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Pendlebury, Charles. LENSES AND SYSTEMS OF LENSES TREATED AFTER THE MANNER OF GAUSS (1884)
Cambridge 1884 first edition. Deighton, Bell. Hardcover. Octavo, 95pp., cloth. Tiny paper label on bottom of spine end and inside front cover. Small college and owner signature on title page. VG. Printed in 1884. (a10004)
$39.00Jaeger, F. M.. SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS OF ATOMIC SYSTEMS AND OPTICAL ACTIVITY; II METHODS, RESULTS AND PROBLEMS OF PRECISE MEASUREMENTS AT HIGH TEMPERATURES; III THE CONSTITUTION AND STRUCTURE OF ULTRAMARINES (all one book)
NY 1930 1st edition. McGraw Hill. Hardcover large octavo. Blue cloth. The George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University. 450pp. Good plus, very light wear, no DJ. Binding secure; text clean; no owner marks. (a10188)
$45.00Moitessier, A.. ELEMENTS DE PHYSIQUE APPLIQUEE A LA MEDECINE ET A LA PHYSIOLOGIE- OPTIQUE
Paris 1879 Masson. Hardcover. In French. 12mo., 601pp., 177 figures dans le texte, hardcover. Fairly Good, occasional foxing in text, cover worn and soiled. Optics, photography, lighting, microscopes, etc. (a21640)
$45.00 Naidu, P. R. J. (editor) . JOHANNSEN'S OPTICAL MINERALOGY
Bombay 1967 Allied. An adaptation of: A Manual of Petrographic Methods. Hardcover Octavo, 167pp., index, cloth. Includes information on mathematical background of optical constants. VG in fairly Good DJ, a few small chips. (a21802)
$49.00 Elmsley, H.H. and Wm. Swaine . OPHTHALMIC LENSES
London 1946. 8vo., 339pp., diagrams, index. VG, some pencil notes on pastedowns and blank flyleaves, no DJ. (a29028)
$45.00 Emsley, H. H. and Wm. Swaine . OPHTHALMIC LENSES
London 1946 5th Hatton. Hardcover. Small octavo, 339pp., index, cloth. Owner signed. Good plus, no DJ. (a29353)
$20.00Alexander, G.F.. OCULAR DIOPTICS AND LENSES
Baltimore 1934. William Wood. Hardcover octavo. Green cloth. 216pp., diagrams, index. VG, light wear, slight toning to text. no DJ. (a32603)
$29.00Boyko, Yu. V. et al. THERMODYNAMIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF IONIZED GASES AT TEMPERATURES TO 100 eV
NY 1991 1st Hemisphere. 8vo., 198pp., printed boards. Fine. AS NEW. no owner marks. unused. no dj. as issued. (a32792)
$33.00 Drude, Paul . PRECIS D'OPTIQUE
Paris 1911 Gauthier-Villars. In French. 2 volume set. Lg.8vo., 375pp., 362pp., illustrated. Half leather with marbled boards. Number printed on spines. Institution stamp and number of a few leaves of each volume. Good, covers a bit worn. (a34079)
$160.00Bauer, Georg. MEASUREMENT OF OPTICAL RADIATIONS
London and NY 1972. Sm.4to., 134pp., illustrations, photo plates, hardcover. Near Fine in VG dj. no owner marks. no tears or chips on dj just light toning and slight soiling. (a47594)
$39.00 Bergstein, Leonard and Lloyd Motz . GENERAL THEORY OF OPTICALLY COMPENSATED VARIFOCAL SYSTEMS; TWO-COMPONENT OPTICALLY COMPENSTAED VARIFOCAL SYSTEMS; THREE-COMPONENT OPTICALLY COMPENSTAED VARIFOCAL SYSTEMS;
158, 1962. Three offprints from the Journal of the Optical Society of America (Volumes 48 and 52). 4to., pp.154-171, pp.353-362, pp. 363-375, wraps. VG, wraps a bit soiled, a few stains on one offprint. Three offprints: (a50192)
$39.00 La Caille, M. l'Abbe de . LECONS ELEMENTAIRES D'OPTIQUE
A Paris. 1766 Chez Desaint. Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigee & augmentee sur l'exemplaire de l'Auteur. In French. 8vo., 12 foldout plates., device on titlepage, full leather. School library stamp on titlepage and small ink numbers on front end paper. Good, leather rather worn and front board held on by binding string and end paper, spine worn and chipped, ends worn down. (a51651)
$390.00 Ohtsu, M. . NEAR-FIELD NANO/ATOM OPTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
Tokyo 1988 Springer. 8vo., 302pp., illustrated boards. Fine. (a53513)
$65.00 Lau, E. and W. Krug . EQUIDENSITOMETRY METHODS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTOMETRY, PRINCIPLES AND FIELDS OF APPLICATION
London 1968 Focal Press. Translated from the German. 4to., 136pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Fine in Good DJ, light soiling, light wear. (a54800)
$35.00 Friedrich, Josef . DAS OPTISCHE DISTANZMESSEN UND DESSEN BEZIEHUNG ZUR DIRECTEN L�NGENMESSUNG, MIT BES. BER�CKS. DES OCULARFILAR-SCHRAUBENMIKROMETERS, NEBST BESCHREIBUNG EINIGER GEOD�TISCHEN HILFSINSTRUMENTE
Wien 1881 Carl Fromme. In German. Lg.8vo., 112pp., 16 plates of scientific measurements and measuring instruments, original hardcover. Two tiny ink lines in made in text. Good, some old dry water stains on front pastedown and free blank, light wear, spine lettering partially rubbed off. (a55906)
$150.00 Grau, Gerhard K. . QUANTENELEKTRONIK OPTIK AND LASER
