London: John Murray, 1845; 1846; 1847; 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xxviii, [1], 2-652, [2]; [3], iv-xix, [2], 2-621, [3]; [3], iv-xix, [2], 2-596, [2]; [5], vi-xxiii, [2], 2-687, [3]; [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-678, [2]; [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-709, [5]; [5], vi-xx, [1], 2-736, [2]; [3], vi-xvi..... More
Lund [Sweden]: Carl Gustav Berling, 1749. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 8 cm x 14 cm. [17], 2-170, [6] pp. Half calf over marbled boards, binding is early nineteenth century. Title page with publisher's device, first page of text with a woodcut headpiece. Text in Swedish. The margins of some leaves..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868. First American edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. 24 cm x 15.5 cm. [2] (publisher's advertisements), [5], 10-223 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece and many additional engravings by William Jewett illustrating the text (text in two columns). Green pebbled cloth with double blind-ruled borders, spine lettered in..... More
New York: The Nottingham Society [1901], 1901. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 18 vol. 8vo. [8], vii-lxxv, [1], 344, [2], vii-xiii, [1], 386 [2]; [8], ix-xiv, [1], 2-391, [3], ix-xiii, [1], 384; [3], iv, [4], vii-xiv, 383, [3], ix-xiv, 389, [3]; [3], iv, [4], ix-xv, [1], 399, [3], ix-xiii, [2], 2-380, [2];..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head LTD. (1930), 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], v-xix, [4], 4-304 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of 21/- net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with decorative endpapers and pastedowns..... More
New York: Random House (1957), 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-371, [5] pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge grey, grey patterned endpapers. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. Ahearn APG 048b. First issue (jacket flap has 5/57 date..... More
New York: Random House (1958), (1963), (1974), 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 3vol. Large 8vo. [9], 4-840, [2]; [9], 4-988, [2]; [9], 4-1106, [6] pp. All three volumes bound in textured grey cloth with gold lettering blocked in blue on the spine, detailed maps on endpapers and pastedowns, grey topstain, numerous..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-256 pp. Red cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine, a blue decoration on the front board. Pastedowns and endpapers decorated with an illustrated map of Boston and its environs in the Revolutionary Era. Price of $2.50..... More
New York: Random House (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-325, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $23.00 on front flap of jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1874. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-clxxxiv, [1], 2-332, [1], 2-15 (publisher's catalogue), [1] pp. Bound in dark purple cloth with borders in blind on the boards, lettering and publisher's device in gilt on the spine, twin gilt rules on both the top and bottom..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-150, [8] (including 6 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Dark green pebbled cloth with paper label on the spine, light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. A few in-text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary owner's name and date written..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1808. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-256 pp. Nineteenth-century half green leather over marbled boards (binding ca. 1835). DeMorgan 90 (DeMorgan's speculation that 1816 is the first edition is incorrect). Contemporary owner has tipped in leaves with their hand-written calculations and notes, one of which..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 3-212, [4] pp. Yellow patterned paper boards with black lettering blocked in white on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill English. Bruccoli A9.1.a. The story..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-279, [1] pp. Light blue paper covered boards quarter-bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine, light red topstain. Ahearn APG 018a. Bruccoli A18.1.a. A nice copy of the eleventh Archer book. A Near Fine book with..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd. (1970), 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-159, [1] pp. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum. The first printing of the first edition..... More
Chicago: Stone & Kimball; Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1894; 1895; 1896; 1899; 1901. Later edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [7], 3-342, [6]; [8], 3-334, [2]; [8], 3-325, [3]; [10], 3-297, [3]; [10], 3-361, [3]; [8], v-vii, [3], xi-xxvi, [2], 3-331, [7]; [10], 3-349, [11]; [4], vii-viii, [6]..... More
Boston: The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [1], 1-294, [2] pp. Light green cloth with twin gilt rules, black lettering, and publisher's device in blind on the front board, twin gilt rules and both gilt lettering and black lettering..... More
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Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Akt.-Ges, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-x, 1-161, [1] pp. Quarter orange cloth over orange paper boards with black lettering on the front board and green lettering on the spine; black topstain. Lacks the dust jacket. SEP 1924H. Slater 766..... More
Lutetiae [= Paris]: Michaelem Vascosanum [= Michael Vascosanus], 1557. Early edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 1-324, [1] pp. Full eighteenth-century calf with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine, gilt tooling to the boards' edges; textblock decoratively spotted. Translated into Latin from the Greek by Johannes..... More
[London]: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-311, [13] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Half early 20th-century navy morocco over royal blue cloth, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; spine in six compartments with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Bound by C.A. Campling of Great..... More
Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press, 1808. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], ii-viii, [1], 2-389, [3]; [3], 2-416 pp. Quarter recent maroon leather over marbled paper boards, black label lettered in gilt with a bit of additional gilt lettering on the spines. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Lowndes 2813..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 7-87, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine and a parrot wearing shoes on the front board. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with charming full-page drawings by Beth Krush..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1956], 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-372 pp. Quarter brown cloth over blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket; green topstain. With sixteen plates of photographs from the span..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 11-303, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over blue paper boards with red lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The first book in the "Solar Cycle", the..... More