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"WHEWELL, WILLIAM - A PIONEER-WORK ON TIDES WITH THE FIRST COTIDAL WORLD-MAP.
Reference : 42692
(1833)
Essay towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines. Read May 2, 1833.
(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part I. Pp. 147-236, a few textillustr.,1 engraved plate and 2 large folded engraved maps (a general, representing the greater part of the world (42x93 cm) and Chart of the British Isles, drawn and engraved by J.& C. Walker.). A small tear to world map. Clean and fine.
First appearance of this classic, pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena. It is the first in a series of 16 papers Whewell made for the Royal Society. It contains the first printed cotidal world-map.""Whewell took over the subject of mapping cotidal lines from Lubbock with entusiasm....He exercised the pioneer's privilege of coining new words and phrases appropriate to his subject. Many failed to stick, some phrases of Whewell's origin still occasionally used are: 'age of the tides', 'luni-tidal interval', 'semi-menstrual inequality' etc, etc....Whewell's initial cotidal map for the world ocean was presented in his first paper of 1833 (the paper offered). By his own admission, it was entirely preliminary and tentative, what nowadays might be called a ""strawman"", to stimulate discussionm. He later (1836) suggested smll modifications, especially near the coast of North America"" these were incorporated in an 'improved' world map by G.B. Airy in his celebrated tratise on ""Tides and wave"", (Cartwright in ""Tides. A Scientific History"", pp.110-112.)
"WHEWELL, W. - THE FOUNDATION OF MATHEMATICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY.
Reference : 46098
(1825)
A general Method of Calculating the Angles made by any Planes of Chrystals, and the Laws according to which they are formed. Read November 25, 1824.
(London, G. and W. Nicol, 1825). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1825 - Part I. Pp. 87-130 and 2 engraved plates with many figs. Upper right corner dampstained, mostly on the first page and here only slightly touching a few letters.
First appearance of this importent paper in which Whewell gave crystallography a mathematical foundation.""In a paper read before the Royal Society in 1824, Whewell, according to Herbert Deas, ""laid the foundations of mathematical crystallography."" His system for calculating the angles of planes of crystals assumed that crystals are aggregates of small rhomboids that can be thought to shrink below the level of possible measurement, thus suggesting that crystals are latticelike. In 1825 Whewell visited Mohs in Germany. In 1828, the year in which Whewell became professor of mineralogy, he published a revision of Mohs’s system of mineralogical classification.""(DSB).
farewell symphony.
London, Vintage, 1998 Paperback, 504pp., 13x19.5cm., good cond. ISBN 0099768011.
Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia
1962 Oxford University Press - 1962 - In-8, cartonnage toilé vert sous jaquette de l'éditeur - 455 pages - Nombreuses illustrations en N&B hors texte - Ouvrage en anglais - Envoi de l'auteur (dédicace) à Jean et Aline Raynal en première page de garde
Bon état - Jaquette légèrement défraichie (Menus frottements, infimes tâches) - Dos de la jaquette légèrement insolé
East Sussex
Spurbooks Ltd 1978 160 pages 13 4x2 2x21 2cm. 1978. Broché. 160 pages.
couverture défraîchie intérieur propre dos ridé intérieur propre
THE HEART OF ENGLAND. FROM THE WELSH BORDERS TO STRATFORD-UPON-AVON,
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996 Pictorial paperback, oblong: 245 x 190mm., 160pp., profound colour illustration. ISBN 0297833812.
Covers the area of lush pastureland and gentle, rolling hills that stretches from Shrewsbury in the north to Gloucester in the south, and from the Welsh borders in the west to around Stratford-upon-Avon in the east. Good condition.
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.
(And:) Who's who in the Roman world. (And:) Who's who in classical mythology. (By) J. HAZEL & M. GRANT.
Lnd., N.Y., Routledge, 2002.
3 vols: X,284;X,367;XII,367 p. Hardb. 24 cm (Including dustjackets, in slipcase) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs)
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.
"(WIBERG, MARTIN) - THE WIBERG CALCULATING MACHINE PRESENTED.
Reference : 59088
(1863)
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.
"WIEN, WILLY. (WILHELM). - DETERMINING THE MASS AND VELOCITY OF CANAL RAYS.
Reference : 43653
(1898)
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.
Wiepke Loos, Marijn Schapelhouman, Rijksmuseum (Netherlands), R. J. A. te Rijdt
Reference : 026212
(2002)
ISBN : 9789040087066
Aquarellen van de Haagse School - de collectie Drucker-Fraser
2002 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Hardcover As New
Relié, jaquette: Comme Neuf, 30 x 26 cm, 271 pages, Néerlandais, Illustrations, état: Comme Neuf [Cette description peut avoir été traduite par une IA.]
La mystique de l'Opium dans l'histoire et dans l'art.
Parkstone international. 2004. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur frais. 95 pages, jaquette conservée, nombreuses photos et illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleur hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 633.7-Plantes alcaloïdes (tabac, thé, cacao, café, pavot)
Classification Dewey : 633.7-Plantes alcaloïdes (tabac, thé, cacao, café, pavot)
Greek Historical Writing And Apollo: Two Lectures Delivered Before The University Of Oxford
Kessinger Publishing LLC 2007 48 pages 14 986x0 762x22 86cm. 2007. Broché. 48 pages.
Comme neuf fac simile de l'édition de 1908
Nouvelles/Short Stories --- bilingue anglais/français
Pocket 1989 in12. 1989. mass_market. Ce recueil de trois nouvelles d'Oscar Wilde traduit et présenté par Gérard Hardin inclut 'Le Fantôme de Canterville' l'histoire d'un clochard artiste-peintre et le récit du sacrifice d'un oiseau et d'un prince. L'édition bilingue propose le texte intégral avec notes
Bon état
Ballade de la Géole de Reading - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (bilingue)
Guy Chambelland "Poésie-Club", 1970. In-12 broché (19 x 12,3 cm), 111 pages. Présentation et traduction de Daniel Mauroc. Texte en anglais avec traduction française en regard. Petit ex-libris. Excellent état, très bel exemplaire.
Ballade de la Géole de Reading - The ballad of Reading Gaol. Burins originaux de Tavy Notton.
P., Editions de l'Odéon, 1951. In-4 en feuilles (33 x 24 cm), couverture rempliée et titrée en rouge. Sans le double emboîtage. 116 pages, illustré de 18 burins originaux dont 7 hors-texte, par TAVY NOTTON. Texte bilingue, en anglais et en français. Tirage limité à 180 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci le n° 163 sur vélin de Rives.
Progressez en anglais grâce à Oscar Wilde : Volume 1: Tome 1
VASSEUR 2012 10 6x1x14 8cm. 2012. Broché.
Très bon état
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.
Historium: With new foreword by Sir Tony Robinson (Welcome To The Museum)
Kings Road Publishing 2016 112 pages 28x2x37 6cm. 2016. Relié. 112 pages.
Très bon état - L'ouvrage qui n'a jamais été lu peut présenter de légères traces de stockage mais est du reste en très bon état. envoi rapide et soigné dans un emballage adapté depuis France
Historium: With new foreword by Sir Tony Robinson (Welcome To The Museum)
Kings Road Publishing 2016 112 pages 28x2x37 6cm. 2016. Relié. 112 pages.
Très bon état
