McGee transferred to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1894, responsibility for national geologic maps devolved on Bailey Willis as Map Editor. In 1895 his staff was augmented by George W. Stose as geologist and Olof A. Ljungstedt as cartographer. Shortly afterwards, when Willis became Geological Assistant to Director C. D. Walcott, Stose became Map Editor; nevertheless, Willis and Stose continued their collaboration for many years. Willis was part of a Survey committee on a Geologic Map of the United States, and plans were formulated for a new map which was to be on a scale of 1:2,500,000. Stose assembled a manuscript copy of such a map which formed part of the Survey exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904, but attempts to put it into more permanent form were hindered because of lack of an adequate geographic base and the need for more large-scale geologic maps of the States to serve as source material.

Also, the impending Tenth International Geological Congress to be held in Mexico in 1906 indicated the need for a Geologic Map of North America, and Willis and his assistants quickly produced a preliminary version of this map on a scale of 1:5,000,000 with the cooperation of the Governments of Canada and Mexico, which was published by the Congress as "Carte Géologique de l'Amérique du Nord" (Willis, 1906). It then appeared more desirable to perfect this preliminary rendering of North American geology than to continue on the proposed Geologic Map of the United States. An improved version of the Geologic Map of North America was virtually completed by 1910 and published in 1911 under the authorship of Willis and Stose; it was also included as a companion to Willis' monumental "Index to the Stratigraphy of North America" in Professional Paper 71 (1912).

On the Geologic Map of North America of 1912 extensive areas north and south of the United States could not be adequately represented on account of lack of geological knowledge, and some areas in Alaska, northern Canada, and Central America were left uncolored. However, the geology of the United States and southern Canada were shown in much detail; the part in the United States no doubt included the data thus far assembled for the postponed Geologic Map of the United States. For the succeeding 20 years the North America map was the standard reference work for United States geology--including King's student days between 1920 and 1929.

Map of the Mountains!

Great, Unusual Map of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia & Alabama

This is triangulation map by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey used bases established at high altitudes—happily for us this is essentially becomes a map of high elevation points along the Appalachians.

The bases include the following mountains: 1882. 14x24 inches. $250

North Carolina (for example): Silver Creek Knob, Crowder’s Mtn, Pinnacle Mtn, Bright’s Yellow Mtn, Humpback Mtn, Mt. Mitchell, Mt. Hallbach, Grandmother Mtn, Grandfather Mtn, Triple Summit, Big Yellow, Roan Mtn, Little Pisgah, Pisgah, Bull Head, Saddle Mtn., Bear Wallow Mtn. and many others.

Triangulation defined: a technique used in surveying to determine distances, using the properties of the triangle. To begin, surveyors measure a certain length exactly to provide a base line. From each end of this line they then measure the angle to a distant point, using a theodolite. They now have a triangle in which they know the length of one side and the two adjacent angles. By simple trigonometry they can work out the lengths of the other two sides.

Britain’s First Military Air-Ship

Fine illustration of Britain’s first military airship as it appeared on the front page of the

Illustrated London News, 14 September 1907. $150

Military aviation began in the United Kingdom in 1878 when an observation balloon and the No.1 Balloon Company of the Royal Engineers was created. In 1904 the Royal Engineers and the American Wild West showman Samuel Franklin Cody carried out experiments with his man-lifting kites. He was appointed Chief Instructor in Kiting at the Balloon School in Aldershot. He formed two kite sections of the Royal Engineers which later became the basis of the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers and then Royal Flying Corps in 1912. In 1907, Cody and the British Army built Britain's first military airship, the "Nulli Secundus" and on the 16th October 1908 he became the first person to make a controlled powered flight in the U.K. using an aeroplane of his own design, the "British Army Aeroplane No 1".

Lovely American Locomotive Drawing, 1883

Excellent original drawing of an 1848 Baldwin Locomotive works locomotive for the Central Vermont Railroad. $650, framed.

Caption reads: “Built in 1848 by the Baldwin Works for the Central Vermont (drivers 6 ½ foot) Rail-Road. Drawn Feb 11, 1883. (Cylinders 17x23 inches) from Scientific American Supplement #371”.

Note on the Central Vermont Rail Road:

Construction of the Central Vermont Railway (then the Vermont Central) began near Windsor ,Vermont on December 15, 1845.  The first train in Vermont ran on June 26, 1848 between White River Junction and Bethel.  Construction continued with large groups of Irish workers, fleeing the potato famine , under the direct supervision of the roads' first president,  Charles Paine, ex-Governor of Vermont

A Map of Eden, 1836

According to the Biblical sources the location of Eden is put forward in the following way:: "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed" (Genesis 2:8). Then the majestic words become quite specific: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [Tigris]: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates" (Genesis 2:10-14).

But where now are the Pison and the Gihon? And where, if indeed it existed as a geographically specific place, was the Garden of Eden? Theologians, historians, ordinary inquisitive people and men of science have tried for centuries to figure it out. Eden has been "located" in as many diverse areas as has lost Atlantis. Some early Christian fathers and late classical authors suggested it could lie in Mongolia or India or Ethiopia. They based their theories quite sensibly on the known antiquity of those regions, and on the notion that the mysterious Pison and Gihon were to be associated with those other two great rivers of the ancient world, the Nile and the Ganges.

The present map (published in 1836) places Eden in old Armenia, between the Black and Caspian Seas, just south of the Euphrates and just north of Mount Taurus (“the source of the Tigris”), along the border of Turkey and Armenia. This location is a little different from where some of the classical work in biblical archaeology has placed it (further south at the confluence of the Tigris/Euphratres. This is also somewhat north of where modern interpretative biblical archaeological studies place it—at the covered floodplains of what is now the Persian gulf south of the classical locations and due west of the modern Straits of Hormuz.

Antique maps of the Garden of Eden are not common.

A Child’s Image of the 15^th President as General during the Seminole Wars, Florida

Graphite on paper, being a very naïve and lovely drawing of Zachary Taylor. 6x 8 inches. $250

Zachary Taylor was born at Montebello, Orange County, Va., on Nov. 24, 1784. Embarking on a military career in 1808, Taylor fought in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and the Seminole War, meanwhile holding garrison jobs on the frontier or desk jobs in Washington. A brigadier general as a result of his victory over the Seminoles at Lake Okeechobee (1837), Taylor held a succession of Southwestern commands and in 1846 established a base on the Rio Grande, where his forces engaged in hostilities that precipitated the war with Mexico. He captured Monterrey in Sept. 1846 and, disregarding Polk's orders to stay on the defensive, defeated Santa Anna at Buena Vista in Feb. 1847, ending the war in the northern provinces.

Though T aylor had never cast a vote for president, his party affiliations were Whiggish and his availability was increased by his difficulties with Polk. He was elected president over the Democrat Lewis Cass. During the revival of the slavery controversy, which was to result in the Compromise of 1850, Taylor began to take an increasingly firm stand against appeasing the South; but he died in Washington on July 9, 1850, during the fight over the Compromise. He married Margaret Mackall Smith in 1810. His bluff and simple soldierly qualities won him the name Old Rough and Ready.

A Glorious Map of a Section of Augustan Rome 1844

4 independent sections each 27x19 inches

4 joined sections (18x27 inches) forming a square 36x54 inches

Canina Map of the Roman Capitol. Naples, 1844.

This exquisite map of Rome is produced in 8 sections and could be presented in the following way: the large 2x2 section map (36x54”) is in the center and flanked by two of the independently framed 27x19” maps on each side.

Or so, where each box represents a 29x27 inch engraving.

The center part of the display is 4 engravings of 18x27 inches, which would be 4 times 24x33 inches matted or 4 times 30x39 inches in frames forming a cohesive unit 60x78 inches.

The suite of 8 matted maps: $1850.

The Entire History of the Civil War on One Sheet of Paper, 1865

42x32 inches

*[Matted image 48x36 inches, framed image roughly 50x38 inches]

H.H. Lloyd & Co. New Military Compen.(dium) New York, 1865. 42x32 inches.

