Ansel Adams: Classic Images.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, [1986]. First edition. With 76 duotone illustrations. Fine in dust jacket that is lightly rubbed in a few places. Cloth. Quarto.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, [1986]. First edition. With 76 duotone illustrations. Fine in dust jacket that is lightly rubbed in a few places. Cloth. Quarto.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and William Creech...[et al.], 1806. First edition of this early biography of poet, moral philosopher and literary critic James Beattie (1735–1803). Compiled by a close friend, it is largely made up of Beattie’s letters, linked together by comments from Forbes. Engraved frontispiece in.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1959]. First edition. Spine slightly cocked. Very good+ in very good dust jacket with light chipping at head and foot of spine. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1952]. First edition. Light dampstain at foot of spine, not extending to text. Else very good in good jacket. Jacket also has light dampstain at foot of spine, and has a 2" x 4" piece lacking from the front covering. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
London: Heinemann, []1966]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1969]. First U.S. edition. Small bump at foot of spine. Else fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket is lightly soiled and is browned at spine. Cloth. Octavo.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1966]. First edition. Spine cocked, review copy with publisher's slip and attached newspaper article laid in. Offsetting from newspaper article. Otherwise very good in very good d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
[London:]: Presented to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1995. Published in a small edition for Roxburghe Club members, with a small overrun. With sixty-eight pages of manuscript facsimiles, plus seventeen additional illustrations. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. A fine copy. Quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards.....
Dublin: Printed by John Chambers, For R. Cross, W. Wilson, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. McKenzie, W. Jones, R. McAllister, R. White, J. Rice, and G. Draper; Volume II Printed by John Ershaw; Volume III Printed by Robert Rhames, 1792. First Dublin edition. The first English.....
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket chipped at foot of spine. Cloth. Octavo.
Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies in association with Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Detroit, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Quarto. 450 pp.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "...With best wishes and appreciation for your help and support of my work--I'm sure a fine picture will be made of this material...your friend, Jim Burke." Minor rubbing at foot of spine and bottom corners. Rubberstamp of the.....
London: Macmillan, 1896. Front joint cracking, light shelfwear. A very good, clean copy. Cloth. Octavo.
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1971]. First edition. Light shelfwear. near fine in like dust jacket. Jacket a little soiled. Cloth. Octavo.
London: Sold by Lindsay and Co....[et al.], 1831. Second edition. Binding extremities rubbed, lacks front free endpaper, some light foxing.Still, a decent copy of an uncommon book. Contemporary cloth, crudely rebacked in a soft leather. The author (1774-1851) was a Wesleyan Methodist preacher and schoolmaster from the Southampton area of.....
This long, heavily illustrated article, takes up more than a third of this issue of the periodical. Of particular interest is Part III, subtitled "Seven Giants Who Led the Way." It profiles Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and James Watson and Francis Crick.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. First edition. Rubbing to corners and cracking to joints. Publisher’s stamp on front free endpaper and title-page. Pencil signature dated 1891 on front free endpaper and a bit of light pencil marginalia on a few pages. A bit of foxing and toning but.....
Oakland: Biobooks, 1956. Fine. One of 700 copies. First published in 1850. Large octavo. 156 pp.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [1965]. First edition. Minor soiling. Near fine. Wrappers. Octavo. [80] pp.
[Winston-Salem:]: Palaemon Press Limited, [1979]. One of fifty hors commerce copies out of a total edition of 525 copies. Signed by the author. A fine copy. Gray cloth with printed paper label on front cover. Quarto. 26, [2, blank], [1] pp.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. Library stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise a good, tight copy. Original tan cloth, soiled. Octavo.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition with the woodcuts printed by Evans. With eighty-one color-printed woodcuts by Edmund Evans after original drawings by James Doyle. Foxing to blan850ks and half-title. Otherwise, very clean throughout. A very good, bright, and attractive copy. Publisher’s brown cloth elaborately decorated.....
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. First edition. Former owner's rubberstamp. Very good in partially discolored d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Strengnäs: tryckt af Lars Arvids,. Collin, 1771. First Swedish translation of Ferguson’s popular AstronomyExplained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, first published in 1756. This work was revised and reprinted dozens of times in England and America and translated into German. Ten folding engraved plats, some shaved along upper rule border.....
London: A. Millar & T. Cadell, 1767. First edition. With a large folding plate of an orrery, a folding plate of a "magic square of squares" done by Benjamin Franklin, and a folding plate of a "magic circle of circles" done by Benjamin Franklin. Throughout the text are numerous charts.....