Search results for: 'spectrum'
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VAN VOGT, A. E. The House that Stood Still.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing, of the author's fifth book; one of van Vogt's more elusive titles: not listed in Locke's Spectrum of Fantasy, despite his "large holding" of the author's work. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 100477
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THAXTER, Celia. An Island Garden.Boston : 1894
First edition, with a card signed by the author tipped onto the front free endpaper. Poet and writer Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) spent the majority of her life on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine living and working with her father at his Appledore Hotel, a setting which inspired many of her works. This work is described by BAL as being... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125680
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HERBERT, George. The Temple.Cambridge : 1635
Fourth edition, following the first of 1633. The book - all editions were published posthumously - was enormously popular, with six editions by 1641. "Herbert's English poetry, despite its entanglement with his more partisan personal reputation, was enormously popular. The Temple... appealed to a readership spanning the political and ecclesiastical... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 139017
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THAXTER, Celia. An Island Garden.Boston and New York : 1895
Second edition, with an autograph letter signed from the author and dated 6 August 1880 reading: "Gentlemen: Will you kindly send me a copy of sayings of Epictetus, the small, vest-pocket edition, with bill for same & oblige, yours truly, C. Thaxter, Appledore, Isles of Shrals sic Off Portsmouth, N. H." tipped-in to the front free endpaper, and a manuscript... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135708
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[NEWTON, Isaac.] Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions, and Colours of Light.London : 1704
First edition, first issue, without Newton's name on the title. Newton's Opticks expounds his corpuscular or emission theory of light, and first contains his important optical discoveries in collected form. It also prints two important mathematical treatises (omitted in later editions) describing his invention of the fluxional calculus, which are the... Learn More£85,000.00Stock Code: 137818
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(INDIA; NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.) Stanford's Sketch Map of the North-Western Frontier of India, 1897.London : 1897
Notably uncommon and attractive map, Library Hub citing just two copies, at the British Library and National Library of Wales; WorldCat adding a further five worldwide: Minnesota, Middlebury College, Basel, Toronto, Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
From the library of the groundbreaking colour photographer Sarah Angeline "Angie" Acland (1849-1930),... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 140321
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GOEPPERT MAYER, Maria, & J. Hans D. Jensen. Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, of a classic text on nuclear shell structure. "The authors of this monograph shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics for the nuclear shell model of atomic nuclei. In addition to theoretical work, the book includes a large body of experimental data interpreted with the aid of the shell model. As the second author admitted... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140350
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BUYS, Egbert. A New and Complete Dictionary of Terms of Art.Amsterdam : 1768-9
First edition of this scarce and rather eccentric technical dictionary with definitions in English and Dutch. A broad spectrum of subjects is covered, including architecture and applied arts, botany and mathematics, law, military and naval terms, heraldry, ancient history, alongside archaisms and obscure vocabulary drawn from Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare.... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 128721
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BELL, Jocelyn; A. Hewish; J. D. H. Pilkington; P. F. Scott; R. A. Collins. Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source.London : 1968
First edition, the extremely rare offprint, of the landmark paper which announced the discovery of pulsars, co-authored by British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell and her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, and three others; with a meaningful provenance, being bound eleventh in a volume of related offprints from the library of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131009
