New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 1867. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 282, 282 pp. 4to. Three quarter leather binding with light tan corners and spine, gold embossed titling on dark black and dark red patches, five raised bands. Marbled paper insets to front and rear boards, marbled endpapers. Clean within.
Fleeming Jenkin (1833-1885) was an English engineer and scientist who discovered and exposed an error in Darwin's statement of his Theory of Evolution. Not knowing about genetics, Darwin believed that evolution took place through the "blending" of inherited characteristics. Jenkin showed that this blending would lead to the inability of individual mutations to survive in the population. 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

London: Taylor and Francis, 1920. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], 832 pp. 8vo. 17 Plates . Original brown library bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Blind embossed library stamp on first free endpaper along with an ink WITHDRAWN stamp, blind embossed library stamp on title page; due date sheet tipped onto last page of volume, very clean within.
The second part of Aston's description of his early experiments demonstrating the "whole number rule" and Chadwick's confirmation that the atomic number corresponds to the charge of the nucleus. Fine. More

New York: Rolling Stone, 1976. Wraps. First Edition. Folio. This October 21, 1976, has a simple cover with no photograph or illustration, simply reads, "The Family 1976 Richard Avedon". Slight yellowing due to the fact that Rolling Stone was published at that time on newsprint. Signed boldly, "Avedon" in black ink across the lower right corner of the cover. Two staple binding that is beginning to pull, age spotting at edges.
Avedon's photo essay fills pages 51-96 with the many power brokers (including a younger Donald Rumsfeld and Mark Felt decades before being revealed as "Deep Throat" who brought down the Nixon Administration) and social movement leaders of that time period in the two weeks prior to the 1976 election that swept Jimmy Carter into..... More

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1930. Hardcover. Seventeenth Revised Edition. lxxx, 552 pp. 16mo. Light chipping and wear to dust jacket, small losses at all edges, rear flap beginning to separate at edge, now in mylar cover. Red cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine, ribbon tie. Edges of text block marbled. Clean within. Very Good / good. More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1907. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 792 pp. 8vo. 17 Plates tipped in at rear. Original brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy and black title patches with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, marbled paper insets to front and rear boards. Scuffing and wear to leather. Blind embossed library stamp on first free endpaper along with an ink WITHDRAWN stamp, blind embossed library stamp on title page, center missing resulting in round hole in page; due date sheet tipped onto last page of volume, very clean within.
Barkla & Sadler's experiment investigated the excitation of secondary x-rays which led to the underlying theories supporting the isotope theory. Barkla was awarded the 1917..... More

Washington, D.C. National Park Service, 1961. Wraps. As. 48 pp 8vo. U.S. Department of the Interior Historical Handbook No. 12. Gray wraps have red design of cannons firing, yellow accents front and back cover. Staple binding tight, but spine lightly sunned. Clean, tight reprint of a pamphlet issued first in 1952. Very Good. More

London: Edward Stanford, 1878. Full Leather. First Edition. Five raised bands, elegant decoration in each panel, burgundy leather patch title, all in gold embossing. Double rule border to front and rear cover. Foot of boards rough and worn, 2" slit starting along hinge at top of rear board. Marbled endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, foredges marbled. Clean and crisp within, 19 plates, 13 maps, some folding. Very Good. More

Yellowstone Park, WY: Haynes Inc., 1947. Hard Cover. Revised Edition. 125, [2] pp. 4to. Dust jacket has light scuffing from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very good / very good. More

Madison, WI: John Snyder, Jr., 1941. Hardcover. First Edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine set into blind embossed frame. Very light rubbing to base of spine, very clean within. Instructional piece of nine tricks with illustrative drawings by Nelson Hahne. Includes the following tricks: The Spirit of the Cobra, The Atomic Penny, Think Stop, Reversed Misdirection, Centerise, Flipfan, Finger Stand, Poker Player's Dream, and No-Prep.
Berger (1893-1981) was a midwest magician who grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, as Benjamin Goldenberger. By the early 1940s he had shortened his last name to Berger, by the latter part of that decade was spelling it as Bergor, which he settled on until his death in 1981. Bergor and his wife..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1857. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [8], [1]-906, [1], 19 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, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], [1]-10, [1]-312, [12] 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 Gideon Algernon Mantell's: "Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the Iguanodon, and on the remains of the Hylæosaurus and other Saurians, discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex" (pp. 131-151). Very Good. More

New York: Planthouse Press, 2014. Wraps. Limited Edition. Unpag. Olbong 4to. Produced in wraps with an ingenious design that incorporates Webster's illustrations in to the interior liner of the blue cloth folding box that encases the book. Published in an edition of 500 copies.
A comic narrative by Bradford accompanies a collection of Webster's childhood drawings from the 1970s, all of which were kept by his mother. We should all be so lucky! Signed in pencil by artist and author on the title page. Fine. More