Search Results: Authors starting with O from Kuenzig Books

Munchen: J. F. Lehmanns, 1922. Boards. Good. An interesting illustrated medical book. With 92 full page photogravures of internal organs and 133 numbered pages. Original paper covered boards, worn at the edges. Thin cloth spine nearly perished with pieces missing at base of the spine. Otherwise sound, a usable copy. Boards.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. and The MacMillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 890 pages plus indexes and front matter of individual issues, and volume index (xlvi pp) in rear. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. Blue buckram binding. Offered is the entire Volume 159 of Nature, A Weekly Journal of Science, Jan. 4, 1947 to Jun 28, 1947. Ex-corporate library (Caterpillar Tractor Co Research Library), with preliminary pages and advertising (but not original issue wrappers) bound in for each issue. Closely trimmed when rebound, not affecting text. Portions of two issues with some dampstaining lower right. Occasional library stamps, pocket removed from front pastedown. Several places where paper was taped to individual pages, with minor paper loss when removed. The two important papers referenced below are in fine condition. Cloth. Contains two key articles for which C. F. Powell was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1950 "for his development of the photographic… Read More

Neuchatel: Antoine Simonin Verlag, 1996. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. [10], 243, [1] pages. 12 x 8 1/2 inches. Publisher's blue papered boards in pictorial dust jacket. This copy inscribed by the author on the title page to Robert Cheney (past Director of Clocks, Watches, and Scientific Instruments at Skinner's auction house and clock historian with his card laid in). Text entirely in German language. With 186 figures in the text. Boards. Roughly translated into English: "Astronomical clocks and world models of the priests mechanic in the 18th century

Paris: Crochard, 1820. First Edition. Flexible paper boards. Near Fine. First Edition. 448 pages. Early temporary binders paper boards (light blue paper over very thin pasteboard), laid endpapers and stub. Evidence that the textblock was originally stab-stitched and then sewn when the binding was applied. Paper spine label with manuscript titling, and paper label and 2 chalked numbers on the spine. Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Tome XIV complete with half title, entire volume offered. Protected in a 1/4 leather over cloth professionally made clamshell case with gilt spine titling. Flexible paper boards. Contains Oersted's "EXPERIMENTA CIRCA EFFECTUM, etc. Experiences sur l'effet du conflict electrique sur l'aiguille animantee" on pages 417-420, a very important work that led to the Discovery of Electromagnetism and informed subsequent work done by Ampere, Arago, Maxwell and Faraday. Initially published in a rare Latin pamphlet (known to Bern Dibner in only a few copies), this important discovery… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1894. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 284 pages plus 40 pages of advertisements. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. Original blue cloth spine and grey cloth boards. Plain blue cloth spine. Binding approaching loose. Many plates which illustrate fraternity logos, professional societies, and personages. Alma Mater music insert a bit proud. The Class Yearbook (Annual) for the Class of 1894 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a small technical school down the road from Harvard. A few plates with dampstaining, occasional smudges, but on the whole a nice copy. Cloth. Probably printed by the E.B. Sheldon Co, New Haven, Conn. whose advertisement on page 39 notes they make a specialty of College Annuals. By the same token, many of the unmarked illustrated plates may be by John Andrew & Son Co. Illustrators and Manufacturers of Fine Books, Boston Mass whose ad on the previous pages notes the same. Other plates are marked by John A. Lowell &… Read More

[ Taipei, Taiwan ]: Directorate General of Posts, 1961. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. Variously paginated. 6 x 8 1/4 inches. Tan printed wrappers. A good working copy in the original wraps (base of spine perished, minor soiling and warping of covers). Wraps. "Three systems for the romanization of Chinese characters prevail in this country, viz., the (1) Inland Mission System, (2) the Wade-Giles System, and (3) The National Language Romanization System. Such systems, though good for phonetic purpose, are not applicable to the romanization of places in China, in which respect the Postal Romanization is the only one enjoying a wide circulation in various circles as may be seen in newspapers, periodicals, maps, charts, books, writings, dictionaries, etc...With such a book in hand, one will have no difficulty to find out the standard romanization for (1) names of people, (2) names of places and (3) the accurate sound of every character." (from the preface). This edition published in 1000… Read More

