Los Angeles: Leonard-Freefield Co., 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by George Adamski on the front free end paper, and dated "May 24--51". Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with soiling, light bubbling and wear to cloth, dulling to gilt..... More
![Item #140948875 First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [and] Edwin E....](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140948875.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766516802)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by Neil Armstrong on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. xiii, [1], 434 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth titled in gilt on spine and in blind on front board. Near Fine with light rubbing to..... More
London: Edward Arnold and Company, 1922. First edition. viii, 152pp. illustrated with 18 figures. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good, sans jacket. Cloth has spots of foxing, light wear, former owner's name stamped on paste down, pages toned. Small slip "Printed in Great Britain" pasted on copyright page..... More
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856. Second octavo edition, the first edition with fully colored backgrounds. Complete in seven volumes. With 500 beautiful hand-colored lithographed plates. Bound in publisher's full brown morocco decoratively stamped & lettered in blind on covers, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt..... More
Geneva: Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. First edition of this early annual report of the International Red Cross. A presentation copy, signed by Clara Barton and warmly inscribed "To Senator Preston U. Plumb of Kansas, from a friend who honors him, Clara Barton, President of the American National Red..... More
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1915. First edition. xx, 850, 24 (ads) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's crimson cloth with black lettering to front board, gilt spine lettering. Very Good with small scratch to spine, faint stain to front board, pencil mark to rear board, foxing to edges, bookplate on paste down..... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1962. First English-language edition of Erik Bergengren's biography of Alfred Nobel. Signed by 23 Nobel Laureates on the front and back free endpapers: Ralph Bunche (Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights advocate), William Shockley (inventor and Bunche's political opposite), Linus Pauling (known for..... More
New York: Horace Liveright Inc., 1928. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth a bit marked and rubbed, spine lettering and cloth darkened. Former owner's typed label laid in with old glue stain to front paste..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. First edition, first printing of the first book by the first female physician in the United States. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in blind with spine title lettered in gilt, all edges stained maroon, pale brown endsheets. Near Fine with slight loss at..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1951. First edition, first printing. ix, [1], 646 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with sunned spine, light rubbing to extremities, and ownership signature to front free endpaper. A classic physics text by a major..... More
![Item #140940042 On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules [In] The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140940042.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595715155)
London: Taylor & Francis, 1913. First edition of Niels Bohr's seminal work, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules," as published in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. 26: No. 151 (pp. [1]-232 + plates), No. 153 (pp. [382]-548) and No. 155 (pp. [801]-936..... More
![Item #140940043 The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory [in] Nature, Vol. 121, No. 3050. Niels Bohr](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140940043.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595716363)
London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition of Niels Bohr's paper, "The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory," as published in Nature, vol. 121, no. 3050, pp. 561-608, April 14, 1928, the entire issue offered here, with Bohr's paper on pp. 580-590. Some soiling to covers, light creasing, ink stamp on front cover..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1909. First edition. 571-584 pp. Bound in publisher's tan wraps lettered in black. In the original German. Very Good. Fragile with separating joints, tanning to covers, light creasing to corners, and "1840" red marking to front cover. A scarce author's offprint of a treatise on force..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1925-26. First edition. Three extremely influential papers marking the theoretical foundation for modern quantum mechanics and defining the discipline: "Uber quantentheorestische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen" by Werner Heisenberg; "Zur Quantenmechanik" by Max Born and Pasqual Jordan; and "Zur Quantenmechanik II" by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan..... More
![Item #140940035 Uber Quantenmechnik (On Quantum Mechanics) [Bound with:] Zur Quantenmechanik der...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140940035.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595639577)
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1924. First edition. Four papers by Max Born, "Uber Quantenmechnik" (On Quantum Mechanics), extracted from Zeitschrift für Physik, Band 26, No. 6, pp. 379-395. Bound without wraps, though with title page. Verso of title page with pasted labels from Band 37, 38, 40, corresponding to the other..... More
London: Printed for J. Hooke, 1722. Fifth edition. Complete in two volumes with a number of additional short works by Burnet bound at the end of Vol. II. xxxii, 456; [xvi], 400, 80, 44, [2], 46, [2], 16 pp. Numerous folding plates and illustrations throughout. Bound in modern quarter calf..... More
Concord, NH: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1945. First appearance of the foundational essay "As We May Think" by the engineering giant Vannevar Bush, in the July 1945 newsstand issue of The Atlantic magazine. 130, [4] pp. (Bush article pp. 101-108). Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light wear..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Signed by Vannevar Bush on the half title and warmly inscribed to former owner. [xiv], 273, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black stamping and gilt lettering. Very Good+, lacking dust jacket, slightly sunned and rubbed spine, diagonal creases to..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed by Vannevar Bush on the fly-leaf and inscribed to the diplomat Philip Jessup. [xiv], 273, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with sunned spine, dulling to spine..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First edition. Signed by Walter Cannon on the front free endpaper, "With cordial regards." xiii, 311 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with darkened spine lettering, worn tips, diagonal crease to ffep, lacking dust jacket. Quite rare..... More
New York: [No Publisher], 1926. Notecard signed by French surgeon and biologist Dr. Alexis Carel inscribed "to a small [?] boy" in New York, dated June 5, 1926, mounted to cardboard underneath an article about him winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1912 with a photograph. Cardboard..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. Signed by Rachel Carson on the half title page. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at extremities with small ding to top edge of upper board. Faint staining to fore edge with light..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt, yellow topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities, slight bump to upper edge of rear board. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning and edgewear..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt; yellow topstain. Near Fine with light edge wear. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corners with 1" tear to rear joint;..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt; yellow topstain. Near Fine with former owner's gift inscription at half-title page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading and chipping to spine, light rubbing and..... More