This is a magnificent chart featuring all of the major battles of the war, plus all sorts of collections of interesting battle and army data such as average sickness rates, results of amputations, avergae death rates, and so on. The borders of the data are comprised of 35 insets depicting soldiers in various drill positions and definitions of insignia.

Quite rare.

Matted engraving, with original hand coloring: $1550

U.S. Western Botanical Profile of Forest Tress, 1854. 47x21 inches

U.S. Pacific Rail Road Explorations and Survey, War Department. Botanical Profile Representing the Forest Trees along the Route Explored by A.W. Whipple…From Fort Smith to San Pedro….

Published in Washington, D.C.: 1854. Prepared by J.M. Bigelow (botanist of the Expedition), and printed by Wagner and McGuigan by lithograph in Philadelphia. 47”x21”, printed in many colors.

This spectacular map presents the forest trees encountered by Whipple on his expedition for the USPRR from Fort Smith (Arkansas) to San Pedro ( actually Los Angeles, California). The profile shows the trees and their leaves at the elevations encountered—actually the trees are graphically represented by either their shape or their leaves, each of which stand no more than ¼ inch tall. There is a key explanation to the tree symbols at bottom left identifying 42 different trees—including the Cereus Giganteus, which first identified only a few years earlier. There are three levels of graphical representation depicting the route containing more than 250 small images of trees. This is a charming and informative graphical display of data, and is one of the first published efforts to share this information.

In good condition. $550

22-foot long Chart of History, 1895

Adams’ Synchronological Chart or Maps of History. New York, 1895. 264”x30”, printed in very striking colors on heavy paper and mounted on cloth, accordion folded.

This work consists of a long timeline under which appears illustrations, notes, sidetracks, bits of data and other historical brick-a-brac. Don’t be fooled—there’s a lot of data on this paper (covering about 55 square feet) that’s very interesting and a lot of data that is simply provocative and a product of times pedagogical times. For example, the whole chart begins at the year 4004 BC with the creation of all things, followed closely by the appearance of Adam (930 BC, “lived 530 years”) and other such info. The timeline is broken into several different chronologies, one of which is marked from the birth of Christ and another based on the “creation” of Adam. Overall this is a very neat object.

This is the original publication from which the popular and modern (and less colorful) reproductions have been made. The original is simply richer and more detailed, with more vibrant color and more depths to the blacks.

Very good condition, matted in 22 (twenty-two) 30x21” sections: $1850

The Progress of the Civil War, 1860-1865 printed 1892-1898

10 sheets, each 18x26 inches

*[Matted images are ten (10) times 24x32”]

The Progress of the War in Each of its Departments. Produced in color for the atlas to accompany the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, printed in Washington 1892-1898.

This series of maps follows the progression of the war in six-month intervals over a five-year period (1860-1865). Each map is the same base map—the United States—with changing overlays of different borders and troop movements for each six-month period.

Ten matted maps: $3000

A View of the City of New York, 1892

The New York Columbian Celebration—the Naval Review, drawn by Victor Perard.

Harper’s Weekly, special folding print, October 22, 1892. 16 x 38 inches.

Excellent bird’s-eye view of mid-town and lower Manhattan, showing excellent detail of building, rooftops, street action, skyline, and of course the vast activities in the Hudson River and the harbor (featuring over 100 ships). The whole scene is centered on the Statue of Liberty, which stands almost at the exact center of the print. Our best guess is that the view is made from about 100 feet in air, looking south towards Liberty with a 150-degree perspective.

Very good condition. $450

Chronological Tables of Ancient and Modern History, 1805

26 x 40 inches

Tableau General de l’Histoire Universelle Ancienne. Offered with: Tableau General de l’Histoire Universelle Moderne.

Printed in French in Florence by Molini and Landi, 1805. Finely printed on heavy paper in six colors, each sheet measuring 21x27 inches, thus making a vertically assembled image of about 26x40 inches.

Fine condition. The pair, $450

20 Foot Long Renaissance Processional, 148 years old

Part I

Procession of Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V being a display of Magistrates, Macers, Trumpeters, Nobles, Chamberlains, Princes, Consorts, Ambassadors, etc. etc. etc.

16^th century engraving reprinted in 1855.

Drawings by Nicolas Hogenberg and printed by Engelbert Bruning.

(Very great detail, left).

In 17 sections: each section image size is approximately 12.5x15” and printed on stock approximately 14x18”.

These images fit together beautifully and can form a huge mural, frameable in two- three-four- or five-sectioned frames. Each image can also be framed individually, of course, and then hung in together.

Very good condition. $1750

42-inch Long Renaissance Processional, 148 years old

Part II

As above, though this section consist of 3 sections, measuring 17x42 inches, and features a section of the processional including the Magistrates of Bologna, docotrs of canon law, and a display of the banners of the college of Bolonga.

Very good. $350

1900 Years of History, printed 1814 and 38 x 26 inches

Pantography of Modern History, or, a Description of the relative Situations of the States and Sovereigns of Europe… In two sheets; the first including events from the years 29-1000, and the second including the years 1001-1813.

Printed by J. Barfield, London, 1814. 38x26” (matted), being two 15x20” sheets matted together vertically. Finely printed (in 4 pt) and nicely hand colored in pink, yellow, hunter green, verdant green, and pale orange (and thus 6 colors, including black).

A beautiful chronology, with the years being listed vertically, with columnar highlights for those years for various countries. The countries listed in sheet one include Gaul, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and he Roman Empire. Those countries listed on the second sheet include Scotland, England, France, Savoy, German Empire, Venice, Portugal, Asturias and Leon, Saracenes, Navarre, Greek Empire, Denmark, Sweden and Russia. Very good condition. $600

Panorama of the British Navy at its Height 1909, 15 x 90 inches

The Illustrated London News Panorama of the Force We Must Maintain: a Navy Adequate in Strength to ensure our Shores from Invasion, our Empire from Hostile Attempts, and our Trade from Destruction in War.

Two long, folding sheets published as a special supplement in the “Illustrated London News”, March 27, 1909, after paintings by Norman Wilkinson. Each sheet 45 inches long and are intended to be joined, and so make a very impressive 15”x90” display.

The images of the ships are very detailed, and the key at the bottom identifies 183 warships (with notes on tonnage, armament, speed and age). The pair, $550

United States Northern Boundary 1874

Fourteen feet Long

The United States Northern Boundary Commission, reconnaissance Maps showing the general features of the topography adjacent to the 49^th Parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. Compiled by William J. Twining, James Gregory and Francis V. Greene.

Lovely and detailed six-section map, each section being 16x22”.

Six matted images: $1250

Great, Early Gold Mining Map for the Southern Appalachians

“Geological Map of the Mining Districts in the State of Georgia, Western parts of N. Carolina, and in East Tennessee. By Jacob Peck”. Engraved by J.W. Barber, 1832.

11.5 x 14.5 inches. This map was published in 1833 as an accompaniment to a similarly titled article which appeared in The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XXIII

This is a very attractive map, in very good condition, with a few spots of age toning. $750

This map—one of the earliest geological maps of this region—has a very concentrated interest in landforms, mineral and gem deposits, and rivers. There are few human locations shown on the map—these being not a primary consideration for the mapmaker.

The map centers at the Ga/NC line south of the Valley river, working its way south along the Chattahoochee R to Campbell county, then west to the Alabama line, and north to the Tennessee R as far as Kingston, and then east again to Washington County just north of the French Broad.

The main intent of the main is mineralogical, with gold being the primary concern. There is some geological data, with a primary interest for me here being the old Huttonian references to Primitive, Secondary and Transitional areas.

There are two interesting insets:

The first is a fine 2x5” “characteristic view of the mountains and the Tennessee River above Smoky Mountains, Macon County, North Carolina”. The second is a 1.5 x 8 inch cross section of the mountain ranges showing geo structure and elevation—this perhaps the first of these indicators?

Spectacular Engraving(s) of World Alphabets

Two engravings from G.A. Heck’s Iconographic Encyclopedia (1851, American edition) featuring 17 different alphabets )modern and ancient) from around the world. Each image is 10 x 12 inches and is in fine condition.

