Search Results: Authors starting with W from Milestones of Science Books

Vienna: Trattner, 1754. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (290 x 223 mm). [8], 218 pp. Title page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved headpiece on page 1. Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt decorated, blind ruling to boards, all edges dyed red (slight wear to extremities, boards scratched, corners little bumped). Text clean and crisp throughout. A fine, wide-margined copy in untouched original binding. ---- NLM/Blake 478; Hoover 852; Krieg, MNE II, p. 335; not in Duveen. - RARE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The first monograph on mercury or quicksilver. It treats deposits, ore mining, extraction and purification of the metal, its chemical and physical properties as well as its applications in chemistry, medicine and physics etc. The beautiful title vignette shows a mining scene, the head vignette the use of mercury in the laboratory of the alchemist and the doctor. - Visit our website for… Read More

Berlin: Apud Gottlieb Augustum Lange, 1775. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Large folio (417 x 266 mm). [8], LXXXVIII pp. Title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette by Berger; 13 folding engraved plates (including 2 dublicate outline plates) by Daniel Berger, Carl Christian Glassbach, C. B. Glassbach, and S. G. Kütner, after Johann Bernard Gottfried Hopffer; type ornament head-piece; decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. 19th century half mottled sheep over pastepaper, spine ruled and tooled in gilt in compartments with seven raised bands and tan leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, red-dyed edges, marbled pastedowns (boards rubbed, extremities worn, corners bumped, lacking free endpapers). Text with minor browning, plates with little spotting in places, a few leaves with very slight cockling, lower corner of two leaves with tiny holes, a few additional lower corners creased, outer edge of last plate curled with a few short tears.… Read More

London: printed for T. Evans, and sold by J. Evans, 1789. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5th Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (157 x 94 mm). [2], viii [2], 349 [1] pp.; [4], 368 pp.; [8], 376 pp.; [4], xviii [1], 354, [50] pp.; v [3], 375 [1]. One folding table to vol. 1, half-title and adverts leaf to vol. 3, general index at end of vol. 4. Contemporary speckled calf, spines with red morocco labels titled in gilt (little rubbing to extremities). Internally only little age-toned, occasional spotting (a few leaves stronger). Provenance: N. Newton (signature on title of vols. 1 and 5); W. A. F. Saunders (signatures to first flyleaf, inscribed "Wennington Hall, April 1842"); The library of Hugh Selbourne (small ink stamp to title verso and p.51). Fine set. ---- Duveen, p. 610; Bolton I, 904. - Mixed editions, vol. 1 to 3: fifth edition, vol. 4: fourth edition, vol. 5: first edition. "Based on lectures delivered during the 1770s, first published… Read More

Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Die Entstehung der Kontinente. In: Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt 58/1, 1912, pp. 185-195, 253-256, 305-309, folding plate/map and text illustrations. Gotha: Justus Perthes. 4to (270 x 220 mm). In two volumes (with part I extending into vol. II): xvi, [4], 344 pp., 56 plates, maps and diagrams (some folding). Publisher's original plum cloth, blind-stamped boards (little wear and soiling), spine and front board gilt-lettered. Book block uncut. Some sheets working loose, some reinforced at gutter. Internally clean with only little spotting and browning. Provenanve: Werner Floss. Still very copy. ---- Norman 2192 - FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Wegener was the originator and one of the chief defender's of the theory of continental drift. This, his first paper on the subject, attracted little attention, and it was only with the publication of a… Read More

Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1915. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (222 x 144 mm). iv [2], 94 pp., 20 illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed wrappers (chipping at lower spine repaired with partial loss of printed title), pages untrimmed. Internally clean and unfoxed, a few pencil annotations and markings. Provenance: M.K. Engelbert van Bevervoorde (pencil signature to title-page). A very good copy, rarely found in original publishers binding. ---- DSB XIV, 217; Norman 2192 (journal issue). - First edition in book form of the famous work on the continental drift, the mainwork of Wegener. The text appeared first in Petermanns Mitteilungen

Prag: Im Selbstverlage der Sternwarte, 1886. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Six volumes (all published), 4to (308 x 240 mm). With a total of 56 plates in heliogravure, collotype, photolithography, lithography, and colour printing. Original publisher's printed boards over cloth (little rubbing and soiling, bumping to corners). Internally little age-toned with very minor spotting in places, otherwise clean. Provenance: K. u. k militärisch-geographisches Institut (shelf label to front inner pastedown of each volume and ink stamp to title-page and to margin of a few plates). Collated and complete. A COMPLETE SET OF LADISLAUS WEINEK'S ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH PERFORMED BETWEEN 1885 AND 1909 AT THE IMPERIAL OBSERVATORY, PRAGUE, CONTAINING MUCH OF HIS WORK ON LUNAR TOPOGRAPHY. A variety of techniques have been applied to reproduce the photographs and lunar drawings, such as heliogravure, collotype printing, color-phototype,… Read More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1944. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, vol. 22, 1944. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1944. 8vo (230 x 155 mm). Stapled as issued (spine enforced with yellow tape). Internally somewhat browned throughout. Provenance: small coat of arms stamp. Inscribed and monogrammed 'Mit freundlichen Grüssen C. F.' by the author in pencil to top margin of first page. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION. In this groundbreaking paper on the origin of the solar system and planet formation, Weizäcker introduced a new idea that within the protoplanetary disc a pattern of turbulence-induced eddies was set up. "A suitable combination of clockwise rotation of each vortex with anti-clockwise rotation of the whole system can lead to individual elements of the disc movin around the central mass in Keplerian orbits. Thus there would be very little dissipation of energy due to the overall motion of the system but material would be colliding at… Read More

