‎The cup of knowledge. A key to the mysteries of divination .‎

‎ 1924 Editions non renseignées (Great Britain) - Mars 1924 - In-8 broché, couverture illustrée - 43 pages - Texte en anglais - Hors texte en couleurs dans l'ouvrage, illustrations dans le texte ‎

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‎Dos fendu à la page 14 et 31 sans désolidarisation des feuillets (voir photos) Assez bon ‎

‎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) ‎

‎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.***library stamps present on title page and spine 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. ‎

‎Hamburgers Savoureux‎

‎Könemann 1997 12 954x1 016x19 812cm. 1997. Broché.‎

‎Bon état‎

‎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).‎

‎Investigations on X-Rays and Beta-Rays by the Cloud Method.. Part I. - X-Rays. Part II. - Beta-Rays. (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1923. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A small stamp to verso of titlepage and on foot of a few leaves.. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Series A, Vol. 104. VI,(6),676,XXXII pp., textillustr. and plates. (Entire volume offered). Wilson's papers: pp. (1-) 24 and 12 plates + pp. 192-212 and 9 plates.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Wilson had brought his Cloud Chamber to perfection and showed the photographic tracks of the particles. The Cloud Chamber was the first detector of radioacticity and nuclear transmutations and it played an importent role in experimental particle physics e.g. the discovery of the positron. Wilson received the Nobel prize - together with Arthur Compton - in physics in 1927 for his work on the Cloud Chamber.""The 21 cloud chamber pictures of X-rays and beta-rays on coated stock printed recto only were the culmination of many years research by Wilson and at last showed the full potential of this method as a tool for particle physicists. Early in 1911 (Wilson) was the first person to see and photograph the tracks of individual alpha-particles and electrons. The event aroused great interest as the paths of the alpha-particle were just as W.H. Bragg had drawn them in publication some years earlier. But it was not until 1923 (the paperoffered) that the clous chamber was brought to perfection and led to his two, beautifully illustrated classic papers on the track of electron."" (The Nobel Foundation).‎

‎On the Electrical Conductivity of Flames Conatining Salt Vapours. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received March 19,- Read April 27, 1899.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1899). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1899, Volume 192 - Series A. - Pp. 499-528, textillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Wilson's paper in which he investigated the mobility of ions in flames, studying the electrical discharge in rarified gases...and following J.J. Thomson, made an attempt to determine the charge of the electron by using the cloud chamber. The experiment, in which he observed the fall of the condensation drops in the vertical electric fiels and its absence, was a forerunner of the more precise technique developed by Robert Millikan. (DSB 18, supplement II, p. 992).‎

‎Jacky Daydream‎

‎Yearling 2008 368 pages 13 1x19 5x2 7cm. 2008. Broché. 368 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎Lectures on our Israelitish origin.‎

‎London, James Nisbet, 1876. 13 x 20, 452 pp., reliure d'édition pleine toile, bon état (reliure état d'usage).‎

‎"Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice; fifth edition revised and enlarged."‎

‎DISQUE VINYLE 33T LET 'EM IN, THE NOTE YOU NEVER WROTE, SHE'S MY BABY, BEWARE MY LOVE, WINO JUNKO.‎

‎SACEM. non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en couleurs, disque en anglais.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Disque n°C068-97581 Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎DISQUE VINYLE 33T LET'EM IN, THE NOTE YOU NEVER WROTE, SHE'S MY BABY, BEWARE MY LOVE, WINO JUNKO, SILLY LOVE SONGS, COOK OF THE HOUSE, TIME TO HIDE, MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, SAN FERRY ANNE, WARM AND BEAUTIFUL.‎

‎PATHE MARCONI. non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en couleurs, disque en anglais. Quelques images à l'intérieur de la pochette. Produit par PAUL MCCARTNEY.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Disque n° 2C068-97581 Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎DISQUE VINYLE 33T LET'EM IN, THE NOTE YOU NEVER WROTE, SHE'S MY BABY, BEWARE MY LOVE, WINO JUNKO, SILLY LOVE SONGS, COOK OF THE HOUSE, TIME TO HIDE, MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, SAN FERRY ANNE, WARM AND BEAUTIFUL.‎

‎STEREO. non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en couleurs, disque en anglais.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Disque n° 2C068-97581 Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Wire Waltz - The Last Town Chorus‎

‎ poche. Sans date. CD. Traduit de Sénès Florence - Illustrations de Jankovics györgy‎

‎en très bon état - pochette cartonnée- envoi rapide et soigné dans une enveloppe à bulle depuis France‎

‎Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)‎

‎LITTMAN LIB OF JEWISH CIVILIZA 1990 712 pages 13 97x5 33x21 08cm. 1990. Broché. 712 pages.‎

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‎Bon état dos insolé intérieur propre bonne tenue ternissures sur la tranche‎

‎Le triangle des Bermudes‎

‎Book Club Associates 1976 15 748x2 286x23 876cm. 1976. board_book.‎

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‎Bon état‎

‎The Three Pillars of Judaism: A Search for Faith and Values‎

‎SCM Press 1996 144 pages 13x21x1cm. 1996. Broché. 144 pages. A Search for Faith and Values‎

‎Bibliotheca Vallis Sancti Martini in Lovanio. volume 1: De bewaarde handschriften. Bijdrage tot de studie van het geestesleven in de Nederlanden (15de-18de eeuw). A Contribution to the Study of Intellectual Life in the Netherlands (15th-18th C.)‎

‎Leuven, Universitaire Pers, 1978 Hardback, Nederlands, originele uitgeversomslag, 16x24 cm., 862 pp. ISBN 9789061860723.‎

‎ Symbolae Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis - Series A (hardcover) : 08a.‎

‎Pierre, un regard subjectif sur l'evolution 1984 - 1994; Ein subjektiver Blick auf die Entwicklung 1984 - 1994 Stone, A Subjective Look at the Evolution 1984 - 1994; Steen, Een Subjectieve Kijk op de Evolutie 1984 - 1994. ‎

‎Bruxelles, Atelier, , 1994 softcover, 229pp. illustrations . ISBN 9071386228.‎

‎Ausstellungskatalog Atelier 340 Brussels, 1.7. - 16.10.1994‎

‎THE AMERICANA LIBRARY OF LAIRD U. PARK, JR.,‎

‎, New York, Sotheby's, 2000, Softcover, stiff wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, 200 x 270mm., 328pp., numerous color and b/w illustrations.‎

‎Sotheby's catalogue for the New York auction of the Americana library of Laird U. Park, Jr. One of the most important Americana auctions of recent times, that was held in New York City on November 29, 2000. Good condition.‎

‎On Cystic Oxide, a new species of Urinary Calculus. Read July 5, 1810.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 223-230. Light browning to first leaf. Wide-margined.‎

‎First appearance of this fundamental paper in the history of organic chemistry in which Wollaston announced his discovery of ""Cystine"", the very first of the amino acids, the building blocks of protein, to be discovered.Wollaston ""in 1812 (correct 1810) identified a new and rare type of stone, which he called ""cystic oxide"" since it occurred in the bladder. This was later renamed cystine, the first of the amino acids to be discovered. Fourcroy and Vauquelin reported similar investigations, but unaccountably gave no recognition to Wollaston. This led Alexander Marcet, a physician, to set matters right in a popular work dedicated to Wollaston.""(DSB XIV, p. 492).Garrison & Morton: 668.1.‎