Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. First University of Michigan Press Edition. xii, 567 pp. 8vo. Previous owner's tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vii, 302 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: Edward Stanford, 1878. Full Leather. First Edition. Five raised bands, elegant decoration in each panel, burgundy leather patch title, all in gold embossing. Double rule border to front and rear cover. Foot of boards rough and worn, 2" slit starting along hinge at top of rear board. Marbled endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, foredges marbled. Clean and crisp within, 19 plates, 13 maps, some folding. Very Good. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. First University of Chicago Press Edition. xiii, 473, xv, 520, xix (Appendix), xii, 455, xxvii (Appendix), xvi, 436, vii (appendix), viii (Supplement). 8vo. First Printing. Uniformly bound volumes that are clean and crisp. Housed in Fine slipcase. No dust jackets, as issued. Fine. More
Newport News, VA: The Mariners Museum, 1976. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. x, 64 pp. Wear and scuffing to covers, sunning to edges of front cover. Very clean within. Very Good. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 221 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author to the previous owner's on the title page. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush is the sister of the subject, and wife of Prescott Bush, brother of President George H. W. Bush and uncle of President George W. Bush. Fine / Fine. More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 228 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with no dust jacket, as issued.
Catalog of the exhibition of the same name mounted at MoMA from 12 November 2010 - 7 February 2011. Fine. More
Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. Second Edition. First Paperback Edition, 1993 Printing. viii, 510 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Like new! Fine. More
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Second Edition. Fifth Printing. xvi, 359 pp. General wear to dust jacket with small tears at edges, soiling, and darkening to spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine, slight rubbing to bottom of cover boards, clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1773, 1774. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [2], v-viii, 218, v-vii, 221-507, [1] pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Franklin and company's proposal for protecting the magazines at Purfleet, Wilson's dissent, and the group's letter saying they stand by their original assertions. Lengthty report on Deluc's development of a new hygrometer that used mercury instead of alcohol as the indicator fluid. Deluc's two folding plate with two separate illustrations was engraved by Basire. Also contains papers by numerous other authors on a variety of..... More
London: The Studio Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. First Edition. 120 pp. 4to. Blue cloth boards with red embossed titling to cover and spine. Light wear to edges of boards, now in custom-fitted mylar dust jacket. Clean and crisp within. A review copy with review slip tipped onto first free endpaper.
A nice early survey of of Morris's work. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1880. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 419 pp.; iv, 421-1092 pp. 51 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
George H. Darwin's (1845-1912) "Resonance Theory" of the origin of the moon, according to which the moon might have originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides.
Also contains William Huggins's paper on stellar spectrum photography, "On the Photographic Spectra of Stars." Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1882. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [2], [1]-922 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains J. Norman Lockyer's "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. V" (pp. 561-576). Very Good. More
New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. xiii, First Printing. Dust Jacket and cover boards have slight bumping to corners, otherwise clean and crisp. Very Good / Very Good. More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. xiii, 209 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean and crisp. Dust Jacket has minor bumping, small tear at hinge of rear dust flap that has been tape repaired, now in mylar cover.
Signed by James Duff, one of the essayists, on the title page. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Bulfinch / Little, Brown, 2007. Hard Cover. First Edition. xiii, 209 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean and crisp. Dust Jacket has minor bumping, small tear at hinge of rear dust flap that has been tape repaired, now in mylar cover.
Signed by James Duff, one of the essayists, on the title page. Fine / Very Good. More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1945. Hardcover. First Edition. xxxii, 404 pp. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses and chips, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Tight and bright blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean within. Very Good / Good. More
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 237 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Important catalog on the work of land artist Richard Long (b. 1945). Fine / Fine. More
Gross, Geoffrey. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. 128 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
An in-depth study of the house, it's creator, and the context in which it was built and its interiors designed. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [4], viii, 751-1419 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
"Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of 'Gaskell's Nerves," the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia to the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements, which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle." (GARRISON-MORTON 829). Very Good. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 652 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Rizzoli, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. 238 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 457, 6 [ads] pp.8vo. Brown cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Light bumping to corners, some scuffing. Ex-library with call number in white ink at base of spine. Minor library markings within, call number in ink on title page. Clean and tight otherwise.
An important early book on the mistreatment of native people by the bestselling author of "Ramona." Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was a lifelong proponent of Native American rights and the mistreatment they have endured under the Federal and State government. Very Good. More
London: Strahan & Co., Publishers, 1871. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 578 pp. 8vo. Dark brown three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Light wear and scuffing. Four raised bands to spine, gold embossed titling. Clean within.
The response to Darwin's critics by Thomas Henry Hudley (1825-1895), known as "Darwin's Bulldog." Very Good. More
Austin, TX: The Jenkins Company, 1976. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 312 pp. 4to. Slight wear and chipping to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Wear to foot of cover boards. Clean within. Printed in an edition of 125 copies, this is #20 and signed by the author at the colophon. Very Good / Very Good. More