‎THE SMALL HOUSE : TODAY AND TOMORROW,‎

‎, London, Leonard Hill, 1957, Bound, cloth with silverimprint on front and spine, photo - frontispice, 190 x 250mm., 218pp., b/w documentation and LXIX b/w picture - plates.‎

‎Book was written in collaboration with Johannes Schreiner. First edition. Good condition.‎

‎Berg- und Gletscherfahrten in den Alpen in den Jahren 1860 bis 1869. Autorisierte deutsche Bearbeitung von Friedrich Steger.‎

‎2. Aufl. Braunschweig, George Westermann, 1892. Gr.-8°. (1) Bl., XX, 538 S. Mit 24 Abb. auf Tafeln (dv. 1 als Frontispiz), 91 Abb. im Text sowie 1 Karte und 1 gef. Tafel. Halblederband der Zeit .‎

‎Gutes Exemplar. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Besitzereintrag auf dem Vortitel.‎

‎Escalades dans les alpes de 1860 à 1869. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Adolphe Joanne.‎

‎Deuxième Edition. Paris, Hachette, 1875. Gr.-8°. (1) Bl., (4), IV, 431, (1) S. Mit 108 gest. Abb. (dv. 16 ganzs.) und 6 Karten. Halblederband der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung.‎

‎Zweite französische Ausgabe. – Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar.‎

‎Rapport sur la machine à calculer présentée par M. Wiberg. (Commissaires: Mathieu, Chasles, delaunay rapporteur)‎

‎(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1863. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 56, No 8. Pp. (317-) 364. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 330-339.‎

‎First apperance of this detailled report and examination by the French mathematiciens Mathieu, Chasles and Delaunay of the calculating machine invented by Martin Wiberg as an improvement on the Scheutz machine. The machine could produce tables of logarithms.‎

‎Historisch=kritische Untersuchung der Alchemie, oder der eingebildeten Goldmacherkunst" von ihrem Ursprunge sowohl als Fortgange, und was nun von ihr zu halten sey.‎

‎Weimar, Carl Ludolf Hoffmann, 1777. Small 8vo. A bit later marbled boards. Spine gone. (22),437,(3) pp. Light toning to text and some scattered brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Wiegleb's most importent work and one of the most importent historical criticism of the alchymistic theories of transmutations. ""Wiegleb’s critical attitude in assessing scientific questions earned him high esteem in learned circles. After several years of work he published Historisch-kritische Untersuchung der Alchemie (1777), which went through a second edition. In this work he stated: ""The best accounts from the period when the name alchemy is encountered, . . . are examined, and it is thereby demonstrated that they are, taken together, incapable of confirming the reality of alchemy. Then, the strongest proof is adduced to show that the entire imaginary art of alchemy is impossible according to all known, certain natural laws of human art: thus [it is shown] that it has never truly been practiced by anyone."" Wiegleb carefully examined famous reports of the transformation of metals and pointed out their deficiencies: in a short time his work became widely known. His motto was ""To doubt is the beginning of knowledge,"" so it is all the more as tonishing that Wiegleb was a convinced proponent of Stal’s phlogiston theory throughout his life."" (DSB).Ferguson II, 546. - Duveen, 620.‎

‎Erklärung des atomistischen Wesens des tropfbar-flüssigen Körperzustandes, und Bestätigung desselben durch die sogenannten Molecularbewegungen.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1863. Conemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. A small nich to middle of spine.Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Vierte Reihe Bd. 28, (=Poggendorff Bd. 118). Entire volume offered. X,644 pp. and 8 engraved plates. Wiener's paper: pp. 79-94.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in the development of the atomic theory.The cause of the Brownian movement was ascribed by C. Wiener in 1863 to bombardment of the suspended particles by the molecules of the liquid. This was confirmed by Svedberg in 1906"" he found that the length of the path described agrees with that calculated from the kinetic theory by Einstein (1905) and Smoluchowski (1906).The volume contains further notable papers: G. KIRCHHOFF ""Zur Geschichte der Spectral-Analyse und der Analyse der Sonnenatmosphäre"". Pp. 94-111.L. LORENZ: ""Ueber die Theorie des Lichts"". Pp. 111-145. - Lorenz is well known for his theory of the electromagnetic nature of light, which he, independently of Maxwell, published in 1867.‎

