31. [Iran / Persia Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Lees, George Martin / BP (British Petroleum Co.) / W.F.P. McLintock / W.D.Gill / H.J.Ansari / M.Davoudzadeh / A.F.Fox .

Collection of eight (8) important publications on the Geology and Oil / Gas Exploration of Iran / Persia from the collection of Geologist William Daniel Gill. The collection includes: 1. Activity Report of the Geological Survey of Iran – With a section on “Other Geological Activities in Iran” (Tehran – 12-16 May 1974) / 2. G.M.Lees – “The World’s Oilfields – Eastern Hemisphere” – “The Middle East” (With Diagrams on Persia, Iraq, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc.) (c.1970) / 3. BP (The british Petroleum Company) – “Oil and Gas in Southwest Iran” (1956) / 4. W.F.P. McLintock – “On the metamorphism produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in the Tertiary sediments of south-west Persia [IRAN] (1932) / 5. George Martin Lees – “Salzgletscher in Persien” (1927) / 6. H.J.Ansari – “Geology of Southern Meyaneh Basin in Azarbayjan, Iran” (1965) / 7. M.Davoudzadeh – “Geology and Petrography of the Area North of Nain, Central Iran” (With two maps in a pocket to the rear) (1972) / 8. W.D.Gill – “Petroleum Source Rocks and the Origin of Oil and Gas in Iran, Pakistan and the North Sea” – With a photograph of W.D.Gill inside the publication (Published in Tehran in 1978 – The Bulletin of The Iranian Petroleum Institute” (First Quarter) /

1932 – 1972. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

32. 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.

33. [Kuwait Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Fox, A.F. / R.M.S.Owen / Sami N.Nasr.

Collection of three (3) important publications on the Geology and Oil / Gas Exploration of Kuwait from the collection of Geologist William Daniel Gill. The collection includes: 1.A.F.Fox – “Some Problems of Petroleum Geology in Kuwait” (1959) / 2. A.F.Fox – “The Development of the South-East Kuwait Oilfields” (1961) / 3. R.M.S.Owen and Sami N.Nasr – “Stratigraphy of the Kuwait-Basra Area” (1958).

1958-1961. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

34. 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.

35. [Magnetic Telegraph Company / The Magnetic / British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company / Bright, Edward Brailsford (1813 – 1913)].

British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. (Limited) – Large Fold-Out-Sheet with: “Instructions for Forwarding Messages by other Companies – (For Private Information Only)”. This exceptional piece of Ephemera comes with an Original piece of the 19th century undersea-cable. The very rare, original Instruction-Sheet which was meant to hang inside of the first Telegraph Offices was published by Edward B.Bright in the Chief Offices in Liverpool, July, 1862 [and it automatically cancelled the one which dated December 1860].

Liverpool, British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. (Limited), 1862. Elephant Folio SHett (51.5 cm wide x 82 cm high). Folded into an original cloth folder sized: 14.2 cm wide x 21.8 cm high. Original Hardcover with fold-out-sheet (Poster) inside. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

36. 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].

37. [Michelson, Albert A. / Darwin, Charles / Maxwell, James Clerk] Macmillan, Alexander.

On the Velocity of Light – Small statement of Albert A. Michelson on the experiments of Young and Forbes. In: NATURE. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, Volume XXIV. May 1881 to October 1881. [The Volume also containing a contribution by Charles Darwin: “On the Work of Worms” / Howard Grubb’s “Great Vienna Telescope” / etc.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1881. 4°. XVI, 624 pages including an original full page potrtrait-engraving of scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Original Hardcover, recently beautifully rebacked with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Pages 559 to 564 with central tear. Few small library stamps (discarded). Also with a contribution by Darwin in the section “Letter to the editor” (Darwin responds to an article “Leaves injured at Night by free radiation”).

38. Müller, Johannes.

Über zwei verschiedene Typen in dem Bau der erectilen männlichen Geschlechtsorgane bei den straußartigen Vögeln und über die Entwicklungsformen dieser Organe unter den Wirbelthieren überhaupt.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 40 Seiten plus drei (3) grosse, lithographische Tafeln mit Illustrationen zum Text im Anhang (Seiten 137 – 177 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). 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 dem Jahre 1836].

39. Natural History Illustration of Monsters and Superstitions – Pouchet, F.A.

The Universe – Or, The Infinitely Great and The Infinitely Little. Illustrated by 270 Engravings on Wood, from Drawings by A. Paquet, Mesnel, and Emile Bayard.

Sixth Edition. London, Blackie & Son, 1882. Octavo. Frontispiece, XVI, 564 pages. Original, very decorative Prize-Binding for the “Hastings & St.Leonards-on-Sea Ladies College (English Prize for the Year 1885) / Full, dark green morocco with embossed ornament and gilt lettering on spine. Stunning, marbled endpapers with gilt ornament-border to pastedowns. Binding firm and besides some minor rubbing to spine and corners in very good+ condition.

40. [Optician / Optiker / Optische Instrumente] – Tauber, Gottfried.

Small Collection of very rare original materials from the library of german Mathematician and Inventor of Optical, Medical & Scientific Instruments, Dr. Gottfried Tauber. The collection includes: 1. A stunning, allegorical Painting of Gottfried Tauber by Daniel Caffe (pinxit 1808) which is beautifully framed, with a significant but repairable tear 2. Gottfried Tauber’s personal Manuscript-Notebook [which he obviously kept during his early studies at “Schola Altenburgensis”], titled: “Physic a Tauber – Penticoste’s Tempore – 1784” with Drawings and detailed scientific experiments, 3. An important, printed publication from Tauber’s Institute, titled: “Anweisung Anweisung für auswärtige Personen, wie dieselben aus dem Optisch-Oculistischen Institute zu Leipzig… mit Zuverlässigkeit solche Augengläser bekommen können”. The publication explains not only in detail Tauber’s ability to select the right eye glasses for different stages of loss of sight. The publication, printed in 1851, also advertises the optical and medical inventions of Tauber (Microscopes, Tattoo-Presses, Needles for Inoculation, Camera Lucida, Camera Obscura, Thermomoeters, Meteorological Instruments etc. etc.). Gottfried Tauber was the founder of the Optical – Oculistic Institute in Leipzig / Germany and became famous for the invention of Glasses and several scientific instruments in the fields of Optic and medicinal as well as meteorological instruments . The Manuscript Notebook in the collection includes Gottfried Tauber’s personal elaborations on significant scientific experiments, even mentioning Benjamin Franklin’s Kite-Experiment from 1752 (″Doct. Fränklin in Amerika gab 1752 die erste Nachricht im Dienst von Ableitern…”). Tauber’s many talents led to him being installed as teacher of mathematics already six years after starting his manuscript notebook in 1784. Many of the experiments Tauber noted down in his manuscript and embellished with drawings, would later lead to his own inventions of tools and instruments useful for medicine and science in the ever experimental 19th century.

Altenburg / Leipzig, Gottfried Tauber, 1784 – 1851. Octavo / Quarto. Pagination: Manuscript – 146 pages with numerous drawings (some in ink and some in watercolour) / Pagination: Pamphlet: Portrait: The Portrait is framed, a tear in the portrait is visible / Manuscript: Both Hardcover boards of the manuscript are cleanly detached and rubbed with some minor damages. Drawings and interior manuscript notations very good. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extra Shipping Costs required due to the artwork.