21. [Alaska Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Martin, G.C.

The Nenana Coal Field, Alaska. [Provenance: This rare Pamphlet with NINE (!) large Folding Maps of the Nenana Region, was given to W.D.Gill by american geologist Glen W. Ledingham (Gulf Oil)].

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919. Octavo. 54 pages with 9 large folding Maps. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Names of eminent american geologist Glen W. Ledingham and consulting Petroleum Geologist Jack C. West stamped on cover]. [United States Geological Survey – Bulletin 664].

22. [Alaska Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Knappen, Russel S.

Geology and Mineral Resources of the Aniakchak District, Alaska. [Provenance: This rare Pamphlet with a large Folding Map of the Aniakchak District, was given to W.D.Gill by american geologist Glen W. Ledingham (Gulf Oil)].

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1929. Octavo. 227 pages plus Folding Map. Original Softcover. Cover sellotaped. Otherwise in good condition with only minor signs of wear. Names of eminent american geologist Glen W. Ledingham and consulting Petroleum Geologist Jack C. West stamped on cover]. [United States Geological Survey – Bulletin 797-F].

23. [Alaska Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Chapin, Theodore.

The Nelchina-Susitna Region Alaska [With Two large Folding Maps of the Region]. [Provenance: This rare Pamphlet with the two Maps, was given to W.D.Gill by american geologist Glen W. Ledingham (Gulf Oil)].

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1918. Octavo. 67 pages. With 10 illustrations and 4 figure diagrams. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Names of eminent american geologist Glen W. Ledingham and consulting Petroleum Geologist Jack C. West stamped on cover]. [United States Geological Survey – Bulletin 668].

24. Tutton, A.E.H.

Crystallography and Practical Crystal Measurement [Personal copy of english neuroscientist and founding father of “The Science of Brain Chemistry”, Derek Richter].

First Edition. London, MacMillan and Co, 1911. Octavo. XIV, 946 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of Derek Richter (Magdalen College, Oxford), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to the pastedown and his personal ownership-notation to endpaper. War Office Stamp on titlepage.

25. [Holton, Gerald] / Wheeler, John Archibald.

Elementary Particle Physics – Original Offprint from the library of John Archibald Wheeler and subsequently from the library of Gerald Holton, with a postcard attached which Holton sent/addressed to Wheeler, requesting this offprint and which Wheeler subsequently sent to Holton.

[Princeton], Reprinted from “American Scientist”, 1947. Octavo. 20 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Manuscript entry of titles Holton requested from Wheeler on the postcards / in ink. Postcard stamped with “Jefferson Physical Laboratory – Harvard University”

26. Boole, George.

Of Propositions numerically definite. [Original Offprint]. By the late George Boole, Professor of Mathematics in Queens’s College, Cork. Communicated by A. de Morgan, Esq.

Cambridge, University Press, 1869. 4°. pages 396 – 411 pages. Modern Softcover with original transaction stapled. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society – Volume XI, Part II].

27. Lyle, Oliver.

The Efficient Use of Steam – Written for the Fuel Efficiency Committee of the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1947. Large Octavo (16 cm x 24 cm). 912 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

28. Jeffreys, Sir Harold / [Norman Robert Campbell].

Original Offprint – Review by British Mathematician and Astronomer, Sir Harold Jeffreys, on two books on Relativity and Physics by Norman Robert Campbell: “Physics, the Elements” and “Modern Electrical Theory – Chapter XVI: “Relativity”.

Philosophical Magazine, 1923, Octavo. 4 pages. Original Offprint. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear. From the library of Percy Bridgman student, Gerald Holton.

29. [Holton, Gerald] Smyth, H.D.

A General Account of The Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy For Military Purposes Under The Auspices of the United States Government 1940 – 1945.

Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945. 14 cm x 23 cm. II, 182 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of american physicist Gerald Holton, with his name in pencil on front cover as well as “Smyth Report” on spine. Some further annotations in pencil inside the book on pages I, 115 and 127.

30. Duhamel, M. [Jean-Marie Constant].

Cours de Mécanique.

Troisieme Edition. Two Volumes in One (complete). Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. Octavo. XXIV, 475, X, 377 pages. 3 planches dépliantes. Hardcover / Reliure speciale / Original price – binding / Price-binding from Trinity College Dublin ! Binding slightly rubbed but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilted emblemata supralibros of Trinity College Dublin in good condition. The interior of the Volume in excellent, extremely clean condition.

31. Mallet, Robert.

On the Dynamics of Earthquakes ; being an Attempt to reduce their observed Phenomena to the known Laws of Wave Motion in Solids and Fluids. [Read 9th February, 1846] AND: On the Objects, Construction, and Use of certain new Instruments for Self-registration of the Passage of Earthquake Shocks. [Read June 22,1846].

