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

Santa Fe, NM: One Horse Land & Cattle Company/Nedra Matteucci Galleries, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 146 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear at upper right corner of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Fine / 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

New York: Twelve: The Hachette Book Group, 2017. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 406 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand New.
Signed by Al Franken in black sharpie on the title page. Fine / fine. More

Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, Inc., 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 240 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket, some staining, small closed tear at upper left corner of front panel, now in mylar cover. Some stainng to foredge, clean within.
A survey of the work of the following presses: Daniel, Kelmscott, Vale, Eragny, Ashendene, Essex House, Doves, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, and Shakespeare Head. Fine / very good. More

College Park, MD: The American Physical Society, 2002. Wraps. First Edition. 230401-1 - 239602-1, xlv, [5] pp. 4to. Green paper wraps with some scuffing, ex-library with stamp on first free endpaper. Clean and crisp within.
This is the first experiment to produce a substantial number of antihydrogen atoms (~50,000) that lasted a relatively long time (a few seconds). Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [4], viii, 751-1419 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.
"Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of 'Gaskell's Nerves," the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia to the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements, which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle." (GARRISON-MORTON 829). Very Good. 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

New York, NY: R. H. Russell, Publisher, 1899. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Unpag. Oblong Folio. Clean, crisp copy with minor scuffing to the covers. Fourth in Gibson's series of publications of his drawings.
Produced in an edition of 250 copies, this is #100 and signed by Charles Dana Gibson and the publisher on the limitation page. Very Good. More

Dallas, TX: Pressworks Publishing, 1981. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 90 pp. 4to. Light buff colored blank dust jacket. Quarter cloth binding with list of books within printed on pastepaper cover, very light color variation. Clean and crisp with errata slip laid in.
Published in an edition of 225 copies, 1-200 offered for sale. Unisgned, and appears to be copy "B", see photograph. Fine / Fine. More

London: Whittaker and Co., 1854. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Buckram spine with call number at top, titling below, marbled paper-covered boards with wear at edges. Ex-Library with bookplate on front pastedown. Endpapers have darkened considerably over time. Each month compiled within this volume has a vibrant, hand colored flower illustration as a frontispiece. The magazine was not published all twelve months of the year, no publication in May, June & October. The month of August is missing its plate, the plate and title page for the month of December is missing. Very Good. More

Gallipolis, OH: Hank Snow Fan Club, 1961-1966. Wraps. First Edition. Seven separate issues of the Hank Snow Fan Club News (Winter 1961, Fall 1962, Spring 1963, Summer 1963, Winter 1963, Winter 1964, Spring 1966). Unpag, 8 pp each. 8vo. Black and white fan club publication reports from fan club members report on attending a Hank Snow concert, and "A Message From" that starts each issue. The first six issues have a black ink notation at the upper right corner of each issue, "CM-30"
Hank Snow (1914-1999) was an early and enduring star of the Grand Ole Opry. Best known for his hits, "I'm Moving On," " I Don't Hurt Anymore," and "I've Been Everywhere." Snow overcame a childhood of poverty and abuse to become one..... More