New York: McGraw-Hill, 1918. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, 105 pages, index. While many assume the laying of track was a simple matter, it was often delayed by poor engineering and the lack of trained trackmen. The Book of Rules in the back is one of the most carefully written guides..... More
![Elements] De Gli Elementi Di Euclide, Li Primi Sei Libri: Tradotti En Lingua Italiana. Euclid,...](/pictures/thumb/028068.jpg?v=1614035682)
Bologna: Presso Gio. Batt. Ferroni, 1651. 12mo in 8s. 227[1]pages, diagrams. Giovanni Ricci (1607-1664) was noted for his keen observations in astronomy confirming Galileo's measurements. He dealt not only with astronomy in his research, but also with physics, arithmetic, geometry, optics, geography, and chronology. Bound in full vellum, Euclide written..... More
London, Canada, Nd(ca.1955): Privately Printed. First Edition. Octavo. An extraordinarily rare printing of perhaps 25 copies, 38, [7] pp. Privately printed by mimeograph by the author who, after suffering a horrible accident when a horse fell on him during a London Hunt and Country Club, retired from hunting and became..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1977. Octavo. One of the great classics of modern horror and the author's third book. A very early reprint of the first edition with the $8.95 price and the S3 in the gutter on page 447 with the backflap of the dust jacket with the Gotfryd photograph..... More
New York: Theo. Audel & Company, 1907. Octavo. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. 598 pages, illustrated, index. In the previous edition issued in 1903, there were some omissions and a few errors along with the note by the author that the motor vehicle has passed out of the experimental stage..... More
Milan; (2008): 5 Continents. Quarto. 200 pages, of gorgeous color illustrations (some folding) of the renowned Italian jewelers of the 20th Century--Mario Buccellati and his son Gianmaria. His techniques of engraving include rigato (parallel lines cut onto the surface of metal to obtain a sheen effect, telato (texture obtained by..... More
London: John Bale, 1929. Octavo. Frontispiece, 112pp. 9pp. advertisements including front pastdown, illustrated. This copy was from the library of W.D. Fitzwater whose modern work Handbook of Vertebrate Pest Control is the classic work on pest control. He became a part of a US Department of Interior presence in the..... More
(Chicago, 1995): University of Chicago Press. First Edition. Octavo. 269 pages, index. The editor, Bruce Caldwell, is one of America's leading economic scholars in the last decade of the 20th Century and has contributed a 48 pages introduction which is well worth reading. This volume includes Hayek's "the Paradox of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo. 234 pages. In the author's note at the beginning of the book he writes: "The letters in this volume were written in France in 1917 when I was a pilot in No. 46 Fighter Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps..... More
London; (1970): Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Octavo. 372 pages, index, bibliography. How after a brilliant beginning, what has often been called the Wilderness years is traced. It explains why so many in government and the British military distrusted his judgment. Today we know how from 1939 whether in or out of..... More
(London, 1995): Cassell. First Edition. Octavo. 247 pages, index, bibliography. Professor F.A. Lindemann was Winston Churchill's closest adviser during the Second World War. The two met almost daily and Lindemann, who became Lord Cherwell in 1941, spent weekends at Chequers. He accompanied Churchill to the great conferences with Allied leaders..... More
London: Printed By Thomas Harper, 1631. Quarto in 6s. [16], 871 pages. Frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title page. During the first three decades of the seventeenth century, Weever travelled 'at painful expense' throughout England and the continent collecting inscriptions from funeral monuments. The folio and notebooks preserve many..... More
London: Adams and Charles Black, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, 374 pages. Color frontispiece shows Salmon fishing on the Dee by Joseph Farquharson, one of the great fly fishermen of the day as he writes of the spirit of the chase, the elusive quarry, the rivers and lakes and the..... More
Westport, CT. (1985): Greenwood Press. First Edition. Octavo. 731 pages, index. Perhaps the most thorough work of research on the Great Depression that deals extensively with securities price movements, investor attitudes, and the role of foreign and U.S. government bonds. The author has researched contemporary sources with detailed information on..... More
Princeon, NJ; (1966): Princeton University Press. Thick Octavo. 3rd printing of a small print run. 867 pages, subject index, fold out charts. This analytical narrative of American monetary policy deals with the behavior of money stock, defined to include currency, demand deposits and time deposits of commercial banks. What began..... More
New York: (1971): Simon and Schuster. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. If you want to accumulate capital--speculate, don't invest. There is no good investment which is not at the same time a good speculation the author states. This work advocates sophisticated investment practices and trading stratagems which have been time..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 463pp., This story will, it is hoped by the author to be read as a tale, to stand or fall upon its merits as a tale. But for the reader who wishes to know to what extent an honest effort has..... More
New York, nd. (ca.1900): Henry Holt and Co. Octavo. In 7 volumes. The author's edition. This was Symonds' chief work, a series of extended essays rather than a systematic history. This work was brought together in the order planned by the author form one connected study of Italian culture at..... More
London: For A. Strand, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797. Quarto. In two volumes, 3rd edition, corrected. Vol. I: Portrait frontispiece, half-title, xxvi[xxvii], 320pp, 136pp. appendix. Vol. II: half-title, 312pp.; Poesie by Lorenzo 111pp. [1] p. description of plates, and 11pp. index. The Posies present at the end of volume..... More
Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Machiavelli; the Chief Works and Others. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. In three volumes inscribed by Gilbert to "President Robert F. Oxnam/with my best regards/Allan Gilbert". The translator includes all of the works on which depends the..... More