Lot 1083 · Scientific and Engineering Works of Art, Medical Instruments
FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). Thorie analytique de la chaleur . Paris: Firmin Didot pre et fils, 1822.
FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). Thorie analytique de la chaleur . Paris: Firmin Didot pre et fils, 1822.
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- Christie's — SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING WORKS OF ART, MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS, London (South Kensington) · 29 October 1998
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- TB-2026-6630183
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FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). Thorie analytique de la chaleur . Paris: Firmin Didot pre et fils, 1822., FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). Thorie analytique de la chaleur . Paris: Firmin Didot pre et fils, 1822. Christie's, 29 Oct 1998, lot 1083. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6630183.
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FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). Thorie analytique de la chaleur . Paris: Firmin Didot pre et fils, 1822., FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). Thorie analytique de la chaleur . Paris: Firmin Didot pre et fils, 1822. Christie's, 29 Oct 1998, lot 1083. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6630183.
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From the same sale Scientific and Engineering Works of Art, Medical Instruments · Oct 1998
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| MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit . Offprint from Jahresb… | MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit . Offprint from Jahresberichte der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinung 18, 1909. Leipzig & Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8 o. Halftone portrait frontispiece, after a photograph by Emil Loges. Publisher's advertisments for other works by the author on last leaf. Text illustrations. Original buff printed wrappers (slightly discolored, small losses to spine). Provenance : Stockholm Hgskola (small stamp on recto of frontispiece). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION: the notion that enabled Einstein to expand his theory of relativity from its specific (1905) to its general form (1916). "Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that separation of time and space is a false conception; that time is itself a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions" (PMM). The work first appeared in Volume II (1909) of the Verhandlungen of the Deutscher Naturfoscher und Aerzte. The present offprint was commissioned as a tribute following the author's sudden and tragic death. PMM 401 (the journal article); Norman 1514. -- MINKOWSKI. Zwei Abhandlungen ber die Grundgleichungen der Elektrodynamik . Volume I of Fortschritte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien . Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1910. 8 o. 2 leaves of publishers advertisements bound in. Original tan printed wrappers (slight soiling, minor losses to spine). Provenance : Bibliothque de la Nourylande Venette (stamps on title-page). Previously published in Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen (Math.-physik. Klasse) in 1907, this paper first introduced the concept of time as the fourth variable in the "space-time continuum". Norman 1513. -- LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928), Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955) & MINKOWSKI. Das Relativittsprinzip . Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1913. 8 o. Halftone frontispiece of portrait of Minkowski. Original tan printed wrappers (slight soiling, tiny losses to spine). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF A COLLECTION OF SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIVITY PHYSICS, including Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Krper by Einstein and Raum und Zeit by Minkowski. Issued as Volume II of Fortschritte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien , edited by Otto Blumenthal. Norman 1390. | $1,500–$2,000 | |
| BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Bound volume of Comptes rendus des sanc… | BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Bound volume of Comptes rendus des sances de l'Acadmie des Sciences 122 (1896). Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1896. 4 o (261 x 219 mm). Contemporary black morocco-backed cloth boards, spine gilt (worn). FIRST APPEARANCES OF THE SIX ARTICLES DOCUMENTING BECQUEREL'S DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY. Includes: "Sur les radiations mises par phosphorescence" (pp. 420-421); "Sur les radiations invisibles mises par les corps phosphorescents" (pp. 501-502); "Sur quelques proprits nouvelles des radiations invisibles mises par divers corps phosphorescents" (pp.559-564); "Sur les radiations invisibles mises par les sels d'uranium" (pp. 689-694); "Sur les proprits diffrentes des radiations invisibles mises par les sels d'uranium, et du rayonnement de la paroi anticathodique d'un tube de Crookes" (pp. 762-767); "mission de radiations nouvelles par l'uranium mtallique " (pp. 1086-1088). In 1903, Becquerel was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, together with Marie and Pierre Curie, as his discoveries enabled the Curies' research into and identification of radium. Garrison-Morton 2001; Grolier Medicine 84a; Norman 157. -- BECQUEREL. "Recherches sur une proprit nouvelle de la matire. Activit radiante spontane ou radioactivit de la matire". In: Mmoires de l'Acadmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 46 (1903), comprising the whole volume. Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1903. 4 o (284 x 229 mm). 13 photographic plates. Original blue printed wrappers. FIRST APPEARANCE. A detailed summary of Becquerel's work on radioactivity. Dibner Heralds of Science 163; En franais dans la texte 332; cf. Grolier Medicine 64a; Heirs of Hippocrates 2142; PMM 393; Norman 158. (2) | $1,000–$1,500 | |
| ADAMS, John Crouch (1819-1892). An Explanation of the Observed Irregu… | ADAMS, John Crouch (1819-1892). An Explanation of the Observed Irregularities in the Motion of Uranus, on the Hypothesis of Disturbances caused by a more Distant Planet; with a determination of the mass, orbit, and position of the disturbing body. (From the Appendix to the National Almanac for the year 1851) . London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1846. | $1,500–$2,000 | |
| BIGELOW, Jacob (1787-1879). American Medical Botany, being a collecti… | BIGELOW, Jacob (1787-1879). American Medical Botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with colored engravings . Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1821. | $2,000–$3,000 | |
| ADDISON, Thomas (1793-1860). On the Constitutional and Local Effects … | ADDISON, Thomas (1793-1860). On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules . London: Samuel Highley, 1855. | $6,000–$8,000 | |
| OWEN, Richard (1804-1892). On the anatomy of vertebrates . Vol. I: Fi… | OWEN, Richard (1804-1892). On the anatomy of vertebrates . Vol. I: Fishes and reptiles ; Vol. II: Birds and mammals ; Vol. III: Mammals . London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1866-68. 3 volumes. 8 o. Text wood-engravings. Vol. I: 24-page Longmans catalogue dated July 1865 bound in. Vol. II: 2 folding printed tables. Vol. III: 24-page Longmans catalogue dated January 1868 bound in. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines, uncut, some leaves unopened. Provenance : Dr. Albert Lewis Gnther (1830-1914), Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum from 1875-1895 (presentation inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. The summary of Owen's disagreement with Darwinism, and of Owen's preferred theory of saltation (evolution via discrete jumps rather than by the gradual changes produced by natural selection) and his hypothesis that there was an "innate tendancy to deviate from parental type". This copy was presented to Gnther, whose work on lower vertebrates had assisted Owen's research. Norman 1627. -- OWEN. On parthenogenesis, or the successive production of procreating individuals from a single ovum . London: John van Voorst, 1849. 8 o (224 x 141 mm). Lithographed frontispiece. 4-page van Voorst catalogue bound in. Original blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Laid in a revised proof of W.J. Broderip's Hints for collecting animals and their products (London: W. Clowes, 1832), and the first page of a draft letter of 17 October 1885 from Owen to Lady Millais, wife of the artist Sir John E. Millais. Provenance : The author's copy (inkstamp; inscription); Edward Jesse (inscribed "With the author's kind regards to Edward Jesse Esq", and beneath, in Owen's hand "Autograph of the genial Recipient; the Work returned after my friend's demise"). FIRST EDITION. Norman 1625. (4) | $800–$1,200 |