Heck’s effort is in itself iconographic—he was able, unlike most other encyclopedists, to artistically arrange huge amounts of data in each engraved sheet. The pair, $250.00

Lovely Mississippi River Map, 1811

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery. MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM ITS SOURCE TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSOURI: Laid Down From The Notes Of Lieut. Z.M. Pike, By Anthony Nau. Reduced And Corrected By The Astronomical Observations Of Mr. Thompson At Its Source; And Of Capt. M. Lewis, Where It Receives The Waters Of The Missouri. London, 1811. $2500

London edition following the American editions of 1807 and 1810.

This edition is considerably smaller than the American issues (this being about a third their size) and also lacks the bold eagle vignette that appeared above the word “map”. This being said this is still quite a lovely version of this important map.

Zebulon Pike, the son of an army officer, was born in Lamington, New Jersey, on 5th January, 1779. He joined the army and served under Anthony Wayne. On 9th August, 1805, Lieutenant Pike left St. Louis with a group of twenty men in order to discover the headwaters of the Mississippi. The following month he negotiated with the Sioux in order to gain permission to build a stockade near the mouth of the Swan River. Pike reached Cass Lake in February, 1806. Deciding it was the source of the Mississippi he returned home reaching St. Louis on 30th April, 1806. Later that year General James Wilkinson ordered Lieutenant Pike to determine the extent of the Louisiana Territory in the south west. He left St. Louis on 15th July, 1806. Traveling along the Arkansas River with a party of 15 men he followed the route of what was later to become known as the Santa Fe Trail. He also attempted to climb the mountain that was later named Pikes Peak. He also discovered the Royal Gorge (4th December) and the upper waters of the South Platte (13th December).

In January, 1807, Pike reached the upper Rio Grande. The following month he was captured by a 100-man Spanish force. He was held in captivity until being forced to leave Spanish territory in April, 1807. As a result of his expedition Pike was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. A book about his travels, An Account of Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi was published in 1810. Brigadier General Pike led his forces to victory at York, Ontario, but was killed on 27th March, 1813, after a British power magazine exploded, causing a rock to strike him in the back. Zebulon Pike was buried at Sackett's Harbour.

Books and Pamphlets

Very Rare and Very Early Sound-on-Film Document

Operating Instructions for RCA Photophone Type PM-15B Newsreel Recoding Equipment including Operating Instructions for RCA Photophone Model 4PA38A1 Portable Recoding Amplifier. RCA Photophone , NYC, Ca. mid 1930’s.

Printed via mimeograph (white print on blue paper). 11x8 inches. 11pp text, 12 leaves of original photographs of the machine, 2pp of blueprint diagrams and 1 large folding schematic for the operation of the entire system (which is really quite something). Paper-clasp bound in a home made binder with a typed title. VG condition. $1750

Not located in the OCLC/Worldcat dabse.

We are assuming that this was an internal RCA doc whose distribution was very limited.

Formerly the property of Harold Sunde. (Photophone employee and engineer who introduced the sound on film photophone to Great Britain and also to the Soviet Union).

A Note on the Photophone System:

“The earliest "talkies" (sound movies) relied on the Western Electric Vitaphone system (circa 1926) which used disk records that were (hopefully) synchronized with the action on the screen.  It was only with the inclusion of an optical sound track on the film that the true sound movie was created”. 

“Western Electric was the pioneer in this field, both with the Vitaphone system, and their slightly later sound-on-film system. RCA entered the field in 1928 with their own sound-on-film system which they called Photophone”.

The word Photophone originated with Alexander Graham Bell, who, in a series of four patents (in his own name), patented the invention beginning in June 1880.

Internal Document on the New Photophone, Sound-on-Film System, 1932

“The New RCA Victor Photophone Recording System”

Internal document.

Printed by “RCA Victor Company, Inc.—Engineering Department”.

Dated 8/3/32.

11x8 inches. 44 offset leaves with 24 blueprint/mimeo(?) illustrations of various parts of the system.

Rare. From the estate of Harold Sunde (See above). $1250

A Series of Diagrams of Considerable Rarity

Block Diagrams of the Wiring of the UNIVAC I 1950

Including 11 components of the Main Computer and Supervisory Control Panel in 27 Sheets

Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, (June) 1950. 27 sheets, offset. In Very Good condition. $7500

Outline Block Diagrams for the following components of the UNIVAC I:

Algebraic Adder (2 sheets)

Control Register (1 sheet)

High Speed Bus Amplifier and Simple Memory Channel (! Sheet)

Input Synchronizer (4 sheets)

Multiplier-Quotient Counter (1 sheet)

Output Synch (4 sheets)

Output Control Circuits (3 sheets)

Special Cycling Units and Adder (1 sheet)

Supervisory Control (3 sheets)

Timing Chart (4 sheets)

Uniservo Control (3 sheets)

Each section listed is complete in itself.

Rare 1864 Lincoln/Johnson Campaign Literature

Political Dialogues. Soldiers on their Right to Vote, and the Men they Should Support.

16 pp. [Washington: Chronicle Print, 1864]. $500

Text in double columns. First edition. Original self-wraps.

This is a very good copy of this rare piece of 1864 Lincoln Presidential campaign literature. It presents, in dramatic fashion, conversations between soldiers representing the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and New York. It reiterates the history of soldiers' right to vote and contains much criticism of McClellan and his Peace Platform. A "Scene II" is titled "Group After Parade. Presidential Question, and Candidates in Additional Aspects," and ends with a private proclaiming: "we will all go for LINCOLN AND JOHNSTON [sic]; THE POOR MAN'S FRIENDS; THE CHAMPIONS OF THE UNION, AND THE FIRM ENEMIES OF ALL TREASON."

Not in HAYNES or MONAGHAN. SABIN 63762

Unknown in OCLC/WorldCat

Hayward, J.T.K. Report of a Survey and Estimate of the Hannibal and Southwestern Railway. Hannibal Printing Company, Hannibal, Mo: 1882. 8vo, 14pp. Original printed wrappers. Small “LC” perforated stamp on cover bottom, with larger rubberstamped Library of Congress surplus/duplicate stamp on back cover. Wrappers are dusted, but overall a solid “good” (and probably better) copy of a very scarce work. $350

This work by Hayward not located in the OCLC/Worldcat system.

Report from OCLC/Worldcat on other works by Hayward:

Report of the survey estimate and statistics of the Central Missouri Railway, 1884 (OCLC 1 copy); Report to the directors of the Central Missouri Railway Company, 1858 (OCLC 1 copy); Report To the directors of the Central Missouri Railway Company, 1885 (OCLC 1 copy); Prospectus of the Western Central Railway of Missouri to be built from St. Louis to Kansas City, 1882-1900 (?), (OCLC 1 copy).

Important Contributions in a Very Rare Journal

Curie, Marie S. Le Radium, la Radioactivite et les Radiations, les Sciences qui s'y rattachent et leurs Applications.  Paris:  Masson et Cie,  1904-1919.  1st edition.  11 vols  4to.  Cloth.  $5,500

Complete run of "Le Radium" from 1904 through 1919; vols 1-10 covering 1904-1913, with volume 11 covering the truncated publication years of 1914-1919.

Includes contributions by Aston, Barus, Bloch. Becquerel(s), Bragg, Bloch, Curie(s), Broglie, Dufour, Dunoyer, Doelter, Himstedt, Langevin, Onnes, Strutt, Rutherford, Stark, Milikan, Villard, Langevin, Righi, and many many others. A virtual who's-who!

