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FRIER BACON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE MIRACLES OF ART, NATURE, AND MAGICK
by [BACON, Roger]
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- Used - Minor foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; small chip to head of spine. Near Fine and very scarce
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- First Edition
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- 1659
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$9,375.00
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London: Simon Miller, 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; small chip to head of spine. Near Fine and very scarce. Small duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/2") bound in early calf with gilt-ruled covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine; [xii], 51, [7 - ads] pages. First separate printing and First English Edition of… Read more about this item Item Price
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PHYSICA CURIOSA, Sive Mirabilia Naturae et Artis Libris XII Comprehensa
by SCHOTT, Gaspar
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- Used - Browning throughout both volumes, mostly affecting the text only in the first volume but to the plates as well in the second. Ci
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- 1697
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$4,375.00
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Herbipoli (Wurzburg), 1697. Hardcover. Browning throughout both volumes, mostly affecting the text only in the first volume but to the plates as well in the second. Circular spot about the size of a silver dollar on the front cover of the first volume where the vellum is lacking; otherwise, the binding is in very good shape. Overall, Very Good.… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,375.00
Will the Discovery of a d Lead Us to Ethicophysics?"
by THEMERSON, Stefan
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- [1962]
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$437.50
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[London]: [Heinemann], [1962]. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Slim printed stapled wraps of this offprint containing a 7-page article by Themerson that is SIGNED "Best wishes/S." The cover title is THE SCIENTIST SPECULATES "Extracts taken from The Scientist Speculates, Edited by I. J. Good" and states that it is an Uncorrected Proof. Publishing information taken from ink notes… Read more about this item Item Price
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
by EDISON, Thomas
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- Used - Not examined out of frame, but appears to be Fine
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- Framed Autograph
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$4,375.00
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Framed Autograph. Not examined out of frame, but appears to be Fine. A 7-1/2" x 10" black-and-white portrait printed on 11-1/2" x 14-1/2" paper with the Pach Bros. 1906 imprint at the bottom right of the image. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Thomas Neal./from Thomas A. Edison" below the image. Framed to an overall size of 12" x 15".… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,375.00
TIBERII CAVALLOS FULLSTÄNDIGA AFHANDLING OM ELECTRICITETEN. Öfversättning Jemte Tillägg Och Anmärkningar af Carl Gust. Sjöstén, Carl Pet. Ohrling. 1-3
by CAVALLO, Tiberius
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- Used - Moderate to heavy foxing throughout, the folding plates generally clean. While the spine is in very nice shape, the boards are h
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- First Edition
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- 1795-96
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$437.50
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Lund: Prof. Joh. Lundblad, 1795-96. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout, the folding plates generally clean. While the spine is in very nice shape, the boards are heavily rubbed with loss. Good. Three parts in one small octavo (4-1/4" x 7-1/8") volume in calf-backed boards with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; [14], 207, [2]; [2], 387,… Read more about this item Item Price
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IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOKS: THE RICHARD GREEN LIBRARY. Tuesday 17 June 2008
by [GREEN, Richard]
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- Used - About Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2008
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43.80
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New York: Christie's, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Pictorial cloth. Quarto; 400 pages with numerous illustrations, including many in color. A collection comprising six revolutionary centuries of scientific, mathematical, and philosophical thought.
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$43.80
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY & GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE...
by DARWIN, Charles (Robert GIBBINGS)
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- Used - Foxing to bulked text fore-edge and mostly to first and last few pages; slight soiling to the spine of the book. Very Good in a
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- 1956
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$187.50
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Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Hardcover. Foxing to bulked text fore-edge and mostly to first and last few pages; slight soiling to the spine of the book. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Robert Gibbings. Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12") bound in full sailcloth stamped in brown with a native tapa design; 490 pages. Introduction by Sir… Read more about this item Item Price
$187.50
BEARING-RATIO EFFECT ON STRENGTH OF RIVETED JOINTS
by JONES, Jonathan
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- Used - Very Good
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- Offprint
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- 1958
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$12.50
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New York: ASCE, 1958. Offprint. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps, 8 pages. Illustrated with charts.
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$12.50
THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
by DARWIN, Charles
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- Used - Sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$162.50
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Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by… Read more about this item Item Price
$162.50
THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY
by RUSSELL, Bertrand
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- Used - Some uneven sunning to the covers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1951
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,250.00
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Some uneven sunning to the covers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper and scarce as such.
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$1,250.00
ERECTION OF MAIN RIVER SPAN, PASSAIC RIVER BRIDGE
by JONES, Jonathan
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- Used - Very Good
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- Offprint
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- 1955
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$31.30
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New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1955. Offprint. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps; 16 pages. Illustrated with photographs and charts. An offprint reprinted from TRANSACTIONS, Vol. 120, 1955, page 208.
