Washington, Government Printing Office, 1870-88. 6 vols. Lg. 4to. xliii, [1], 726, [6], 365, [1]; [8], CLV, [1], 650, v, [1]; xii, 869, [1]; xii, 2024, xx; xiii, [1], 989, [1]; xii, 986, xxix, [. FIRST EDITION. With hundreds of tinted lithographs and chromolithographs, and more that 1000 text engravings..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1863. 8vo. xii, 9-364 pp. FIRST EDITION. Later half-cloth and marbled boards. An excellent copy with the small blindstamp of West Virginia University. First edition, the variant printing in which the dedication to W.A. Hammond appearing on p. [v] has been replaced by a...... More
Troy, NY: Southworth Company, 1910]. Two volumes, each being two-ring binders. 77 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 44 mounted photographs (as stereo cards). Preserved in the publisher’s slipcase (as issued). Stamp of Mercy Hospital, Durango, Colorado. First edition of each part. In an earlier work from 1905, the father of modern..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953; 1956. Two separate works. 8vo. xiv], 464 pp. xxxiii, 196 (double paged, so 392), 197-204 pp., including index. FIRST EDITIONS. I: The German text is reproduced side by side (facing pages) with the English translation. Original dust jacket; in absolutely perfect condition. II: Again, the German..... More
San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Company, 1867. 8vo. iv, ii, [5]-209, [7] pp., including 1 text illustration and caption. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, title and author in gilt on spine; small tear to the back of the spine, minor waterstain to bottom of first few gatherings, otherwise a...... More
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo “Sztuka”, 1953. Folio. 7, [1] pp. COMMEMORATIVE PRINTING. With 45 numbered loose plates and 12 unnumbered loose plates, all in the publisher’s blind-stamped folio with the publisher and title printed in red on the front cover. Errata slip laid in. An excellent copy. A commemorative publication of the..... More
London: G. And T. Wilkie, 1789. Folio. xvii, [i], [254] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 3 engraved illustrations. Modern boards, spine label; other than some very light marginal browning, an excellent overall copy. First edition of this uncommon and practical star catalogue compiled by Francis Wollaston, and a precursor to his..... More
Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1651. Three parts in one. Folio. xxviii], 731, [56] pp., including extensive index. THIRD EDITION. Full contemporary vellum yapp edges; wormhole trailing through first 16 leaves. Overall an excellent copy with an early ownership inscription on the title. Third edition, first printed in 1621. Divided into three sections..... More
Paris: Morel, Prault, and Simon, 1742. 8vo. viii, 364 pp. Contemporary mottled calf (edges worn), spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red, green silk marker. Contemporary inscriptions, pen trials, and calculations on the flyleaves and half-title, ownership inscriptions of Marie de Varrennes. In excellent condition [Bound with :] BRUHIER, Jacques-Jean Memoire..... More
London: The New Era Publishing Co., 1950. 4to. xii, 663 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 color plates and over 550 text illustrations. Blue half morocco over cloth boards, author and title in on spine; binding a bit worn, interior very good. First edition of the standard modern work on creating..... More
Princeton, NJ: Annals of Mathematics, 1995. 4to. [ii], pp.443-572. FIRST PRINTING. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. First printing of Wile’s proof of Fermat’s LTt theorem. This special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves, along with Ribet’s theorem, provides the proof. Both Fermat’s Last Theorem and the modularity..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1901. Large 8vo. xxx, [ii], 658 pp., including half-title and index. FIRST EDITION. With nearly 400 text illustrations. Contemporary cloth boards; new endpapers. An excellent copy. First edition of one of the first major textbooks on use of X-rays. As we all know, X-rays were first discovered..... More
[n.p.]: De l’Imprimerie française de Cassel, 1784. 8vo. [ii], xx, [7]-258 pp. FIRST EDITION. Small woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf-backed pasteboards, spine worn with very small piece missing at foot, otherwise an excellent copy printed on very thick paper. Ownership inscription dated 1817 on..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1883. 12mo. 73 pp. plus 6 pages publishers’ advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Steel-engraved frontispiece and several illustrations. Original fine-grained decorative cloth; minor browning. Presentation inscription on front endpaper, “Aldburgh Church Sunday School. Awarded to Winifred Creasy. A prize for regular attendance and good conduct. December/97.”..... More
Hamburg: Widow of Christian Simon Schroeder, 1775. 8vo. [iv], 236 pp. ONLY EDITION. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards (spine repaired, some loss). Old library bookplate and stamp of Haverford College. Internally fine. Only edition of this chronology of the history of Hamburg covering the years 1555-1614. Compiled from the..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938. Thick 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Two-tone cloth. Uncut. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition, limited to 500 copies. More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. 8vo. Cloth backed boards, paper label to spine. First Grabhorn edition. Zamorano, 79. More
London: W. Strahan, etc. 1770. 4 volumes. 8vo. [iv], iv, iii-xxv, [i], 401, [3] (publisher’s ads); [ii], vi, 502; viii, 440; viii, 596 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 27 engraved plates (14 folding) and six folding printed tables. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked at a later date with later endpapers. Perforated stamp..... More
[n.p.]: Harvest Press, [c. 1932]. 8vo. LIMITED EDITION. Uncorrected proof sheet, pale blue paper, folded once. Limited edition, one of 100 copies printed at the Harvest Press for the friends of Milton Abernethy. This copy has neither the place nor the date printed on the title, and the dedication and..... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], Autumn, 1934. 8vo. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Contains the first and only appearance of Williams’ essay Reply to a young scientist berating me because of my devotion to a matter of words. Also contains works by Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Richard Aldington and many..... More
Norfolk, Conn. New Directions, 1937. 8vo. [viii], 293, [3] pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title and page of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s cloth, in the original dust-jacket. First edition of this novel about the American dream. “White mule is the story of a plain American family of immigrant origin in pre-war New..... More
Yonkers, New York: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950. 8vo. [iv], 5-23 pp. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. A fine copy in the original printed wrappers. A beginning on the short story. [Notes]. [np]: [np], [1950]. 8vo. 24 ff. Unbound. Browned and fragile. First edition and uncorrected proof sheets..... More
[Norfolk, Conn.]: New Directions, [1950]. 8vo. [xvi], 240 pp. FIRST EDITION. Separately printed 8-leaf pamphlet entitled The Rose laid in. Original cloth-backed publisher’s boards; a fine copy. First edition, with the Horace Mann School binding. The inserted pamphlet consists of a group of poems that were accidentally omitted in the..... More
New York: Random House, [1950]. 8vo. ix, [i], 342 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Gray publisher’s cloth, in original dust-jacket, minor chipping. Inscription from Williams “Purchased by my dear friends: Madeline & Drew - no kiddin’. with my love, Bill. alias William Carlos Williams. 12/7/50.”. First edition, first printing. This..... More
Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed, 1955. 8vo. 27 pp. Beige cloth backed blue paper boards with front cover titled in black and spine titled in gilt, map end-papers, dust jacket. Prospectus laid-in. Fine in sunned and lightly frayed dust jacket. Number 194/200 copies signed by John Goodman and printed by Grant..... More
