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1896. RAYLEIGH, Lord, & Professor William RAMSAY. ARGON, A NEW CONSTITUENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896 (Hodgkins Fund). 43 pp. Folio, brown wrappers printed in black. Very good condition, minor creasing and edgewear to wrappers, text unopened. Pencil numeral to front wrapper. In 1904, Rayleigh won the Nobel Prize in physics, and Ramsay won in the same year for chemistry, largely for this paper.

City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Printing. Original Cloth. Fine. First separate appearance of this scientific paper reporting discovery of the first inert gas, for which Rayleigh and Ramsay were awarded the Nobel prize. Royal 8vo (322 x 242mm): [4],43,[1]pp, with tables and five text woodcut illustrations. Original forest green publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow coated end papers. Publisher catalog slip laid-in. Wanting the plain-paper dust jacket. A Fine, bright copy, pristine inside and out. Dibner 50 (for original periodical appearance). Originally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in 1895. Both Rayleigh and Ramsay claimed priority for the discovery of argon; they eventually agreed to submit a jointly authored paper. Both later won the Nobel prize (Rayleigh for Physics, Ramsay for Chemistry), and their discovery was a major factor in both awards. "Rayleigh and Ramsay had noted… Read More

City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1895, 1895, 1896, 1896, 1898, 1901, 1903, 1903.. A Determination of the Ratio. . . . Experiments with Ionized Air. The Structure of the Nucleus. . . . On the Absorption and Emission of Air. . . .Rebound in sturdy green library buckram with gilt title and volume number and dewey decimal number on white label on spine. Ex-library with due date slip and library stamps on top, bottom, and fore-edges. No other library markings such as cardholder, etc. As is often the case, the Smithsonian advertisement has chips, tears, and tape mends. Original front wrappers bound in. Slight edge tanning to leaves, single tape mend to the edge of the Morley and Schumann front wrappers and a Schumann plate, else Very Good. Large quarto (nearly folio). xi + xii + 117 + iii + 81 + 43 + 48 + v + 29 + x + 95 + xiv + 176 + iv + 30 pp. All 5 plates called for in these monographs are present. The Table of Contents calls for a Michelson article entitled "On the Application of… Read More

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Text figures. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Separate Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. [Iii], 43 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. 33 Cm X 25 Cm. First Separate Hardcover Printing Of The Original Paper Describing Their Discovery Of Hydrogen. A Fine Copy, Bright And Fresh, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks Or Stains Or Fading, Slight Waviness To Front Free Endpaper Near The Spine Edge (Binding Flaw), Tiny Rubs Right On Edges At Spine Ends. With The Smithsonian Flyer Of May 1896 Describing The Book And Providing The Library Catalog Slips For The Book. Also With The Scarce Dust Jacket, Unprinted, Clean And Bright, Small Chips At Ends, Slight Browning (Much Less Than Usual).

1895. (London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. Pp. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). Fine and clean. First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency."The original paper in the "Philosophical Transactions" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine." (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904).After having made several measuring of the densities of gases, "Rayleigh came across a curious puzzle. With oxygen, he always obtained the same density, regardless of how the oxygen might be produced, whether from one particular… Read More

1895. London, Harrison and Sons, 1895. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtooled covers. First corner a bit bumped. In "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. XIV,(2),602,(4) pp. (Entire volume offered). The paper: p. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). The title-page with faint brownspots. Otherwise internally clean and fine. First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency."The original paper in the "Philosophical Transactions" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine." (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904). The volume also contains WILLIAM CROOKES "On the Spectra… Read More