Search Results: Titles starting with U from Milestones of Science Books

1889. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. RARE OFFPRINT IN FIRST EDITION from: Annalen der Physik 36, neue Folge, 1889, pp. 769-783, 1 plate. In original printed wrapper, browned. - The text of a lecture on electric waves delivered 13 December 1888, it relates qualitative experiments undertaken by Hertz, at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic, on the analogy between electric and light waves. Passing electric waves through huge prisms of hard pitch, he showed that they refract exactly as light waves do. He polarized electric waves by directing them through a grating of parallel wires, and he diffracted them by interrupting them with a screen with a hole in it. He reflected them from the walls of the room, obtaining interference between the original and the reflected waves. He focused them with huge concave mirrors, casting electric shadows with conducting obstacles. This is the first print appearance, preceding its appearance in Annalen… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: G. Naumann's Druckerei, 1861. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (218 x 142 mm). Whole volume, 80 pp., illustrations in text and 6 folding plates (the last printed in black, red and blue). Pink wrapper to spine as issued. Housed in custom-made cassette of brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Pages crisp and clean with just very minor age toning, small waterstain to lower blank margin of final 3 text leaves, folding plates slightly sunned at foot. Provenance: Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. Fine copy of the rare milestone paper. ---- Darmstaedter 612. Wheeler Gift 1532 (detailed with ills.); see also DSB I, 582 and PMM 365 (for Ball). - THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Reis's paper on the invention of the telephone as presented in a lecture before the Physical Society of Frankfurt on 26 October 1861. Reis was the second man after Bourseul to think of transmitting speech electrically. It was Reis who coined the term… Read More

Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1890. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (241 x 148 mm). 15 [1] pp. Original publisher's printed wrappers, stapled as issued (fore-edge with rather crude scissor opening cut, crayon underlining of author's name and further crayon note at top margin, light dust-soiling, shelf-mark stamp). Text little age-toned only. A very good, unsophisticated copy. ---- FIRST EDITION of Koch's important conference paper, rare in the original wrappers. At the tenth International Medical Congress at Berlin in 1890, Koch, in a keynote lecture, announced his belief that he had found a remedy for tuberculosis. On March 24, 1882 Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis pathogen - his lecture on the "etiology of tuberculosis" made him famous over night. Tuberculosis had developed into a widespread disease in the course of the 19th century. About a seventh of the German population died at that time of the so-called white… Read More

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1855. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (222 x 148 mm). 42, [2] pp. including final advert leaf. Original printed wrappers (minor repair to fold and edges, soiled and spotted). Text somewhat browned and spotted, two pages with old ink markings, one page with annotation in contemporary hand. Provenance: Inscribed by Helmholtz on front wrapper "Dem wirkl. Geheimen Ob. Reg. Rathe Herrn J. Schulze ehrerbietig und dankbar, der Verfasser" ---- Poggendorff I, 1059; DSB VI, p.247-248. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. "Helmholtz often asserted that the task of modern philosophy is wholly epistemological, and he evinced a dislike for metaphysics. Kantianism exercised a strong influence on his thought as is obvious in his earliest papers. Later, through his physiological study, Helmholtz became convinced that sensory physiology, by revealing the processes of perception, was actually verifying and extending Kant's epistemological… Read More

Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1796. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (247 x 210 mm). [8] 86 [2] pp. Signatures: π4 A-K4 L2 χ2, 48 leaves. Errata on final leaf χ2r. 3 engraved plates, the first signed 'Koeck delineavit, Soemmering direxit, Lud. Schmidt scups' (the other two with the engraver's signature only), numbered Tab I, Tab I (an outline of the previous plate) and Tab II. 20th century quarter calf over marbled boards, spine titled in gilt (little rubbed, corners bumped). Text only little browned, title-page a bit soiled, browned and spotted; light dampstains to lower corner of first and final leaves and plates, foxing to final plate and final leaf. Provenance: Walter Pagel library (ownership label to front pastedown), autograph letter from Walther Riese to Walter Pagel and xerox copy of article by Riese about this work loosely inserted*. ---- Norman 1973; NLM/Blake, p. 424; Choulant-Frank p. 306; Warda, Kant, 159.… Read More