Vieweg 1978. In German. Sm.4to., 783pp., index, original decorated hardcover. Owner signed on front free blank. Near Fine, no DJ. (a56081)
$75.00Lorentz, H. A.. DE L'INFLUENCE DU MOUVEMENT DE LA TERRE SUR LES PHENOMENES LUMINEUX
Harlem 1886 Les Heritiers Loosjes. In a single original complete issue of Archives Neerlandaises Tome XXI. 2md Livraison. Lorentz's famous article on the optics of moving bodies and stationary ether. In French. Octavo, p. 103-176, original printed wraps. Issue has one other article in it by J. Bosscha, Sur La Meteorite de Karan-Modjo, ou Megetan, at pp.177-200 with 3 plates of mounted phototypes. Uncut. VG, light wear. Lorentz was awarded the Nobel in Physics in 1902. (a57114)
$750.00 Glass, Alexander J. and Arthur H. Guenther . LASER INDUCED DAMAGE IN OPTICAL MATERIALS 1975. PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
1976. National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 435. 4to., 409pp., original printed wraps. Small depository library stamp and ink numbers on cover and titlepage. VG. (a57650)
$120.00 Fain, V. M. and Ya. I. Khanin . QUANTUM ELECTRONICS VOLUMES: BASIC THEORY; MASER AMPLIFIERS AD OSCILLATORS
Cambridge 1969 MIT. Translated by H. S. H Massey, edited by J. H. Sanders. 2 volumes. 8vo., 314pp., 312pp., original blue cloth hardcover. Owner bookplates. Near Fine, no DJs. 2 volumes. (a58899)
$45.00 Lardner, Dionysius . A HAND-BOOK OF OPTICS
Philadelphia 1856 Blanchard and Lea. 12mo., 279pp., text illustrations, index, rebound in later wraps. VG, very light soiling. (a59931)
$20.00Francon, M.. LASER SPECKLE AND APPLICATIONS IN OPTICS
NY 1979 1st Academic. Translated by Henri Arsenault. Octavo, 161pp., hardcover. VG but exlibrary with all usual library signs. (a61661)
$25.00Hung-Chia, Huang and Allan W Snyder (editors). OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE SCIENCES - PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM...AT KWEILIN...1983
Hague 1983 Nijhoff. Octavo., 360pp., hardcover. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine, all usual library markings. Good plus, no dj. Original book not modern remake. (a61667)
$140.00 Okoshi, Takanori . OPTICAL FIBERS
NY 1982 1st Academic. Octavo, 299pp., hardcover. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine, number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good, no dj. (a61670)
$27.00 Bouwers, A. . ACHIEVEMENTS IN OPTICS
NY 1950 (reprint) Elseveir . Hardcover. Octavo, 135pp., illustrations, white cloth hardcover with green letttering on front. VG, some browning, no DJ. (a65886)
$24.00 Ortiz Fornaguera, Ram�n . LOS ESPACIOS M�TRICOS EN �PTICA ELECTR�NICA
Madrid 1948 Memorias Real Academia Ciencia. In Spanish. 4to., 108pp., original printed wraps. VG. (a66360)
$35.00 Laugel, Auguste . L'OPTIQUE ET LES ARTS
Paris 1869 Germer Bailliere. In French. Table of Contents: De l'Oeil Considere Comme l'instrument d'Optique; Des Caracteres Generaux des Arts; Des Lois de la Sensibilite Appliquees aux Couleurs; Du Caractere ideal de l'Art, etc. 12mo., 152pp., half leather hardcover with marbled boards and mounted black leather spine label. Small owner signature on top of titlepage. VG, some light cover wear, occasional foxing in text. (a66402)
$150.00 Howard, J. N. (editor) . APPLIED OPTICS JULY 1971 SCATTERING FOR TECHNOLOGY
NY 1971. Complete issue of this monthly journal, with a feature on Scattering Optics. Contains 33 articles, illustrated advertisements, commentary etc. 4to., about 300pp., diagrams, illustrations, original illustrated wraps. VG. (a70088)
$75.00 Extermann, Richard C. . THEORIE DE LA DIFFRACTION DE LA LUMIERE PAR DES ULTRA-SONS
Bale 1938 Birkhaeuser.These presentee a la faculte dese sciences. In French. Octavo, 42pp., original printed wraps.VG. (a70284)
$45.00 Kopal, Zdenek . THEORETICAL LIGHT CURVES OF CLOSE ECLIPSING SYSTEMS
1942. Article at pp. 339-431 in single issue of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Several additional articles on other topics in same issue as well. 4to., original printed wraps. VG (a77504c)
$39.00 Kohler , Wolfgang and Hans Wallach . FIGURAL AFTER-EFFECTS. AN INVESTIGATION OF VISUAL PROCESSES
Philadelphia 1944. Article at pp. 269-357, illustrations, in a single issue of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Several additional articles on other topics in same issue as well. 4to., original printed wraps. VG, light chipping on spine. (a77506b)
$45.00Groneman, H. J. H. . THEORIE COSMIQUE DE L'AURORE POLAIRE
1878. Article in French at pp. 41-84, removed from the Memoire della Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italian and rebound inlater wraps. Good plus, single light vertical crease throughout. (a77825)
