[Paris]: The New York Times, [1935]. Original, vintage black and white photograph. Printed on paper of “Service photographique New York Times”. 152 × 178 mm. Original photograph of the Nobel Prize winner couple, Iréne and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The photograph depicts Marie Curie’s daughter, Iréne Joliot-Curie (1897–1956) and her husband..... More
[Spain]. [Mid-18th century]. Spanish manuscript. Written in brown ink by a neat hand. An extra recipe, written by a different old hand, on the front free endpaper. In contemporary vellum. [56] p. Interesting 18th-century Spanish dyeing manual and recipes for wool and cloth coloring. During the Middle Ages, Spain..... More
Londini [London]: Typis R. E. pro B. Tooke Bibliopola, in Coemeterio Paulino [Robert Everingham; Benjamin Tooke], 1682. First Latin edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt: floral ornament and title. Edges tinted. [2] 69 [1] [12] 78 [6] 29 [1] [6] p. Scarce first Latin edition of Boyle’s milestone works in..... More
Rouen: De l’imprimerie de David Geoffroy, demeurant à la ruë des Cordeliers, joignant sainct Pierre, 1612. In 18th century leather, spine with raised bands, compartment gilt, with red title vignette. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, tinted edges. Woodcut device on the title page, woodcut portrait of the author on the verso..... More
Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. (Offprint of the “Mathematikai és Természettudományi értesítő.), 1912. 664–672 p. George Charles de Hevesy (1885–1966) was a radiochemist, Nobel laureate. He earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943 “for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes”. More
![Item #478 [Scarce Balneological Book by Kitaibel.] Kitaibel Pálnak, a’ Pesti Mindenességben...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/478.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1434470050)
Kassán (Kassa): Füskúti Landerer Ferenz betűivel, 1801. First Hungarian edition. Signed by Kéler on last page of text. Text in Hungarian, and in German on the engraving. In contemporary coloured hard paper wrappers. 16, (4) p. and 1 folding plate. Bártfa or Bártfafürdő (today: Bardejov or Bardejovské Kúpele in Slovakia)..... More
Aachen und Leipzig: Verlag von J. A. Mayer, 1829. First edition. With the circular ink stamp of the Bibliothèque de Tsarkoe Selo on the second flyleaf verso, featuring the double-headed imperial eagle and French inscription. Contemporary binding in red long-grain morocco. Smooth spine with gilt compartments featuring grapevine and leaf..... More
Budapest: [Szerző kiadása (Franklin-Társulat nyomdája)], 1917. First Hungarian edition. Frist separate edition. Original printed wrappers. 29 [3] pp. The foundational statement of Polányi’s adsorption theory—first published here in Hungarian and submitted as his doctoral dissertation during World War I. Polányi’s dissertation, submitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of the..... More
A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Didot Jeune, Imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine, rue des Maçons-Sorbonne, no. 13, 1809. First edition. In later hard paper, title vignette on spine. 48 p. Early 19th century toxicological and botanical study of Java and Southeast Asian plants. This work by Alire Raffeneau-Delile..... More
Sent from Switzerland, Arosa. Dated on August 24, 1948. Two bifolios of lightweight paper. Manuscript in ink, signed as "Prof". Text in Hungarian. 145 × 208 mm. Holograph letter by Albert Szent-Györgyi to his trustee to distribute tasks among his assistants at his laboratory. Szent-Györgyi gives tasks to seven..... More
(London): Printed by J. and H. Cox, Brothers, 74 and 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields. (between 1844 and 1846). First edition under this title. Privately printed reprint of Talbot’s memoir that was published with variant title and imprint (Process of Calotype Photogenic Drawing […] London: J. L. Cox &..... More
![Item #1173 [Contributions to the Theory of the Neutron.] Adalékok a neutron elmélethez....](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1173.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1499441259)
Budapest: Kiadja a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1933. First edition. Text in Hungarian with abstracts in German. In publisher’s printed wrappers. VI, (1), (1)–602, (2) p. and 5 photographic plates. Scientific yearbook with Wigner’s first paper on neutron and contributions by Gábor Szegő and Alfréd Haar. With the first edition..... More