London: Macmillan, 1907. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xliv, 786 pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontis piece displaying b/w engraving of "The Logical Machine" a kind of proto-calculator. William Stanley Jevons (1835 - 1882), was an English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. His writings, particularly this..... More
Dordrecht; Boston; Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXIV, 590pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. The aim of the Symposium, the proceedings of which constitute this book, was to make a cross-check of the numerous recent results in ground-based and..... More
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VI, [2], 408pp (Texte), [52]pp (Plates), [4]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable work on Aristarchus (310 BC – ca. 230 BC), the ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that..... More
London: William Pickering, 1834. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxv, 570pp. 3/4 calf over marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Age rubbing to edges. Corners worn and slightly bumped. Light foxing to endpapers. Marbled edges. Treatise VIII - Bridgewater Treatises on the Power Wsdom and Goodness of God..... More
Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1973. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 120pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Mendel Sachs. Remarkable work in which the author presents a lucid, non-mathematical account of the role of the continuous field..... More
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann, 1908. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 43, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. French physicist Pierre Duhem was one of the first to appreciate the work of American scientist W. J. Gibbs, writing the earliest critical examination of Gibbs' “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances” in 1887, and..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1929. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. VIII, 326, [2]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. Scarce monograph on the molecular scattering of light. Jean Cabannes was a French physicist specialising in optics. From 1910 to 1914 Cabannes worked in the laboratory of Charles Fabry in Marseille..... More
New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1865. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 375pp. Black cloth, gold lettering on spine, marbled edges. Includes chapters on Definitions, Operations of the Mind, Quantities, and Science and Art of Numbers. Head and tail lips of spine missing, rubbing to all edges. Ex-libris of C...... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Large Quarto. xi (1), (14), 67 (3)pp. Original green half cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine housed in illustrated cardboard slipcase. Illustrated title pages. Initials, decorative head- and endpieces. Beautifully illustrated with b/w scientific drawings is this facsimile reprint..... More
New York: Rizzoli, (1990). First edition. Hardcover. Lg. folio. 224pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original color illustrated dust jacket. Endpapers with color reproduction of the 1662 map of Nova et Accuratissma Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. "Johannes Blaeu's The Atlas Major, first published in 1662, was and..... More
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1949. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 155, [1]pp. Original yellow cloth. Publisher's logo on title page. Third edition of Hilbert and Ackermann's Principles of Theoretical Logic. The book was intended as an introduction to mathematical logic, and to the forthcoming book of Hilbert and Bernays dedicated essentially to the..... More
Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Remarkable work on Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600), the renowned Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of..... More
Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, 1843. Hardcover. 16mo. iv. 252pp. Full leather binding. Teachers' manual on math. Age wear, bending and staining to boards, with front board splitting alongside spine. Binding still firm. Owner's inscription and bookstore plate at inside of front board. Spotting and staining throughout. Still, very readable. Tight..... More
México: Published by the author, 1885. Vigésimasétima edicion (27th edition). Hardcover. 12mo. 3/4 red cloth over green paper covered boards. Publisher's logo on title page. This work was published in order to introduce the metric decimal system of weights and measures to Mexican students. Covers damp-stained and rippled. Upper front..... More
Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, n/d. Hardcover. 8vo. 143pp. Tan cloth with title in gilt on cover and spine with original dust jacket. Some scuffing and minor creasing to dj. Illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of photographs and drawings. Text in Spanish. Dj in very good, book in..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924. Third Impression. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 416pp. Original burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind stamped lettering on front cover. Remarkable work bringing within reach of secondary teachers, college students, and others at a like stage of mathematical advancement, a scientific treatment..... More
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann, 1908. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 43, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. In this brief sketch, French physicist, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science Pierre Duhem, emphasizes on the two points that Gibbs was essentially an algebraist and that "his mind was of..... More
New York: Chelsea Publishing Company, 1950. First American edition translated from the second German edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 172, [8]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. "Principles of Mathematical Logic" represents one of Hilbert's important contributions to that debate. Although symbolic logic has grown considerably in the subsequent..... More
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 81 (2)pp. modern blue three quarter cloth over decorative boards with author and tile typed and glued vertically to spine with tape. Decorative endpapers. Eight lectures on physical chemistry given on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 240pp. Original blue leather with blind-stamped ruling on cover and gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Black endpapers. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard. Account of the discovery of a new elementary gas argon in 1894. On request of a number of..... More
New York: Hurst and Company, No date. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, 501pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece Darwin portrait engraving. Reprinted from the sixth London edition, with all additions and corrections. The ground breaking work on evolution with "Historical Sketch" of the..... More
Madison; Milwaukee; London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 428, [2]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Physical science in the 16th century marked the transition from medieval to modern scientific thought; thus its study is crucial to an understanding..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1920. Third edition (extended and improved). Softcover. Sm. 8vo. 96(2)pp. Original wrappers. Some chipping, creasing and minor staining to wrappers. Two by one inch watermark to top edge. Watermark visible up to page 1. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text. A booklet on Einstein's "Theory..... More
Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 464pp. Gray cloth with imprinted gold-lettered green title-label in original dust jacket. Intellect and Hope looks at Michael Polyani's philosophical position as the fertile ground out of which germination of other ideas can evolve. Tail of spine slightly bumped..... More
Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. [3],xx,416,[4],pp. Tan cloth. Staining to cloth, tail of spine slightly chipped, rubbing to bottom corners. Marbled page edges. Decorated endpapers. Signed by previous owner on title page. Volume XII of "Wissenschaft und Hypothese." Text in German. Binding in good-, interior in very good..... More