Abney Capt W (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. 287pp.+ adverts. HARDCOVER. Old sgn. (1899) to ffep., & frt. hinge exposed. O/w clean throughout, & binding remains strong. Various marks to external cloth & splits to spine which are now repaired. A sturdy copy for someone interested in vintage photography. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows moderate wear and rubbing, loss on the corners, rebacked spine. Reinforced hinges, tissue guard on frontispiece is detached, pages are tanned and clean.

Cloth. Condition: Fair / Good. Second. Textblock sound with significant tanning to endpapers, signature on fep , ms note on inside front cover, hinges strained but holding, cover rather worn and marked. Pics available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

2nd edition hardback in original cloth Near Fine octavo 287pp., b/w pls., text ills., index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine and with bevelled boards, this dated 1898 hardcover First Edition is VG. 287pp+5pp adverts for Barnet Photographic products. With 14 articles on the following subjects; Alpine Photography: Negative Making: Lenses: Portraiture: Landscapes, Architecture: The Hand Camera: Lantern Slides: Enlargements: P.O.P: (Gelatino-Chloride Printing-Out) , Platinotype Printing, Contacts on Bromide Paper, The Gum-Bichromate Process: Carbon Printing for Beginners. With 11 full-page example B/W prints by the Essayists. Clean decorated endpaper, minor stains to front board, slight wear to top/tail od spine; binding sound and otherwise VG.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ABNEY, Capt. (William de W.) "Solar Physics I"', "Solar Physics II", and "Solar Physics III", being a three-part paper in three issues of "Nature, an Illustrated Weekly Journal of Science", London, 1881-2. Includes: (1) "Solar Physics I" in Nature, vol 25 # 63, 15 December 1881, pp 162-166 in the weekly issue of pp 145-168. (2) "Solar Physics II", vol 25 #64, 22 December 1881, pp 187-191 in the issue of pp 169-192. (3) "Solar Physics III", pp 252-257 in the issue of pp 240-260, 12 January 1882. Illustrated with 26 text illustrations. A long, extended tour of the current state of solar physics. 3 weekly issues, each cleanly extracted from a larger bound volume. Crisp. VG [++] "Abney was one of the founders of modern photography, combining a scientific approach, ingenuity, and manipulative skill with a talent for popularization. In later life his interest in color photography led him to investigate theories of color vision. Abney's first astronomical publications were reports on an expedition he led to Egypt in December 1874, to photograph a transit of Venus across the face of the sun. In preparation for this expedition Abneyby then a captaininvented a dry photographic emulsion (1874): this, his "albumen beer" process, remained in use for general as well as solar photography until superseded by commercial gelatin products, He went on to study the chemistry of latent image developing (1877) and to introduce hydroquinone (1880), still one of the best developing agents known.Extending his interests to spectroscopy. Abney was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectraan idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887). This was followed by comparative studies of how sunlight is altered in passing through our atmosphere, made at sea level and in the Swiss Alps(1888, 1894)."--Encyclopedia dot com.…

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. Light foxing, a few minor scratches to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Book has a slight lean, corners are bumped. Boards and spine are worn around edges and corners. Some wear and staining on boards and spine. Edges, endpapers and some pages stained and foxed. Previous owner's stickers on front pastedown endpaper and back pastedown endpaper. Else book is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. Cracked at ffep, exposed, but intact, foxing throughout, else tight, bright, and unmarred. ix, 231pp. illus. (b/w, color frontis, charts). Blue cloth with gilt titling on spine, annotations on tp. …

2nd. Very Good- pp180. with 35 portraits of the guides in photogravure. illustrations in the text, some full page. orig. maroon cloth gilt. sp. faded. fr. hinge cracked. Neate 'The best edition'. Ronald Clark 'only 200 copies published'. bookplate of Hamilton Stuart Verschoyle.

2nd. Near Fine- pp180. with 35 portraits of the guides in photogravure. illustrations in the text, some full page. orig. maroon cloth gilt. sp. faded. pages uncut. Neate 'The best edition'. Ronald Clark 'only 200 copies published'. 'W.R. Neate 13/2/70'.