Key Works & Papers

Paris: Chez Crochard 1820. First Edition. 448 pages plus 5 plates (1 folding). 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with black spine labels. Early label (Coquard a Epinal) on front pastedown. The entire volume of "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Vol. Quinzieme [XV 15] offered. Surface wear/damage to..... More

Lancaster, PA and New York, N.Y. American Physical Society (American Institute of Physics) April 15, 1949. First Edition. [1115]-1338 pages. 10 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches. Original green printed wraps. Bump to the base of the spine panel, some creasing to the covers, minor overall wear, small tear to the..... More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1949. First Edition. viii, 753 pages. 8vo. Dark blue/black cloth with replaced endpapers. Page edges speckled. Spine lettering "Bell System Technical Journal" | "Vol 28, 1949". Ex-libris "P. Caporale" with owner's name lettered on front panel and signature on front pastedown endpaper. This..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1892. VI, [2], 295, [1] pages. 8vo. Half leather over marbled boards. Minor wear and scuffing to the leather extremities, front joint just starting at top. Bright and clean internally. Very Good. Boards.

'This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communications, television and..... More

Paris: Crochard 1820. First Edition. 448 pages. Early temporary binders paper boards (light blue paper over very thin pasteboard), laid endpapers and stub. Evidence that the textblock was originally stab-stitched and then sewn when the binding was applied. Paper spine label with manuscript titling, and paper label and 2 chalked..... More

[London]: [Taylor & Francis] March 1950. First Separate Edition. [1], 256-275, [1-blank] pages. 9 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches. Self-wrappers stapled and glued. The five examined offprints [as here] have been oddly but consistently constructed. The first leaf (wrapper title) is tipped onto a gathering formed by pages 257-272 (signed..... More

New York City: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. [ no date ]. [1]-7 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Typescript carbon on thin paper printed recto only. Old rusty paperclip upper left with some creasing/marking to the leaves. Provided with a copy of the published offprint: [1-blank], 148-151, [1-blank] pages..... More

[no place of publication stated]: [no publisher stated] [no date stated]. [1]-5 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Typescript on thin typewriter paper typed on recto only. Stapled upper left. Stained. Two penciled corrections in an unknown hand (one typo, one number correction). The typewriter paper is watermarked "75%..... More

New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers [AIEE] September 16, 1938. [1]-11, 12 pages. 10 15/16 x 8 1/2 inches. Stapled self-wrappers. Hand-applied ink-stamp upper left "A Reprint from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering 141 Mass. Institute of Technology" partially covering the title and author of the paper. Spine refolded..... More

Menasha, Wisconsin: Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc. 1953. First Edition. [1A]-80A (advertisements), [2-table contents], 1219-1568, 81A-192A (advertisements) pages. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Proceedings of the IRE, Vol 41, October 1953, No. 10, the entire issue offered. Pictorial wrappers. The previous owner's name, "Ken Atwood,” is inked on the front..... More