[METEOROLOGY]. FITZ-ROY, Robert. The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863. 8o. 16 plates. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MAURY, Matthew Fontaine. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8o. 12 plate. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MILLIKAN, Robert Andrews. "A New Modification of the Cloud Method of Determining the Elementary Electrical Charge and the most Probably Value of that Charge." In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and Journal of Science, vol.19, no.110, pp.209-228. London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. 8o. Original printed wrappers (lower right corner of front wrapper supplied). FIRST EDITION of Millikan's paper that electric charge is made up of elementary indivisible quantities, and that the charge is not a statistically averaged quantity. -- [HOWARD, Luke]. On the Modifications of Clouds, &c. London: J. Taylor, 1803. 8o. 3 plates. Modern marbled paper wrappers. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Howard, a Quaker meteorologist, was the first to devise the names Cirrus, Cumulus, and Stratus used to identify the various types of clouds. Together 4 volumes, condition varies. (3)

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[METEOROLOGY]. FITZ-ROY, Robert. The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863. 8o. 16 plates. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MAURY, Matthew Fontaine. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8o. 12 plate. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MILLIKAN, Robert Andrews. "A New Modification of the Cloud Method of Determining the Elementary Electrical Charge and the most Probably Value of that Charge." In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and Journal of Science, vol.19, no.110, pp.209-228. London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. 8o. Original printed wrappers (lower right corner of front wrapper supplied). FIRST EDITION of Millikan's paper that electric charge is made up of elementary indivisible quantities, and that the charge is not a statistically averaged quantity. -- [HOWARD, Luke]. On the Modifications of Clouds, &c. London: J. Taylor, 1803. 8o. 3 plates. Modern marbled paper wrappers. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Howard, a Quaker meteorologist, was the first to devise the names Cirrus, Cumulus, and Stratus used to identify the various types of clouds. Together 4 volumes, condition varies. (3)

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