LA VIGNE ET LE VIN by Francisque Chaverondier - 1876: Guide Theorique et Practique du Vigneron (Orne de Trente-Huit Gravures)

Los Angeles: U.S. Library Association, Inc. [1932], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 96pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Blue and white patterned cloth in a printed yellow dust jacket. Illustrations. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has minor edgewear. This is as nice a copy as you will ever see. From ADAM to RELATIVITY. The construction of the world and how its ideas have changed, told by the great thinkers in their own words with illustrations. (Science).

Paris: Didier & Cie., 1881. Septieme (seventh) edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 600 pages. Quarter leather binding, red & black boards backed with brown calf. Gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Contains two albumen prints; one is the frontispiece by J.M Rutherford, of the moon 3/4 full. The other is at page 336 by J. Nasmith of the Apennins Chain of craters, including Archimedes Crater. Also contains all 6 fold-out diagrams & numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Occasional foxing throughout, not affecting the photographs of diagrams. Binding is tight. Text in French.

Flemington, New Jersey: Democrat Press, 1960. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR, E. K. Red Crutts on the front free endpaper ("Sincerely yours" and his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Several tiny white speckles on the rear cover. No year of publication is given, but the online entry for the New Jersey State Library says "1960?" Included here are twelve chapters, as follows: 1) Early New Jersey Mines; 2) Iron Contents of New Jersey; 3) Bog Iron Ores; 4) List of Known Limonite Localities; 5) Description of Individual Mines; 6) Magnetite Ores; 7) Description of Magnetite Mines in Limestone; 8) Description of Magnetite Mines in Gneiss; 9) Copper Mine Legend; 10) Early Days of the Iron Works; 11) Doverite, a New Yttrium Mineral; 12) The Scrub Oak Mines.. INSCRIBED by E. K. (Red) Crutts. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 55pp.

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

The Geological Society of America, 2006. Paperback. Used- Very good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. One small crease on the top middle of back cover. No creasing on the spine. No markings on the inside of the book. Special paper maps in pocket at back of book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books. Note: ISBN printed in book may apply to other books, as well.

Los Angeles: U.S. Library Association, Inc. [1932], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 96pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Blue and white patterned cloth in a printed yellow dust jacket. Illustrations. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has minor edgewear. This is as nice a copy as you will ever see. From ADAM to RELATIVITY. The construction of the world and how its ideas have changed, told by the great thinkers in their own words with illustrations. (Science).

Paris: Didier & Cie., 1881. Septieme (seventh) edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 600 pages. Quarter leather binding, red & black boards backed with brown calf. Gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Contains two albumen prints; one is the frontispiece by J.M Rutherford, of the moon 3/4 full. The other is at page 336 by J. Nasmith of the Apennins Chain of craters, including Archimedes Crater. Also contains all 6 fold-out diagrams & numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Occasional foxing throughout, not affecting the photographs of diagrams. Binding is tight. Text in French.

Flemington, New Jersey: Democrat Press, 1960. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR, E. K. Red Crutts on the front free endpaper ("Sincerely yours" and his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Several tiny white speckles on the rear cover. No year of publication is given, but the online entry for the New Jersey State Library says "1960?" Included here are twelve chapters, as follows: 1) Early New Jersey Mines; 2) Iron Contents of New Jersey; 3) Bog Iron Ores; 4) List of Known Limonite Localities; 5) Description of Individual Mines; 6) Magnetite Ores; 7) Description of Magnetite Mines in Limestone; 8) Description of Magnetite Mines in Gneiss; 9) Copper Mine Legend; 10) Early Days of the Iron Works; 11) Doverite, a New Yttrium Mineral; 12) The Scrub Oak Mines.. INSCRIBED by E. K. (Red) Crutts. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 55pp.

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

The Geological Society of America, 2006. Paperback. Used- Very good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. One small crease on the top middle of back cover. No creasing on the spine. No markings on the inside of the book. Special paper maps in pocket at back of book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books. Note: ISBN printed in book may apply to other books, as well.