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1961499Museum of Primitive Art 1961. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A handsome copy of the 1961 1st edition. Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto 100 pgs. 265 pictorial illustrations. <br/><br/> Museum of Primitive Art hardcover books
1961162769New York: University Publishers Inc 1961. Hardcover. VG; some general wear on spine and cover. Removable insert has folding marks and small stains. Content is very clean and tight. Black board cover with white lettering and illustration. Missing dust jacket. 100 pp. 265 BW illustrations. Contains a tri-fold insert. Organized by Douglas Newton. Examines the 19th and early 20th century arts of various African tribes from the Papua New Guinea region. Extensive illustrations and documentation. University Publishers, Inc hardcover books
1990UNEWARM00MELWriter's Digest Books 1990. Fine. Newton Michael. Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books 1990. 186pp. Indexed. Bibliography. Glossary. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Writer's Digest Books paperback books
1732285967Leyden: Verbeek 1732. Third. hardcover. very good. Title page in red & black with engraved vignette; illustrated with 13 folding copperplates. 344 pages short 4to bound in 19th century leather-backed marbled boards lightly edge-rubbed; new end-leaves. Lugduni Batavorum: Joh. et Herm. Verbeek 1732.<br/><br/> Third Latin edition of his professorial lectures on mathematics mostly on algebra and analytic geometry given at Cambridge during 1673-83. Some of this material was incorporated into the Principia. Babson no. 204. Lowndes 1674. Some browning to the pages and light staining in top gutter but a very good copy.<br/><br/> Verbeek unknown books
2305Engraved vignette on title & 13 folding engraved plates. Title printed in red & black. 4 p.l. 344 pp. Large 4to cont. Dutch vellum over boards lower cover a little soiled final ten leaves with faint marginal dampstain panelled in blind central panel of each cover with large arabesque stamped in blind. Leyden: J. & H. Verbeek 1732. The Leyden edition the first to be edited by 'Gravesande and with additional treatises by Halley Colson DeMoivre Maclaurin and Campbell. There is also an Appendix "De Solutione et Constructione Aequationum Scripta Varia" excerpted from the Phil. Trans. Fine copy. Bookplate and signature of Karen Figala the historian of science. ❧ Babson 204. hardcover books
17076325Cambridge and London: Typis Academicis; Benj. Tooke 1707. First edition. Very Good/William Whiston the successor to Newton's chair at Cambridge "extracted from Newton a somewhat reluctant permission to print" this remarkable "schoolbook" based on Newton's lecture notes Babson Catalogue. So reluctant in fact that Newton kept his name out of it and supposedly considered purchasing the press run in order to destroy it! He later republished it himself. Several new theorems are laid out including a formula to determine the number of imaginary roots of any equation. The rule is complicated and is offered without proof. Yet 180 years later the rule was proven by rigorous analysis. The text also includes Edmond Halley's "Aequationum radices arithmetice inveniendi methodus. Octavo 19cm; 8 343 1 pages the last page blank . Figure and diagrams in text. Running-title: Algebrae elementa. Editor's preface signed: G.W. i.e. William Whiston. In contemporary paneled calf rebacked with new burgundy morocco spine label. Edges of boards rubbed. Early ink ownership inscriptions on blank endleaves the contemporary autograph of Edward Harington and the 19th-century mathematician William Fleetwood Sheppard. Half-title present. References: Babson Newton Collection; 199; ESTC; T018645; Bowes and Bowes 277. Typis Academicis; Benj. Tooke hardcover books
192415285Boston: The Atlantic Monthly 1924. paper wrappers. Newton A. Edward. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. pp.300-309. In the Atlantic Monthly September 1924 Vol. 134 No.3 Fleck E.22. Appeared in THE GREATEST BOOK IN THE WORLD. The Atlantic Monthly unknown books
1993169848Munich: Schirmer Art Books 1993. Softcover. 79 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that ran November 20 through December 1992. Foreword by Jose Alvarez. Includes 58 black and white images. A fine copy in wrappers. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Schirmer Art Books unknown books
195141385Cambridge Mass: Addison-Wesley Press Inc 1951. 144 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark orange cloth. Silver lettering to spine. Spine sunned corners & head/heel of spine bumped; edges toned with shallow gouge to fore edge; end papers toned to gutter; else clean & sound. Very good-/No dust jacket. Addison-Wesley Press, Inc hardcover books
1918287611Washington: Government Printing Office 1918. paperback. very good-. 141pp. 8vo pr. wrs. bottom of spine lightly worn. Washington: Government Printing Office 1918.<br/><br/> Pages 67 to 83 is an appendix by General John J. Pershing on the organization and operations of the American Expeditionary Force from May 26 1917 to November 11 1918.<br/><br/> Government Printing Office unknown books
