London: A. Strahan; T. Cadell Jun.; W. Davies, 1797. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [5], vi-xv, [2], 2-416; [9], 2-434, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Tree calf laid down on twentieth-century boards (in the style of the latter eighteenth century), spines in six compartments, two recent..... More
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Venezia: Gabriel Hertz, 1728. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 170, [4] pp. Quarter brown later leather over contemporary rag paper boards. Lacks the frontispiece and the rear endpaper. With the errata slip. Riccardi 386. Wikipedia, "Giovanni Francesco Crivelli". Crivelli was an important mathematician and scientist. He was elected a Fellow..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1982), 1982. Quentin Blake. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-219, [3] pp. Bound in light blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and gold decoration on the front board, green endpapers and pastedowns. Jacket art and several full-page and in-text drawings..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [1], 180 pp. Red cloth with a design (Venus handing a flaming torch down to Cupid) embossed in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated by a...... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 2-65, [3] pp.Red cloth with white lettering and a green and white frog on the front board, white lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and eleven additional plates drawn by F. Strothman. BAL 3477. Published..... More