1941. Full-Leather. WWII era Supervisor's shop book of "Rules and Regulations" (13 leaves), Job Descriptions (5 leaves), Safety Regulations (10 leaves), several pages of employee names and section numbers and a few leaves of mimeographed regulations; 16" x 11" folding drawing of the B-17 fuselage with section numbers for rivets..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Large octavo, 822 pages; book and jacket make a perfect copy, inscribed to bookfriends: "To Chuck and Sandy - / Good bookfriends / Best Luck - / John Dunning / Seattle / 9-3-98." Armorial bookplate of Charles Parkhurst... More
Np; (1923). First Edition. offprint from Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzung der physikalishch-mahematischen klasse vom 31 mai, XVII. p. 137-140, bound in original orange printied wraps; quarto (254 x 184mm). Einstein's first investigation of Weyl's ideas, published in the present work, introduced the notion of distant parallelism; however..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo; original green cloth, 332 pages, with 100 illustrations by the author. Three booksellers tickets; yellow coated end papers; light wear at spine ends. A very good copy. More
London: Charles Griffin, 1865. Hard Cover. A Very Good hardback Second Edition in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering spine. Mild chips spine tips. Hinges cracked and archivally repaired. Owner bookplate front paste-down. Sm. 8vo. viii, 208 pp. These lectures were given before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal..... More
Detroit: Ford Motor Company, 1928. First Ediiton. Original Wraps. Octavo, 55 pages, plus 6 pages of ads; original orange printed wrappers, stapled. Title page and rear end blank showing a little orange from wrappers at margins; a very good copy, internally clean and bright; illustrated in black and white. More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1854. Quarter Leather. Octavo. Offered is a very good++ entire Vol. 41 of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in nice quarter brown leather binding and marbled paper covered boards with raised bands spine, gilt lettering on black leather spine label. Light rubbing cover edges, scattered foxing..... More
Vienna: Wilhelm Maudrich, 1932. Hard Cover. First Edition in English; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to a fellow surgeon. Octavo, 86 pages, 6 pages of ads at rear; 88 illustrations. Original brown cloth, decorated in gilt. Light wear at extremities, a little fraying at spine ends. Internally very clean; a very good..... More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In volume XLIX, pages 540 - 548, of Proceedings of the Royal Soceity of London. Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, was much interested in anthropometric classification. On 27 November 1890, he read a paper to the Royal Society, which was..... More
Lyon: Barbier, 1675. Full-Leather. Folio. (9 1/2" x 14 3/4") Editio Tertia. Two volumes in one, volume I, i-xxvi[611] plus 1 blank; volume II,1-308[311-458 appendix] 24 (Index), [1] Privilege du Roy (lacks blank before appendix). Full sheep, gilt title on spine; Gassendi (1592-1655) is known as the "father of modern..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. First Edition. Octavo; uncut, publisher's original blue paper-covered boards; half-title, xvi(xvii)18-625. Godwin was considered the father of philosophical anarchism. His work titled "Political Justice" published in 1793, became an instant best seller. The present work was Godwin's answer to Thomas Malthus's (1766-1834)..... More
Oxoniae (Oxford): Sheldonian Theatre, 1702. First Edition. The first astronomical book on gravitational principles; important because it contains the first publication of Isaac Newton's Lunar Theory, "Lunae Theoria" (pp. 332-336). The rather lengthy Preface contains Newton's Classical Scholia." Folio (14 1/8" x 9 1/2"), [12]494[2]. bound in contemporary full paneled..... More
Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Janssonios Van Der Aa, 1722. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Text in Latin, [12], 166, [10]pp. index containing 22 full page engravings situated at the rear, bound in full vellum with binder's ticket to upper corner of front pastedown, "coins" hand-written in blue to spine. light finger..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 250 pages. Iillustrated. Original burgundy cloth, spine lettered in silver. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
New York (1974): Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo, 216 pages; illustrated. Original burgundy cloth, spine lettered in silver. Volume 4 in the series. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 412 pages. Illustrated. Original burgundy cloth, lettered in silver. Volume 1 in the series. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with a 1/2" closed tear on front panel. More
Berlin, 1929-1930: Julius Springer. First Edition. Hard Cover. In "Zeitschrift fur Physik" Vol. 56, 1-61pp. and Vol. 59, 168-190pp; bound in blue cloth, spine lettering and call letters gilt; stamp of the Mount Wilson Observatory on front free endpaper, no other library markings. Both volumes are fine and housed in..... More
London: R. Faulder and J. Merrill, 1789. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. 139 pages, 1 page of ads. Bound in original paper covered boards; uncut. Internally clean, paper spine perished, but cords holding. A very good- copy. More
London: Royal Society, 1825. Original Wraps. Offered is a Very Good+ entire Part III of the Philosophical Transactions for 1824 in plain blue wrappers with date in ink spine, small chips spine tips, mild edge wear, small bookstore sticker front paste-down with off-setting ffep. Pages unopened and ucut. Full title..... More
London: W. Bulmer and Co. (printers), 1803. First Edition. Original Wraps. Quarto. Offered is an entire issue of the Philosophical Transactions, 1803, Part II. Original blue wrappers uncut. "Perhaps Herschel's most notable discovery was that pairs of stars in close continuity-the binary stars-move around each other according to the laws..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First Edition. Half Leather. Octavo. First issue, [i-iii]; [i-xii]; [1]-406; dedication page after copyright page and no ads, bound in half tan polished calf over marbled paper covered boards and matching endpapers, gilt lettering on red and brown morocco spine labels, remaining compartments fully gilt..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Unopened. 358pp. Folding frontispiece. Illustrated. Bound in light brown cloth, red leather spine label gilt, top edge gilt. A fine bright copy in very good tan printed dust jacket with spine a little darkened. A more..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First American Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED AND FROM THE LIBRARY OF FRANCIS CRICK. A Fine hardback First American Edition First Printing in a Near Fine Dust Jacket with minimal edge wear. An autobiography of Julian Huxley (older brother of Aldous), who considered himself a...... More
New York: American Society for Psychical Research, 1920. First Edition. Original Wraps. Octavo. Offered is a complete issue of Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research in original green printed wrappers. A clean, very good+ copy. This article refers to experiments to contact Mr. Twain via ouiji board. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 244pp., illustrated with 8 full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Bound in blue cloth lettered and ruled in orange. A very bright, fine copy in color pictorial dust jacket. More