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Wilson, A. H.. THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Cambridge 1960 University. 4to., 495pp., index, hardcover, Ex-library. Hinges secure and unbroken and text clean. Good, no DJ. (a1420)
$29.00Vachaspati. QUANTUM MECHANICS IN GENERALIZED HILBERT SPACE
Copenhagen 1956. Mast. Fys. Medd.Dan. Vid. Selsk. 30, No. 21. 8vo., 28pp., wraps. VG. no owner marks. (a19422)
$29.00 Levy, M. Maurice . LA STATIQUE GRAPHIQUE ET SES APPLICATIONS AUX CONSTRUCTIONS IIIe PARTIE: ARCS. PONTS SUSPENDUS. CORPS DE REVOLUTION
Paris 1887 2nd ed. Gauthier-Villars. In French. 8vo., 418pp. Includes Atlas Volume, plates XXXIII to XL, bound in one volume with text. Volume 3 of Levy's 4 volume work which was his "most significant work...an attempt to apply the methods of projective geometry, particularly the theory of geometric transformations, to the problems of statics. " (DSB volume 8 p. 287.) Number in gilt at heel of spine. Good, some cover wear. Volume 3 only. (a29540)
$125.00 Papadrakakis, M. and B. H. V. Topping (editors) . ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Edinburgh 1994. 4to., 375pp., wraps. Good, wraps worn, lightly soiled. Text fine, clean, no marks. ISBN 0-948749-28-8 (a33799)
$129.00Bullough, R. K.. A MOLECULAR THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN TWO-COMPONENT ANISOTROPIC POLYMER SYSTEMS
London 1962. Offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. No. 1044, 8 Feb 1962. Vol. 254. 4to., pp. 397-440, wraps. Fine. (a36571)
$35.00Autenheimer, Friedrich. ELEMENTARBUCH DER DIFFERENTIAL- UND INTEGRALRECHNUNG
Weimar 1865 Voigt. Mit zahlreichen Anwendungen aus der Analysis, Geometrie, Mechanik, Physik etc. fur technische Lehranstalten bearbetit. 8vo., 406pp., 134 text eingedruckten Holzschnitten, hardcover. Original 1865 publication bound in nineteenth century half dark green cloth with marbled boards. Small letter and number stamped in gilt on spine, old german institute ownership stamps on half title and title pages. VG. (a37853)
$45.00 Buchholz, Hugo . DAS MECHANISCHE POTENTIAL NACH VERLESUNGEN VON L. BOTZMANN BEARBEITET UND DIE THEORIE DER FIGUR DER ERDE ZUR EINF�HRUNG INDIE H�HERE GEOD�SIE (ANGEWANTE MATHEMATIK) ERSTER TEIL
Leipzig 1908 Barth. In German. Sm.4to., 470pp., hardcover. Good, hinges tender, light wear. Volume 1. Scarce. (a38131)
$235.00Ball, J.M. (editor). MATERIAL INSTABILITY IN CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND RELATED MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS
Oxford 1988. Hardcover. Large octavo, 542pp., index, printed boards. other than very faint foxing on closed page ends book is Fine. isbn 019 8532733. no dj. (a38490)
$29.00 Finger, Dr. Jos. . ELEMENTE DER REINEN MECHANIK ALS VORSTUDIUM F�R DIE ANALYTISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE MECHANIK UND F�R DIE MATHEMATISCHE PHYSIK
Wien 1901 Holder. Zweite verbesserte und vermehrte auflage. In German. Sm.4to., 797pp., 210 fig im texte. 3/4 dark brown cloth with marbled boards. VG. (a41031)
$79.00Zeilon, Nils. ON THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFUSION UPON THE PROPAGATION OF BOUNDARY WAVES
Upsala 1914 Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsaliensis. Ser. IV. Vol 4. No. 2. In English. 4to., 16pp., wraps. Good, cover a bit worn and frayed. (a41434)
$29.00Minorsky, N.. INTRODUCTION TO NON-LINEAR MECHANICS (IN 4 PARTS)
Part I - Topological Methods of Non-Linear Mechanics (December 1944, Report 534, 133pp.); Part II - Analytical Methods of Non-Linear Mechanics (September 1945, Report 546, 113pp.); Part III - Non-Linear Resonance (May 1946, Report 558, 132pp.); Part IV - Relaxation Oscillations (September 1946, Report 564, 80pp.) Each Report 4to., blue wraps. Owner signed on covers. All sponsored by the David W. Taylor Model Basin, United States Navy. Four separate volumes, complete. VG. 4 parts. (a46152)
$45.00 Fowler, R. H. . STATISTICAL MECHANICS: THE THEORY OF THE PROPERTIES OF MATTER IN EQUILIBRIUM
Cambridge 1936 2nd revised and enlarged. Hardcover. 4to., 864pp., index, cloth. VG plus, no DJ. No ownership marks. Excellent condition. (a46196)
$99.00Cauchy, Augustin-Louis. TH�ORIE DE LA PROPAGATION DES ONDES � LA SURFACE D'UN FLUIDE PESANT D'UNE PROFONDEUR IND�FINIE
Paris 1827. Memoir, removed from M�moires Pr�sent�s par Divers Savants � l'Acad�mie Royale des Sciences. In French. 4to., 312pp., original blue printed wraps with later spine. Uncut. Good plus, original cover worn and stained; text VG with no ownership marks, text clean, binding secure, slight rippling in text. (a51397)
$350.00 Georg, Georgev . MECHANICAL QUADRATURES WITH A MINIMAL NUMBER OF TERMS (IN RUSSIAN)
Warsaw 1955. Rozprawy Matematyczne VIII. In Russian. Sm.4to., 71pp., original printed wraps. Uncut. VG, light soiling. (a58803)
$25.00 Petrashen, M. I. and E. D. Trifonov . APPLICATIONS OF GROUP THEORY IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
Cambridge 1969 1st MIT. Octavo, 318pp., hardcover. Ex- university library with usual markings. VG, no DJ. (a60537)
$29.00 Reissner, E. (editor) . NON-LINEAR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS OF CONTINUA
NY 1949. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Volume 1. 4to., 219pp., original gilt printed red cloth hardcover. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine, small number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good . (a61634)
$25.00 Halmos, Paul and John von Neumann . OPERATOR METHODS IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS II
Princeton 1942. Article in the Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Volume 43 No. 2, at pp. 332-350. Included in a whole issue of this journal. Bound with the four issues of the Annals with comprise Volume 43, in one hardcover volume with original front covers included. Sm.4to., institution buckram. Stamps on fore-edges - no pocket or other markings. Near Fine. (a63044b)
$90.00 Leimanis, E; N. Minorsky . DYNAMICS AND NONLINEAR MECHANICS: SOME RECENT ADVANCES IN THE DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES AND CELESTIAL MECHANICS; THEORY OF OSCILLATIONS
NY 1958 Wiley. Volume II of Surveys in Applied Mathematics. Two volumes bound as one. Hardcover. Octavo, 206pp., cloth. Fine in Near Fine DJ. (a74151)
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