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London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green And Co., 1898. First Edition. 8vo. pp. vi, [2], 298 + [34]ads. with half-title. diagrams in text. original cloth. Very good copy. dola2654

Rochester, NY: June 1979. 4to. pagination erratic. numerous text illus. & diagrams (some colour). paste-over cancel on front cover, title & at end updating postal address. cloth. Fine copy. dola2673

Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1908. First Edition. 2 Parts in 1. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 76; 74, v, [1]. frontis. portrait & 7 other plates. text illus. & diagrams (some full-page). original cloth (crack in gutter after p. 76). dola2722

New York: Privately Printed in a Limited Edition, Distributed by Whitney Library of Design, 1963. Limited Edition (Limitation not stated). folio. [ff. 9]. 3 lithographed plates (2 in colour). 1 full-page text illus. cloth, printed label on upper cover. A fine copy in tattered, lightly soiled & foxed plain dw. dola2513

Treviso: Arti Grafiche Longo & Zoppelli, 1929. First Edition. 3 Parts; continuous pagination. 4to. pp. 1 p.l., [5]-319, [1], [ff. 2]. Italian text. numerous plates, maps & tables (some folding). bds. (front cover slightly warped with puckering of paper & chip to lower corner, outer edge of 1 folding table tatty). dola2374

Paris: G.Masson, 1873. First Edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 640. with half-title. 12 folding plates. contemporary half-chagrin (joints & corners worn, front joint cracked, head of spine chipped, 2 plates torn in half with very slight loss, library bookplates & rubberstamp on title verso). elala5900

[cEngland: 19th century]. under glass in a conforming ebonized frame. 16.2 x 13.5 cm. (incl. frame). elala5906

Paris: Widow of J.Boudot, J.Collombat, J.Boudot Son, 1709. First Edition of an important treatise on the construction and use of mathematical instruments. Bion was one of the most highly respected and successful instrument makers of his generation, and was named engineer for mathematical instruments to the King by Louis XIV. His work deals with optical measuring, astronomical, nautical… Read more about this item

La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 1947. Reprint of the English Translation (first: 1902). 8vo. pp. vii, 143. text diagrams. cloth. Fine copy. ownership entry of American philosopher Alan Gewirth. elala5806

London: Edward Stanford, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. pp. x, 623. with half-title. index. 6 folding coloured maps. Largely unopened in original cloth, recased). elala5760

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin And Company, 1888. First Edition. The steamer ‘Blake’ has been described as “the most innovative oceanographic vessel of the nineteenth century" with development of deep ocean exploration through the introduction of steel cable for sounding, dredging and deep anchoring and data collection for the "first truly modern bathymetric map of a deep… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan And Co., 1869. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 348. 4 folding or double-page plates incl. 2 chromolithographs & 72 text illus. original black & gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (upper front joint split & inner front hinge cracked, lacking rear free-endpaper & inner hinge taped, nick in spine). elala5662

Oxford: [Oxford University Press & London: Henry Frowde], 1889-90. Fourth Editions, Revised & Enlarged. Volumes I & II (of III). 8vo. pp. ix, xxxi, [1], 676; xix, [1], 558, [2]ads. 67 plates (incl. folding colour frontis. in Vol. I & woodburytype frontis. in Vol. II, some folding or double-page incl. 2 in Vol. II rear pocket). 355 text… Read more about this item

[Washington, D.C.]: 1988. Third Edition. 4to. text in double columns. illus. bds. Very good copy. dola952

London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1874. Seventh Thousand. The noted Irish experimental physicist "was accused of materialism and atheism after his presidential address at the 1874 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when he claimed that cosmological theory belonged to science rather than theology and that matter had the power within itself to produce… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie C.Klincksieck, 1883. First Edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 281, [1 leaf]errata. with half-title. A fine copy in original cloth

Berlin: VDI-Verlag GMBH, [1929]. First Edition.. 4to. pp. 4 p.l., 99, [1]. numerous text illus. cloth

New York: Henry Holt And Company, 1920. First American Edition. The English translation contains an additional chapter, 'Appendix III The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity.' See Printing and the Mind of Man 408. 8vo. pp. xiii, 168. frontis. portrait. biblio. index. cloth (spine ends just beginning to fray). Very good copy

London: Thames And Hudson, [1950]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. viii, [282]. frontis. portrait. index. cloth (light stain on upper cover, spine ends starting to fray)

[Munich & Berlin:] Deutschen Akademie Der Luftfahrtforschung [Heft 22], [1940]. First Edition. The German aviation pioneer and co-founder of Focke-Wulf Company designed the world's first operational transverse twin-rotor helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, which first flew on 25-26 June 1936. "The Fw 61 broke all of the helicopter world records in 1937, demonstrating a flight envelope that had only… Read more about this item