Search Results: Authors starting with R from Kuenzig Books

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. Cloth. Very Good. John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. vi, [2], 392 (last blank) pages. 9 x 6 inches. Hand-coloured frontispiece plus 23 hand-coloured plates. Publisher's maroon boards with decorations in blind and gilt. Minor bubbling to the cloth on front cover. Spine sunned, top edges dusted. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A nice copy. Cloth.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. Cloth. Good. John Leech. John Leech. xii, 412 pages. 9 x 6 inches. Hand-coloured frontispiece plus 12 hand-coloured plates with 69 wood engravings to the text by John Leech. Publisher's maroon boards with decorations in blind and gilt. Spine sunned, top edges dusted. A few places where the signatures are coming loose from the stitching. One signature proud. Still, a decent copy in the original cloth. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Cloth.

New York and Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. xxx, 344, 22 pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Top edges blued. A bright clean copy. Cloth. Hydrocarbons and Halogen Compunds (Volume 12B).

New York and Basel: Marcel Dekker Incorporated, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First Edition. [4],xvi,[2],685 pages. Original publisher's boards. Covers rubbed, corner clipped on first blank flyleaf. Otherwise a sound, bright clean copy internally. volume 11 in the Optical Engineering series. Hard Cover.

Berlin / Leipzig: P. Jeanrenaud (A. Foerstner'sche Buchhandlung) / A. Foerstnersche (Arthur Felix), 1857. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. XVI, 410 pages + 14 tables. BOUND WITH SUPPLEMENT VIII, 227, [1] pages. 2 works bound in one volume. 3/4 leather over marbed boards. Minor wear, and one piece of marbled paper missing. Previous owner's name inked on front flyleaf (along with old dealer notation). Minor foxing, a nice copy. Nicely illustrated with 401 woodcuts in the text and 207 in the supplement. Boards. "One of the great books of nineteenth-century chemical crystallography, giving full details on the crystallographic habit and structure of the elements, inorganic and organic compounds. Rammelsberg (1813-1899) studied under Mitscherlich (to whom this work is dedicated) and Rose in Berlin. In 1874 he succeeded Rose as professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Berlin. He analyzed numerous minerals, and his researches on crystallography are very important." (Neville, Vol… Read More

London: J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-Street, 1754. Boards. Very Good. [1], [1-blank], 65, [1-blank], [1], [1-blank], 32 pages. 13 x 20.5 cm. Original pamphlet enclosed in later thin chipboard covers. Some wear and shallow chipping to covers, tape to spine and lower edge (not necessary but present nonetheless). Inked number and name at top of title page. Soiling to title page, generally bright internally with occasional foxing. Boards. The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 16 (pp 710-11) contains a full page entry on Ranby, including a list of five works he published. The present one is summarized as: "This work incidentally exposes the methods adopted by a hernia curing quack to whom the government of the day had paid large sums of money." Further, "Ranby, sergeant surgeon ... put himself apprentice to Edward Barnard foreign brother of the Company of Barber Surgeons on 5 April 1715 paying him the sum of 621 5s Od. On 5 Oct 1722 he was examined touching his skill in surgery. His answers were… Read More

Malibu: Undena Pubns, 1983. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A crisp clean copy noting a but of wear to the covers. Clean internally. Trade Paperback.

[ no place ]: [ no publisher ], [ no date ]. Cloth. Very Good. [24]-49 pages. Apparently an extract from another publication (or possibly an offprint lacking original wrappers) now bound in blue buckram gilt. A clean working copy. Cloth. Ex-library United States Air Force Cambridge Research Center Geophysics Research Library (now defunct) with stamp on front pastedown. Sticker residue on boards. Hans Gottfried Reck (24 January 1886 - 4 August 1937) was a German volcanologist and paleontologist. In 1913 he was the first to discover the ancient skeleton of a human in the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. He collaborated with Louis Leakey in a return expedition to the site in 1931. (wiki).

