William Crookes Editor (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Viking Press Explorer Books edition of Michael Faraday's celebrated series of six lectures explaining the chemistry and physics of a burning candle. Edited with a preface and notes by William Crookes, with a new introduction by Keith Gordon Irwin and reproductions of the original 35 diagrams. This second printing was issued in September 1960 and comprises 102 pages. Beginning with the candle's wax, wick, flame, and combustion, Faraday expands the discussion to include capillary action, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, water, respiration, and the interdependence of natural processes. First published from lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, the work became a classic of Victorian popular science and remains admired for Faraday's ability to make complex scientific ideas understandable through an ordinary object. Condition: Good. Illustrated wrappers remain securely attached but show considerable age and handling wear. Covers are toned, rubbed, spotted, and soiled, particularly along the margins and rear panel, with worn and softened corners. Spine is faded and creased, with rubbing, small areas of paper loss or abrasion, and a black "X4" notation near the foot. Page edges are toned. The photographed interior pages remain clean and legible, with mild age-toning and no extensive writing or markings visible. A sound, complete reading copy with an appealing period cover design. This 1960 Explorer Books printing is collectible primarily for its colorful mid-century wrapper design, original printed 95-cent price, and association with one of the most influential scientific lecturers of the nineteenth century. It offers affordable appeal to collectors of Michael Faraday, chemistry, physics, popular science, scientific education, and the history of the Royal Institution. Carefully packed and shipped in a sturdy box. USPS Media Mail available within the United States; expedited and international shipping quoted at cost. Returns accepted in accordance with AbeBooks' 30-day return policy. SCI 2a.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good. "A Course of Lectures Delivered Before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal Institution." Edited and with a Preface and Notes by William Crookes. With Reproductions of the Original Illustrations and a New Introduction by Keith Gordon Irwin. 7 3/4" Tall. Previous owner's initials at top of ffep and on fore edge. Some browning to cover, mainly on back and a light crease to bottom corner. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 745 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Slight signs of wear, bright, unmarked, facsimile reprint of 1872 Edition, illustrated, 745pp, xvi index, NF/--. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A new edition with illustrations. Type: Book Internally fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Fifth Edition. xxxii, 809, lvi, 24pp. Or brown cloth. Spine reattached with green tape, hinges starting, moderate to heavy toning throughout, prev owners name on 1/2 title page, cloth rubbed and spotted. Not a pretty copy but complete and intact. Technical treatise and manual for assaying gold, silver and other precious metals. Comprehensive classic work in the field. 24pp publishers ads at rear. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Full Blue calf leather with Five raised bands, red leather title slip and gilt titles and decs to spine and College Gilt blocked device to front, gilt dec edges to boards, marbled non parallel red end papers and hand sewn two colour head and tail bands. Signed Prize binding by Bickers & Son London.175 x 120 mm approx. matching marbled edges to book block, 200 pages 59 line figs in text. Series of 6 Lectures + Light-House Illumination- The Electric Light delivered 1860. Undated circa 1890's (New Edition with Illustrations). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Book- 4 cm approx crack to leather top front hinge, no notable rubbing or soiling. no cracks to end papers and binding other than crack to leather very sound. The leather has now been treated and polished by us. No other notable defects).…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The Journal of The Photographic Society of London. Containing the Transactions of the Society, and a General Record of Photographic Art and Science. Edited by William Crookes, Volume IV Issues #56-68 (July 1857-July 1858). Taylor and Francis, London, 1858, 268 pp, half leather, 10 x 6.75 , 8vo. In poor condition. As is. Both boards detached from binding; spine lacking with exposed binding. Boards are normally scuffed at edges and corners. Ink marginalia found on front board. Headband intact; spine cracked at page 46-7. Ex-library bookplates found on front and rear paste-downs; permanent ink stamp found on title page. Front end-page and fly-leaf brittle with chipping at edges. Some pencil marginalia on title page. Normal toning throughout text-block, mostly at edges of leaves. Binding fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. The Journal of the Photographic Society, later the Royal Photographic Society, was first published on 3 March 1853 and it has been published continuously ever since. The magazine's title was changed with volume 5 (1859) when it was renamed The Photographic Journal and this was recently updated to the RPS Journal. The publication is the oldest photographic periodical in the world. Sir William Crookes (1832 1919) was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube, which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics. Crookes became a junior assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann, doing laboratory demonstrations and helping with research and commercial analysis. In October 1851, Crookes was promoted to senior assistant, a position he held until 1854. Although Crookes revered Hofmann, he did not share his primary interest in organic chemistry. One of Crookes's students was the Reverend John Barlow, Secretary of the Royal Institution, who chose to take a course in analytical chemistry. Through Barlow, Crookes met scientists such as George Gabriel Stokes and Michael Faraday. Such friends reinforced Crookes's interest in optical physics, which was respected by Hofmann. By 1851, Crookes's interest in photography and optics caused his father to build him a laboratory in the garden at home for his research. Year 4 (Volume IV), First Edition. RAREB1858DPQZ - 05/23 FORN-TUB-0067-BB-2502-HKREV471. …

First American edition. First American edition. viii, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Good copy, boards have a few small stains, wear and chipping to cloth along edges, lettering mostly rubbed off, dampstain to endpapers, small bookplate ghost to paste down. A classic illustrated series of Christmas lectures on the composition of flames for children and lay folks.…