28128Softcover. VG. Black ill. stapled wraps. 28 pp. 33 bw ills. unknown books
1982118061Livermore: Livermore Heritage Guild 1982. iii29p. 5.5x8.5 inches foreword index illustrated with photos of the original pages very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. Livermore Heritage Guild unknown books
1966SS12931Austin:: The University of Texas 1966. 1966. On cover: The annus mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton. 23 cm. Illus. 32 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. The University of Texas, 1966. unknown books
1971WRCLIT64300Georgetown CA: Talisman Literary Research Inc. 1971. xvi521pp. Thick octavo. Gilt buckram. First edition of this essential annotated reference to over 2700 works of fiction related to California. Bookplate top edge faintly foxed else near fine in dust jacket crease to front flap. Talisman Literary Research, Inc. hardcover books
1971758Georgetown California: Talisman Literary Research Inc. 1971 First edition. One of 500 copies. Quite scarce. xvi 521pp. Facsimiles locale index subject index. Black cloth gilt. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket top edge of jacket slightly rough. The first comprehensive annotated bibliography of California fiction. Includes novels novellas and short stories that have a California setting not necessarily by California writers. Includes some 2500 entries covering all phases of the California experience. Most entries are annotated and describe the plot or theme of the novel and the place or setting. The bibliography lists works by obscure writers obscurely published as well as the serious fiction of Frank Norris Gertrude Atherton Jack London Bret Harte Mark Twain John Steinbeck Wallace Stegner Dashiell Hammett James C. Cain Jack Kerouac Kenneth Millar Jessamyn West and many others. The standard bibliography on the subject. Talisman Literary Research, Inc. hardcover books
194671653Amherst:: Amherst College Library. Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. B0006AQVUC . First edition. Very good in blue cloth. No dust jacket. . Amherst College Library, hardcover books
2284MCKEON Newton Felch and Katherine Conover Cowles. AMHERST MASSACHUSETTS IMPRINTS 1825-1875. Amherst: 1946. 8vo. Cloth. 191 pages. First edition. A bibliography of Amherst imprints. Fine. unknown books
1946WRCAM18038Amherst 1946. 191pp. Frontis. Original cloth. Bit dusty but very good. A well produced guide to early Amherst printing. hardcover books
1924421191924. NEWTON A. Edward. THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING. With illustrations. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press 1924. Fifth edition. 8vo. Slight soiling rubbing at boards; wear to extremes. Very good. unknown books
9504From Kennebunkport Maine to "My Dear Mr. King" thanking the recipient for sending him a clipping "which I shouldn't have seen if you hadn't sent it as the Transcript comes no more to Miller's Drugstore after Oct 1st and my evening walks for it has been put in storage against the Summer.I hadn't heard what Chicago thought of "Seventeen" since a telegram from the manager the night of the production . He ends with comments on his typist Miss Kingsbury . signed in full. unknown books
44264Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Washington: 1902. 252 pages. Contents are very fresh and clean. Gray cloth binding is stamped in black with very light soil. Overall VG. . Other hardcover books
2004225511Cedarville. Ca.: Carmel Publishing. 2004. 1st Edition. Blue cloth. . A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . oblong4to. Signed by the author on the title page. Numerous illustrations. Carmel Publishing. hardcover books
198643754Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press 1986. Quarto 36cm x 24.5cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in black on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 96pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities. Retrospective of Australian actress and photographer Alice Springs' June Newton portraits. 54 photographic reproductions in b&w. Twelvetrees Press unknown books
2015177391Phoenix AZ: Eleftheria Publishing 2015. Hardcover. VG/VG. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering black dust jacket with color illustration ix 764 pages bw charts/graphs. "this book tells the dramatic story of how this poor immigrant emerged from obscurity and transformed himself into the most remarkable Founding Father. In riveting detail Michael E. Newton delivers a fresh and fascinating account of Alexander Hamilton's origins youth and indispensable services during the American Revolution."- dust jacket Includes bibliographical pages 729-746 references and index. Eleftheria Publishing hardcover books
199592136NY:: Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0393701948 . First printing. Review copy with slip and publisher's card laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Norton, hardcover books