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1931. Hard Cover. Very Good. Binding sound. Original red cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Faded at extremities (sun) and abrasions (surface insect damage?) to the outer 2 inches of the foredge of the binding. Hinges and joints are fine, a great working copy of a scarce title. Title: A Textbook [ Text-book ] of Inorganic Chemistry, Volume VII, Part II, Sulphur, Selenium, and Tellurium [ Seven Two ]. Hard Cover.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. [10] + frontis+ 329+5 ads pages. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth with illustrations in blue, white, and black. Signed by the author: "With the sincere regards of Helen Leah Reed Cambridge [MA] May 15, 1915" on the half title page. Corners bumped, soiling to page edges, some foxing throughout. A portion of what we believe was the dj for this book affixed to rear pastedown. Coloring to spine series logo worn with loss of color. Front cover still bright. All plates present. A sound copy. Cloth. Illustrated with Photographs and from Drawings by William A. McCullough.

Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 2009. Later printing. Wraps. Fine. Later printing. XII, 116 pages. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. 4to. Publisher's printed wrappers. INCLUDES the often missing large trifold "Flowchart for Identification Guide" A bright clean copy SIGNED by author Reilly on the title page. The fourth printing. Wraps. First published in 1986, an exceptionally useful reference work on photographic identification, and a core textbook used in Rare Book School's class "I-35 The Identification of Photographic Print Processes" The book covers the periods during which the various processes were used, how they worked, and how to identify them as well as typical deterioration and preservation issues. The only print reference work of it's kind that we are aware of. James M. Reilly is Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Director of its Image Permanence Institute (IPI). He is also the Co-Director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation (ARP) at the… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. [4], 1484, iii-cix (index) pages. 4to. Blue buckram gilt. Ex-library copy with the usual markings. Volume contains Nature, A Weekly Journal of Science, Volume 178, July 7, 1956 to December 29, 1956. Occasional stamps of corporate research library (Caterpillar Tractor Co Research Library) and later Peoria Public Library (properly withdrawn). Cloth. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 was awarded jointly "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" to Martin L. Perl "for the discovery of the tau lepton" and Frederick Reines "for the detection of the neutrino." In 1953 Reines and Cowan published "Detection of the Free Neutrino" (Physical Review 92, p830) where they noted "An experiment has been performed to detect the free neutrino. It appears probable that this aim has been accomplished although further confirmatory work is in progress." The further work took three years, when in 1956, Cowan, et al published… Read More

Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1959. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine. First Edition. [2], [1]-381 pages. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue/green printed wraps. Entire number offered (The Physical Review, Vol 113, Second Series, Number 1, January 1, 1959, pages 273-279). Spine panel browning, wrapper edges darkened, spotting to the textblock edges. Bright and clean internally. Wrappers. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 was awarded jointly "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" to Martin L. Perl "for the discovery of the tau lepton" and Frederick Reines "for the detection of the neutrino." In 1953 Reines and Cowan published "Detection of the Free Neutrino" (Physical Review 92, p830) where they noted "An experiment has been performed to detect the free neutrino. It appears probable that this aim has been accomplished although further confirmatory work is in progress." The further work took three years, when in… Read More

Boston: James M. Usher, 1862. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. vii, [9]-444 pages. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with titles on spine in copper, and embossed design to front and rear boards. "With the compliments of Oliver P Remick (?)" inked on the front pastedown. Penciled in front is "Lieut." and underneath is "Bro of the Author". Also Penciled on the front flyleaf is "Kittery(?)" Cloth. "REMICK, Martha. Born 11 June 1832, Kittery, Maine; died 11 April 1906, Everett, Massachusetts. Daughter of Rufus and Sally Cram Remick The youngest daughter of a shipwright and farmer who had earned a lieutenancy in the War of 1812, Martha Remick never married, dedicating her life to writing. A family genealogy, the only source of biographical information on Remick, describes her as 'unmarried, authoress and poetess.' In the preface to 'Agnes Stanhope: A Tale of English Life (1862)', Remick declares her purpose to show the "ever-present providence of God," but the novel is a romantic thriller that… Read More

Grantsburg, Wisconsin: Centennial Photo Service, 1991. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. 272 pages. Pictorial boards in red white and black. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. A bright clean copy noting soft bump to corners. Boards. "The pages of this book contain a concise and conclusive study of the Universal Camera Corporation - the company, the people, and the products. Every known Universal product is chronicled and reviewed. In addition, many common misconceptions generally associated with Universal have been brought forth and discussed in detail... To date, this is the most accurate and complete story of an unforgettable American photographic manufacturer - the Universal Camera Corporation." (foreword).

