Search Results: Titles starting with O from Artisan Books & Bindery ABAA/ILAB

Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989, 1990, 1997, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Important volumes chronicling the vast horticultural library Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon and the high points within the collection. First Printings. Sylva: xxvii, 147 pp. Pomona: xxxii, 276 pp. Flora: lxxiii, 427; Herbaria: lviii, 394 pp. 4to. Dust jackets in mylar covers. Small, tasteful library bookplate on upper left corner of front pastedown of the Herbaria volume. Interiors clean and crisp. Rare as a set.

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Stunning aerial photographs of the Los Angeles area by photographer David Maisel. Photographs take on an almost surveillance-like feel from the height at which they were taken and printed as they appear in the original negative form. The photographs are preceded by Mark Strand's poem, "Black Maps" and ends with an essay by William L. Fox entitled "Shadowlands." First Printing. Unpag. 15 black and white plates. Clean, crisp copy with Maisel's photograph illustration of reprinted on cover.

London: Royal Society of London, 1826. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. v-iv [sic], [1]-391, [i]-xviii, [12], [v-vi, [1]-187 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

New York: Modern Age Books, Inc, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. One of the early regional guide volumes in the WPA supported American Guide Series. First Printing. xxix, 244 pp. 8vo. Gray cloth boards with with an illustration of the highway along the Atlantic seaboard printed on cover, light wear to covers and corners. Darkening to front and rear pastedowns due to quality of paper and glue. Clean and crisp inside. Small tri-fold map tipped in at rear has staining along hinge due to the poor quality glue.

Paris: Chez Le Breton, 1760. Full-Leather. Very Good. A wonderful set in very good condition (some scuffing). Tall 24mos. Tree calf leather, gilt-tooled spine with leather labels, marbled boards. Each vol. has finely engraved frontis and plates. Text in French.

Rockland, Maine: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1969. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Printer's Proof. A mock-up example of the exhibition of the same name that was featured at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, July 11-September 8, 1969. Cover portrait of a sheep on cover in color, interior portraits in black and white. Printer's registration lines present on every page which are folded but loose in binding. A unique item for the Wyeth collector.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third Printing. xxvi, 445 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has minor chips at edges, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of Oklahoma keyed to tours described within, previous owner's name ink on upper right corner of first free endpaper. Large folding map in Fine condition in pocket tipped in at rear.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Produced in a limited edition of 1,50 copies, 1,000 of which were for sale, this being #566 and signed by the author on the colophon. 411, 415-849 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gold embossed titlinig to spine, top edge gilt, color maps illustrate the endpapers of each volume. Both volumes retain the original clear plastic dust jacket and are encased in a matching cloth slipcase in Very Good condition with a paper title pasted to front cover.

London: Royal Society of London, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Latimer Clark's "On a Standard Voltaic Battery" (pp. 1 - 14) and J. Norman Lockyer's: "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494 and 805-813). v, [4], [1]-818 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

St. Paul, MN: The Ampersand Club, 2005. First Trade. Soft Cover. Fine. 44 pp. Frontisportrait. Gray cloth over boards with mounted paper title label on spine and front cover. Set in Bembo type and printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec. From an edition of 626, this is one of 500 copies from the trade edition.

London: Royal Society of London, 1791. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. Herschel's early report on nebulous stars.Third actuarial paper by Morgan, following on his papers published in Philosophical Transactions Volume LXXVII & LXXIX. Also, Deluc's follow-up paper on hygrometry to supplement his original paper published in Philosophical Transactions Volume LXIII in 1774.This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iii-vi, [1], [1]-127, [1]-26, [iii]-iv, [129]-438, [1] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued), (pp. 1-17)" James Prescott Joule's "On the Air Engine" (pp. 65-82); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1801. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. Walloston's paper outlines his development of the meniscus lens, a lens when used with the camera obscura flattened the image projected causing less distortion from the actual item being projected.This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iii-[viii], [1]-227, [1]-26, [iii]-iv, [1], [229]-420, [11] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued)" (pp. 1-17); Edward Frankland's "On a New Series of Organic Bodies Containing Metals" (pp. 417-444); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued), (pp. 1-17)" James Prescott Joule's "On the Air Engine" (pp. 65-82); Edward Frankland's: "On a New Series of Organic Bodies Containing Metals" (pp. 417-444). viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Thomas Andrews (1813-1885) shows that ozone is oxygen in allotropic form. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); G. B. Airy's "Account of Pendulum Experiments Undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the Purpose of Determining the Mean Density of the Earth" (Volume 146 pp. 297-355, 1856); and William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751). iv, [3], v, [1]-951 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, [8], [1]-906, [1], 19 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. For Part I, see our #27517, "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp. 385-396). Also contains William Thomson's "On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion" (Volume 143 pp. 357-365, 1853) and J. C. Adams' "On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion" (pp. 397-406). iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1789. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. An actuarial paper, an article on the development of the fetus, and a piece on phlogiston theory (the belief there was an element called phlogiston that was released during combustion).This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iii-vi, [1], [1]-138, v-vi, [139]-333 pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1870. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good. Paper explains Jevons' theory of a "logical piano" that would operated in the same way as early computers developed in the 20th century. Jevons' plans for the "logical piano" illustrated in thirteen figures detailed on Plates XXXII-XXXIV. This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iv, [4], v, [2], 608, 50 [plates] pp. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Pages were trimmed when rebound.