Rare. In January 1904, Jacques Danne, then assistant to Pierre Curie, and Henri Farjas created Le Radium, designed as "un organe de vulgarisation et de recherches" (an organ for popularization and research). In July, later that year, the journal changed its aims and scope. It became a journal for scientists and added a subtitle to its name: "la Radioactivité et les Radiations, les sciences qui s'y rattachent et leurs applications" (Radioactivity and radiations, related sciences and their applications). Jacques Danne became the editor for the journal. The editorial board gathered, among others, J.A. d'Arsonval, H. Becquerel, A. Béclère, R. Blondlot, Ch. Bouchard, P. Curie, Danysz, A. Debierne, Ch. Féry, N. Finsen, Ch.E. Guillaume, Oudin and Rubens. In 1909, the medical part of the journal was left aside: Marie Curie succeeded Pierre Curie and A. Cotton, P. Langevin, J. Perrin, E. Rutherford, G. Sagnac et P. Vilard joined the editorial board. Jacques Danne then became the editor-in-chief of the journal and his brother Gaston Danne the editor. J. Danne, who had founded his own company including a laboratory and a radium factory died in 1919 from the flu epidemic.   (Book ID 20203) 

An Excellent Collection of the Most Basic Papers on Photography

1839

Daguerre,  J.M.L..  On the Photogenic Process....March-September 1839.  London:  Athaneum,  1839.  1st edition.  4to.  Eight articles on photography including **July** reports on the process from M. Arago. This is the bound volume containing the issues for January-December 1839 for The Athanaeum, Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts.

Roy 8vo, 990pp volume of 102 issues for the year containing articles of substantial importance in the history of photography, including some of the earliest discussions of the invention of photography in English. Includes the following 8 articles:

(1) Herschel, J.F.W. “Note on the Art of Photography, or, the Application of Chemical Rays of Light and the purposes of Pictorial Representation” on Daguerre’s “concealed photographic process”. 2 cols #595, March 1839. P223.

(2) Talbot, Henry Fox. “Notes respecting a new kind of sensitive paper”. 1 paragraph, #597, April 1839, p. 260.

(3) On Niepce and Daguerre’s pensions, 1 paragraph in the “Weekly Gossip” section, July 1839, #611.

(4) Arago. On the report of M. Arago on the Daguerre invention, but does not translate it from the journal as “it is merely a repetition of facts which have appeared at different times in this journal”. 1 paragraph. #612, July, 1839, 1 paragraph, p. 542.

(5) Daguerre. “Principle of the Daguerreotype” dated Paris, August 21, 1839. 2 cols. Aug 24, 1839, #617, p 708, 2 columns. The largest part of the Daguerre process translated into English.

(6) “One great obstacle to the use of M. Daguerre’s photogenic process is the difficulty in preserving the pictures when completed…We are happy to report that M. Dumas has discovered…” a way of fixing the image. #620, p. 708.

(7) Book Review. Daguerre. “History and Process of Photogenic Drawing on the True Process of the Daguerreotype…” Long, 2/3 page, 2column, exhausted review of the Daguerre book. #621,, pp 717-718, September 21, 1839.

(8)“It has excited some surprise that, after the eager and national curiosity of the public respecting the discovery if M. Daguerre while it remained a secret, so little interest should now be taken in the subject.” Short piece explaining that the lack of curiosity may be due to misperception that the invention was simple and of use to anyone while in fact the process was “very delicate and complicated, requiring great skill” and therefore less approachable by the masses.

Also includes part of the communication from Daguerre through his London representative Mr. Miles Berry attempting to secure a patent for his invention (and process) in England.

We offer the entire bound volume which has some faults of brittle and chipping paper in the first hundred or so pages. Bound in late 19th c. calf and boards. Rare.   $3,500.00

The Pre-Television Proto-Television

How to Receive Radio Pictures at Home. Radiovision Corp, NY. (Copyright) 1928; this does have the date received stamped verso of the title as Aug 1928. 4to, 23pp, nicely illustrated, with TWO FOLDING BLUEPRINTS. Original printed wrappers. Binding somewhat soiled, hole-punch in upper-left corner of the document, owner rubberstamp (Library of Congress) on rear cover. No copies located in the NUC or RLIN. Unusual and rare. $1500

"No greater thrill awaits the radio experimenter than receiving his first picture through the ether…Not many months will pass before picture broadcasts will be a part of every radio broadcast"

This system was offered by Austin G. Cooley, inventor of the Rayfoto system, "the first authentic radio picture apparatus". This was a very early attempt at mass entertainment via a mechanical medium that proved ineffective by 1929/1931 against the advances of television. (The radiovision method was something like a facsimile device, offering a static image every now and again, and was completely outclassed by the moving image). An interesting document in the history of telecommunications.

An Unpublished Effort by the Inventor of Television
Extremely Early Effort in the Applications of Digital Computers in Music

Farnsworth, Philo, Jr. 1954 Workbook on the Invention of a new electronic piano and a new method of electronically recording creative musical composition. 14 Carbon Sheets. 2pp cover letter typed and signed by Farnsworth. Original manuscript. Unique. $17,500

This is fabulous work by Farnsworth is on the application of a new technology-the digital computer-to the field of music (in specific) and to "creative workers" (in general). Farnsworth, who was recently selected as one of the Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Americans of the Twentieth Century, held numerous patents and is considered to be "the father of television", and whose statue is in the US Capitol, undoubtedly sought Haskin's very considerable influence in helping him place his idea. Haskins was extremely well connected and knew people at the very highest levels of influence; we assume that Farnsworth, as important and famous as he was, sought out Haskins for his counsel and perhaps too for his ability in making things happen.

Rare Classroom Notes for the Great R.P. Feynman

Taken during the Golden Years at Cornell, 1947-1949

Feynman,  Richard P. Quantum Mechanics Lecture Notes 1947-1949.  Ithaca:  Manuscript,  1947-1949.  1193pp  8vo.  Paper boards. 

We offer 11 volumes composition books of classroom notes for four different Feynman classes taken by a PhD student who went on to a distinguished career in the physics community. The notebooks offer a very interesting and unique insight into a very early period of Feynman's teaching career, are highly legible, understandable and concise. ++FIRST++ "Advanced Quantum Mechanics" Manuscript Notes taken during RPF class, 1948-9. 190pp ++SECOND++ "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" WITH "Applied Quantum Mechanics" by Bethe. 1947-1948. 441pp, 4-volume composition notebook series of notes for the Feynman class intro to Quantum Mechanics WITH the notes for the second part of the course taught by HANS BETHE. ++THIRD++ "Electrodynamics" (1948) 187pp, in two composition books. ++FOURTH++ "Methods of Mathematical Physics" (1949), 325pp, in three compositions.  $7,500.00

Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Brooklyn to Lucille and Melville Feynman. Upon the early recognition of his prodigy, it was arranged for him to go to MIT, where he would get his Bachelor of Science degree in 1939 and then to Princeton for his Ph.D. While still at Princeton, Feynman married Arline Greenbaum, the girl of his dreams. In 1942, they set out for Los Alamos, NM, for him to work on the highly secret project to build an atomic bomb. During this time, Arline entered the hospital in Albuquerque because she was dying of tuberculosis. While Feynman was working in Los Alamos, it became clear that he was at the level with the intellectual giants of his day. In Los Alamos, he made the patent for an atomic submarine and an atomic airplane.

After the war, Feynman took a position at Cornell University to work on the quantum mechanical description of the interaction between light and matter. In 1950, he left Cornell to come to California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He would spend the rest of his career there. He came to Caltech to study the problem of superfluidity in liquid helium. In 1952, Feynman married Mary Louise Bell. She was a university instructor in the history of decorative art. However, they were divorced in 1956. In 1960, he married for the final time to Gweneth Howarth. Between 1962 and 1968, they had a son, Carl, and adopted a daughter, Michelle.

From 1961-1963, Feynman undertook a project that impacted the entire scientific community. He agreed to teach a two-year course of introductory physics to the Caltech freshman students. These lectures were recorded, transcribed, and photographs were taken of all the blackboards filled with his writing. From this material, a series of three books called The Feynman Lectures on Physics were published. These books became the backbone of some of the scientific literature even now. In 1962-1963, he taught the same students as sophomores. After these lectures, he only taught courses designed for graduate students.

In 1965, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Sin-Itero Tomanaga and Julian Schwinger, for his work in quantum electrodynamics, or QED. After this event, Feynman suffered a brief period of dejection. Upon his reviewing of Watson and Crick's The Double Helix (late 1960), he was back in action.

