The sammelband on electricity: 1. Lomonosov, Mikhail. Oratio de Meteroris vi Electrica Ortis [i.e. Discourse on Atmospheric Phenomena Originating from Electrical Force]. St, Petersburg: Academy of Science typography, [1753]. [6], 68 pp., 3 pl. 21x17 cm. In modern period styled half leather. The original endpapers of the sammelband preserved...
Kaluga: Kn. izd-vo, 1964. 55 pp.: ill. 4vo. A fine copy. Original cloth binding with the decoration in ink. The title page is signed by Yuri Gagarin. Together with: a postcard, ‘The Day of Cosmonautics’ (1965) depicting the monument in Tsiolkovsky’s honor in Kaluga. The postcard is signed by...
Moscow: Academy of Science, 1962. 194, [2] pp. 22 cm. Illustrated throughout. Original publisher's binding. Good condition. First edition. This book sums up the work of Peter Kapitsa (1894-1984) in the field of high-power electronics. Kapitsa and his laboratory dedicated themselves to this topic in 1950s. Kapitsa...
Moscow: izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1943. Issue #6. 24 pp. 25,2х16,8 сm. In original wrappers. Soiling and rubbings of covers, tear of the spine and p.19. Otherwise good copy. Inscribed on the front cover by Kapitsa: «Tov[arishch] Zverev look on p.13 about Narkomfin. P. Kapitsa»;. Markings in text by...
Kharkiv: ONTI, 1935. 60 pp. 18x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original publisher's wrappers. Front wrapper is slightly rubbed. Otherwise a near fine copy, partly uncut. Extremely rare. The first printed book by Nobel laureate Lev Davydovich Landau (1908-1968) best known for his contributions in the field of...
St. Petersburg: V. Demakov, 1896. Contemporary half leather with gilt lettering on the spine and marbled boards. Tears of the spine’s and corners’ leather. Otherwise a very good clean copy. First publication. Very rare. In Russian tradition, Alexander Popov (1859-1909) is considered the inventor of the radio and...
St. Petersburg: de L'Imprimerie de L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1853. 403-548, [2] pp. 4vo. Original blue wrappers with a decorative border on the covers. Uncut. A very good copy. The front cover detached from the spine, tears on the spine and covers, two spots on the end cover. Rare...
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