Hannover: Schmidt, 1788. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Zwei Teile in einem Band. 8vo (153 x 97 mm). 2 Bl., VIII S., 6 Bl., 270 S.; 8 Bl., 336 S. Gesamttitelblatt mit gestochener Vignette, Titelblatt zu Teil 2, jeweils ohne das weisse Blatt am Ende von Teil 1. Halbledereinband der Zeit (berieben, Rücken mit kleinen Ausbrücken am Kopf und Einriss am Fuss, Ecken etwas bestossen) mit Rückenvergoldung und goldgeprägtem Rückenschild, Rotschnitt, Innendeckel mit Bundpapierbezug. Text wenig gebräunt, wie üblich etwas stockfleckig (der zweite Teil insgesamt weniger betroffen). Provenienz: Freies Vorsatz mit Namenszug "A. Weland" (1833) und "F. Jeep" (1889). Insgesamt schönes Exemplar in originalem, unrestaurierten Einband der Zeit. ---- Goedeke IV/1, 615, 14; Borst 578; Kat. Wolfenbüttel 148; Knigge 25.001; NDB XII, 185. - Seltene erste Ausgabe. "Das bedeutendste… Read More

Zürich: Orell Füssli und Compagnie, 1808. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two parts in two volumes. 8vo (200 x 115 mm). xxx, 408; [2], [16], [1], iv-x, 428 pp., including 8 leaves of errata bound after title and 6 hand-colored engraved folding maps bound at end of vol. II. Uniformly bound in Swiss green half kidskin over blue marbled boards, yellow-dyed edges, spines ruled and lettered in gilt (spine and extremities slightly rubbed). Text with scattered pale foxing (titles and first preliminary pages stronger), but generally quite crisp and clean internally. Provenance: Claude-Ignace de Barante (bookplate to front-pastedown of each volume). A very good set. ---- FIRST EDITION and exceptionally rare, if complete as here, with all the 6 maps present that are almost always missing. This classic of alpine geology (of the structure of the earth within the Alps) is the main work of the German geologist and statistician Johann Gottfried Ebel (1764-1830). He studied medicine… Read More

Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1835. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. MOHL, Hugo von & BRACKENHEIM, August Wilhelm Winter von. Ueber die Vermehrung der Pflanzen-Zellen durch Theilung. Eine Inaugural-Dissertation. Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1835. 20 pp., 1 lithographed plate. [Bound after:] MOHL, Hugo von. Erläuterung und Vertheidigung meiner Ansicht von der Structur der Pflanzen-Substanz. Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1836. iv, 39 [1] pp., 2 lithographed plates. [Bound before:]. MAJER, Carl E. & MOHL, Hugo von. Untersuchungen über die Lenticellen. Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1836. 19 [1] pp. ENDERLE, Carl Joseph & MOHL, Hugo von. Untersuchungen über den Mittelstock von Tamus Elephantipes. Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1836. 16 pp. MOHL, Hugo von. Ueber den Bau des Cycadeen-Stammes und sein Verhältniss zu dem Stamme der Coniferen und Baumfarn. Offprint from: Denkschriften der k. b. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 10. München, 1832. 46 pp., 3… Read More

Teschen: Druck und Verlag von Karl Prochaska, 1873. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 4to (357 x 270 mm). 108 pp., including half title and 4 coloured lithographed plates protected by tissue paper. Contemporary blindstamped plum cloth, brown endpapers (extremities rubbed, some wear to spine ends and corners, cloth soiled and stained, corners bowed). Text little browned, title dust- and finger-soiled, occasional very minor spotting, the plates with small waterstain at upper outer corner. Provenance: small shelf-mark paper label on upper cover; collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. ---- Proksch III, 769. RARE FIRST EDITION by the Viennese medical doctor Josef Hermann, who was particularly concerned with the treatment of syphilis and, in this context, with the problematic use of mercury as a remedy. The plates depict the effects of mercury poisoning on human physiognomy. - Visit our website to see more images!