Feynman was consumed with the problem of collisions at extreme high energy of heavy particles. This would occupy his time for the next decade or more. In the 1980s, Feynman became a great public figure. This was the last decade of his life. In 1985, a friend of his, Ralph Leighton, wrote "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" which became a surprise bestseller. Three years later, the book was followed by a second volume entitled, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" also by Ralph Leighton.

On January 28, 1986, the Challenger accident happened. NASA asked Feynman, as well as others, to help investigate the accident. Feynman figured out what was wrong, and announced in during a nationally televised hearing of the commission. It turned out that the gasket material lost its resiliency at freezing temperature.

Feynman's last lecture took place on Friday, December 4, 1987. The lecture was on curved spacetime. Richard P. Feynman died two months later, on February 15, 1988.

Anti-Lynching Pamphlet 1920 H.L. Mencken’s Copy

An Appeal to the Conscience of the Civilized World.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored  People.
1920 English  Book 15 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. New York City : National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fair condition. $750 Rare. Only four copies located in OCLC (see below).

The Murder of Lee Teep

This is the first Case in New York State in which a White Man was Charged with the Murder of a Chinese. 1881

Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the city and county of New York :  The people ... vs. John J. Corcoran /  John J Corcoran;  Frederick Smyth . 1881. 91 p. ; 23 cm $500

(The Chinese at this point in American jurisprudence were a sub-class and were not afforded the same constitutional rights as other people living in America). Rare. Only 1 copy located in OCLC.

An American Mercenary takes over Nicaragua;

Defeated later by The State & Cornelius Vanderbilt

James Buchanan. Nicaragua—Seizure of General Walker… Washington DC, 1858. $300

The Dictionary of American Biography reads the situation in the following way:

"Invited by the leader of a revolutionary faction in Nicaragua, Walker led a small armed band there in 1855. With the help of the Accessory Transit Co., an American concern, he seized control of Nicaragua and, after recognition of his regime by the United States in May 1856, had himself inaugurated as president. Ambitious to unite the Central American republics into a single military empire, he planned an interoceanic canal and attempted to reintroduce African slavery. Undertaking to double-cross Cornelius Vanderbilt in a struggle for the Accessory Transit Co., he was driven from his presidency after a coalition of neighboring republics was formed against him with Vanderbilt's aid. Returning to the United States in 1857, he attempted an invasion of Nicaragua late in the year, but was arrested on landing by Commodore Hiram Paulding of the U.S. Navy and sent back to the United States. Arrested by British authorities after landing in Honduras, 1860, he was condemned to death by a court-martial of Honduran officers and shot."

The Structure of a New Economics

The Foundations of Axiomatization of Utility Theory

The introduction of Uncertainty into the Theory of Choice

The Intellectual Underpinings of Game Theory

Godel,  Kurt.  Ergebnisse eines mathematischen kolloquiums.  Leipzig:  Teubner,  1932-1935.  1st edition.  5 parts  8vo.  Cloth.  Fine condition. $3250.

 Theory 5 parts with original wrappers all bound together. 8vo., 31; 38; 26; 45; 42 pp., Original printed wrappers.

The following taken from the New School of Social Research (http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/vienna.htm) "The "Vienna Colloquium" run by the mathematician Karl Menger (son of the economist Carl Menger) in the 1930s, brought together many different minds from mathematics but also the physical sciences, philosophy, statistics and economics, that eventually set in motion modern general equilibrium theory from its early roots in the Lausanne School. Among the relevant participants in the Colloquium besides Karl Menger, was the banker and amateur economist Karl Schlesinger as well as the young Oskar Morgenstern, the polymath John von Neumann and the statistician Abraham Wald. Other participants included assorted Viennese physicists and mathematicians like Kurt Gödel. The proceedings of the Colloquium were collected by Menger and published as the Ergebnisse eines mathematischen Kolloquiums during the 1930s. "One could argue that the Vienna Colloquium was the product of three distinct intellectual strands: the logical positivist philosophy of the Vienna Circle, the mathematics of Hilbert's "formalist" programme and the economics of the Austrian School. In economics, the rallying point for the Vienna Colloquium was the investigation of metatheoretic general equilibrium systems with multiple, simultaneously interacting parts. For economists, the prototype of such a system was Gustav Cassel's (1918) resurrection of Leon Walras's theory, presentation of what has since become known as the Walras- Cassel model. The critiques set forth in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Frederik Zeuthen, Hans Neisser, Heinrich von Stackelberg on the Walras-Cassel system - particularly in relation to the possible existence of negative prices and indeterminacy arising from the equalities assumed by Leon Walras and Gustav Cassel. The solution provided by the Vienna Colloquium, namely the introduction of complementary "slackness" conditions was first proposed by Schlesinger. After a few attempts, Abraham Wald (1935, 1936) finally provided the first "existence" proof of a unique equilibrium for the static Walras-Cassel system with inequalities exploiting these complementary slackness conditions and introducing the weak axiom of revealed preference. John von Neumann's (1937) model of an expanding multi-sectoral economy was closer in spirit to the Classical Ricardian than the Walrasian general equilibrium world, but it provided a proof of existence via a generalization of Brouwer's fixed point theorem, the characterization of a solution as a saddle-point and the first to specify and exploit programming "duality" theorems and slackness conditions more fully. "Another outgrowth of the Vienna Colloquium was the axiomatization of utility theory, the introduction of uncertainty into the theory of choice and the development of the theory of games. This was pursued by two of its participants, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, in their pathbreaking treatise Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, which, although only published in 1944 while they were both in Princeton, clearly had its roots in the Vienna Colloquium (e.g. Bernoulli's expected utility hypothesis was introduced to John von Neumann through Karl Menger's 1934 article). "The Vienna Colloquium was disbanded in 1938 after the German invasion and most of its members were scattered in exile in Britain and the United States. Although it was never resurrected, much of its research programme was taken up in the 1940s and 1950s by the Cowles Commission in Chicago". On Godel and Karl Menger's Vienna Colloquium: "In the early 1930's, Gödel had steadily advanced his knowledge in many areas of logic and mathematics. . . In the period 1932-1936 he published thirteen short but noteworthy papers in that journal on a variety of topics, including intuitionistic logic, the decision problem for the predicate calculus, geometry, and lengths of proofs. Some of the results in logic were to be of lasting interest" (Straus). OF particular interest regarding the development of Godel, K. 1936. --"Ein Spezialfall des Entscheidungsproblems der theoretischen Logik", Ergebnisse eines mathematischen Kolloquiums, 2, pp. 27-28; --'Uber die Lange von Beweisen'. Ergebnisse eines mathematischen --"Über die Parrischen Axiome", Ergebnisse eines mathematischen Kolloquiums, 4, p. 6;Kolloquiums, 7, 23-24 --["An Interpretation of the Intuitionistic Sentential Logic,"] Ergebnisse eines mathematischen Kolloquiums vol 4. Vienna, 1933.

With 10 Lovely & Complex multi-Foldout Plates

(a moveable technical flap-book)

Die Praix des modernen Maschinenbaues. Modell-Atlas.

Berlin, C.A. Weller: (1910). Fine copy: $550.00

13x9.5”, with 10 multi-foldout color plates (mounted on stiff boards) with 2-to-3 pages of explanatory text. All bound via canvas hinges in a sturdy linen-over-boards binding.

These folding plates all have from a dozen to several dozen folding flaps which reveal successive levels of the machine, as though a paper dissection was being performed upon the machine.

This is a very elegant way of presenting the elements of all of these machines; and, lacking a three-dimensional model, it is also one of the best methods.

Condition: the binding is still (surprisingly!) very sturdy; the plates are of brilliant color and beautifully detailed and are in superb condition. The paper is still fresh, the colors still bright, and all of the hinges are still intact and strong! This is in uncommonly nice condition, and very fresh.

Images include:

“Adler-Motorwagen” (1907-1910) of the Adler motorcar company, which manufactured cars from at least 1904 onwards.

