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WHITLOCK, T.G.
Elementary Applied Aerodynamics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press & London: Humphrey Milford, [1931]..
12mo. pp. viii, 240, [1]. 2 plates (1 double-sided). text illus. cloth (air force library stamps on front flyleaf). dw. (edges of dw. chipped & spine spotted). First Edition.
$45 USD Book Number: elala4433 Order / Enquire

WHITNEY, J[oseph] D[wight] [1819-1896].
The Metallic Wealth Of The United States, Described And Compared To That Of Other Countries.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. & London: Trübner & Co., 1854..
8vo. pp. with half-title. 3 lithographed plates. 44 text illus. original cloth (extremities frayed, small label on spine, small puncture in rear cover & in upper margin in several gatherings at end). ownership entry of American industrial metallurgist and academic, Cyril Stanley Smith. First Edition. Following scientific studies in Europe Whitney was engaged in the survey of the mineral lands of the northern peninsula of Michigan which resulted in a bulky two-volume work issued as Congressional documents. After the close of the Lake Superior survey he established himself as a consulting expert in mining with headquarters in Brookline, then in Cambridge. "[He] soon built up a clientage throughout the eastern United States and Canada that gave him opportunity second to none for acquiring information concerning ores, ore deposits, and mining, which he worked up into book form under the title Metallic Wealth Of The United States (1854). The volume marked an important epoch in the literature of ore deposits and remained the standard work of reference up to the time of Prime's translation (1870) of Bernhard von Cotta's Die Lehre von den Erzlagerstätten (1859)." (DAB) "This work was a milestone in the literature of ore deposits, and remained a standard text for two decades. One of the first systematic texts in the field, it stimulated serious research on mineral ores and helped to establish mining geology as a scientific discipline." (DSB) There are some passages relating to Canada. Whitney subsequently conducted important field work in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and directed a geological survey of California as state geologist, 1860-74. Whitney spent his last twenty-one years as Sturgis-Hooper professor at Harvard.
$999 USD Book Number: SITeWHIT31 Order / Enquire

WIEDEMANN, Eilhard & Hermann EBERT.
Physikalisches Praktikum Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung Der Physikalisch-Chemischen Methoden.
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg Und Sohn, 1899..
8vo. pp. xxix, 574, [2]ads. numerous text illus. cloth (shaken, joints & extremities frayed, institutional rubberstamp on title). Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition.
$60 USD Book Number: elala4434 Order / Enquire

WILD, H[einrich] [1833-1902].
Ueber Die Bestimmung Der Absoluten Magnetischen Declination Im Konstantinow'schen Observatorium Zu Pawlowsk. [At Head of Title: Mémoires De L'Académie Impériale Des Sciences De St.-Pétersbourg, VIIe Série. Tome XLII, No 6.].
St. Petersburg: 1894..
folio. pp. 35. 1 p.l., 35. 2 plates (1 folding). original cloth (bit faded). First Edition. The author, professor of physics and directory of the observatory at the University of Bern, was invited in 1868 to join the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and to become director of its Central Astrophysical Observatory. In 1876 he founded the magnetometeorological observatory at Pavlovsk and remained its director until 1895. "Wild was an active meteorologist who played a major part in the development of the science in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He improved several instruments, including the anemograph, anemometer, atmometers, barometer, rain gauges, thermograph, several forms of theodolite, instruments for measurement of terrestrial magnetism, polarization photometer, and polaristrobometer. His modifications of these instruments significantly improved techniques for weather observation. He also was directly responsible for significantly extending the network of meteorological observation stations - almost as many in Switzerland as in Russia." (DSB)
$410 USD Book Number: SLDbeWIL54 Order / Enquire

WILDERMANN, Dr. Max [1845-1908].
Die Grundlehren der Elektricität und ihre wichtigsten Anwendungen...
Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1885..
8vo. pp. xx, 501, [1], [2]ads. with half-title. frontis. & numerous text illus. original black & gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (bit rubbed, few tears at upper front joint). First Edition. Including sections on telegraphy and telephones.
$175 USD Book Number: elala4248 Order / Enquire

WILLIAMS, C[harles] W[ye] [1779-1866].
Combustion Of Coal And The Prevention Of Smoke Chemically And Practically Considered...Part The First...
London: Simpkin, Marshall, And Co...., 1841..
8vo. pp. xii, 158, xxvi. tipped-in errata slip. lacking the volume of plates as often. A near fine Presentation Copy in original cloth. Second Edition. The author was the founder and managing director of the City of Dublin Steam-Packet Co., for whom he prepared the present work. The cost of the first edition of 1839 was borne by the company. Williams invented a model steam-boiler and furnace, which won a £500 prize in a competition in Newcastle.
$200 USD Book Number: elala4249 Order / Enquire

WILSON, E[ugene] B[enjamin] [b. 1857].
The Chlorination Process.
New York: John Wiley & Sons & London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1907..
12mo. pp. v, 125 + 19(publisher's catalogue). cloth.
$75 USD Book Number: elala4435 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Frederick J. F. & Douglas GREY.
A Practical Treatise Upon Modern Printing Machinery And Letterpress Printing.
London...: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1888..
8vo. pp. vii, 455, [4]ads. numerous wood-engraved text illus. Untrimmed in original blind-stamped cloth (extremities frayed, periodic foxing). First Edition.
$250 USD Book Number: elala4250 Order / Enquire

WILSON, George [1818-1859].
Electricity and The Electric Telegraph Together With The Chemistry Of The Stars; An Argument Touching The Stars And Their Inhabitants.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852..
2 Parts in 1. small 8vo. pp. 77; 50. several text illus. modern quarter cloth (small library bookplate with release stamp, outer edge of last leaf bit chipped). First Edition. The author, a Scottish chemist and lecturer, was appointed director of the Scottish Industrial Museum and regius professor of technology at Edinburgh University in 1855. Wheeler Gift 1245.
$400 USD Book Number: SLSecWIL61 Order / Enquire

WIMPERIS, H.E.
A Primer Of The Internal Combustion Engine.
London: Constable & Company Limited, 1912..
12mo. pp. xi, [2 leaves], 143. folding form. text illus. cloth. First Edition.
$75 USD Book Number: elala4436 Order / Enquire

WOOD, J[ohn] G[eorge] [1827-1889].
Common Objects Of The Microscope.Revised And Re-Written By E.C.Bousfield.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, [c1912]..
8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 186. 14 plates. printed tissue guards. numerous text illus. original pictorial bds. (some moderate wear).
$150 USD Book Number: elala2140 Order / Enquire

WOOD, Karl D.
Technical Aerodynamics.
New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1935..
8vo. pp. xiv, 330. text illus. cloth. First Edition.
$45 USD Book Number: elala4437 Order / Enquire

WOODWARD, Horace B[olingbroke] [1848-1914].
The Geology Of England And Wales: A Concise Account Of The Lithological Characters, Leading Fossils, And Economic Products Of The Rocks; With Notes on the Physical Features of the Country.
London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1876..
8vo. pp. xx, 476, [2]ads. with half-title. folding colour map, wood-engraved frontis. & 28 wood-engraved text illus. untrimmed in original cloth (upper joints & spine ends frayed). First Edition.
$200 USD Book Number: elala3678 Order / Enquire

WORTHINGTON, A.M.
Dynamics Of Rotation An Elementary Introduction To Rigid Dynamics.
London...: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1902..
12mo. pp. xvi, 164 + 40(ads). text illus. cloth (spine darkened). Fourth Edition.
$40 USD Book Number: elala4438 Order / Enquire

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