The Inquiring Mind.
La Salle, ILL: The Open Court Pub. Co., 1959. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
La Salle, ILL: The Open Court Pub. Co., 1959. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Oxford: Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club [by John Johnson], 1946. Title page and list of Roxburghe club members printed in black and red. Facsimile reproductions and woodcuts. Illustrated with twenty woodcuts; woodcut initials. Presented to the club by C.H. Wilkinson. A fine copy. Half red.....
Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Bonfadio, 1586. Endpapers from an old Spanish printed text. Some light browning to first and last work at lower margin, occasional contemporary ink underscoring. Generally a very good, clean copy. Popular edition of The Nymphs of Fiesole, edited by Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586), esteemed author, who was.....
[Venice: Nicolo Zopino e Vicentio compagno, 1524. An early edition of this prose narrative by Boccaccio, interspersed with poems in terza rima, after the example of Boethius and Dante’s Vita Nuova. Written in 1341-2 while Boccaccio was in Florence caring for his elderly father and separated from his beloved Fiammetta.....
London: Henry F. Bumpus, 1906. Twelve engraved plates. Joints corners lightly rubbed, edges foxed, occasional foxing to text. A very good set in an attractive, unsigned binding. Full contemporary burgundy straight-grained morocco. Covers and spines decoratively paneled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Gilt inner dentelles, red silk endleaves.....
Crispoli [i.e., Parma: Co' tipi Bodoniani, 1802. A finely printed edition of the poetry of Savioli. Bodoni had first printed the Amori in 1795 in quarto and sixteenmo. All editions are quite scarce: OCLC lists six copies of the present edition in American libraries. First leaf a blank. With engraved.....
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega/Boston: David R. Godine, [1991]. First American edition of this facsimile, printed for members of Hoc Volo. One of 400 copies letterpress printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine in the matching red board slipcase. Facsimile bound in full red leather with gilt spine and covers, all edges gilt.....
Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1798. First Bodoni edition. Bodoni also produced a large paper issue. Boards lightly soiled and spine labels slightly faded. Very minor foxing and the occassional small chip or tear. Bottom corners torn on pp. ;xxxi-ii and 65-6, not affecting text. Engraved bookplate of Charles Holte Bracerbridge.....
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1931. First edition. Lower corner of front wrapper clipped, top and bottom of wrapper worn away at spine. Still, a good, tight copy of a fragile work. Original printed cream wrappers. Octavo. 78, [2, ads] pp.
[Paris:]: Editions Plume, [c1994]. First edition. Color illujstrations. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto.
New York: Pantheon, [1989]. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
[Milan:]: Commune di Milano, 1980. First edition. Marbled wrappers very slightly creased; binding extremities of facsimiles very lightly rubbed. A fine set in a marbled paper-covered clamshell box with light wear and slight soiling. Three volumes, including one volume of text and two manuscript facsimiles. 88, [2], [1]; [2], [108].....
Chicago: Published by H.W. Bolton, 1892. First edition. Illustrations. Original brown and black cloth, stamped in gilt and silver. Binding extremities rubbed, light soiling, old donor's inscription and rubberstamp. A good, tight copy. Cloth. Small octavo. 219, [3] pp. Civil War.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1861. First edition. Spine faded, otherwise a fine, unopened copy. Original light burgundy cloth, decoratively blocked in blind,with title in gilt on front cover. Octavo. 36 pp.
[Chicago:]: Dorothy A. Bond, 1944. First edition, third printing. First printed in September 1944. The second printing was issued in October of 1944 and the third in November of the same year. Illustrated on every page with Dorothy Bond’s cartoons. “Dedicated with sincere admiration to that perfectly swell girl –.....
Venezia: Cavallino, [1983]. First edition in English. Color and black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. Dark blue boards, stamped in white.
Mexico: Tribasa; Fondo Editorial Panorama, 1994. Color illustrations throughout. With chronological biography. Fine in fine d.j. Black cloth, stamped in blind. Folio. [2], 205, [3].
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1975]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, lightly edgeworn d.j. Boards. Octavo.
[San Francisco:]: Book Club of California, 1993. One of 500 copies, printed by Mastercraft Press of San Francisco. Full-page title-page facsimiles, one full-color plate. Printed in black and red. A fine copy. Quarter natural linen over floral decorated boards, printed paper spine label. Folio.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [by Taylor, Nash and Taylor], 1913. One of 350 copies. The Book Club of California published its first book, Robert E. Cowan’s A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, in 1914. Title-page printed in red and black. Slight toning to.....
n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1880], Text in gothic style letters, with elaborate borders, initials, and miniatures in watercolor and gold, in a style reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. A fine and very interesting manuscript, featuring very delicate work of a rather varied nature. Pencil presentation inscription in French to.....
London: Published for the Society of Arts by George Bell & Sons, 1905. Second edition. First printed in the Journal of the Society of Arts, July, 1901. Eleven tipped in color plates. Black and white illustrations in text. Twelve tipped in leather samples on the front and back pastedown endpapers.....
London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1939 (for 1936). Corners lightly worn., former owner’s ink signature and attractive bookplate. A very good, clean copy. Quarter natural linen over light brown paper boards. Front cover and spine stamped in black, top edge gilt. Quarto. ppxlvi, 65.....
Spine repaired, but well preserved, uncut. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. “More serious, however, was the attack on Boole’s approach to the theory of probability made by Wilbraham in the Philosophical Magazine for August, 1854. Wilbraham made several objections to Boole’s methods, the most serious of which was that Boole had.....
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1844. First printing of Boole’s paper. The extracted article, together with the title-page of the Philosophical Transactions for 1844, Part I. Excellent condition. Differential equations was the subject through which Boole made his entry into mathematics. It is in this area that he developed.....