New York: Hurst & Company Publishers, circa 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xiii, [2], 6-361, [3] pp. Bound in olive green cloth with the top textblock in gilt. Includes Bacon's apophthegms, elegant sentences, and wisdom of the ancients. Introduction by Henry Morley, LL.D, a former professor of English Literature at..... More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First American edition. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-718, [2] pp. Bound in Grey cloth with design consisting of 'Einstein' stamped in blind multiple times on the front board, black lettering on the spine, grey topstain, red endpapers and pastedowns. Includes several black and white..... More
New York: Harper (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xviii, [3], 4-378, [4] pp. Ivory-colored paper over boards quarter-bound in black paper with gold lettering on the spine. 8 plates of color and black and white illustrations. Notes, index, and a bibliography. A Near Fine book in a price-clipped..... More
New York: Dutton (1997), 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xvii, [2], 2-301, [1] pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter bound in white textured paper with blue metallic lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. More
London: Harrap, 1974. First printing. 260 pp. Price of £6.10 on front flap of dust jacket. Translated by Gordon Reece. A study of the early development of Quantum Theory from 1900 - 1927. Very slight lean and a bit of wear to the edges of the boards. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 383 pp. Bound in tan buckram with brown lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on front jacket flap. Selected and edited by Dorothy Stimson with a preface and biographical note by her. A very attractive copy of this collection of..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [4], 3-336 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $9.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a few flecks of foxing to the leaves in a...... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1959. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xviii, [3], 2-525, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 35s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and several additional black and white in-text illustrations. Originally..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-377, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slater 908. In this, the final volume in his trilogy on ancient philosophy of physics and metaphysics, Sorabji traces the development of the..... More