Leipzig und Heidelberg: C. F. Winter'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Half title, xii, 138 pp., 1 leaf of errata. First separate printing from "Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie". Half cloth, cover and edges worn. Library binding with stamps and bookshelf marks on title. Pages 113 to 128 cut off a few mm at lower margin. Paoloni 762. - Das Werk richtet sich gegen die These von Pasteur, der Gaerung als Lebenserscheinung betrachtete (vgl. Paoloni S. 203).

Berlin: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, vol. 7, 1902, pp. 390-400. Berlin: Johann Ambrosius Barth. 8vo (223x145 mm). Original printed wrapper (little soiling and chipping, ownership inscription to top corner), internally fresh and unmarked. Presentation copy ("Ãœberreicht vom Verfasser"). ---- FIRST EDITION. Rare early offprint, presentation copy, of Planck's paper on the nature of white light. Planck states, according to the second law of thermodynamics, [that] "the white light also presents a kind of microscopic indeterminacy: 'the white light, with constant intensity, is completely defined by: 1. energy distribution relative to frequency; 2. the statement that, inside a small spectral region, where one can consider uniform the distribution of energy, amplitudes and phases constant of any partial oscillation, obtain values in absolute irregularity'" (C. Garola & A. Rossi,… Read More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offprint from: Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 95, Nr. 5. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926, pp. 683-705. Bound without wrapper; titel page torn at inner margin.

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen; Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen; Über einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung. In: Annalen der Physik 31, neue Folge, 1887, pp. 421-448, 543-544, 983-1000. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. 8vo (209x136 mm). Contemporary cardboard, spine gilt with gilt paper label. Whole volume, viii, 1048 pp., including half title, general title with old library stamp (Gymnasium Ernestinum Gothanum). Interior clean with only minor occasional spotting. A fine copy. ---- Dibner Heralds of Science 71; See PMM 377; Norman 1060. - FIRST EDITION of Hertz's first paper on electromagnetic waves, with the second journal publication of his second paper. "When Hertz entered physics in the 1870's, electrodynamics was in a disorganized… Read More

Rome: Tipografia delle belle arti, 1862. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sammelband with 5 tracts by Tito Armellini mainly on barometry: Un nuovo barometro moltiplicatore-idrargiro-statico - invenzione del prof. Tito Armellini. Rome: tipografia delle Bella Arti, 1862. 30, [2] pp., title-page with engraved vignette, 1 folding engraved plate. [Bound with:] Due nuovi barometri: invenzioni di Tito Armellini. Rome: tipografia delle Bella Arti, 1863. 16 pp., 1 engraved plate. [Bound with:] ARMELLINI, Tito & BETTI, Salvatore. L'unita? delle forze fisiche: saggio di filosofia naturale del p. Angelo Secchi. Rome: tipografia delle Bella Arti, 1864. 21 [1] pp. [Bound with:] Le comete : memoria del prof. Tito Armellini letta il di 28 luglio 1861 nella solenne tornata dell'accademia dell'Immacolata Concezione di M. V. Estratto dal Giornale Arcadico Tomo 29 della nuova serie, 1861. 15 [1] pp. Drop title. [Bound with:] Due nuovi barometri areometrici. Estratto… Read More

Geneva: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to (276 x 178 mm). [4] [1] 2-115 [1] pp., including half-title and double-page chromolithograph map drawn by B. Müller from the author's instructions and lithographed by Pilet & Cougnard, Geneva. Original publisher's printed wrappers, all pages uncut (slight wear of paper over spine with little chipping at spine ends, very light spotting and soiling, lower wrapper with slight chipping of brown paper coating and partial splitting of fold). Internally only little age-toned at outer margins, otherwise crisp, clean and without any markings. Provenance: from a Frenche private collection. An extremely well preserved, completely unsophisticated copy. ---- FIRST EDITION, AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS. "On 24 June 1859 the Battle of Solferino - one of the bloodiest of the nineteenth century - was fought between the Austrians and the French-Piedmontese alliance. Dunant, a… Read More

