Description: Collection of over 100 original photographs, some in color, depicting various atomic tests and test facilities, nuclear energy
installations, IAEA and USAEC conferences, etc. Various sizes, 4to and smaller. Vp, mostly 1950's.
Source: Item 1113
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Description: Curie, Mdme Sklodowska. Radio-Active Substances. Thesis presented to the Facult des Sciences de Paris. (Second Edition). 94 pages. Figures in the text. 8vo, printed wrappers. London: Chemical News Office,
1904.
Note: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Marie Curie's epochal doctoral dissertation which she announced the results of 4 years of investigations,
including her discovery that radium is a new chemical element. This edition was translated from the second French edition,
hence the "Second Edition" on title-page. This is in fact the only English edition published in 1904. Very rare, with no copy
located in BM.
Source: Item 0055
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Description: Manhattan Project Pin. Circular sterling silver pin, lettered "MANHATTAN PROJECT A BOMB." 9/16 inches in diameter. N.p., circa
1945.
Note: This commemorative pin is of extreme rarity. It was apparently given to selected members of the project upon its successful
completion. It is lettered in miniscule type on the reverse "WHITEHEAD-HOAG STERLING."
Source: Item 0386
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Description: Atomic Bomb Hits Nagasaki. Soviet Enters War. U.S. Bids Tokyo Quit. Boston Herald. August 9, 1945.
Source: Item 0309
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Description: Severud, Fred N., and Anthony F. Merrill. The Bomb, Survival and You. Protection for People, Buildings, Equipment. 264 Pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Reinhold,
1954.
Source: Item 1048
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Description: Credit: U.S. Army Photograph. The 16th Signal Operations Bn provided 12 teletype machines and operators for the press at News
Nob, Nevada Proving Grounds. 22 April 1952.
Source: Item 1113
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Description: Hyde, Margaret O. Atoms Today and Tomorrow. New Revised Edition. Illustrated by Clifford N Geary. 159 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.
Source: Item 1255
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Description: GEIGER COUNTER. Atomic Research Corporation. Fine professional grade counter, approximately the size of a small car storage
battery, with the atomic logo of the manufacturer in chrome and black on two sides. Housed in original leather case, with
associated text brochures, several radioactive samples, etc. Colorado Springs: Atomic Research Corporation, circa 1954.
Note: The "Raytomic S-100 Scintillation Counter." This is an attractive, near-professional grade instrument, "the best scintillation
counter you can buy in this price range." The classic 1950's design is evocative of the grade B science fiction films of the
period.
Source: Item 1219
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Description: ATOMIC WAR! Volume I, Number 2. 32 pages. Color illustrated comic book. 4to, pictorial wrappers. Canton, Ohio: Junior Books,
December 1952.
Note: With four atomic battle stories: "Operation Vengeance," "The Ice-Box Invasion," "The Spy from Coney Island," and "Mission
Demolition."
Source: Item 2757
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Description: SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. (viii), 308 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, printed yellow wrappers. Princeton
University Press, 1946. Sixth printing. "New and Enlarged Edition, Including Statements by the British and Canadian Governments."
Source: Item 0433
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