Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873. First edition in book form. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], 450, [2], 495, [1]pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering and ruling on spines. In 1873, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau published this two-volume work summarizing his decades of research into soap bubbles and related phenomena due to surface tension..... More

Paris: Chez Bernard, An XIII (1805). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXVIII, [2], 330, [4], [331]-582pp (text), 16 folding leaves (plates), 16pp (advertisement). Original half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling on spines. All edges yellow. Elementary Treatise on Physical Astronomy by renowned Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862)..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 357 [1]pp., lxiii plates. Original blue cloth with gilt publisher's device and ruling on cover, gilt lettering, publisher's device and triple ruling on spine. Typed letter to Mr. Turner, signed by Quintin Waddington attached to gutter of front free endpaper. Publisher's device..... More

Brussels: C. W. Froment, 1851. Hardcover. 8vo. XI, 409 pp. + XII, 456. 3 quarter leather over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Raised bands. A tentative physical description of the world. The author, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was one..... More

London: Longman Press, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vii, 372 pp. Decorative brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated title page. Exhaustive study of Natural Philosophy by the English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer. Herschel was the originator of the "Julian day" system in astronomy. Part I...... More

Paris: Peytieux, 1826. Second edition. Hardcover. 24mo (6 x 4"). [2], 2, lxxvi, 254pp (Vol. 1), [2], 327, [1]pp (Vol. 2), 294pp (Vol. 3), [2], 349, [3]pp (Vol. 4). Contemporary quarter morocco over blue marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Ribbon marker in each volume..... More

Chicago: Orthovis Company, 1936. First edition. Box. Box (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1/2"). 1, 15 plates. Original gray paper-covered box with white lettering and ruling on black label on cover. Contains "Ortho-Scope." Aid for students to visualize three-dimensional figures represented by two-dimensional diagrams, providing 3-D-glasses and fifteen technical..... More

Livermore, CA: ARA Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. (xviii) 423pp. 51pp. (Appendix-A), 22pp. (Appendix-B), 16pp. (Index). Illustrated blue and red glossy paper boards. The book is an exhaustive and amazingly detailed visual and technical survey of spaceships, rockets and spacecraft designs of the 20th century, both real and..... More

Annecy: Alexis Burdet, 1779. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VIII, [6], 94, CLIX, [1], 7 folded plans. Original 3/4 calf with decorative paper covered boards. Gold lettering and ruling on spine. Marbled paper edges. Decorative head-, and tailpieces. Scarce 18th-century treatise covering the fundamental processes of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. This..... More

London, Glasgow, Edinburgh: William Mackenzie, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Frontispiece engraving, (6) 9pp., 29 plates, 836, frontispiece engraving, (4) 10, 1186pp. Rebacked in three-quarter Morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Both volumes with engraved and regular title pages, the latter with publisher's..... More