“Die Steinmueller-Kessel” , a large, specialized furnace shown in two partd (side/front) with about 35 flaps.

“Die Kienast-Dampfturbine”, being a steam turbine.

“Heissdampf-Lokomotive”, being a beautiful 2x2 cutaway unfolding to 24 inches.

“Erich Rumpler-Flugzeug”, the ca. 1910 monoplane of Etrich Rumpler (see attached), a simple and lovely illustration.

“Doppelschrauben-Dampfschiff”, a 220-meter steam driven cargo ship. This image folds lengthwise, and then again widthwise, reaching 12x21 inches.

“Gleichstronomtor”, being a large electric motor.

“Drehstrommotor mit kurzschlussanker”, being a lovely hydroelectric motor which folds out in four directions around a central image which has a series of flaps.

“Dreschmaschine von H. Lenz”, being a very large threshing machine.

“Der Dieselmotor”, being a very large, industrial diesel engine.

An Unusual RAND (CIA) Document on the Cuban Revolution of 1961

“The American people are entitled to know whether we are intervening in Cuba or intend to do so in the future…The answer to that question is no. What happens in Cuba is for the Cuban people to decide.”

--Secretary of State Dean Rusk, April 17, 1961, 2 days in to the CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba.

James Farmer. Notes on the 1961 Cuban Revolution. US Air Force Project Rand Report, May 1, 1961. Internal Rand Document published (with fittingly bad timing) May Day 1961 on the failures of the “Cuban revolution”—the same day as Castro’s May Day speech proclaiming his overwhelming victory.

Farmer states in his opening line: “If tacticians and political scientists can learn from errors, the first 1961 Cuban Revolution should be invaluable”.

Farmer evidently was sending a message in this medium as he refers again and again to the “first 1961” Cuban Revolution”. $300

Extra-Illustrated with 15 Original Albumen Photographs of “The Last of the Aborigines”

I Tasmaniani. : Cenni storici ed etnologici di un popolo estinto / Enrico Hillyer Giglioli

1874 160 p. : ill., maps ; 22. cm. Milano : F. Treves,

Rare: only 3 copies of this publication located in OCLC. $7,500.

E.H. Giglioli

A zoologist, Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845 -1909), was also involved in the activities of the Florence School of Anthropology. He travelled around the world on a naturalists' expedition (1865-1868) and from 1883 became an internationally-known collector of archaeological and ethnographical material, which he also exchanged with experts of the Smithsonian Institution. His huge collection included several hundred artifacts and two thousand archaeological items from North America, and more than a hundred photographs of Native Americans by Hillers, O'Sullivan, and Bell. After his death, Giglioli's collection, together with his archaeological and ethnological library, went to form the ethnological core of the National Museum of Prehistory founded in Rome by Luigi Pigorini in 1876 (Tiberini ).

• Tiberini, Elvira S. "Plains Indians Artifacts in the E. H. Giglioli Collection of the Pigorini Museum in Rome. "
• Australian Museum, AW Franks collector EH Giglioli Collection, 1913.
• Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak,  Beccari, Odoardo, 1843-1920.; translated by Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer,; Guillemard, F. H. H. London, A. Constable & Co., 1904
• Appunti intorno ad una collezione etnografica fatta durante il terzo viaggio di Cooke conservata sin dalla fine del secolo scorso nel R. Museo di fisica et storia naturale di Firenze
  Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer, 1845-1909.
• Primo resoconto dei risultati della inchiesta ornitologica in Italia / Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer, 1845-1909. Firenze : Coi tipi dei successori Le Monnier, 1889-1891
• Avifauna italica. Elenco delle specie di uccelli stazionarie o di passaggio in Italia, colla loro sinonimia volgare e con notizie più specialmente intorno alle migrazioni ed alla nidificazione.
  Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer, Italy., Ufficio ornitologico. irenze, Coi tipi dei successori Le Monnier, 1886
• La collezione etnografica del Prof. Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, geograficamente classificata.
  
  

“…the Edge-Partington collection, a valuable and extensive ethnographic collection of approximately 2,500 objects from the Pacific. James Edge-Partington made three trips through the Pacific in the late 19th century and also collected material from private collections in Europe. The Auckland Museum acquired the collection in 1924 from London and the necklace appears to be the only Tobian object in the collection.

Two Classic Works in Electromagnetism

Ampere,  Phenomenes electro-dynamiques.  Paris:  Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris,  1816-1824.  1st edition. 

Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris, 1824. Imprimerie de Plassan, 1824. Sm 4to, 192pp. Linen-backed marbled boards. Few marks from the University of Michigan library. $1250

The Bulletin Philomatique was an early and advanced reprint journal, republishing in extract form important contributions in astronomy, physics, mathematics, geology, chemistry, zoology and more. These three volumes contain a number of very early and significant contributions, perhaps the most important of which is the effort by Ampere, the full account of which would be published in a 200-page paper in 1826. Ampere, Phenomenes electro-dynamiques (pp 79-86) Becquerel Electricite dans les actions chimiques Becquerel, Actios electro-mortices… Becquerel, Actions electrometrices au contact des metauxet des liquids… Fresnel, Contract des cristeaux par la chaleur Fresnel, Direction des axes de double refraction dans les cristaux Fresnel, Eclairage des phares Poison, Theorie du magnetisme Poison, Distribution de l’electricite dans une sphere With many other constributions including those by Cuachy, Puissant, Davy, Arago, etc. Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris, 1824. Imprimerie de Plassan, 1816. Sm 4to, 202pp. Linen-backed marbled boards. Few marks from the University of Michigan library. Biot. Sur la loi de Newton, relative a la communication de la chaleur. Biot. Researche sur la diffraction de la lumiere Laplace. Sur la longueur du pendale a secondes Laplace. Supplement a la theorie analytique des probabilities Poison. Sur le calcul des variations relativement aux integrals multiples…. With 2 dozen other articles. Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris, 1824. Imprimerie de Plassan, 1818. Sm 4to, 192pp. Linen-backed marbled boards. Few marks from the University of Michigan library. Biot (6 articles) Fourrier. Mmeoire sur le movement des fluide3s elastiques …. Fourrier. Question d’analyse algebraique. La Place. Sur la figure de terre et la loi de peasanteur sa surface… Poisson. Sur l’integrasle de l’equation relative aux vibrations… With several dozen other articles.   (Book ID 22775)  $1,250.00

Ampere,  Andre Marie.  Memoire present l’Acadmie royale des sciences, le 2 octobre 1820, . . . sur les effets des courans l'ectriques..  Paris:  Academie des Sciences,  1820.  1st edition. 

In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique  448pp  Small 8vo.  Modern cloth and boards.  Very good condition.  TWO GREAT WORKS/FOUNDATION WORKS OF ELECTRODYNAMICS. Dibner 62. Offered with: Suite du memoire sur l’action mutuelle entre deux courans lectriques, entre un courant l’electrique et un aimant ou le globe terrestre, et entre deux aimans. Same volume, pp 170-218. Nice, crisp copy offered ofd the entire volume XV (448pp, 5 engraved plates). Little bit of dampstaining in the gutter (barely at times extending, very lightly, into a few words of text) through the first 90 pages or so. Nice copy of a rare book, offered rebound in a fine modern calf marbled boards.   (Book ID 22747)  $3,000.00

Two Classic Works on the Modern Computer

Bardeen,  John.  The Transistor, a Semi-Conducting Triode.

American Physical Society,  1948.  1st edition. 

Physical review, vol 74, p 230  Royal 8vo.  Paper wrappers.  Very good condition.  Finely removed and rebacked, containing the original wrappers.   (Book ID 22388) 

Bardeen,  J.  Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action.  Lancaster, Pa:  Physical Review,  1949.  1st edition. 

The Physical Review, Vol 75, Second Series, No. 8  8vo.  Printed wrappers.  Fine condition.  This is the entire green-wrappered issue for April 15, 1949. Save for a little wear and a pinhole in the spine, this is a fine (+) copy--really a nice, bright copy of a significant and important paper by Bardeen and Brattain.   (Book ID 20757) 

The two great classics: $3,000.

