[Augusta, GA?]: [1862?]. Full leather. As. 16 pp. 8vo. Pamphlet bound into black leather binding with five raised bands at spine, gold titling and lines to bands. Pastedowns have beautiful dentelle decoration with floral insets in each corner and marbled endpapers. Light wear and scuffing to covers, bumping to corners. Very light foxing within, slight darkening to pages from age.
This issue contains no copyright or publishing information it is, however, listed in Sabin (Sabin 59016) with two additional publication points in New York and Baltimore. Not listed in De Renne or Parrish & Willingham. Nicely bound. Very Good. More

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First English Translation Edition. Considerable wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses at edges and front flap of spine. Clean within.
Prepared for the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth to present the views of Russian scientists and philosophers about Einstein's concepts and philosophy. Very Good / good. More

West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1977. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. Dark mustard yellow wraps with Helen Siegel wood cut printed in blue-gray on cover. Helen Siegl's wood cuts illustrate the text. Edition was handset in Bembo, titles in Mehart Uncial, printed on Kozu with Strathmore covers. Limited to 300 copies. Inscribed in pencil by Janus Press Founder Claire Van Vliet at the colophon. Fine. More

Mesa Verde National Park, CO: Mesa Verde National Park, c. 1940. Spiral Bound. As. Unpag. Oblong 4to. Black comb binding, light bumping to corners, small creases. Black & white photographs illustrating scenes at Mesa Verde, map on inside front cover. Very Good. More

West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1975. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. An anthology of texts: The Legend of the Chin by Sir James George Scott; the Genesis text on the Tower of Babel; The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel, The Tower of Babel, The Pit of Babel, and The City Coat of Arms by Franz Kafka; and Builders of Babel. Signatures loose, as produced, in paper chemise with gray cloth covered clamshell box in Fine condition with paper label at spine. Lithographs printed from stone on Zerkall Butten paper, set in Monotype Spectrum. Lithographs and single wood-engraving by Claire Can Vliet.
110 copies produced: 100 numbered, 10 copies "hors commerce", this being number 18 of the numbered copies and signed by the artist..... More

Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster and Company, 1861. Hard Cover. First Edition. viii, 158 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards with blind embossed boards, gold embossing to spine. Light wear and scuffing, minor soiling from age, now in paper covered slipcase. Endpapers appear to have been replaced at some point, a masterful job, light foxing within.
Fascinating account of the author's years in Chili from an outsider's somewhat judgemental perspective, "We are not satisfied with the location of our house, from which nothing is to be seen but filthy people, donkeys, dogs, and sailors' boarding-houses." p. 51. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1853. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 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.
Adams corrects Pierre-Simon Laplace's (1749-1827) earlier equations for the moon's motion. Also contains William Thomson's "On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion" (Volume 143 pp. 357-365, 1853) and George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light.- No. II" (pp.385-386). Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [3], v, [1]-951 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.
Airy determines the mean density of the earth. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751); and William Andrews' "On the Constitution and Properties of Ozone" (pp. 1-13). Very Good. More

Adams, Ansel. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2000. Wraps. First Edition. iv, 296 pp. 4to. Minor scuffing to covers from shelf wear, bumping to base of spine. Clean within.
An already scarce title on the push in the National Park Service in the late 1950s and early 1960s to update its rustic structure to more modern and streamlined structures indicative of the era in their architectural design. Very Good. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [1], 206, [2] pp ads. Green cloth covered boards with gold and dark red embossed tilting and decoration to spine and front cover board. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and second free endpaper, clean within.
Part of the "English Worthies" Series edited by Andrew Lang. Very Good. More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1949. Wraps. First Edition. 995-1113 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine, small chips at head and foot.
In this paper, Alpher and Herman predict the temperature of what is now known as the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) to be 5 degrees K. Sixteen years later the CMB was discovered with a temperature of 2.7 degrees K. Very Good. More

Paris: Gabriel Martin, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte Guerin, 1730. Hardcover. First Edition. [5], 395, 4to. Brown paper over boards binding that is relatively recent, five raised bands at spine, number "1705" written in ink on spine -- appears as though the binder wanted to mimic an early vellum binding. Green ribbon marker bound in. Pages clean, worm holes along upper right margin of entire text block but not unnecessarily distracting. Text in French.
Amonton's first report of his inventiions of the sea and mercury barometers. Also, his paper on how one determines abolute zero temperature. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1869. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [4], [4], 28, [1]-812 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.
Thomas Andrews' (1813-1885) paper explaining his discovery of the "critical point," the temperature above which no gas can be liquified by any pressure. Also contains J. Norman Lockyer's "Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun. -- No. II" (pp. 425-444). Very Good. More