San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2009. Hardcover. Limited Edition. xv, 324 pp. Folio. Green cloth boards with an inset paper label that incorporates a Yosemite etching and the book's title on the cover, black cloth spine with gold embossed titling.
Born in England, James Mason Hutchings (1820-1902) immigrated to the United States in 1848 and a year later ventured west during the California Gold Rush. A successful miner, he lost his fortune, and in 1855 led the second excursion of tourists into what would become Yosemite National Park (1890). Hutchings settled in the Yosemite Valley but was made to leave the Park in 1875 due to his legal challenges to the Sate of California by continuing to build structures on land he..... More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 549-746 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out.
Early report by Willis E. Lamb, Jr. (1913-2008) on what became know as the Lamb Shift and for which Lamb shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955.  Issue also contains Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer's artcile, “Cosmic Rays as the Source of General Galactic Radio Emission” (Physical Review; Volume 79 No. 4, pp. 738-739). Very Good. More

Cambridge, England: Royal Society of London, 1949. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, 140 pp. 8vo. Gray paper wraps with library stamp in red at upper right corner of cover, small note in pencil at foot of cover. Interior clean.
Sir John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954) showed how to use the “linear combination of atomic orbitals” (LCAO) approximation for molecular orbitals to derive the electronic structure of complex molecules such as fluorine and oxygen in addition to simpler molecules. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1873. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], iv, [4], [1]-662 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, 1882. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [2], [1]-922 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 #27565, Lockyer's "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494, 805-8130). Also contains George H. Darwin's "On the Tidal Friction of a Planet Attended by Several Satellites, and on the Evolution of the Solar System" (pp. 491-535). Very Good. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1977. Wraps. First Edition. 255 pp. Oblong 4to. Light scuffing to colors. Clean within.
The title says it all. Established on June 5, 1978, as Lowell National Historical Park, just one year after the publication of this report. Very Good. More

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 15 black and white plates. Clean, crisp copy with Maisel's photograph illustration of reprinted on cover.
Stunning aerial photographs of the Los Angeles area by photographer David Maisel. Photographs take on an almost surveillance-like feel from the height at which they were taken and printed as they appear in the original negative form. The photographs are preceded by Mark Strand's poem, "Black Maps" and ends with an essay by William L. Fox entitled "Shadowlands." Fine. More

1849. Hardcover. First Edition. 372 pp. 8vo. Green marbled paper boards with black leather spine and gold embossed titling that has chipped and faded, light scuffing from shelf wear. Interior pages have age toning, otherwise quite clean. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1848. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [8], [1]-10, [1]-284, 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.
Includes numerous plates illustrating Mantell's paper.  See also our #27492 "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" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 131 for the Year 1841 Part I & Part II, pp. 131-151). Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1866. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [4], 25, [1]-886 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 Arthur Cayley's "A Supplementary Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" (pp. 25-35). Very Good. More

Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1995. Manuscript. First Edition. Archive includes a ten page computer printout of "The Writer and His Machine," which varies slightly from the published edition. The 17 page computer printout varies from all versions. Unsigned Michener note says about this second version ("This Fourth Version of the manuscript, the final version"): "We have indicated by bold face the new material..." His note covers several options for dealing with printing two such similar versions of the essay. Also included is a 12-page typescript fax corresponding to the first version of "My Advice to Young America." Printed on legal paper, folded to letter size, with the text written in hand where it ran off the bottom. Also includes typed note signed by..... More

Sarg, Tony. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1930. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Dust jacket has light chipping at the edges, minor soiling, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. The story of two little dolls, Annabel and Frances. Extremely, crisp and vibrant illustrations within. Fine / Very Good. More

New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. viii, 305 pp. 8vo. Bright orange covers with very light darkening to spine, bumping to corners and light scuffing. Oddly, publisher printed on base of spine, Dodd, Mead & Company, is not the same as Sears Publishing Company printed on title page. Nevertheless, a scarce volume. Very Good. More