Various: Various.. Items have various states of preservation, wrappers mostly browned and dust-soiled and with occasional edge-chipping and folds, text generally very little browned. The collection comprises:
1. The photoelectric effect in potassium vapour as a function of the frequency of the light. Extract from: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin..... More

London: Macmillan, 1939. I: Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction. - II: Physical evidence for the division of heavy nuclei under neutron bombardment (Frisch only). - Products of the fission of the uranium nucleus. - III: Liberation of Neutrons in the Nuclear Explosion of Uranium..... More

Rome: Gio. Maria Salvioni / Rocco Bernabo, 1723. Del moto che nei mobili si rifonde per impulso esteriore Trattato Fisico-Matematico. Rome: Gio. Maria Salvioni, 1723. [28], 208 pp., including half-title, title-page printed in red and black and with copper-engraved allegorical vignette, copper-engraved headpieces, woodcut initials and 7 folding engraved plates..... More

London: Printed for C. Bathurst, and T. Lowndes, J. Rivington, and J. Johnson, etc. 1775. 4to (262 x 205 mm). [4], xxxii, 691 [1], iii, [9] pp., including index, catalogue of books by Priestley, and 8 folding engraved plates. Late 19th-century green cloth library binding, gilt shelf mark stamp '537..... More

Padova: ex typographia Seminarii : Opera Joannis Cagnolini, 1693. 1693-1696. Three parts bound in two volumes. Folio (345 x 237 mm). [16], xxx, 518, [28] pp.; [12], 456, [22] pp.; [12], 260, [22], 280, [16] pp. Including half title and title-page to each part, titles printed in red and black..... More

Paris: Charles Savreux, 1677. Two parts in one volume, 4to (244 x 176 mm). [32], 378; 382, [6] (of [8]) pp. 3 engraved plates (2 folding) tipped to outer edges of pages, several woodcut diagrams in text, lacking final privilege leaf. Contemporary French speckled calf, boards and board-edges ruled in..... More

Washington DC: War Department, 1945. Preface dated July 1, 1945. 4to (263 x 199 mm). [8], I:1-19 [1], II:1-10, III:1-7 [1], IV:1-15 [1], V:1-9 [1], VI:1-14, VII:1-15 [1], VIII:1-17 [1], IX:1-13 [1], X:1-10, XI:1-13 [1], XII:1-12, XIII:1-3 [1], A1:1-6, A2:1-2, A3:1-3 [1], A4:1-5 [1], A5:1 [1]. Leaf IV-9/10 a dublicate..... More

Venice: Con Licenza de' Superiori, 1776. 4to (271 x 194 mm). [6], vii-xxxvii [3] pp. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴. Frontispiece engraving on A2v depicting the Venetian tower of San Marco, engraved allegorical illustration on title, fine engraved headpieces and historiated initials, first and final blanks, A1 and E4, present. Bound in..... More

Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1873. 8vo (220 x 155 mm). viii, 134, [2] pp., including half-title, one folding lithographed plate, and errata leaf. 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (light rubbing to extremities). Original printed wrappers bound in. Faint spotting on the plate, wrappers..... More

Den Haag: Adrian Vlacq, 1663. 4to (179 x 135 mm). 104 pp. Title with woodcut device, a few woodcut diagrams in text, two large decorative initials. Later simple paper wrappers, marbled edges. Text little browned throughout, a few light pencil markings, erased ownership signature on title. Very good copy. ----..... More

Florence: nella Stamperia Imperiale, 1752. 22 June 1752. 8vo (179 x 129 mm). xxiii [1], 124 pp. Signatures: [par]¹² A-G⁸ H⁶. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled goatskin, spine with gilt decoration and lettering, blind-ruled boards (extremities rubbed, corners bumped)..... More

Rome: heirs of Manelfo Menelfi, 1649. 4to (195 x 144 mm). [12], 227, [1] pp. Woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text. Early 20th-century simple cardboard binding (age toning, browned endpapers), marbled edges. Text little unevenly browned throughout (few pages stronger), occasional minor spotting, title page with two cut-outs (not..... More