‎Untersuchung über die electrische Entladung in verdünnten Gasen. (Erste - Zweite Abhandlung). (2 Papers).‎

‎Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1898, 1901 Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge, Bd. 65, No. 7. (Entire issues offered). Pp. 241-480. . And Vierte Folge, Bd. 5. Pp. 241-488, textillustr. Wien's paper pp. 440-452, textillustrations and pp. 421-435, textillustrations. Clean and fine. The second issue punched in inner margin after cords., no loss of text.‎

‎First appearance of Wien's importent paper in which he shows that the cathode rays are particles, that their velocity is about a third to that of light and he establish the ratio between the mass and the charge.In the paper are ""described the experiments by which Wien determined the properties of the canal rays. The firstpart of the paper conatins a description of observations on the cathode rays, made with a Lenard Tube, in which the cathode rays passed through an aluminium window into an extension of the tube where as high a rarefaction as possible was maintained. The magnetic and electrostatic deflexions of a narrow cathode stream were observed and Wien concludes that it is proved by his investigation that the cathode rays which pass through the windoww carry with them strong negative charges.""(Magie ""Souce Book in Physics"", p. 597 ff.).Wien was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for physics for his discoveries regarding laws governing the radiation of heat.‎

‎The happy prince and other tales.‎

‎London, Duckworth & Co., 1913. In-4 de 113-[3] pages, plein maroquin turquoise, dos à 5 nerfs orné de fleurons, filets, roulettes, encadrements et titre dorés, filet doré encadrant les plats, double aux contreplats, tranches dorées, gardes marbrées. ‎

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‎With 12 mounted colour plates, captioned tissue guards and some illustrations throughout the text by Charles Robinson. First Robinson edition. Dos très légèrement et uniformément passé, pour le reste en très belle condition. ‎

‎Progressez en anglais grâce à Oscar Wilde : Volume 1: Tome 1‎

‎VASSEUR 2012 10 6x1x14 8cm. 2012. Broché.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Gemstone Art. Renaissance to the Present. Edelstein Kunst. Renaissance bis Heute.‎

‎, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2016 Size: 305 mm x 240 mm. Pages: 352. Illustrations: 250 colour. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN 9783897904651.‎

‎The fascinating history of gemstones in art and jewellery Gemstones have always been, since time immemorial, heavily charged with meaning and have even been regarded as magical objects. For that reason they have also been an art medium since the early modern age and have shaped as art symbols - in the form of the crystal - both Romanticism and Modernism, for example in the works of Caspar David Friedrich, Lyonel Feininger and many more. In the latter half of the twentieth century, not only have such artists as Bernd Munsteiner, Ute Eitzenhofer and Bernhard Schobinger rediscovered the gemstone; through the Hochschule fur Edelstein und Schmuck Trier/Idar-Oberstein and other similar specialist institutions it is also undergoing a revival in today's art production - right up to Damien Hirst. Text in English and German. ‎

‎DE ABDIJ VAN HET PARK TE LEUVEN,‎

‎Wijnegem, Homunculus, 2006 geniet, geillustreerde kartonomslag in kleur, 145 x 210mm., 40pp., illustratie z/w.‎

‎Reeks Heraldiek van Abdijen en Kloosters 12. Nieuw.‎

‎SINT-GEERTRUI TE LEUVEN, de abdij, heraldiek.‎

‎Wijnegem, Homunculus, 2010 Softcover, geillustreerde kartonomslag in kleur, 145 x 210mm., 40pp., illustratie in kleur z/w.‎

