Space Through The Ages: The Evolution Of Geometrical Ideas From Pythagoras To Hilbert And Einstein (Second Printing, 1973, With Corrections) by Lanczos, Cornelius - 1973

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1999. First Edition . Full Morocco. Fine. 11 3/8" x 9" x 5 1/2. Photographs, Charts, Drawings. Four Volumes In Full Morocco, Gilt. A Special Presentation Edition Compiled For And Presented To Arnold O Beckman In Anticipation Of His 100Th Birthday. Presentation Page Thanking Him For His Contributions To The Laboratory. The Volumes Contain Finely Printed Offprints Of Each Of The Papers Written By Researchers At The Laboratory 1991-1999. Probably Unique.

Chicago / London 1894 - 1895: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition . Card Wrappers, Stringbound. Very Good. 4 Volumes, With Appendix To Volume 2, Three Hole Punch At Spine Edge, String Bound In Plain Card Wrapers, Original Wrappers Bound In, Library Stamp At Top Of Cover Of Numbers 2 And 3 And, No Other Marks Or Names, Chipping To Top Of Covr Page Of Issue Number 4. Early English Language Appearance Of Mach's Thoughts On Conservation Of Energy. The U S Congress Had Already Weighed In On This Issue Decades Earlier, And Further Discussion Was Not Of Mainstream Interest. Mach's Book On The Subject Appeared In 1905, Followed By An English Translation. All Four Volumes (Volume 5, Nos 1-4) Are Unopened [Pages Still Attached At Top, Unread And As Issued].

London: [Her Majesty's Stationary Office], 1862. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 202 Pp. Text Pages Only, Otherwise Complete. Finely Bound In Three Quarter Brown Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title On Spine, Rules And Devices In All Compartments, Over Grey Cloth. Excellent 1862 Analysis Of The Technology And Economics Of Chemical And Pharmaceutical Businesses, All Written In An Unusually Pointed Style With A View To Analysis Of Future Developments And Opportunities. Note On Front Endpaper That This Was Purchased From Henry Southeran In London On Dec 1, 1924, Signed By American Inventor Henry Blumenberg Jr., With His 640 S. Arden Blvd., Los Angeles, Address. Near Fine Rubbing, With Just A Few Points Of Rubbing, Immaculate, Gilt Brilliant; Contents Aged, 1" Tear At Top Of First Page [May 2014), Last Page Quite Aged, With Some Few Pencil Emphasis Marks By Blumenberg Who Clearly Read The Entire Report.

New York: John Wiley And Sons, 1954. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine DJ. First Edition, First Published In 1952, This Being The Scarce Corrected Second Printing, In The American Issue With Sheets And Dj Printed In The Uk. Book Is Fine, No Wear Or Marks, Dj Near Fine With Trace Of Wear Right Along Top Edge Of Spine. (From The Library Of Computer Scientist Willis H. Ware, Although Not Marked As Such. Ware'S Participation In A Classified World War Ii Project To Identify Friendly Aircraft Led The Mathematician John Von Neumann To Recruit Him To Help Develop A Computer At The Institute For Advanced Study In Princeton, N.J., In 1946. That Machine Was Not The First Digital Computer, But It Was Based On A Set Of Design Ideas Described By Dr. Von Neumann That Were Broadly Influential - First On The Design Of Computers Built By Scientists Around The World, And Then On An Early Ibm Computer Known As The 701. Many Of These Concepts Are Still Visible In The Structure Of Modern Computers And… Read More

Archives Neerlandaises Des Sciences Exactes, 1912. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Pp 176-191. Pages Extracted From The Journal, Glossy Paper, Marbled Paper Spine; Possibly The Author's Copy, As It Came From Korringa, Principal Assistant To Kramers, Who Worked Under Lorentz. Fine Except For Very Old Paper Clip Rust Marks At Top Of First And Last Pages.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1999. First Edition . Full Morocco. Fine. 11 3/8" x 9" x 5 1/2. Photographs, Charts, Drawings. Four Volumes In Full Morocco, Gilt. A Special Presentation Edition Compiled For And Presented To Arnold O Beckman In Anticipation Of His 100Th Birthday. Presentation Page Thanking Him For His Contributions To The Laboratory. The Volumes Contain Finely Printed Offprints Of Each Of The Papers Written By Researchers At The Laboratory 1991-1999. Probably Unique.

London: [Her Majesty's Stationary Office], 1862. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 202 Pp. Text Pages Only, Otherwise Complete. Finely Bound In Three Quarter Brown Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title On Spine, Rules And Devices In All Compartments, Over Grey Cloth. Excellent 1862 Analysis Of The Technology And Economics Of Chemical And Pharmaceutical Businesses, All Written In An Unusually Pointed Style With A View To Analysis Of Future Developments And Opportunities. Note On Front Endpaper That This Was Purchased From Henry Southeran In London On Dec 1, 1924, Signed By American Inventor Henry Blumenberg Jr., With His 640 S. Arden Blvd., Los Angeles, Address. Near Fine Rubbing, With Just A Few Points Of Rubbing, Immaculate, Gilt Brilliant; Contents Aged, 1" Tear At Top Of First Page [May 2014), Last Page Quite Aged, With Some Few Pencil Emphasis Marks By Blumenberg Who Clearly Read The Entire Report.

New York: John Wiley And Sons, 1954. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine DJ. First Edition, First Published In 1952, This Being The Scarce Corrected Second Printing, In The American Issue With Sheets And Dj Printed In The Uk. Book Is Fine, No Wear Or Marks, Dj Near Fine With Trace Of Wear Right Along Top Edge Of Spine. (From The Library Of Computer Scientist Willis H. Ware, Although Not Marked As Such. Ware'S Participation In A Classified World War Ii Project To Identify Friendly Aircraft Led The Mathematician John Von Neumann To Recruit Him To Help Develop A Computer At The Institute For Advanced Study In Princeton, N.J., In 1946. That Machine Was Not The First Digital Computer, But It Was Based On A Set Of Design Ideas Described By Dr. Von Neumann That Were Broadly Influential - First On The Design Of Computers Built By Scientists Around The World, And Then On An Early Ibm Computer Known As The 701. Many Of These Concepts Are Still Visible In The Structure Of Modern Computers And… Read More

China Lake : U S Naval Ordinance Test Station, Inyokern, Technical Publishing Division, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photographs And Charts. Viii, 110 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt #105 Of A Limited Issue Of 120 Copies. Exceptionally Scarce; Worldcat Locates Only One Institutional Copy, At The U S Naval Postgraduate School In Monterey. This May Have Been The Caltech Hydrodynamics Laboratory Copy, With A Single Datestamp"Received August 8 1952 Engineering" On Front Cover, With Pages From The Rocketeer Laid In Loosely, Referring To Both The Engineering Department And Another Article On The China Lake Facility, And An Orange Flyer Laid In Loosely Regarding Congratulations Received On The 12Th Anniversary Of That Facility; No Other Marks Other Than The Circular Date Stamp..

Archives Neerlandaises Des Sciences Exactes, 1912. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Pp 176-191. Pages Extracted From The Journal, Glossy Paper, Marbled Paper Spine; Possibly The Author's Copy, As It Came From Korringa, Principal Assistant To Kramers, Who Worked Under Lorentz. Fine Except For Very Old Paper Clip Rust Marks At Top Of First And Last Pages.