New York: Walker and Company [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-204, [8] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket's reverse with a touch of offsetting from the spine lettering. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [5], 4-250 pp. Quarter black cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $13.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Kiyoshi Kanai. A private owner's..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [6], vi-viii, [3], 4-762, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Contemporary half black morocco over brown paper boards with gilt lettering in a gilt border on the spine; all edges black. Dark green endpapers..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [1], 2-212 pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Bell was a physicist best-known for his work in particle physics and on the foundations of quantum mechanics. This books collects his papers on the..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-216, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Translated by M.B. De Bevoise. A partial history of the Scientific Revolution. A bookplate from a physicist on the front pastedown, else Fine. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 1-101, [1] pp. Blue cloth with white and black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. With..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 101, [2] pp. Blue cloth with white and black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. A...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-216, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. Part one is an autobiography of the physicist, part two is..... More
Boston: Ginn and Company [1893], 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-287, [7] pp. Blue cloth with blind rules to the front board and spine, black lettering on the spine. Spine with some fading, a name written in pencil on two leaves. More
Hermann: Paris [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7-141, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Illustrated with an in-text diagram. Two of Leibniz' original manuscripts are translated into French and English in this volume, French text on the left and English on the..... More
Hermann: Paris [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7-141, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Illustrated with an in-text diagram. Two of Leibniz' original manuscripts are translated into French and English in this volume, French text on the left and English on the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 1-149, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Decorated grey endpapers and pastedowns. Published on the hundredth anniversary of Poincaré's birth. Part of the Twentieth Century Library series. A touch of foxing to the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1982), 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [1], xi-xii, 1-139, [9] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Paul Davies is a physicist who has done important work on black holes, the design of the universe, and placement and properties..... More
New York: Viking (2002), 2002. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], iv-xi, [1], 131, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards with green lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white in-text drawings and..... More
New York: Peebles Press (1979), 1979. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-219, [5] pp. Brown paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several pages of black and white photographs from Einstein's storied life. Nine..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [7], viii, [1], 2-69, [3] pp. Brown cloth with white lettering on the spine and publisher's device stamped in white on the front board. Dirac was one of the twentieth century's most important theoretical physicists and was..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxiii, [1], 1-536 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a full-page portrait of Galileo. Bookplate on the front..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-146, [6] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Part of the Investigations in Physics series. This volume was developed from a series of lectures delivered to the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Signed..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946. Second edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 1-135, [3] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine; brown topstain. Illustrated by a few in-text diagrams. Boni 121.1. Printing and the Mind of Man, 408. An early printing of the Second Edition..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], v-vi, [2], ix-x, [2], 3-319, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a gold decoration on the front board; navy topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by..... More
Evanston, Illinois: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [1], 2-781, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Volume seven of the Library of Living Philosophers. Boni 512. Contains Einstein's autobiography, a...... More
Glasgow: Gray, Maver & Co., 1804. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 10-182, [4] pp. Full contemporary calf, spine in six compartments with a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Illustrated with seven beautiful fold-out copper plates. Intended as a textbook for young people to learn about..... More
New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc., 1961. First edition thus. Paperback. 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 3-198 pp. Yellow wraps printed in green, grey, and black. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. Notes corrected by E.R. Huggins and H.T. Yura. Three of the articles contained in this volume were previously printed in..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company [2006], 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, [4], 3-511, [5] pp. Orange-red paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black textured paper with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $29.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Lacking the commemorative CD. Edited by Ralph Leighton..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], x, [5], 4-158, [4] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $18.50 on the front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams. Both the book and the jacket are found..... More