Baltimore: Warner & Hanna, 1807. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. 342pp. Leather binding with title plate. Rubbing to edges and along spine. Wear to corners. Ex-libris of Leslie W. Mullins on inside of front board. Signature of previous owner, address and date on free front endpaper. Sporadic foxing throughout. "Gough's Arithmetick has..... More
New York; London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. XLV, [3], XXII, [2], 478, XI, [1], 564pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front covers and spines. A standard biography of the chief figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. Isaac Newton was a physicist and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 8pp. of text followed by 12 color plates. Black decorated brown cloth. Age wearing throughout binding. Parts of backstrip missing. Corners bumped and worn. Scuffing, some staining and discoloration to boards. Hinges starting. Endpapers with text. Frontispiece loose. Introduction page..... More
London: Scott, Greenwood & Son, 1900. Second edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. xlvi, 713 [32]pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece of author. Table of contents: Part 1: Analysis and Materials. Part 2: Synthesis and Compounds. Part 3: Tables of the Characteristics of Chemical Substances. Ex-library bookplates..... More
Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 422pp. Original pictorial wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. First thorough analysis of Archimedes' method carried out on a strictly historical basis, and which covers the whole of that corpus of his writings that has come down to us..... More
Wien: Anton Schroll & Co., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 59 plates & 16 text pages resting in quarter-cloth over printed paper-covered portfolio with folding flaps. Lacking string ties. Profusely illustrated with diagrams showing the systematology of geometrical drawing. Contents: Bild- und Flächenanalyse. Reductionsdreiecke und Flächennetze. Feldereintheilungen von Figuren. Text..... More
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1878. Softcover. 8vo. viii. 111pp. Wrappers. Forepage edge untrimmed. Work on physics by renowned German scientist and philosopher Kurd Lasswitz (see below). Front wrapper loose but present, with part missing at right bottom. Rear wrapper and parts of spine missing. Binding starting to split between..... More
Avignon: Hirschner, 1751. Hardcover. 8vo. 157 (3)pp. Brown leather with ornamental gilt illustration and lettering to spine. Raised bands. Illustrated title page. This very useful reference work consists of tables to calculate different interest rates according to days. Very few copies online. Corners bumped and partly worn, boards bent, rubbed..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, (1961). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xi,248pp. Green cloth with bronze lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Frontispiece b/w portrait of Polanyi. Essays by Paul Ignotus, John Polanyi, Erich Schmid, Henry Eyring, Raymond Aron, Melvin Calvin, and many others, presented on the occasion of..... More
Rehovot, Israel: Weizmann Institute for Science, 1956. First edition. Softcover. 4to. Cloth spine over original printed wraps. "This report presented three main proposals for future action which formed the basis of discussion at the subsequent general and committee sessions. The proposals concerned post-graduate teaching as part of the scientific programme;..... More
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. VIII, 314 pp. Three quarter cloth over paper covered boards. The Author, Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817 - 1884) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best remembered by chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides..... More
Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag, 1968. Neudruck. Hardcover. Folio. xxxi,394pp. Gold-stamped mottled tan cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Fore- and bottom page edges uncut, as published. New printing of "Experimenta Nova Magdeburgiga de Vacuo Spattio" which was first published in Amsterdam in 1672. This work by Guericke still ranks as one of the..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars & Fils, 1893. Hardcover. 8vo. 112pp. Original wrappers rebound in quarter leather over blue cloth boards. Gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards and spine. Wear to edges. Creasing, chipping and discoloration to wrappers. Minor sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text..... More
Teheran: Farhang-e Iran Zamin, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. Pagination in Persian. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on covers and title page. First time ever published these two 6th-century texts on Meteorology were edited by M. T. Danesh-Pajouh (1911-1996), a renowned Iranian scholar and author on Persian and Islamic..... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VI, [2], 320pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. The primary aim of this work is to examine and develop some relations between decision theory and recent work on concept formation by..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Large, thick 8vo. xlviii,877,(1)pp. Index. Dust jacket (spine lightly toned & price clipped). Black cloth, gilt, over pictorial cloth printed in shades of gray. Facing title pages in Chinese and English printed in red & black. Illustrated with numerous tables and plates..... More
Mexico City: Bouligny & Schmidt Suc, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 63pp. Rebound in blue silk over boards with typed title plates on cover and spine. Attempt to help understand Einstein's Special and General Theory of Relativity considered to be one of the most difficult theories at the time, even..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1895. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. [4], 189, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover. Seminal work on capillarity by Henri Poincaré, one of the last universal mathematicians. He made contributions to the theory of complex functions, to number theory..... More
NP: Iron City College, 1897. Hardcover. 8vo. 332 pp. Decorated blue cloth binding. Light rubbing and wearing to edges. Hinges starting to crack but firmly holding. Light tanning to pages not affecting text. Else, in good+ condition. More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXIV, 491, [1]pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Renan’s early work, L'Avenir de la science (1890; The Future of Science), was written during a period of inspiration and enthusiasm at the beginning of the Second French Republic, a time..... More
München-Planegg: Otto-Wilhelm Barth-Verlag G.M.B.H., 1927. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 28, X, 613, [1]pp. Original marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Ribbon marker. Fascinating facsimile edition of the 1832 edition with an introduction especially written for this new printing by Franz Strunz. Some age-wear on binding with rubbing..... More
Breslau: Julius Schönborn, 1812. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xvi,161,[1],pp. Paper-covered boards. Rare 1812 edition on arithmetic for teachers and businessmen. Age wear and minor abrasions on binding. Sporadic foxing throughout, light waterstaining on top-edge of pages throughout, not affecting text. Text in German, Gothic script. Binding in good, interior in..... More
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1854. Hardcover. This work was part of the Collection of Dr. Henry Slonimsky (see below), as indicated by a note, with officeal stamp of Hebrew Union College, loosely laid in at free front endpaper. 8vo. vi. 204pp. Followed by fold-out table. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Theory of..... More
Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. (ix) 357pp. 98pp. [2] + 7 fold-out plates. Original period brown mottled leather. Red label, gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. This educational and informative work provides a basis of the study of astronomy, in the state it was..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1892. Hardcover. 8vo. vii, 164 pp. Brown cloth binding. With some illustrative figures and tables. Wear to head and tail of spine. Some discoloration to outer edges of cover. Water staining to about a third of the back cover. Overall, in fair condition. More