Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1960. wraps. Limited Edition. ix pp. 4to. Loose signatures in brown wraps. Clean and crisp within. Housed in original manila envelope with printer's return address printed on front, small tears at flap.
Printed by Claude Fredericks in an edition of 220 copies. Fine. More

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, 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

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

Burlington, VT: University of Vermont Libraries, 1992. Hard Cover. First Edition. Dark mustard cloth covered boards with an exposed linen stitch binding at spine. This is one of 100 copies of this publication published by the University of Vermont Libraries to accompany an exhibition of the same name that was bound by Stephanie Westnedge for friends of the Janus Press.
This edition signed by Westnedge and inscribed by Janus Press founder Claire Van Vliet to the recipient. Fine. More

McCain, Edward. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2010. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 251 pp. Folio. Crisp copy with dust jacket in a mylar cover.
A monumental work on San Xavier, its art and architecture. Extremely rare to be signed by both author and photographer, only 3,000 total copies printed by the University of Arizona Press. Signed by Fontana and McCain on the title page. [AZ100, #32]. Fine / Fine. More

New York: Scholastic Book Services/Pocket Books, Inc., 1965. Mass market paperback. As. First Pocket Cardinal Edition published in 1953, this copy is the 44th printing, printed in January, 1965. 237 pp. 16mo. Mass market paperback with cover image of the actress, Millie Perkins, who played Anne Frank in the 1959 film, "The Diary of Anne Frank" directed by George Stevens. Clean, crisp copy with stained red foredges. An absolutely pristine copy. 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

Gotha, Germany: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1871. Hardcover. As. 290, [3] pp. 4to. Recent, half-leather binding with brown leather spine, five raised bands, gold embossed titling, brown marbled paper boards. Interior clean and tight. Ex-library with two ink stamps on title page. Text in Latin.
This is the 1871 reprint of the first edition of 1809 that contains Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's (1777-1855) famous calculations of the orbits of asteroids and other bodies orbiting around the Sun. Also included his description of least-squares. Fine. More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Elephant Folio. Clean, crisp extravagantly illustrated volume of one person's collection. Laid in is a 16 pp. catalog of black and white images that provides the background information for each of the series of color photographs of the same objects in the book. Slipcase in fine condition, decorated with same photographs that illustrate the dust jacket, front and rear.
Signed by Geismar and Kahn in year of publication on second free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More