– 36 – N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s The Scientific Foundation For Radio, Television And Radar: First Edition In English Of Hertz’s Experiments In Wireless Telegraphy 42. HERTZ, Heinrich. Electric Waves. Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity through Space. London and New York, 1893. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. $4800. First edition in English of Hertz’s important discoveries in wireless telegraphy, published just one year after the first German printing. “Hertz demonstrated what Maxwell had predicted, that electromagnetic waves radiated in space with the speed of light. Hertz determined these waves to be of greater length than light and that they could be reflected, refracted and polarized. This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communication, television and radar” (Dibner 71). “This book is a rare specimen, for it is a clear explanation by a scientist of how he came to make his discovery. It is problem oriented, as well as clear and frank” (Berkson, 214). The experiments were reported periodically from 1887 onwards in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie before being collected, with an additional preface and explanatory notes, in book form. Preface to this edition by Lord Kelvin. Pencil owner signature. Mild foxing to endpapers only, interior clean, minor rubs to extremities, most notable at spine foot. A very bright, near-fine copy. The Ascent Of Everest, Signed By Sir Edmund Hillary And 25 Other “Everesters” And Mountaineering Legends 43. (HILLARY, Edmund, et al.) HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. London, 1953. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $6500. First edition of the story of the 1953 Everest Expedition, with eight color photographic plates, 48 half-tone plates and a number of in-text illustrations after pen-and-ink sketches, signed by Sir Edmund Hillary and 25 other Everest climbers and mountaineering greats. The 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest was the eighth in 30 years to attempt Everest. On May 29th, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the summit. The Ascent of Everest was written in one month by Sir John Hunt, the leader of the expedition, in order to satisfy the immediate demand around the world for the story of the British team’s success. Chapter 16 is Sir Edmund Hillary’s stirring account of the final part of the climb, and the appendices are by members of the expedition. In addition to Hillary, the book is signed by 25 others, including: Jim Whitaker (first American to climb Everest), Maurice Herzog (first to climb Annapurna), Stephen Venables (first ascent of Kangshung Face of Everest, the boldest ascent), Reinhold Messner and Chris Bonington. First gathering loosening, but intact, rear inner paper hinge cracked, binding sound, mild toning and rubbing to cloth. Price-clipped dust jacket bright, clean and near-fine.
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