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[LOMONOSOV AS A PHYSICIST]

[LOMONOSOV AS A PHYSICIST]

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

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[MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS]

[MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS]

Convolute of two works on mathematical analysis: Tikhomandritskiy, M. Kurs teorii konechnykh raznostey [i.e. The Course of Calculations of Finite Differences]. Kharkiv: D.N. Poluekhtov, 1890. [2], III, V, 274 pp. Markov, A. Ischislenie konechnykh raznostey [i.e. Calculations of Finite Differences]. Complete in two parts. Part 1. Interpolirovanie [i.e.... More

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[MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata, sestior, diadi D.I. Mendeleeva. Vospominania o Mendeleeve ego plemianitsy N.I. Gubkinoi [i.e. The Family Chronicle in Letters of Mother, Father, Brother, Sisters and Unсle of Dmitry Mendeleev. The Memoirs of His Niece N.I. Gubkina].

[MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata, sestior, diadi D.I. Mendeleeva. Vospominania o Mendeleeve ego plemianitsy N.I. Gubkinoi [i.e. The Family Chronicle in Letters of Mother, Father, Brother, Sisters and Unсle of Dmitry Mendeleev. The Memoirs of His Niece N.I. Gubkina].

St. Petersburg: 1st Mendeleev congress, 1908. [2], 239 pp.: ill., 8 port. and 5 ill. on separate leaves. 23x15.5 cm. Original publisher’s wrappers. Very good. The frontispiece is detached from the text block, some minor tears to the wrapper. Rare. One of the first books about Dmitry Mendeleev’s life... More

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[THEORY OF PROBABILITY] Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [i.e. Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Probability]. V. Y. Bunyakovsky.

[THEORY OF PROBABILITY] Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [i.e. Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Probability]

Bunyakovsky, V.Y.

St. Petersburg: v tipogra i Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk, 1846. [4], XVII, [3], 478, [2] pp., 1 table. Modern half leather. Very good, foxing throughout. First edition. Rare. Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (1804-1889) was a celebrated Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent. He got his Bachelor degree from the Sorbonne in... More

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[NEUROGENETICS] Problema polimorfizma nasledstvennykh boleznei nervnoi sistemy: Kliniko-geneticheskoe issledovanie [i.e. The Problems of Polymorphism in Hereditary Disorders of the Nervous System: Clinical Genetic Research]. S. N. Davidenkov.

[NEUROGENETICS] Problema polimorfizma nasledstvennykh boleznei nervnoi sistemy: Kliniko-geneticheskoe issledovanie [i.e. The Problems of Polymorphism in Hereditary Disorders of the Nervous System: Clinical Genetic Research]

Davidenkov, S.N.

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoyuznogo instituta eksperiment. medetsiny, 1934. 139 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Some general wear of the wrappers, small cracks of the spine. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. One of the milestone textbooks and second published book on neurogenetics by Sergei... More

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[CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby ikh vychislenii / S frantsuzkogo N. Gvozdev [i.e. Air Propellers: The Theory of Screw Engines and Methods of Its Calculation / From French by N. Gvozdev]. S. K. Drzewiecki.

[CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby ikh vychislenii / S frantsuzkogo N. Gvozdev [i.e. Air Propellers: The Theory of Screw Engines and Methods of Its Calculation / From French by N. Gvozdev]

Drzewiecki, S.K.

Sevastopol: tip. N.A. Kovaleva, 1910. [3], 60 pp.: diagr. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original wrappers. Lacking back wrapper and spine, loose, tears and owner’s signature on the front wrapper, foxing and stains on the title page with small holes on the margin. First and only Russian translation (original was published... More

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[FEMALE DOCTOR] Uchebnik gigieny, anatomii, fiziologii [i.e. The Textbook on Hygiene, Anatomy and Physiology]. L. I. Izmailova.

[FEMALE DOCTOR] Uchebnik gigieny, anatomii, fiziologii [i.e. The Textbook on Hygiene, Anatomy and Physiology]

Izmailova, L.I.

[4], IV, 134 pp., 2 pl. including 29 ill. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Binding is rubbed. Extremely rare textbook, one of the first examples of the medical book written by a female doctor Lyubov Izmailova from Kutaisi (Georgia). The textbook was created for the female schools. The book has... More

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[MARIE CURIE’S FOLLOWER] Radiy i ego primenenie v terapevticheskoy klinike [i.e. Radium and Its Use in the Clinical Therapy]. P. G. Mezernitskiy.

