The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. x, 311 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
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Baroque & Later Ivories.
London: V&A Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Howard Finster: Man of Visions. The Life an Work of a Self-Taught Artist.
Finster, Howard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. 242 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within, red remainder at top of text block. Fine / Very Good. More
GERM THEORY & TYNDALLIZATION II: "Further Researches on the Deportment and Vital Persistence of Putrefactive and Infective Organisms from a Physical Point of View" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 167 for the Year 1877 Part I & Part II, pp. 149-206).
London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) found that increasing temperature on objects killed or reduced the number of endospores produced by bacteria that lead to infection. The autoclave was developed out of this research and Tyndall's work, along with Louis Pasteur..... More
Mount Hood: A Guide.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxvii, 132 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light scuffing and rubbing from shelf wear, slight darkening to spine from sunning, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with blue embossed titling and line representing the profil of Mt. Hood. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of Mt. Hood, slight darkening from age. Clean within.
One of the specific regional guides in the important WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More
The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. Hardcover. First Edition. 62 pp. Oblong 4to. Light wear and scuffing, volume has been rebound integrating original cover, with new endpapers and preserving original endpapers. Light soiling within but quite clean for a children's picture book of the era. Very Good. More
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice (Reprints of a Symposium. University of Leiden, the Netherlands. 26-29 June 1995).
Los Angeles, CA: The Gerry Conservation Institute, 1995. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing. 204 pp. 4to. Very light scuffing from shelf wear, clean and crisp throughout. Very Good. More
Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde: A Story in Pictures.
Mesa Verde, CO: Mesa Verde Museum Association, [1961]. Wraps. First Edition. 52 pp. Oblong Folio. Blue paper wraps with stylized southwest illustrations on cover. Light soiling overall, evidence of price tag removal on cover and first title page. Clean within.
Photographically illustrated piece on the history and uses of the structures at Mesa Verde National Park, established June 29, 1906. Very Good. More
Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies.
Manchester, Ernest A. Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1940. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 40 pp. + Index. Oblong 8vo. Dust jacket has chips, tears, and small losses, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titliing to cover board and spine. Clean within. Very Good / Good. More
An Essay on Dew, and Several Appearances Connected With It.
Philadelphia, PA: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. 71 pp. 8vo. Brown pebbled faux-leather boards with gold titling to spine, original volume has been rebound. Light foxing within, text block has been trimmed when it was rebound.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was a physician and physicist who conducted numerous experiments on friost and dew. Wells first believed that dew and frost were the causes of air that was a few degrees colder than the ground. He began to experiment and changed his theory when he realized that a combination of temperature, temperature change, and heat being conducted by various materials on the ground caused the condensate that resulted in dew or frost. Very Good. More
History of Physics: The Wenner Collection.
Hobe Sound, FL: David L. Wenner, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, 781 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
The catalog of the vast collection of the History of Physics built by David Wenner and acquired by the American Institute of Physics and known as The Wenner Collection at the Niels Bohr Library. Fine / Fine. More
The Visible College: A Collective Biography of British Scientists and Socialists of the 1930s.
London: Allen Lane, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 376 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Light penciled notes within.
This book was sent to Eric Homberger with the request from The Economist to write a review of the book. Also laid in is a handwritten note from the author to Eric Homberger thanking him for providing a citation for an article Weskey found helpful. Very Good / Very Good. More
Cole Weston: At Home and Abroad.
Weston, Cole. Denville, NJ: Aperture, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Folio. 71 pp. Very light sunning to spine of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Very clean within.
Inscribed by Cole Weston (1919-2003) on the half-title page. Fine / Very Good. More
Edward Weston: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist.
London: Merrell Publishers, 2017. Hardcover. First Edition. 159 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
INVENTION OF THE STEREOSCOPE: "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 371-394).
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] 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. Frederic Daniell's article, "Fourth Letter on Voltaic Combinations, with Reference to the Mutual Relations of the Generating and Conducting Surfaces." (pp. 41-56). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the..... More
WHEATSTONE BRIDGE: “The Bakerian Lecture -- An Account of Several New Instruments and Processes for Determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 133 for the Year 1843 Part I & Part II, pp. 303-327).
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-336, [2] 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. Crumpling and tears to p. 37/38, does not impact this article.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32)
Also contains William Robert Grove's “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (pp. 91-112). Very Good. More
WORMHOLES & QUANTUM FOAM: “Geons” (Physical Review: Volume 97 No. 2 pp. 511-536).
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1955. Wraps. First Edition. 255-570 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp.
In 1955, American theoretical physicist John Wheeler (1911–2008) coined the term “wormhole” and developed the now-familiar wormhole diagram and also used the term "quantum foam" for the first time. Very Good. More
The Prose Works of Walt Whitman: Prose Works 1892. Volume I, SPECIMEN DAYS; Volume II, COLLECT and Other Prose (2 Volumes).
New York: New York University Press, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. xx, 358, xvi, 361-803 pp. 4to. Slight wear to dust jackets, both are price clipped an now in mylar covers. Interiors clean and crisp. Very Good / Very Good. More
William Morris & His Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors & Design at Red House.
London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. 272 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 323 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
The Captain of the crew now known as the "Arctic 30" that was captured and jailed by the Russians while protesting offshore oil drilling in 2013, Peter Willcox's ripping story of his life and work on the water on behalf of Greenpeace and our planet. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Land: Challenge and Opportunity.
Great Barrington, MA: E. F. Schumacher Society, 1995. Wraps. First Edition. Fourth Printing, 2003. 19 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
Oils Watercolors Drawings By James Wyeth.
Rockland, Maine: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1969. Soft Cover. First Edition. Printer's Proof. A mock-up example of the exhibition of the same name that was featured at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, July 11-September 8, 1969. Cover portrait of a sheep on cover in color, interior portraits in black and white. Printer's registration lines present on every page which are folded but loose in binding. A unique item for the Wyeth collector. Fine. More
Seven Deadly Sins.
Wyeth, Jamie. Rockland, ME: The Farnsworth Art Museum, 2009. Wraps. First Edition. 51 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.
Catalog from the exhibition of the same name, inscribed boldly by Jamie Wyeth on the title page. Fine. More
SPEED OF LIGHT: "Experimental Determination of the Velocity of White and of Coloured Light" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 173 for the Year 1883, Part I & II, pp. 231-289).
London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], viii, [1]-749 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.
Another determination of the speed of light using an improved version of Fizeau-Foucault Apparatus. Very Good. More