New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Hardcover. Fundamentals, techniques, designs involved in the study of optics. Sections include (with Chapter Headings following each capitalized SECTION NAME) GEOMETRIC OPTICS; PHYSICAL OPTICS (Interference, Diffraction, Coherence Theory, Polarization, Scattering by Particles, Surface Scattering, QUANTUM OPTICS : Optical Spectroscopic Lineshapes, Fundamental Optical Properties of Solids; OPTICAL... More

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. Hardcover. TENTH IMPRESSION. NEW EDITION, ENLARGED. Founder of the first Boy Scouts Society, and author of "American Boys' Handy Book." From the dust jacket, "Dan Beard was only five years old when he made his first real scientific discovery. Without anyone's help he... More

Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, 1984. Hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. University library stamps to front endpapers, top, fore, and bottom edges. Library card and cataloging information to rear endpapers. Tape residue to lower spine and a little onto boards. Light edgewear and slightly nudged corners. 483 pp with Bryce DeWitt's publications list and... More

NEW YORK: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Leather_bound. FACSIMILE EDITION of Madrid Codices (1493), the original of which is located in the National Library in Madrid. Essentially, these are several of Leonardo DaVinci's private notebooks, full of drawings, schematics, gear-and-pulley-driven devices (including military equipment)(, explanations, commentaries, experiments, etc. The original Spanish... More

Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1964. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Orange, cloth-covered octavo, with brown lettering to spine. Very light wear to extremities, a few isolated spots and smudges to otherwise clean and bright boards. Remainder mark ("A") to bottom edge. Dustjacket is married (from another first edition copy of... More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. First Printing (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo, in green boards and light umber dj. Tight, clean, bright copy, with graphs, charts, and index; mild rubbing to corners and spine ends; dj shows edgewear. Part of the international series in space technology. Dust jacket in protective Demco. More

British Columbia: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1978. FIRST PRINTING. Paperback. Oversized paperback (4to), perfect-bound in heavy cardstock; 84 pages. Microphotography of wood grains. Clean, cirsp, unmarked copy; light shelfwear. Oversize paperback. More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. The ONLY blemish in this near-perfect book is the previous owner's name, blacked out, on front pastedown endpaper. Privately owned.Just a trace of shelf-rubbing to dustjacket. No markings except as above-mentioned. Bright and tight. Name and Subject Indices. More

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1959. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION, SIXTH PRINTING. This thoroughly revised and updated volume begins the series in Molecular Spectra and Structure. Aimed to give a beginner the fundamentals, while also benefitting researchers in the field by adding the more detailed information in small type... More

Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc. 1984. Hardcover. This volume deals with basic physical and scientific aspects of TL essential to optimum use of TL in radiation dosimetry. Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Models of TL Trapping and Recombination Centers; Chapter 3: Kinetics of TL Glow Peaks; Chapter 4: General... More

New York: Pergamon Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards with mild shelfwear, and a bit of shelf-rubbing to spinecaps. Previous owner's stamped name, overlaid with felt marker, to top and bottom edges. Privately-owned. Unmarked. Tight, clean copy. Cerenkov(or Cherenkov) radiation results when a charged particle (eg., an electron)... More