[MARIE CURIE’S FOLLOWER] Radiy i ego primenenie v terapevticheskoy klinike [i.e. Radium and Its Use in the Clinical Therapy]

Mezernitskiy, P.G.

St. Petersburg: Prakticheskaya meditsina, 1912. With 49 ills. 126 pp. 23,3x17 cm. In contemporary binding. Bound together with 6 other Russian medical papers of the time. The first edition of this book by the founder of Russian radiation therapy Polien Grigorievich Mezernitskiy (1878-1943). In 1909 he was working alongside... More

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[AUTOPSY IN SIBERIA] Rukovodstvo k vskrytiyu trupov dlia nachinaushchikh [i.e. The Guide to Autopsy for the Beginners]. M. Pokrovsky.

[AUTOPSY IN SIBERIA] Rukovodstvo k vskrytiyu trupov dlia nachinaushchikh [i.e. The Guide to Autopsy for the Beginners]

Pokrovsky, M.

Tomsk: 1910. 2nd edition. With 60 ills. 294 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Good condition. The first edition came out in 1910 and was called by its author ‘the first attempt to create the guide to autopsy by a Russian’. That statement is correct, prior to that the... More

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[FIRST BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY] Istoriya imperatorskogo moskovskogo universiteta [i.e. The History of Imperial Moscow University, Written for its 100th Anniversary]. S. Shevyrev.

[FIRST BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY] Istoriya imperatorskogo moskovskogo universiteta [i.e. The History of Imperial Moscow University, Written for its 100th Anniversary]

Shevyrev, S.

Moscow: University Press, 1855. XII, 582, [2] pp. 26x17 cm. Contemporary half-leather with gilt lettering on the spine. All edges gilt. Paper loss of the rst 100 pages at the bottom margin (no text affected). Pre-revolutionary stamp on the title page. Otherwise a good clean copy. This book is... More

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[FIRST SYSTEMATIZED BOOK ON ACOUSTICS IN RUSSIAN] Vvedenie v akustiku I optiku [i.e. The Introduction to Acoustics and Optics]. A. Stoletov.

[FIRST SYSTEMATIZED BOOK ON ACOUSTICS IN RUSSIAN] Vvedenie v akustiku I optiku [i.e. The Introduction to Acoustics and Optics]

Stoletov, A.

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

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[COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN RUSSIA] Vozniknovenie i razvitie psikhicheskikh sposobnostei [i.e. The Emergence and Development of Psychic Abilities]. V. A. Wagner.

[COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN RUSSIA] Vozniknovenie i razvitie psikhicheskikh sposobnostei [i.e. The Emergence and Development of Psychic Abilities]

Wagner, V.A.

Three brochures on comparative psychology: Vozniknovenie i razvitie psikhicheskikh sposobnostei. Vypusk pervyi: Donervnaia zhizn’ [i.e. The Emergence and Development of Psychic Abilities. The First Issue: Life Before Neural System]. 50, [2] pp.: ill. One of 3000 copies. Vypusk tretii: Ot refleksov do instinktov vysshego tipa u cheloveka i.... More

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[MAIN WORK OF THE FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN COSMISM] Filosofiya obshchego dela. Stat’i, mysli i pisma [i.e. The Philosophy of the Common Deed. Articles, Thoughts, and Letters] / edited by Kozhevnikov and Peterson. N. F. Fyodorov.

[MAIN WORK OF THE FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN COSMISM] Filosofiya obshchego dela. Stat’i, mysli i pisma [i.e. The Philosophy of the Common Deed. Articles, Thoughts, and Letters] / edited by Kozhevnikov and Peterson

Fyodorov, N.F.

Verniy, 1906; Moscow, 1913. V.1. [2], XII, 731, [3] pp.; V.2. IX, 473 pp. 24,5x16 cm. In two modern half-leather bindings. Good condition. Extremely rare set of the first edition of the main work by Fyodorov. Vol. 1 was printed locally in Verniy (now Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan), only 480... More

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[MENDELEEV’S LESSER KNOWN WORK] Analiticheskaya khimia: Kachestvennyi analiz [i.e. Analytical Chemistry: Qualitative Analysis]. Сh F. Gerhardt, G., Chancel.