‎Reeks Heraldiek van Abdijen en Kloosters 23. Nieuw.‎

‎Ferdinand Bol - het huis, de collectie, de kunstenaar‎

‎W Books, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, 2017. In-8, broché sous couverture rempliée et illustrée en couleur, 63 pp. Wonen in het huis van Ferdinand Bol - Willem te Slaa : 1. Van Schilder tot regent aan de gracht : Een carrière als schilder in de Gouden Eeuw. - Het leven en de loopbaan van Ferdinand Bol - Tonko ...‎

‎Nombreuses illustrations en couleur.Catalogue en néerlandais. --- Plus d'informations sur le site archivesdunord.com‎

‎Le Dératé (The Pace That Kills)‎

‎ N° 351 - in-12 cartonnage éditeur avec sa jaquette - 1957 - 247p - Ed. nrf. Gallimard - coll. Série Noire‎

‎bon état (léger plis à la jaquette) ‎

‎Partition de la chanson : Stranger on the shore Annotation crayon interieur ‎

‎ Sherwin 1962‎

‎ Etat moyen Format Coquille ‎

‎JAPANESE PRINTS: REALITIES OF THE "FLOATING WORLD",‎

‎Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983 Illustrated cardboard cover in colour, oblong format : 210 x 185mm., 66pp., b/w illustration. ISBN 0910386714.‎

‎March 8 through May 8, 1983. Book is in good condition.‎

‎Le Crime du Mort (Murder from the grave)‎

‎ 1938 in-8 broché - 1938 - 248 pages - Ed. Gallimard - coll. Détective‎

‎bon état (plis au dos, bas du dos très légèrement rapé) ‎

‎English Sacred Poetry of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.‎

‎ Routledge, Warne, & Routledge New York 1863. Grand in 8 (18 x 23 cm), reliure pleine percaline brique, premier plat et dos richement ornés d'un large fer doré et d'un cartouche doré, tranches dorées, (xix+387 pp). Illustrated by H. Hunt - J. D. Watson - J. Gilbert - J. Wolf. Engraved by the brothers Dalziel. En anglais. Bel état.‎

‎Orientalia. Oosterse studies en bibliotheken te Leuven en Louvain-la-Neuve.‎

‎Leuven, Universitaire Pers, 2001 Paperback, Nederlands, originele uitgeversomslag, 16x24 cm., 210 pp., 120 illustraties. ISBN 9789058671141.‎

‎Sybolae Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis - Series B : 21. De humanist Erasmus heeft zich ingezet voor een verniewd en eigentijds christendom, gebaseerd op de kritische studie van de bronteksten. Daarmee heeft hij de aanzet gegeven tot de studie van Oosterse talen aan de Leuvense universiteit, wat uiteindelijk leidde tot de oprichting van het Instituut voor de Orientalistiek in 1936. De studie van het Hebreews baande de weg naar de studie van andere taal- en schrijfsystemen en het onderzoek rond het Christelijke Oosten leidde tot de ontdekking van culturen uit het Verre Oosten. De universiteit van Leuven heeft zich internationaal onderscheiden zowel in de studie van het boeddhisme als, meer recent, in de japanologie. De tentoonstelling Orientalia. Oosterse studies en bibliotheken te Leuven en Louvain-la-Neuve schetst de grote lijnen van dit wetenschappelijk avontuur en toont onbekende schatten uit de bibliotheken van de K.U.Leuven en de UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve. Het Leuvense onderzoek en onderwijs op het gebied van Oosterse talen en culturen heeft aanleiding gegeven tot belangrijke schenkingen. Ondanks de bewogen geschiedenis van de Leuvense Universiteitsbibliotheek, bezitten beide universiteiten op dit moment bijzonder mooie en waardevolle Oosterse collecties. De belangrijkste is zonder twijfel de uitzonderlijke Japanse collectie, die een beeld biedt van de Japanse cultuur en die geschonken werd na de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Deze catalogus is beschikbaar in een Nederlandstalige en een Franstalige versie. ‎