London: for W. Johnston, 1769. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two parts in one volume. 8vo (203 x 124 mm). viii, 1-346, [5], 348-464, [1], 468-536; [2], 63, [3] pp. 3 pages errata and 8 folding engraved plates bound at end of part II. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered red morocco label (joints cracked towards head of spine, extremities rubbed, corners little scuffed). Text and plates very little browned only, a few pages with faint foxing. Provenance: William Morrison (incribed on front pastedown and title), A. Mc.Donald (inscribed on first flyleaf and dated 1890). A very good, unstained copy in untouched contemporary binding. Collated complete. ---- Babson 203; Gray 285. Third and last edition in English, and the only one edited by Theaker Wilder for the use of his students at Dublin. Very rare on the market with no copy sold at auction since 1977. Originally published and edited by… Read More

Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (225 x 180 mm). vi, 72 (i.e. 82), [2] pp., including errata leaf at end. Bound in 19th century marbled paper card, gilt-lettered paper spine label (paper chipped ant spine ends, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). Printed on blue paper. Little age-toning, minor scattered foxing. Provenance: Georg Rümker; Hamburger Sternwarte (bookplate to front pastedown marked duplicate). ---- Poggendorff I, 176; DSB II, 97ff. - RARE FIRST EDITION of Bessel's investigation of the orbit of the comet of 1807 and his first individual publication shorty after he became professor in Königsberg and director of the observatory there. Bessel followed the comet's orbit until the perturbations of the known planets had ceased to be sensible. "According to Piazzi [the comet] was first noticed by an Augustine monk at Castro Giovanni in Sicily on September 9, but the first regular observation was made on… Read More

Breslau: J.U. Kern, 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Untersuchungen ueber Bacterien. In: Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen, Part I, 1872, 2. Heft, pp. [127]-224, 1 tinted lithograph plate, and part II, 1875, 3. Heft, pp. [141]-207, 2 plates (one tinted and one colored lithograph). Breslau: J.U. Kern, 1870-75. Three parts in two volumes. 8vo (224x141 mm). Whole volumes: [6], 131, [1]; [4], 224; [8], 224 pp., 15 plates (some chromolithographed). Contemporary half morocco, neatly rebacked retaining original endpapers. Light toning due to paper stock, otherwise clean and unspotted. Provenance: R.G.L. Dieffenbach M.D. (bookplates to pastedowns and title-page of first part); Smith College Bacteriology Library (bookplates to front pastedowns), small discrete withdrawal stamps. Fine copy. ---- Norman 494; Garrison-Morton 2483. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, very rare. "Cohn's three papers, published in the journal… Read More

Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (210 x 148 mm). xiv, 276 pp. Text illustrations and folding table. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine (extremities rubbed, corners bumped and scuffed). Minor browning mostly to margins. Provenance: James Tait Goodrich. ---- Garrison-Morton 1408; Cushing H368; Heirs of Hippocrates 2016. - FIRST EDITION. "The present work includes Hitzig and Fritsch's original paper on electrical stimulation of the frontal cortex, as well as new research which enabled Hitzig to delineate the limits of the motor area in the cerebral cortex of the dog and monkey." (Heirs of Hippocrates). - Visit our website to see more images!

Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1862. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Offprints from: Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861-1862. Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler, 1862-1863. 4to (305 x 238 mm). [4], 43 [1]; [3] 4-16 pp., 5 lithographed plates (3 for part I and 2 for part II; 4 folding). Pages of part II unopened. Original printed boards, part I cloth backed, part II printed paper spine (minor soiling and spotting of covers, slight wear to extremities, spine of part II rubbed and partly split at head). Text generally crisp and clean with only minor age-toning, little spotting of part II, minor dust-soiling to outer margins of plates in part I. Cutout of newspaper article dated 2. February 1866 pasted to inner front-cover of part I. A very good, unsophisticated set, free of library stamps or markings. ---- PMM 278b; Horblit 59; Sparrow 117; Norman 1219 (all for 1st ed. of part 1); DSB VII, p.379-82. - ENLARGED SECOND EDITION OF PART I,… Read More