First Edition of both original papers. [Dublin], Royal Irish Academy, 1846. Quarto. 63 pages with 2 illustrations in the text (wood-engravings) and 3 plates: Plate I – Map of Earthquake Cotidal Lines (coloured) / Plate II – [″Seismic waves” and illustrations of a seaquake] / Plate III – [Seaquake and development of a Tsunami Wave] Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The very scarce original first edition of Mallet’s “groundbreaking” discovery. [From “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I].

32. [Cobbett, Louis] [mentioned are: Behring, Emil von / Koch, Robert / Metchnikoff, Ilya (Élie) / Dönitz, Friedrich Karl Wilhelm / Ehrlich, Paul / Shield, Marmaduke and others]

Two Manuscript Books of Laboratory Notes by student of bacteriology and later publisher of “The Causes of Tuberculosis”, Louis Cobbett (1863 – 1947), dealing in these lab notes with the discovery of remedies for Tuberculosis and Diphtheria. Original, two-volume Manuscript-Compendium of research-notes regarding all the important discoveries in Bacteriology (Diphtheria and Tuberculosis) by contemporaries of Louis Cobbett during the years 1885 – 1908 (Behring, Koch, Metchnikoff etc.). The notes were started by Louis Cobbett in 1885, after graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge and while he was working towards his degree in 1899. The stunning documents are not only reading like a first-hand-journal of discoveries, citing and reflecting on all the important developments and medical advancements of the outgoing 19th and beginning 20th century, but these notes were written parallel to Robert Koch, Emil von Behring and others making their breakthrough discoveries for mankind’s desperately needed cures against Tuberculosis and Diphtheria. Cobbett reflects on the publications in the “Zeitschrift fuer Hygiene” and separately published books and articles. Louis Cobbett lists all the important and also the critical publications leading up to (for example) Koch’s discovery of Tuberculin (e.g.: Beck – “Ueber die diagnostische Bedeutung des Kochschen Tuberculins”), he mentions Emil von Behring, Paul Ehrlich’s “Ueber die Constitution des Diphteriegiftes”, he cites A.Jeffery Turner’s “Statistics on the Diphtheria mortality of the 3 principal Australian Colonies for the past 15 years” (published in 1899), he writes about Tuberculin production in fowl, he reflects on A.Calmette and G. Guerin, “supporting [Emil von] Behring in his contention that pulmonary tuberculosis is of intestinal origin”. Other mentions are “TB of human origin (from a cervical gland)”, he speculates on the publication by Fiebiger and Jensen regarding the transmission of tuberculosis from human to animal, he offers drawings of cultures with Rabbit emulsions, Bovine Characters, Avian cultural characters etc. A few lectures are referred to, including one by Sims Woodhead, a colleague of Louis Cobbett and no doubt attended by Cobbett himself; one newspaper report has been pasted in: ‘Important conference’ in Leeds, from Yorkshire Post 1899 / Louis Cobbett intensely elaborates on Kossel and his report on the english Tuberculosis – Commission in 1908 (H. Kossel – Die Tuberkulosefrage und die Arbeiten der englischen Tuberkulosekommission).

[Cambridge], c. 1885 – 1908. Octavo (17 cm x 21 cm). 90 blank leaves with manuscript entries in each volume, usually written on rectos only. Hardcover / Original half leather with dark blue cloth-covered boards bearing paper-labels to covers, detailing some of the sources cited within; marbled endpapers and edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

33. Seebeck, Thomas Johann.

Magnetische Polarisation der Metalle und Erze durch Temperatur-Differenz.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 108 Seiten (Seiten 265 – 373 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823) plus zwei Tabellen und zwei Tafeln mit Abbildungen zu Magnetismus und Temperatur-Differenz im Anhang. Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

34. Humboldt, Alexander von / Oltmanns, Jabbo.

Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane in den verschiedenen Erdstrichen / [zusammen mit Jabbo Oltmanns:] Darstellung der Resultate, welche sich aus den am Vesuv, von Alexander von Humboldt und anderen Beobachtern angestellten Höhen – Messungen herleiten lassen. [dies ist gleichzeitig als ‘Ergänzung der Abhandlung von Alexander von Humboldt’s Schrift “Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane” zu verstehen und erschien im gleichen Jahrgangsband der Akademie an anderer Stelle].

Erste Ausgabe. 2 Abhandlungen (komplett). Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). Humboldt’s Schrift enthaelt: 8 Seiten (Seiten 137 – 155 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823) / Oltmanns’ Schrift enthaelt: 20 Seiten (Seiten 1 – 20 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundenen Originalabhandlungen. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltenen, originalen Erstausgaben der Publikationen. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Den originalen Publikationen wurde je eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

35. [Einstein, Albert] / Lorentz, H.A. / [Holton, Gerard].

H.A.Lorentz – His Creative Genius and His Personality.

