Science

# 30697

FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …

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# 29893

JANOSSY, L. (Lajos) (1912-1978)

Cosmic rays

Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1950. Second edition. Series: The International Series of Monographs on Physics. Octavo (240 mm), publisher’s green cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine, in the dust jacket (lightly marked, chipped at corners and spine ends, sunned on spine and at top edges), ownership signature of Australian mathematical physicist Charles Johnson to front …

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# 29897

EDDINGTON, Arthur, Sir (1882-1944)

Relativity theory of protons and electrons

Cambridge : University Press, 1936. First edition. Small quarto (270 mm), publisher’s navy cloth over boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, front pastedown with early ownership signature, pp vi, [2], 336; contents very clean, a good copy. In his own words, English astronomer, physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, Arthur Eddington in this book …

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# 28542

LEE, Edwin

Report upon the phenomena of clairvoyance or lucid somnambulism, (from personal observation), with additional remarks. An appendix to the third edition of “Animal Magnetism”.

London : John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1843. Octavo, disbound, pp 50; a very clean copy.

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# 26670

MORTESON, G.

General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).

[Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed …

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# 25462

Maker unknown.

Native Gold / Australia.

[Title from etched caption on mount]. [U.K.? : s.n., circa 1860]. Microscope slide, 79 x 25 mm, maker’s diamond-etched caption to mount ‘Native Gold / Australia’; the central raised circular section (diameter 16 mm) contains an “as found” tiny gold specimen in quartz; mount with repaired hairline crack at left hand edge. A scarce scientific …

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# 22385

Photographer unknown.

[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.

Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …

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# 23900

Maker unknown.

[MICROSCOPE SLIDE] Precious Opal. Australia.

[United Kingdom : s.n., circa 1900]. Glass microscope slide, 75 x 25 mm, the mount with original label printed ‘Mineral’ and with contemporary manuscript caption in ink ‘Precious Opal. Australia’; in fine condition. An attractive microscope slide containing thousands of opal fragments, most likely from New South Wales, Queensland or South Australia.

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# 19148

RUSDEN, H.K. (Henry Keylock)

The week

/ by H.K. Rusden. [Melbourne] : Royal Society of Victoria, 1874. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stitched, 17 pp; illustrated with leaves of plates; a very good copy. Ferguson, 15241. Transcript of a lecture read before the Royal Society of Victoria on 21 December 1874. Rusden’s investigation into the nature of our temporal cycle, the week, is …

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# 15814

STOCK, [Arthur], Archdeacon (1810-1901)

Astronomy for beginners, who live in the southern hemisphere

Wellington, N.Z. : T.A. Bowden, 1874. Duodecimo, original cloth backed printed card covers, endpapers with advertisements for The Colonial Series of Elementary School Books, early printed ownership label of ‘Mr. R. Wilson, Craigielea, Benhar, Otago’ to blank facing title page (mild off-setting), pp i-iv, 5-44, illustrated with diagrams; a very good copy. The first edition of …

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# 11417

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES' ASSOCIATION

The articulator : journal of the Sydney University Dental Undergraduates’ Association. Vol. 10, no. 3

Sydney : The Association, 1957. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with short tear at fore-edge), 91 pp, illustrated, a very good copy.

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# 10403

AUSTRALIAN NEWS AND INFORMATION BUREAU.

Maralinga atomic testing ground

Canberra : Australian News and Information Bureau, 1957. Two press photographs, black and white prints on glossy printing out paper, each 165 x 215 mm, versos with typed labels date stamped April 2, 1957, with Australian Government propaganda about the preparation for a series of tests which would be carried out later in 1957. Both …

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# 10402

UNITED PRESS [Photographer unknown]

Atomic bomb test, Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, 1952

Cleveland, Ohio : United Press, 1952. Press photograph, black and white print on glossy printing out paper, 155 x 230 mm, verso with typed label: ‘Monte Bello, Australia: Britain’s first atomic weapon test is held in the Monte Bello Islands, fifty miles off the northwest coast of Australia, October 3. Thirty minutes after the explosion …

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