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$31.30
JAMES WATT
by CARNEGIE, Andrew
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- Used - Mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine with a fine inscription
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- First British Edition
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- n.d
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,250.00
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Edinburgh & London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, n.d. First British Edition. Hardcover. Mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine with a fine inscription. Decorated red cloth, part of the Famous Scots Series and likely published in the same year as the American edition, 1905. Carnegie's biography of the inventor of the steam engine. INSCRIBED on the half-title page… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
A DISCOVERY OF INFINITE TREASURE, HIDDEN SINCE THE WORLDS BEGINNING. WHEREUNTO ALL MEN, OF WHAT DEGREE SOEVER, ARE FRIENDLY INVITED TO BE SHARERS WITH THE DISCOVERER G.P
by PLATTES, Gabriel
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- Used - Small catalog sticker on spine, trimmed along fore-edge with minor loss to title page, some soiling, else Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1639
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$5,625.00
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London: J[ohn] L[egat] to be sold by George Hutton, 1639. First Edition. Hardcover. Small catalog sticker on spine, trimmed along fore-edge with minor loss to title page, some soiling, else Very Good. Small quarto (5-1/8" x 7") in later polished blue morocco leather-backed boards; A4, a4, B-P4, Q2. [2, blank], 33, [1], 92, [1 errata], [1 blank]… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
by DARWIN, Charles
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- Used - Bookplate on the front pastedown; small scratch to leather at the rear. About Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$156.30
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Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; small scratch to leather at the rear. About Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction… Read more about this item Item Price
$156.30
ATHANASII KIRCHERI, SOCIETATIS IESU. MAGNES SIVE ARTE MAGNETICA OPUS TRIPARTITUM. QUO UNIVERSAMAGNETIS NATURA, EIUSQUE IN OMNIBUS SCIENTIJS & ARTIBUS USUS, NOVA METHODO EXPLICATUR, ETC
by KIRCHER, Athanasius
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- Used - Two small institutional stamps on the title page with an early annotation. Worming to the title and first few pages as well as t
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- Third, and best, Edition
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- 1654
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$9,375.00
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Rome: B. Deuersin, & Z. Masotti, 1654. Third, and best, Edition. Hardcover. Two small institutional stamps on the title page with an early annotation. Worming to the title and first few pages as well as the last few of the index and the binding, extensive on a few pages; the rest of the text fine. Folio (8-1/2" x… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TRAINING OF THE HUMAN PLANT
by BURBANK, Luther
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- Used - Small stain at the top of the front cover. Very Good or better
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- First Edition
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- 1908
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,250.00
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New York: The Century Co., 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Small stain at the top of the front cover. Very Good or better. Early but not first printing, which was in April 1907, of this title which advocated improved treatment of children and eugenic practices such as keeping the unfit and first cousins from marrying. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
HUMAN HEREDITY
by MONTAGU, Ashley
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- Used - Very Good in a Good or better dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1959)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good or better dustwrapper. The true First Edition and not the book club edition which also states "First Edition" and has a priced dustwrapper. Illustrated with drawings and photographs.
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$25.00
DE RE METALLICA. LIBRI XII. QUIBUS OFFICIA, INSTRUMENTA, MACHINAE, AC OMNIA DENIQUE AD METALLICAM SPECTANTIA...
by AGRICOLA, Georgius
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- Used - Very Good in a serviceable binding
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- Third Latin Edition
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- 1621
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$10,625.00
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Basil: Ludovici Regis, 1621. Third Latin Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a serviceable binding. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in library buckram; irregularly paginated: [10], 502, [58] pages. Illustrated with 270 woodcuts, many full and half page, some signed with the monogram "RMD," and generally attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (fl.1525-1572) or, less commonly, Blasius Weffring. Previously… Read more about this item Item Price
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A SYSTEM OF AERONAUTICS, COMPREHENDING ITS EARLIEST INVESTIGATIONS, AND MODERN PRACTICE AND ART DESIGNED AS A HISTORY FOR THE COMMON READER, AND GUIDE TO THE STUDENT OF THE ART. IN THREE PARTS. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS ATTEMPTS IN THE ART OF FLYING BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD DOWN TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE AERONAUTIC MACHINE BY THE MONTGOLFIERS, IN 1782, AND TO A LATER PERIOD. WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AUTHOR'S FIFTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE IN AERIAL VOYAGES. ALSO, FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ART OF MAKING BALLOONS, PARACHUTES, ETC. ETC., AS ADAPTED TO THE PRACTICE OF AERIAL NAVIGATION, AND DIRECTIONS TO PREPARE EXPERIMENTAL BALLOONS
by WISE, John
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- Used - Scattered light to moderate foxing with little effect on the plates. Very light wear to the spine head, the cloth bright and fre
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1850
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,875.00
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Philadelphia: Joseph A. Speel, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Scattered light to moderate foxing with little effect on the plates. Very light wear to the spine head, the cloth bright and fresh. Close to Fine and quite scarce as such. Octavo, in the publisher's brown cloth; 310 pages with Errata slip tipped in. THE FIRST AMERICAN BOOK ON AERONAUTICS.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,875.00
THE BOY'S LIFE OF EDISON
by [EDISON, Thomas] MEADOWCROFT, William
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- Used - Gilt on spine a little dull, slight rubbing to front cover. Early owner inscription on front free endpaper well below Edison's s
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1911)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$4,375.00
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New York: Harper & Brothers, (1911). First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt on spine a little dull, slight rubbing to front cover. Early owner inscription on front free endpaper well below Edison's signature. Near Fine. Publisher's sage green pebble-grain cloth with front cover stamped in blind and lettered in gilt with oval photographic portrait of Edison pasted to center; "Published… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,375.00