Philadelphia: Stephenson Letter Service. Stiff Wrappers. Near Fine. 107 pages xeroxed in printed thin cardboard wrapper (cloth at spine). Marked "These books may only be purchased from the Medical Clinic at the University Hospital" and previous doctor's name on inside front cover. No preamble or introduction, just 107 pages (printed on one side) of symptoms of ailments (first section is "Emergency Treatment of Poisonings" and the immediate treatments necessary. An interesting view into state of the art treatments in the 1930s, at least from one hospital's view. Scarce on the market, and only one copy in a PA institution listed on OCLC/Worldcat. Stiff Wrappers.

10, Rue Pasquier, 10 Paris: Emile Offenbacher, [ no date ]. Wraps. Fair. 93, [1] pages. With order postcard laid in. Printed buff wrappers, covers detached, spine perished. Paper browned, fragile. "Printed in France" in manuscript internally. With 341 titles offered. Illustrated. 7 x 9 inches. Wraps. The rare first catalogue of this important bookseller.

10, Rue Pasquier, 10 Paris: Emile Offenbacher, [ no date ]. Wraps. Good. 42, [2] pages. Printed buff wrappers, paper fragile, browned. With 145 titles offered. 7 x 9 inches. Wraps. The rare second catalogue of this important bookseller.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils / Gauthier-Villars et Masson et Cie, 1899. Boards. Near Fine. Two works bound in one volume. Work one: [4], 30, [1] pages. Work two: [3]-190, [1] pages. Half calf over marbled boards. 7 3/8 x 5 inches. Light browning to pages, several pages with soiling. Boards. The titles translate roughly to: "The Photochromie, print photographic color prints BOUND WITH The Photography of Color" Ogonowski's title addresses Photochromie, it's process and application. The second work by Clerc, "La Photographie des Couleurs" is part of the series entitled "Encyclopédie scientifique des aide-mémoire" and includes discussions of various known experimenters and their experiences. This example lacks the 32 pages of advertisements found in some copies.

Tokyo: Radio Research Laboratories, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. [2], x, 346 pages. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Sunning to the spine panel and extremities. Otherwise bright copy. Numerous folding tables. Wraps.

Chicago: Published by the Author, 1885. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. iv, [1], 238, [2-ads] pages. Small 8vo. Publishers brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine panel. Minor surface insect damage to covers, lower corners bumped. A bit musty. Clean internally, noting light browning to paper overall. Cloth. Designed for the physician, pharmacist and chemist who needs a working knowledge of these areas.

New York, N.Y.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1956. Later printing. Wraps. Very Good. Later printing. [1]-8 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Self-wrappers. "MONOGRAPH B-1611 | Reissued May, 1956" upper right. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. The staples are rusty and affect the paper. Unlike many Bell System Monographs, this re-issue was apparently not issued with the characteristic blue/grey wrappers. Wraps. The Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Vol 36, pp. 1324-1331, November 1948 first published this paper. There is no known IRE offprint for this paper. Hence, the first printing of the Bell Telephone Systems Monograph (#B-1611, 1948) constitutes the first separate edition. This Bell Monograph was also later reprinted, as here, in May 1956. While the foundations for Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) were laid many years before, Shannon, Oliver, and Pierce were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for its invention. The US Patent Office… Read More

