johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by the author to physicist John Lawrence on the half-title. Barabasi explains how the digital age has yielded a massive, previously unavailable data set that proves the daily pattern of human activity isn't random. Octavo: 310 p. with textual illustrations. Original black paper-covered boards, with gilt titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 74770

Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by William Mitchell on the half-title. Examines how the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an interconnected world are changing our environment and our lives. Octavo: 259 p. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76620

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 65850

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Reprint. The culmination of many years' interest in the nature of covalent and dative bonds, this work made Sidgwick (1873-1952) famous and when he was awarded the Royal Medal in 1937, it was said that this book had a more widespread influence on the views of chemists than any other of his generation. Sidgwick is credited with bringing together organic and inorganic chemistry by concluding that the covalency of the carbon-carbon bond was essentially no different to the co-ordinate link (dative bond) and so provided a firm basis for the general electronic theory of valency, including the concept of a lone pair of electrons. From the library of Franz Sondheimer, the German-born scientist who, with Robert Burns Woodward, was the first to completely synthesize a nonaromatic steroid, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo: xi [1] 310 p. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf, with a faint stain to the top edge. The spine is sun faded; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 73523

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "By presenting an information-theoretical viewpoint of chaos, phenomena and concepts in the network of chaos elements, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with biological networks, in particular the brain, and also to illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology." Octavo: 273 p. with 111 textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 74762

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 286 p. Traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries from the time of Thomas Hobbes to the era of John von Neumann, who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dyson to American computer pioneer Willis Ware (1920-2013) on the title page. Dyson interviewed Ware for this book. In the late 1940s, Ware helped von Neumann build a machine that would become a blueprint for computer design in the 20th century, and later played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age. Octavo. Light foxing to the edges; otherwise a near fine copy in a bright and glossy dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 62175

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Text in German. A widely read text on organic chemistry. Its interdisciplinary approach spoke as well to chemists as it did to physicists. From the library of Franz Sondheimer, the German-born scientist who, with Robert Burns Woodward, was the first to completely synthesize a nonaromatic steroid, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo, two volumes: xii, 410 p. (publisher's ads) + iv, 352 p. (publisher's ads). Original blue cloth bindings, with gilt and black titles. Ex-Balliol Trinity Science Library (Oxford), with a bookplate and ink stamp to each front endpaper. Sporadic pencil marginalia. Period previous owner's ink signature and date to each front flyleaf. Some general dust staining to the top edges. The spines are sun faded, with a bit of wear to the corners and tips.

Seller Inventory # 73530

Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. ".attempts to discuss and summarize some of the most important applications of percolation theory to modelling various phenomena in disordered media." Octavo: 258 p. with numerous textual figures. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 74832

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This book develops a clear and systematic treatment of time series of data, regular and chaotic, that one finds in observations of nonlinear systems." Octavo: 272 p. with 140 illustrations. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 74843

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) is a recently developed technique used to analyze nonstationary data. This book uses methods based on the HHT to analyze hydrological and environmental time series. These results are compared to the results from the traditional methods such as those based on Fourier transform and other classical statistical tests. Water Science and Technology Library, Volume 60. Octavo: 244 p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 74908

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. "The Verne L. Roberts collection is devoted to rare and important books in the fields of mechanics, biomechanics, the strength of materials, and the history of technology. This is one of the most remarkable private libraries to be formed in recent decades and the books and manuscripts in this catalogue, including many of the classics of physics, demonstrate the origins of these fields of science and their development through the ensuing three centuries. The roots of these sciences are also illustrated through a number of important 15th and 16th century books. The catalogue describes approximately 1200 items. The extensive bibliographical and historical descriptions of the books and authors document and define the growth and development of ideas in the history of science and technology. Many of the books are noted for their rarity and have not hitherto been described adequately from a historical or bibliographical point of view. Quarto: xiv, 391 p. with 50 black and white illustrations, including a facsimile of the frontispiece portrait of Sir Isaac Newton taken from the original engraving by George Vertue for the third edition of the Principia. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over a tan cloth spine with silver titles. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 75994

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The first full-fledged biography of this singularly important figure in the history of Enlightenment science. Textual illustrations. Octavo. Original dark gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 68292

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is Number 320 of 1,125 copies signed by James D. Watson. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from the publisher. Watson (b.1928) looks back on his extraordinary and varied career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA - and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way. Octavo. Full burgundy leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76507

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 128 p. 17 textual figures. "As the speaking-telephone, in which magneto-electric currents were utilized for the transmission of speech and other kinds of sounds, was invented by me, I have described at some length my first instrument, and have also given explicit directions for making a speaking-telephone which I know, by trial, to be as efficient as any hitherto made" (from the Preface). The patent for the first telephone was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, despite the fact that Dolbear had invented the first telephone receiver with a permanent magnet as early as 1865. From the library of writer Walter Merriam Pratt, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. 12mo. Original brown cloth binding, with black stamping. The spine is darkened a bit, with minor wear to the corners and tips; else very good.

Seller Inventory # 64050

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 50 black and white illustrations, including a facsimile of the frontispiece portrait of Sir Isaac Newton taken from the original engraving by George Vertue for the third edition of the Principia. New York: Jonathan A. Hill, 1991. First edition - deluxe issue, limited to 100 copies bound in quarter goatskin by hand and containing a re-strike from the original engraved copper plate of the famous frontispiece of Newton. "The Verne L. Roberts collection is devoted to rare and important books in the fields of mechanics, biomechanics, the strength of materials, and the history of technology. This is one of the most remarkable private libraries to be formed in recent decades and the books and manuscripts in this catalogue, including many of the classics of physics, demonstrate the origins of these fields of science and their development through the ensuing three centuries. The roots of these sciences are also illustrated through a number of important 15th and 16th century books. The catalogue describes approximately 1200 items. The extensive bibliographical and historical descriptions of the books and authors document and define the growth and development of ideas in the history of science and technology. Many of the books are noted for their rarity and have not hitherto been described adequately from a historical or bibliographical point of view. Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over the blue goatskin spine, with silver titles. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 64643

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Signed by Paul Allen on the title page, with a printed presentation note on Vulcan stationary laid in. Autobiography of Paul G. Allen (1953-2018), the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution and then channeled his enormous fortune into transforming Seattle into a cultural destination. Octavo: viii, 358 p. with textual photographs (most color). Original white paper-covered boards over a teal paper spine, with silver titles. Light bumping to the tips, with just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket; else a fine copy. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, a friend and travel companion of Paul Allen, who is mentioned in Idle's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography (2018), accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Seller Inventory # 75706

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Featured in the March 6, 1891 issue, this is the first appearance in the United Kingdom of this early Tesla article, which appeared in a slightly different form in the February 21, 1891 issue of the American periodical Electrical World. This work informs and provides context to his development of the Tesla coil, which he patented on April 25, 1891 and first publicly demonstrated on May 20, 1891 in his groundbreaking lecture "Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination" before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College, New York. In addition, the February 20, 1891 issue of The Electrician includes a report on the "New Tesla Alternating Motor." Quarto: 8, 806 p. with textual figures and numerous advertisements. In a period three-quarter black calf over marbled paper binding, with gilt-stamped titles. The leather has been refurbished by an experienced bookbinder. Some general shelfwear to the boards; else very good.

Seller Inventory # 76704