Bookseller Catalogs


332: George Ellery Hale Library pt 3 - History of science & astronomy

By Jeff Weber Rare Books

332: George Ellery Hale Library pt 3 - History of science & astronomy 65 books in the history of science, many being from the personal collection og American astronomer, solar-studies, and administrator of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena. Including: Alexander AGASSIZ, (1835-1910). – American Foundations Information Service ; Geneva SEYBOLD (1900-2004). – American Philosophical Society. – Roger BACON, (1214-1292)] Malgorzata FRANKOWSKA. – Carl Anton BJERKNES, (1825-1903) Vilhelm BJERKNES (1862-). – Herbert BUTTERFIELD (1900-1979). – [Thomas CHALMERS (1780-1847)], Mrs. Margaret OLIPHANT WILSON (1828-1897). – [Ethan Samuel CHAPIN, (1814-1889)] Mrs. Louisa Burns CHAPIN. – Nicolaus COPERNICUS, (1473-1543); Angus ARMITAGE (1902-1976). – [COPERNICUS] Sir Harold SPENCER JONES (1890-1960). – [COPERNICUS] Hermann KESTEN (1900-1996). – [COPERNICUS] San Diego State University. – Crawford Library, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; James LUDOVIC [LINDSAY] (1847-1913) [Bibliotheca Lindesiana catalogues]. – John Crerar Library, Chicago. – James Gerald CROWTHER (1899-1983). – [John DONNE (1572-1631)] Charles Monroe COFFIN (1904-1956). – DRAPER, John William (1811-1882). – [James DUNLOP (1793-1848)] Ex-Bailie Archibald DUNLOP. – [James DUNLOP (1793-1848)] John SERVICE (1815-1916). – [Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955)] Leopold INFELD (1898-1968). – [Joseph FOURIER] François ARAGO (1783-1853). – Joseph Paul GAIMARD (1793-1858). – [Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Sophus FRIEDERICHSEN (1841-1915)] Johannes Adolf REPSOLD (1838-1919). – [David GILL (1843-1914)] George FORBES (1849-1936). – Élie HALÉVY (1870-1937). – Sir James JEANS (1877-1946). – Lord KELVIN [1st Baron] (1824-1907); Silvanus P. THOMPSON (1851-1916). – [John LUBBOCK (1834-1913)] Horace Gordon HUTCHINSON – Alexander MACFARLANE, (1851-1913). – [Ebenezer Porter MASON (1819-1840)] Denison OLMSTED (1791-1859). – [James Clerk MAXWELL (1831-1879)] R.T. GLAZEBROOK (1854-1935). – [James NASMYTH (1808-1890)] Samuel SMILES (1812-1904). – NEUGEBAUER, Otto (1899-1990). – [Isaac NEWTON (1643-1727)] Frank E. MANUEL (1910-2003). – [NEWTON] Herbert Westren TURNBULL (1885-1961). – [Nobel Prizes, 1904-05-06]. – Observatoire de Paris ; André DANJON (1890-1967). – [Philadelphia] Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company; Carroll FREY. – Max PLANCK (1858-1947). – [Henri POINCARÉ (1854-1912)] Vito VOLTERRA (1860-1940) (and others). – [Henry S. PRITCHETT (1857-1939)] Abraham FLEXNER (1866-1959). – Richard A. PROCTOR (1837-1888). – Reale Biblioteca Estense, Modena; Umberto ORLANDINI (1879-1931). – Arnold REYMOND, (1874-1958). – [Ole ROMER, (1644-1710)] Elis STROMGREN (1870-1947). – Josiah Thomas SLUGG (1814-1888). – Sir Henry Enfield ROSCOE, (1833-1915). – Royal Society (Great Britain), British Empire Exhibition. – George SARTON (1884-1956). – Society of Indexers; G. Norman KNIGHT (ed.). – Henri VAN HEURCK (1838-1909). – [William WHEWELL (1794-1866)] Mrs. Stair [Janet Mary] DOUGLAS (c.1830-1922). – William WHEWELL (1794-1866) ; Isaac TODHUNTER (1820-1884). – Edmund T. WHITTAKER (1873-1956) Sc.D., F.R.S.; George ROBINSON M.A., B.Sc. – Edward Livingston YOUMANS (1821-1887); John FISKE (1842-1901). – Zoological Society of London; Henry SCHERREN (1843-1911).

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Signal & Noise

By Mark Funke, Bookseller

Signal & Noise In this catalogue we explore the progression from telephone switchboards to computer networking. Please join us on a journey starting with telephone queuing theory and ending with the NSA—presented in forty objects, sorted by date, from 1880–2012.

331: Francois Forel Library & additions

By Jeff Weber Rare Books

331: Francois Forel Library & additions 56 books, mostly French and many from before 1900. All are recent acquisitions. Topics include religion, classics, freemasonry, language, philosophy, Switzerland, travel, mathematics, politics (how to act as an Ambassador), military tactics, an archive of 5 1898-1910 Swiss Hotel registry albums with signatures of the guests as they signed in, along with an album detailing all the various categories of expenses and services to run a fine hotel in those days, WWI soldier songs, French poetry, the work of Jean Racine, fables, chronology, Paris Guide book from 1846, the subterranean archeological sites in Rome, mountain climbing (Les Alpes), etc.

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SUMMER MISCELLANY: 50 Items

By Charles Agvent

SUMMER MISCELLANY: 50 Items 50 select items in a variety of fields including African-Americana, Art, Autographs, Hand-Colored Plates, India, Modern First Editions, Presidents, Signed Books, and more. Highlights include superb letters by Clara Barton, Herman Hesse, and Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as books signed by John Steinbeck and Walt Whitman.

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