Publisher:
San Francisco, W. H. Freeman & Co. : 1966
Seller ID: 848
CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel on pages 12 and 12; very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. HANNES ALFVEN (1908 - 1995) was a Swedish electrical engin... View More...
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS OF KRATATOA ERUPTION AND GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES WITH LARGE FOLD-OUT PLATES; RIPPLE WAVES IN SAND AND SHAPE OF THE EARTH BY GEORGE DARWIN. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, cover edges rubbed, institutional library handstamp (withdrawn) to title page, bookplate to rear paste-down, overall very good. Contains descriptions of famous volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in August, 1883, with two 20 inch-long foldout plates; Report on the tidal disturbances caused by the volcanic eruptions at Java, August 27 and 28,... View More...
EARLY TREATISE ON AUROR BOREALIS BY FRENCH GEOPHYSICIST, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS. 7 inches tall volume bound in original card covers with faded handwritten title to spine, pages uncut, title page lacking (provided in facsimile), text and 30 figures contained in 17 fine folding copper plate engravings complete (plates not bound in sequence). Light soiling to covers, bookplate of previous owner to front paste-down, ink inscription top of front paste-down. JEAN-JACQUES D'ORTOUS DE MAIRAN (1678 – 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in th... View More...
