Paris: Claude Morellum, 1615. Folio. [xliv], 549 pp. Title in red and black with printer’s device, ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut mathematical diagrams throughout. Greek, Roman and Italic type. Contemporary calf, rebacked; inner margins of last dozen leaves waterstained, otherwise a very nice copy with contemporary annotations and the..... More
Paris: Societe Francaise de Navigation Aerienne, 1876. 8vo. 32 pp. FIRST EDITION. With text illustrations (tissue guards preserved). Original printed wrappers, spine frayed, minor soiling. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION of a rare treatise which proposes some improvements and modifications for the design of hydrogen gas balloons. The author..... More
Richmond: B.F. Johnson, 1900. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Green cloth with silver vignette on front cover, gray end-papers, boards scuffed and soiled; ex-libris, but overall very good with a solid clean text block. First edition of this detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B...... More
Plattsburgh: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to. 280 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original boards; a very good copy with the contemporary signatures of William Wallace, Chas. E. Williams, C. E. Williams, Jr. and A. G. Harrison. Preserved in a clamshell case. First edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into..... More
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. 8vo. 303, [1] pp. VERY SCARCE SECOND EDITION IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original cloth in blind, recased; an exceptionally clean copy. More
Cambridge: University Press, 1879. 8vo. lxvi, 454, plus 27-page publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. With 3 full-page plates of Cavendish's manuscript facsimiles, 8 other facsimilies of figures from Cavendish, numerous text diagrams. Original maroon cloth, head and tail of spine rubbed, otherwise a fine, uncut copy with the bookplate of B...... More
London: Longmans, Green, 1872. 8vo. [v], vi-vii, [i], 511, [1] pp., plus 24 pages of publisher’s advertisements dated March, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Original blue cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. An excellent copy with the ownership signature dated Oct. 7, 1872 on the paste-down. First edition. De Morgan (1806-71)..... More
London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, et al. 1790. 8vo. [xiv], 396, [6], 48 pp. Seventh edition. Including directions to binder and a page of publisher’s advertisements. With 36 folding engraved plates by Ferguson and numerous text tables. Full calf, spine worn and front joint loose; interior..... More
Berlin: Carl Habel, 1885. 8vo. 48 pp. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original printed boards, backed in black cloth, some light foxing, stamp of the library of the Lees-Museum in Amsterdam on title and front cover, bookplate of Dr. Charles A. Kofoid. First separate edition of the author's important treatise on the..... More
Konigsberg & Leipzig: Grafe & Unzer; L. Voss, 1854 - 1855. 8vo. 2 vols. in one. 47, [1]; 42, [2] pp. I: SECOND EDITION II: FIRST EDITION. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards; an excellent copy with browning to a few leaves. EXPLAINING THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS HELMHOLTZ, H[ermann von] I...... More
London: [John Martyn], Moses Pitt, and Richard Chiswell, 1679-82. Seven parts (all published). 4to. 44; [ii], 48, [2]; 43-210 pp. (continuous pagination, last 5 parts). FIRST EDITION. With 7 engraved plates (6 folding). Bound together in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked; some top margins trimmed closely with occasional loss of page..... More
Edinburgh, Washington: 1913-30. 8vo. and 4to. FIRST EDITIONS. All in original printed wrappers. Titles are as follows: 1. "On the ‘kinetic theory' of star-clusters." Offprint from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. LXXIV, No. 2, December, 1913, pp. 109-12. 2. "On the theory of star-streaming and the structure of the..... More
London; New York: Routledge & Sons; Dutton & Co., [1912]. 8vo. xi, 130 pp., plus 2 pages publisher's ads. FIRST EDITION. With 16 full-page plates, text illustrations. Original publisher's cloth; author's inscription dated 1912 on the fly-leaf. PRESENTATION COPY. First edition. Telephoto lenses were introduced in 1891 by Steinheil and..... More
New York: AIEE, 1903. 4to. x, 1234 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of Ralph W. Pope and numerous text tables and diagrams. Cloth, title and date in gilt on spine; a fine copy with the stamps of the GEC Electrical Projects Library and H.N. Sporborg. First edition of this..... More
Paris: Bachelier, 1847. 8vo. 10 pp. Soft linen wrappers. A rare report by Alcan on Marey-Monge's publication, Études sur l'aérostation. In 1783, Marey-Monge had proposed a chain of 25 balloons strung together by a flexible cable, each one manned by a separate aeronaut. This train would work itself through the..... More
Marseille: Mossy, 1766. 8vo. xvi, 360 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Full morocco with elaborate gold-tooled spine and decorative corner design. First edition of a valuable work on diseases that commonly attack seamen. Divided into two parts, the first deals with a number of prevalent diseases at sea: scurvy, seasickness..... More
Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1765. 4to. ix, [i], 180 pp. FIRST EDITION. The first ten pages contain a list of subscribers (mainly from Oxford and Cambridge) and a corrigenda. With12 folding plates. Bound in old boards, rebacked, a clean and crisp copy, uncut. SUBSCRIBER’S COPY NEWTON, Isaac Excerpta quaedam e Newtoni..... More
London: S. Palmer, 1728. Royal 4to. [l], 407 pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved title-vignette of an observatory within a border of instruments, 12 folding plates, and historiated initials, all engraved by J. Pine after J. Grison, including the arms of Sir Robert Walpole, to whom the work is dedicated. Complete..... More
Vienna: Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1895. 8vo. 13, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. Text illustrations. Original printed wrappers (front wrapper reinforced) bound in modern cloth. Embossed stamp of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on the front wrapper. First edition of the author's rare offprint of a talk read before the Akademie..... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], ca. 1780. 12mo. 10 pp. With 1 engraved plate. Modern boards. A detailed description of a pneumatic machine constructed for the author by B. Faggion. The engraved plate illustrates this unusual apparatus. More
[Chicago]: A.T. Sears & E. Webster, [1880]. 4to. [159 pp.] Profusely illustrated. Maps. Blue cloth decorated and titled in gilt on front cover, brown end-papers. Internally clean, spine sunned, extremities rubbed, a solid very good copy. A very nice copy of this railroad tourist guide covering from Colorado to Florida..... More
London: T. Cadell jun and W. Davies, 1796. 8vo. [xxiv], [ii], 3-464 pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved chapter head-piece and 11 text figures. Contemporary half-calf over boards, spine label. An excellent copy from the library of Buddle Atkinson with his bookplate. First edition, quite uncommon. The five essays contained in..... More
Neuchatel; Geneva: Samuel Fauche; Barde, Manget & Co., 1783; 1788. 2 vols. 8vo. xii, 524 pp., including half-title; [4], 84 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. I: With folding tables and engravings, title vignette, headpieces. Library stamp on title; II: marbled paper, foxing throughout. First editions of both works. Saussure (1740-99) conducted extensive..... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1809. 8vo. 27 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding plate with 2 figures. Wrappers. This curious monograph on working stoves contains most probably one of the first descriptions of freestanding closed-top ranges with a flue. In 1780, the first kitchen stove was invented by Thomas Robinson. It had..... More
London: Wiliam Trounce, 1883. 8vo. 54 pp. FIRST EDITION. First 2 leaves detached. Double columns. Text illustrations and engravings. First edition of a series of lectures, delivered before the Society of Arts in December, 1882, which became the basis for the author's famous work on dynamo-electric machinery. More