Schaffhausen: Adam Ziegler, 1727. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (220 x 170 mm). [32], 984, [40] pp., title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author and one full-size engraved illustration, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. All pages uncut. Signatures: [pi]4 )(-3)(4 A-6N4 including first blank. Contemporary half calf, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt (boards rubbed, extremities worn, spine leather cracky, some minor repairs to spine). Text little browned, some scattered black spotting, minor fraying and soiling of outer edges, pencil annotations. Provenance: James Tait Goodrich. ---- br>NLM/Blake 486, Waller 10222. - FIRST EDITION of this monumental work on the internal and external diseases of the head which was posthumously published from the author's manuscripts. It records nearly 50 years' practice in neurological diseases. Wepfer is best known for his treatise on apoplexy, in which he was the first… Read More

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Oblong folio (380 x 465 mm). Title, 2 pages of text and 141 photographs. Original blue cloth. Dedication inscription on inner front cover by R.G.Baxter to the British Astronomical Association. ---- Ewen Whitaker (1922-2016) was astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, becoming the director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association. He then emigrated to the United States and joined the staff of the Yerkes Observatory. In 1960 he left Yerkes, along with Gerard P. Kuiper, helping found the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, eventually becoming research scientist emeritus. He worked on several NASA missions, and was successful in locating the landing site of the Surveyor 3. (This was used to determine the landing site for the Apollo 12 mission.) He has been considered by some to be the world's leading expert on mapping the Moon… Read More

Paris / Cambridge / New York: Hermann & Cie. / The Technology Press / John Wiley & Sons, 1948. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (253 x 165 mm). 194, [2] pp. Publisher's orange wrappers printed in red and black (wrappers a trifle dust-soiled, lower corner of front wrapper with small dog-ear, slight unobtrusive chipping at foot of spine). Text crisp and clean troughout with just a little age-toning. A near fine copy. ---- FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. DSB XIV, p. 347: "[Wiener] has contributed to popularizing a way of thinking in communication theory terms" (DSB). Important contribution to computer technology. The book sees itself as a theory of communication and control processes in machines and living organisms. It is less suitable as a systematic reference work, but it contains important impulses for the architecture of modern calculating machines. - Visit our website to see more images!

London: Printed by W. F. Stanley & Co, 1937. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. 1st Edition. No Binding. Oblong folio. Oblong folio (535 x 550 mm). 23 leaves of square lunar section maps, mixed editions (1937, 1946, 1951). London: Printed by W. F. Stanley & Co. Hand-lettered title-leaf, dated 1946. Sections present, for 1st edition 1937: 9, 23; for 2nd edition, 1946: 4, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 24 (+duplicate with added hand drawing); for 3rd edition, 1951: 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 25. The maps little age-toned, occasional dog-earing. Provenance: Ink stamp of the British Astronomical Association. ---- All editions are very rare. Hugh Percy Wilkins is most noted for his efforts as an amateur astronomer, particularly as a selenographer. He was elected to the British Astronomical Association in 1918 and served as Director of the Lunar Section from 1946-1956. He is probably best known for the classic observing guide he wrote with Patrick Moore. Wilkins produced a number of lunar maps,… Read More

Paris/London: Royer/by the Author, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (220 x 127 mm). 151 [1] pp., including half-title and errata on final page. Bound in contempory half morocco, boards with gilt-tooled frame and central royal coat of arms of Louis XVIII, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (minor rubbing and wear to extremities, front inner hinge cracked). Text generally quite crisp and clean with only very little age-toning and finger-soiling in places, dedication leaf to the king reinforced at gutter, faint spotting and ink correction to title page (some ink offsetting to facing half title verso). ---- Wellcome V, p. 439. RARE FIRST EDITION of this treatise by the London pharmacist John Williams (1792-1858) on eye diseases, which also functions as an advertising pamphlet for a medicament prepared and distributed by him. Dedication copy from the author to the Russian Emperor Alexander I (1777-1825),… Read More

Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1582. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [24], 341, [3] pp., numerous woodcuts in text, last page with woodcut printer's device, pages occasionally slightly browned, some with slight fraying at the lower margin. Modern half leather. Good copy. ---- Durling 4744, Waller 10310, Wellcome 6745. First Edition. Important and early work on the subject. The text woodcuts are showing vessels which are important for the urology. - Einer der frühesten, jedenfalls aber der umfangreichsten Schriften zum Thema. Der in Frankfurt/Oder tätige Jodocus Willich war Universalgelehrter, Hieronymus Reusner reinigte das Werk von medizinischen Fehlern. Die Textholzschnitte - viele wiederholt - bringen Gefässe, die für den Gebrauch des Urologen wichtig sind.

