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1978163122New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A novel from this Nobel Prize winner for Literature. A fine copy in very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Singer on the second free endpaper. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
289143Isaac Basire. unbound. very good. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 7.75" x 11.75" sheet measures 10" x 13.75". Shows some foxing. Shows mat-burn at top and right edges. Lower margin repaired. In very good condition.<br/><br/> A detailed map of Sicily with a vignette showing the eruption of Mount Etna foregrounded by forge workers. A mermaid can be found along with a ship in the Mediterranean. Also featured is a small inset of Sicily within a regional context that shows the northern coast of Tunisia.<br/><br/> Isaac Basire unknown books
503629See Discription. Signed-Autographs Very good STERN Isaac. SIGNATURE in blue ink on album leaf ca. 1950. Oblong 12mo. Signed by Authors. See Discription unknown books
19821306883New York: Magico Magazine 1982. Collected Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 254 pages; VG; Spine is dark blue with silver gilt lettering; leather binding minimal shelf-wear; pages have no markings or damage; shelved literary criticism. Originally printed 1953-1961. 1306883. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Magico Magazine hardcover books
19821315833New York: Magico Magazines 1982. Limited Edition of 100. Hardcover. Octavo: VG/no-DJ hardcover: Blue spine with gilt text: Boards are strong and clean light shelfwear binding solid: Textblock exterior has some age toning pages clean and unmarked: Verso is hand numbered 87 out of a limited edition of 100 signed by Isaac Asimov: Unpaginated. 1315833. FP New Rockville Stock. Magico Magazines hardcover books
19821342635New York: Magico Magazine 1982. Hardcover. Octavo; Originally published from 1953-1961 and privately printed; VG; Hardcover; Spine black with gold print; Boards in black cloth with gold print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Each vol. separately paged illustrated b&w. 1342635. FP New Rockville Stock. Magico Magazine hardcover books
1985009809Berkeley: University of California Press 1985. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. Reprint edition. Octavo 8vo. Two volume set. Paperback bindings with minimal shelfwear. No date of publication though it is a 13th printing circa 1985. Translated into English by Andrew Motte in 1729. The translation revised and supplied with an historical and explanatory appendix by Florian Cajori. Vol. I: xxxvi 396 pages of text. Vol. II: iv 397-680 pages of text. The text is clean and unmarked. Reprint edition. University of California Press Paperback books
1946S2624Berkeley:: University of California Press 1946. 1946. Second printing. 261 x 178 mm. 8vo. xxxv 680 pp. Frontis. port. title in red and black illus. Brown cloth. Very good. University of California Press, 1946. hardcover books
1946261646Berkeley: University of California Press 1946. Second printing of this UC Berkeley production: xxxv 680p. rubricated titlepage illustrated with the tables and diagrams called for hardbound in massive brown buckram boards spine-titled gilt. A bit dim with age spine lettering legible but just barely otherwise an all-round good copy; hinges sound endsheets clean and free of any marking no ownership or institutional traces: condition may be described as good to very good. University of California Press unknown books
1960S2628London etc.:: Abelard-Schuman 1960. 1960. FIRST EDITION. 223 x 145 mm. 8vo. 223 pp. Frontis. 4 plates bibliog. index. Original light green cloth dust-jacket. Fine. Abelard-Schuman, (1960). hardcover books
1960BL1553London New York Toronto:: Abelard-Schuman 1960. 1960. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 224 pp. Frontis. plates glossary index. Beige cloth gilt-stamped spine title dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Herbert Douglas Anthony M.A. B.Sc. Ph.D. F.R.A.S. Lieut.-Colonel R.A.E.C. Chief Inspector of Army Education was an English mathematician the headmaster of Elmfield College and of Kilburn Grammar School. Anthony attended Latymer Upper School and was an open mathematics scholar at Queens' College. Abelard-Schuman, (1960). hardcover books
1958S10196Garden City NY:: Doubleday Anchor Books 1958. 1958. Thin 8vo. 140 pp. 6 figures. Printed wrappers; front cover creased. Ownership signature. Very good. Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. unknown books
174595840London: Printed by James Bettenham for the Society for the Encouragement of Learning 1745. First edition in English of the mathematical appendixes to <span class="match">Newton</span>'s fundamental 1704 Opticks one of the greatest works of science ever published. Translated from the Latin by James Bettenham Professor of Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen. Quarto bound in contemporary calf gilt titles to the spine burgundy morocco spine label rebacked woodcut diagrams throughout the text engraved tailpiece. In very good condition with some light wear and browning to the text with wide margined text. Exceptionally rare and desirable first editions are scarce with only four appearing at auction in the last 90 years. English mathematician astronomer theologian author and physicist Sir Isaac Newton is widely considered one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. In one of his most important works Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Newton formulated the the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint until being superseded by the theory of relativity. Considered one of the greatest works of science ever published Newton's second major book Opticks analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass and the behavior of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Printed by James Bettenham for the Society for the Encouragement of Learning unknown books