[Genessee County, New York]: Not published, 1864. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 360 numbered pages plus notations on endpapers. Folio (9 x 13 3/4 inches). Stamped reverse calf with leather with diced leather reinforcements on the edges and center of spine. Three compartment labels on the spine: "Journal | D | W.D.O. & Co." the middle on red leather, the others on brown. Marbled endpapers. "W. D. Olmsted & Co. Journal D" inked on flyleaf. Entirely manuscript journal/ledger in multiple hands with additional notes on the blank endpapers. Sound, if worn. Boards. The journal records many interesting items. One entry J Lathrop & Co [bankers in Le Roy] draft $1000 Sep 1,, 1863. Another J Lathrop & Co. to cash: "To this amt Pennsylvannia money" for $150. Many transactions with certain kinds and amounts of lumber - we see pine, oak, hemlock, black walnut moulding, etc. Projects include doors, windows, sash, coffin, clapboards, shingles, norway [pine?], bead, moulding, matched, lath… Read More

Boston and Waltham, MA: Itek Corporation, 1958. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good. Later Printing. x, 187 pages + errata. Blue cloth. Clean internally noting previous owner bookplate on front cover. Cloth. A set of mathematical notes related to image processing. "Attention is first focused on linear electrical systems as fltering devices, with emphasis on the convenience and suitability of employing Fourier techniques. Consideration is then given to the purely geometric aspects of image formation, with emphasis on the description of an optical system as a two-dimensional spatial frequency filter. Much of the remaining text takes into account the effects of amplitude and/or phase variations (aberrations) on the spatial frequence response of diffraction-limited systems" (from the Abstract).

Rathenow: Rathenower Optische Werke, 1952. Wraps. Good. 8 pages self wrappers. Disbound, spine taped. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Pictorial wrappers. Nicely illustrated. Text in German. Wraps. Details their microscope with a built in camera cassette. Title translation in English: "ROW Optik Rathenow 35mm camera microscope "Mikrophot"

Rathenow: Rathenower Optische Werke, 1952. Wraps. Good. 12 pages plus wrappers. Disbound. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Pictorial wrappers. Staples removed so pages are loose. Nicely illustrated. Text in German. Front cover with printed "ROW 30-100-1", rear with "Q/V/4/59-2 (ZL1-160-352) Druckerei Fortschritt Erfurt" (presumably printing codes indicating where and by whom printed). Wraps. Rough english translation of title: "ROW Optik Rathenow working and research microscopes

Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.: CRC Pr I Llc, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. A crisp clean unread copy. Hard Cover.

Tokyo, Basel, Freiburgh, Paris, London, New York, ..: Japan Scientific Societies Press / Karger, 1998. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. viii, 190 pages. 8vo. Publisher's black boards with blue printed dust jacket. Light wear at edges and rubbing to dj. Cloth. Japanese Cancer Association Gann Monographs on Cancer Research No. 45. "This monograph covers molecular advances in EBV virology and oncology, a new role of EBV in gastric carcinogenesis, causal diversion of EBV in hematopoeitic disorders, new sightings of EBV in Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a new therapeutic approach to EBV oncogenesis, global epidemiology of EBV malignancies, and essential features of EBV infection and oncogenisis in terms of viral ubiquity and risk factors.

Pernambuco, Brazil: [self-published], 1837. First Edition. Fair. First Edition. 3 1/4 x 5 inches when folded. One sheet folded in half, with the letter written on two pages and address on a third. Then folded for mailing. Folds and staining. A stampless letter from a Nath. S. Osgood to Col. S. Wilcox updating him regarding putting into port in Pernambuco, Brazil in order to obtain a new mast and the challenges faced therein. His next stop is Mauritius. A transcript and some basic research we've done on the people involved follow. The writer Nath. S. Osgood is probably: CAPT NATHANIEL S OSGOOD Joined the Marine Society Nov 26 1829 Died May 2 1881 aged 80 years Secretary from Nov 30 1848 to Nov 28 1867 Vice President from Nov 30 1876 to Nov 29 1877 President from Nov 29 1877 to Nov 27 1879 Capt Osgood was born April 23 18O1 His first voyage to sea was as supercargo of the brig Herod John Wills master bound to Calcutta next on the ship Potomac Caleb Norris master making 13 voyages to Batavia and Ceylon… Read More