The set includes an Abney level, compass, plumb-bob and a small spyglass. All items show use. Handsome leather bag. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. Study the images for condition and details. Feel free to ask questions. Dale..... More
A mid to late 19th century wax anatomical model showing jaundice coloration. The frame size is 8.5 x 5.5 inches. The model has a silk or linen cloth back and is mounted in the frame by loop and brass hook. The teeth appear to be human. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale..... More
1st-2nd Quarter Portable Martin-type Microscope, Case & Accessories Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. There is a missing tooth on the rack. Original handwritten list of object on the bone sliders. Study the images for condition and details..... More
This American Mechanical Powers Demonstrations Apparatus, dates from the last quarter of the 19th century and carries a label of Alfred Robbins Chicago. The apparatus stands 26~1/2 tall and consists of a base plate with capstan, a tall pillar with two pulleys and a drum on a cast iron arbor, and..... More
Ca 1795-1810 Early Cased Trepanning Set by McClellan, Complete Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. Study the images for condition and details. Feel free to ask questions. Dale: 319 431-5031 See our other items under Instruments, Objects, and..... More
Circa 1900. A cased set of four precision thermometers, graduated: -30 to 10.2, 0-50.4, 50-100.2, 100-160. The case and thermometers are in good condition. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. More
Circa 1900s. A boxed set of test colors in yarn, American Optical, each with numbered labels, each with a cover, used for the determination of color blindness. These were used for required tests of Railroad Engineers and workers. The set in good condition, the box tattered. Two sets available. 10.5..... More
Double Bell Conversation Tube, 40 overall, mid-late 19th century in excellent condition with woven tube and thermal plastic bells. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. More
A late 19th or early 20th coil activated ringer, “Westen Telephone Construction Company, Chicago IL.” 5 x 6 x 5.5 tall with two bells mounted on top of a finger-jointed box. The bell-mounted lid is hinged with a hook-clasp and when opened shows the internal coils wound with green wire..... More
A large American made induction coil labeled, “Thordarson Elec Chicago”, measuring 18 x 12.5 by 13.5 tall with nickel plated gap adjustments and terminals and knife switch. Circa 1900. All in very good condition. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying &..... More
2000. 1st Edition. Tsien Hsue-shen (1911-2009) was a scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and the People’s Republic of China. NASA documents commonly refer to him at H. S. Tsien. During the 1940s, Tsien was one of the founders of..... More
A good mid 19th century German-made Dobereiner lighter 8 tall complete with inner-funnel, thumb-activated valve with spring, and platinum-sponge retention ring. The vessel is very deep-blue cobalt glass. There are no chips or cracks to either the vessel or internal-funnel. The Döbereiner’s lamp is a lighter invented in 1823 by the..... More
London: Royal Society, 1827. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound full volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 117, 1827, Parts I & II. The volume includes 15 plates and is fully indexed by both author and subject. Papers by the following are included: William Snow Harris, Davies Gilbert..... More
1899. 1st Edition. FIRST PUBLISHED ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE ELECTRON IS A SUBATOMIC PARTICLE. Mention of J. J. Thomson’s report at the 1899 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement in Science in Dover “On the existence of masses smaller than atoms,” and published in the October 12 issue of..... More
Ganesha Publishing, 2003. COMPLETE SET OF 7 VOLUMES BOUND AS 6 DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO THE INDIAN EMPIRE’S USE OF OPIUM. Published in 2003. In pristine condition, this reprint “makes the rare Royal Commission report and its supplements available in their entirety, and includes an introduction that situates the report in..... More
Germany: Hale Observatory, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION: Two large multicolor celestial charts/star maps of the northern & southern hemispheres, each with rotating star chart overlays. The charts measure 16.5 x 16.5 inches and are bound together on hardboard with a black and white pictorial cover; when opened, the Northern..... More
American Institute of Physics translation of the physics sections of the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. All original wraps bound in. CONDITION & DETAILS: Soviet Physics Doklady (American Institute of Physics translation of the physics sections of the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the..... More
American Microscopical Society. 1st Edition. 138 ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, these published from 1950 to 1986 (volumes 69-105, missing only 6 issues with those noted below). The papers published in the Transactions cover every facet of microscopy as it relates to every..... More
Typical Conversation Tube, 42 overall with thermal plastic bell and earpiece. Excellent conditon. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. More
An Uncommon Browning Projection Prism Box, 4th quarter 19th c, used for the demonstration of the spectrum in a classroom or lecture hall. The base is signed, “John Browning, 6 Strand London”. The darkened cylindrical box is mounted on a bright brass adjustable pillar with platform/stand 20 , tall (note spotted..... More
Soviet Union: 1941. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY KOLMOGOROV ON CHAOS IN TURBULENCE. The title translates as "Dissipation of Energy in the Locally Isotropic Turbulence" and this work, along with another 1941 Kolmogorov paper, is generally considered to be the origin of..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important and consequential paper in which John Couch Adams announces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, and in so doing corrects Laplace's famed 1788 memoir. Laplace studied the Moon's mean rate of motion relative..... More
London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL” (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon – “that light had caused a flow..... More
Two journals. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST TWO PAPERS ON THE AHARANOV-BOHM EFFECT, the assertion that a that a magnetic field affects the quantum properties of an electron in a way that is forbidden by classical physics. In the first paper they write, “…contrary to the conclusions..... More
New York: America Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS: AHARONOV & ZUBAIRY’S 2005 PAPER ON THE QUANTUM ERASER EXPERIMENT. Their paper provides salient history and perspective on, just as the name of the paper alludes, time and the quantum. Specifically, the authors..... More