London: Royal Society of London, 1839. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [5], [1]-12, [1]-438, [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 see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, # 27495 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), & #27500 with Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), our #27503 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Second Series" (pp. 1-41), our #27505 which contains"Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1849. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-523, 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.
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), our #27505 which contains"Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental Researches in Electricity..... 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.
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

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.
The first printing of William Farr's (1807-1883) preliminary report describing the use of the Scheutz calculator to prepare life tables, published five years before his English Life Tables, representing the very earliest application of computers to medical statistics.. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "A Sixth Memoir Upon Quantics" (pp. 61-90) and John Gassiot's "On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges, as Observed in Torricellian and other Vacua.- Second Communication" (pp. 137-160). Very Good... More

New York: Carlyle Communications Inc., 1973. Mass Market Paperback. As. 252 pp. 12mo. Light wear and scuffing to covers, minor soiling, creasing to spine. Very Good. 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 contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued), (pp. 1-17)" James Prescott Joule's "On the Air Engine" (pp. 65-82); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). Very Good. More

Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 229 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket, price clipped and in mylar cover.
Signed by the author on the half-title page. Very Good / Very Good. 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

Berlin, Germany: G. Reimer, 1964. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. iv, 404, 3 plates at rear. 4to. Pages 13-28 misbound at rear between pages 392 & 393, complete. This is a facsimile edition of the original journal, published in 1829. Text in German.
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's (1777-1855) first published paper on his principle of least constraint. Fine. More

Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. First American Edition. 329 pp. 8vo. Light grayish-pink decorative cloth binding with embossed titling in gold and black, slight wear and scuffing, spine has minor sunning. Interior clean and crisp with a penciled initial on the upper left corner of the front pastedown. Laid in is a 15 pp magic catalog, "Complete Manual for Adams' Real Magic Sets" printed on very low quality paper and in tenuous condition.
A very interesting early book on table magic focused on easy science experiments or demonstrations. Very Good. More

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.
Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the electron. In 1838, he passed an electrical current through a glass tube containing various gases, and noticed a strange “glow discharge” that occurred at both electrodes as he evacuated the tube. The glows extended from both electrodes for some distance as he increased the evacuation, but it never fully met at the middle.  Also contains Michael Faraday's..... More

Park Forest, IL: The Prairie School Press, 1967. Wraps. First Edition. 23 pp. 4to. Very minor scuffing to covers, clean within.
An important early journal in the study of Prairie School Architecture with its origins in the American Midwest. The articles in this issue are "The Brief Career of a Sullivan Apprentice: Parker N. Berry" by Donald Hoffmann, "Ethics of Ornament" by Frank Lloyd Wright, & "The Edward W. McCready House; Spencer and Powers, Architects" by J. William Rudd. Very Good. More