$85.00 Anderson, Albert L. . TECHNIQUE OF FITTING CONTACT LENSES
1944 first edition Author. Early book on contact lens. Hardcover. Octavo, 88pp., photo illustrations, limp cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a80381)
$22.00 Hailey, Gary et al . STATE RESTRICTIONS ON VISION CARE PROVIDERS THE EFFECTS ON CONSUMERS "EYEGLASSES II" REPORT TO THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
July 1980. 4to., 289pp.,. original wraps. Light depository library markings - just name stamps , no spine numbers, no pocket. VG. (a81587)
$45.00Hawkes, P. W.. THE GEOMETRICAL ABERRATIONS OF GENERAL ELECTRON OPTICAL SYSTEMS I. THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY SYMMETRY; II. THE PRIMARY (THIRD ORDER) ABERRATIONS OF ORTHOGONAL SYSTEMS
London 1965. Offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 4to., pp. 479-552, diagrams, original printed wraps. Good, original cover remounted. (a82494)
$45.00 Boeder, Paul . ANALYSIS OF PRISMATIC EFFECTS IN BIFOCAL LENSES
1939 first edition American Optical Company. Hardcover. 4to., 29p., four charts in rear pocket, cloth. Good plus, some light cover wear, no DJ. (a84439)
$29.00 Lees, S. . ON THE SUPERPOSING OF TWO CROSS LINE SCREENS OF SMALL ANGLES AND THE PATTERNS OBTAINED THEREBY
Manchester 1920. Memoirs of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, Volume 63, Memoir IV. Octavo, 26p., 3 plates, 10 text figures, rebound in later wraps. VG. (a84633)
$45.00 Lie, Sophus . DIE INFINITESIMALEN BER�HRUNGSTRANSFORMATIONEN DER OPTIK
Leipzig 1896 Hirzel. Article in German at pp.131-133 (complete) in one complete original issue of die Berichte ueber die Verhandlungen der K�niglich S�chsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig Mathematische-Physische Klasse, I. Other articles in same issue. Octavo, original pale yellow printed wraps. Uncut. VG, light wear on edges. (a85189)
$45.00Leathem, J. G. communicated by Robert S. Ball. ON THE THEORY OF MAGNETO-OPTIC PHENOMENA OF IRON, NICKEL AND COBALT
London 1897. 4to., pp. 89-128 plus charts and a few line drawings, removed from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 190, and rebound in later wraps. Near Fine. (a86261)
$45.00 Konig, A. ( Koenig) . PHYSIOLOGISCHE OPTIK; GEOMETRISCHE OPTIK (VOLUMES 1, 2 COMPLETE)
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1929 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band 20 Teil 1, 2. In German. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Octavo, 241p., 70 abildungen, 570p., 258 abildungen, blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. 2 volumes. (a86631)
$125.00 Hoffmann, Gerhard; Winfried O. Schumann . ELEKTROSTATIK; HOCHSPANNUNGS-TECHNIK
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1930 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band 10. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 576p., 252 abildungen, blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. (a86632)
$150.00 Ebert, L und C. Tubandt . ELEKTROCHEMIE I. TEIL: LEITFAHIGKEIT UND UBERFUHRUNGSZAHLEN IN FLUSSIGEN UND FESTEN ELEKTROLYTEN
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1932 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band 12 Teil 1. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 495p., 138 abildungen, blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. (a86634)
$70.00 Fues, E. . EINFUHRUNG IN DIE QUANTENMECHANIK
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1935 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band II. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 351p., blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. (a86635)
$37.00 Meissner, W. . ELEKTRONENLEITUNG. GALVANOMAGNETISCHE, THERMOELEKTRISCHE UND VERWANDTE EFFEKTE
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1935 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band II, Teil 2. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 547p., 301 figuren, blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. (a86636)
$50.00 Lindh, Axel E. . RONTGENSPEKTROSKOPIE
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1930 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band 24 Teil 2. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 436p., 197 figuren, blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. (a86638)
$40.00 Jaffe, George; Richard Gans . DISPERSION UND ABSORPTION; MEDIEN MIT VERANDERLICHEM BRECHUNGSINDEX UND LICHTZERSTREUUNG
1948 reprint of Leipzig 1928 Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik by Wien und Harms Band 19.Two titles bound as one. In German. Hardcover. Octavo, 430p., 65 figuren und 7 Abbildungen, blue cloth. Ex-library. VG, no DJ. (a86639)
$50.00