199039463Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies 1990. pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. xii 212 pages. First edition. Fourteen articles on the book trade accompanied by a list of publications on the book trade in the North. Includes "The English Provincial Book Trade before Printing" by A.I. Doyle "The Provincial Book Trade before the End of the Licensing Act" by Paul Morgan Ian Maxted on "Mobility and innovation in the Book Trades - Some Devon Examples" "Working Towards a History of Scottish Book Collecting" by Brian Hillyard etc. St. Paul's Bibliographies unknown books
1990038049Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies 1990. xii 212p. original stiff printed boards. St. Paul's Bibliographies unknown books
191859942Boston: John W. Luce and Company. Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. Ex-lib; Good. . John W. Luce and Company hardcover books
18137985Boston: Pr. by John Eliot 1813. 8vo. 32 pp. <br><br>Biography of Theophilus Parsons 17501813. "Published at the unanimous request of the grand jury and the bar of Suffolk. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 29443; Sabin 58681. Sewn; lacks wrappers. Front and back pages lightly foxed and toned occasional spots elsewhere. Edges uneven one tear to title-leaf without affecting text. Punch-holes in inner margins. A couple of rubber stamps on the title-page. Early inked inscription at the top of the title-page. Pr. by John Eliot unknown books
1830RCHASKE00KTLewis 1830. Very Good. Chapman Isaac A. Sketch of the History of Wyoming Pennsylvania to which is added an Appendix Containing a Statistical Account of the Valley and Adjacent Country. Signed by Chapman on Extra Document. Wilkesbarre PA: Lewis 1830. 1st edition. 209pp. 16mo. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good. The pages are browned and very lightly foxed. The map has some yellow spotting and was torn along the folds but has been repaired professionally. Contained in a pocket are a newspaper clipping a note about Lewis a document with Chapman signature on it and the scarce map of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys by Geo. Jones. Lewis unknown books
185338564New York: Horace H. Moore 1853. 12mo. xi-295 1 errata pp. <br /><br />A naval officers overland voyage but with accounts of the port of Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres. Intelligent and literate a scarce book. Smith II 3136. Smith American Travellers. S204. Sabin 92669. Bound in original blind stamped cloth with gold cover ornament. Top of backstrip chipped else a very good copy. Inscribed by Smith on front blank. Horace H. Moore hardcover books
1975166165n.p.: the authors 1975. Pamphlet. 10p. wraps mildly worn with minor soil errata slip glued inside back cover. Ford no. 209. Characterizes Jon Horelick the editor of Diversion published in New York as being behind the times. Laid in is a folded leaflet "Beyond the crisis of abstraction and the abstract break with that crisis: the S.I." which reproduces a response by Horelick. the authors unknown books
197419992San Francisco / Berkeley: Isaac Cronin / Chris Shutes 1974. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo. Printed wraps. Near fine. Light toning to front wapper. Covers slightly off-balance from pages likely as issued. Printed throughout on Kraft paper. Crisp and clean. 10pp. <br/><br/>A critique of the magazine DIVERSION Brooklyn 1973 which was edited by Jon Horelick. "The central weakness of Diversion . is that its author . is everywhere behind the times out of date." Ford 209. (Isaac Cronin / Chris Shutes) paperback books
1887011671Indianapolis IN: No publisher 1887. Book. Near fine condition. No Binding. Signed by Authors. First Edition. A small thick card measuring 4.5 inches by 2.5 inches signed in ink "Indianapolis Ind March 21 1887 Very Respectfully signed Issac P. Gray." Isaac Pusey Gray 1828-1895 was Governor of Indiana 1880-81 and 1885-89 and a Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. No publisher unknown books
1936189134New York: D. Appleton-Century Company 1936. Hardcover. 238p. front blank end paper removed some foxing first edition heavily chipped dj. Anti-New Deal viewpoint by the once noted economist. D. Appleton-Century Company hardcover books
196549110Wylam: Allenholme Press 1965. paper wrappers. Allenholme Press. large 12mo. paper wrappers. 12 pages. Printed for private circulation to the Printing Historical Society and the Rounce & Coffin Club. A note on William Davison printer in Alnwick in the first half of the 19th century illustrated with reproductions of some of Davison's caricatures. Allenholme Press unknown books
196549344Wylam: Allenholme Press 1965. 1st Printing. Grey paper covers printed in black & orange stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to extremities. Modest wear. A VG copy. 12 pp. Fold-out illustration. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/> Allenholme Press unknown books
