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Springer Verlag, [1999]. Second corrected printing, 4to, pp. viii, 199, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. More
Springer Verlag, [1999]. Second corrected printing, 4to, pp. viii, 199, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. More
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1834. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [2], xxi, [1], 506; [2], 512; engraved vignette title pages, 22 engraved plates drawn and engraved by Henry A. Ogg; neat and unusual early paper repairs to pp. 361-364 in vol. II, otherwise a near fine copy in..... More
Juneau: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, 1982. Comb-bound report, 11" x 8.5", pp. [4], iii, [1], 317 (page 129 skipped); typescript text and tables, pictorial paper covers; ex-library, with stamp on cover, else fine. "The objective of Contract 81-2 .. was to 'enhance the capabilities of the Alaska Department of..... More
Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, [1965]. 8vo; pp. xiii, [1], 388; numerous b/w illustrations throughout text, color plates; call numbers in ink on upper cover, information slip pasted to rear pastedown. Good in soiled ecru cloth, stamped in burgundy and gilt on spine. Inside is sound. More
Paris: Panckoucke, 1779. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxxiv, vi, 559, [5]; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; extremities rubbed, small cracks starting at the tops of the joints; all else good and sound, or better. Contains biographical eulogies of Massillon, Despréaux, Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Bossuet, Abbé de..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1989. Third edition, 1991 reprint, 8vo, pp. 423; text printed in double columns; original boards in green dust jacket, near fine. More
London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. [7] 116; brown buckram with gilt titles, untrimmed edges; bookplate, spine lean, boards lightly rubbed, good or better. More
New York: American Petroleum Institute, Division of Refining, 1953. First edition, 4to, pp. iv, [2], 188; original red printed wrappers; ex-Franklin Institute Library with usual markings and their gift bookplate, spine head pulled, small loss at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, interior about fine. With an appendix showing the..... More
Augustae Vindelicorum [i.e. Augsburg]: Martini Veith, 1744. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. [16], 283, [1]; 587, [1]; 4 folding tables in the pagination; title page printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments and initials; nice enough copy in full contemporary paneled pigskin incorporating a portrait of a...... More
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1937. 8vo, pp. [2], 137-144, [2]; photographic plates; original tan printed wrappers. From the Smithsonian Report for 1936. More
New York & Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel; London: Trübner & Co., 1880. 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 343, [1]; 2 photographic plates plus 9 pages of eye charts at the back; original terracotta cloth; slightly stained and skewed, extremities a little rubbed; very good. More
Connecticut: , n.d., [circa 1825]. Unusual American watercolor measuring approx. 12.5" x 14.5" (315 x 363mm.), several small breaks in the paper professionally repaired on verso, mild waterstain enters from top margin, a few other small minor defects, but generally a good example. Remarkably similar to a picture by John..... More
New York: Bermingham & Co., 1882. 8vo, pp. 233; original green cloth; gilt-lettered spine; generally a very good, sound copy. First published in London in 1871, and again in the U.S. in 1872. Hysteria, hypochondria, other psychoneurotic disorders. More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 668; portrait frontis; original orange paper wrappers bound in; green cloth; unpened, original covers worn at edges, light fading to covers; a photo card of Ehrlich laid in. Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) was a German physician and scientist who worked in the..... More
Glasguae: in aedibus Academicius, excudebant Rob. et And. Foulis, 1749. First edition, 4to, pp. xviii, 233, [1]; errata (partly on a printed slip pasted in) on verso of final leaf; diagrams in the text throughout; one or two scuff marks but generally a near fine copy in contemporary full speckled..... More
New-York: Greeley & McElrath, Tribune Buildings, opposite the City Hall, 1845. 8vo, pp. 95, [1]; text in double column; 53 figures in the text; removed from binding; wrappers wanting; all else near fine. Contains seventeen lectures and an appendix: History of Astronomy, Fixed Stars, The Planets, The Earth, Comets, Eclipses..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. First complete American from the last London edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [1], 14-520, plus 32-p. publisher's catalogue with 2 plates; contemporary speckled sheep with black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; some wear to extremities, the leather along the edges peeling in several places..... More
New York: T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of Physic of Columbia College, 1806. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xlvii, [1], 234, [6]; full contemporary calf; upper cover neatly reattached; lower board starting, spine label slightly chipped; early Medical Society of Orange County bookplate on upper pastedown, spot..... More
New London: October 2 - October 24, 1918. A collection of 13 reports on storage batteries by Atwell, as follows. All 4to, all text mimeographed in printed wrappers, all with manuscript additions, drawings, tables, graphs, etc. Approximately 85 leaves printed and/or with manuscript on rectos only; cover of Report One..... More
Nanceii (Nancy): [n.p.], 1887. 8vo, pp. 92, [4]; unopened; wrappers perished, edges and first few leaves foxed, fair. Auerbach was a French explorer, anthropologist and geographer who studied under Paul Vidal de La Blanche, a founder of French geography and geopolitics. Auerbach's focus was on Austria-Hungry. More
London: John Murray, 1844. Small folio, pp. xx, 201, [3]; tables throughout; near fine copy in contemporary full calf, gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments, morocco labels in 2, a.e.g. More
[San Francisco]: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1944. 8vo, pp. [2], 15, [1]; original blue printed wrappers; stamp of the Brooklyn Book Shop on the inner back wrapper; very good. Five short articles; reprinted from the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 56, No. 331. More
Franklin Institute, 1832. First separate edition (originally published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume X), 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; one table and 2 small illustrations in the text; original green printed wrappers. Inscribed "Phillip H. Nicklin Esq. from A. D. Bache" at the top of the front wrapper..... More
London: W. Baynes & Son, 1824. 10 volumes, 8vo, later half red morocco gilt, t.e.g., fore- and bottom edges uncut; fine, bright set. With an engraved portrait of Bacon in volume I. The texts variously in English and/or Latin. More
Oxford, Nov. 8: 1840. On my return home a few days ago I found your valuable present of the report on education, for which pray accept my best thanks. I enclose the only trifle I have at present to offer in return. I hope soon to send you my report..... More