Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. First Edition. Quarto, full brown sheep, spine in six compartments with gilt and morocco spine label, xxxii, 20, 20, 568 pp, six engraved folding plates. First edition of the first volume, issued by this important early American intellectual societies, containing scholarly articles on a variety.....
Bridgeport, Illinois: Smith Dalrymple, 1922. Octavo, brown illustrated wrappers, 56 pp. A scarce magazine by Smith Dalrymple, a former oil worker in the Illinois oil fields and self proclaimed "Oil Country Poet, Humorist, Author and Publisher." Contains a series of comic poems and stories, including oil industry themed humor. Not.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Octavo, 7.5 x 5.25", green cloth with gilt and black lettering and illustration, 244 pp, b/w illustrations. A collection of science lectures for children by Arabella Buckley, an English writer, science edutor, and proponent of Darwin's theories. A bright copy in a lovely.....
East Holden, Maine: Solar Wind, 1974. Revised, Expanded and Updated Edition. 9.5 x 4.25", stapled illustrated wrappers, 40 pp, photographic illustrations. An informational booklet marketing wind powered electric systems to homesteaders. The company, Solar Wind, sold do it yourself kits to those wishing to install a wind turbine and generator.....
London: John Murray, 1884. Octavo, 7.75 x 5.25", green cloth with gilt spine lettering, xxi, [1], 458 pp. Sixth Edition, with editions and corrections to 1872 (Twenty-Sixth Thousand). An early edition of this classic. An attractive copy with wear to corners, mild fraying to spine tips, slight discoloration to covers.....
New York: Warner Books, 1999. First Edition. Octavo, 470 pp, with original dust jacket. First edition, first printing. This copy belonged to Florida senator and governor Bob Graham, and is signed twice by Gates. Once on the half title "Best Wishes, Bill Gates," and once on the front endpaper "To.....
Various Places: 1840s. Octavo, modern black cloth binding, recent endpapers, title page and contents page, presentation inscription from Maggs Bros booksellers, 1996. Includes: An Attempt to Refute the Reasoning of Liebig in Favor of the Salt Radical Theory. New Haven: B.L. Hamlen, 1846. 18 pp. Extracted from the American Journal.....
Philadelphia: From the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1868. Octavo, quarter cloth with marbled boards, printed paper spine label, 112, 3, [1] pp, 3 illustration plates. A scarce volume by prominent American physicist Alfred M. Mayer, who studied in Paris before chairing departments at Pennsylvania College and Lehigh University, and.....
New York: "O Novo Mundo" Printing Office, 1876. Octavo, printed wrappers, 16 pp, folding chart at end. A pamphlet on the "vegetable fibres" exhibited by a Brazilian man at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, offered as an alternative to cotton. The booklet was published at the printing office of.....
Boston: Nichols & Hall, 1870. 8vo, 96 pp, original purple cloth with gilt spine, illustrated. Fading to spine, mild discoloration to covers.
Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research, 1934. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth, black titling to spine, 169 pp. First edition, with "March, 1934" on the title page, preceding the Bruce Humphries edition of 1935. An important book on the topic that popularized the term "Extra-Sensory Perception." Here, Rhine presents his.....
New York: Berminham and Company, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original green cloth with gilt lettering, 647pp. Binding faded and darkened, worn through and frayed at corners and edges, cover front edge dented, spine ends frayed, front hinge cracked. A good copy with covers worn and pages toned.
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Company, 1939. 8vo, hardcover, maroon cloth, in original dust jacket, 648 pp. First edition, first printing. Physics textbook co-authored by Henry DeWolf Smyth of Princeton University, later the author of "Atomic Energy for Military Purposes." In the scarce original dust jacket. Mild soiling to covers.....
Columbia, S.C. The State Company, 1916. Small 8vo, blue cloth with gilt title, 190pp. Early treatise on liquid fuel production. A very good, bright copy, with minor wear to covers and a bit of soiling.