First Edition. Leiden, Rijksmuseum, 1953. Small Octavo. 8 pages including a reproduction of a photograph, showing Einstein and Lorentz by P. Ehrenfest in 1921. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Small note in red ink by former owner of this pamphlet, american physicist Gerald Holton: “translation seen by AE [Albert Einstein]”

36. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

37. Boole, George.

On the Analysis of Discontinuous Functions. 16 pages. [Read 20th July, 1846] / Bound with: On a certain Multiple Definite Integral 10 pages. [Read 13th April, 1846].

First Edition of two papers presented to the Royal Irish Academy. [Dublin / Lincoln], Royal Irish Academy, 1845 – 1846. Quarto. pages 124 – 149 from “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I, 1846. Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare extract of the original printed paper.

38. [Yemen Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Moseley, F.

A Reconnaisance of the Wadi Beihan, South Yeman / Including a Map / (Stamped: “With the author’s compliments).

Original Offprint. Proceedings of ‘THE GEOLOGISTS’ Association, 1971. Octavo. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

39. [Russia – Soviet Union/ Caucasus Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – King, Robert E.

Collection of three (3) important publications on the Geology and Oil / Gas Exploration of Russia and the Caucasus, from the collection of Geologist William Daniel Gill. The collection includes: 1. Robert E. King – “Oil and Gas Exploration and Production inthe Soviet Union” (1969) / 2. Felix Oswald – “Explanatory Notes To Accompany The Geological Map of the Caucasus” (London, 1914) / 3. S.I.Tomkeieff – “The Progress of Geology in the USSR” (Read at Liverpool, 1st January, 1960) /

1914-1969. 52 cm wide x 41 cm high. 1 page. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

40. [Romania / Carpathian Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Grigorias, N. / Constantinescu, N. / Sandulescu, Mircea / Murgeanu, G. / Patruy, I. / Popescu, M. / Manolescu, G. / Soare, E. / Patrulius, D. / Petrisor, I. / Pauliuc, S. / Costea, I. / Danet, T. / Boncev, Ekim.

Collection of sixteen (16) important publications on the Geology of Romania and the Carpathian Region from the William Daniel Gill Collection. The collection includes the following publications (all first editions): 1. N. Grigoras and N. Constantinescu – “Geological Activity for Oil and Gas in the Socialist Republic of Rumania” (1969) / 2. N. Grigoras and I. Patrut and M.Popescu – Contributi La Cunoasterea Evolutiei Geologice A Platformei Moesice De Pe Teritoriul R.P.R. (1961) / 3. N. Grigoras – “Rolul Depresiunilor Premontane In Formarea Rocilor Bitumoase Din R.P.R.” (1957) / 4. N.Grigoras – “Consideratii Privind Legile De Raspindire Ale Zacamintelor De Petrol Si Gaze Din R.P.R” (1961) / 5. N.Grigoras and S.Pauliuc and I. Costea – “Date Noi Privind Faciesurile Paleogenului Dintre Vaile Oituz Si Bistrita” (1966) / 6. N.Grigoras and S.Pauliuc and I.Costea – “Noi Contributii Privind Depozitele Paleogene Dintre Vaile Zabala Si Oituz” (1964) / 7. N.Grigoras and S.Pauliuc and I. Costea – “Date Noi Privind Depozitele Paleogene Dintre Valea Putnei Si Valea Buzaului” (1963) / 8. N.Grigoras and T. Danet – “Contributi La Cunoasterea Sisturilor Verzi Dobrogene” (1961) / 9. N.Grigoras – “Contributiuni La Cunoasterea Geologie Reg.Craiova – Caracal”(1961) / 10. N.Grigoras – “Geologie des Cisements de Petrole et de Gaz en Roumanie” (1966) – Inscribed and signed by N.Grigoras / 11. Ekim Boncev – “Probleme der Lineamenttekonik im oestlichen Teil der Balkanhalbinsel” (1965) / 12. G.Manolescu and E.Soare – “Unity of the Nature of the Relative Permeability Curves in Relation with The Different Wetting Fluid Phases of a Porous Medium and Possibility of their Analytical Expression” (1962) / 13. D.Patrulius – “Olistolitele Masivului Bucegi” (1963) – Inscribed and signed by Dan Patrulius to William Daniel Gill / 14. Mircea Sandulescu – “Stratigrafia Si Tectonica Molasei Micocene Din Regiunea Valea Mare – Berzunt – Onesti”(1959) / 15. M.Sandulescu – “La Structure de la Zone Cristallino-Mesozoique de L’Interieur de la Courbure des Carpathes” (1965) / 16. Geological Map of Poland – “Harta Geologica” Scara 1:200.000 – No.36. “Ploiesti” Nota explicativa de: M. Sandulescu et. al. (1968) /

1957 – 1969. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Many publications inscribed and signed.