Rockland, Maine: The Farnsworth Art Museum, 1991. Soft Cover. First Edition. Unpag. B/w & color ills. Catalog of exhibition at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME June 29 - August 18, 1991 in cooperation with James A. Michener Art Center, Doylstown, PA, August 25 - Nov. 11, 1991; and The Selby Glaaery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, Jan. 12-Feb. 15, 1992. Glossy white wraps have Magee's "Spirit" center front. Gray lettering front and spine. Comprehensive coverage of the various styles of Alan Magee accompanies an interview with the artist. Clean and tight. Signed by Magee in black ink on title page.
Signed By Artist. Fine. More

Paris: Domino Press, 1931. Hard Cover. First Edition. Colorful French take on the story of Daniel Boone in vibrant colors in the Art Modern tradition of the period. Text in French. Paper covered boards with illustration of Daniel Boone Camping. Soiling to cover boards, wear and rubbing at edges, spine cloth missing, but entire binding intact. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper, clean and vibrant within. Photographs gladly provided. Good. More

1940s. Spiral Bound. First Edition. Small spiral bound "Artcraft Sketchbook" with brown cardboard covers. Has a new mylar dust jacket and housed in a custom clamshell box built by bookseller's in-house bindery.
Note taped to verso of front cover signed Florence Phinney but no record of that name associated with a cartoonist. An exquisite collection of fifteen original pencil drawings with some colored pencil work from the World War II era depicting life on the home front. This unknown artist was very likely a professional as each drawing is exceptional and very humorous. Fine. More

New York: The Co-operative Building Plan Association, 1886. Leather. First Edition. 63 plates are present out of original 100. Folio. The "Hand Book," which is extremely rare, is missing, but the "Supplement" and a stiff "Card of Approximate Contract Prices" are both present. The individual plates are enclosed in the original, rare, leather portfolio with buckle closure. The portfolio is of black grained leather with crimson leather spine and corners which have blind-stamped, decorative rules. The spine is quite deteriorated. The front cover has "Builders' Portfolio No. 2." blind-stamped in faded gilt. Portfolio end papers and fold-over flaps are of covered with floral paper. The portfolio is somewhat aged, soiled and worn. The plates are slightly aged, soiled, and/or foxed. Even without all of the..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], vii, [1]-842 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.
First photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared. "Extending his interests to spectroscopy, Abney was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra - an idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887)." "Abney..... More

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.
Adams and Day's paper oputlines their discovery that, when illuminated with a candle, that selenium produced a flow of electricity. Current solar panels and other solar charged equipment like desktop calculators were built off this principle.Also contains John..... 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

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

New York: Hastings House, 1949. Hardcover. Book of the Month Club Edition. xxii, 1348 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light wear and chipping, now in mylar cover. Dark blue cloth covr with gold embossed titling to spine and cover board. Clean and tight within. Endpapers illustrated with maps of the continental United States. Very Good / 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 inventions of the sea and mercury barometers. His work paved the way for the later determination of at what temperature Absolute Zero is achieved. 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.
Thomas Andrews (1813-1885) shows that ozone is oxygen in allotropic form. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); G. B. Airy's "Account of Pendulum Experiments Undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the Purpose of Determining the Mean Density of the Earth" (Volume 146 pp. 297-355, 1856); and William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751). Very Good. More

Arnoux, Guy. Paris: Devambez. 10 plates and cover page with limitation page at verso. Elephant Folio. Title page and plates hand colored and depict French soldiers in various battles from the Crusades through World War I and including Joan of Arc. Original folio with some staining to front and rear, colored illustration on cover board of a French World War I helmet within a wreath, original ribbon ties in France's colors of red, white and blue in original condition and still bright.
Published in an edition of 500, this is #446. Illustrtations all by Guy Arnoux. More

Atget, Eugene. Paris: Henri Jonquieres, 1930. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 34 pp. 96 photographic plates. Light scuffing to off-white cloth boards, fraying and loss to head and foot of spine. Interior has minor age toning to endpapers, clean within. Text in German.
Early photographs by the Parisian master of light. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, this being #236. Very Good. More