[MENDELEEV’S LESSER KNOWN WORK] Analiticheskaya khimia: Kachestvennyi analiz [i.e. Analytical Chemistry: Qualitative Analysis]

Gerhardt, Сh.F., Chancel, G.

St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaya pol’za, 1864. [2], VI, 547 pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In later half leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine and stained edges. Very good. Bleak stain on margins throughout the book, ink and pencil markings on the t.p., few spots. First edition. Very rare. ‘Analytical... More

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[LOBACHEVSKY’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT] O rezonance ili vzaimnom kolebanii vozdushnykh stolbov [i.e. On the Resonances or Reciprocations of Columns of Air] // Kazanskiy vestnik. IX. N. I. Lobachevsky.

[LOBACHEVSKY’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT] O rezonance ili vzaimnom kolebanii vozdushnykh stolbov [i.e. On the Resonances or Reciprocations of Columns of Air] // Kazanskiy vestnik. IX.

[Lobachevsky, N.I.]

Kazan: University Press, 1828. Pp. 213-224. 21х12.5 cm. Very rare. No copies in libraries according to worldcat. This publication is a retelling of the article by Charles Wheatstone printed the same year in Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts. Lobachevsky mentioned the author as a third... More

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[ LOBACHEVSKY’S GEOMETRY ] Pangeometriya [i.e. Pangeometry] Uchionye zapiski, izdavaemye Imperatorskim Kazanskim Universitetom. N. I. Lobachevsky.

[ LOBACHEVSKY’S GEOMETRY ] Pangeometriya [i.e. Pangeometry] Uchionye zapiski, izdavaemye Imperatorskim Kazanskim Universitetom

[Lobachevsky, N.I.]

Kazan: University press, 1856. 4to. Contemporary owner’s wrappers. Fine. First edition of the last work on non-Euclidean geometry by the ‘Copernicus of Geometry’. Nikolay Lobachevsky (1792-1856) without a doubt was one of the brightest minds that came out of Russian scientific field in the last 300 years. His... More

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[FIRST RUSSIAN BOOK ON ORGANIC CHEMISTRY] Organicheskaia khimia [i.e. The Organic Chemistry]. D. I. Mendeleev.

[FIRST RUSSIAN BOOK ON ORGANIC CHEMISTRY] Organicheskaia khimia [i.e. The Organic Chemistry]

Mendeleev, D.I.

St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaia po’lza, 1861. [543] pp. 23x14 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding. Spine is restored. Some foxing in the text. Otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare. 27-year-old Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907) famously wrote this book in 61 days. The study on the organic chemistry was awarded with Demidov prize... More

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[FIRST MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE] Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the Relation of the Properties to the Atomic Weights of the Elements]. D. I. Mendeleev.

[FIRST MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE] Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the Relation of the Properties to the Atomic Weights of the Elements]

[Mendeleev, D.I.]

... // Zhurnal Russkogo khimicheskogo obshchestva [i.e. Journal of the Russian Chemical Society]. Vol.1, parts ii-iii. St. Petersburg, 1869. Pp. 60-77 (journal: [4], 2, 274, [1] pp.). 21x14 cm. In contemporary quarter leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Very good. Binding slightly rubbed with loss of small fragments of... More

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[MENDELEEV AND TROTSKY. CHEMISTRY IS REVOLUTION] D.I. Mendeleev i marksizm: Doklad chetviortomu Mendeleevskovu s’ezdu po chistoi i prikladnoi khimii 17 sentiabria 1925 g. [i.e. D.I. Mendeleev and Marxism: Report to the Fourth Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry on 17th of September, 1925]. L. D. Trotskii.

[MENDELEEV AND TROTSKY. CHEMISTRY IS REVOLUTION] D.I. Mendeleev i marksizm: Doklad chetviortomu Mendeleevskovu s’ezdu po chistoi i prikladnoi khimii 17 sentiabria 1925 g. [i.e. D.I. Mendeleev and Marxism: Report to the Fourth Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry on 17th of September, 1925]

Trotskii, L.D.

Moscow: GIZ, 1925. 24 pp., 1 port. 22x14,6 cm. In original printed wrappers. Covers slightly rubbed, foxing, a few pencil marks in text, bookshop’s stamp on the recto of the rear cover. Otherwise very good. Extremely rare. In the beginning of 1925 Lev Trotsky (1879-1940) was smashed from Stalin... More

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