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

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. Grey cloth boards with silver embossed titling to front cover and spine. Clean and crisp within.
117 black and white plates spanning Ansel Adams (1902-1984) career up to the point of publication. Fine. More

Neuchatel, Switzerland: Samuel Fauche, 1783. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiv, 367 pp. 2 Plates. 4to. Red past paper covers with brown leather spine. Blind embossed tilting and rules to spine. Scuffing and wear overall. Two paltes at rear illustrating text and apparatus, first plate folding. Blue silk ribbon page marker still present. Text in French.
Volume explains Horace Bénédict de Saussure's (1740-1799) development of the hygrometer that used a hair as the humidity and pressure indicator. Important work in early scientific apparatus. Very Good. More

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2003. Trade paperback. First Edition. First paperback edition. xvii, 286 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. 576 pp. 8vo. Patterned brown paper covers with green leather spine, gold embossed titling and horizontal lines. Light scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Numerous plates and illustrations, some folding. Text in French.
Annual volume of papers by numerous authors on a chemistry and physics, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More

Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1960. wraps. Limited Edition. ix pp. 4to. Loose signatures in brown wraps. Clean and crisp within. Housed in original manila envelope with printer's return address printed on front, small tears at flap.
Printed by Claude Fredericks in an edition of 220 copies. Fine. More

Washington DC: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1857. Hardcover. First Edition. 240 pp. 70 Plates. 4to. Brown publisher's binding with blind embossed decorative borders to the boards and spine, gold embossed titling to the spine which has faded. Wear and scuffing to covers, bumping to corners. Interior clean with minor darkening of pages due to age. 70 folding plates in Very Good to Fine condition with occasional small tears at hinges. The condition is quite amazing due to the age and the complication of the many folded maps, charts, and tables. Very Good. More

Bar Harbor, Me: The Island Foundation, 1997. Hard Cover. First Edition. xxiii, 134 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. 760 pp. 4to. Pages 721-760 are copies of the original but bound in at rear of library binding. Blue cloth board library binding with gold embossed titling, call numbers pasted to spine. Ink library stamp on title page of volume, clean within. Text in French.
Hippolyte Fizeau's (1819-1896) paper on what became known as the "Fizeau Experiment" and the first description of the experiment measuring the speed of light in a moving medium, water. This experiment provided early support that light is a wave, not a particle. Very Good. More

New York: Assouline Publishing, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. 307 pp. Folio. Copy still in its original shrink wrap, can't get much more "like new" than this. Red cloth boards with titled embossed on spine, inset photo on front cover; no dust jacket, as issued. Photos provided are via the publisher.
A stunning book in its production, photographs reproduced, and commentary by those who were there. Fine. More

Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 286 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Dust jacket has light age staining to verso.
Produced in a hardcover edition of 2,000 copies, #291-1990 are numbered, this one being #831. Fine / Fine. More

Berlin, Germany: G. Reimer, 1964. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. iv, 404, 3 plates at rear. 4to. Pages 13-28 misbound at rear between pages 392 & 393, complete. This is a facsimile edition of the original journal, published in 1829. Text in German.
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's (1777-1855) first published paper on his principle of least constraint. Fine. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 743 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has minor scuffing and small closed tears at edges and a 3/4" loss at top right corner of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with silver embossed titling. Previous owner has inscribed his name and date of gift in light blue ink on front pastedown, they have also pasted a small plate to the first free endpaper of a typed quote by William Maitland, "Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyze today, and that today may not cloud our vision of tomorrow."
Siegfried Gideon (1888-1968) was an important influence on the International Movement in architecture and design. "Mechanization Takes Command"..... More