‎Cornelis Schut : A Flemish Painter of the High Baroque. ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1996 Hardback, original editor's jacket, english 19x25 cm., 453 pp., 191 b/w illustrations. ISBN 9782503504421.‎

‎Pictura Nova PICT 1. This publication is a workable chronology for Cornelis Schut's paintings with an analysis of style, iconography and patronage, taking into account past scholarship. It is a monograph on the Antwerp artist, whose surviving oeuvre dates from the mid-1620s to the 1650s. ‎

‎THE HISTORY OF UNILEVER. A STUDY IN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE. VOLUME I and II,‎

‎London, Cassell, 1954 Two volumes, bound, red cloth with gold impression on backs, 145 x 235mm., 335 + 480pp., illustration on separate (fold out) plates.‎

‎First edition. Study on soap trade by Unilever. In good condition.‎

‎On a Method of making Visible the Paths of Ionising Particles through a Gas.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1911. Small 4to. Contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A stamp to verso of titlepage and a few other leaves. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A."", Vol. LXXXV. XXIII,605,XXIV pp. and 11 plates. (Entire volume offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 285-288 a. 1 plate. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the paper which describes the final version of his invention, the famous Cloud-Chamber, - the first Cloud Chamber was invented by him in 1896 - for making visible and photographing the paths of charged particles, an invention for which Wilson received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1827. By using the Cloud Chamber he was here (1911) able to observe the track of an alpha ray by condensing water drops onto the ions produced by its passage.The Cloud Chamber, which Rutherford called ""the most original apparatus in the whole history of physics"", became standard equipment in physics laboratories, and made possible numerous important discoveries in the fields of particle and nuclear physicsAfter 1896 ""Wilson continued to experiment with ultraviolet radiation and other techniques for producing condensation effects, but soon concentrated on atmospheric electricity, not returning to the cloud chamber until December 1910. He designed an improved chamber with new methods of illumination and the possibility of photographing the results. At this time Wilson realized that it might be possible to reveal the track of an a ray by condensing water drops onto the ions produced by its passage. During March 1911 he saw this effect produced in his apparatus. Thus, the elucidation of phenomena seen in the Scottish hills led to the possibility of studying the processes of radioactivity, and the Wilson cloud chamber became an important piece of laboratory equipment. But it was in the study of cosmic rays that it achieved its full power, particularly in the refined form developed by Patrick Blackett, in which it was possible to study particles of very high energy and the production of electron-positron pairs with the chamber situated in a strong magnetic field."" (DSB).‎

‎Condensation of Water Vapour in the Presence of Dust-free Air and other Gases. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received March 15, - Read April 8, 1897.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1897, Volume 189 - Series A. - Pp. 265-307. Clean fine. Textillustrations, depicting Wilson's famous apparatus‎

‎First printing of this groundbreaking paper in which Wilson describes the invention which made it possible to view the track of a single atomic projectile or electron. The invenvention of the ""Dust-Chamber"" made it possible for J.J. Thomson in 1897 to calculate the charge of the electron, and thereby finding its mass, since the ratio between the two was known. In most cases it was found that the track of the particle is a straight, or nearly straight line.""C.T.R. Wilson had been developing his cloud-chamber, which was to provide the most powerfull of all methods of investigation in atomic physics. In moist air, if a certain degree of supersaturation is exceeded this can be secured by a sudden expansion of the air) condensation takes place on dust-nuclei, when any are present: if by preliminary operations condensation is made to take place on the dust-nuclei, and the resulting droplets are allowed to settle, the air in the chamber is thereby freed from dust. If now X-rays or radiation from a radioactive substance are passed into the chamber, and if the degree of supersaturation is sufficient, condensation again takes place: this is due to the production of ions by the radiation. Thus the tracks of ionising radiations can be made visible by the sudden expansion of a moist gas, each ion becoming the centre of a visible globule of water. Wilson showed that the ions produced by uranium radiation were identical with those produced by X-rays."" (Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity"" II:p.4).‎