Perhaps the Most Unusual of Photographic “Firsts”:

The First Representation of a Photograph in a Publication

Bird,  Golding.  A Treatise on Photogenic Drawing.  London:  The Mirrour,  1839.  The Mirrour, Nos. 945, 946, 947, 949 & 950  Small 8vo.  $3,500.

These five numbers comprise this very early work on the new science of photography by Dr. Golding Bird, appearing in "The Mirrour" from April 20-May 25, 1839. This article was rproduced in the Journal of the Franklin Institute in September 1839 as "Observations on the application of Heliographic or Photogenic Drawing to Botanical Purposes; with an account of an economic mode of preparing the Paper: in a Letter to the Editor of the 'Magazine of Natural History".   (Book ID 22751)

The title page of the June issue of the Golding work contains a nearly full-page image entitled “Fac-simile of a Photo-genic Drawing”. It is a rather brick-brown backgrounded image of a (“negative”) fern (meaning white). Mass production of photographs at this extremely early time in th ehisotry of photography was not available—thus the first printed image of a photograph was indeed a woodcut of one.

A Great Foundation Paper in Nuclear Fission

Bohr,  Niels.  Mechanism of Nuclear Fission.  Lancaster:  American Physical Society,  1939.  1st edition.  Physical Review, 56 (1939)September 1, 1939  8vo.  Good or better condition. $1,750.

Foundation paper of nuclear fission, co-written with J.A. Wheeler. This is the rare appearance of this paper in the original monthly green-wrappered edition. The spine of the pamphlet has a few problems, but the covers are bright and clean. For the whole article see: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1939PhRv...56..426B&db_key=PHY&high=3ccae2971903974 From the abstract: "On the basis of the liquid drop model of atomic nuclei, an account is given of the mechanism of nuclear fission. In particular, conclusions are drawn regarding the variation from nucleus to nucleus of the critical energy required for fission, and regarding the dependence of fission cross section for a given nucleus on energy of the exciting agency. A detailed discussion of the observations is presented on the basis of the theoretical considerations. Theory and experiment fit together in a reasonable way to give a satisfactory picture of nuclear fission".   (Book ID 22650) 

Brahe,  Tycho.  Tychonis Brahe Dani Oper Omnia.  Hauniae:  Libraria Gyldendaliana,  1913-1929.  16 vols  4to.  Library cloth.  Very good condition.  RARE. $6,500

COMPLETE. CONTENTS: T. 1-3. Scripta astronomica / ed. I.L.E. Dreyer auxilio Ioannis Raeder. Sumptus fecit G.A. Hagemann -- t. 4:1. De mundi aetherei recentioribvs phaenomenis liber secvndvs. 4:2. Scripta astronomica / ed. I.L.E. Dreyer auxilio Ioannis Raeder. Sumptus fecit G.A. Hagemann -- t. 5:1. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. 5:2. Scripta astronomica / ed. I.L.E. Dreyer auxilio Ioannis Raeder. Sumptus fecit G.A. Hageman -- t. 6-8. Epistolae astronomicae . Tomus 1-3 -- t. 9. Scripta varia, ediderunt I.L.E. Dreyer et Ioannes Raeder -- t.10-13. Thesaurus observationum, ad fidem codicum primumdidit I.L.E. Dreyer, sumptibus Instituti Carlsbergici. Tomus 1-4 -- t. 14. Epistolae et acta ad vitam Tychonis Brahe pertinentia / ed. Eiler Nystroem -- t. 15. Index hominum et rerum confecerunt I.L.E. Dreyer et Ioannes Raeder.   (Book ID 22370) 

Einstein,  Albert.  Geometrie und Erfahrun.  Berlin:  Julius SPringer,  1921.  1st edition.  20  8vo.  Paper wrappers.  Fine condition.  First Edition. Weil 115.

From the Dictionary of Science Biography, vol 4, p 330: "During these years Einstein was also concerned to clarify misconceptions about the theory of relativity and to present his views on natural sciences on a less abstract level. Among his efforts in this direction, one particularly beautiful lecture must be mentioned. In 1921, at the Prussian Academy's commemorative session honoring Frederick the Great, Einstein delivered a lecture on geometry and experience in which he summed up his views on the geometrization of physics and relativity and the relation of mathematics to the external world. Here he gave his famous answer to the puzzling question of why mathematics should be so well adapted to describing the external world: 'Insofar as the Laws of Mathematics refer to the external world, they are not certain; and insofar as they are certain, they do not refer to reality'"   (Book ID 22765)  $500.00

Fourier,  Jean Baptiste.  Memoire d'Analyse sur le Mouvement de la Chaleur dans les Fluides.  Paris:  Academie Royale des Science,  1820. 

1st edition.  Pp 507-530  8vo.  Offprint from the Academie Royale des Science, trimmed. Bound in cloth and marbled boards, rebound in the late 19th century. Bound by R. Friedlander & Sohn in Berlin, and formerly in the library of the Navy Department of the United States. The offprint carries an oval rubberstamp on its first page from the Navy Department (and dated 1883) as well as a bookplate on the front pastedown. The first added front free ep is detached but present. Rare. $1,750.

ALso from ST. Andrews: Fourier studied the mathematical theory of heat conduction. He established the partial differential equation governing heat diffusion and solved it by using infinite series of trigonometric functions. (Book ID 20934) 

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DISCOVERY OF ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVITY.

Joliot,  Frederic.  Sur les conditions d'emission des neutrons par actions des particules alpha sur les elements... AND THREE OTHER PAPERS! Paris:  Academie de Science,  1933+1934.  1st edition.  Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Science  4to.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good condition.  $1,850.

The first paper in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Science, 6 Feb 1933, 3pp. Offered with (2): "Un nouveau type de radioactivite", in Comptes Rendus, 15 January 1934. 3pp. Offered with (3): "Separation chimique des nouveaux radioelements emetteurs d'electrons positif", in Comptes Rendus, 5 February 1934, 3pp. Offered with (4): "Radioelements crees par bombardement de neutrons" Noveau type de radioactivite". in Comptes Rendus, 11 June, 1934, 3pp. See: Printing and the Mind of Man, 422; Smyth, Atomic Energy, pp 7. Until 1933/4, atomic nuclei emitting radiation were found in nature: it was called the natural radioactivity. This was known since Rutherford that this natural radioactivity changed a nucleus into an other one: for instance radium becomes finally lead after many radioactive decays. We could say that lead does not become gold but gold becomes lead! But... this change of matter was not under control. It was not possible to construct the desired chemical element as the alchemist dreamed... But Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie, made the dream become almost reality. They were the first to show that mankind could build under control some news radioactive nuclei. By shooting an aluminium sheet with alpha particles (helium nuclei), they were able to make radioactive phosphorus, a new isotope of the stable phosphorus that was never observed in nature. They demonstrated it by chemically isolating the phosphorus produced before it becomes silicium by its radioactivity. The creation an unnatural radioactive element is what we call the creation of artificial radioactivity. See http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/centenaire/rada.html for some other data.   (Book ID 22746) 

Oppenheimer,  J. Robert.  On Massive Neutron Cores.  Lancaster:  The Physical Review,  1939.  1st edition.  Physical Review 55/4, February 15, 1939  8vo.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good condition.  Fine copy of Oppenheimer and George Volkoff's great paper, which occupies pp 374-382 of this issue containing pp 323-420. Very nice copy of this rare appearance. $500.