Oxford: Richard Davis at the Sheldonian Theatre, 1672. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume. 4to (197 x 149 mm). [56], 16, 33-565 (i.e. 563), 11 pp., 8 engraved plates of brain anatomy (5 folding); imprimatur leaf bound opposite title, longitudinal half-title g2 bound before the divisional title g1 for part one; page 563 misnumbered 565; general index at the end. Signatures: [pi]2 A4 b-f4 g2 2A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Yyy4 Zzz4(Zzz1 + "Zzzz Aaaa"4, Bbbb2). Bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, rebacked with new morocco spine label lettered in gilt, corners mended, endleaves renewed, dark sprinkled edges (rebacking rubbed, joints cracking). Text with light even browning, occasional spotting mostly to outer margins; instances of very faint blue vertical bands on some leaves, perhaps offsetting from bookmarks that are no longer in place; book block mostly split before p. 87; leaf Zzz4 with small patch of paper torn at fore-margin not affecting text.… Read More

Cologny: Gaspare Storti, 1694. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two parts in one volume. Folio (322 x 218 mm). [16], 586, [18] pp. Half-title, title printed in red and black and with printer's engraved device, engraved portrait of the author by Isabella Piccini and 7 engraved plates, numerous engraved text illustrations, woodcut headpieces and initials, general index. Text in two columns. Bound in early 19th century quarter calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt and with gilt-lettered red label (inner hinge partly broken, boards and extremities lightly rubbed, head of spine and paper over board edges partly chipped). Occasional minor foxing and spotting of text, light waterstaining towards lower corner of first four gatherings, wormtrack to blank bottom margin near gutter of pp. 505-563, short teat to lower edge of p.541/2, a few gatherings with pages partly sticking together at lower gutter (not affecting tex). Provenance: Libreria… Read More

Amsterdam: Gerbrandus Schagen / Daniel Elzevir, 1663. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. I. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae: Quarum prior agit de fermentatione, sive de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore; altera de febribus, sive de motu earundem in sanguine animalium. His accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis. . . Amsterdam: Gerbrandus Schagen, 1663. [32], 376 pp., including engraved additional title (shaved at foot), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. [Bound with II:] WILLIS, Thomas. Pathologiae Cerebri, Et Nervosi Generis Specimen: In quo agitur de Morbis Convulsivis, Et De Scorbuto. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1668. [12], 338, [22] pp. Engraved portrait of the author on leaf *6v, woodcut printer's device on general title, sections with individual running titles, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, final blank Q6. 12mo (132 x 75 mm). Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, yapp edges, spine ink lettered and with printed… Read More

Geneva: Henricum-Albertum Gosse, 1747. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (260 x 205 mm). viii, 581 [1] pp. Including 51 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine with two gilt lettered labels and rich floral gilt decoration, red-dyed edges, and marbled endpapers. ---- Graesse VII 469. Final edition. Volume III of the five-volume encyclopedic standard work of mathematics and exact sciences by Christian Wolff (1679-1754). With plates on optics, perspective, catoptrics, spherical trigonometry, and astronomy, including a lunar chart. The south-up map of the full moon is a rather typical example of the "grossly degraded moon map as found in encyclopedias of the late 1700s. The 'Greek phi' shape in Mare Serenitatis shows that it was based very loosely on the Cassini maps" (Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon, p. 86). - Visit our website for additional images!

London: chez A. Millar, dans le Strand, 1753. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Large folio (540 x 375 mm). [6], 50 pp. With 3 full-page engravings of inscriptions in text and 57 full-page engraved plates numbered I-LVII, including double-page folding panoramic plate I assembled in 3 folding sheets, mounted on stub and bound-in before p.37. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with 7 raised bands richly gilt-decorated in compartments and with gilt-lettered red morocco label in second compartment, outer board edges ruled with triple gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, red-dyed edges (head- and tail of spine, lower corners and bottom of rear board expertly repaired). Occasional very light insignificant spotting of plates, very little browning and in all crisp and clean throughout. Provenance: Dampierre (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown). ---- Berlin Kat. 1884; Blackmer 1834; Fowler 443; Harris 939; RIBA 3707. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH and a fine copy. Wood,… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by H. Chapelle, 1750. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (286 x 226 mm). viii, [4], 84 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece* of the author by Fourdrinier after G. Allen, title printed in red and black, 32 engraved plates (2 folding, 8 in mezzotint), wood-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces, with the errata- and list of subscribers leaves, without the final blank. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered morocco label in first compartment (boards and extremities rubbed, corners bumped and scuffed). Internally very little age-toned, minor spotting to a few leaves only, light offsetting from frontispiece on title-page, tiny hole in plate 28 from paper flaw not affecting image. Provenance: inscribed monogram L.C.B. to front pastedown. An outstanding, bright and crisp copy with very broad margins. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of this attempt at reconciling religion and… Read More