![Item #50 Elektronika bol'shikh moshchnostei [i.e. High-power Electronics]. P. L Kapitsa](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1466162678)
Moscow: Academy of Science, 1962. 194, [2] pp. 22 cm. Illustrated throughout. Original publisher's binding. Good condition. First edition. Rare. 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..... More
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..... More
![Item #2123 [FIRST BOOK BY LANDAU] Elektroprovodimost’ metallov [i.e. The Metal Conductivity]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2123.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724766537)
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..... More
![Item #636 [RUSSIAN INVENTOR OF THE RADIO] Pribor dlya obnaruzheniya i registrirovaniya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/636.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1550677361)
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..... More
![Item #477 [FIRST SYSTEMATIZED BOOK ON ACOUSTICS IN RUSSIAN] Vvedenie v akustiku I optiku [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/477.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724761248)
Moscow: University press, 1895. XIV, 325, [1] pp. 24,5x17 cm. Contemporary quoter-leather. Small crack of the spine. Otherwise good. The stamp of the private library on the title page as well as the signature of the author. The owner was Alexander Nikolaevich Linkov, the St. Petersburg collector in the beginning..... More
![Item #2129 [ON SATURN] Sur les Dimensions des Anneaux de Saturne // Memoires de L'Academie...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2129.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724776994)
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..... More
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..... More
![Item #5 [PIONEERS OF SPACE-TRAVEL: GAGARIN AND TSIOLKOVSKY] K.E. Tsiolkovsky: Stranitsy velikoy...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446491559)
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..... More
![Item #73 [TSIOLKOVSKY DEFENDING HIS IDEAS] Zashchita aeronata [i.e. The Defence of the Aeronat]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/73.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1450184096)
Kaluga: Izdaniye avtora; E.T. Archangelskaya, 1911. 12 pp.: ill., photos. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare pre-revolutionary brochure in mint condition. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) is a man whose ideas made the space exploration possible. In the 1910s he has already proven that it’s not impossible to send some..... More