London: H. Murray, 1795. Half Leather. First Edition. First English Edition. lxiii, vi, 515, viii, xxviii, 520 pp. 8vo. 6 plates in Volume I, 14 plates in Volume II. Brown leather spines with gold incised bands, dark brown leather patch title with gold embossed titling. Marbled paper boards with faux-vellume corners. Clean within, light foxing to both text and plates. Volume I missing half-title page, Volume II half-title page is present. Page 173 is numbered "137"; page 356 is numbered "310"; page 357 is numbered "307. Page 451 has a small margin tear, there are some chips to the head and foot of the first pages of Volume I, does not impact text. Leaf 474/475 is not in the book, misnumbered 476/477; no text is..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [1], [1]-331, [1], clvii 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 #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27513 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 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 #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental Researches in Electricity --..... More

Galena, IL: Community Development Fund of Galena, 1937. Wraps. As. Later Printing, n.d.. 79 pp. 8vo. Slightly lighter blue wraps that than the true first edition of this publication. Clean and crisp within, 15 pages (unpaginated) of black and white photos at rear, Large, color folding map in Fine condition tipped into rear of book.
A reprint of one of the earliest city guides produced as part of the WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. xix, 536, 4 [ads] pp. 8vo. Blue/green cloth boards with gold embossed illustration on cover, gold embossed titling to spine. Light wear to head and foot of spine, minor bumping to corners. Original brown endpapers with gutter starting to split, paper only, at front pastedown, binding is tight. Clean within, heavily illustrated with six maps, four folding. Beautiful chromolithographed frontispiece of "Mrs. Forbes' Honey-Eater" with tissue guard. Very Good. More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1816. Hardcover. First Edition. 452, 440, 448 pp. 8vo. Volumes I & II have blue paper boards with a brown tape spine; Volume III has the same brown paper spine, but with brown leather covers, also has marbled endpapers. Light scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Numerous plates and illustrations, some folding. Text in French.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel's (1788-1827) first published paper on light. In it he repeated with more precision the diffraction experiment first performed by Thomas Young, thus supporting the wave theory of light. He also provided the basis for determining the wavelength of light by establishing the algebraic relationship between the wavelength and the spacing of diffraction fringes and made the first tentative speculation about the transverse nature of light waves. ..... More

Wadsworth, Charles E. Boston, MA/Cambridge, England: David R. Godine/Rampant Lion's Press, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. 123, [1] pp. Folio. Cloth spine with paper covered boards, gold titling to spine. Matching green cloth slipcase is Very Good with light wear.
A marriage of Fry's poetry with twelve (12) collagraph-intaglios by Wadsworth. A beautiful book produced with mould-made paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset, England; print paper is Umbria, hand made in Italy. Printed in an edition of 220 copies, this being #33 and signed by author and artist on the colophon. Fine. More

Park Forest, IL: The Prairie School Press, 1963. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Unpag. Folio. Green cloth boards with brown cloth over spine that wraps 1/3 of the way to front and rear boards, gold embossed titling to spine and rear board. Top edge gilt. Small bump 1-1/2" above foot of spine. Prospectus laid in. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase.
A stunning copy of the facsimile edition of "The House Beautiful" produced by William Winslow and his Auvergne Press in 1896/1897. Winslow was a client of Frank Lloyd Wright and enlisted Wright to create the intricate designs that adorn each page. Winslow's original edition was bound with a brown leather spine, here reproduced in cloth. A faithful facsimile, this edition even includes the fourteen page booklet..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1859. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [4], 16, [1]-930 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.
John Gassiot's (1797-1877) second paper describing an early observation of cathode rays, continuing article in our #27535. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "A Sixth Memoir Upon Quantics" (pp. 61-90) and William Farr's “On the Construction of Life-Tables, Illustrated by a New Life-Table of the Healthy Districts of England” (pp. 837-878). Very Good. More

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xii, 244 pp. 4to. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small loss at head of spine, chipping at edges, now in mylar cover. Previous owner's name stamped on first free endpaper. Clean within.
An important book by one of the preeminent photographers of the 20th century. Very Good / very good. More

Washington DC: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1938. Wraps. Second Edition. Second Edition, revised and greatly enlarged. ix, 200; v, 212; v, 192 pp. 4to. Three volumes: Part I-Administration and Basic Service Facilities, Part II-Recreational and Cultural Facilities, Part III-Overnight and Organized Camp Facilities. Original green paper wraps with scuffing and wear, fraying and small losses at head and foot of spines due to use, small stains to cover of Volume III. Very clean within, previous owner's bookplate on first free endpaper of each volume.
The quintessential tome that set the design standards for what we now view as "Park Service Architecture." Everything from sign standards to amphitheater design, welcome centers, picnic tables, and rustic chandeliers. Includes hundreds of photographic examples as well..... More

Cincinnati, OH: The Pettibone Bros. Mfg. Co., 1895. Hardcover. Twelfth Edition. 488 pp. 16mo. Brown cloth boards with blind embossed borders to front and rear boards, gold embossed heraldic symbol on cover board, gold embossed titling to spine. Slight mottling to exterior boards from age, two pinpoint holls at base of front hinge. Publishers ads front and rear pastedowns, clean within. Very Good. More

Denslow, W. W. (Willam Wallace). San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2011. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 141, 47 pp. 4to. Both volumes are clean and crisp and encased in a brown cloth slipcase in Fine condition.
Publication #228 of The Book Club of California. This two volume set contain's Peter Hanff's highly illusttrated work in hard cover with a printed paper covered boards with a W.W. Denslow illustration of Dorothy's home swept up in a cylcone. Green cloth spine with a printed paper label. This volume also contains an original leaf from the first printed edition of "The Wizard of Oz" which is the title page for Chapter X., "The Guardian at the Gate." Second volume, by binder Riley is bound in terracotta paper..... More