Meadows, Kenney. London: The Punch Office, 1847. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. Second Printing. 183 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume and matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Original front & rear cover cloth and spine bound in at rear of each volume. Red silk ribbon markers. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Kenney Meadows. Very Good. More

Washington DC: National Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008. Wraps. First Edition. 1287-1418 pp. 4to. Magazine with mailing label and light scuffing from shelf wear.
First optical imaging of an extrasolar planet by the Hubble telescope. Very Good. More

Garagliano, Victoria. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. 340 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A lavish illustrated history of the architecture, interiors, and collections of San Simeon. Fine / Fine. More

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Hard Cover. First Edition. x, 350 pp. 8vo. Clean and crisp copy with dust jacket in a mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

Kline, Franz. Milan, Italy: Electa, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. 96 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has small tear at head of spine on rear panel, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Text in Italian. Fine / fine. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. Wraps. First Edition. 130 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to covers, chipping at edges, reinforced tape was applied to spine. Pages have darkened from age, clean within, rare cover missing. Illustrated with 23 black and white photographic plates. Good. More

Boston, MA: Extending Horizons Books, 1955. Hardcover. First Edition. First Extending Horizons Books edition. xix, 363 pp. 8vo. Light green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine which has faded considerably. Clean within. Very Good. More

Rosa, Salvator. London/Fort Worth, TX: Dulwich Picture Gallery/Kimbell Art Museum, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. 240 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. ix, 240 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine / Very Good. More

San Franciscio, CA: Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem, 1973. Hard Cover. First Edition. 38 pp. Light brown buckram covered boards with paper title label pasted to spine. Light discoloration to cover boards around edges. Clean and crisp within. Beautifully produced with a red titling to title page as well as a green and yellow rose, red capital letter at the start of each short chapter.
Frontispiece portrait of Albert Bender by Ansel Adams. A celebration of the life of noted San Francisco patron of the arts, Albert Bender. Printed by Grabhorn & Hoyem in an edition of 200 copies. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1858. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [8], 21, [1]-909 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.
Joseph Lister's (1827-1912) articles investigate pigmentation in frogs and his explanation of inflammation. Although he did not develop the product, Lister's work in antisepsis led Joseph Lawrence to name the mouthwash Listerine after him in 1879 Also contains John P. Gassiot's "The Bakerian Lecture -- On the Stratifications and Dark Band in Electrical Discharges as observed in Torricellian Vacua" (Volume 148 pp. 1-16, 1858) and Arthur Cayley's "Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" & "A Memoir on the..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1873. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], iv, [4], [1]-662 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. 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 see our #27565, Lockyer's "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494, 805-8130). Also contains George H. Darwin's "On the Tidal Friction of a Planet Attended by Several Satellites, and on the Evolution of the Solar System" (pp. 491-535). Very Good. More