New York, New York: North American Maps & Autographs, 1984. Disbound. Very Good. An offering of a major collection of aeronautica by firm North American Maps & Autographs (owners E. Forbes Smiley III and Lisa A. Benson). The offering includes: 1) Main catalog of the collection including: a) Reproduced cover sheet "A CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AERONAUTICA" noting 2,496 titles. b) PREFACE by Forbes Smiley describing the collection overall c) 152 reproduced typescript pages with simple listings of each book in the collection, numbered from 1 to 2496. Each listing includes author, title, publisher, date of publication, and occasionally a brief note (for instance if signed) 2) Original typed letter on watermarked Eagle A Trojan Bond 25% cotton fiber paper, with the firms's address and phone printed at top, consisting of a letter to Howland & Co dated 10.16.84 welcoming interest in the collection, and noting that the price of the collection had been set "well below the cumulative value of the books".… Read More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. vii, [1], 460 pages. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. Margins trimmed (not affecting the text), bound in blue buckram with gilt titles (NOT exlibrary). Includes all four quarterly issues of the Bell System Technical Journal (Volume 23). Original issue covers were not bound into this example. The article by Rice found on pp 282-332 in the July 1944 issue. Bright, clean, and sound. Text block with red speckled ink. Cloth. Rice's most important paper among many contributions during his time at Bell Laboratories. The paper was concluded in the 1945, January, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 issue of the Bell System Technical Journal. "One could cite other contributions of similar unusual merit, but it is for the monumental paper "Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise," published in two parts in the Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 23, July 1944, pp. 282-332, and Vol. 24, January 1945, pp. 46-156, that Steve will be best… Read More

London: Richardson & Company, 1861. First Printing. Cloth. Fair. First Printing. [3- publisher ads, count includes front pastedown and endpaper], [foldout leaf with Plates I & II], [1 leaf Plate IV], [i-vi], [ 1 leaf Plate VI ], vii-viii, [ 2 leaves Plates III and VII ], ix-xi, [1-general contents], [11 - "PART I"], [1 - "PART II | FOREIGN VESSELS OF WAR | The list of the French Navy being no longer published, this Part cannot be continued" ], [ 2 leaves plate V ], [ 154 (last leaf apparently an insert with additional information on front, verso blank) - "PART III | MERCHANT VESSELS" ], [ 2 - "BRITISH MERCHANT VESSELS | OFFICIAL NUMBERS, &c" ], [ 72 ( last blank ) - "PART IV | LIGHTHOUSES, HEADLANDS, PORTS, and HARBOURS | ..." ], [ 85 - "PART V | MEM. - Several New ..." ], [ 51, "PART VI | VOCABULARY | ..." ], [ 2, "ADMIRALTY NOTICE" ], [10 - "LIST | OF | AGENTS TO LLOYD'S" (bottom of last page with printer imprint)], [2 - "ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S | DIRECTIONS | FOR THE | RECOVERY OF THE APPARENTLY… Read More

Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. [8], 204 pages (text) + 22 pages + [2] + 46 tafel (plates). Large 8vo.7 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. Brown buckram with titles on spine (230 Raumgruppen - Schiebeld) and previous owner name on front board (M. J. Buerger). Dampstaining to outer edge of the boards (and also to rear grouping of tables). Cloth. The fourth volume of this scientific serial. Contains "Zur Nomenklatur der 32 Kristallklassen" by Friendrich Rinne, "Uber Eine Neue Herleitung und Nomebklatur der 230 Kristallographischen Ramgruppen" by Ernst Schiebold. With Atlas containing 230 Raumgruppen-Projektionen enthaltend 313 Schwarze und 36 Farbige Abbildungen Auf 46 Tafeln [Rough english translation: 230 Space group projections containing 313 black and 36 color illustrations on 46 panels.].

[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], 1942. Wraps. Very Good. 83-93, [1-blank] pages. 10 x 6 7/8 inches. Publisher's printed wrappers. Stapled near the spine (staple slightly rusty). Creasing to the spine, light sunning to the extremities. Tear at spine top several inches. Wraps. The "Journal of Mathematics and Physics," Vol 21, No. 2, August 1942, first published this paper, here offered in offprint form. "One of the first attempts to list all electrical networks meeting certain specified conditions was made in 1892 by P. A. MacMahon who investigated combinations of resistances in series and in parallel, giving without proof a generating function from which the number of such combinations could be determined and a table of the numbers for combinations with 10 or less elements...the series-parallel networks are interesting in themselves in another setting, namely the design of switching circuits*. Here it becomes important to know how many elements are required to… Read More