‎Über die Expansionsapparat zur Sichtsbarmachung der Bahnen ionisierender Teilchen in Gasen, und über einige mittels dieses Apparats gewonnene Ergebnisse. Mit 23 Figuren im Text und auf 5 Tafeln. (Eingegangen 6. Oktober 1912). (On an Expansion Apparatu...‎

‎Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1913. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. Wrappers loose. In ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"", 10. bd., Heft 1. Pp. 1-138 (entire issue offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 34-54, textillustrations, showing apparatus and 5 photographic plates, showing ionizing by Alpha-, Beta- and Röntgen- radiation).‎

‎Together with the English version - published 1912 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society - this is Wilson's main paper relating ""that the track of an ionizing particle might be made visible and photographed by condensing water of the ions which is liberated"". The first trails were obtained in 1911 where he submitted a short note of this to the Proceedings. In the offered paper he published the first tracks made by the ionizing particles of alpha, beta and Röntgen-rays. This, Wilson Cloud-Chamber, became an extremely valuable instrument of fundamental research, the discovery of the positron in 1932 and the kaon in 1963 were made by using cloud chambers as detectors.""But the whole course of the particle appears infinitely more clearly by the method invented by C.T.R. Wilson in 1911 and named after him. The radiation is allowed to enter an expansion-chamber, containing a gas saturated with water vapour. A sudden expansion of the chamber cools the gas, and cloud-drops are then formed instantly around the ions produced along the tracks of the particles. By suitable illumination these tracks can be made to stand out clearly as if they had been described by luminous projectiles. The ""Altmeister"" of modern nuclear physics, Lord Rutherford, once called the Wilson chamber ""the most original and wonderful instrument in scientific history"".""Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber. Inspired by sightings of the Brocken spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis in 1894, he began to develop expansion chambers for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in moist air. Very rapidly he discovered that ions could act as centers for water droplet formation in such chambers. He pursued the application of this discovery and perfected the first cloud chamber in 1911. In Wilson's original chamber the air inside the sealed device was saturated with water vapor, then a diaphragm is used to expand the air inside the chamber (adiabatic expansion). This cools the air and water vapor starts to condense. When an ionizing particle passes through the chamber, water vapor condenses on the resulting ions and the trail of the particle is visible in the vapor cloud. Wilson, along with Arthur Compton, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his work on the cloud chamber. (Wikipedia).‎

‎On the Condension Nuclei produced in Gases by the Action of Röntgen Rays, Uranium Rays, Ultra-violet Light, and other Agents. Received October 29, - Read November 24, 1898.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1899). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 192 - Series A. Pp. 403-453. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Wilson's second importent paper describing his further experiments with his ""Cloud Chamber"".""To the period 1895-1912 belongs the development of an instrument which to my mind is the most original and wonderful in scientific history.I refer to the cloud or expansion chamber of C.T.R. Wilson...It was a wonderful advance to be able to se, so to speak, the details of the adventures of these particles in their flight through the gas....""(Lord Rutherford).""C.T.R. Wilson had been developing his cloud-chamber, which was to provide the most powerfull of all methods of investigation in atomic physics. In moist air, if a certain degree of supersaturation is exceeded this can be secured by a sudden expansion of the air) condensation takes place on dust-nuclei, when any are present: if by preliminary operations condensation is made to take place on the dust-nuclei, and the resulting droplets are allowed to settle, the air in the chamber is thereby freed from dust. If now X-rays or radiation from a radioactive substance are passed into the chamber, and if the degree of supersaturation is sufficient, condensation again takes place: this is due to the production of ions by the radiation. Thus the tracks of ionising radiations can be made visible by the sudden expansion of a moist gas, each ion becoming the centre of a visible globule of water. Wilson showed that the ions produced by uranium radiation were identical with those produced by X-rays."" (Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity."" II, p. 4).‎