Communication and Control in Society de Klaus Krippendorff - 1979

London: Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty, 1763. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good +. First Edition. 8vo: viii,183, [1]; iv,32 pp, with 296 geometrical figures and perspective designs on 14 folding engraved plates. Prefaces to both titles signed: W. Emerson. Contemporary full leather, spine ribbed and divided into six compartments, red morocco lettering piece gilt to second. A Very Good or better copy, front hinge skillfully (almost invisibly) reinforced, pages and plates free of stains and foxing, save for first 10 leaves, which have been professionally restored on the top inner edge (with no loss of text). Both first editions of elementary works on geometry and perspective, the first divided into eight books; both start with definitions, axioms, and postulates, followed by numerous problems (keyed into the 296 figures, in the case of the first book) and their solutions. ESTC Citation Nos. T77181 and T77180. Like his fellow County Durham savant John Bird, the… Leer más

Frankfurt: Dominicus a Sande, 1712. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine. First Edition, in Latin. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 98mm): [14],476,[38]pp, with title-page vignettte of galleon in full sail, woodcut head- and tailpieces and historiated initials, and 25 folding copper-engraved plates. Bound in speckled paper-covered boards (scuffed with minor loss to edges, spine, and rear board), all edges stained red. The binding is tight, the pages and plates all exceptionally clean and bright. An excellent example. Houzeau I, 10934. The German mathematician, astronomer, and theologian Johann Georg Liebknecht was a member of the Royal Society and correspondent of Leibniz. The present work, divided into three books, is equal parts mathematics, astronomy, geography, surveying, and navigation. Much of the content pertains to the scientific instruments each field employed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully… Leer más

[Edward Teller] Blumberg, Stanley A. and Gwinn Owens. Energy & Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller, New York: Putnams, 1976. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the spine edges. This copy is inscribed by Edward Teller on the front flyleaf and also laid-in is a small photograph of Teller that he has signed. In this 1976 biography of Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, the authors present exclusive interviews, memorabilia, and photos provided by Teller. and delves into each stage of his life and career. The controversial Teller spearheaded America's effort to build the hydrogen bomb, and then testified against Robert Oppenheimer in his security clearance trial. The book explains his early persecution by the Hungarian communists, then the Nazis in Germany. His role in the Manhattan Project is described in detail. Also portrayed is the development of the H-bomb, including descriptions of its evolving… Leer más

Liverpool: Matthews Brothers, Printers, [c. 1870s]. 64 page pamphlet. Original light blue wrappers printed in black. Engraving depicting the museum on the lower wrapper, 1 engraving within the text. Wrappers rubbed, dulled, and spotted, minor crease to the upper corner slightly affecting the contents. Very good condition. The rare catalogue of the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, describing in detail the Museum's contents and policies, and illustrating its interior by an engraving on the lower cover. The Liverpool Museum of Anatomy was one of a number of such museums in the UK and US that specialised in wax anatomical models and, unlike many of the museums of professional medical organisations, were open to the public. Though the stated goal was always education, particularly regarding reproduction and the dangers of sexual vice, these museums also traded on the shock or titillation value of their exhibits and some were targeted by the medical establishment as purveyors of vice and quackery. The… Leer más

New York, Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, 1949. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. 1 double-sided plate, illustrations within the text. Very lightly rubbed at the tips, small blue sink spots on the upper edge of the text block. Excellent condition. Third printing of this influential work, originally published in 1944. From the library of molecular biologist Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002), with this ownership signature in ink on the front free endpaper. Chargaff's work elucidated key concepts about DNA and provided part of the groundwork for Watson and Crick's discovery of its structure. Chargaff's rules, as they are now known, state that the quantities of the four nucleotides are always linked - guanine matching that of cytosine and adenine with thiamine, and that the relative amounts of each vary from species to species. These observations strongly hinted that the nucleotides carried the genetic information (rather than the protein components, as had been thought… Leer más

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1925. First French edition of Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper (On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies) and 1st die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhangig? (Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy Content?). Both 1905 treatises are "beyond compare and without precedent, one of the greatest scientific achievements in content and one of the most brilliant in style" (Gosling, Albert Einstein). The first paper is "a landmark in the development of physics, one of the two papers that laid out the theory of special relativity, formulated a new conception of time. By assuming that the speed of light is the same to every observer moving at a constant velocity, Einstein showed that space and time were not independent: spacetime was born. According to Hermann Weyl in 1918, this theory ‘led to the discovery that time is associated as a fourth coordinate on an equal footing with the other three coordinates of space, and that the scene of material events,… Leer más

Halle im Magdeburgischen: Renger Buchhandlung, 1728. Hardcover. Near Fine -. [14], 568, [8] p., engraved frontispiece and xiv folded leaves of handcolored plates: tables; 18 cm. Signatures: ):(7 A-Z8 Aa-Nn8 (8vo). Contemporary vellum with handwritten spine title in red and black. All page edges dark green. Title page in red and black. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Narrow ribbon bookmark. Small former owner's stamp reading "Joseph Goger" on title page verso and the verso of every plate. At foot of p. 568 is a former owner's stamp reading "Joseph Jacob Goger." Christian von Wolff (1679-1754) was a German philosopher who wrote extensively about all branches of science. In this volume his various scientific experiments are illustrated with 14 nicely handcolored, folded plates. In Near Fine- Condition: vellum slightly soiled; light foxing throughout; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Hutchinson & Co, 1958. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book/Near Fine DJ. 192 Pp.Black Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing. Book Clean, Gilt Bright, No Wear, No Marks. Dj Not Price Clipped (16S Net), Slightly Used And Soiled, No Tears Or Chips, Browning To Spine And Edges.

London: George Bell And Sons, 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 170 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In Black, With Original Black Endpapers. First Printing. Richardson's Spirited Philosophical Defense Of Medical And Biological Experimentation. Near Fine, Slight Use, Spine Cloth A Little Faded, All Lettering Very Strong, Small Fray Near Bottom Of Spine, Hinges Tight, Pages Immaculate, No Names Or Marks.

Frericum Leonard: Paris, 1679. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece By Edelinck, Headpieces, Engraved Illustrations In Text. 26, [66], 448, 88. Full Calf, Red Morocco Spine Label, Five Raised Bands, Elaborate Gilt In All Compartments. Very Clean, Well Preserved, Pages Square, Edges Of Page Block Still Red In Color. Chipping To Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine, And To Front Pastedown; Corners Rounded; Professionally Conditioned And Furbished And With New Spine Label. Marcus Manilius (Fl. 1St Century Ad) Was A Roman Poet Of Uncertain Biography And Ancestry, An Astrologer, And Author Of A Poem In Five Books Called Astronomica.