Altona: 1853. Quarto. English text. 385-396, two horizontal fold marks, an unopened copy. OCLC records one copy at Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. The figures of Saturn of by Dawes (top) with a refractor of 6 1/3 inch aperature at Wateringbury near Maidstone from November 1852, the bottom figure is Saturn as it..... More
Alexander Pogo was an astronomer and classical scholar born in Russia in 1893. He was an associate of George Sarton and then after his career at Yerkes Observatory at the University of Chicago became the librarian for the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. The letter by his associate is..... More
Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnson, 1894. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 530 copies and the only hardcover edition printed. 43 pages, illustrated with 9 unnumbered lithographic colored leaves of plates by Harry Payne. The regiment was raised in Argyll by General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell for John Campbell, 5th..... More
Catterick: The Regiment, 1982. Quarto. . xiii, 494 pages, 62 unnumbered pages of plates, maps, music, plans, portraits, index. Includes a 2 p. subscribers list, regimental traditions and customs along with nicknames. There are 94 plates with a number richly colored. This copy is bound by the Cottage Bindery in..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, 1993. Octavo. 159 pages, bibliography, notes, illustrations. A scholarly examination on the continuing importance of Diderot's plates. While the work of Richard N. Schwab and Walter E. Rex are foundational, Werner has added to the issue of how the plates were published and the order in..... More
Bismarck, North Dakota; (1926): Capital Book Co. Octavo. 324 pages, 11 unumbered leaves of plates(including frontispiece and map), includes bibliographical references (p. 311-313), index. Lewis Crawford was the head of the State Historical Society of North Dakota and has preserved the ideas of Ben Arnold who he called "a restless..... More
New York: D. Aooleton and Co., 1871. Octavo. Frontispiece, 348 pages, index. After Charles Lyell's Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, Figueir's work became a key idea on early man that clearly had abandoned the literal 6,000 year theory of the Garden of Eden. Franz Boas continued with all..... More
Dallas: Miller Pub. Co, 1957. Quarto. During World War II, Allied Intelligence learned that the German scientists had a new kind of weapon, a missile guided electronically that came to be known as the V-2. By October 1945, the 1st Guided Missile Battalion had been organized, By 1948 it was..... More
(Buffalo, New York, 1993): State University of New York Press, 1993. First Edition. Quarto. 787 pages. Edited by J. Benjamin Townsend. Bibliographic references and index. Over the course of his life, Charles Burchfield filled 72 journals with the details of the artist' life, presenting a culminations of two major literary..... More
London: Printed and Sold By Luke Hinde, 1757. Octavo. vi, 236 pages. The remarkable story of an English boy raised in a Shepherd's home by a Quaker father who died when he was 12 leaving his mother to manage the farm with its sheep. The boy had an aversion to..... More
Flagstaff, AZ:1985): Nothland Press and University of Arizona. First Edition. Quarto. 138 pages, 57 plates, Laid in is a card from the Jan Kesner Gallery of Los Angeles with a note for a photograph that was listed at $1500. Photograph on verso of card is a nude. His earliest photographs..... More
London at the Chiswick Press: G. Bell, 1895. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 125 copies. The present copy is #13. Uncut, xxv, 146 pages, index, profusely illustrated, errata slip bound in. Not only examples of major illustrators such as Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, as well as Whistler, Beardsley..... More
Ysleta [Texas]: Edwin B. Hill. Approx. 5" x 7 1/2" Broadsheet, undated but issued as Broadside No. 1. Edwin B. Hill's interest in Henry David Thoreau brought him the friendship of Samuel Arthur Jones of the University of Michigan, a Thoreau scholar and enthusiast. He began to procure works about..... More
Ysleta [Texas]: Edwin B. Hill, 1933. Title page [verso blank], [6]pp. [2] blank pages. One of the most scarce items by a contemporary of Poe. Originally, published by Mayne Reid's widow as "Mayne Reid, a memoir of his life", on pages 9-22, the book quickly fell out of print but..... More
Layton, Utah: Eborn, 1990. Octavo. Originally published in 1879. 118 pages. As a mathematician, Pratt assisted company scribe William Clayton in the design and invention of a version of the modern odometer. Intended to compute the distance traveled per day, the design consisted of a set of wooden cog wheels..... More
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London: By John Haviland for William Lee, 1639. Quarto. 5th edition. Frontispiece portrait of Bacon, engraved title page and regular title page, (14)p. dedication, to the reader and table of experiments, 218pp., (21)pp, [together with] New Atlantis. A Work Unfinished. Undated title page, 43pp. (1)pp. to the reader, p. 13..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1905. Octavo. . Frontispiece, 718pp., illustrated with tissue guards present. This edition was designed for the British readers which takes us over a part of Southern Syria and over Palestine, but in a direction opposite to that pursued by most travelers. Most often, travelers enter..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. Octavo. Frontispiece, 718pp., illustrated with tissue guards present. This edition was designed for the British readers which takes us over a part of Southern Syria and over Palestine, but in a direction opposite to that pursued by most travelers. Most often, travelers enter from..... More
Atlanta, GA: The Foote and Davies Co., 1900. Octavo. Second edition. 439pp. This memoir was written by Pickett’s wife. She wrote of those events that were reported by eye-witnesses and participants. She wrote her story based on men in the war not of particular color, gray or blue. In the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First Edition. Octavo. half-title, frontispiece, 421pp. Formerly Chaplain of the tenth regiment of Connecticut volunteers, later Chaplain of the Society of the Army of the James, Chaplain of the Department of Connecticut of the Grand Army of the Republic, Chaplain of the Massachusetts Commander..... More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. 284 pages, index. photographs taken by Kermit Roosevelt. Theodore Jr. has inscribed the following on the rear endsheets to Scotty Cockburn/ "with grateful memories of Munthrow/(?) and Luckenow, riding the pig/ bumpers of port, etc./" Theodore Roosevelt [Jr.]. It is also inscribed..... More
Leiden(1965 and 1970): E.J. Brill. First Edition. Quarto. In two volumes. Part IV: Vol I:346pp., 43 black and white photographic plates following text. With an introduction by Ardito Desio. Vol II: 240pp. 42 pages of black and white photographic plates following text with the preface by Ardito Desio. Bound in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 204 copies. This is copy #32 signed by the author, 431pp., printed on Japan paper. A collection of short stories written shortly after the death of his son. Bound in 34 blue crushed morocco over blue cloth, raised bands..... More
(Caldwell, NJ: Progress Publishing Company,(printers), 1957). First Edition. Octavo. 327 pp. This is Princeton's 25th reunion record of those who attended Princeton. They note who was still alive, passed away, marital status, children and yearly income. Also, those who were still living during this period were asked to provide a...... More
Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1899. Quarto. 105pp. The essays are on Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume and John Stuart Mill. His essay on John Locke is among the most important and has led to scholars taking sides on his view. Bound in white linen lettered in..... More