"It has been suggested that, when the pressure within stellar matter becomes high enough, a new phase consisting of neutrons will be formed. In this paper we study the gravitational equilibrium of masses of neutrons, using the equation of state for a cold Fermi gas, and general relativity. For masses under 1/3 solar masses only one equilibrium solution exists, which is approximately described by the nonrelativistic Fermi equation of state and Newtonian gravitational theory. For masses 1/3 < M < 3/4 solar masses two solutions exist, one stable and quasi-Newtonian, one more condensed, and unstable. For masses greater than 3/4 solar masses there are no static equilibrium solutions. [The maximum mass of a stable neutron star is now believed to be about 3 solar masses, not 3/4 solar masses. Since Oppenheimer did his calculations, physicists learned that the repulsive force between closely packed neutrons is greater than he thought.] These results are qualitatively confirmed by comparison with suitably chosen special cases of the analytic solutions recently discovered by Tolman. A discussion of the probable effect of deviations from the Fermi equation of state suggests that actual stellar matter after the exhaustion of thermonuclear sources of energy will, if massive enough, contract indefinitely, although more and more slowly, never reaching true equilibrium." On Volkoff (from "Physics Today website): As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he wrote his first--and most famous--paper, "On Massive Neutron Cores," with Oppenheimer as coauthor. In this paper, published only a decade after the advent of quantum mechanics and a few years after the discovery of the neutron and the beginning of nuclear physics, George gave detailed calculations of stellar collapse--during a supernova--into a neutron star. After earning his PhD in physics at Berkeley in 1940, he investigated more topics in nuclear physics, including early work on tensor forces with Eugene Wigner at Princeton University.   (Book ID 22651) 

Schrodinger,  Erwin.  Die Erfuellbarkeit der Relativitatsfoderung in der Klassischen Mechanik.  Leipzig:  Johannes Barth,  1925.  1st edition.  Annalen der Physik, series 4 volume 77  Pp 325-336, 785pp overall  8vo.  Cloth-backed paper covered boards.  Very good condition.   $750.

Rubberstamps on page edges from Wright Patterson Technical Library; rubber stamp interior for the Deutsche Akademie der Luftfahrtforschung (w/small swastika).  Contains "Die Wasserstoffahnlichen Spektren vom Standpunkte der Polarisierbarkeit des Atomrumpfes" by Schroedinger, as well as other articles by Stark, Lau, Kossel, Wien, and many others.   (Book ID 15420) 

Great Contributions by Helmholtz, Ohm and Many Others!

Taylor. “Scientific memoirs, selected from the transactions of foreign academies of science and learned societies, and from fore.  London:  1837-1853.  1st edition.  6 volumes  8vo.  Calf and boards  Very good condition.  $6,000.

Containing the First English Translations of Seminal Works by Helmholtz, Ohm and others. Richard Taylor. “Scientific memoirs, selected from the transactions of foreign academies of science and learned societies, and from foreign journals”. London, 1837-1853. 6 volumes. Continued by John Tyndall and William Francis, of the same title, divided into “Natural History” and “Natural Philosophy” volumes, of which there were only one of each published following the first 5 volumes of the journal. All publication seems to have ceased after 1853. Taylor (1781-1858) was editor of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine from 1822. Established the Annals of Natural History in 1838. Edited and published Scientific Memoirs selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science, 1837–52. Lacks volume 3 containing the seminal work by Babbage/Lovelace. Includes: Volume 1, 1837, 638pp, 8 plates, 30 papers. Volume 2, 1841, 603pp, 26 plates (most folding), 20 papers. Volume 4, 1846, 684pp, 8 plates, 22 papers. Volume 5, 1852, 768pp, 8 plates. 20 papers. Natural Philosophy, 1853, 358pp, 5 plates. 13 papers. Natural History, 1853, 354pp, 12 plates, 11 papers. 6 volumes (of 7), all bound in half calf, all in Very Good condition. Vol 1: first sig loose. Some of these very early (or first) appearances in translation include: Becquerel. On the Chemical Effects of Electric Current…Pp 414-443, vol 1. Berzelius. On the Allotropy of Elementary Bodies as one of the Causes of Isomerism of their Compounds. Pp 240-253, vol 4. Berzelius. Opinions Relating to the Composition of Organic Substances, pp 661-682, vol 4. Biot, M. On the Constitutions of the Superior Regions of the Earth’s Atmosphere. Pp 393-400, vol 1. *Biot, M. On the Employment of Polarized Light in Studying Various questions of Chemical Mechanics. Pp 292-402, vol 4. Chevreul. On the Application of Circular Polarization to Researches in Chemistry. Pp 591-600, vol 1. Claperyon, E. Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat. Pp 347-377, vol 1. Clausius, Rudolf. On the Mechanical Equivalent of an Electric Discharge…(trans from AdP 7, 1852). Pp 1-32. (Nat Phil) Clausius. On the Work Performed and the Heat Generated in a Conductor by a Stationary Electric Current. Pp 200-210 Nat Phil Clausis. On the Blue Colour of the Sky and the Morning and Evening Red. Pp 326-332. (Nat Phil) Dove, W. Experiments on the Circular Polarization of Light. Pp 75-86, vol 1. Enke, J.F. On the Method of Least Squares. Pp 317-370. Fresnel, A. Memoir upon the Colours Produced in Homogenous Fluids by Polarized Light. Pp 44-66, vol 5. Fresnel, A. Memoir on Double Refraction. Pp 238-334. VOl 5. (trans from 1827). Gauss, C.F. & Wilhelm Weber. Results of the Observations made by the Magneic Association for 1836. Pp 20-87. Gauss, C.F. On a New Instrument for the Direct Observation of the Changes in Intensity of the Horizontal Portion of the Terrestrial Magnetism Force. Pp 252- 268. *Helmholtz, Hermann von. On the conservation of force. In Scientific Memoirs . .. Natural Philosophy I, part II (February 1853): 114-62. Nat Phil First Edition in English of Helmholtz's "Über die Erhaltung der Kraft" (1847). See G-M 611; Horblit 48; Dibner 159; PMM 323 Hoffmann, Hermann. On the Circulation of Sap in Plants. Pp Knoblauch. Investigations on Radiant Heat. Pp 188-238. Vol 5. Jacobi, H. Oh the Applications of Electro-Magnetism to the Movements of Machines….Pp 503-532, vol 1. Jacobi, H. Electro-Magnetic Experiments…1-19 vol 2 Lenz. On the Laws According to Which the Magnet Acts Upon a Spiral…Pp 608-630, vol 1. LeVerrier. . On Interpolation applied to Calculation of the Coefficients of the Development of the Distributing Function. Pp 334-353, vol 5. Magnus, Gustav. Experiments on the Expansive Forces of Steam. Pp 218-235, vol 4. Mitscherlich, M.E. On the Chemical Reactions produced by Bodies which act only by Contact. Pp 1-16, vol 4. *Mohl, Hugo. On the Structure of the Vegetabl Cell. Pp 91-115, vol 2. Hugo von Mohl (1805-1872), profesor of botany at Tübingen "gave the name of protoplasm to the mucilagenous material within the plant cell adjacent to the membrane, a term that has grown to connote living substances". Mohl, Hugo. Does Cellulose form the Basis of all Vegetable Membranes? Pp 97-119, NH. *Ohm, G.S. The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically. Translation of Die Galvanische Kette (1827) 1841, Pp 401-507. Vol 2. Plateau. Experimental and Theoretical Researches on the Figures of Equilibrium of a Liquids Mass without the Action of Gravity…Pp 584-713. Plateau. On the Phenomenon presented by a free Liquid Mass… Pp 18-44, vol 4. Plucker. Experimental and Theoretical Researches on the Action of the Magnet upon Gases and Liquids. Pp 553-579, vol 5. Plucker, M. On the Theory of Diamagentism…Pp 332-359 (Nat Phil) Plucker. On the Relation of MAgentism ot Diamagnetism. Pp 376-383. Poggendorf, J.C. On the Phenomenon of Closed Electro-Magnets. Pp 294-393. (Nat Phil) Pouillet. Memoir on Solar Heat…Pp 44-91, vol 4. Wartmann, Elie. On Colour-Blindness. Pp 156-189, vol 4. Weber, W. On the Measurement of Electro-dynamic Force. Pp 489-530. Weber, M.W. On the Connexion of Diamagnetism with Magentism and Electricity. Pp 163-200 (Nat Phil) Wiedemann, G. On the Motion of Liquids in a Closed Galvanic Circuit. Pp 232-257 (Nat Phil)   (Book ID 22762)