New York: Allen Lane, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges lightly rubbed.
v, 246 pp. "“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until.....
New York: Munn & Company, Office of the 'Scientific American', New York, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. 5 in OCLC. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, general light wear.
597 pp. The last of five annual issues chronicling scientific progress. With introduction of gallium as a new element, improvements.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Sedacca, Joseph M.; Bryant, Robert G.; Barbers, Juan C. First American Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board.
x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely.....
Hartford: Reed and Barber, 1839. Full-Leather.
Spine repaired, loss from head and foot, edges rubbed, lightly foxed throughout.
258 pp. A look at how the world saw the science of physics in the early 1800s.
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine faded, cover edges slightly faded.
xvi, 161 pp. 7 1/4 x 5. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt emblem in center of front cover mirrored in blind stamp on corners and center of back cover, gilt titles.....
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell. 1838. Half-Leather.
First American edition of the work first published in French in 1832 (Garrison-Morton 145.56/598.1).
228, 8, 32, 136 pp. Includes 6 plates. American reissue of Garrison-Morton 12197: "Edwards studied the influence of environmental factors on animal life, concluding that vital processes depend on.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition (ESTC T105929). Collated and complete. Rebound in full leather with new end sheets and significant paper restoration to front matter. Ink gift note and owner information on front flyleaf, light stains to some pages (mostly margins), a couple minor.....
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Waltham, Mass. Chronica Botanica Company, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page.
xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject.....
London / New York / Norwalk, Connecticut: Merrell / The Easton Press, 2005. Full-Leather.
Signed by Buzz Aldrin on front flyleaf, with certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. A couple tiny imperfections to page ridges, otherwise an excellent copy.
304 pp. Original full black leather, gilt titles.....
New York: Fuel Engineering Company of New York / The Marchbanks Press, 1930. Hard Cover.
Boards lightly soiled, a few pencil marks on front endpaper and margin of a few pages.
102 pp. CONTENTS: Advancing Standards in Steam Generation; RELATION OF PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION TO THE COAL MARKET: Predicting.....
New York: Sterling, 1988. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Stain to lower spine.
A collection of scientific studies that answer questions no normal person would ask.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company / The Gilliss Press, 1904. Hard Cover.
Author's calling card and ink name & address of previous owner on front endpaper. Edges lightly rubbed.
77 pp. A brief history of Louis Pasteur's contributions to medical science, the most obvious of which is of course.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Spine creased, edges worn.
xxii, 675 pp. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his.....
Bath: J.N. Klock, 1910. Hard Cover.
Boards lightly rubbed.
158, [10] pp. Red Appears unrecorded - none located in OCLC, in auction records, or on the market. A general work of science providing basic overviews of various topics. Notable as an early appearance in print of the announcement of the.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1829. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition (Sabin 37825). Rebacked with new end sheets, original backstrip laid down (possibly with a replaced title label). Bookplates of baronet William Purves Hume Campbell and neuropsychologist and medical professor John Farquhar Fulton on front endpaper, with Manson & Son bookbinder plate.....
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. Hard Cover.
Former copy of Library of Congress, stamped 'duplicate', usual library marks.
xvi, 428 pp. 8vo. A bibliography of over twenty years of medical history publications, arranged by topic, with a list of journals cited and an extensive index.
Novato: Presidio, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. 1cm tear to upper jacket, jacket price inked.
418 pp. The list of reconnaissance satellites from the U.S., China and the Soviet Union are included, with an appendix of basic orbital mechanics for spy satellites.
New York: E. and H.T. Anthony, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks title/copyright page and frontispiece, a few pages repaired at binding, corners rubbed.
128 pp. 29 pages of advertisements for various photographic equipment follow text. An early work on the silver gelatin process in photography, published just.....
. Rogers, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition.
130 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lightly rubbed.
The book offers a fascinating account of the six trips Galileo made to Rome, from his first visit at age 23, as an unemployed mathematician, to his final fateful journey to face the Inquisition. The authors reveal.....
New York: Fourth Estate / Harper Collins, 2004. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Jacket lightly toned, 1/2 inch tear on jacket corner.
532 pp. 8vo. "We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is. Renowned for making difficult ideas much less.....
New York: Penguin, 2000. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Edges a bit rubbed.
ix, 420 pp. "Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and.....
. Collier, 1968. Revised Edition. Mass Market Paperback.
Light edge wear.
A history of the growth of the natural, physical and engineering sciences in New England, from the time of the Pilgrim Fathers to the beginning of the Civil War.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hard Cover.
Binding a bit shaken.
lxv, 759 pp. 8vo. While at first blush the title would seem to indicate that this is a rather dry annual report, a closer examination reveals numerous engraved plates and photogravures, as well as an appendix full of important.....
Braunschweig: Freidrich Vieweg und Sohn. 1884. Half-Leather.
Boards a bit rubbed & soiled, lightly foxed on a few pages.
xi, 396; ix, 380 pp. Two volumes in one. 8vo. Maroon morocco spine & corners over light red cloth boards, gilt titles, green endpapers. A collection of Hermann von Helmholtz's lectures.....